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Defying Death at the North and South Poles
Most humans will never get to travel to or explore the poles, so they remain a rare and challenging experience. This fast-paced book takes readers through true stories of escape and survival in the extreme Arctic and Antarctic. Nature lovers, challenged readers, and high-interest seekers will be equally captivated and thrilled.
A New Century of Heroes
There are heroes who walk among us: the clam digger who rescues a man from a burning retirement home; the dancer who prevents a robber from shooting two policemen at a nightclub; the former Marine, blinded during the Korean War, who saves two women from drowning in a river. What they have in common—besides the willingness to risk their own lives to save that of a friend or a stranger—is an unwillingness to brag about their actions. In 1904, moved by the stories of two men who died trying to rescue others in the devastating Harwick Mine Disaster that killed all but one of 180 men, Andrew Carnegie conceived of a fund to reward selfless acts of bravery and courage. Since its creation 120 ye...
Literary Neurophysiology
Investigating the relations between American literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the sciences of the brain and the nervous system, this volume shows how literary authors investigated, used and challenged this emerging neurophysiology.
At the Edge
Collects more than twenty true stories of people facing critical life or death decisions, including a man saving someone in the path of an oncoming train, a tragic mountainclimbing accident, and a family caught in a tsunami.
Seismicity Associated With Mines, Reservoirs and Fluid Injections
Reprint from Pure and Applied Geophysics (PAGEOPH), Volume 150 (1997), No. 3/4
