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Fatally Flawed
Fatally Flawed is an inside look into the world of deep diving and the people who populate it. This is the story of how Verna van Schaik found a way to become the deepest woman in one of the most extreme sports in the world, cave diving. The story follows Verna's start in diving More...in 1989 when technical diving was in its infancy, follows her journey with Nuno Gomes as a support diver on his record breaking dives and culminates with her experiences on Dave Shaw's dive. It was this dive that allowed Verna to finally see past the carefully edited illusion that is 'being the deepest'. Suddenly her experience with the top divers in South Africa ( if not the world) gave her a unique opportunity to question who deep divers really are. What drives a person to place their life on the line ? Why do they want so desperately to be the deepest ? Are they fatally flawed ?
Geological Wonders of Namibia
This stunning depiction of geology in Namibia combines searingly beautiful photography with clear explanations of how the varied landscapes formed. Arranged chronologically (starting 13.8 billion years ago), the chapters each deal with a particular event or process that has resulted in the formation under discussion. These include the early beginnings of the Earth, meteorites, canyons and limestone caves, vast desert landscapes, moonscapes and bizarrely-shaped rocks, and Namibia’s astonishing underwater lakes and reservoirs. Picture-driven, with accessible text, this book features all the highlights of Namibian landscapes and landforms. A treat for travellers real and virtual – those on the road as well as those in armchairs.
Curiosity Unleashed: Fascinating Facts
Take a journey through time and learn a ton of interesting facts. This book has many different sections like history, world records, animals, food, and more. Grab a copy take a time out and learn something interesting.
Guinness World Records 2017
The ultimate annual book of records is back and crammed with more than ever before! Guinness World Records 2017 is bursting with all-new records on topics as diverse as black holes, domes, owls and killer plants. And of course all your favourite record categories are updated, such as the world’s new tallest dog! Plus, want to be a record-breaker? Inside you’ll find exciting challenges you can try at home.
Diving Into Darkness
Finch chronicles the harrowing true story of two friends who plunge 900 feet into the water in South Africa--and only one returns. What happened that day is the stuff of nightmarish drama, but it's also a compelling human story of friendship and of coming to terms with loss and tragedy. 8-page color photo insert.
Raising the Dead: A True Story of Death and Survival
A true story of death and survival in the world’s most dangerous sport, cave diving. Two friends plunge 900 ft deep into a water-filled crater in the Kalahari Desert to raise the body of a diver who had perished there a decade before. Only one returns. Unquenchable heroism and complex human relationships amid the perils of extreme sport.
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Autobiografia Verny van Schaik, najgłębiej nurkującej kobiety świata, której notowane w Księdze Rekordów Guinessa 221 metrów pozostaje nie pobite od 2004 r. Jednak nie rekord, ale droga, którą Verna przeszła zmagając się z własnymi słabościami i niedowierzaniem zmaskulizowanego środowiska nurków technicznych jest istotą tej opowieści. Jej środkiem jest studnia Boesmansgat, miejsce bicia trzech aktualnych rekordów świata i spotkania niezwykłych ludzi, którzy przez dekadę dzierżyli palmę pierwszeństwa w uznawanym za najniebezpieczniejszy sport świata, nurkowaniu jaskiniowym. Verna splata losy legend, towarzyszących jej w drodze do rekordu świata – Dave’a Shawa, tragicznie zmarłego przy próbie wyciągnięcia ciała Deona Dreyera z dna Boesmansgat i Nuno Gomesa, następcy legendarnego Shecka Exley’a i obecnego rekordzistę świata. Przy tym wszystkim pozostaje kobietą, wrażliwą i czułą na innych.
The Origins of Self
The Origins of Self explores the role that selfhood plays in defining human society, and each human individual in that society. It considers the genetic and cultural origins of self, the role that self plays in socialisation and language, and the types of self we generate in our individual journeys to and through adulthood. Edwardes argues that other awareness is a relatively early evolutionary development, present throughout the primate clade and perhaps beyond, but self-awareness is a product of the sharing of social models, something only humans appear to do. The self of which we are aware is not something innate within us, it is a model of our self produced as a response to the models of us offered to us by other people. Edwardes proposes that human construction of selfhood involves seven different types of self. All but one of them are internally generated models, and the only non-model, the actual self, is completely hidden from conscious awareness. We rely on others to tell us about our self, and even to let us know we are a self.
De diepte in
De Australische Dave Shaw reisde op nieuwjaarsdag 2005 naar de andere kant van de wereld, op zoek naar een steile, met water gevulde krater in de Kalahari woestijn. Zijn reisbestemming lag bijna 300 meter onder het wateroppervlak. Het drama dat zich een week later afspeelde in Bushmans Hole kan gerust een nachtmerrie genoemd worden. Shaw daalde af in de diepte, voorzien van de meest geavanceerde duikuitrusting die er bestond. Net onder het wateroppervlak trof hij een smalle kloof in de kalkstenen bodem van het bassin. Hij glipte door de opening en verdween uit zicht, de wereld van licht en leven achter zich latend. Een tweede duiker daalde af in dezelfde kloof. Een van de weinige mensen die gekwalificeerd waren om Shaw hier te volgen was zijn beste vriend en vaste duikpartner, de Brit Don Shirley. In de wereld van het grotduiken was Shirley een meester onder de meesters. Vijfentwintig minuten later was een van de mannen dood. De ander verkeerde in levensgevaar en zou de volgende tien uur van ademhaling tot ademhaling moeten vechten om te overleven. Een verhaal over vriendschap tot de dood er op volgt, inspirerende heroiëk, het opzoeken van de menselijke grenzen en tragiek.
Skeletal Variation and Adaptation in Europeans
A comprehensive analysis of changes in body form and skeletal robusticity from the Terminal Pleistocene through the Holocene, leading to the modern European human phenotype. Skeletal Variation and Adaptation in Europeans: Upper Paleolithic to the Twentieth Century brings together for the first time the results of an unprecedented large-scale investigation of European skeletal remains. The study was conducted over ten years by an international research team, and includes more than 2,000 skeletons spanning most of the European continent over the past 30,000 years, from the Early Upper Paleolithic to the 20th century. This time span includes environmental transitions from foraging to food produ...
