Ascent

BRITAINS GREATEST CLIMBER. He is the David Attenborough of mountaineering . . . Boningtons most personal memoir yet. The Times. This is a compelling tale of fortitude and endurance. The Sunday Times He is the icon of British climbing. The Daily Mirror These well chronicled chapters of Chriss life read like the pages of an epic saga with all the battle and victory, triu...

The Everything Store - Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

An immersive play-by-play of the companys ascent. Its hard to imagine a better retelling of the Amazon origin story. Laura Bennett, New Republic Amazon.coms visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasnt content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed...

PUSHING THE LIMITS/HOT PURSUIT

Pushing The Limits Katherine GarberaSurvival expert Jessie Odell has faced the most hazardous environments on earth. Training astronauts should be easy. But enter candidate Hemi Barrett and his hot, ripped bod, and suddenly Jessie is breathless with raw excitement something she hasnt felt for a long, long time and it scares her to death.Hemi isnt just some sexy distraction. Jessie act...

First Ascent

What transformed pure physical delight into something deeper was the fact that no-one had been here before Discover the fascinating stories of the men and women who have scaled the worlds highest peaks. Featuring accounts of some of the worlds most treacherous mountain climbs, this amazing collection covers the ascent of Mont Blanc in the 1780s, the golden age of alpine climbing which s...

The Square and the Tower - Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power

The most brilliant British historian of his generation The Times What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From Niall Ferguson, the global bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole new way of imagining the world. Most history is hierarchical: its about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if thats simply because ...

The Square and the Tower - Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power

The New York Times bestseller Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it Eric Schmidt What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From Niall Ferguson, the global bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole new way of imagining the world. Most history is hierarchical: its about popes, presidents, and prime...

The Divine Comedy - Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

Robin Kirkpatricks masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, tracing Dantes journey from Hell to Purgatory and finally Paradise, is published here for the first time in a single volume. The volume includes a new introduction, notes, maps and diagrams, and is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader who is coming to the great masterpiece of Italian literature for the...

Winter Fun on the Slopes

Join old university friends Jenna, Max, Angus, Bertie, Hugo and Sally as they set off for a wintry week of fun, fondue and frivolity on the glamorous Val dArgent. On the agenda: flirting, drinking, dancing and a bit of skiing along the way.But once they arrive they are soon waylaid by secret passions, ominous oligarchs, chairlift shenanigans and the sort of social climbing that requires more ...

The Bond - Survival and Denali and Mount Huntington

The north face of Mount Huntington is one of the most dangerous walls in the Alaska Range, and Denalis southwest face is one of the largest and most technically difficult. Roberts and McCartney made the first ascents of both, eschewing any notion of fixed ropes or siege tactics. With success as their only option, they got themselves to the foot of these faces with the bare minimum of gear and si...

The Wife's Tale - A Personal History

The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopias history. A new Wild Swans A hundred years ago, a girl was born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar. Before she was ten years old, Yetemegnu was married to a man two decades her senior, an ambitious poet-priest. Over the next century her world changed beyond recognition. She wit...

Suunto Core Alu Watch - White | GPS Running Computers

Suunto Core Premium Suunto Core Premium combines modern design with the essential outdoor functions. Choose rigid natural stainless steel with sapphire crystal glass for added durability, or the elegant aluminum cases for less weight on the wrist. Features Altimeter Determine your current elevation, track your ascent or descent and gauge your overall progress on a climb ideal for mountaineers, ...

Suunto Core Crush Watch - Lime Crush | GPS Running Computers

Suunto Core Crush Dynamic by design, powered by adrenaline. Choose a color that reflects your style and wrap an altimeter, barometer and a compass around your wrist with the soft silicone strap of Suunto Core Crush. It is the outdoor watch packed with spirit of adventure. Features Altimeter Determine your current elevation, track your ascent or descent and gauge your overall progress on a climb ...

Suunto Core Crush Watch - Azure Crush | GPS Running Computers

Suunto Core Crush Dynamic by design, powered by adrenaline. Choose a color that reflects your style and wrap an altimeter, barometer and a compass around your wrist with the soft silicone strap of Suunto Core Crush. It is the outdoor watch packed with spirit of adventure. Features Altimeter Determine your current elevation, track your ascent or descent and gauge your overall progress on a climb ...

Suunto Core Classic Watch - All Black | GPS Running Computers

Suunto Core Classic Suunto Core Classic packs the key outdoor features in robust construction with a comfortable elastomer strap. Combining an altimeter, barometer and compass with weather information, Suunto Core Classic is the essential tool for your adventures. Features Altimeter Determine your current elevation, track your ascent or descent and gauge your overall progress on a climb ideal f...

Suunto Core Classic Watch - Regular Black | GPS Running Computers

Suunto Core Classic Suunto Core Classic packs the key outdoor features in robust construction with a comfortable elastomer strap. Combining an altimeter, barometer and compass with weather information, Suunto Core Classic is the essential tool for your adventures. Features Altimeter Determine your current elevation, track your ascent or descent and gauge your overall progress on a climb ideal f...

Suunto Core Brushed Steel Watch | GPS Running Computers

Suunto Core Premium Suunto Core Premium combines modern design with the essential outdoor functions. Choose rigid natural stainless steel with sapphire crystal glass for added durability, or the elegant aluminum cases for less weight on the wrist. Features Altimeter Determine your current elevation, track your ascent or descent and gauge your overall progress on a climb ideal for mountaineers, ...

Suunto Core Classic Watch - Ultimate Black | GPS Running Computers

Suunto Core Classic Suunto Core Classic packs the key outdoor features in robust construction with a comfortable elastomer strap. Combining an altimeter, barometer and compass with weather information, Suunto Core Classic is the essential tool for your adventures. Features Altimeter Determine your current elevation, track your ascent or descent and gauge your overall progress on a climb ideal f...

Suunto Core Alu Watch - Black | GPS Running Computers

Suunto Core Premium Suunto Core Premium combines modern design with the essential outdoor functions. Choose rigid natural stainless steel with sapphire crystal glass for added durability, or the elegant aluminum cases for less weight on the wrist. Features Altimeter Determine your current elevation, track your ascent or descent and gauge your overall progress on a climb ideal for mountaineers, ...

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming. As her relationship with Marie deepens, Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China, from the crowded teahouses in the first days of Chairman Maos ascent to the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1...

Quantum Theory Game Xbox 360

Experience Syd and Filena's adventurous ascent through a treacherous tower in this action-shooter game, presented in an art nouveau style world that is on the verge of becoming postapocalyptic, which merges the beauty of organic motifs with technology and action-packed gameplay. Shape-Shifting Battlefield: Navigate through a dark fantasy world where the intense battleground surprises you with ...

Carlito's Way Rise To Power DVD

An all-star cast is featured in this remake of CARLITO'S WAY, originally a Brian dePalma film starring Sean Penn and Al Pacino. Set in Spanish Harlem, this version stars Jay Hernandez, in a star-making performance, as Carlito, who is on a comet-like ascent to the top of a successful crime ring. But being a kingpin takes a lot of support and the loyalty of a posse of complicated and violent fri...