Outdoor education offers children special contexts for play & exploration real experiences & contact with the natural world & the community. To help ensure young children thrive & develop in your care this book provides essential information on how to make learning outdoors a rich & valuable part of their daily life. Written by a team of experts in the field this book focuses on the core values of effective outdoor provision & is packed with ideas to try out in practice. Topics covered include: the role of play in learning outdoors; meaningful experiences for children outdoors; the role of the adult outdoors; creating a dynamic & flexible outdoor environment; dealing with challenge risk & safety; & including every child in outdoor learning. There are case studies of successful strategies in action covering the Birth to 5 age range. Outdoor provision needs to be thoughtfully planned well organised & appropriately supported by adults & this book will help practitioners & students to lead good practice with complete confidence so that they respond to the needs & interests of young children. ...

Whether you are an accompllshed adventurer or new to exploring the wilderness & wheather youre travelling alone or as part of a group The Outdoor Survival Handbook will provide you with all the essential support for your expedition whether on dry land or at sea. It contains all of the techniques diagrams instructions & advice needed to ensure a safe enjoyable experience in the great outdoors. Each chapter shows you how to prepare for or deal with a specific situation including how to cope with bad weather; travel in the dark; what do if you lose your bearings; how to navigate without the aid of a map or compass; how to deal with injuries both major & minor; where to forage for food; & how to collect & purify water in all types of environments. The Outdoor Survival Handbooks clear simple structure makes it easy to find the relevant information in an instant & it is designed to keep you safe & out of troube in the first place. ...

This title is presented with a Foreword by Bear Grylls. More people today are choosing to shun personal comfort when they travel to remote destinations instead seeking challenges that test their ability to survive in hostile & often extreme environments. Former Royal Marine Commando & outdoor survival expert Dave Pearce has travelled worldwide visiting some of the most inhospitable environments. His survival skills are based on having been there & done it. Dave's practical guide for intrepid survivalists offers planned & improvised survival skills for a weekend away in the woods or for the most extreme environments on earth. ...

By the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy Outer Dark is a novel at once mythic & starkly evocative set in an unspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brothers child a boy; the brother leaves the baby in the woods & tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brothers lie she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother & sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying & elusive strangers headlong toward an eerie apocalyptic resolution. Mc Carthy is a master stylist perhaps without equal in American letters.. . In his hands everything is done with consummate skill Village Voice A master in perfect command of his medium Washington Post A true American original Newsweek ...

The Outer Hebrides is Malcolm Mac Gregors second book of landscape photography in Scotl&. Here travels throughout the islands in pursuit of Atlantic light. The photographic journey on the edge of Scotland takes him from the majestic beaches of North Lewis via the mountainous tops of Harris to the awe-inspiring cliffs on Mingulay in the south. The photographs in this book cover remote mountains hills coastline & deserted islands. in addition he photographs churches ruined castles ancient graveyards fishing vessels Harris tweed factories & standing stones bringing a different perspective to the Outer Hebrides. ...

After a fierce storm a boy discovers a human skull buried beneath the roots of an ancient tree. A skull with a legendary story... Vivid re-imagining of the legendary hero Robin Hood by bestselling author of War Horse. Tell the sheriff tell Sir Guy of Gisbourne tell everyone in Nottingham that the Outlaws rule here in Sherwood that we rule in the king's name...I am Robin Hood." Homeless & lost in a dark strange forest young Robin is rescued by a motley crew of misfits. He yearns to avenge his father & seek justice against cruel oppressors to finally defeat the Sheriff of Nottingham once & for all. & through his friends Robin Hood finds the courage to become a legendary hero." ...

Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh even criminal behaviour in his wrenching first collection of short fiction. Desperation
- both material & psychological
- motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the murder of his wifes pet; an injured rapist is cared for by a young girl until she reaches breaking point; a disturbed veteran of Iraq is murdered for his erratic behaviour; an outsiders house is set on fire by an angry neighbour. There is also the tenderness & loyalty of the vulnerable in these stories
- between spouses parents & children siblings & comrades in arms
- which brings the troubled sorely tested cast of characters to vivid relatable life.



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Outlaw Lawman When investigative journalist Caitlyn unexpectedly shows up on his doorstep Texas marshal Harlan has no idea she's in danger. Soon they're on the run & their only hope of surviving is to trust each other. But Harlan doesn't know if he can trust the feelings Caitlyn is awakening
- a passion even more dangerous than the killer tracking them... The Smoky Mountain Mist Ever since she was named CEO of her family business strange things have been happening
- terrifying incidents that could be tied to Rachel's past. But the only person who believes her is former bad boy Seth Hammond. Her intense rougharoundtheedges protector has blindsided her with his passion. But Rachel also believes in Seth...and possibly love?

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Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film" offers an extraordinary close-up of the hitherto overlooked golden age of Japanese cult action & exploitation cinema from the early 1950s through to the late 1970s & up to the present day. Having unique access to the top maverick filmmakers & Japanese genre film icons Chris D. brings together interviews with & original writings on the lives & films of such transgressive directors as Kinji Fukasaku (" Battles Without Honour & Humanity") Seijun Suzuki (" Branded to Kill") & Koji Wakamatsu (" Ecstasy of the Angels") as well as performers like Shinichi Sonny Chiba (" The Streetfighter" " Kill Bill Vol. 1") & glamorous actress Meiko Kaji (" Lady Snowblood"). Bringing the story up-to-date with an overview of such Japanese enfants terrible as Takashi Miike (" Audition") & Kiyoshi Kurasawa (" Cure") this book also provides a compendium of facts & extras including filmographies related bibliographies on genre fiction including Manga & a section on female yakuzas. Illustrated with fantastic stills & posters from some of Japans finest cult & action films this is a veritable bible for fans & newcomers alike." ...

When U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnells platoon was ordered to root out Pakistani-based insurgents from a mountain valley along the Eastern Afghan Frontier he & his forty men thought they would be facing a ragtag bunch of armed civilians
- an assumption that almost got them killed. On May 7 2006 what started out as a routine patrol through the lower mountains of the Hindu Kush became a lethal ambush. Barely surviving the attack Parnells men realized that they were facing the most professional & seasoned force of light infantry the U.S. Army had encountered since the end of World War II. Well-trained heavily armed cunning & ferociously courageous the insurgents also displayed consummate tactical skill. They had studied the soldiers communication patterns & equipment & knew their capabilities-and severe limitations. What followed was sixteen months of continuous battle in which Parnells Outlaw Platoon" killed more than 350 enemy combatants. During countless clashes on the border the platoon discovered the truth about our Pakistani "allies" & the extent of their military involvement against U.S. forces in Afghanistan. In five of the largest battles along the border since the war began waves of insurgents attempted to overrun Parnells platoon with the avowed intent of beheading him & his men. Each time Parnells men held them off. But the cost was high: over eighty percent was wounded in action
- a rate not seen since Gettysburg. Despite these daunting odds Parnells men displayed unparalleled bravery. " Outlaw Platoon" is the story of those sixteen months a gripping narrative of how close combat reshaped the lives of Parnell & his men & how the love & faith they found in each other kept them alive."

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