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Detailed descriptions and maps of forty of the best bicycle rides in Michigan, from easy afternoon jaunts to multi-day tours.
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39 classic rides Routes researched and written by local Adventure Cycling Association members. Include maps for each route. Highlighting Michigan's best biking territories--the Upper Peninsula, North Lakes Area, and Southeast and Southwest Michigan--Adventure Cycling in Michigan shows you how to enjoy the state by bike. From leisurely rides that take you to the unique rock formations and the beauty of Lake Superior to a challenging 150-mile weekend trip to the Ottawa National Forest, this new guide is your key to bicycling adventure.
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Great resource.......2005-08-03
So far, every trail description and thedirections to get there have been right on.
Best guide to trails in Michigan.......2004-07-16
All you need is this book to find the perfect trails for you anywhere in Michigan. I recommend this to anyone who bikes, hikes, skis or enjoys nature. What a great gift!
I wish there was a book like this for every state!.......2002-05-31
This is an excellent book for anyone who lives in Michigan. We've used it for hiking and cross country skiing, and it provides excellent accurate information.
One stop research.......2001-09-07
Hansen's book is a staple in any adventurer's library whether you ski, hike or bike. He's to the point. With so many trails to cover in both peninsulas it's tough to stay current. He should update it yearly.
the best trails in michigan all in one book.......2000-04-01
This book has some of the best trails in Michigan and directions to all of them. It lets you know the level of difficulty for each one. I recommend this book for anyone interested in exploring the great outdoors.
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The cultivated aroids
Monroe Roberts Birdsey
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Working in Ski Resorts - Europe & North America, 4th (Working in Ski Resorts: Europe & North America)
Victoria Pybus
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ASIN: 1854581767 |
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The fourth edition of the essential book for everyone who wants to find one of the many thousands of jobs that arise during the skiing season in Europe, the USA and Canada. Working in Ski Resorts explains how to find a job as a ski instructor, disc jockey, chef, courier, chalet girl or boy, shop assistant, au pair, resort rep, ski lift attendant, ski technician, courier, snow cleaner etc. from Verbier to Vail, Banff to Borovets and Andorra to Aviemore.
For those who wish to arrange a job in advance the book includes a directory of ski tour operators that lists their projected staff requirements, wages and the addresses to contact. But it also includes reports on the prospects for finding work on the spot in over 80 resorts in Europe and North America that give inside information on where the best jobs are to be found and explains where to find affordable accommodation.
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Working in Ski Resorts - Europe & North America, 5th (Working in Ski Resorts: Europe & North America)
Victoria Pybus
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A unique guide for anyone wanting to find a job in a ski resort in Europe, the USA, or Canada.
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The fully revised sixth edition of the essential book for everyone who wants to find one of the many thousands of jobs that arise during the skiing season in Europe, the USA and Canada from Val d’Isere to Vail and Wengen to Whistler. Working in Ski Resorts – Europe & North America is the definitive guide to the full range of seasonal and career opportunities in ski resorts for both skilled and unskilled applicants including:
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The book describes what these different types of work are like, including first hand accounts from people who have done them, and describes the qualifications or experience that might give you the edge when applying for jobs.
For those who wish to arrange a job in advance the book includes details of vacancies with:
· Over 100 tour operators,
· School ski party organisers
· Official bodies that recruit staff,
These listings include full details of projected staff requirements, wages and addresses to contact. For others who want to find work on the spot it also includes reports on the prospects in over 80 resorts in Europe and North America that give inside information on where the best jobs are to be found, finding affordable accommodation, the night life... and the skiing.
In addition the book contains a special survey of the increasing range of opportunities for work in ski resorts in Australia and New Zealand during the Northern Hemisphere’s summer.
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Working in Ski Resorts - Europe and North America
Victoria Pybus
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Why is this the only continent in the series?.......2003-09-10
My issue with this book is not the actual counting in Kiswahili, but that the other books in this series are countries and not continents. This book could misinform a child that Africa is one large homogeneous group, and not made up of many different countries as well as cultures.
Learn How to Count in Kiswahili!.......2002-01-21
A very nice informative book that taught me a lot about the African continent and how to count in Kiswahili too! I wll share this with my class during Black History Month.
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Count Your Way Through Zimbabwe (Count Your Way)
James Haskins , and
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This volume describes how to conceptualize, perform, and critique traditional generalized linear models (GLMs) from a Bayesian perspective and how to use modern computational methods to summarize inferences using simulation. Introducing dynamic modeling for GLMs and containing over 1000 references and equations, Generalized Linear Models considers parametric and semiparametric approaches to overdispersed GLMs, presents methods of analyzing correlated binary data using latent variables. It also proposes a semiparametric method to model link functions for binary response data, and identifies areas of important future research and new applications of GLMs.
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Linear & Nonlinear Filtering for Engineers & Scientists (Applied Mathematics)
N. U. Ahmed
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Nonlinear Filtering and Smoothing: An Introduction to Martingales, Stochastic Integrals and Estimation
ASIN: 9810236093 |
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The book combines both rigor and intuition to derive most of the classical results of linear and nonlinear filtering and beyond. Many fundamental results recently discovered by the author are included. Furthermore, many results that have appeared in recent years in the literature are also presented. The most interesting feature of the book is that all the derivations of the linear filter equations given in Chapters 3-11, beginning from the classical Kalman filter presented in Chapters 3 and 5, are based on one basic principle which is fully rigorous but also very intuitive and easily understandable. The second most interesting feature is that the book provides a rigorous theoretical basis for the numerical solution of nonlinear filter equations illustrated by multidimensional examples. The book also provides a strong foundation for theoretical understanding of the subject based on the theory of stochastic differential equations.
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Tolstoy's ideal version of himself.......2005-11-02
There are at least three Tolstoys. There is the Tolstoy whose mind and capacity for creation, whose ability to observe human life and transform it into the highest form of Literature- this is the first Tolstoy. The second Tolstoy is Tolstoy the man of appetite, the sinner who not only endlessly forced himself upon his wife but who took tens of peasant women for his own pleasure. The third Tolstoy is the would- be- saintly Tolstoy of the 'Confession'. This is the Tolstoy who longs for simplicity in life, for renunciation of wealth and sensual pleasure, for a kind of Christian- like total Love and Devotion to others.
It is true that Tolstoy's greatest works were created before he wrote 'The Confession' And it is true that as his age his physical powers diminished somewhat. But both of those Tolstoys remained with him all his life even if in diminished form. And this third Tolstoy this holy character who nonetheless made his wife and some of his childrens' life a torment, he too persisted with Tolstoy to the end.
Is this to say that the great man was a hypocrite? Yes, and more strongly 'no' He was an enormously complicated human being and a very great creator of Literature.
If however to be judged in terms of his relations to the closest people in his life, sainthood would certainly have to be denied him.
Utopian faith.......2004-08-10
"A Confession" is Tolstoy's interesting account of his rediscovery of faith. He sets out how religious belief is instilled into the young, and is then discarded. In middle age, Tolstoy found rational explanations of the meaning of life no longer sufficed: this drew him back to faith.
Whether or not one is convinced by Tolstoy's argument seems to me to be beside the point (although there's much in his rationale which seems odd and naive - "Those things in which people sincerely believe must be the truth" ??). Rather, it provides an insight into Tolstoy's development as a thinker and as a person.
The latter part of "A Confession", and much of the other works in this collection, are devoted to a savage indictment of organised religions, and of State- and class-based manipulation of religion for political ends. Tolstoy pines for a removal of such controls and a return to a "pure" version of Christianity from which peace and social justice would inevitably flow. This appears somewhat at odds with his belief in "The Confession" that the uneducated masses hold true religious faith. In the other essays, they are being manipulated cruelly. Nonetheless, these works are interesting because of their influence on others, such as Gandhi.
G Rodgers
A Search Unfulfilled.......2004-01-19
This book includes some of Tolstoy's essays written during his time of deep internal spiritual struggle. Upon his renunciation of a life of aristocratic wealth and worldly pleasure, Tolstoy longed for the sense of true peace that he saw in the peasant class. Thus he embarked upon a search for meaning and happiness through a life of simple faith, manual labor, and poverty. He formulated his own Christian philosophy based on Christ's Sermon on the Mount stressing the existence of the Kingdom of God within the human heart, civil disobedience, and total pacifism. This "law of love" is explored deeply in confessional form throughout the works in this collection. Although this particular approach to living the life in Christ ultimately did not cultivate in Tolstoy the deep inner peace that he yearned for, I feel that many of his ideas can be beneficial to people both within the Church as well as not. Regardless of the validity of his doctrine, it cannot be denied that this is an authentic, genuine, and very human confession of a man searching for God and the meaning of life on earth. Although I personally disagree with many of Tolstoy's points, I still hold his Confession to be a universal work that deserves a fair exploration by all who have ever felt a similar need for inner peace and true reconciliation with God.
Leo's crisis of faith..........2002-02-08
This is a very interesting book. Penned by one of the greatest writers in history, "A Confession..." by Leo Tolstoy provided me with great insight into his life, work, and relationships. I read this for a religion class in college and ended up keeping it. It is rather short and easy to read. Of interest to those who are seeking truth and those who have found it. It is fascinating to follow him thru his early religious experience, falling away from the church, and coming back to a unique faith in the end. Recommended.
Not as good as I had hoped.......2001-03-12
Tolstoy was a tremondous writer and intense human being. I approached this work expecting a great deal, and while it was certainly very much worth the effort, it was not as good as I hoped it would be.
After acheiving fame, fortune, artistic achievement, family and everything else that most people long for, Tolstoy had a philosophical crisis in which he searched for the meaning of life. This is his chronicle of his despair and search, which ultimately ended in his acceptance of a unique brand of Christian socialism (not to mention ascetisim, vegetarianism, pacifism, etc.,). However, I thought much of the book, especially its sections on philosophy, to be rather poor in quality: either too simplisitc or complex but very poorly worded and expressed. While this book is ok, if anyone wanted to know Tolstoy's later philosophy of life I would recommend his later short works of fiction such as The Devil, the Kreutzer Sonata, and the Forged Coupon. They are masterpeices, while this work is simply interesting.
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A Confession and Other Religious Writings
Manufacturer: Penguin USA (Paper)
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