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Lonely Planet British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies, 11th edition
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies.
Discover British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies' most popular experiences and best kept secrets from taking an Indigenous-led whale-watching tour through the waters of Tofino, to snacking your way through the food stalls of the Granville Island Public Market, and taking the hike of a lifetime on a multi-day backpacking trek along the West Coast Trail.
Build a trip to remember with Lonely Planet's British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies travel guide:
Our classic guidebook format contains the most comprehensive level of information for planning multi-week trips
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Expert local recommendations on eating, drinking, nightlife, shopping, accommodation, festivals, when to go and more
Vibrant photography and maps
Get fresh takes on must-visit sights from Stanley Park to Richmond Night Market and Pacific Rim National Park Reserve and
Essential information toolkit containing tips on arriving; transport; local etiquette; using money; LGBTIQ+ travel advice; useful words and phrases; accessibility; and responsible travel
Connect with British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies culture through stories that delve deep into local life, history and traditions
Covers: Vancouver, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon Territory, Banff & Jasper National Parks
Create a trip that's uniquely yours and get to the heart of this extraordinary part of the world with Lonely Planet's British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies.
Compete
"I'm in control. I'min charge. I dominate my mind and body. I own my mind and body. Nothing and noone takes me away from my best mindset when I compete. I stick to my MentalPlaybook...no matter what!"From the author of international bestseller SoccerTough, Dan Abrahams brings you Compete, a book that will help youbecome the confident, committed sporting competitor you want to be. Drawing on his over 20+ years as a sportpsychologist to the sporting elite, Dan will share with you the secrets tocreating a personal Mental Playbook for your very best performances underpressure. Compete introduces readers to Dan's simple yet effectivemental skills and techniques – tools he's devised and developed whilst workingwith some of the best sports competitors in the world. Principally for players in team sports (butapplicable for those in individual sports), Compete will showyou step-by-step how to:Master the three most important mental skillsthat are constantly influencing your performanceFind out how the best players in the worldfocus their attention as they competeUse Dan's Elite Competitor Model – a mindsetmodel he uses with some of the world's leading sports individuals and teamsCreate an in-game persona for bullet-proofconfidenceManage negative, unhelpful thoughts,emotions, and feelings as they arise during pressure playLearn how to incorporate fast-acting,self-control techniques into your gameUnlock the key to building confidence andenergy for game dayImprove your ability to lead and team withothersEstablish impactful routines before play, andlearn essential reflection tools for after play
Cesta svobodného ducha: Súfismus a chuť bytí
Každá generace svrhává své někdejší pány, jen aby se stala rabem pánů nových. Páni na sebe berou rozličné masky. Promlouvají coby kněz, politik, vědec, rodič, intelektuál, učitel, guru, kouč a někdy dokonce mluví skrze naše vlastní ego. Naše jistoty a strachy, ambice, přesvědčení i hodnoty jsou diktovány pány, neboť pouze oni definují morálku, filosofii, tradici a ideály. Slova pánů vytvářejí přesvědčivé zdání skutečnosti, které zaměňujeme za skutečnost jako takovou. Pokud zdání uvěříme, budeme polapeni v proradné hříčce, a budeme-li plnit její marné cíle, vysloužíme si jen nespokojenost, utrpení, úzkost a neklid.
Jelikož však Súfí je svobodný duch, dokáže prohlédnout, že ono zdání skutečnosti je závojem, který nám brání setkat se se Skutečností jako takovou, v níž může být život plně zakoušen v celé své slávě.
Ten, kdo kráčí po stezce súfismu, se chce zprostit všech pout, přičemž si je vědom paradoxu, že každá Cesta se může stát okovem okolo jeho krku. K překročení řeky je zapotřebí lodi, a jakmile vystoupíme na břeh, musíme ji opustit, abychom mohli kráčet po zemi. Onou lodí je súfismus. A tak se i Súfí vzdává samotného súfismu a zůstává mu jen bytí. Jinými slovy, Súfí nehledá vysvobození, je si totiž vědom tajemství bytí: on již osvobozený je. Súfí existuje mimo pravdu a lež, dobro a zlo, víru i nevíru a všechna myslitelná dělení. Tam, kde život a smrt, rozum a nerozum, já a ten druhý, Bůh a Nicota jsou jedno a totéž, dotýká se Súfí skrze sebepoznání Základu Bytí a nalézá odpověď na nejzazší otázku: „Kdo jsem?“
Nájemníci nadpřirozené nátury
Corvinian Hark měl v plánu stát se příštím velkým padouchem.
Místo toho skončil jako správce domu plného magických nájemníků. Tahle drobná profesní odbočka měla být jen dočasná. Jenže je dočasná už osm let.
Situace se však nevyvíjí k lepšímu, naopak je všechno čím dál víc našišato. Jeho nejnovější nájemnice je totiž dost možná obyčejný člověk. A to znamená konec kouzlení na chodbách a přísný zákaz vycházení pro všechny kostlivce ze skříní. Hlavně to ale znamená, že pokud tu holku neprokoukne, dostane padáka. Což by byla vážně smůla, protože v tomhle domě má postel, své věci a vlastně i všechny přátele.
Prostě ji šoupne do pokoje mezi upíra a harpyji a bude doufat, že si ničeho nevšimne. Co by se asi tak mohlo pokazit?
Rebel fleet 2: Flotila Orionu
Jaký nepřítel může být děsivější než stroj bez duše?
Před rokem bylo Kherské Impérium donuceno k ústupu. Ovšem nebylo poraženo. Teď se vrací s novou zbraní – kolosální lodí řízenou umělou inteligencí, která systematicky drtí obydlené světy na prach. Nezná strach. Nezná slitování. A Povstalci nejsou schopni její postup ani zpomalit.
Vtaženo do konfliktu, který nelze vyhrát hrubou silou, musí lidstvo spoléhat na ty, kteří dokážou přemýšlet jinak. Na ty, kteří se nevzdávají – ani tváří v tvář jisté porážce. Leo Blake není ukázkový velitel. Nikdy se neřídil zavedenými postupy a často se vydával vlastní cestou, i když to znamenalo jít proti očekáváním nadřízených. Jenže právě to z něj dělá někoho, kdo může změnit průběh války. V prostředí, kde každé rozhodnutí znamená život nebo smrt celé flotily, se ukáže jediné: hrdinové nevznikají z poslušnosti, ale z odvahy riskovat.
Flotila Orionu je strhující military sci-fi o velení, přežití a ceně, kterou je třeba zaplatit za vítězství ve válce, která se neptá, jestli jste připraveni.
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The Good Divorce
Essential perspectives and insights to get a divorce without devastation In The Good Divorce, author Karen McNenny shares her own divorce journey, teaching readers how to redefine relationship success and find peace in taking the best step for you and your family. She exposes how the divorce industry often sets families up to fail—from outdated FMLA policies that don't recognize divorce as a major life event, to ”divorce penalties” in insurance and banking, to a legal system that incentivizes conflict over cooperation—and reframes divorce as a family evolution instead of a failure. Above all, this book is a call to action—to reform the policies and practices that keep families trapped in destructive patterns, to challenge the assumption that divorce must be a messy event, and to create a new framework for how we handle relationship transitions. Readers will find insights and perspectives on: The concept of “relationship purgatory,” when you want to stay, but know it isn’t healthy for you or your kidsThe grief that comes from a loss of identity during a divorceCommon mistakes before, during, and after a divorce, like offering children too many choicesThe unexpected upsides of divorce, like more personal time, focused relationship with your kids, and reinvention of self The Good Divorce is a must-read for all partners thinking about divorce who want to avoid the all-too-common devastation of dissolving a marriage.
Herbal Pharmacy
More and more people are turning to herbal remedies for healing, whether they are purchasing the remedies or making them on their own. Herbalists want their clients to have good experiences with these remedies, both to help them heal and to foster a positive regard for herbs and the healing power of nature by extension. This in-depth guide teaches readers all aspects of making herbal medicines with respect, care, and understanding that are as safe, efficacious, and accurate as possible, and will provide detailed step-by-step instructions to guide even the most inexperienced or anxious medicine maker. The how-to information will be backed up with thorough 'why-to' explanations so that herbalists can confidently move from following the recipes of others to designing and preparing their own recipes. Individual chapters will address making herbal extractions in water, oils and fats, alcohol, vinegar, honey, glycerin, and other media. In addition, Bancroft devotes chapters to the roles of fermentation and distillation in medicine making. Herbal Pharmacy will also cover all the practical aspects of administering herbal remedies: figuring dosage, duration of care, and the specifics of deciding how to apply a remedy to produce the best outcome. A chapter on apothecary management rounds out the book, which is sure to be hailed as the standard modern reference for herbal medicine making.
Apocalypse
The history of humanity is one of devastating, once-in-a-thousand-year events: rising seas that make land uninhabitable, decades-long droughts, civilisational collapse, epidemics like the Black Death and the Spanish Flu that reduce a city’s population by fifty percent. And yet, despite enormous destruction and very real tragedy, these catastrophes all share one common denominator: we survived.
In APOCALYPSE, Lizzie Wade reframes the story of human history to show how we can learn from these apocalyptic moments, seeing them not just as violent, world-ending events but as moments of progress and transformation. We travel back in deep time to when homo sapiens replaced other human species including the Neanderthals, witness the fall of the kingdom of Old Egypt, the end of the Mayans and the Black Death, as well as lesser-known catastrophes. To weave this unique narrative, Lizzie introduces us to a new generation of archaeologists using cutting-edge technology to tell new stories about our deep past, including flying planes equipped with lasers over Mayan ruins deep in the jungle, scuba diving to the bottom of the ocean, and sequencing the DNA of ancient people to show how we are far more connected to our ancestors than we think.
Written in a gripping style that reads like an Indiana Jones mystery, APOCALYPSE offers a refreshingly optimistic take on the crises our own generation and those after us will face – arguing that yes, catastrophes are painful and destructive, but we can and will survive them.
Democracy Through the Lens of Chinese Scholars
The first English-language study of Chinese scholars' perspectives on China's quest for democracy. History teaches us that profound transformations are not shaped by ideas alone but are impossible without great ideas. China is known to have a long history during which scholars played a central role in society while their ideas about politics prevailed. Democracy Through the Lens of Chinese Scholars explores six leading schools of thought—including liberalism, New Leftism, neo-Confucianism, democratic socialism, neo-authoritarianism, and good governance—on how to turn China into a democracy. Based on a wealth of primary sources and interview data, author He Li examines the Chinese theoretical debates on democracy from both historical and comparative perspectives. He demonstrates that the crux to understanding China's long march toward democracy lies in appreciating the interrelatedness and interplay of major strands of thought and brings rigor and insight to our understanding of China's leading school of political thought, shedding new light on non-Western political thought in general and comparative democratic theory in particular. Last but not least, the arguments here are a part of global efforts to rethink capitalism and democracy while focusing on liberty, justice, and the rule of law.
Wayward and Homebound
Offers an expansion of Desmond's explorations in the philosophy of the between by considering in a fresh way the distinctive features of Irish thought, with reference to religion, culture, and poetry. In Wayward and Homebound, William Desmond explores the philosophy of the between in connection with traditions of Irish thought and culture, especially poetry, drawing upon the metaxological philosophy developed most systematically in the award-winning Being and the Between, Ethics and the Between, and God and the Between. It begins with a broad overview of this notion in connection with Irish thinking and culture by contrast with French, German, and Greek variations of the notion. It touches on figures like John Scotus Eriugena, John Toland, George Berkeley, and Edmund Burke as well as major poets and writers like Swift, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett. The paradoxical twinning of being at home and not being at home and the relation of thought and exile, in an Irish as well as more cosmopolitan setting, are explored. Desmond presents a synopsis of metaxological philosophy and how it contributes to aesthetics, ethics, religion, and metaphysics. In an extended exploration of Irish betweenings, reflections are offered that move from nature to culture, with four sequences of reflections on islanding, naturing, homing, and wording. Additional concerns come to light such as insular thinking, the ecology of land and sea, religion, postcolonialsm, and the dialogue of poet and philosopher.
The City Among Cities
An original interpretation of Aristotle's political thought focusing on war and peace. With the post–Cold War international order under stress, Stephen P. Sims reconsiders the relationship between war, peace, and politics by returning to the thought of Aristotle. The City Among Cities offers new ways of thinking about Aristotle, connecting his themes of inequality—such as slavery or aristocracy—to his observations on war and hegemonic politics. By contrasting Aristotle's approach with the foundational theories of international relations, Sims argues that hierarchy and coercion are permanent features of political life that democratic nations ignore at their own peril.
A Life of Solid Principles
A translation of the 1843 novella by Edgar Bauer, a significant if overlooked work of German literary history that casts new light on the Young Hegelian movement and, possibly, Karl Marx. In early 1843, the Young Hegelian philosopher and activist Edgar Bauer published a comic novella titled Es leben feste Grundsätze! or A Life of Solid Principles! It told the story of an idealistic young journalist named, significantly enough, Karl. While the work was more or less ignored for one and a half centuries, recent scholarship has suggested that it may contain a fictionalized and deeply critical portrait of Karl Marx. That on its own makes it fascinating and valuable. But it is also an important piece of literary history in its own right. And it offers a powerful way into the life and career of its author—a figure who, despite an enormous amount of interest in the intellectual history of the German Vormärz in recent years, has remained conspicuously overlooked in the literature. This volume combines an original translation of Es leben feste Grundsätze! with a long essay outlining Edgar Bauer’s revolutionary political thought. Along the way, it shows how the Young Hegelian movement constituted a crucial inflection point in the history of the relationship between radical political theory, on one side, and concrete political institutions, on the other.
Science in the Snakepit
People have always been fascinated by snakes, but only during the last few decades have researchers begun to reveal the secret lives of these most mysterious of animals. Rick Shine is one of the most eminent of those scientists, and his book describes the adventures and misadventures of researchers who have investigated the ecology and biology of these fantastic beasts – and sometimes, have paid with their lives. This richly-illustrated title chronicles the revolution in our understanding of snakes, the new methods that have arisen to enable those breakthroughs, and the serendipitous and often-chaotic processes by which human beings accumulate insights into other forms of life. Recent years have witnessed an incredible flowering of snake-ecology research, with a rapidly expanding diversity not only of the snake species being studied and the places where this occurs, but also of the kinds of people making those discoveries. Snakes are peculiar animals, and they attract peculiar people. This book captures the thrills and perils of a worldwide scientific leap forward, from fear and ignorance of snakes towards respect and understanding. This professional biologist’s ramble through the history of people’s attempt to understand the private lives of snakes – with lots of stories about the eccentric pioneers – will appeal to anyone with an interest in snakes and natural history.
Maurice Blanchot
Investigates permutations of the terror to examine the complex political and intellectual transformation of literary theorist and novelist Maurice Blanchot between 1933 and 1949. Between 1933 and 1949 Maurice Blanchot's writings underwent a rather infamous political and critical transformation. Its overarching trope is the terror, which features prominently in his work in 1936, 1941, and 1947. The terror is a reflexive discourse about whether language is bound to reality, and so forceful, or merely a series of empty signs. Marty Hiatt provides an in-depth study of Blanchot's political and critical writings from this period, elaborating his various reckonings with the terror so as to demonstrate the categorical nature of his intellectual shift. Blanchot first calls for an insurrection that would violently expurgate the foreign and execute a Jewish prime minister in order to save France. After the Fall of France, he develops an account of how terror and rhetoric dialectically constitute literature as world construction and world destruction. In his first postwar encounter with Hegel, he links this conception back to history by arguing that it corresponds to revolution. He also doubles the dialectical account of revolutionary history through an account of poetic language that makes contact with an unknowable substrate of existence, resulting in a kind of absolute ambiguity, and seeks to explore and inhabit a form of negativity beyond revolution.
A Scourge of Humanity
As the First World War came to a chaotic end, Europeans feared that a wave of crime and anarchy would sweep across their continent. The upheavals of the war and of the subsequent violent breakup of the Habsburg, German, and Ottoman empires magnified longstanding fears that an increasingly interconnected world offered the enterprising and unscrupulous new opportunities to break the law and evade capture. New kinds of international criminals and criminal enterprises demanded novel forms of international cooperation. Thus was born the International Criminal Police Commission, known today as Interpol. In the 1920s and 1930s, Interpol''s police officials and the lawyers who collaborated with them created lasting programs to combat counterfeiting, sex and drug trafficking, terrorism, and human smuggling, and other forms of international crime, which they labelled "a scourge of humanity." Drawing on press reports, police files, and criminal records in numerous languages and across multiple countries, David Petruccelli explores the origins of Interpol and the role Central and Eastern European actors played in developing criminal policing and law during the interwar period to bring stability to their region and reshape international institutions and norms. He shows how legal experts replaced a liberal focus on individual rights with an emphasis on a collective of international societies and of police officers who looked to the international sphere as a space for eluding the constraints of the rule of law at home. In doing so, their initiatives posed an alternative to the imperial and liberal internationalist programs pursued by many Western Europeans and Americans and laid the groundwork for more radical forms of persecution during the Second World War. While bringing to life the stories of individuals involved in shady activities across borders, A Scourge of Humanity explores the vigorous policing and harsh criminal laws established by Interpol to combat their crimes and highlights illiberal forms of internationalism that have left a lasting mark on our world.
Inscriptions of Wisdom
Two important texts in the Sufi tradition made available together in English for the first time. Inscriptions of Wisdom brings together, for the first time in English, two pivotal Sufi texts that illuminate Ibn al-?Arabi's (d. 1240) celebrated work F? ? al-?ikam. The first, Naqsh al-F? ? (the Inscription of the F? ?), is Ibn al-?Arabi's own distillation of F? ? al-?ikam, presenting a concise yet profound articulation of its core teachings. The second, Naqd al-n? ? fi shar? Naqsh al-F? ? (texts commenting on Naqsh al-F? ?), by ?Abd al-R? an Jami, is an anthology of carefully selected passages from the earliest and most authoritative interpreters of F? ? al-?ikam, enriched with Jami's own insights. Together, these works explore the quintessential knowledge and divine principles embodied by each of the twenty-seven major prophetic figures of the Islamic tradition, from Adam to Muhammad. If F? ? al-?ikam represents the culmination of Ibn al-?Arabi's thought, then Naqsh al-F? ? distills its very essence and inner mystery. Mukhtar H. Ali's meticulous presentation of the F? ? al-?ikam commentarial tradition—featuring the first complete English translation of Jami's Naqd al-n? ?, chapter-by-chapter analysis, and extensive notes on key Sufi terms and concepts—establishes this volume as a landmark study in Islamic metaphysics and Sufi thought.
Birds: What's in a Name
This entertaining and informative guide explains the meanings of bird names, many of which have fascinating origins and stories behind them. The universal system of ‘scientific’ names, based largely on Greek and Latin, is used in all good bird books and assists birdwatchers around the world in figuring out exactly what they are looking at. While some of the names are fairly self-explanatory – such as Troglodytes for wren, meaning ‘cave-dweller’ – others are more mysterious – Caprimulgus for nightjar, for example, meaning ‘goat-sucker’. Covering hundreds of bird species from around the world, Birds: What’s In A Name? includes explanations of hundreds of scientific names and common names, as well as delivering a wealth of other facts and trivia relating to the species concerned. In short, it’s the most readable and entertaining book on the subject available anywhere. Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) ‘The duck with the flat beak’. Ixobrychus minutus (Little Bittern) ‘Small reed bellower’. Strigops habroptilus (Kakapo) A bird that ‘looks like an owl, with soft feathers’. Ptilonorhynchus violaceus (Satin Bowerbird) ‘Violet bird with a feathered bill’. Tachybaptus ruficollis (Little Grebe) Literally translated, this is the ‘red-collared fast-sinker’.
Celluloid Babel
Traces the intellectual history of cinema's aspiration to create a universal language, examining how this vision has been articulated in both writings and films. Celluloid Babel offers a transnational intellectual history of cinema's quest for universal language, unfolding through both writings and films. Today, algorithms and data-collection systems play a significant role in predicting the viewer's preferences and suggesting content specifically tailored to their particular interests. However, this promise of on-demand personalized media is markedly different from the promise outlined in cinema's initial promotional discourse, which celebrated the medium’s ability to appeal to a universal audience. Instead of targeting fragmented audiences, cinema was supposed to captivate and engage everyone all at once, regardless of social station, educational level, or national affiliation. The aspiration for a universal language left an indelible mark on film history, yet despite its significance, the history and theory behind it remain largely unexplored. Celluloid Babel illuminates a pivotal chapter in early film theory and establishes it as the inaugural paradigm of thought on cinema’s nature. By exploring this pursuit, the book reveals the forgotten utopian potential of mass media and uncovers complex correlations among political ideals, aesthetic preferences, material conditions, modes of spectatorship, and governance.
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