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  • 1001 Climbing Tips

    The essential climbers' guide: from rock, ice and big-wall climbing to diet, training and mountain survival

    Series Libro 1 - 1001 Tips
    Imagine an alien came down to Earth, stuck a probe into a climber's brain – one who'd been climbing for over thirty years – and then transmogrified the contents into a big book of climbing tips. Well, 1001 Climbing Tips by Andy Kirkpatrick is just such a book.This is no regular instruction manual – it's much more useful than that. This is a massive collection of all those little tips that make a ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Cold Wars

    Climbing the fine line between risk and reality

    I was aware that I was cold - beyond cold. I was a lump of meat left for too long in a freezer, a body trapped beneath the ice, sinking down into the dark. 'I was freezing to death.' In this brilliant sequel to his award-winning debut "Psychovertical", mountaineering stand-up Andy Kirkpatrick has achieved his life's ambition to become one of the world's leading climbers. Pushing himself to new ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Unknown Pleasures

    Collected writing on life, death, climbing and everything in between

    'The idea of owning anything except the experience is hubris.' Unknown Pleasures is a collection of works by the climber and award-winning author Andy Kirkpatrick. Obsessed with climbing and addicted to writing, Kirkpatrick is a master storyteller. Covering subjects as diverse as climbing, relationships, fatherhood, mental health and the media, it is easy to read, sometimes difficult to digest, ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Down

    The Complete Descent Manual for Climbers, Alpinists and Mountaineers

    "This book will save your life" Pete Whittaker (Wide Boyz)Down is a groundbreaking encyclopedic study of the art of descent. Its purpose is to create a single source for all descent techniques, both well-established and ideal for novice climbers, as well as cutting-edge, high-value techniques for experienced and pro climbers.The book was written and illustrated over three years by award-winning ... Leer más

    $13.41 USD

  • Seven Climbs

    Finding the finest climb on each continent

    'Even the most casual reader among you will by now have worked out that the whole thing is little more than a delightful ruse for having a very good time.'Experienced climber Charles Sherwood is on a quest to find the best climb on each continent. He eschews the traditional Seven Summits, where height alone is the determining factor, and instead considers mountaineering challenge, natural beauty ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Rhetoric and Writing

    An Introduction for Language Teachers

    Series series Perspectives on Writing
    Andy Kirkpatrick and and Zhichang Xu offer a response to the argument that Chinese students’ academic writing in English is influenced by “culturally nuanced rhetorical baggage that is uniquely Chinese and hard to eradicate.” Noting that this argument draws from “an essentially monolingual and Anglo-centric view of writing,” they point out that the rapid growth in the use of English worldwide ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Friendship Store

    A Memoir of 1970s China

    What was it like to live in China in the mid-1970s? Andy Kirkpatrick arrived in Beijing only a few days before the death of Chairman Mao, and offers a vivid, eye-opening and entertaining account of a period when China was one of the most isolated places on earth. Spanning the period between the death of Mao and the 'resurrection' of Deng Xiaoping in 1978, this unique China memoir describes the ... Leer más

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  • The Parent’s Guide to SEND

    Supporting Your Child with Additional Needs at Home, School and Beyond

    There is no handbook to being a parent. Much less being a parent of a child with special educational needs.How do you support your child in school? Where do you even begin to try and access local services? What can you expect from your local authority?Co-written by a parent who has been there and a SEND professional who understands the other side of the SEND system, this must-have book answers all ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Ungekannte Freuden

    Über das Leben, den Tod, das Klettern und alles dazwischen

    Andy Kirkpatrick ist besessen - vom Klettern und vom Schreiben. Und er ist ein begnadeter Geschichtenerzähler. Sein neues Buch versammelt Essays zu so unterschiedlichen Themen wie Klettern, Liebe und Beziehungen, Vaterschaft, psychische Gesundheit, Medien. Es sind leichtfu?ssige Texte von oft u?berraschender Tiefgru?ndigkeit. Wir begleiten den Autor in die Einsamkeit einer Solobegehung der ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education

    Edición de Andy Kirkpatrick, Roland Sussex ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Even as Anglophone power wanes in Asia, and China and India rise, the role of the English language in the region continues to develop. How are students in Asian nations such as Vietnam, Malaysia and China itself being taught English? This much-needed overview analyzes the differing language education policies of selected countries that also include Indonesia, Japan and Sri Lanka. Noting ASEAN’s ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Asian Englishes

    Series series Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Handbook of Asian Englishes provides wide-ranging coverage of the historical and cultural context, contemporary dynamics, and linguistic features of English in use throughout the Asian region. This first-of-its-kind volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of the English language throughout nations in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Contributions by a team of internationally ... Leer más

    $49.00 USD

  • Is English an Asian Language?

    Asia is now home to some 800 million multilingual speakers of English, more than the total number of native English speakers, and how they use English is continuously evolving and changing to reflect their cultural backgrounds and everyday experiences. Can English, therefore, be considered an Asian language? Drawing upon the Asian Corpus of English, this book will be the first comprehensive ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD