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The essential manual on how to find your way anywhere in any situation.

This text contains everything a castaway needs to know to survive in a liferaft and get rescued as quickly as possible. It draws on contemporary research in equipment, techniques and emergency medicine. It tells how to abandon ship, make a solar still and choose a liferaft and medical care.

Jack London writes about his own voyage across the Pacific in the Snark. Knowing little of navigation, he set out from San Francisco to Polynesia and Melanesia with his wife and two crew, in a schooner whose defects included a tendency to leak and a refusal to face up to wind when hove to.

This updated and practical guide will help you evaluate your company's safety and health processes and make fact-based decisions that improve overall performance. Written for professionals with limited exposure to statistics, Safety Metrics shows you how to assess trends and safety climates, work with data, and help with training.

Preparing Culturally Informed Educators: Examining Complexities in Practice aims to prepare mainstream educators to work effectively with diverse learners. Though not an exhaustive review of what is required for mastery of culturally informed instruction, this approach does equip educators with content knowledge, pedagogical skills, and professional dispositions necessary to provide diverse learners with equitable educational opportunities. Chapters explore theoretical foundations and challenges of culturally informed pedagogy, culturally informed reading education for English learners (EL) and all learners, and implications of recent neurological research.

"A debate-style text designed to promote critical thinking on terrorism and counterterrorism in international politics and homeland security"--

Survivor forever changed the entertainment industry when it became a hit, bringing reality TV to mainstream audiences and launching one of the most enduring franchises on television. This book analyzes the production's history, the castaway's gameplay, the show as a social experiment, and more.