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Adrenaline, avalanches, and addiction—I Could Die at Any Moment is the poignantly personal story about one thrill seeker's quest to live life to the fullest. Why is risking death worth it for adventurers? This is a question Greg Hill—Canadian pro skier, guide, and “The 2-Million Foot Man”—gets asked often. In this frank, open, and unflinching memoir, he does his best to provide an answer and bring some understanding and solace to his friends a...

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You might think the key to innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help--but there's only one way to ensure sustained innovation: you need to lead it--and with a special kind of leadership. Collective Genius shows you how. Preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, along with former Pixar tech wizard Greg Brandeau, MIT researcher Emily ...

Die erfolgreiche Musikerin Grey plagen alptraumhafte Visionen. Als sie die Einladung des berüchtigten Musikproduzenten Vaughn Daniels erhält, mit ihm in seinem abgelegenen Studio in den Wäldern Kanadas zu arbeiten, beginnt sie langsam herauszufinden, was wirklich in ihr steckt ...

Die erfolgreiche Musikerin Grey plagen alptraumhafte Visionen. Als sie die Einladung des berüchtigten Musikproduzenten Vaughn Daniels erhält, mit ihm in seinem abgelegenen Studio in den Wäldern Kanadas zu arbeiten, beginnt sie langsam herauszufinden, was wirklich in ihr steckt ...

Celebrates a growing international commitment to the collection, study and exhibition of Indigenous art. Featuring more than 75 artists from around the world, this title features over 150 artworks by artists from a wide range of countries, including, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Australia, India, Japan, and Finland.

The third collection of newspaper columns by longtime Alaskan public library director Greg Hill, Books Range 3 continues includes his observations about language, books, reading, and, of course, libraries. Written in a informal, yet informative, manner, Hill's far-ranging and often humorous essays link together many of the weird, wonderful, and unusual tidbits of knowledge he encounters working and reading in that most marvelous of thought-fac...

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A canonical figure in Native American art history, Alex Janvier has maintained a 50-year artistic practice that fuses aboriginal traditions with modernist abstraction. Influenced by Kandinsky and Klee, his murals and works on paper, canvas and linen explore the Dene geo-cultural landscape of his northern Alberta home with a combination of Indigenous iconography and contemporary realities within a personal aesthetic that is universal in reach h...

Preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill shows how leaders unleash and harness the "collective genius" of the people they lead, spurring innovation and strengthening the group.

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A collection of poems from the poet and critic Greg Hill, exploring interconnections between poetry and the natural world and probing the sensibilities that allow us to maintain a creative relationship with the living world. The cover depicts a bronze sculpture by Fidelma Massey, the subject of one of the poems, which reflects the same concerns as the poetry in the collection.

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From the age of thirteen when she began climbing, it was clear Lynn Hill had an unusual gift. Before long she was arguably the best rock climber in the world, establishing routes so bold and difficult that few others could follow. And in 1994, Lynn succeeded on a climb that no one-man or woman-has been able to repeat: the first "free ascent" of the Nose on Yosemite's El Capitan, which means that she climbed 3, 000 feet of vertical granite with...

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