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This book focuses on sustaining communities of practice in primary and secondary schools in Australia and internationally for the professional learning of all teachers, and particularly, early career teachers. Informed by the communities of practice research of Wenger-Trayner, it shows what factors are conductive to the sustainability of communities of practice, drawing particularly on a case study of an Australian regional secondary school, a...

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This book focuses on sustaining communities of practice in primary and secondary schools in Australia and internationally for the professional learning of all teachers, and particularly, early career teachers. Informed by the communities of practice research of Wenger-Trayner, it shows what factors are conductive to the sustainability of communities of practice, drawing particularly on a case study of an Australian regional secondary school, a...

Bernadette McDonald's biography of Elizabeth Hawley, I'll Call You in Kathmandu, was published in 2005. For many years she was Vice-President, Mountain Culture at The Banff Center and Director of The Banff Mountain Film and Book Festivals. Her most recent book is a biography of the renowned American climber, Charlie Houston.

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Of all the games mountaineers play, the hardest - and cruellest - is climbing the fourteen peaks over 8, 000 metres in winter. Award-winning author Bernadette McDonald tells how Poland's ice warriors made winter their own, perfecting what they dubbed 'the art of suffering'. Winter 8000 is the story of true adventure at its most demanding.

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Art of Freedom, by award-winning author Bernadette McDonald, is a profound and moving profile of Voytek Kurtyka, one of the international climbing world's most respected, complex and reclusive mountaineers. Winner of the 2017 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.

Die neue Biografie Bernadette McDonalds ist dem grossen polnischen Bergsteiger Voytek Kurtyka gewidmet. Kurtykas alpinistische Meriten zeugen vom unbändigen Willen und von einer geradezu unglaublichen Kraft, sich wieder und wieder an den schwierigsten und herausforderndsten Routen zu versuchen. Er gilt als der unbestrittene Meister der Hohen Tatra, des Hindukusch und der grossen Steilwände in den Alpen und in Skandinavien. Zusammen mit weltber...

A profound and moving biography of one of the international climbing world's most respected, complicated and reclusive mountaineers

Aus der Tristesse des polnischen Sozialismus, aus den grauen Industriegebieten und der von Krieg und Unterdrü, ckung schwergezeichneten Gesellschaft, steigen die polnischen Alpinisten der 1970er- und 1980er-Jahre in den Himmel des Himalaya: Ihnen gelingen härteste Wände an den Achttausendern, als erste ersteigen sie die höchsten Gipfel der Erde imWinter. Ihre Unverwü, stlichkeit und Härte wird legendär. So erobert Jerzy Kukuczka kurz...

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg erlebte Josip Broz Titos Jugoslawien eine Periode relativer Ruhe. Schon um 1960 begannen sehr gut trainierte und vom Staat subventionierte jugoslawische Alpinisten, aussergewöhnlichen Routen im Himalaya durchzufu¿hren. Diese Teams bestanden vor allem aus slowenischen Bergsteigern, die in den heimatlichen Julischen Alpen mit ihren senkrecht emporragenden Kalkgipfeln ein ideales Trainingsgelände hatten. Aber nach dem T...

Tells the story of the extraordinary Polish adventurers who emerged from under the blanket of oppression following the Second World War to become the world's leading Himalayan climbers. This book weaves a passionate and literary tale of adventure, politics, suffering, death and - ultimately - inspiration.

Find inspiration in this colorful book that invites you to slow down and explore the Okanagan Valley from a local's point of view. Whether it's spying a rare canyon wren, cycling the historic Kettle Valley Railroad across heart-stopping trestle bridges, or hiking through fields of spring flowers, travel alongside the authors as they draw you into the exquisite, unforgettable experience of savoring one of Canada's most beautiful destinations.Ge...

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Although Yugoslavia managed to avoid becoming involved in WWII until 1941, German armies invaded in April of that year and the Yugoslavian defense collapsed in less than two weeks. The state of Slovenia was split up amongst Germany, Hungary and Italy. Partisan groups, under the leadership of Josip Tito, managed to liberate the state by 1945, and then began a period of relative calm, under the benevolent rule of Tito. A Communist, he began to d...

Beginning in 1946, Elizabeth Hawley worked for Fortune magazine as a researcher. Shortly thereafter, she left both her job and the United States itself to travel the world, and thus began her lifelong attraction to the exotic and remote sovereign state of Nepal. In the years that followed, she began reporting on the political and cultural events taking place in her adopted homeland for the likes of Reuters and Time Inc., letting the world in o...

Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain. In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture to successfully scale the legendary peak and the first successful climb up the hazardous West Ridge (a climb so difficult no one has yet repeated it). In 201...