Bücher von John Long

"Rogue's Atlas: 66 Flash Fiction Stories" by John Long invites readers into a captivating world where the boundaries between fiction and reality become delightfully blurred. In this collection of flash fiction stories, the author weaves a mesmerizing tapestry that occasionally perplexes yet consistently engages the imagination. Rather than challenging reality, Long's storytelling affirms its origins, offering readers an immersive experience that goes beyond the abstract. Within the pages of "Rogue's Atlas," Long crafts a rich and enigmatic realm, where the lines between fiction and non-fiction are not a threat but a confirmation of reality's roots. The flash fiction stories take on a tangible quality, emphasizing that enduring light is a reflection of our own perception. Long's narrative prowess brings forth a world that is both bright and occasionally baffling, challenging readers to explore the ineffable nature of existence. As the stories flicker like enduring light, the author's wit and craft shine through, leaving readers with a thought-provoking and engaging literary experience.Each of the 66 flash fiction stories offers a unique glimpse into a rich and mesmeric realm, challenging traditional boundaries and affirming the origins of reality. This collection is not just a phantom in a bottle; it is a testament to the author's wit and craft, showcasing a brilliant exercise in the art of storytelling.

This is the second of two books by the authors about engineering design principles for human-computer interaction (HCI-EDPs). The books report research that takes an HCI engineering discipline approach to acquiring initial such principles. Together, they identify best-practice HCI design knowledge for acquiring HCI-EDPs. This book specifically reports two case studies of the acquisition of initial such principles in the domains of domestic energy planning and control and business-to-consumer electronic commerce. The book begins by summarising the earlier volume, sufficient for readers to understand the case studies reported in full here. The themes, concepts, and ideas developed in both books concern HCI design knowledge, a critique thereof, and the related challenge. The latter is expressed as the need for HCI design knowledge to increase its fitness-for-purpose to support HCI design practice more effectively. HCI-EDPs are proposed here as one response to that challenge, and the book presents case studies of the acquisition of initial HCI-EDPs, including an introduction; two development cycles; and presentation and assessment for each. Carry forward of the HCI-EDP progress is also identified. The book adopts a discipline approach framework for HCI and an HCI engineering discipline framework for HCI-EDPs. These approaches afford design knowledge that supports "e;specify then implement"e; design practices. Acquisition of the initial EDPs apply current best-practice design knowledge in the form of "e;specify, implement, test, and iterate"e; design practices. This can be used similarly to acquire new HCI-EDPs. Strategies for developing HCI-EDPs are proposed together with conceptions of human-computer systems, required for conceptualisation and operationalisation of their associated design problems and design solutions. This book is primarily for postgraduate students and young researchers wishing to develop further the idea of HCI-EDPs and other more reliable HCI design knowledge. It is structured to support both the understanding and the operationalisation of HCI-EDPs, as required for their acquisition, their long-term potential contribution to HCI design knowledge, and their ultimate application to design practice.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Originally publsihed in 1791 in England, this personal account of an Indian interpreter and trader describes the manners and customs of the North American Indians, with an account of the posts situated on the St. Laurence River, Lake Ontario, etc. The book also includes a vocabulary of the Chippewa language, along with word lists in Iroquois, Mohegan, Shawanee, and Esquimo and a table showing a comparison of the Algonquin and Chippewa languages.

Revised and updated to reflect the modern standards of equipment, technique, and training methods, this guide includes sections on face climbing; crack climbing; ropes, anchors, and belays; getting off the rock; sport climbing; and much more.

Taking risks and exploring the unknown are as vital to human beings as our need for air, for growth, for affi rmation that we exist for something. These 19 stories reach deep into humanity¿s compulsion for the rush of new experiences. But gently, because it¿s not only records we might shatter. When does adventure turn to recklessness? What happens when we toe the edge above the void and face the big silence, where we might see God -- and die without warning? The Icarus Syndrome seeks to capture our push for more and hold it to the light, lofty and free, for as long as we dare tempt the downward slip. Both are possible; only one is assured.

Riding tubes in Venezuela. BASE jumping in Europe. Climbing big walls in Yosemite. Riding bulls in Texas. These first-person stories from acclaimed climber and adventurer John Long may be vastly different in content, but they share an identifiable emotional texture, tone and delivery, and fundamentally are of one piece. This is storytelling at its best-nonfiction that reads like fiction. In Stories from the Dirt, the action leaves you breathless, but it''s the characters that really leave a lasting mark. Like all stories worth a damn, this collection is all about the people.

Unforgettable collection of the best of John Long's writing on adventure travel and climbing.

A complete guide to climbing the largest, most sheer rock faces in the world, entertainingly written by two of the most experienced climbers in the history of the sport.

A classic collection of big wave surfing stories that heralded a new era in surfing literature-32 tantalizing and terrifying true tales from the sport's pioneers

A mammoth effort and the final word on climbing techniques, this guide is for the established climber to refine and polish form.