Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherHumorous tales of travel and misadventure.Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures, unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable encounters, they can give birth to our most found travel lessons, and our most memorable - and hilarious - travel stories.These 31 globegirdling tales that run the gamut from close-encounter safaris to loss-of-face follies, hair-raising rides to culture-leaping brides, eccentric expats to mind-boggling repasts, wrong roads taken to agreements mistaken. The collection brings together some of the world's most renowned travellers and storytellers with previously unpublished writers.Includes stories by Wickam Boyle, Tim Cahill, Joshua Clark, Sean Condon, Chistopher R.Cox, David Downie, Holly Erikson, Bill Fink, Don George, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Jeff Grenwald, Pico Iyer, Amanda Jones, Kathie Kertesz, Doug Lansky, Alexander Ludwick, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Jan Morris, Brooke Neill, Rolf Potts, Laura Resau, Michelle Richmond, Alana Semuels, Deborah Steg, Judy Tierney, Edwin Tucker, Jeff Vize, Danny Wallace, Kelly Watton, Simon Wichester, Michelle WittonAbout Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) *#1 in the world market share - source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*Unexpected stories from unexpected places.Many places can feel like nowhere: a desert, an isolated village, even the middle of a bustling, impersonal city. And then something happens: an adventure, a revelation, an experience that changes the whole landscape. The discovery that every place is the centre of the world to somebody and has its own riches and wonders. The authors of these 30 real-life tales find passion, surprise and illumination in the middle of Borneo or Beijing, in a Mayan mountain village, along a timeworn trail in Tuscany, on an isolated South Pacific island, or under a desert moon in Mali.These richly varied stories all celebrate and illuminate one simple truth: if we embark on each adventure with an open heart and an open mind, travel will take us places we never planned to go, and enrich and enlighten us in ways we never otherwise would have known.Featuring stories by: Anthony Sattin, Danny Wallace, Jason Elliot, Pam Houston, Ralph Potts, Pico Iyer, Tim Cahill, Simon WinchesterAbout Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) *#1 in the world market share - source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013
Bringing together library and information science faculty and practicing library managers, this work combines some of the most exciting concepts and methodologies of library evaluation with the practical experiences of those working in the field. A variety of approaches (e.g., focus groups, TQM) are thoroughly described, then illustrated with actual case studies. These cases can serve as inspiration and models to library managers and other individuals responsible for evaluation, as well as to those who aspire to library management positions.
Knowledge management (KM) is frequently presented as a recent development born entirely of the business world. However, the intellectual origins of knowledge management are both deeper and broader than have been posited in the literature to date. Influences of philosophy, economics, education, psychology, information and communication theory, and library and information studies have been almost completely overlooked. This book links current and historical works to the development of knowledge management across domains and disciplines to give students and scholars a deeper appreciation of the origins of KM and a better understanding of its intellectual origins, its concepts, and principles. Through his thorough and critical examination of historical and more recent classic works, Wallace demystifies this important, emerging area of study. An essential and fascinating read for LIS faculty, students, and practitioners; required reading for courses in Knowledge Management.
The only book currently available that comprehensively integrates research and evaluation for evidence-based library and information science practice.Numerous books cover research and evaluation in general, but not within the context of library and information science. Many others cover the field of library and information science overall but with little focus on research. Knowledge into Action: Research and Evaluation in Library and Information Science offers in a single volume, an expert introduction to these two distinct, yet deeply interrelated, phases of information-gathering as they are practiced in the information sciences.Knowledge into Action takes readers through the core principles, working processes, and practical tools for conducting and evaluating research in library and information science, enhancing the presentation with examples, informational graphics, study questions, and exercises directly relevant to this field. It is a welcomed resource for students and scholars who want to use appropriate techniques for gathering and assessing research, as well as information professionals looking to improve services at their libraries or information centers. The book is also designed to educate practitioners as consumers of the research and evaluation literature and as active participants in professional conferences, meetings, and workshops.
`I wish I had a name like yours Danny because it's a real cool name,' sighed Alfie's imaginary friend Dudley.`I'll tell you what then Duds, why don't we swap names, but just for the day, just in case,' was what Dudley heard but he didn't answer right away because he knew that Danny was probably up to no good and when he did that things sort of went more than a little haywire.
Jake McMullen is an eighteen-year-old boy just starting out in life and already on the wrong track One night fuelled by too much bourbon and rebellion he makes a disastrous decision that will see him spending a life-saving week in jail with an enigmatic cellmate - Danny. Through Danny's obsession with history and his thoroughly unique way of teaching it, Jake will learn the most important lesson of his young life so far which will hopefully put him back on track to lead the happy and fulfilling life he was always destined to live.
Five novels about a boy called Danny and his adventures at home and abroad.The Path To Desolation. Danny and his parents spend the summer holiday in the English west country. He has a ride of terror on a train and an event from his past catches up with him.Both Needed A Friend. Danny and his parents visit Scotland at the half term. He is allowed to go out on hos own but is stranded and meets a suspicious teenage girl.Alone She Fought The System. A friend of Danny buys a house but everything turns into a nightmare when is let down by the estate agents, solicitors and other people involved.The Everlasting Danger. Danny's parents take him on holiday to a reclusive foreign country. He travels on the local buses. He doubts if the guide is telling them everything and if two teenage girls are who they seem to be.Not The Wind Moaned. Danny looks forward to the summer holidays but tragedy intervenes and his life is changed for ever. The novel contains some pictures and some songs set to music.
In my dreams billowing sails of white moved me quietly along on my well-planned voyage through life, but the choices I made put me adrift. I waited, hoping, that my ship would come into the wind, but I was caught in the wills and whims of the tides of life and I didn't know how to escape the storms that followed. Then, without steerage, I ran aground, hard and fast in a fallen world. I had hopes of being a choir-boy at my church, I would wear a navy-blue blazer; crimson necktie, and a surplice of white, now I can't, I'm dirty, and I can't get clean. I wanted to confess my sin but I couldn't, if I did, everyone would hate me. A Tsunami of shame and torment ebbed over my life; I was drowning. I was a twelve-year-old boy when this journey began, a journey that would take decades to complete. It would take me from a self-destructive life of condemnation to a freedom that only God's grace could provide. Follow me as I struggle to separate fact from fantasy, and dreams from reality in an emotional confrontation with a past that desperately wanted to steer my future. As you journey with me you will be introduced to a GOD that never forgets his own, never. One day on this painful voyage of wanderings I will meet (once again), the ONE who said, 'Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.' Heb 13:5 A man's heart plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps. Prov. 16 So, go ahead, pick up a pencil and write your plans down, lay out your future, but remember, GOD has an eraser. "For I know the plans that I have for you," declares the LORD, "Plans for welfare not calamity to give you a future and a hope." Jer. 29:11
In my dreams billowing sails of white moved me quietly along on my well-planned voyage through life, but the choices I made put me adrift. I waited, hoping, that my ship would come into the wind, but I was caught in the wills and whims of the tides of life and I didn't know how to escape the storms that followed. Then, without steerage, I ran aground, hard and fast in a fallen world. I had hopes of being a choir-boy at my church, I would wear a navy-blue blazer; crimson necktie, and a surplice of white, now I can't, I'm dirty, and I can't get clean. I wanted to confess my sin but I couldn't, if I did, everyone would hate me. A Tsunami of shame and torment ebbed over my life; I was drowning. I was a twelve-year-old boy when this journey began, a journey that would take decades to complete. It would take me from a self-destructive life of condemnation to a freedom that only God's grace could provide. Follow me as I struggle to separate fact from fantasy, and dreams from reality in an emotional confrontation with a past that desperately wanted to steer my future. As you journey with me you will be introduced to a GOD that never forgets his own, never. One day on this painful voyage of wanderings I will meet (once again), the ONE who said, 'Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.' Heb 13:5 A man's heart plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps. Prov. 16 So, go ahead, pick up a pencil and write your plans down, lay out your future, but remember, GOD has an eraser. "For I know the plans that I have for you," declares the LORD, "Plans for welfare not calamity to give you a future and a hope." Jer. 29:11