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Whatever You Do, Don't Run

True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide

by Peter Allison ...

A new and expanded edition of Peter Allison’s hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “Only food runs!”With biting wit and tales of outrageous adventure, Peter Allison gives us a safari guide’s first-hand account of working in the African bush. Allison regales us with stories about confronting the world’s fiercest terrain of wild animals and most, terrifying ... Read more

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A new and expanded edition of Peter Allison’s hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “Only food runs!”With biting wit and tales of outrageous adventure, Peter Allison gives us a safari guide’s first-hand account of working in the African bush. Allison regales us with stories about confronting the world’s fiercest terrain of wild animals and most, terrifying
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Whatever You Do, Don't Run

True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide

by Peter Allison ...

A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “only food runs!” With a new introduction and new material from the authorIn the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allison gives us the guide’s-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world’s fiercest terrain of wild animals ... Read more

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A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “only food runs!” With a new introduction and new material from the authorIn the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allison gives us the guide’s-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world’s fiercest terrain of wild animals
... Read more

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Don't Look Behind You!

A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos

by Peter Allison ...

Incredible true tales from a world-renowned safari guide and celebrated authorRomantic notions aside, being a safari guide isn’t always particularly enjoyable or glamorous. Quite often it is beset with challenges, like having to spend a night in a thorn tree with marauding hyenas below. But safari guide Peter Allison lives for such moments. Here, the author of the widely praised Whatever You Do, ... Read more

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Incredible true tales from a world-renowned safari guide and celebrated authorRomantic notions aside, being a safari guide isn’t always particularly enjoyable or glamorous. Quite often it is beset with challenges, like having to spend a night in a thorn tree with marauding hyenas below. But safari guide Peter Allison lives for such moments. Here, the author of the widely praised Whatever You Do,
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How to Walk a Puma

And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling through South America

by Peter Allison ...

On his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin. One side would take him to Africa and the other to South America, the two places he wanted to explore before he died. He recounted his time spent as a safari guide in Africa to much acclaim in Whatever You Do, Don’t Run and Don’t Look Behind You. Sixteen years later, he makes his way to Santiago, Chile, ready to seek out the continent’s ... Read more

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On his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin. One side would take him to Africa and the other to South America, the two places he wanted to explore before he died. He recounted his time spent as a safari guide in Africa to much acclaim in Whatever You Do, Don’t Run and Don’t Look Behind You. Sixteen years later, he makes his way to Santiago, Chile, ready to seek out the continent’s
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run

True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide

by Peter Allison ...

Narrated by Antony Ferguson ...

Unabridged

6 hours 45 min

Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top -safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where thewrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry -elephants, and the world's most unpredictable animals—herds of untamed tourists and foolhardy guideswhose outrageous antics sometimes make them even more dangerous than a ... Read more

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Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top -safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where thewrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry -elephants, and the world's most unpredictable animals—herds of untamed tourists and foolhardy guideswhose outrageous antics sometimes make them even more dangerous than a
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Romantic Beasts

Pervasion, Eccentricity, Exhibition

by Christopher R. Clason, Alastair Hunt, Pamela Buck, John Gardner, Jane Spencer, Allison Dushane, Kathryn Desplanque, Peter Erickson, Frederick Burwick0 ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
By staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how "human" animals could be and how "animal" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted perplexing animal intrusions upon humans. Sometimes the intruders were mystifying or terrifying, like Coleridge’s albatross or Poe’s raven; sometimes they were mundane, as in “The Swallow” by Smith or ... Read more

$35.99 USD

By staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how "human" animals could be and how "animal" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted perplexing animal intrusions upon humans. Sometimes the intruders were mystifying or terrifying, like Coleridge’s albatross or Poe’s raven; sometimes they were mundane, as in “The Swallow” by Smith or
... Read more
South Seas Encounters

Nineteenth-Century Oceania, Britain, and America

Edited by Richard Fulton, Peter Hoffenberg, Stephen Hancock, Allison Paynter ...

Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two powerful, industrialized colonial powers on the cultures of the Pacific, but the effect of those cultures on the Western cultural perceptions ... Read more

$66.99 USD

South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two powerful, industrialized colonial powers on the cultures of the Pacific, but the effect of those cultures on the Western cultural perceptions
... Read more
Taphonomy

Process and Bias Through Time

Edited by Peter A. Allison, David J. Bottjer ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Taphonomic bias is a pervasive feature of the fossil record. A pressing concern, however, is the extent to which taphonomic processes have varied through the ages. It is one thing to work with a biased data set and quite another to work with a bias that has changed with time. This book includes work from both new and established researchers who are using laboratory, field and data-base techniques ... Read more

$143.99 USD

Taphonomic bias is a pervasive feature of the fossil record. A pressing concern, however, is the extent to which taphonomic processes have varied through the ages. It is one thing to work with a biased data set and quite another to work with a bias that has changed with time. This book includes work from both new and established researchers who are using laboratory, field and data-base techniques
... Read more
The American Revolution at 250

Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding

by Brendan McConville, Annette Gordon-Reed, Eliga Gould, Christa Dierksheide, Professor Nicholas Guyatt, PhD, Professor Robert G. Parkinson, Professor Marlene L. Daut, Ph.D, Allison Bigelow, Peter S. Onuf, T. H. Breen, Professor Rosemarie Zagarri, PhD, John A. Ragosta, Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Professor Woody Holton, Professor Lauren Duval, Ricardo Herrera, Joanne B. Freeman, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Andrew M. Davenport, Patrick Griffin, Katherine Carté, Dr. Michael A. McDonnell, PhD, Teresa R Pollak ...

Series series The Revolutionary Age
The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States’ birthIn these powerful and personal essays, some of the most celebrated historians of the American Revolutionary era reflect on the meaning of 1776 to the nation in 2026, offering fresh insights and food for thought on every page. They tackle the most pressing topics that Americans debated in ... Read more

$29.99 USD

The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States’ birthIn these powerful and personal essays, some of the most celebrated historians of the American Revolutionary era reflect on the meaning of 1776 to the nation in 2026, offering fresh insights and food for thought on every page. They tackle the most pressing topics that Americans debated in
... Read more
Teaching Literacy in Troubled Times

Identity, Inquiry, and Social Action at the Heart of Instruction

by Allison Skerrett, Peter Smagorinsky ...

Series series Corwin Literacy
"Upending deficit narrative of learning loss, combating broken approaches to racial equity, and wading deep into the contested waters of democratic principles of learning within today’s schools, Dr. Skerrett and Dr. Smagorinsky offer an accessible guidebook for making our classrooms sites of justice and joy. Perhaps most importantly, theirs is a book that reveals classroom practices as they really ... Read more

$32.99 USD

"Upending deficit narrative of learning loss, combating broken approaches to racial equity, and wading deep into the contested waters of democratic principles of learning within today’s schools, Dr. Skerrett and Dr. Smagorinsky offer an accessible guidebook for making our classrooms sites of justice and joy. Perhaps most importantly, theirs is a book that reveals classroom practices as they really
... Read more
The AIA Construction Management Contracts

A Concise Analysis of the 2019 Revisions

by Kristin Elizabeth Protas, Allison Taller Reich ...

Every ten years or so, the American Institute of Architects updates its major families of construction contracts. In 2017, the AIA overhauled its design-bid-build documents anchored by the A201. In late 2019 and early 2020, the AIA released its revisions to its suite of construction management documents, last updated in 2009. This book summarizes and analyzes the major revisions to the AIA's major ... Read more

$64.99 USD

Every ten years or so, the American Institute of Architects updates its major families of construction contracts. In 2017, the AIA overhauled its design-bid-build documents anchored by the A201. In late 2019 and early 2020, the AIA released its revisions to its suite of construction management documents, last updated in 2009. This book summarizes and analyzes the major revisions to the AIA's major
... Read more
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The Heights

by Peter Hedges ...

Narrated by Peter Hedges, Allison Pill, Amy Ryan ...

Unabridged

7 hours 55 min

Tim Welch is a popular history teacher at the Montague Academy, an exclusive private school in Brooklyn Heights. As he says, "I was an odd-looking, gawky kid but I like to think my rocky start forced me to develop empathy, kindness, and a tendency to be enthusiastic. All of this, I'm now convinced, helped in my quest to be worthy of Kate Oliver." Now, Kate is not inherently ordinary. But she ... Read more

$20.99 USD

Tim Welch is a popular history teacher at the Montague Academy, an exclusive private school in Brooklyn Heights. As he says, "I was an odd-looking, gawky kid but I like to think my rocky start forced me to develop empathy, kindness, and a tendency to be enthusiastic. All of this, I'm now convinced, helped in my quest to be worthy of Kate Oliver." Now, Kate is not inherently ordinary. But she
... Read more

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