With its lush wetlands, miles of beaches, and wide array of colorful wildlife, Florida is a fascinating and important ecosystem to study. Using this state as a model, Environment and Society in Florida offers a whole systems approach to understanding the environment and discusses the interactions between human systems and natural systems. It addresses the complicated issues stemming from these interactions among population, resources, economics, and environment, and discusses how we may be...

In A Dancer Descended Mount Kenya, frustrated with his faith and with a lingering desire to his own will, Gregory climbs out of the boat in July 2012 to discover his relationship with the Lords will by answering a call to serve in Rwanda and climb Mount Kenya. Taking us on a transformative journey, he reflects on his misconceptions about climbing and discovers answers to spiritual questions by experiencing a taste of living in the kingdom. After a near-death experience on Mount Kenya, Greg...

Aru Shah and the End of Time meets Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away in this mesmerizing portal fantasy that takes readers into the little-known world of Jinn.Nura longs for the simple pleasure of many things—to wear a beautiful red dupatta or to bite into a sweet gulab. But with her mom hard at work in a run-down sweatshop and three younger siblings to feed, Nura must spend her days earning money by mica mining. But it’s not just the extra rupees in ...

In this mesmerizing novel, a wealthy young boy searching for his mother teams up with a fiery jinn princess to battle in a tournament of heirs—and try to keep his life from changing forever.Twelve-year-old Amir is one of the heirs to the Rafiq Bricks Company, a wealthy brick kiln business in Pakistan—except he wants none of it. Seeing straight through the jeweled smiles and transactional conversations, Amir would rather spend time in the courtyard garden, where he ...