A discussion of culture, design, environmental issues, and fuel economy associated with the Denver International Airport. It was originally written as part of a book entitled "Simple Solutions" inspired by the visionary thinker, Mr. Jim Starry.

Christian Zombie takes us on a sensuous journey of death, destruction, and debauchery, starting in the Peruvian Amazon jungle and ending on a sidewalk outside God's Plan Ministries Temple in west Omaha, with amazing stops along the way—Belize during spring break, cemeteries in Oklahoma City and Denver, Hair of the Dog Saloon—but finally, when exhausted by the nightly Ghost Train rides and Zombie Jamborees that ensue, to the God's Plan Ministries Temple in Omaha, Nebraska. Our hero is analy...

Dr. Gideon Marshall is a geology prof at an obscenely wealthy liberal arts college in Iowa, and he gets called as an expert witness for trials where crime scene dirt is critical evidence. The series can be thought of as a five-book essay on scientific literacy, or maybe the lack thereof, given what some of the characters would like to do with a murder victim's theoretical research, namely convert fracking technology into a weapon of mass destruction by making earthquakes happen on purpose ...

Charlie Nightengale wins an enormous Powerball jackpot and his life goes to hell. I know, this story is as old as "boy meets girl," but in "Ransom", Charlie's wife Betsy is kidnapped by a group that plays Robin Hood, buying her a new wardrobe, flying her in a Gulfstream corporate jet to a fancy dinner, replacing her blown-up Toyota Camry with a high end Lexus, and delivering her back to Charlie, but not before her ransom provides an endowment to take care of her for the rest of her life. T...

In poetry, four sets of parents of a players on a high school girls team lament their daughters obsession with the sport; they end up with the conclusion that human beings are at their best when working in a group of five! If you have children in athletics, or have had, you need this book big time!

Outwitting College Professors is the ultimate college success book. This valuable little volume tells everything you need to know, from how profs make out exams, to how you should act if you encounter your prof in a bar, tips for maximizing grades on papers, advice on handling your relationships with the most difficult profs (in a chapter named "Advanced Outwitting"!), and ways to get great letters of recommendation. For over four decades, college students have used these tricks on the aut...

Outwitting College Professors is the ultimate college success book. This valuable little volume tells everything you need to know, from how profs make out exams, to how you should act if you encounter your prof in a bar, tips for maximizing grades on papers, advice on handling your relationships with the most difficult profs (in a chapter named "Advanced Outwitting"!), and ways to get great letters of recommendation. For over four decades, college students have used these tricks on the aut...

In despair over his nation sliding into authoritarian rule, an 82-year old scientist writes a letter to a new-born child whose name he's just read in the paper. His nation is the United States; his letter is what life has taught him about what this child can expect if she lives to her own 82nd birthday on March 21, 2100, during a global pandemic and our ongoing assault on the American Dream by people elected to preserve that dream and make it achievable for all. The letter takes two years ...

Africa Notes addresses the following question: How are exceptional travel experiences, especially ones taken to realize life-long dreams, not only integrated into your memories, but also informed by your past experiences, your knowledge, and your values? In this sense, the book's theme is transferable to other aspects of human lives as well as to experiences that are not necessarily chosen but nevertheless have a major impact on our personal futures. There is plenty of biology in Africa No...

Delmar Stevens, obscenely rich oil baron with rigs and drilling platforms throughout the world, is obsessed with theoretical research by an obscure, and now dead, woman scientist at a small college in Iowa, research he believes will give him the power to generate massive earthquakes, or set off equally massive volcanoes, at selected places on Earth. Caught up in this obsession with a potential weapon of mass destruction are a suite of characters, including scientists, detectives from the I...

This book contains about 120 pages of old exams given from fall, 2007, through spring, 2011, along with the answers, study tips, etc. The questions can also be used as a source of vocabulary words because each multiple-choice question on such exams typically contains five or six scientific terms. The genetics section will be especially helpful, mainly because the questions require that you learn how to answer them by multiplying fractions instead of doing a Punnett square. The questions ar...

"Bernice and John" is part memoir and part post-WWII Oklahoma history, and in a sense national history, through the eyes of two people who lived and worked in Oklahoma City. My father was a petroleum geologist; he illustrates the life of a young man who comes to maturity in the Great Depression and chooses to become a professional oil man, a choice heavily influenced by the Oklahoma oil boom, and who is just starting his career as WWII begins. My mother was an extremely intelligent person ...