Climate change, and the inevitability of sea level rise, will require much more of us than simply pulling back from the coastline. The thesis of Weston Wright's More Water Less Land New Architecture is that we need to start thinking in an entirely different way about the relationship of cities to waterfront sites and of the relationship of buildings to water, which means rethinking many of architecture's implicit premises. If architecture has been confrontational with water—think bold towe...

Weston was at an impasse in his life, after hearing about his unknown daughter, who’d already been adopted by another family. Only the father had since passed away… So … accepting the mission to track down the missing, blind-in-one-eye, limping war dog named Shambhala—in Alaska—was exactly where he needed to be to sort out this other issue in his life. Finding the dog turned out to be easier than Weston had expected, but sorting out how and why this dog’s owner’s had been murdered was some...

Some two million Americans are in jail or in prison. Except for the occasional exposZ, what happens to them is hidden from the rest of us. Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained institution so deeply etched into its structure that no professional ethic is possible? The con...

This must-read for birders features a complete guide to attracting, understanding, and protecting owls.The call of an owl evokes mystery; seeing one in the wild inspires wonder. Of the top ten birds people hope to see, three are owls. Although they may be out of sight, owls are widespread throughout North America—and screech owls are the most likely to make their homes near humans. In this book, experts Jim Wright and Scott Weston show you how to attract them to ne...

Dark and creepy tales that will have you howling at the moonStories By :Abigail HilyardChristopher WestonJennifer ElliottJonathan DeglerKatie MarieKeely MessinoLinda ChambersRaz T. SlasherTish MacWebberVonnie Winslow CristPoetry By:Patricia HarrisRuan Bradford WrightArt ByAlex PageVonnie Winslow Crist

Quietly creepy stories, art, and poetry to make your spine tingleStories By:A.R. ClaytonChristopher WestonJennifer ElliottQuintin PetersonMichael GuzmanRaz T. SlasherSerena MossgravesSergio Palumbo & Ernesto CanepaPoetry By:Patricia HarrisRuan Bradford WrightVonnie Winslow CristArt By:Angel EllisonRuan Bradford WrightSerenity Rose

Dieser Band enthält folgende Fantasy Abenteuer: E. Charles Vian: Felder des Schlafes Alfred Bekker: Yarum und der Zauber von Bel-Samandi Jessie Weston: Sir Gawain und der Grüne Ritter David Wright O'Brien: Madagaskar-Geist Leroy Yerxa: Die verlorenen Legionen von Karthago Unter den Zwillingssonnen des Planeten Zaroon, einer gelben und einer roten, bewegte sich eine Gestalt durch die Flammenscheine wie ein Schatten auf der Suche nach Beute. Sein Name war Yarum, ein Barbar aus den nördlichen...

A dark anthology of Romance with a twist. Some dreams are so dark you can only handle them in the night.Art By Melanie Dabbs, Serenity Rose, Vonnie Winslow CristPoetry by Serena MossgravesPoetry By Azlyn FaeStories ByCM SnowVonnie Winslow CristRaz T. SlasherSergio PalumboRuan Bradford WrightChristopher WestonAzlyn Fae X2

The stars and constellations are among the few remaining objects that appear to us just as they appeared to our distant ancestors. From anywhere on Earth, a person may view the celestial panorama simply by stepping outside at night and gazing upward.This nonfiction narrative presents the tales of the forty-eight classical constellations, compiled from literature spanning a thousand years from Homer (c. 800 BC) to Claudius Ptolemy (c. 150 AD). These age-old tales have captured the h...

In a text that mirrors their language and thoughts, Marcia Sewall has masterfully recreated the coming of the pilgrims to the New World, and the daily flow of their days during the first years in the colony they called Plimoth.Aye, Governor Bradford calls us pilgrims. We are English and England was our home...But our lives were ruled by King James, and for many years it seemed as though our very hearts were in prison in England...September, 1620, our lives changed. We were seventy ...

At only 10 years of age, Alto Quack has already earned the unfortunate reputation of being the biggest time-waster in the 463-year history of his village. And despite all of his parents' warnings about the dreadful things that can happen to him if he continues to waste so much time, he continues to do so. But Alto's world is turned topsy-turvy one morning by an old man who introduces himself as an emissary from the Emperor of Time. He tells Alto that, because he has wasted so much time, th...

During Chinese New Year, a young boy encounters a homeless person and discovers that no gift is too small when it comes from the heart.Sam can hardly wait to go shopping with his mom. It's Chinese New Year's day and his grandparents have given him the traditional gift of lucky money-red envelopes called leisees (lay-sees). This year Sam is finally old enough to spend it any way he chooses. Best of all, he gets to spend his lucky money in his favorite place - Chinatown!But when Sam ...