For over twenty years ranchers on our southern border have stood alone, overrun withsmugglers, criminals, illegal immigrants, and terrorists. As our government turned a blind eye totheir plight they maintained their way of life and attempted to alert the country of the comingdanger. One If by Land gives voice to their story. Today, men and women of lawenforcement join the ranchers and together they expose the government policies that havetenaciously maintained an open, lawless, and deadly bor...

A little over one hundred years after the legendary shootout at the OK Corral, a radicalSouth Chicago preacher named Frances Thomas moved to Miracle Valley, Arizona. She broughtnot only her congregation, but also a dangerous cocktail of fanaticism, faith healing, bigotry,and dynamite. Believing that God had called her to take over Miracle Valley, Pastor Thomas andher cult of followers set out to do just that -- with explosive results.About theAuthorWilliam R. Daniel was born and raised in the...

For four years, a radical cult conducted a campaign of harassment and intimidation against the residents of Cochise County, Arizona. When everything came to a head at the tragicshootout at Miracle Valley, religious groups, politicians, civil rights advocates, and many in themedia reacted with outrage -- a hysteria based on their own bigotry, ignorance, and selfinterest.The Search for Justice chronicles the events that led to the shootout and thetumultuous events that occurred afterward. It te...

The concept of “Place” has become prominent in natural resource management, as professionals increasingly recognize the importance of scale, place-specific meanings, local knowledge, and social-ecological dynamics. Place-Based Conservation: Perspectives from the Social Sciences offers a thorough examination of the topic, dividing its exploration into four broad areas.Place-Based Conservation provides a comprehensive resource for researchers and practitioners to hel...

Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territorial claims are rapidly moving ecosystem thresholds and altering the social fabric of societies worldwide. This book addresses the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by multiple interconnected global challenges. It proposes that senses of place is a vital concept for supporting individual and social processes for...

"Common Sense" is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America.Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary.

A story of love and adventure from one of greatest authors of Western fiction.Foreword by multiple award-winning writer Jeffrey J. MariotteIt's the early 1920s, and Carley Burch loves New York City life. Carley Burch also loves Glenn Kilbourn. Will Carley travel all the way from New York City to the wilds of Arizona to bring Glenn, her fiancé, back to civilization?Recovered from injuries he received during World War I, Glenn found a...

This work provides in-depth analysis of the origins of landscape ecology and its close alignment with the understanding of scale, the causes of landscape pattern, and the interactions of spatial pattern with a variety of ecological processes. The text covers the quantitative approaches that are applied widely in landscape studies, with emphasis on their appropriate use and interpretation.The field of landscape ecology has grown rapidly during this period, its concepts and methods h...

Revised and updated with a new preface on the Crimean crisis______________________________________'An impressive polemic arguing that the West still underestimates the danger that Putin's Russia poses ... A useful appeal for vigilance' - Sunday Times'Highly informed, crisply written and alarming ... Wise up and stick together is the concluding message in Lucas's outstanding book' - Micha...

This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial decision support systems. The main objectives of this book are to effectivley integrate Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) into Geographic Information Science (GIScience), to provide a compr...

The creator of TomDispatch.com "focuses on the specific absurdities of American wars . . . strident, passionate, and problem-solving" ( Mother Jones).In 2008, when the US National Intelligence Council issued its latest report meant for the administration of newly elected president Barack Obama, it predicted that the planet's "sole superpower" would suffer a modest decline and a soft landing fifteen years hence. In his new book, The United States of Fea...

Erica Grieder's Texas is a state that is not only an outlier but an exaggeration of some of America's most striking virtues and flaws. Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right is a witty, enlightening inquiry into how Texas works, and why, in the future, the rest of America may look a lot like Texas.