A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological dataToday the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it contained hundreds of thousands of acres of natural grasslands that stretched from Florida to Texas. Now more than 99 percent of these prairies, glades, and savannas have been...

Like a moth to the flame…The lives Maximillian, Baron of Sutton, has saved are never enough to atone for those he destroyed.Now a retired spy, he can’t avoid the woman he hurt the most. She not only works for him, she haunts his dreams and sets his body on fire. She’s the woman he desires most……and she has no idea he killed her husband.Colleen Bonner’s scandalous new job as manager for a bawdyhouse provides security and independence...

A Heart-Gripping Story of Championship Resilience in Life's Toughest Battles“Read it in 5 hours and was moved to tears!”The Pyramid Principle is based on the true and never before told story of Hall-of-Famer John Vallely. Filled with miraculous triumphs and hellacious heartbreaks, The Pyramid Principle masterfully depicts the impact of UCLA Coach John Wooden and his legendary “Pyramid of Success” he invested into all his players during his 29 year coaching ...

Natural capital accounting provides techniques to value natural resources and the ecosystem services they deliver. These techniques are being increasingly used by governments, banks and other financial institutions to set conservation priorities, make ecologically-based investment decisions, and to improve the impact of agri-food businesses on the natural world.Protecting natural capital and biodiversity in the agri-food sector provides a comprehensive ove...

John Bainbridge, Jr.'s Gun Barons is a narrative history of six charismatic and idiosyncratic men who changed the course of American history through the invention and refinement of repeating weapons.Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary. Yet few people are aware of the roles these men played at a crucial time in United States history, from westward expa...

For two years in the mid-thirteenth century England was torn by a bloody civil war between the king and his nobles. For a short time, the country came close to unseating the monarchy, and the outcome changed the course of English history. Yet this critical episode receives far less attention than the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil Wars that followed. John Sadler, in this highly readable and perceptive study of the Barons' War, describes events in vivid detail. He explores the lead...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The bestselling author of the Baker & Tate series returns with an immersive FBI thriller!A killer is recreating history's most infamous murders. One FBI analyst sees the pattern. Now she has to prove it—before he completes his masterpiece.When a night watchman is found dead in a Mississippi museum, FBI behavioral analyst Katie Ford recognizes something the local investigators do...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Some secrets refuse to stay buried...In this explosive new Baker & Tate mystery, Texas Ranger Ruth Baker faces her darkest case yet—one that strikes at the heart of her own family.When twenty-three children vanish from a school bus in Caldwell, Texas, the case becomes personal for Ruth Baker—her daughter Ava should have been on that bus. Partnered with fellow Ranger Aaron Tate...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A coded letter to the press. A killer who calls himself the Gemini. And crime scenes copied from cases that were supposed to stay buried.When hikers discover a woman's body staged in a California state park — arranged to mirror a decades-old unsolved murder — FBI Special Agent Katie Ford and her partner Nina Shaw are dispatched to San Jose to investigate. Within days, a second victim appears, posed to replicat...

Queer parenthood: It’s multifaceted. It’s complex. And it is constantly changing, as laws and culture shift around us. What’s in a Name? reflects on this complexity through the voices of nonbiological/non-gestational queer mothers/parents who explore our experiences parenting across our different social and familial locations. The authors have all taken different routes to parenting, live in different countries, and understand our relationships to parenting through our own personal experie...

Dealer John Mannering (aka 'The Baron) is on his way to buy some famous emeralds at a country mansion. His journey is interrupted, however, and then two strangers warn him his life is in danger. How does he proceed?

John Mannering, a retired jewel thief known as ‘The Baron’, owns an upmarket antique shop ‘Quinns’ in London’s Mayfair. He is asked to value a collection of jewellery and objets d’art belonging to the estate of Ezra Peek. What is mysterious, however, is a woman who is following him as he moves around London. Then there is an attempted robbery at Quinns, with Mannering’s wife tied up and locked in a cupboard. How are these events connected and when the woman declares her love for Mannering,...