The sea is steadily rising, presently at ~3.4 per year, and it is already costing billions in Venice, on the Thames river and in New York City, to counter sea-level-related surges. Experts anticipate an accelerated rise, and credible predictions for sea-level rise by the year 2100 range from 12 inches to above six feet. Study of the Earth’s geologic history, through ice-core samples, links sea-level rise to temperature rise. Since the lifetime of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is measure...

Taking Parenting Public makes a compelling case that parenting has become dangerously undervalued in America today. It calls for a new investment-both personal and public-into the work of raising children and argues that we are all "stockholders" in the next generation. With a foreword by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West, Taking Parenting Public crosses boundaries to bring together thinkers from diverse fields spanning the political spectrum. It features contributions f...

Mick Hawk awakens in an alley covered with blood from a head wound, with no memories other than his first name. According to Shorty, the homeless man who found him, he was holding a battered driver's license, so they go in search of the owner with no luck.Then a man approaches them on the street. His name is Richard Wolfe, and he claims he and Mick are lovers. After Richard convinces Mick he's telling the truth, the three men set out to discover who wants Mick dead and why. A diffi...

Born 130 years ago in the heart of Mississippi, Charlie Patton (c. 1891–1934) is considered by many to be a father of the Delta blues. With his bullish baritone voice and his fluid slide guitar touch, Patton established songs like “Pony Blues,” “A Spoonful Blues,” and “High Water Everywhere” in the blues lexicon and, through his imitators, in American music. But over the decades, his contributions to blues music have been overshadowed in popularity by those of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters,...

Un groupe d'étudiants part en vacances de neige mais se retrouvent confrontés à la fin du monde.Quatre étudiants partent pour passer deux semaines de vacances au Colorado et faire du ski. Mais ils finirent par survivre à une explosion nucléaire dans leur ville Denver.Sans électricité, ni téléphone, ni aucune communication, ils se retrouvent isolés au sommet de la montagne sans savoir ce qui s'est passé dans le pays.Etait-ce un accident ou une attaque délibérée? Denv...

Joined by award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Nájera, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards introduces a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival in Canada of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations: the drug cartels of Mexico.A man watching the Euro Cup on a restaurant patio is shot dead on a busy Sunday afternoon in Toronto. Another dies in a sidewalk amb...

Joined by award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Nájera, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards introduces a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival in Canada of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations: the drug cartels of Mexico.A man watching the Euro Cup on a restaurant patio is shot dead on a busy Sunday afternoon in Toronto. Another dies in a sidewalk amb...

Quattro studenti universitari vanno sulle montagne del Colorado per due settimane di riposo, relax e divertimento invernale sulle piste per principianti. Ciò che invece trovano è la fine del mondo che conoscevano, quando la città di Denver viene distrutta da un'esplosione nucleare poco dopo il loro arrivo.Senza elettricità, senza cellulari e senza comunicazioni, sono isolati sulla cima di una montagna e non hanno la possibilità di scoprire cosa stia accadendo altrove nel paese....

The Wolf at the Door: Edward Walton Serial KillerBetween 1904 and 1908, Edward Walton killed at least four people—possibly five—across multiple states, exploiting the jurisdictional fragmentation and primitive communication systems of Progressive Era America to evade capture for years. A transient laborer moving through the circuits of mining camps, industrial towns, and railroad communities, Walton murdered his estranged wife in Chicago, shot a man in Penn...

When Miss Regina Lily meets Geoffrey Woodsworth while he is recovering in rehab from a cocaine addiction, she feels an instant attraction to him, despite the damage it would do to her already-tainted reputation.For his part, Geoffrey worries that he may have just made the worst first impression ever, until the next time she visits. But…Geoffrey has a dangerous secret – one that chains him to the walls of his rehab facility during each full moon. When he escapes the confines of his ...

Un nouveau gouvernement surgit dans une Amérique de l'après-guerre ravagée par la Guerre Civile, biologiques et nucléaires.Avec une population fortement en déclin, mais une technologie et des infrastructures intactes, l'Administrateur remodèle la structure économique et sociale de la nouvelle Amérique qui renaît des cendres de l'ancienne.Des concepts obsolètes et erronés comme la liberté et la vie privée sont remplacés par les idéaux progressistes d'égalité et de sécurité. ...

L’esprit de Kendra par Edward M WofleUne histoire d’amour logique astrale, caractérisé par une expérience de mort imminente, certains OBE, Paul McCartney, des terroristes, Pink Floyd, des médiums, et certains dauphins sympathiques.Kendra est une jeune journaliste passionnée en mission en Irak pour couvrir la fin de la guerre.Keith chez lui aux Etats-Unis, apprend qu’il y a eu un bombardement suivant une attaque suicide quelque part à Bagdad. Un rapport non confirmé ...