This book describes the underlying water conditions and geologies that support viable riparia, illustrates the ecological characteristics of riparia, and discusses how riparia are used by human cultures as well as how riparia can be used to sustain environmental quality. In recent years riparian management has been widely implemented as a means of improving fisheries, water quality, and habitat for endangered species. This book provides the basic knowledge necessary to implement successful...

Amon is trekking through the forest, seeking solitude as he nears the end of his guilt-ridden life. A hunter who has lost his family and been crippled through a landslide, he is spiritually broken thinking that he could have changed the course of events. He comes across a wounded wolf - a mortal enemy of his village - and decides to help the wolf recover. Amon and the wolf, Kwewu, build trust and mutual respect over the weeks as Amon tells the wolf stories of his culture and traditions whi...

The Basics of Numerology by Michael McClain grew out of the popular website, Astrology-Numerology.com which Michael opened on the Internet in 1996. It has hosted millions of visitors from many countries around the world in the past quarter century.The book is a guide that covers many of the core tenets of numerology. It covers the Life Path numbers providing a general outline of each of the base numbers. Likewise, the Destiny numbers, Birthday numbers, and other core numbers are ex...

With the ADF (Alliance Defense Force) finally starting to come together Jon turns his attention to his wive's home world in an attempt to make things right there. As Jon begins to unravel the mystery a new enemy emerges. A new enemy that no one knows much about, or are not speaking about. New friends arrive to add to the fleet, but at what cost and will Jon be willing to pay this cost? The King and Queen are not what they appear to be, how are they connected to what is going on?

A base under the ocean comes to life when a boating accident is picked up on its sensors. Atlanta, the last remaining survivor of the base, orders the base's automated systems to rescue the survivors and bring them back. Has she found a new commander for the base and the starting of a crew to bring the base back from the brink of destruction? A destruction in the form of an alien race hell bent of wiping out or capturing her kind. One of the young men seems to have the needed genetic marke...

Book I - Atlantis Rising:A base under the ocean comes to life when a boating accident is picked up on its sensors. Atlanta, the last remaining survivor of the base, orders the base's automated systems to rescue the survivors and bring them back.Book II - Euthara:With the ADF (Alliance Defense Force) finally starting to come together Jon turns his attention to his wive's home world in an attempt to make things right there.

The story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible rescue attempt that followed, and the fraught cost of survivalIn 2018, two couples set out on a climbing expedition to Alaska’s Hidden Mountains, one of the last wild ranges in North America. A rarity in modern climbing, the peaks were nearly unexplored and untouched, a place where few people had ever visited and granite spires still awaited first ascents. Inspired by ge...

This program includes excerpts read by the author.**One of Atlas & Boots' Top 10 Adventure Travel Books of 2021A dramatic account of the deadly earthquake on Everest—and a return to reach the summit.**On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthqua...

How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology - including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations - spatially entwined with this great human enterprise? And how can we improve urban areas for both nature and people? Urban Ecology: Science of Cities explores the entire urban area: from streets, lawns, and parks to riversides, sewer systems, and industrial sites. The book presents models, patterns, and examples from hundre...

Child of prophecy? Harbinger of DoomZaltys is a girl like any other to grow up ranging thejungles of the Southern Lluirwood. She’s a crack shot with a bow and no stranger to the dangers that lurk beneath the deep forest canopy.On expedition with her family to harvest the forbidden terazul flower, a powerful drug that has gathered many a dreamer into its narcotic embrace, Zaltys is about to unearth a truth long buried by the feculent loam of deception.As the veil is ...

Once a commander with the Intelligence Core for the Coalition Fleet, a mission gone wrong forced Chloe to return to Earth injured and dishonored. But she's seen too much and is restless in civilian life. This drives her to do whatever it takes to return to space, to where she belongs, so she volunteers as an Interstellar Bride. She's shocked to discover her mate is human, but he's like no one else she's ever met...and he's taken a second, a huge Prillon warrior equally determined to seduce...

The Princeton Guide to Ecology is a concise, authoritative one-volume reference to the field's major subjects and key concepts. Edited by eminent ecologist Simon Levin, with contributions from an international team of leading ecologists, the book contains more than ninety clear, accurate, and up-to-date articles on the most important topics within seven major areas: autecology, population ecology, communities and ecosystems, landscapes and the biosphere, conservation biology, ecos...