Sea level is suddenly two miles high.A second moon appears in the sky.As violent ocean waves are threatening the peaks of the Rocky Mountains, a group of seven survivors must navigate the erratic alpine tides, while trying to unravel the mystery of why this happened.It is soon discovered that this cataclysmic event was not just by chance. And one of the survivors, Miriam Madsen, may be the planet's only hope.Explore the #AlpineTide online at www.alpinetide.c...

Development of rural landscapes is converting once-vast expanses of open space into pockets of habitat where wildlife populations exist in isolation from other members of their species. The central concept of metapopulation dynamics -- that a constellation of partially isolated patches can yield overall stability to a system that is chaotic at the level of the individual patch -- offers an important new way of thinking about the conservation and management of populations dispersed among sm...

Earth is not the only planet with intelligent human life.For many millennia, advanced humans from Completed Worlds have monitored the technological development of humans on other less advanced planets across the universe, including Earth.Each Developing World always has five Watchers from Completed Worlds, who are assigned to live on the planet and monitor its progress. The Watchers work under the strict direction of a Universal MAXIM to anonymously observe and report and n...