Silver Springs, located in central Florida, is perhaps the best known natural artesian spring in the world. A grand natural wonder of the world on par with Niagara Falls or the mighty Mississippi River. Easily the largest spring in the world Silver Springs boasts long-term average measured flows of more than 500 million gallons per day-enough to meet the water consumption needs of 5 million Floridians. Silver Springs is the most visited spring system in the U.S. drawing more than one milli...

During the 1980s and 1990s, the "Manchester and the Mountains" area of Vermont was the epicenter of the fledgling sport of snowboarding. With the presence of Burton Snowboards, the U.S. Open Championships and one of the earliest machine-built halfpipes at Stratton Mountain, the local population led the vanguard as the sport ventured from the fringe to mainstream. Ranging from Olympic gold medalists to backhoe operators and converted skiers, locals contributed immensely to the development o...

It is 1978.An alien substance is discovered which allows the near-instantaneous creation of duplicates of mammals. The substance becomes publicly known and is distributed inexpensively. What would happen to the Earth's economy? Political landscape? Technology? Religion? The Random Acts of Cloning series takes the science-fiction trope of cloning and adds a whole new spin.It's a long-term, epic look at the global changes over a span of thirty years, both good times and bad. ...

Season One Complete!In the first season of the "Jess and the Monsters" series, Jess Jensen lives a boring life, and her greatest fear is becoming a spinster librarian cat lady in her old age. Hoping to avoid that fate, she goes to the Ohio State Fair, where she meets Jack, a regular at the library who had been noticing her for months. They have an impromptu date, where one thing leads to another, and BAM! Werewolf attack!In desperation, she steals a motorcycle, fleeing from...

Most days things start out so normally. Then sometimes everything goes off the rails. Luckily none of the things in these stories would ever, ever happen to you. Right?In this second collection, Brian Schell joins forces with Kevin L. Knights to bring you thirteen fresh tales of evil, horror, and fear. Untouched by human hands, and never before seen by human eyes, every one is short but guaranteed to be unpleasantly fun. Or funnily unpleasant.Whether you are deep in outer s...

I promised to love. I swore to obey. I was compelled to betray.Married to my college sweetheart, I thought I knew my path. We were forging our perfect future, everything falling into place. Until the man I promised my life to changed into a cruel, cold shadow of the man I loved.With everything I thought I knew in tatters, I find myself in a bar, face to face with a sexy stranger who unlocks things about myself I'd long forgotten.Just one night. Wild...

If you care about the West, you must care about the lands of the West—lands that are disappearing rapidly, along with the people and cultures that go along with them.In this collection of 22 essays, the editors have brought together some of the best—and most insightful—writing on ranching in the West. These writers explore the changing landscape of the West and how, in an age of huge, corporate-owned ranches, the small rancher can survive. This book brings together the best writers in the ...

In hundreds of watersheds and communities across the United States, conservation is being reinvented and invigorated by collaborative efforts between federal, state, and local governments working with nongovernmental organizations and private landowners, and fueled by economic incentives, to promote both healthy natural communities and healthy human communities.Conservation for a New Generation captures those efforts with chapters that explain the new landscape of conservation alon...

This book explores the changes that are leading to a new century of natural resources management. It places the current situation in historical perspective, analyzes the forces that are propelling change, and describes and examines the specific changes in goals, policy, and practice that are transforming all aspects of natural resources management.The book is an important overview for wildlife biologists, foresters, and others working for public land agencies; professors and students of na...

Every piece of land, no matter how remote or untrammeled, has a boundary. While sometimes boundary lines follow topographic or biological features, more often they follow the straight lines of political dictate and compromise. Administrative boundaries nearly always fragment a landscape, resulting in loss of species that must disperse or migrate across borders, increased likelihood of threats such as alien species or pollutants, and disruption of natural processes such as fire. Despite the...

This remarkable publication focuses on the importance of genetics in mental retardation, investigating the extent to which molecular diagnostic capability and the understanding of genetic causes have improved over recent years. As a result, clinical evaluation and diagnostic laboratory practice are now undergoing an unprecedented period of change. In a single volume, a unique combination of key individuals and world-class clinical, diagnostic and research-based experts share specialized, s...

Wildlife and Recreationists defines and clarifies the issues surrounding the conflict between outdoor recreation and the health and well-being of wildlife and ecosystems. Contributors to the volume consider both direct and indirect effects of widlife-recreationist interactions, including:wildlife responses to disturbance, and the origins of these responseshow specific recreational activities affect diverse types of wildlifethe human dimensions of ...