Humpback Dolphins (Sousa spp.): Current Status and Conservation, Part 1 is part of Advances in Marine Biology, a series that has been providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963 — more than 50 years of outstanding coverage from a reference that is well known for its contents and editing. This latest addition to the series includes updates on many topics that will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science, ecology,...

During the first few centuries after Jesus rose from the dead and returned to Heaven, thousands of Jews and their Arab neighbor were coming to Christ. They were first Christians. A few centuries later that was no longer happening. Gentiles were still joining the ranks but not large groups of Jews.What caused this dramatic shift? Why are both Jews and Muslims so resistant to the Gospel? Most evangelicals can not imagine how anyone can see another religion as being superior to Christ...

Reflection Of takes the reader on a journey from coyotes to birds, from country roads to country churches, from the moon and stars to rain and rainbows, and from family to family love. It reflects the country life, as well as family life. The reader will obtain a feeling as to what it is like to live in the country. It puts the reader in the author's shoes to experience life as the author lived it. The reader will wonder or smile as the poems reveal unique events about things that many peo...

I wrote my memoirs in hopes that people can learn from my experiences. Don't give up on life. I hope children will learn that dealing with adversity will make them stronger and smarter as they grow into an adult. I hope children and adults will learn that adversity doesn't end when you become an adult. It will end when you become a member of the family of man. I hope people will believe that wonderful things await those who survive childhood.

In America's Last Stand, Drew Thomas Allen masterfully lays out the real and severe stakes of the 2024 presidential election. America is in peril, and the Biden administration has plunged America into a Dark Age, characterized by our nation's objective moral, cultural, intellectual, and economic decay.Americans have experienced for themselves life under both the Biden presidency and the Trump presidency. Americans should ask themselves a simple question: Were you better off under t...

Thomas B. Allen's expertise in military history and strategy is combined with Roger MacBride Allen's knowledge of technology to reveal a lesser known yet fascinating side of the sixteenth president of the United States. Their authoritative narrative reveals Lincoln as our nation's first hands-on commander-in-chief, whose appreciation for the power of technology plays a critical role in the North's Civil War victory over the less developed South.We meet Lincoln as he exchanges vital...

"[Historian Allen] recreates in this meticulous and fast-moving posthumous account the events of the pivotal year 1789 in America. It’s a superb distillation of a complex moment in U.S. history.”— Publishers Weekly, Starred Review1789: George Washington and the Founders Create Americadraws on hundreds of sources to paint a vivid portrait of the new nation, setting out to show the world at large that a new—and very American—form of government was calling itself into being. “No future...

The first edition of Toward a Unified Ecology was ahead of its time. For the second edition, the authors present a new synthesis of their core ideas on evaluating communities, organisms, populations, biomes, models, and management. The book now places greater emphasis on post-normal critiques, cognizant of ever-present observer values in the system. The problem it addresses is how to work holistically on complex things that cannot be defined, and this book continues to build an ap...

BoBo is a young gorilla that enjoys fantasizing during play. One day his imagination and reckless frolicking interrupts the jungles serenity; four adult animals are rudely awakened from their midday nap. Disturbed by the gorillas delinquent behavior, the animals coin the name Bumbling BoBo as a well-deserved nickname. Entering the scene, with a common sense solution, is Optometrist Ollie Ostrich. A pair of glasses is the cure. Serenity returns to the jungle and nap time too.

A year has passed since Toby-T-rex hatched from his ancient dinosaur egg. He and his animal family have enjoyed a peaceful survival deep within a dense forest. All this suddenly changes when they learn that an injured female T-rex also exists. Trust enters the picture when the animals reluctantly accept the help of an old veterinarian. But does the doctor have a motive to reveal the forest secret, or will his trusty dog help keep it safe?

Despite the homogenization of American life, areas of strong regional consciousness still persist in the United States, and there is a growing interest in regionalism among the public and among academics. In response to that interest ten folklorists here describe and interpret a variety of American regional cultures in the twentieth century. Their book is the first to deal specifically with regional culture and the first to employ the perspective of folklore in the study of regional identi...

"The account by Dickson and Allen recalls the subliminal force of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with gaunt stories of character at the limits of dignity." ― Taylor Branch, New York Review of BooksIn the summer of 1932, 15,000 World War I veterans marched on Washington, D.C., demanding payment from the Herbert Hoover administration of the bonus promised to them eight years earlier for their wartime service. With the "bonus bill" defeated in the Senate, the U.S. Army, led by ...