Biological invasions - the introduction, establishment and spread of invasive alien species - are complex global phenomena that can cause significant environmental, ecological, and economic harm. Along with the direct effects of an invasive host organism, there is the additional threat of co-introduced pathogenic and parasitic species. Co-introduced parasites can affect the success of the invasive organism but can also go on to infect hosts in the new range, resulting in novel ecological i...

100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of celebrated operations stand beside less familiar episodes of marching, illness, comradeship, comman...

Brother against Brother: 140 Civil War Memoirs assembles a vast documentary chorus from the American Civil War, illuminating combat, command, captivity, nursing, naval service, campaigning, and the unsettled moral terrain of national rupture. Ranging from terse battlefield recollection and military analysis to reflective autobiography and eyewitness narrative, the volume preserves the varied registers through which participants made meaning of war. Accounts of major operations stand beside...

140 Civil War Journals, Diaries and Memoirs assembles an expansive documentary chorus from the American Civil War, joining battlefield recollections, camp journals, prison narratives, naval observations, military analysis, and retrospective memoir. Its range of forms preserves the uneven textures of lived history: immediate diary entries register uncertainty and exhaustion, while later accounts impose narrative shape on campaigns, command, captivity, and survival. Accounts of marching, com...

Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world finally understood its deadly diagnos...

Poems begin, poems end. But in-between the poet is often surprised by the journey.The process of creating a poem is only partly conscious. Some poems come to the poet completely composed and only have to be written down.Others struggle to be born, a few have a long gestation period, but none have not surprised, as the poet sometimes feels only an observer to the leaps of logic in his poetry, he is nonetheless happy to catch these special grasshoppers.

Southern Smile: A Book of PoemsSouthern idiosyncrasy, sci-fi, philosophy, love, bible verse and science.These are some of the subjects treated in poems in this volume.Sometimes personal, sometimes democratic, sometimes simple wordplay.96 poems, lyrical and strong in cadence.Book 1 of the Patterson Gap Poetry series.

What happens when you leave everything behind to start over?A single conversation changes everything.What begins as a dream of a better life quickly becomes a journey filled with uncertainty, difficult choices, unexpected setbacks, and unforgettable moments. From researching countries and navigating endless paperwork to saying goodbye to loved ones and adapting to an unfamiliar culture, every step brings new challenges—and new opportunities.We Moved Abroad is a hear...

The year is 2112, and the United States has recently been torn apart by a nuclear world war and a civil war. Even Silver Creek, New York—the hometown of Devonshire Jones—has become all but a shattered, hopeless place to live.In the aftermath of war and destruction, for Devonshire, life has become a series of monotonous, endless tasks: find fresh water, stock up on provisions, fix what is broken, repeat—all for what? To build a new life all alone? And that is what Devonshire is: all...

"Collected Poems" is a compilation of all poems written in the past fifty (something) years by the poet.The poems are wildly different in their subject and execution. This is to be expected as the poet also is "wildly" different than when he started. So if one poem doesn't strike you the reader perhaps another one will.And perhaps you will think that some poems are better than others.The poet understands and only wishes that you will find one that you like.

The journey didn't end when they arrived—it was only the beginning.Leaving home was the hardest decision they had ever made. Building a new life proves even harder.As the excitement of arriving fades, everyday reality sets in. A new house doesn't immediately feel like home. New friendships take time. Financial pressures, cultural differences, unexpected setbacks, and the lingering ache of homesickness test the family's determination in ways they never imagined.Yet t...

THE TRANSFORMERS JOIN THE ENERGON UNIVERSE!? Optimus Prime was supposed to have led the Autobots to victory. Instead, the fate of Cybertron is unknown, and his allies have crash-landed far from home, alongside their enemies—the Decepticons.? As these titanic forces renew their war on Earth, one thing is immediately clear: the planet will never be the same. New alliances are struck. Battle lines are redrawn. And humanity's only hope of survival is Optimus Prime.? Superstar creator DANIEL WA...