This book addresses topics related to the impact of invasive species including biosecurity, demographics, species diversity and food security. It is meant for researchers, upper-level students, and policy makers and provides a factual basis for the underlying science and a discussion of that information with respect to current and future impacts and possible solutions. This book explores the nexus of climate change and biological invasions, resulting impacts (biological and economic) and a...

Seven is a rich and complex collection of poetry by noted US poet, David Wolf. The title refers to the seven voicings or personas that make up the collection. Remarkably, the different voicings of the poems are conspicuously distinct and treat of different experiences and perspectives, but the seven sections unite to create a unified work.Wolf's poetry is intriguing and challenging, but not obscure; deeply personal and intense, but also veined with humor and sympathy. The poetry is...

Searching for connection with a radio scanner.Nick Claybourne is a wounded soul. A guilt-ridden single father, a man who lost his wife in an accident for which he has never forgiven himself. His only connection to the outside world is a radio scanner. He fills notebooks with what he hears. His life turns hopeful when he meets Samantha, a woman he's listened to for two years. But when three women in Nick's notebooks turn up murdered, he's the prime suspect....

There are over one billion organisms in a pinch of soil, yet we know much more about deep space than about the universe below. In Tales from the Underground, Cornell ecologist David Wolfe takes us on a tour through current scientific knowledge of the subterranean world. We follow the progress of discovery from Charles Darwin's experiments with earthworms, to Lewis and Clark's first encounter with prairie dogs, to the use of new genetic tools that are revealing an astonishingly ric...

San Francisco ad-man Art Kassel has three seemingly unreachable life goals: to find some woman somewhere who shares his love for all things intellectual, cultural and culinary; to win accolades and awards for creativity in advertising; and to escape the iffy morality of his career by launching the big honking novel he’s been slogging away at forever. Imagine how thrilled he is when all his goals suddenly seem within his grasp. Especially when he comes up with a brilliant campaign for the a...

Welcome to Mordora. It's a dark place with secrets so powerful they trigger a double abduction and a murder. And so toxic that revealing the truth would be worse than the crimes themselves. It begins with a murder that isn’t a murder, followed by a strange double abduction. To Police Detective Jacob Zaag, it feels wrong from the start. Who would kidnap a developmentally disabled teen and his adult sitter? A random grab? A sex crime? Zaag falls hard for Andrea, the boy’s single mom, 30, so ...

Nuclear Armageddon is on the BallotThe candidate seems unstoppable. But he has a secret agenda.He is certain God has chosen him to bring on The Rapture. Certainthat launching nuclear war will usher in the Kingdom of God.And on the first day of his presidency, Simon Abraham SwarthoutWhite intends to yield to a Higher Authority.Three people are all that stand between him and the end of the world.A journalist whose pregn...

Seventeen-year-old Margot McClain used to be witty, talented, and popular, but ever since a certain incident, she’s used her smart mouth like an insect-repellent to keep boys off her. That’s about to change.When lost-looking new kid John Smith enrolls at her school, Margot mocks his fake-sounding name. Then she learns “John Smith” is the name the authorities gave him. He can’t remember his own--or anything else about his past. His plight weakens her resistance. She offers to be his...

Art Kassel, copywriter, dreamer, idealist, rule-breaker, has three seemingly unreachable life goals: to find and win the heart of some woman somewhere who shares his love for all things intellectual, cultural and culinary; to win accolades and awards for creativity in advertising; and to escape the iffy morality of his career by launching the big honking novel he’s been slogging away at forever. Imagine how thrilled he is when all his goals suddenly seem within his grasp.First he f...

Marc Gregorio wakes up paralyzed. He can't feel his own body. Accident? Stroke? Did someone slip him an overdose of Botox? The answer, he discovers, is much, much worse. He's only a copy of Marc, a digital brain without a body, burdened with all Marc's human memories, but without access to human sensual pleasures. Now he has to find a reason to keep on, um, "living." Adam the Mindclone meets the real Marc Gregorio--and his new girlfriend Molly Schaeffer. Adam loves her, too. But h...

Anything you can mix and pour into a glass is now termed a cocktail,” but those drinks usually pale in comparison with the truly classic cocktails. Vintage Cocktails returns drinkers to an age of Manhattans, Pink Ladies, Gin Fizzes, and Whisky Sours. Included with the recipes are quirky cultural facts as well as serving suggestions, what to have stocked at your bar at all times, and how to cure the inevitable hangover.

Raw food is for everyone, say the authors of one of Denmark’s best-selling cookbooks, and they make a compelling case for that claim. Equally at home on the coffee table or in the kitchen, The Art of Raw Food features gorgeous four-color photography and delicious yet simple raw food recipes as well as a background on the benefits of a raw food diet. Jens Casupei and Vibeke Kaupert, raw food enthusiasts with a flair for style as well as a passion for healthy living, introduce reade...