Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made deposits of bitumen available for surface mining. Less well known is the discovery that this flood also produced an environment that supported perhaps the most intensive use of boreal fo...

More than a century passed after Johann Sebastian Bach's death in 1750 before his music found an audience in the United States. Volume Five in the Bach Perspectives series tracks the composer's reputation in America from obscure artist to a cultural mainstay whose music has spread to all parts of the country.Barbara Owen surveys Bach's early reception in America. Matthew Dirst focuses on John Sullivan Dwight's role in advocating Bach's work. Michael Broyles considers Bach'...

This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University of Illinois Press's acclaimed book series Music in American Life. In these selections, experts from a cross-section of disciplines engage with fundamental issues in ways that changed our perceptions of Black music. The topics includes the culturally and musically comple...

An up-to-date reference book on phylogenetic methods and applications for evolutionary biologistsThe increasingly widespread availability of genomic data is transforming how biologists estimate evolutionary relationships among organisms and broadening the range of questions that researchers can test in a phylogenetic framework. Species Tree Inference brings together many of today’s leading scholars in the field to provide an incisive guide to the latest pr...

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...

In this chair gripping saga of family drama inter-mixed with valuable historical insights, Stephen Wolfe, M.D. introduces the audience to the tempestuous history of a family spanning four generations The memoir begins with a traumatic event that sets off a two-hundred-year legacy of pain and survival. All these stories are uniquely voiced as being narrated by Elijah to the Sonoran Desert Storytelling Group. Elijah urges the group members and readers to engage in the full emotional spectrum...

My musings, my notes, my journal, is a collection of receipts of stolen souls imprinted in my mind and branded on my heart.'Tis the three year journey of spying saints, stalking sinners, copying conversations, mimicking masks, tracing transactions, listening intently, staring obnoxiously, assuming intentions, speculating reasons, questioning antics, trodding tearfully and writing alone - spilling my own blood first, in hopes of sustaining life beyond."Snails" is that journa...

Two kingdoms in perpetual conflict... A magical artifact with untold powers...Twenty years ago, the kings of Kallisor and Hathreneir agreed to a grand battle to end the centuries-long war between their kingdoms. The battle raged for days, until the Kallisorian king broke the code of combat to turn the tide. His plan nearly succeeded, but for a Hathren mage who united the Red Jade, a broken relic thought to restore the imbalance of magic throughout the land. His success was...

Two kingdoms in perpetual conflict...A magical artifact with untold powers...Twenty years ago, the kings of Kallisor and Hathreneir agreed to a grand battle to end the centuries-long war between their kingdoms. The battle raged for days, until the Kallisorian king broke the code of combat to turn the tide. His plan nearly succeeded, but for a Hathren mage who united the Red Jade, a broken relic thought to restore the imbalance of magic throughout the land. His success was s...

The Harrowing left the world of men in ruins and gave way to a world of magic.Five centuries of chaos have passed unchecked since the great collapse. All that remains are the aging ruins, the magical wonders, the monsters . . . And other things entirely. For Zander, this is normal. He's a Summoner, a scavenger for his village. An elf. Though they call themselves post-humans. The demihuman races are all that survive in the world. A world overrun by the Draugr, but everything is abou...

This work presents a trans-Siberian expedition to rediscover the peoples, cultures and riches of Russia's eastern frontiers. It addresses such questions as: who are the people of the region?; have they a distinct culture?; and does the area have a future as part of the Pacific Rim?

Over the last twenty-five years, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff have developed a groundbreaking interpretation of Marxian theory generally and of Marxian economics in particular. This book brings together their key contributions and underscores their different interpretations.In facing and trying to resolve contradictions and lapses within Marxism, the authors have confronted the basic incompatibilities among the dominant modern versions of Marxian theory, and the fact that Marx...