Plant remains can preserve a critical part of history of life on Earth. While telling the fascinating evolutionary story of plants and vegetation across the last 500 million years, this book also crucially offers non-specialists a practical guide to studying, dealing with and interpreting plant fossils. It shows how various techniques can be used to reveal the secrets of plant fossils and how to identify common types, such as compressions and impressions. Incorporating the concepts of evol...

Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often profoundly local. Cultural Sustainabilities presents twenty-three essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnographers, documentary filmmakers, musicians, artists, and activists, each asking a particular question or presenting a s...

First published in 2001, US Allies in a Changing World explores the development of the United States' alliances from the American perspective, as well as from that of its most important allies—Britain, Germany, the Gulf States, Israel, Turkey, Australia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.The book considers how these relationships changed in the tumultuous international environment of the past half century, assesses the situations as they existed then, and explores the likely f...

The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. A major effort in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates, and identified five new genera of ceratopsids, two new species of hadrosaur, a probable new genus of hypsilophodontid, new pachycephalosaurs and ankylosaurs, several kinds of theropods (including a new genus of oviraptor and a new ...

The third edition of Ethics & International Affairs provides a fresh selection of classroom resources, ideal for courses in international relations, ethics, foreign policy, and related fields. Published with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, this collection contains some of the best contemporary scholarship on international ethics, written by a group of distinguished political scientists, political theorists, philosophers, applied ethicists, and economic de...

Struggling to Convert Leads into Clients? This Book Holds the Answer.The real estate market is more competitive than ever. If you're tired of chasing leads, wasting time on cold calls, and watching potential clients slip through the cracks, Drip, Drip, Sold is your ultimate game-changer.This isn't just another marketing book-it's a blueprint for building automated, high-converting drip campaigns that nurture relationships, keep you top-of-...

A New York Times Notable Book—the award-winning debut novel of race and family that “casts a new light on urban life in Brooklyn” (Time Out New York).“Like the characters of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry . . . [our] unnamed narrator is a black man concerned with identity in a decidedly white America” (The Washington Post)—a father of three in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream. On the eve of his...

About the BookBarry World is the story of a young man growing up with mental illness and being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. There is a certain stigma of living with and sharing this disorder with people. Every aspect of Barry Thomas’s life has been affected by this disorder, and it is with hope that, after reading his story, people will be more understanding of what mental illness is.About the AuthorBarry F. Thomas loves painting and singing. He also loves animals...

A young girl is raised by secret government agents after her parents were murdered by an unknown group of Japanese thugs . She's confused by an incident that happened to her as a child trying to figure out why until strange powers come upon her a the voice of someone she's never heard starts to guide her way in life to teach her how to survive and use her new found gifts.

The beautiful light skinned black woman Queen Esther who's the wife of Aranom AKA Super Blackman. Has decided to take up her chance at saving and delivering lives as well the souls of many in honor for the love of God. So she builds a kingdom in a different dimension in time to become victorious over those bringing about evil and unjust to others. She embarks on strange missions through nightmarish territory fighting with whatever monster or devils the comes out to attack, taking her chanc...

When an all white school gets its first black teacher, who is half-breed. Although she's hated by most of the teachers and the school higher society. Many students feel her presence as an angel, which is their belief because for some reason they're all extremely attractive to her. She makes everyone feel comfortable with her presence, even when bad things or trouble comes about. It seems to go away because she's near. Yet, there's one dreadful woman that wants to expose her of being nothin...

Most histories of the US Army in World War II view the Mediterranean Theater of Operations primarily as a deadly training ground for very green forces, where lessons learned on the beaches of Oran, in the hills of the Kasserine Pass area, and at the collapse of the Tunis bridgehead all contributed to later success in Western Europe. Steven Barry, however, contends that victory in the MTO would not have materialized without the leadership of battalion-level commanders. They operated at a hi...