**"A vivid historical account…Thompson shines in giving a sense of what it means to love a place that's been designated a 'sacrifice zone.'"—PUBLISHERS WEEKLYAward–winning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson** digs into the science, politics, and greed behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado. Amid these harsh ...

In the not so distant future, as the planet burns, the nation reels from the effects of a pandemic, Truth is on the brink of extinction, and the late-president tweets madly from the grave, Durango artist Peter Simons heads into Utah's Canyon Country to scout locations for his biggest project ever. When Peter fails to return on time, and mercenaries working for the federal government start asking questions about him, Peter's wife Eliza Santos launches a search. She calls on Peter's old frie...

I have never been impressed with knowledge that has no practical use.Music theory is the study of how music is made, and helps us to communicate with other musicians effectively. Practical music theory, combined with intentional practice, is the key to breaking through the parrot phase of musicianship into actual understanding. The information prevented here will help you overcome and prevent plateaus without drowning you in unnecessary details useful only in a cla...

•Thompson's unique blend of journalism, historical nonfiction, and memoir drawn from a lifetime of spending time in this landscape and a career of covering the area and the pertinent issues resonated with readers in 2018 with River of Lost Souls•The line between citizen and activist is blurring. Now more than ever, readers want and need to know the powers at play behind energy development, environmental injustice, and land and water use. This book explores how landscapes sh...

**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine**For over 40 years, this award-winning textbook has been the core text for anaesthetists new to the specialty and other healthcare professionals involved in perioperative care. Now in its eighth edition, this high quality, clinically relevant resource continues to offer essential reading covering all aspects of anaesthesia in surgery.Covering day-to-day clinical practice in anaesthesia and perioperative medicine, fro...

When Melissa Nyquist answers a mysteriously poetic want ad to help out in a botanist’s greenhouse, she is pleasantly surprised to find that her new boss is distinguished, handsome, intelligent, and sexy as all hell. She soon finds herself drawn to her employer and into the lascivious and sultry world of rare fruits and flowers. Meanwhile, she becomes unwittingly pulled into a web of international intrigue, global domination, and weather modification.Malcolm Brautigan’s prose is rou...

When Melissa Nyquist answers a mysteriously poetic want ad to help out in a botanist’s greenhouse, she is pleasantly surprised to find that her new boss is distinguished, handsome, intelligent, and sexy as all hell. She soon finds herself drawn to her employer and into the lascivious and sultry world of rare fruits and flowers. Meanwhile, she becomes unwittingly pulled into a web of international intrigue, global domination, and weather modification.Malcolm Brautigan’s prose is rou...

Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly became translator, intermediary, and advocate for family left behind. Soon an unending stream of desperate requests from German relatives made their way to Arnold’s desk.   Luzie Hatch had faithfully preserved her letters both to and from far-flung...

Experience one of the most jarring and influential satirical essays in this InAudio production of A Modest Proposalby Jonathan Swift.In one of the most well-known works of satire, Jonathan Swift puts forth a “modest proposal.” Swift begins by outlining the suffering that the starving beggars in Ireland experience daily. He paints a grim picture of the plight these people face to help the reader relate to the situation, before turning the tables and suggesting that to alleviate the economic...

Enjoy the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver in Jonathan Swift’s blend of fantasy, action, and satire in Gulliver’s Travels.Gulliver’s Travels takes readers on an adventure to fictional and real place in the world, with fantastical elements such as a society of tiny people, flying cities, and the ghosts of ancient world leaders. Gulliver’s adventure takes him all over, and each location is uniquely themed and satirizes themes from our real world. Swift uses satire to analyze and critiqu...

The world is rapidly changing and unpredictable, necessitating leaders who adjust quickly to changing priorities and unfamiliar terrain. This book offers a blueprint for developing leaders who can handle surprising challenges, from mergers to global relocation, and who thrive in turbulent times by being open to new concepts, passionate about progress, and resourceful with the tools available. Features three key traits of adaptable leaders: Driven by progress, Sensationally curious, Vastly ...

In recent years, interest in Rameau’s operas has grown enormously. These works are no longer regarded as peripheral by performers and audiences but are increasingly staged in the world’s major opera houses and festivals, while the production of first-rate recordings on CD and DVD continues to flourish. Such welcome developments have gone hand in hand with an upsurge in research on Rameau and his period. The present volume, devoted solely to the composer’s operas, reflects this scholarly ac...