"What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect. Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic progress and prosperity, and scientists fear that we may be in the midst of a mass extinction event. Brian R. Chapman and William I. Lutterschmidt m ..."
"Los Angeles–based artist and filmmaker Morgan Fisher first achieved widespread recognition in the late 1960s and 1970s for a body of experimental films that deconstructed the language of cinema, both as raw material and as a set of production methods and technical procedures. Since the late 1990s, Fisher has focused primarily on painting (and the painting’s environment), and this volume is published in conjunction with the first solo mu ..."
Midnight Whispers The Blake Danzig Chronicles by Curtis ChristopherComer Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2010 by Bold Strokes Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60282-186-6, ISBN: 1-60282-186-0
"Paranormal investigator Blake Danzig, star of the syndicated show Haunted California and owner of Danzig Paranormal Investigations, has been able to see and talk to the dead since he was a small boy. Born into a circus family, Blake eventually made his way to San Francisco where he wrote his first book and opened his paranormal investigation office. Assisted by his best friend and self-proclaimed witch, Melody Adams, Blake helps his ex- ..."
"That morning, Briony sets off to train for her own marathon attempt, jogging down along the Hudson, after giving Andrew a brisk kiss on the cheek. It is the last time he will ever see her: “Nothing recognizably Briony was ever found” ..."
"Over the past four decades, film and video have played an increasingly important role in contemporary art. For the first time, a single volume traces the history of artists' involvement with the moving image, from the earliest experiments with film to the latest digital and video streaming techniques over the Internet. "Film and Video Art" takes in all the major developments in the unfolding dialogue between artists and moving image med ..."
The Elephant Gate(1st Edition) The True Story of Siam, the Last Elephant in Berlin by Curtis ChristopherComer Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-4839-3390-0, ISBN: 1-4839-3390-3
"Forcibly taken from family in his native homeland, young Siam grows up a prisoner in Hitler’s Berlin. There, with others like him, he struggles to comprehend the depravations he is forced to endure while behind bars. When the air war finally reaches the Nazi capital, Siam’s faith is tested as those he loves die and he spirals into a deep despair that threatens to destroy his spirit. This is the true story of Siam, “the Last Elephant in ..."
"You mustn't talk about the stairs. There they stand, surrounded by nothing but forest, pristine as the day they were built. No sign remains of any other structure around them, no ruins of long forgotten buildings. They look... wrong. They feel wrong. Bad things happen if you get too close. Horrible things. You must never, ever ever talk about them.Thirty-four of today's best up and coming writers provide wonderfully unique interpretatio ..."
"Rising prices of petroleum based chemicals has forced industry to look at alternative materials such as biomass to derive useful chemicals for a variety of applications. Therefore, in an attempt to alleviate this burden, studies of a variety of chemicals derived from biomass sources such as corn have been taken on. These studies include the synthesis of starch-g-PMMA by photoinitiated emulsion polymerization, Synthesis of difuran deriva ..."
" This book will suggest new agendas for identity and heritage studies by means of presenting contentious issues facing archaeology and heritage management in a globalized world. The book is not only present the variability of heritage objectives and experiences in the New and Old World, and opens a discussion, in a shrinking world, to look beyond national and regional contexts. If the heritage sector and archaeology are to remain releva ..."
"A warmer Arctic means decreases in sea ice severity, opening up waterways and
straits in the Queen Elizabeth Islands to the ... Not surprisingly, the Canadian
Federal Government sees these activities as a threat to national sovereignty, due
to ... were that the ship “represents the convergence of the history of Arctic
adventure with the history of Inuit occupation. ... and polar ambitions of Euro-
North Americans, for example, the c ..."