The first palaeoecology book to focus on evolutionary palaeoecology, in both marine and terrestrial environments. Discusses reconstruction of the past ecological world at population, community and biogeographic levels. A well-illustrated and substantial volume giving accessible coverage of the full range of subjects within palaeoecology. Reviews and summarises all the major mass extinctions.

The contents of this book are the syntheses of studies of tropical catchments carried out in three continents — Central/South America, Africa and Asia — in the 1990s, mostly through the support of the EU Science and Technology for Development programme. Each chapter reflects on a particular aspect of the seemingly intractable problem: achieving and understanding tropical rural development without compromising longer-term sustainability of the soil and water systems which underpin it. The studies encompass examples of erosion measurement; of scaling measurements from plots to estimates for catchments; of erosion control and conservation techniques at soil and ecosystem levels; of the limits to uses of fragile tropical soils; of the effects of runoff combined with regulation on rivers and reservoirs; of the importance of indigenous people in the development processes and of the value and limitations of modelling at scales from soils to catchment. There is no single message from the book because there is no single solution to the problems of achieving sustainable tropical development. The Sustainable Management of Tropical Catchments presents ideas, techniques and case studies, knowledge of which will help researchers in many scientific and social disciplines to understand the complexities better, and politicians and bureaucrats to understand the consequences of development decisions and learn from the failure of many earlier ones.

For many years, women have tried to understand men. For many years, men have tried to understand women. I have come to the conclusion that we will never truly understand the dynamics that is the opposite sex; however, one can find relief in the fact that men understand men and women understand women. Therefore, one can find answers about the opposite sex simply by asking the opposite sex questions. This book will help you understand why men do what they do. Now you can be armed when your man gets out of line.

At the height of the 2008 economic crisis one person, every 4 seconds, lost their job, every 13 seconds a family lost their home to the foreclosure crisis, and murder-suicides were on the rise. Our country is still in peril. Elements of a perfect storm have been churning up across the economic horizon since 9/11, when two planes were flown into the Twin Towers of the New York Trade Center. Add into the mix the Dot-Com bust, the subprime mortgage crisis, and the accounting fraud debacle where corrupt CEOs such as Kenneth Lay of Enron and Bernie Ebbers of WorldCom sucked the yolks out of retirement nest eggs some Americans spent an entire lifetime building. An avalanche of heartless crooks such as Matthew B. Cox and Bernard Madoff also emerged, squashing American dreams by conning the financial community and preying upon unsuspecting investors, the elderly and less educated with their million and billion-dollar scandals. But the current attacks leading to these problems have gotten even more personal. A trail of carnage has been left behind as hundreds of thousands of Main Street Americans have been kicked to the curb by Corporate America, often causing them to live on the streets or sell their personal belongings in an attempt to keep the lights on in their homes. The layoffs come, sadly, at a time when individual personal wealth has plummeted. The corporate greed of CEOs is the perpetual driver of these devastating actions. Somewhere in the middle of all this insensibility, the fragility of human life has gotten lost in the shuffle. Part I of Dumped takes a historical look at events leading to the 2008 economic crisis and what got us into this mess. Subject matter experts are unleashed in Part II, Because You Matter: Tending to the Internal Stuff and Part III, What's Your Bailout Plan? Dumped is a source of inspiration and information, providing tips and advice on a range of topics from depression and suicide to foreclosures, bankruptcy, budgeting and the job search. While attempting to appeal to the consciousness of Corporate America, the book seeks to lend support to the unemployed, promote a global dialogue that may lead to solutions to our economic crisis, and help the jobless in America develop their own bailout plan.

Imagine Norm Abrams and Patrick McManus writing a book together. Got that image in your mind? Now add Zombie Boulders, tractors from another dimension, bowling alleys being carried up stairs, burning turkeys, wormholes, gravity wells, nine-hundred square feet of Pennsylvania bluestone, about a million bats, raccoons, typhoons and a deaf 89 year-old volunteer fire chief. These are only some of the supporting players in the misadventures encountered in this hilarious non-fiction (mostly) tale of life, love, and hobby in rural New England.

Junior is a heartwrenching tale of how Richard Knight's desire for a family and his dream life is taken away from him by the woman he loves, in the most hurtful way imagainable: His wife aborts their baby without informing him until after the abortion is completed. While Richard goes on a quest to have the law changed to prevent this from happening to someone else, he discovers shocking secrets and endures incredible heartache, all the while imaging how his life should have unfolded with his family intact. Junior is a story of love, betrayal, endurance and ultimately, justice.