A Fervour of Truth, is an emotive story of a young girl growing up amidst trials of self discovery in an unsympathetic world. Through use of verse, Lindsay Sawyer takes you on a journey throughout her years. 'The sound of screeching tires at midnight, enchants my ears. Suddenly I have an unattainable urge to write these words down...' A selection from "Midnight Records" She creates poems concerning the thorny matters of family life, to later years when the ideals of divinity and humanity alike are shattered. The Mechanism Tap. Tap. Tap. Sounds of my soon ill-fitted fortune. An intervening contraption to halt My life as I know it Discreet basis reminds me of better days. Find solace meager one. Sawyer exposes her innermost sentiment on these once naked pages, divulging secrets of the past and prospects for an optimistic future. Once immersed in A Fervour of Truth one can experience the adoration, sorrow, strife and elation we encounter each day.

Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The global discourse around urban ecology tends to homogenize and universalize, relying on such terms as "smart cities," "eco-cities," and "resilience," and proposing a "science of cities" based largely on information from the Global North. Grounding Urban Natures makes the case for the importance of place and time in understanding urban environments. Rather than imposing a unified framework on the ecology of cities, the contributors use a variety of approaches across a range of of locales and timespans to examine how urban natures are part of-and are shaped by-cities and urbanization. Grounding Urban Natures offers case studies from cities on five continents that demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The contributors consider the diversity of urban natures, analyzing urban ecologies that range from the coastal delta of New Orleans to real estate practices of the urban poor in Lagos. They examine the effect of popular movements on the meanings of urban nature in cities including San Francisco, Delhi, and Berlin. Finally, they explore abstract urban planning models and their global mobility, examining real-world applications in such cities as Cape Town, Baltimore, and the Chinese "eco-city" Yixing. Contributors Martin Avila, Amita Baviskar, Jia-Ching Chen, Henrik Ernstson, James Evans, Lisa M. Hoffman, Jens Lachmund, Joshua Lewis, Lindsay Sawyer, Sverker Soerlin, Anne Whiston Spirn, Lance van Sittert, Richard A. Walker