Phillip Samuel Pfurst, owner and CEO, of Pfurst Enterprises WorldWide (PEWW), sat behind his over-sized mahogany desk in the library of his Binghamton mansion. His six-year-old granddaughter Philless was perched on his desk, facing him. "Sweetie," he said. "There's something I want you to tell you. It might be difficult to understand right now, but in time you'll come to realize that God created American businesses so all the poor people will have jobs. And God created the Pfurst family to run all those businesses. That's why we sing God Bless America." Years later, Phillip Samuel Pfurst (the "P" in his last name is silent) was crippled in a plane crash while campaigning for the presidency of the United States. Convinced that her grandfather's 'accident' was the work of terrorists, Philless turns to her twin brother, Phillip the younger, to fulfill the old man's dream of a TeraCorp headed by a Supreme Executive Officer (SEXO). Young Phillip puts aside his dream of becoming a rock'n'roll impresario and enters the world of politics. Problems arise when a number of diaries surface, questioning the Pfurst family's history and threatening young Phillip's run for the presidency. The Pfurst Family Diaries is a wacky, irreverent look at America's growing political-financial complex run amok, and of Philless Pfurst-Steen's efforts to change it into a super-efficient TeraCorp headed by a SEXO, while at the same time directing her brother's presidential election campaign. The book gives new meaning to the old adage-a woman's work is never done.

Mars Geological Enigmas: From the Late Noachian Epoch to the Present Day presents outstanding questions on the geology of Mars and divergent viewpoints based on varying interpretations and analyses. The result is a robust and comprehensive discussion that provides opportunities for planetary scientists to develop their own opinions and ways forward. Each theme opens with an introduction that includes background on the topic and lays out questions to be addressed. Alternate perspectives are covered for each topic, including methods, observations, analyses, and in-depth discussion of the conclusions. Chapters within each theme reference each other to facilitate comparison and deeper understanding of divergent opinions.

Dynamic Mars: Recent and Current Landscape Evolution of the Red Planet presents the latest observations, interpretations, and explanations of geological change at the surface or near-surface of this terrestrial body. These changes raise questions about a decades-old paradigm, formed largely in the aftermath of very coarse Mariner-mission imagery in the 1960s, suggesting that much of the interesting geological activity on Mars occurred deep in its past, eons ago. The book includes discussions of (1) Mars' ever-changing atmosphere and the impact of this on the planet's surface and near-surface; (2) the possible involvement of water in relatively new, if not contemporary, gully-like flows and slope streaks (i.e. recurring slope lineae); and (3) the identification of a broad suite of agents and processes (i.e. glacial, periglacial, aeolian, meteorological, volcanic, and meteoric) that are actively revising surface and near-surface landscapes, landforms, and features on a local, regional, and hemispheric scale. Highly illustrated and punctuated by data from the most recent Mars missions, Dynamic Mars is a valuable resource for all levels of research in the geological history of Mars, as well as of the three other terrestrial planets.

Ices in the Solar-System: A Volatile-Driven Journey from the Inner Solar System to its Far Reaches details the evolution of ice on planetary bodies within the Solar System, including terrestrial planets and the Moon, Ceres and other dwarf planets or volatile asteroids, icy Galilean and Saturnian satellites, Triton and disparate Uranian moons, and Pluto, other Kuyper belt objects and comets. The book provides a view of different ice types throughout the Solar System, i.e., H2O, CO2, CH4, etc., that characterize icy processes on disparate bodies. Ice and icy processes at micro through macro scales are discussed. The book geographically spans the major planetary bodies of the Solar System, covering surface and subsurface geologies, geophysics and geochemistry of ices to answer questions such as the nature and extent of water ice and different frozen volatile species, how do ices give us clues to interiors and oceans, and more.

Phillip Samuel Pfurst, owner and CEO, of Pfurst Enterprises WorldWide (PEWW), sat behind his over-sized mahogany desk in the library of his Binghamton mansion. His six-year-old granddaughter Philless was perched on his desk, facing him. "Sweetie," he said. "There's something I want you to tell you. It might be difficult to understand right now, but in time you'll come to realize that God created American businesses so all the poor people will have jobs. And God created the Pfurst family to run all those businesses. That's why we sing God Bless America." Years later, Phillip Samuel Pfurst (the "P" in his last name is silent) was crippled in a plane crash while campaigning for the presidency of the United States. Convinced that her grandfather's 'accident' was the work of terrorists, Philless turns to her twin brother, Phillip the younger, to fulfill the old man's dream of a TeraCorp headed by a Supreme Executive Officer (SEXO). Young Phillip puts aside his dream of becoming a rock'n'roll impresario and enters the world of politics. Problems arise when a number of diaries surface, questioning the Pfurst family's history and threatening young Phillip's run for the presidency. The Pfurst Family Diaries is a wacky, irreverent look at America's growing political-financial complex run amok, and of Philless Pfurst-Steen's efforts to change it into a super-efficient TeraCorp headed by a SEXO, while at the same time directing her brother's presidential election campaign. The book gives new meaning to the old adage-a woman's work is never done.