Future Forests: Adaptation to Climate Change provides background on forests as natural and social systems, the current distribution and dynamics based on major biomes that set the stage for their role of forests in global systems, the nature of climate change organized by biomes, and detailed descriptions of mitigation and adaptation strategies. This book forms presents a foundational summary of the feedback between the effect of climate change on forests and the converse effects of forests on climate, leading to conclusions on how forest management needs to be dictated by climate change. The book will be ideal for readers in the fields of climate change science, forest science and conservation biology, helping them develop a thorough understanding on the broad perspective of climate change on forests, the response of forests to these changes, and other climate-forest interaction potentials.

Steve McNulty's book on "Small Business Management for Government Contractors" will prove to be an invaluable tool for small companies working with - or endeavoring to work with - the US Government (USG). In this book, Steve lays out the important steps, processes, and procedures for all companies to follow to become a successful - and compliant - US Government contractor. Steve has a unique blend of business and government background and experience that qualifies him to see the issues from "all angles." He began his career in 1978 as a state energy official, and has since worked as both a business manager and clean energy specialist; with private, for-profit companies and also non-profit organizations. This broad foundation of private and public experience has enabled Steve to build a solid knowledge base to assist small companies and NGOs to succeed and prosper in their USG contracting pursuits. Steve has laid out in this book the important lessons he's learned over the past 33 years. He covers the depth and breadth of running a small business, including contracts and financial management; HR compliance; company and employee insurance; discussion on what are the key components in a good Business Plan; an explanation of a few techniques for successful marketing/business development (e.g., mining FBO.gov, reaching out to existing USG contractors to get on their teams, walking the halls of your potential clients, using social media, requesting a debrief if not selected on a bid, and most importantly - performing well on your existing contracts). Quoting from the book..."Developing and nurturing positive and long-lasting relationships with current and potential clients is a cornerstone of building a successful Government contracting business." Take care of your clients, give them what they need. In Small Business Management for Government Contractors, Steve covers NICRA and audit issues; the benefits of participating in GSA Schedules; choices for fringe benefits (or not to offer the full suite of fringe benefits, and simply compensate the employees for the value of certain fringe benefits); the importance of solid file management, and document control; discussion of travel rules; and other processes that are critically important for all current, or aspiring, USG contractors to know. Topics in the book include ideas for utilizing "Cloud" based virtual business services, and other forms of outsourcing (such as maximizing the use of individual consultants) to reduce the need to carry a large contingent of regular, fixed staff. Steve maintains that services from the Cloud will enable companies to reduce their hardware and software requirements - by moving the burden of software updates and associated hardware needs to the Cloud (that is, to off-site entities who will keep data protected, software updated, and also offer a growing range business services such as payroll processing, accounting, and technical project services). Steve's book on Small Business Management for Government Contractors points out that security is the "plastics" of today and tomorrow (borrowing from the 1967 movie classic The Graduate, where Dustin Hoffman was lectured that plastics were the future of business). Achieving enhanced security is critical in so many ways - including physical security, data security, email security, website protection, and more. Services from the Cloud and beyond will help organizations deal with these growing challenges. In his book Steve suggests that in tomorrow's computer networks, the components to be connected will be wide and varied - including to traditional computer workstations and printers and now smartphones and tablets; but also more so in the future to security cameras, and even employees may be connected by way of embedded computer chips. This is Steve's second book, with the first being A Cow's Heaven, also found on Amazon and CreateSpace. Happy reading

In his book, A Cow's Heaven, Steve McNulty presents ideas and thoughts about life, and presents them in a fun, easy to read manner. The book contains thoughts and suggestions about living life, and being happy doing it. Cow's Heaven Theorems, Rules, and Dictates are offered that can serve as stepping off points for discussion. And Steve reminds the reader that we're animals, just like the cow. And with that recognition, for some, things don't seem quite so complicated or quite so serious. Provocative ideas are found in the book, including the key Cow's Heaven Dictate to treat yourself as you would a member of your own family. In other words, don't beat yourself up when you do something stupid. Just like you wouldn't ridicule a family member or a friend when they do something wrong. You would offer encouragement, just like you should do for yourself. There are other features in the book such as Cow's Rule #42 which is to make charitable contributions first to your family and friends, rather than to some large charitable organization. Since everyone knows someone who needs help, financially or otherwise. And of course the exclusive Cow's Heaven Diet is spelled out in the book - featuring the requisite dairy products, and a good mix of fruits, vegetables, and fish. And plenty of exercise. We all know what makes up a good diet, but good discipline is the primary "ingredient" in our recipes that enables the diet planning to become a reality. With key decision points needing to be made prior to the hand (containing food or drink) approaching the mouth Think about it before you put something into your mouth. And think about how much exercise you'll need to do to offset those calories. In the book, useful insight is offered to the reader, such as: Happiness is a Choice. That is, don't expect happiness to come to you automatically, go look for it and find it. The author provides some observations about business - such as the Cow's Heaven Rule #21 that the busier things get, the more you should slow down. And there's the author's ever-popular service industry theorem of: Price, Quality, Speed: Choose Two Steve offers that we need to make plans in our lives, and then lay out steps to initiate and undertake those plans. Plans for future education, for a career, and for finding a partner, a mate. Even pre-planning for what to do on the weekend, and with whom. Without proper planning - and execution of the plans - we can end up drifting through life and not achieving the things we know we have the potential to achieve. The purpose of this book is not to tell others how to live their lives. It just presents some Observations and Lessons Learned about Life and Living (per the subtitle ), and readers can take from it what they like, and ignore what they don't like, or don't agree with. We're all unique individuals, and everyone needs to find what works for them. The book wraps up by offering that we make the best of what we have - here and now. And that we don't know what happens to us when our animal bodies expire. But when we do expire, even if we don't get into the Human Heaven, maybe the cows will invite us into their Cows Heaven.