Go beyond the scenery of the Pacific temperate rainforest to witness how complex ecosystems survive in a world of upheavals If you live on a rapidly changing planet, you’d be wise to learn how it works. The giant old forests on a skinny stretch of land on the far west coast of North America have a lot to say about living in a twitchy world. In this engaging book science writer M. L. Herring takes readers into the Pacific temperate rainforest at the tumultuous edge of a shifting continent in a precarious moment of time. Readers peek behind the magnificent scenery into a forest of ancient trees, exploding mountains, disappearing owls, tsunamis, megafires, and ten million people to learn what it means to be a forest in a world of upheavals. Through Herring’s words and pictures, readers drift into the canopy through masses of ferns and lichens, burrow into soil through hair-thin threads of fungi, and plunge headlong through a watershed flushed with rain and snowmelt. Readers experience the temperate rainforest through science and art as it faces a shifting climate and the shifting priorities of a constantly changing society. The book journeys beyond the grid of latitude and longitude and into places only one’s imagination can fit, to discover what it means to be human in an ecological world.

Contains 70 texts never before published, gives background information on the individual titles and on the narrators, and a general theoretical discussion.

Contemporary trilogy about the talented and beautiful Concannon sisters set in Ireland's County Clare.

I had my life together: great parents, great friends, and a scholarship to my dream school. But when my parents’ plane crashed on their way to see me, my life crashed with it. Now I escape reality in the online game Wizards and Fae. When an actual panther shifter shows up at my door, I learn fantasy is all too real. Alex reveals my birth mother was a mage who’s been murdered, and now her killer is after me. There’s a supernatural attraction between us that Alex hates. Yet he’s determined to see me safely to mages who can help me. It turns out that one of those mages is Casper, the creator of Wizards and Fae. But even the wealthy Casper can’t distract me from the attraction I feel for Alex, who’s made it clear he’s gone as soon as I’m safe. If I want to stay alive, I’ll have to learn to control the powerful magic my birth mother left me while resisting the supernatural attraction between myself and Alex. With the assassin closing in and a magical conspiracy unraveling, this is one game I can't afford to lose. If you like hot shifters, slow-burn romance, eccentric billionaires, and badass heroines fighting magical assassins, download now! The Magic Born series is great for fans of Linsey Hall, Annabel Chase, and Heather G. Harris.

When a comet strikes the Earth just outside of Pederson, Illinois, 113 babies who were in their mother's womb when the flash hit are born with extraordinary super-powers that develop as they grow older. Now, 20 years later, the people of the world who worried what the children might become now fear what these adults will do with the powers they have. Illustrations. (May)

The revelation is that God has already prepared a place for the devil called hell. But because he was cast out of heaven down to the planet earth. Where God's great creation is living life in Jesus Christ. We must give the devil hell on this planet. So We Who Are Born-Again will not help him enlarge hell- That was prepare for the devil and his angels. The Bible says hell is enlarged itself with people who were not created for hell but HEAVEN!!!

The southernmost part of India was born, it is said, when the mighty Parasurama - sixth avatar of Vishnu - threw his battle axe to carve out the territory that would henceforth be his.

Martin Strong's best-selling and highly acclaimed monster reference book is now in its fourth edition. Encyclopaedic in scope, the book contains incomparable details on all the great figures in the development of the rock genre.

This volume explores the inherent pluralism of Hinduism through ethnographic and philosophical evidence as presented in the Journal of Anthropological Society of Bombay. The essays dated 1886–1936 represent a period that marked the emergence of a European-educated native intelligentsia with a rationalist outlook. The chapters cover a wide range of topics from Tree Worship in Mohenjo Daro, the origin of the Hindu Trimurti, interpretation of Avestic and Vedic Texts, to the second set of more localized chapters that cover the Muhammadan Castes of Bengal, the Tenets and Practices of a Certain Class of Faqirs in Bengal, the Theoretical History of the Goddess Yellamma, and much more. Written during a particular historical as well as intellectual period that reflected certain key patterns – a period just following the Bengal Renaissance of the nineteenth century that ushered in the ideologies of a reformative Hinduism – this volume highlights how religions of all denominations have influenced each other and appear to have mingled beliefs and practices from multiple sources. It shows how tolerance and inclusiveness along with syncretism have been part of India’s religious and social history. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of religions, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and sociology of religion. It will also be useful to those interested in inter-religious dialogues and civil society.