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Over thousands of years, wildlife has coexisted with domestic animals in dynamic systems. The domestic-wildlife interfaces are those physical spaces where wild and domestic species overlap and potentially interact through direct and indirect contact, with the inherent risk of pathogen transmission. The nature of this interface is complex and can significantly vary over time and across landscapes throughout the world. Over the last centuries, processes such as human intervention on agriculture and animal husbandry, industrialization, or globalization have altered ecosystems. These changes often lead to more interconnected interfaces and increased opportunities for the emergence and spread of pathogens because the human population is increasing and expanding, livestock production is therefore increasing to supply the growing food demand, and wildlife, often under the pressure of habitat reduction, is becoming more exposed to these new interfaces.
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From one of the U.K.'s most dazzling authors comes a brutal and funny novel about a pair of fraudulent psychic mediums that is itself an elaborate con game between fact and fiction, life and death--a book as verbally acrobatic as it is emotionally intense.
microbursts is a collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go. Originally written by Reeder as an intense text-based collection of lyric and experimental essays responding to the illnesses and deaths of her parents, it confronts the raw emotions of crisis, grief and creativity. Through collaboration with Thomson, the project expanded to consider how design and visual intervention might alter the nature and impact of the text. The outcome is a book which explores the subjects of illness, crisis, creativity, caring, death and grief, alongside the aesthetic and formal concerns of cross-genre writing, including how image, fo...
More Favorites from a Beloved Author Mandie and her friends set out to investigate and solve six more mysteries in the next two volumes of THE MANDIE COLLECTION. Volume Ten includes Mandie and the New York Secret, Mandie and the NIght Thief, and Mandie and the HIdden Past.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE KAVYA PRIZE 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2022 Reflecting on family, identity and nature, belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a love letter to nature, especially the northern landscapes of Scotland and the Scots pinewoods of Abernethy. Beautifully written and featuring Amanda Thomson's artwork and photography throughout, it explores how place, language and family shape us and make us who we are. It is a book about how we are held in thrall to elements of our past. It speaks to the importance of attention and reflection, and will encourage us all to look and observe and ask questions of ourselves.
Amanda Graham's world was destroyed by her parents' divorce. She left her friends and father in New York, moved to Florida, and entered a small, cliquey private school. In a misguided attempt to become popular, Amanda lied about one of her teachers. She found the friendship she had been seeking, but ultimately realized that that sort of friendship wasn't what she had been looking for, and it certainly wasn't worth the price she had to pay.
Amanda seems to have it all, beauty, brains, confidence and high goals. When a handsome rich Senator's son sweeps her off her feet and asks her to marry him she is at first reluctant but his charm and love for her wins her over. Their lives are very different but despite some misgivings by her family they plan their wedding and life together. Little did she know that she would end up being caught between two worlds of intrigue and become a pawn! Set in South East Florida during the 'Bay of Pigs' invasion and 'The Cuban Missile Crisis' the reader will get caught up in the intrigue and left wondering at the end who is right and who is wrong and did Amanda make the right choice?...
Elizabeth is a young woman, damaged by a high school friend’s betrayal, who is determined to earn her law degree. When the need to save her mother’s life and the family home threatens, she marries Ian King instead of turning to God. Her marriage has many bittersweet turns, and only when she is in jail for Ian’s murder does she turn to God. But hell is not pleased to lose her soul. The defense leans on God, the prophet Elijah, who has his own story to tell, and an elderly parishioner, named Alice, to have its day in court. The real murderer confesses, “Yeah...the great Ian King is a dead man...just walked away from his useless body,” This is the story of how Elizabeth Adams King came to Christ. The book shows how unseen demons manipulated her life in an effort to destroy it for all eternity, and how unseen angels fought for her day of salvation. It shows also, how her life impacted the other people in the story. Dear reader, you will see just how much God loved Elizabeth, and us. You will see how her life and our lives are never beyond His redemptive power.