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A unique and personal insight into the ecology and evolution of pollinators, their relationships with flowers, and their conservation in a rapidly changing world. The pollination of flowers by insects, birds and other animals is a fundamentally important ecological function that supports both the natural world and human society. Without pollinators to facilitate the sexual reproduction of plants, the world would be a biologically poorer place in which to live, there would be an impact on food security, and human health would suffer. Written by one of the world’s leading pollination ecologists, this book provides an introduction to what pollinators are, how their interactions with flowers h...
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Herring is a disillusioned American spy stationed on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall, struggling with his role in a Cold War that seems to have no end. But when he's sent on a mission behind enemy lines to infiltrate East German intelligence, he soon learns the Soviets have a secret weapon that could change the tides of the conflict: an alien monster that they don't understand, and can't control. The Soviets are about to learn that they’re not in charge of the monster – it’s already in their minds and has twisted them to its will. Now Herring must find a way to understand the impossible – before it transforms him into a monster unlike any other. Writer Jeff Loveness (Judas) and Lisandro Estherren (Redneck) team up for a story in the spirit of Cold War classics, for fans of period piece science fiction as well as alien action such as Barrier.
THE STORY: Set in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, KIMBERLY AKIMBO is a hilarious and heartrending play about a teenager with a rare condition causing her body to age faster than it should. When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circu
This science -fiction horror tale embraces all of the myths and legends of Stonehenge into a spine tinkling adventure that many will enjoy of the ancient relic of England. Stonehenge was more than a pile of historical rubble, its vast secrets watched over Salisbury Plains by underworld societies and is breached by a curious archeologist, which unleashes ancient predators of earth. A Texas Ranger gets a call of help from his brother being the archeologist. The Ranger finds his brother’s death suspicious and it embarks him to take a trip into the unseen world of Salisbury lands and witnesses the world attacked by unexpected demons that were trapped for centuries. The Texas Ranger goes into b...
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A young man Jeff Martin joins Starpol (the Star Police Force) and is sent to Space Patrol Ship Hunter 5 captained by an American, Chuck Grant. Jeff finds that all is not as it should be when he encounters the Shadow who is pointing a gun at him. When in pursuit of diamond thieves Hunter 5 arrives at Omega 2, a hitherto unexplored planet, Jeff and his French colleague Anna discover just what might have happened on Earth if the dinosaurs had not been wiped out. On a further mission to Planet Ka the crew find themselves in the strange land of the Kels, obliged to deal with their formidable leader, the Great Mother. (The sci-fi stories are developed from those in the popular Starpol English Reader Series).
Completing the journey started in The Young Rebel, Mark Daniels and his Rebel teammates continue their quest for acceptance during one tragic yet triumphant basketball season. Mark Daniels obsession for basketball stardom at Shiloh High is forever changed when a string of tragedies causes him to realize what is truly important in life. A fully repentant Mark then leads his young Rebel teammates in the upset of the year against archrival Camden, achieving a greater dream of earning Shiloh's respect for his team and coach. The season's second half before them, Mark and his teammates now chase a new dream, to make the state playoffs. Yet their season of tragedy is far from over as disasters continue to find the team. The worst comes just as they near their goal. And Mark's decisions during the ensuing events could do more than just end their basketball season. It could end their lives as well. Filled with tragedy and triumph, Follow That Dream completes the inspirational story of Mark Daniels and his young Rebel teammates' quest to earn acceptance among North Carolina's basketball elite.
For a limited time only! Purchase BIRD LIVES! for just $2.99 and get a link to download the first book in this series, SOLO HAND, for FREE! For jazz pianist Evan Horne, things couldn’t be better: His hand has healed, he’s getting gigs at some of the Southern California clubs, and he’s even been approached about a recording contract. He couldn’t have planned it any better. What he never considered, though, was that a murderer was going to add some startling improvisations… The dead sax player was someone many in the traditional jazz community wouldn’t miss; he was, after all, just another Kenny G clone, someone capitalizing on an uneducated public’s willingness to support “smo...
Kathy entered her marriage with high hopes and life-long dreams of what married life would be like. She knew that Jeff drank too much from time to time and that he had legal problems as a result of it in the past, but that was when he was still a teenager. Most everyone that she knew drank too much in high school and college. Kathy was about to get a lesson in the destructive forces of alcoholism. She was also about the learn that time would not soften her mother-in-law's feelings towards her. Kathy was marrying Clare's "special child" and she would pay for that.