Primitive Worlds: People Lost in Time

As more and more people crowd onto and land, incidences of human-wildlife conflicts will only increase. A comprehensive overview of this emerging field, Resolving Human-Wildlife Conflicts: The Science of Wildlife Damage Management discusses the issues facing wildlife managers and anyone else dealing with interactions between wildlife and humans. By defining the discipline of wildlife damage management, this book fills a void in the fields of wildlife management and ecology. The director of the Jack H. Berryman Institute, the only academic institute devoted to wildlife damage management, author Michael Conover is the leader in this field. In this book, he stresses the inter-relatedness of wildlife damage management within the larger discipline of wildlife conservation and provides an extensive review of the scientific literature. He includes case-studies that document how an integrated approach to wildlife management can resolve wildlife-human conflicts.

Nowhere else will you find the authoritative coverage and depth of theoretical information available in Resolving Human-Wildlife Conflicts: The Science of Wildlife Damage Management. The combination of descriptive prose, historical details, and liberal use of informative sidebars add to its appeal as a textbook, while the organization and scope make it the ideal reference for professionals.

Elizabeth Mitchell is spending Christmas with her children and grandchildren, but the recent death of Elizabeth’s ailing husband and the absence of her son-in-law, missing in Afghanistan, hangs like a shroud over the family gathering. Then Elizabeth begins to tell the story of the miracle that happened to her one Christmas when she was young and wanted to die, and the shroud begins to lift.

“-NO LO ENTIENDES, LEONARDO -DIJO, HABLANDO CON DIFICULTAD-. HABÉIS CABREADO A LA COSMONAVE.” El Gran Consejo gobierna la galaxia y la protege, a través de las dos organizaciones bajo su mando: el Cuerpo, que ejerce la justicia y la ejecuta, y la Legión, que explora el universo en busca de nuevas fronteras. Cuando el comerciante libre Chaka Gutionov encuentra una gigantesca cosmonave de cientos de años de antigüedad, una extraña alianza se forma para resolver el misterio de su aparición, incluyendo al miembro del Gran Consejo Leonardo Sonnenborn-Rico, que guarda un terrible secreto: hace cuarenta y tres años, estuvo dentro de esa cosmonave y apenas pudo escapar con vida. A medida que se adentran en las profundidades de la cosmonave, descubren que no ha reaparecido por casualidad y que todas las razas de la galaxia se encuentran en grave peligro.

Los roces entre los miembros de la expedición se recrudecen mientras intentan buscar respuestas. ¿Pero qué pueden hacer cuando encuentran a un superviviente de la primera expedición de hace cuatro décadas? ¿Podrán escapar con vida o caerán presos de la extraña fuerza que busca retenerlos dentro de la nave? ¿Estarán dispuestos a hacer el sacrificio definitivo? La Cosmonave Perdida es un trepidante relato de ciencia ficción con el que debuta Miguel Ángel Alonso Pulido, periodista, escritor y bloguero, aunque no siempre en ese orden. Puedes conocer más sobre el autor en www.miguelangelalonsopulido.com

An alternate cover edition can be found here. When hockey phenom Billie-Jo Barker returns home and decides to play in the local Friday night hockey league, all hell breaks loose. Not because Billie's talent is in question, but because Billie is a woman. And though these are modern times, some of the local guys still have a problem letting a girl into their 'men's club.' Soon, Billie is at the center of a small town battle of the sexes, with everyone choosing sides. Her sisters.

The townsfolk. Her friends. And yet, the only person whose opinion she cares about doesn't seem to care much at all.

Logan Forest, the man who broke her heart when she was eighteen and the man she now shares the bench with every Friday night. She's got a lot to prove and though Billie Jo Barker scores on the ice, will this girl ever score with the man of her dreams?