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Nearly one hundred years have passed since F. B. Meek completed his monumental studies of invertebrate fossils in the Upper Cretaceous rocks of the Nebraska and Dakota Territories. The desire to examine molluscan distributions of the Western Interior in new ways has prompted a need for revision of the molluscan taxonomy and faunal lists of the "upper Missouri country." The Fox Hills Formation (Maestrichtian) of North Dakota and South Dakota, a complex of nearshore and littoral, delta platform and lagoonal sandstones, siltstones, and clays, contains a moderately large molluscan faunal record of the closing marine event of the Mesozoic Era in that region. By the end of his career Meek had described approximately 25 gastropod species from the formation, only four of which were definitely taken from localities in North Dakota. The Bivalvia having been revised earlier by Feldman, this revision updates the taxonomy and distribution of the gastropods of the Fox Hill Formation in North Dakota. As described herein the fauna contains 37 species. Those represent 24 genera in 18 families distributed among four orders and two subclasses of the Gastropoda. Five species, Neritina loganensis, n. sp.; Piesochilus feldmanni, n. sp.; Hercorhyncus (Haplovoluta) hollandi, n. sp.; Remera? cvancarai, n. sp.; and Cancellaria siouxensis, n. sp. are described. Eleven species in a like number of genera are newly reported from the Fox Hills Formation. Goniocylichna bisculpturata Wade and Euspira rectilabrum (Conrad) occur in common with the fauna of the Ripley Formation of the Mississippi Embayment, with which the Fox Hills Formation has its closest compositional affinity. Paleogeographic distributions of Fox Hills genera clearly indicate that North Dakota was a region of overlap of Tethyan migrants (for discussion of Tethys see particularly Sylvester-Bradley in Adams and Ager, 1967) from the Gulf Coast region and a less prominent "boreal" or northern Pacific stock emigrating from the north and northwest. Southern genera show a reduction of ornamentation reflecting cooler conditions than those in the Tethyan Realm. True endemism, formerly considered predominant in the Fox Hills fauna, is actually not that great, but was, and is, a manifestation of our still incomplete knowledge of distributions and stratigraphic occurrences of Gastropoda in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior. Observations regarding stratigraphy and sedimentation of the formation indicate that major storms swept the midcontinental seas during the late Cretaceous and were responsible for several major sediment accumulations within the formation. In addition an as yet unnamed member was recognized high in the section. As a blanket sandstone it seems to owe its depositional origin to subsidence of the deltaic platform and resulting re-transgression of the generally regressive Fox Hills sea.

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"It's hard to be the only one." That single sentence from a teenage congregant sums up the conviction that motivated Christian Theology for a Secular Society. In these dying days of Christendom, the reality that most Western Christians face is living out their faith as a minority in the midst of a culture that is at every level--personal, institutional, and societal--secular in nature. While most living in Western societies still affirm belief in God and often other vaguely recognizable Christian beliefs, these affirmations frequently have little to do with how daily life is lived. The idea that the God best known to us in Jesus Christ is actually in charge of life is foreign. For most, Christianity simply does not form an overarching system of meaning that shapes life. Instead, life is lived largely without reference to God. And to live any other way is often "hard." In this volume, Mark McKim sets out to "do" theology in this context. How does one explain the core historic Christian doctrines in a way that makes sense in a secular culture--and in a way that will gain a hearing? What does it mean to be the church in this new situation? Throughout, McKim asks the question, so what? as he relates Christian teachings to a secular society and to what is actually happening in the local church. McKim's goal is to enable the singing of the Lord's song in the new and strange land of a secular society.

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Raymond Charles Brickman III and Kathy Ann Erickson—two individuals who will never meet in space—by chance collide in time. Both think they’ve been wronged and plan retribution. To avenge long-held grievances originating from America’s Civil War, Brickman intends to extract concessions by threatening to destroy critical American satellites. Erickson seeks no such concession. Her family killed during the Soviet war with Afghanistan, her objective is the total annihilation of her homeland, the Russian Federation. Into this brew of hatred and vengeance drop Drs. Victor Mark Silverstein and Linda Ann Kipling, scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, California—and part-time CIA operatives. No strangers to international intrigue, this time they gain a partner, Russian spy Dmitri Smirnov. Battling clever adversaries, near-death experiences, and a ticking clock, over a grueling three-day period the threesome fight not only to save the satellites but to prevent nuclear Armageddon.

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