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A collection of this artist's humorous drawings with brief text depict children -- their dealings with daily life, and their relationship with adults and friends.

The first full-length treatment of rational egoism.

Rick Spencer, real estate swindler extraordinaire, sets his plan in motion in the costal village of Bayport, Maine. He has convinced the local authorities to support his $5 million-plus construction loan, his mother and his aunt to invest in the deal and secured a construction crew to convert the old, negelected Chandler Mill into luxury condos. He then uses bogus purchase orders, forged bank statements and exaggerated vendor invoices to skim enough money to line his pockets and satisfy the crime family that is hunting him.

What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect. Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic progress and prosperity, and scientists fear that we may be in the midst of a mass extinction event. Brian R. Chapman and William I. Lutterschmidt make the case that the effort to preserve animals is the responsibility of every Texan and that biodiversity contributes enormous economic value to the citizens of Texas. Texans on the Brink brings together experts on eighty-eight endangered and threatened animal species of Texas and includes brief descriptions of the processes that state and federal agencies employ to list and protect designated species. Species accounts include a description of the species accompanied by a photograph, an easy-to-read account of the biology and ecology of the species, and a description of efforts underway to preserve the species and its required habitat. Sobering examples of species that were once part of the Texas fauna but are now extinct or extirpated are also given to further demonstrate just how vulnerable biodiversity can be. All species require healthy habitats, and every species—even a rattlesnake—provides important services for the biotic communities in which they live. It is imperative to learn as much as we can about these animals if we are to preserve biodiversity successfully in Texas.

The book contains four previously untranslated plays written by Hans Sachs, a playwright, shoemaker, and important supporter of Martin Luther. Sachs' well-known poem "The Wittenberg Nightingale" is also included here in a new translation and the collection will be a boon for researchers and students who can now read them for the first time.

They attacked his homestead, killed his parents, burned his home to the ground and left him for dead. They should have finished the job. Con Veley is only 17 years old when the Canton outlaw gang destroys his world. He makes a vow over his parent's grave to give them vengeance and justice. So begins a pursuit that will take him from his home state of New York across the country and into the wild, lawless territories of western America.His journey will bring him into contact with many good folks that help him grow into a man as he follows the wreckage left by the outlaws he is hunting. Book 1 - Pursuit, The Guns of Connor Veley, begins a new western series that will take a young man and teach him what he needs to know to survive in the wild west of America.

In the increasingly important field of mlcropaleontology, ostracods have been receiving more and more attention In recent decades ... It is clear that if the value of ostracods as stratigraphic indices is to be increased or even maintained, the classification must be improved and keep pace with the number of new species and genera described ... This report deals primarily with the smooth, convex-backed forms, both modern and fossil, which have generally been assigned to one or more of four families, the Bairdiidae, Cypridae, Cytherellldae, and Healdiidae. The members of this group often have but few readily distinguishing characters, and perhaps for this reason their classification is in a poorer state than that of some other fossil groups. Also because of their long geologic range, they have been studied by both zoologists and paleontologists. This report brings together all genera which have been assigned to the four families. (The freshwater members of the Cypridae are excepted, but a few of them have been considered in order better to understand the family as a whole.) Principally, data of a morphological and ontogenetic nature has been used to establish a classification which considers both modern and fossil forms. It is hoped that not only the new Information presented here will be valuable, but that the presentation of the two groups together, modern and fossil, will do much to reconcile the two former systems of classification.