Books and How to Make the Most of Them, Penniman James Hosmer
Автор: Penniman Nick Название: Nature`s Steward: A History of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida ISBN: 1683340396 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781683340393 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Цена: 21110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Nature's Steward chronicles the development of southwest Florida using the modern-day Conservancy of Southwest Florida as the lens through which to examine environmental history. A parallel track exists alongside the Conservancy's story, and that is the evolution of land acquisition practices and comprehensive growth management planning efforts at the state and federal levels. The reader will come to understand the enormous commitment of time and money required to ensure that a beautiful corner of the world be developed in a generally sensible manner. The book is organized chronologically with three separate topics: land acquisition, managing for growth, and water. Each chapter focuses on events ranging from specific developments like Marco Island to broader initiatives such as the Collier County Rural Lands Stewardship Program, allowing the reader to appreciate the number of years spent working through the nuances, twists, turns, setbacks, and triumphs encountered in steering growth into landscapes best suited for development. This book also intends to sound an alarm. While most development has been carefully directed since the 1970s, water has long been overlooked as a finite resource in building out coastal Collier and Lee Counties. Further inland, extraction industries and creeping urban sprawl are responsible for habitat fragmentation that imperils a dozen threatened and endangered birds and mammals including the iconic Florida panther. And, finally, the prevailing paradigm in Tallahassee has pitched forty years of evolved environmental protection and regulation right out the window. This history of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida attempts to extract meaning from the events of the last fifty years and offers a way of looking at the future. It is the story of southwest Florida, home to a unique ecological system, but it also provides lessons for any other place at risk due to human development.
Автор: Penniman Sailor Название: Carry the One: A City of Angels Romance ISBN: 099934871X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780999348710 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 17920.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Tobias knows what it means to get kicked around. One bank took his home, the other, his car. After two hard years of barely hanging on, jobless, the former math teacher lives on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles in a roomy tent fully outfitted with as many comforts as his last paycheck would provide. When Tobias encounters Arthur getting robbed and beaten by three thugs in Grand Park, he can't help but come to the rescue, especially since Arthur seems newly homeless and dangerously clueless.
Arthur sees that night through a lens of drunkenness and can't remember much of it. He is surprised the next morning when he awakens in the cozy tent of Tobias and learns Tobias saved him from a violent mugging and possibly a stint in County Jail for vagrancy. When Arthur, a lonely man who has longed for a real human connection for fifteen years, realizes that Tobias believes he has nowhere to go, Arthur continues the charade to be near Tobias. His clever scheme works, and Tobias allows Arthur to come closer than anyone ever has.
But Arthur harbors more than one secret, and after finding a clever way to remain in Tobias's life, he digs a far deeper hole of deception without meaning to. Worse, he knows that if Tobias learns the truth, Arthur will lose all access to the man with whom he has fallen deeply in love. Can he keep the mystery hidden long enough to make Tobias love him, no matter what? Or will what started as innocent duplicity destroy the only love Arthur--and Tobias--have ever known?
City of Angels Romances are meant to be enjoyed as standalone reading experiences and can be read in any order. Read one or read them all
Автор: Penniman Sailor Название: Then Came Michael: A City of Angels Romance ISBN: 0999348728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780999348727 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 16540.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Galen had no idea a weekend trip during his senior year of high school would be the reason he escaped the people who murdered his parents. Years later, he just wants a life he can count on, and, miraculously, he has it. His job as a police officer has treated him well for eleven years and lets him work on his own terms. He's happily married to an androgynously sexy woman. His best friend works on the force.
On the night he arrests a man in the park for vagrancy and throws him into the holding cell at the police station, his life begins to unravel. For one thing, even from behind bars, the man draws in Galen and intoxicates him into forgetting how to do his job. For another, after Galen releases the man, Galen's troubles don't end. He can't get the man out of his head, and he has an even harder time keeping his distance from him. Soon, all he can think about is Michael.
With the night of the arrest behind them, Michael warms to Galen, who strangely came to Michael's rescue just minutes after Michael was released from the police station's lock-up. As their unexpected friendship grows, feelings Galen hasn't experienced in years, ones he thought had been the youthful yearnings of a boy in need of friendship after tragedy had struck his family, awaken in Galen. But as the answers to Galen's questions about his feelings become clear, Michael retreats. Will Galen give in to a longing for a man who doesn't want to have anything to do with him and enter the fight of his life? Will the object of his affection, the man preoccupying his thoughts, fight with him...or against him?
Can Michael resist the man whose tragic history and quiet toughness have attracted him the way no other man has? Will he risk loving a man who may not be able to love him back?
City of Angels Romances are meant to be enjoyed as standalone reading experiences and can be read in any order. Read one or read them all
Автор: Penniman Leah Название: Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm`s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land ISBN: 1603587616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781603587617 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 28510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A Dutch oven is more than just another pot. It s the most versatile pot in your kitchen. It s a soup pot, a deep fryer, a braiser, a roaster, an enclosed bread oven, and the perfect vessel for one-dish meals. Let America s Test Kitchen help you make the most of yours with an abundance of creative and approachable recipes tailored to these all-in-one pots.
