Alpha Earth, 2029, faces environmental devastation but residents are unaware of a worse threat: collision with another Earth that could annihilate both Earths. Beta Earth residents must find the two children they abandoned on Alpha Earth 29 years earlier to save at least one of the planets... ...and at least one of the species: humans or gentem?

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Poetry and photography explore the magic, humor, wonder, and joy we experience when we cherish Earth and all the habitats and inhabitants we find here. From clouds to Myakka soil and snakes to penguins, Blue and Ude-Crowe celebrate what's right within us and our environment while they also explore how to improve our lives and experiences within nature. Leap into fact and possibility that reside around us. Discover more about our vital connections to Earth and how to have faith in the resilience of those connections. All ages will discover words and images to cherish in this superb collection of nature poems and photography. This collection doesn't shy away from controversial issues - climate change, pollution, invasive species, and more - but positive images for change and reasons for celebration also abound. This book is also a call to action to become aware of life's vibrancy surrounding us as well as awareness of our involvement in that vibrancy. Humans are one of Earth's creatures, an animal with the ability to improve live for all species. Wildlife and the many habitats creatures both need and help to sustain spark readers curiosity. This collection isn't meant to be factual evidence by experts, but is meant to provide a leaping off place to explore and rejoice in all that the natural world has to offer.

The Interpretative Guide of Western-Northwest Weather Forecasts explores the challenges and creativity of providing weather forecasts within the unique Great Northwest, influenced by the Pacific Ocean, Olympic and Cascade Mountains, Puget Sound waterways, and many islands. Micro-climates include rain forests, rain shadows, convergence zones, cityscapes, and altitudes that range from sea level to 14,411' (Mount Rainier)-all of which are wet to varying degrees. What's a Weather Forecaster to do?Is the day partly sunny or partly cloudy? Are the showers scattered or isolated? Will there be a sunbreak? Where will today's convergence zone appear? With an ironic eye, author Marian Blue and many artists-including Dean Gibson, Lynne Hann, and Cherie Ude-define the creative terms and phrases forecasters use to predict rain without saying the word itself. Influences of history, from the days when in-comers to the region were discouraged to the more welcoming culture of today are included. A must gift book for the potential in-comer, the more recent arrivals, and the still weather-befuddled locals of the Great Western Northwest.

Music to My Years is the story of the ever-changing world of professional entertainment, told by an artist whose talents helped to define the transformative era. This memoir will delight and inform lovers of music, fans of Hollywood culture and films, and devotees of TV shows of the last five decades and resonate with anyone who has pursued a dream or struggled to find true love--Amazon.com.

These stories cover a range of time. I considered revising some of the older stories to update language and technology, then I decided to leave them alone. The characters are within their cultural time frames, and they don't wish to be juggled about nor to have their lives and stories changed, their histories altered.Many of the stories have been published (see acknowledgements). Some haven't found a home until this volume for various reasons. For instance, one problem story is "Baby Botchers." Editors, publishers, and readers tend to wince and run from the story as somehow supporting the concept of baby bartering. From my perspective, the story isn't in support of the idea of selling babies or manipulating genes according to human genetic specifications; rather, it's about how human attitudes and culture could be altered (not for the better) once that becomes the norm. See what you think.

Musician, violinist, and suffering from ill health, Morris Bezman fled the conditions of Kiev, Russia in 1905 to go to the U.S. and in the brief space of a few years, help create a musical movement in Denver, Colorado.