Jared: 440 books

Molt is an important avian life history event in which feathers are shed and replaced. The timing, duration, seasonality, extent and pattern of molt follows certain strategies and this book reviews and describes these strategies for nearly 190 species based on information gathered from a 30-year study...

This book delves deep into school culture and the school shooter. The authors generate a more comprehensive picture of school violence, including the personal, interpersonal, and environmental factors that help to generate a school serial killer.

Perl is a very powerful tool for Oracle database administrators, but too few DBAs realize how helpful Perl can be in managing, monitoring, and tuning Oracle databases. Whether you're responsible for Oracle9i, Oracle8i, or earlier databases, you'll find Perl an invaluable addition to your database...

A Quick and Easy Guide on How to Get Rid of Armadillos Armadillos are New World placental mammals, known for having a leathery armor shell. Dasypodidae is the only surviving family in the order Cingulata, part of the superorder Xenarthra along with the anteaters and sloths. The word armadillo...

A whirlpool of crows Swirls above, justifying Our murderousness The world is a quiet place now. The streets are choked with dust and the ruins of civilization; the horizon is bleak in every direction. There are only a few survivors left. Occasionally, the silence is broken with cries of violence as the...

With the help of native Cubans we compiled this collection of words and phrases used on the largest island of the Antilles. We concisely explain them in English and share example sentences. In this book you will find Spanish words that have a particular meaning or use for Cubans. You'll find some...

The last in a series of Mexifornia books with jw Carter (America's writer of long and short schizoaffective works) and Victor Davis Hanson addressing the State of California's notorious Mexican Drug Cartels and Donald Trump's elucidation with California Governor Jerry Brown.  

Short work that looks at the life of Ida B. Wells and the women's suffrage movement and African Americans.  

A photography book celebrating the nomadic lifestyle and community of vanlife through interviews, essential advice for living on the road, and more than 200 photos of tiny rolling homes. Inspired by the blog and Instagram account, Vanlife Diaries is an inspiring and detailed look into the world...

Used by C.S. Lewis himself, the term “scientifiction” is revived here as it once encompassed not only what we call science fiction, but also that indeterminate field of the 1940s and 1950s sometimes referred to as science fantasy (leading up to Ray Bradbury), along with a portion of that great...

A Quick and Easy Guide on How to Get Rid of Cats Simple ways to keep stray and feral cats out of your yard

Monsters dwell in tunnels beneath the earth. An artist obsesses over a painting. Somewhere, a college professor careens from universe to universe and dimension to dimension, completely alone and helpless. A picture found in a closet takes on a life of its own while a man comes face to face with some...

I'm going to kill the king. A formidable nation is being destroyed by corruption at its very foundation. While clans, guilds, and cults tear at each other for control of the senate, the king rules through manipulation and fear, driven only to expand his power by any means possible. When...

African Americans from Pittsburgh have a long and distinctive history of contributions to the cultural, political, and social evolution of the United States. From jazz legend Earl Fatha Hines to playwright August Wilson, from labor protests in the 1950s to the Black Power movement of the late 1960s,...