Applied Ecology and Natural Resource Management

This volume bridges the gap between ecology and natural resource management and, in particular, focuses on plant ecology as a foundation for vegetation and wildlife management. It describes how concepts and approaches used by ecologists to study communities and ecosystems can be applied to their management. Guy R. McPherson and Stephen DeStefano emphasize the importance of thoughtfully designed and conducted scientific studies to both the advancement of ecological knowledge and the application of techniques for the management of plant and animal populations.

Business & Money

DeStefano, Stephen

McPherson, Guy R.

Economics

Cambridge University Press

A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; a cougar stalks his prey through suburban backyards; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. Such stories, which regularly make headline news, highlight the blurred divide that now exists between civilization and wilderness. 
 In Coyote at the Kitchen Door, Stephen DeStefano draws on decades of experience as a biologist and conservationist to examine the interplay between urban sprawl and wayward wildlife. As he explores what our insatiable appetite for real estate means for the health and wellbeing of animals and ourselves, he highlights growing concerns, such as the loss of darkness at night because of light pollution. DeStefano writes movingly about the contrasts between constructed and natural environments and about the sometimes cherished, sometimes feared place that nature holds in our modern lives, as we cluster into cities yet show an increasing interest in the natural world. 
 Woven throughout the book is the story of one of the most successful species in North America: the coyote. Once restricted to the prairies of the West, this adaptable animal now inhabits most of North America—urban and wild alike. DeStefano traces a female coyote’s movements along a winding path between landscapes in which her species learned to survive and flourish. Coyote at the Kitchen Door asks us to rethink the meaning of progress and create a new suburban wildlife ethic.

Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Harvard University Press

A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; a cougar stalks his prey through suburban backyards; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. Such stories, which regularly make headline news, highlight the blurred divide that now exists between civilization and wilderness. 
In Coyote at the Kitchen Door, Stephen DeStefano draws on decades of experience as a biologist and conservationist to examine the interplay between urban sprawl and wayward wildlife. As he explores what our insatiable appetite for real estate means for the health and wellbeing of animals and ourselves, he highlights growing concerns, such as the loss of darkness at night because of light pollution. DeStefano writes movingly about the contrasts between constructed and natural environments and about the sometimes cherished, sometimes feared place that nature holds in our modern lives, as we cluster into cities yet show an increasing interest in the natural world.
Woven throughout the book is the story of one of the most successful species in North America: the coyote. Once restricted to the prairies of the West, this adaptable animal now inhabits most of North America―urban and wild alike. DeStefano traces a female coyote’s movements along a winding path between landscapes in which her species learned to survive and flourish. Coyote at the Kitchen Door asks us to rethink the meaning of progress and create a new suburban wildlife ethic.

The visual pizzazz and feisty humor of Lucky in Love sets this semi-fictionalized WWII graphic memoir apart. Co-created by George L. Chieffet (script) and cult cartoonist and animator Stephen DeStefano (plot and art), Lucky in Love has a different tone than the graphic novels Alan's War and You'll Never Know: elegantly drawn in a supremely confident, bouncy, cartoony black-and-white style that recalls Milt Gross as well as classic Disney animation and comics. Lucky in Love is a unique coming-of-age story that follows Lucky Testatuda from his rascally teen years in a New Jersey Little Italy neighborhood to his induction into the air force and subsequent wartime experiences. Lucky in Love shows Lucky merging his erotic fantasies with 1940s film myths: Moving from the ''40s to the present day, the book contrasts Lucky vivid fantasy life with the darker reality of World War II, including Lucky's sexual initiation and, in a masterful set-piece sequence that echoes Harvey Kurtzman's classic EC war comics, the horrors of armed combat.

Lucky In Love (The Luba Trilogy)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Chieffet, George

Graphic Novels

Fantagraphics Books

Unleash the power of SwiftUI by building dynamic, cross-platform projects that will amaze their users Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook <h4>Key Features</h4> <ul> <li>Explore the basics of declarative programming and animation</li> <li>Understand the fundamentals of SwiftUI and animatable properties</li> <li>Learn while working on beginner-to-advanced level animation projects</li> </ul> <h4>Book Description</h4> Swift and SwiftUI are the backbone of Apple application development, making them a crucial skill set to learn. Animating SwiftUI Applications focuses on the creation of stunning animations, making you proficient in this declarative language and employing a minimal code approach. In this book, you'll start by exploring the fundamentals of SwiftUI and animation, before jumping into various projects that will cement these skills in practice. You will explore some simple projects, like animating circles, creating color spectrums with hueRotation, animating individual parts of an image, as well as combining multiple views together to produce dynamic creations. The book will then transition into more advanced animation projects that employ the GeometryReader, which helps align your animations across different devices, as well as creating word and color games. Finally, you will learn how to integrate the SpriteKit framework into our SwiftUI code to create scenes with wind, fire, rain, and or snow scene, along with adding physics, gravity, collisions, and particle emitters to your animations. By the end of this book, you'll have created a number of different animation projects, and will have gained a deep understanding of SwiftUI that can be used for your own creations. <h4>What you will learn</h4> <ul> <li>Understand the fundamentals of SwiftUI and declarative programming</li> <li>Master animation concepts like state variables and time curves</li> <li>Explore animation properties like hueRotation, opacity, and scale</li> <li>Create animations using physics, gravity, collision, and more</li> <li>Use the GeometryReader to align views across various platformsCombine different animations for more dynamic effects</li> <li>Add audio to your animations for an interactive experience</li> </ul> <h4>Who this book is for</h4> This book is for aspiring SwiftUI developers who have a basic understanding of Swift. It can also be used by SwiftUI developers, UIKit developers, and iOS developers that are new to SwiftUI and want to improve their animation proficiency.

Animating SwiftUI Applications: Create visually stunning and engaging animations for iOS with SwiftUI

Computers & Technology

Web Development & Design

Packt Publishing

<div>Not only does your dad know what every kid everywhere is doing, but he alsoexpects you to adhere to stricter rules than anyone else! Jingle Belle doesn'tlet it faze her, however - she's far too intent on having a good time for that!Yet, when the holidays roll around, she's determined to prove she's her father'schild and help spread Christmas cheer. Little does she know, though, that she'sgoing to be responsible for unleashing the greatest threat to Christmas ever!The Blizzard Wizard has been lying in wait, biding his time to get his maliciouspower back - the snow globe Santa took from him years ago. He tricks Jing intobringing it to him, and when the Blizzard Wizard kidnaps her dad and all of hiselfin employees, it's up to Jing to trick him back and make sure kids all overthe world get presents under their trees! This edition features an exclusive newcolor story painted by Lawrence Marvit, the creator of Sparks. </div>

Jingle Belle: Naughty & Nice

DINI, PAUL

Rich, Jamie

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Oni Press

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