Bøger i Nexus serien

Profiles the attitudes, understandings, and motivations of grassroots activists who rose to fight the use of phenoxy herbicides, or Agent Orange chemicals as they are commonly known, in various aspects of American life during the post-WWII era.

In the third book of The Nexus Series, Lauren and Alex's return from Earth is interrupted by the exiled traitor Gwenhywfach, Chief of Clan Cador. The traitor grabs Alex out of the quantum tubula that connects the two worlds. She spirits Alex away on her clan's interstellar ship into an unknown galaxy. All of Terra is devastated by Alex's kidnapping. Lauren and Alex's soulmate bond is stretched to the limit as the distance separating them grows. Lauren is frantic to get Alex back before the bond is broken. But first, Lauren must fight the Terran Council for her right to rule in Alex's stead. Will she be able to vanquish her foes? Will Lauren manage to find hidden Terran technologies and discover new ones? Alex's life and the bond between them depends upon it!

Traces historical developments in physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology during the decades following World War II. Life Out of Balance focuses on a period in history when new ideas of self-regulation, adaptation, and fitness became central to a variety of biological disciplines.

A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution. R. Douglas Hurt demonstrates that the Green Revolution did not turn out as neatly as scientists predicted. When its methods and products were imported to places like Indonesia and Nigeria, or even replicated indigenously, the result was a tumultuous impact on a society's functioning.