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Where America's wildest dreams came true

"At Cypress Gardens--the original Florida theme park--movie stars, water-ski champs, and southern sweethearts created magic. More than anyone, even Walt Disney, Dick Pope Sr. invented Florida as America's dream vacationland. This journey back to the attraction in its heyday brims with wonderful images, true tales, and the author's great love for and understanding of the real Florida."--Joy Wallace Dickinson, author of Orlando: City of Dreams

"Before the monstrous Mouse infested the orange groves, luring tourists to its...

In this gripping, fast paced thriller, Leonard Gibbons, PhD is trying to warn you. The entire population of Earth, in fact. Of a catastrophic future that could literally happen overnight.

He should know. He remembers every second of his life. Especially the auto accident that shatters his spine, leaving him a quadriplegic.

Now, he must depend on others for everything. As he helplessly falls in love with his beautiful young caretaker, Anna, he realizes it will be an unrequited love. So he spins into depression, until Anna challenges him to take a journey like no other before it. Into...

The children of the Tsimshian village of Kitkatla love to play at being hunters, eager for their turn to join the grown-ups. But when they capture and mistreat a crow, the Chief of the Heavens, angered at their disrespect, brings down a powerful storm.

The rain floods the Earth and villagers have no choice but to abandon their homes and flee to their canoes. As the seas rise, the villagers tie themselves to the top of Anchor Mountain, where they pray for days on end and promise to teach their children to value all life. The storm stops and the waters recede. From that point on,...

Written in a lively and accessible style The Art of Judgment continues to be a seminal work for scholars seeking to develop an interpretive and critical account of...

Noted economist Douglas Vickers reexamines the relationship between economics and moral philosophy. That relationship, once very strong, is again the subject of increasing attention and discussion both within and beyond the academy. Vickers reestablishes the substantial bridges between ethical philosophy and economics. He addresses three main issues: first, the historical means by which economics has consciously surrendered its original association with ethical categories and criteria; second, the need to articulate the appropriate thoughtforms and vocabulary of ethical theory; and third,...