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From the curious sounds of baby swifts chattering in the chimney to the awe-inspiring sight of birds entering their roost at dusk, like smoke swirling back into the flue, Chimney Swifts have captured the imagination of many generations of North Americans.
These sleek birds with crescent-shaped wings and acrobatic flight patterns migrate to North America from the Amazon River Basin each spring to breed and raise their young. But by the late 1980s, changes in chimney construction and homeowner attitudes had contributed to a major decline in the numbers of Chimney Swifts. Authors Paul and...

Two tales of the Old West and a bonus story added In BOUNTY, William "Mac" McDermott is a bounty hunter who decides to assist a woman and her son traveling west to California. He finds he must finish the journey with her in order to keep her alive from a band of marauders who stalk the wagon she's riding and want the land claim she is carrying. In NAVARRO, an Indian scout employed by the US Army heads home to his tribe and finds his tribe and son slaughtered and his wife missing. Abandoning the US Army he vows to hunt down the killers. And in the bonus story, GRINGO, a man finds himself lost...

Chimney Swifts, birds that nest and roost in chimneys, have been historically abundant in North America. But by the late 1980s, the number of swifts migrating to North America from the Amazon River Basin had declined.

A growing number of people across North America are now constructing nesting towers and conducting Chimney Swift conservation projects in their own communities. With Chimney Swift Towers, concerned bird conservationists have a step-by-step guide to help them create more habitat for these beneficial, insect-eating birds. Chimney Swift experts Paul and Georgean Kyle...

From the curious sounds of baby swifts chattering in the chimney to the awe-inspiring sight of birds entering their roost at dusk, like smoke swirling back into the flue, Chimney Swifts have captured the imagination of many generations of North Americans.
These sleek birds with crescent-shaped wings and acrobatic flight patterns migrate to North America from the Amazon River Basin each spring to breed and raise their young. But by the late 1980s, changes in chimney construction and homeowner attitudes had contributed to a major decline in the numbers of Chimney Swifts. Authors Paul and...

A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity presents a series of essays that apply a socio-historical perspective to myriad aspects of ancient sport and spectacle.

• Covers the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire
• Includes contributions from a range of international scholars with various Classical antiquity specialties
• Goes beyond the usual concentrations on Olympia and Rome to examine sport in cities and territories throughout the Mediterranean basin
• Features a variety of illustrations, maps, end-of-chapter references,...

Creation of a fundamentally new technical capability ideally begins with the recognition of some future need, a careful description of requirements, development, testing, and operational implementation. In contrast to this ideal situation, the launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite on 4 October 1957 created an immediate need within the United States to track and maintain a catalog of orbital elements for artificial Earth satellites. This required inventing a solution to a problem that did not even exist prior to 1957. Thus, the initial effort was driven both by external circumstances and by highly...