On April 16, 2007, an early spring storm broke through Cape Cod's barrier beach. Overnight, the citizens of Chatham had to contend with as much sea level rise as most communities will face in the next fifty years. A dozen homes were swept away in as many months and, today, a new inlet is aimed at the heart of the village. Another hundred houses and the third most lucrative fishing port in New England will be endangered in the coming years. Bill Sargent tells the story of this seemingly microcosmic event, but it is not unique. Nearly 200 other American coastal communities will face similar...
On April 16, 2007, an early spring storm broke through Cape Cod's barrier beach. Overnight, the citizens of Chatham had to contend with as much sea le...
Two Arab men are found murdered near downtown Houston, Texas, and detectives Ross Clayton and Leona Stillwell are sent to investigate. These aren't ordinary murders, however--the bodies are arranged to mirror a famous Impressionist painting, and the exactitude of the killing gives Clayton cause to be concerned. He suspects this killer isn't finished.
His suspicions turn out to be correct as more men end up dead and similarly arranged. Every victim is of Arab descent, and it's hard to deny the killer must have both some kind of racial vendetta and a love for Impressionist art. Clayton...
Two Arab men are found murdered near downtown Houston, Texas, and detectives Ross Clayton and Leona Stillwell are sent to investigate. These aren't...
Two Arab men are found murdered near downtown Houston, Texas, and detectives Ross Clayton and Leona Stillwell are sent to investigate. These aren't ordinary murders, however--the bodies are arranged to mirror a famous Impressionist painting, and the exactitude of the killing gives Clayton cause to be concerned. He suspects this killer isn't finished.
His suspicions turn out to be correct as more men end up dead and similarly arranged. Every victim is of Arab descent, and it's hard to deny the killer must have both some kind of racial vendetta and a love for Impressionist art. Clayton...
Two Arab men are found murdered near downtown Houston, Texas, and detectives Ross Clayton and Leona Stillwell are sent to investigate. These aren't...
Redolent with wit, wisdom and common sense, Islands in the Storm tells the remarkable story of barrier beach island dwellers, before, during and after Hurricane Sandy. It presents the pungent reminder that at the present rate of sea level rise increase all of America's 200 barrier beach communities will start disintegrating within the next few decades. This is a book you will not want to put down.
Redolent with wit, wisdom and common sense, Islands in the Storm tells the remarkable story of barrier beach island dwellers, before, during and after...
In 2003, Bill Sargent bought a big pink house in Ipswich, Massachusetts. His home sits on what is known as the Great Marsh, a fascinating patch of wetland shared by Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Sargent received a grant to study some of the rare and endangered ground-nesting birds that inhabit the public land adjacent to his property. Ipswich Marsh is about these birds, but much else as well. Organized by the seasons of the year, The House on Ipswich Marsh features Sargent's trademark interplay of information about the natural world, ecology, and politics. In "Spring," the reader...
In 2003, Bill Sargent bought a big pink house in Ipswich, Massachusetts. His home sits on what is known as the Great Marsh, a fascinating patch of wet...
Our planet is going through an energy transformation as profound as when the world switched from killing whales to drilling wells to provide its fuel. The effects of this energy war are being felt from Siberia to Texas and in our own backyards. In this far-ranging book, William Sargent takes his readers from a small oil well he owns in East Texas to the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia. In Texas he found wildcatters using carbon dioxide to pump residual oil out of his well then sequestering the heat trapping gas back underground. In Siberia, the readers will find Vladimir Putin gambling that he can...
Our planet is going through an energy transformation as profound as when the world switched from killing whales to drilling wells to provide its fuel....
On March 10, 2013, 6 houses were lost, 7 condemned and 24 were declared to be in imminent danger on Plum Island in northern Massachusetts. But it was only the latest skirmish in an ongoing battle between man and nature on this fragile barrier beach.
Plum Island takes readers to the core of the earth to see how Plum Island's sands were first formed in the metamorphic forge of the earth's interior. It will then follow these minerals as they erode off the sides of New Hampshire's Ice Age Mountains and then wash down the proto Merrimack River to form Plum Island.
It will...
On March 10, 2013, 6 houses were lost, 7 condemned and 24 were declared to be in imminent danger on Plum Island in northern Massachusetts. But it w...
