The total maximum daily load (TMDL) process is ineffective and inappropriate for improving stream water quality in the rural areas of the northern Great Basin, and likely in many areas throughout the country. Important pollutants (e.g., sediment and nutrients) often come from the stream systems rather than external point or nonpoint sources where TMDL focuses. Water quality indicators lag behind ecosystem functions, and monitoring water quality fails to identify causes of, or recovery from, degraded water quality and loss of fish habitat, the most sensitive beneficial use. Ambient monitoring...

Ancient Jewish and Christian writers frequently sought to persuade by claiming to understand the past through revelation. Hall shows how the long recitals of past events often found in apocalypses are not to be seen as mere preludes to predictions, but prove integral to the author's argument. This original study concludes that many ancient Jews and Christians found claims to inspiration an acceptable basis for re-telling past events and that early Christian prophets consciously shaped not only the sayings of Jesus but the narrative structure in which the sayings occur.

What's a little girl to do when late in the night she is taunted by the sounds of something stirring in the locked upstairs bedroom? How did it get to the top of the stairs and begin to descend with a heavy kathump, kathump, kathump? She trembled in fear as her efforts to wake her exhausted mother seemed fruitless.