Developments in soil classification have accompanied parallel progress in our understanding of the soil system. However the theories behind the classifications and the purposes for which they were created have changed over time. The editors hope that this comprehensive synthesis will help to rally soil scientists around the world to develop an acceptable classification system for soils. It is only when the global soil science community agrees to such a system that we can truly say that we have science.
Soil Classification: A Global Desk Reference is the first book to illustrate the...

In traditional Irish storytelling fashion, Thomas J. Rice delivers five gritty, realistic tales of corruption, terror, hope, and redemption. The two novellas and three short stories in Rites of Passage center on family drama and mystery and are set in late-twentieth-century rural Ireland.

"Rites of Passage," the title novella, follows a man from his adopted home in Boston back to Ireland to confront the priest who molested him decades earlier. Does he seek revenge for the pain that torments him or find closure?

The second novella, "Hard Truths," focuses on a conflict...