Living between Juniper and Palm discusses issues of sustainability, ecology, and environment in the Himalayas, particularly among the Tamang people of Nepal. Indigenous environmental knowledge is revealed-covering forests and plants, places and pathways, wild and domestic animals, and ideas of sameness and difference between humans and non-humans. Modern conservation of the environment is contrasted to shamanic and Hindu cosmologies, providing cultural analysis to power dimensions of participatory conservation after Nepal's Maoist insurgency. This anthropological study combines critical...

Alexander Crown trilogy book 2 This is Alexander Crown's most intricate, emotional passage, weaving through intense challenges while he unravels a renaissance secret that will get him killed. He moves forward in neither a safe nor clear future filled with lies and truths. His heist at the Cannes Film Festival exposed a Renaissance discovery so profound the French Secret Service wants Alexander Crown dead. Iktar Stanktar intends to kill him. Isabella Borghini seeks redemption. Euro Wodehouse craves his love. The philanthropist only cares about the children in his orphanage. "Vitruvian Man";...

Sizzling and fun, Marilyn Monroe returns for love. She seeks respect, and Martin Montage is the perfect posthumous symbiosis of the celebrated and always-present Marilyn Monroe. This hip, romantic novel finds Marilyn's tender heart and sexual prowess invading a man's body, transforming him into the legendary bombshell. Exotic, spicy, vital and ingenious, Marilyn: "It's all make believe, isn't it?" is a delicious.

Melinda McKay a prima ballerina, Brent Lord a Global Heavyweight Bodybuilding contender, will defeat the devil to achieve their goals. Together, their talents merge as a Las Vegas extravaganza. Deceit, distrust and revenge misguide them. Money, anger and treachery drive killers to murder the talented performers. You can't kill what isn't real, but you can put the phantom to rest.

Alexander Crown trilogy book 3 Regeneration is brutally realistic. Alexander Crown continues on a journey that makes him humanity's most deadly asset. Crown has a weapon so devastating that in unethical hands, human life could become extinct. He accesses every killing skill he'd utilized as a mercenary, and every ounce of cunning he'd experienced as a philanthropist to out maneuver the Chinese, Russians and Israelis to keep his medical discovery undisclosed. Preventing ruthless and corrupt monsters from stealing his chilling weapon, and turning it against humanity, is Crown's darkest...

Dubrovnik is vivid, tense and colorful. Stern yet vulnerable and unsettling, characters jump off the pages, taking you on their journey in search for freedom. Written with a European influence, Dubrovnik is not a tour book. This novel is a work of fiction. Photos are included as complementary visuals. Two more novels complete the Alexander Crown Trilogy; "Vitruvian Man" and Regeneration. All three novels are multicultural achievements.

Hilarious, provocative, super-smart, KISSINg FREUd is brilliant. Behind locked doors a community of seekers plot meaning to their lives, extracting buried secrets like ticking time bombs. The cast of free-form thinkers, opportunists and sinners twist reality into madness. KISSINg FREUd is luminous, haunting, an unforgettable debut novel where madness is persistent as nature. You are forewarned, sexuality and profanity are explicitly portrayed in KISSINg FREUd.

Theodor Seuss Geisel had published over 6o books and sold more than 222 million copies using the pen name Dr. Seuss. Twenty years have passed since his demise. A rumor that he had written and hid an undiscovered story in a house in San Francisco during the 1950s is passed around. If ten year old Reggie Rocketship wasn't an aerospace engineering protege, if his family didn't purchase their house in San Francisco, Reggie would not have discovered the Dr. Seuss story taped underneath a dresser drawer in his attic. Reggie Rocketship is the luckiest boy in San Francisco until thieves hear about...

A neglected boy, his uncommon family, the gushing growth of San Francisco, and the haunted house is part intrigue, part innocence, and part discovery. The haunted house in San Francisco, with social and ethical changes during 1956, ten year old Benny Campbell strings his personality around family heritage, community issues, and unfortunate racism.

Leather jackets, motorcycles, alcohol, drugs, method actors and perfumed actresses test Prettyboy. Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Marlon Brando antagonize him. Prettyboy weaves a path around betrayal, survival, and complex relationships in Hollywood during 1954. Prettyboy: Fabulous Fifties Hollywood is a thoughtful character-driven romantic comedy, swelling with melodrama and sincerity. Brando's masculinity, Monroe's beauty and Dean's mischief cut to the chase. Liz Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Grace Kelly and other narcissistic movie stars put demands on Prettyboy. Will he succumb to...