Once again the Ookie Brothers Detective Agency has been called upon to solve an intriguing and complex crime. This time it's fact not fiction as an unsolved crime in the record books of Hilton Head, SC. It all begins when three twelve-year old boys, spending the summer with one boy's grandparents, determine they want to solve the mystery. Grandpa and Grandma turn to their friends Sherlock Pookie, Dr. Mookie and Geeky Dookie for help. These famous dog detectives take you from the famous lighthouse at Harbour Town to the Washington Monument to our Mexican neighbors to figure out the surprise...

With the publication of The Case Of The Vengeful Veterinarian, Mr. Silver moves from a series of Ookie Brothers short stories to a new set of mystery novels. Starring Sherlock Pookie and Dr. Mookie, and introducing their new brother Geekie Dookie, the Ookie Brothers venture into a new business - a modern doggy detective agency. The doggy detectives travel to such places as Hilton Head, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia, and Buffalo, New York in the US and Rio de Janiero, Brazil and the Amazon rain forest near Bogota, Columbia, seeking DNA evidence to finding their client's missing dogs. Along...

The story of Natalie Coughlin's remarkable battle back from injury and burnout to be-come America's Golden Girl--a two-time Olympic Gold Medal winner in swimming and the most decorated female athlete at the 2004 Olympics
Five years ago, Natalie Coughlin's promising swimming career was all but extinguished when a devastating shoulder injury ended her dreams for the 2000 Olympics. After becoming, at age 15, the first person ever to qualify for all 14 women's events at the U.S. Nationals, she seemed destined to follow the path of so many other young swimming stars--devoured by an oppressive...

Architecture must not only be functionally green, but its formal, conceptual and physical properties also need to constitute a novel and integrated living material system, one that can flourish within the larger world around it.

XXL-XS represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests. Geo-engineering, synthetic biology, construction site co-robotics, low-energy fabrication, up-cycling waste, minimally invasive design, living materials, and molecular self-assembly are just a few of the important advances explored in...