"Roadless Rules" is a fast-paced and insightful look at one of the most important, wide-ranging, and controversial efforts to protect public forests ever undertaken in the United States.In January 2000, President Clinton submitted to the "Federal Register" the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, prohibiting road construction and timberharvesting in designated roadless areas. Set to take effect sixty days after Clinton left office, the rule was immediately challenged by nine lawsuits from states, counties, off-road-vehicle users, and timber companies. The Bush administration refused to defend the...

Garden design and usage has been a feature of human civilization as far back as Neolithic times, when the first gardens began to be used for residential, horticultural and sacred tasks. Tom Turner follows the entire history of the European garden from its prehistoric roots right up to the present day in this beautifully illustrated book.

European Gardens is divided into ten periods of history and garden development, detailing the advancement of land usage for over 10,000 years. Some of the topics covered in this comprehensive book include the Egyptian gardens of the...

Soldier Boys by Tom Turner is about a young man, Whitaker Crewes, who, struggling to forge an identity, is leading dual lives, heterosexual and homosexual. When he joins the Army Reserve in 1962 he expects to find a bastion of machismo but discovers that training is filled with homoeroticism. While striving to build up his body, Crewes forges bonds with other men similarly conflicted. As he becomes stronger Crewes realizes just who he truly is.