The spotted hyena’s bad reputation may not be entirely deserved, but these social hunters can indeed be brutal. Hyenas are smart scavengers and fierce hunters, devouring their prey bones and all. In fact, hyena poop tends to be white because it contains so much calcium from animal bones! Young readers will adore the grizzly details in this book.

The spotted hyena’s bad reputation may not be entirely deserved, but these social hunters can indeed be brutal. Hyenas are smart scavengers and fierce hunters, devouring their prey bones and all. In fact, hyena poop tends to be white because it contains so much calcium from animal bones! Young readers will adore the grizzly details in this book.

The spotted hyena’s bad reputation may not be entirely deserved, but these social hunters can indeed be brutal. Hyenas are smart scavengers and fierce hunters, devouring their prey bones and all. In fact, hyena poop tends to be white because it contains so much calcium from animal bones! Young readers will adore the grizzly details in this book.

Tracking is an art form as well as a skill. But it is an art that can be taught and a skill that can be acquired. Cleve Cheney, a master at tracking both animals and humans, defines tracking as "learning to use all your senses to monitor your surroundings and to make logical and realistic deductions from what you have observed." He has brought together a massive amount of information on the how, when, and where of tracking.

Tracking Truth presents a unified treatment of knowledge, evidence, and epistemological realism and anti-realism about scientific theories. A wide range of knowledge-related phenomena, especially but not only in science, strongly favour the idea of tracking as the key to what makes something knowledge. A subject who tracks the truth - an idea first formulated by Robert Nozick - has the ability to follow the truth through time and changing circumstances. Epistemologists rightly concluded that Nozick's theory was not viable, but a simple revision of that view is not only viable but superior to other current views. In this new tracking account of knowledge, in contrast to the old view, knowledge has the property of closure under known implication, and troublesome counterfactuals are replaced with well-defined conditional probability statements. Of particular interest are the new view's treatment of skepticism, reflective knowledge, lottery propositions, knowledge of logical truth, and the question why knowledge is power in the Baconian sense. Ideally, evidence indicates a hypothesis and discriminates it from other possible hypotheses. This is the idea behind a tracking view of evidence, and Sherrilyn Roush provides a defence of a confirmation theory based on the Likelihood Ratio. The accounts of knowledge and evidence she offers provide a deep and seamless explanation of why having better evidence makes one more likely to have knowledge. Roush approaches the question of epistemological realism about scientific theories through the question what is required for evidence, and rejects both traditional realist and traditional anti-realist positions in favour of a new position which evaluates realist claims in a piecemeal fashion according to a general standard of evidence. The results show that while anti-realists were immodest in declaring a priori what science could not do, realists were excessively sanguine about how far our actual evidence has so far taken us.

"An appealing, elegantly designed introduction to another much-maligned species." —Kirkus (starred review) "A fascinating, informative, and inclusive window into a feared and misunderstood species." —Booklist (starred review) This myth-busting addition to the critically acclaimed Scientists in the Field series by Sibert medal winning team Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop is perfect for nonfiction readers looking for more female scientist narratives, or a fresh perspective on an underrepresented animal—Hyenas! Timely and inspiring, The Hyena Scientist sets the record straight about one of history’s most hated and misunderstood mammals, while featuring the groundbreaking, pioneering research of a female scientist in a predominately male field in this offering by Sibert-winning duo Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop. As a scientist studying one of the only mammalian societies led entirely by females, zoologist Kay Holecamp has made it her life’s work to understand hyenas, the fascinating, complex creatures that are playful, social, and highly intelligent—almost nothing like the mangy monsters of pop culture lore.

It's possible to slay your demons, but first you must hunt them down Capt. Elliott Townsend is kidnapped. His wife Nevada, struggles to cope as grief reopens wounds in her heart, sinking her beneath the level of despair. Joost Facade, Elliott's partner in past smuggling operations (The Soul Seekers), where Elliott received his legendary title of "Ghost", vows to find him. Together, they're Tracking the Ghost into Central Africa. Prison Chaplain, Will McCormick and fiance Brin Alexander (Acts of Mercy), are close behind but trouble beseeches them. Soon, they are running for their lives through Africa's merciless outback. At home, Governor Ben and First Lady Bethany McCormick (Acts of Mercy), mysteriously disappear. Clues point to murder but somewhere hidden among the Okanogan Mountain range, the Governor and his wife are in hiding, preparing an attack. In her signature design of interrelated, multiple plots, Amy K. Bond has created another action packed adventure, for the fiction reader. Returning the same loveable characters first introduced in The Soul Seekers and Acts Of Mercy plus a host of new personalities to complete the saga, you'll be reaching for Tracking the Ghost at every opportunity to find out what happens next.