Humid tropical forests. The context for natural forest management in the age of deforestation. The elusive goal of sustainability in natural forest management. The tropical timber trade and the search for good wood. A broader mandate for natural forest management.

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard 'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' The Times __________________________________________________ Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why. His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two families. It is a story about love and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined. ___________________________________________________ 'Luminous, elegant, haunting - I read it straight through' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street 'Deeply moving. Writes with an almost Sebaldian simplicity and understatement' Guardian 'Sensational and gripping . . . shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of our time' Judges of the Costa Book of the Year 2018

From the reviews: "This book crystallizes what may become a defining moment in the electronics industry - the shift to platform-based design. It provides the first comprehensive guidebook for those who will build, and use, the integration platforms that may soon drive the system-on-chip revolution." Electronic Engineering Times

A physician, NASA consultant, and expert on the extreme conditions that confront the human body journeys into six inhospitable environments to examine the reaction of the body to heat, cold, pressure, starvation, and exhaustion and its own innate survival strategies.

Making complex concepts easily understood is a gift Carol OBrion brings to her reading audience. She presents simple yet delicious recipes to help when food will be scarce. Carol shows options for fresh, frozen, dried or canned food in the creative recipes offered at a time when food may be hard to find. Additionally, Surviving the Mark provides uplifting, encouraging devotionals to help one stay positive in a not-so-positive time of history. Practical, inspirational and chock-full of wisdom, this book is a necessity for everyone interested in surviving a disaster. Nancy Trifilo, author Held Captive No More; Insidious Bonds Surviving the Mark teaches the reader about preparing for the day when they cannot buy or sell. Alternatively, it shows how to be prepared for any event that prevents one from going to the grocery store and preparing meals without modern conveniences. It explains why they should have food on hand, how to make lists of practical foods and supplies to store, how to cook, dehydrate, can and freeze efficiently and how to trust God above all things for provision and deliverance. The final chapter contains devotions, visions and Bible studies for dealing with todays world.

From the New York Times bestselling authors of In the Company of Heroes comes a thrilling account of military aviation for history buffs and “for those who love vivid tales of battlefield heroics” (Publishers Weekly). In the world of covert warfare, Special Operations pilots are notoriously close-lipped about what they do. They don’t talk about their missions to anyone outside their small community. But now, Michael J. Durant and Steven Hartov shed fascinating light on the mysterious elite commandos known as SOAR (Special Operations Aviation Regiment) and take readers into a shadowy world of combat they have only imagined.