The International Botanical Society is offering ten million dollars for a pure black rose. Four couples, all small college professors from a eastern Pennsylvania campus, go in search of The Rose of Socorro. A high ranking Senator who is an industrialist, capitalist and multi-millionaire has a taste for the arts, and The Rose of Socorro is living art. Sending the couples to the Isle of Socorro to procure the Black Rose is dangerous enough, but add to that Headhunters, a love sick Mountain Gorilla, a volcanic island, white water, wild dogs, swamps, grass and reeds, a giant eagle, vultures, earth quakes, crocodiles, lizard and snakes and death all around. This is not and expedition or excursion, its a fight for life.

Physicist and civil engineer Dr. Richard St. James lives on the Mars Settlement and works for the Mars Administration. A failed relationship on the Moon propelled him to seek out a new beginning on the Red Planet. Now he must contend with the ever-changing face of science. But it is a new galaxy. Following the economic and political collapse of Earth's governments, powerful groups organize the Economic Zones to replace national boundaries. The Economic Council promulgates facts, forbids the teaching of history, philosophy, metaphysics, and spiritual faith, instead channeling their energy into fielding planetary colonies and space stations. A generation grows up that has never seen the sun from Earth, or experienced any culture other than the self-centered, hard-scrabble struggle to survive in the darkness of space. It is this very darkness that St. James must confront, especially when he meets the beautiful and exotic Socorro, a chemist recently transferred to the Mars Administration. Memories return to haunt him as he struggles to understand his place in this new world, one far removed from his humble Southern U.S. beginnings. A mysterious artifact found during an exploration propels Socorro and St. James into an uncertain future, one guaranteed to change their lives forever.

A collection of illustrated black-and-white engravings depicting the history of Texas from 1554 to 1900 presented chronologically and featuring a brief introduction to the historical background of each era.

Wren’s new writing assignment, a haunted campground in Arizona, is perfect except for the killer who wants her dead. Best job ever, except she and Rascal, her sweet black and tan Labrador Retriever, discover a crime in Arizona that only she can solve, much to the dismay of the young, widowed county Marshal. The killer looks forward to reading her obituary.

[TofC cont.] Anthropology of modern life: Market and the modern metropolis, a new system of exchange and the rise of commercial industrial cities; Corporate bureaucracy and the culture of modern work; Modernity and culture; Epilogue, applied anthropology and the policy process. ... The framework on which this book hangs is an updated version of the community study method as network, discerned at the expanding "gas phase" of our species' random walk over the earth, through our settling down into trading and warring tribal societies through the mesolithic and neolithic transitions, into our densification into urban states and civilizations, and finally at our emergence as a metropolitan species of unparalleled population aggregations. -Pref.