"At the time when I saw two suns in the sky, I received a warning about two waves that would bring destruction to this place where I have left this warning." In the year AD 1054, a wise man from the Chaco Society scratched an ominous warning in rock art. More than a thousand years later, twenty-six-year-old tribal archaeologist Jon Two-Bears and professor Pamela Parker team up on a dig in the west end of the Grand Canyon. To their surprise, they uncover what appears to be an ancient warning. It predicts there will be a huge landslide in the narrows of Lake Mead that will send a freshwater tsunami downstream eighteen miles--wiping out the Hoover Dam. The inland tsunami will continue south, destroying everything in its path to the Gulf of California. Due to the seismic activity that is taking place in the Lake Mead area, it's obvious that this ancient prophecy is about to become a reality. Jon and Pamela make a valiant effort to convince people to flee to higher ground before the killer waves wipe out large areas of the southwestern United States. Will the warnings be heeded? Or will millions become victims of the tsunami twins?

The firsthand account of one woman's rugged travels through three impoverished nations, and of the women living, struggling, and overcoming the forces that threaten to keep them in poverty

John “Chief AJ” Huffer comes from a small town in Illinois, but throughout his lifetime he’s become known worldwide for his marksmanship accomplishments. In The Exploits of Chief AJ, author Chuck Vaughan looks into the life of Chief AJ, a Native American, Christian, US Marine, and former bodybuilder who worked out with Jack LaLanne. In 1987, Chief AJ broke his first world record by throwing and shooting 40,060 wood blocks during eight days through pain and weather without a miss. He went on to break records with air rifles, long bows, a two-hundred-pound English war bow, and slingshots. Throughout his life, he stayed busy participating in different types of exhibition shooting. Chief AJ set up rifle camps and trained instructors to teach others to shoot the Chief AJ way. He always maintained his fitness and won fitness contests into his seventies. He’s been to Hollywood and featured on shows like Discovery Channel’s Top Shot and National Geographic’s The Unbeatables. The Exploits of Chief AJ shares the story of this storyteller with a booming voice, now in his eighties, who found success in the world of marksmanship and shooting. www.chiefaj.com

Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard and Risk Analysis: Towards Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience covers recent calls for advances in quantitative tsunami hazard and risk analyses for the synthesis of broad knowledge basis and solid understanding of interdisciplinary fields, spanning seismology, tsunami science, and coastal engineering. These new approaches are essential for enhanced disaster resilience of society under multiple hazards and changing climate as tsunamis can cause catastrophic loss to coastal cities and communities globally. This is a low-probability high-consequence event, and it is not easy to develop effective disaster risk reduction measures. In particular, uncertainties associated with tsunami hazards and risks are large. The knowledge and skills for quantitative probabilistic tsunami hazard and risk assessments are in high demand and are required in various related fields, including disaster risk management (governments and local communities), and the insurance and reinsurance industry (catastrophe model). - Focuses on fundamentals on probabilistic tsunami hazard and risk analysis - Includes case studies covering a wide range of applications related to tsunami hazard and risk assessments - Covers tsunami disaster risk management

Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. While the global food crisis dropped out of the news in 2008, it returned in 2011 (and is threatening us again in 2012) and remains a painful reality for the world's poor and underserved. Why, in a time of record harvests, are a record number of people going hungry? And why are a handful of corporations making record profits? In Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice, authors Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel with Annie Shattuck offer us the real story behind the global food crisis and document the growing trend of grassroots solutions to hunger spreading around the world. Food Rebellions! contains up to date information about the current political and economic realities of our food systems. Anchored in political economy and an historical perspective, it is a valuable academic resource for understanding the root causes of hunger, growing inequality, the industrial agri-foods complex, and political unrest. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Holt-Giménez and Patel give a detailed historical analysis of the events that led to the global food crisis and document the grassroots initiatives of social movements working to forge food sovereignty around the world. These social movements and this inspiring book compel readers to confront the crucial question: Who is hungry, why, and what can we do about it?

If music is a universal language, and mathematics a universal truth, could the two be combined to form a new world language that would create common understanding across all cultures? In 2489, mathematicians who govern the world calculate that if our species doesn’t reduce wars and killing, humanity will be driven to extinction in fifteen months. They further divine that the only way out of the crisis is to create the optimum language for humans, which, it turns out, will be based on mathematics, linguistics, and music. Charles De Costa, a brilliant mathematics student, with help from great minds resurrected (Lifted) from the past, works with the World Council of Mathematicians (WCM) to create the language, but the endemic human virus of evil thwarts progress. Charles also has trouble navigating a romance with his girlfriend, Andrica, but in a year, he grows from an awkward teen into a formidable young man. Juanita Popov, Chairperson of WCM, leads the world and struggles to save humanity. Her World Army commander, General Roy Braun, is tasked with reducing wars, eliminating conflicts, and policing a society of over 11 billion on the planet. One of his renegade generals brings the planet to another crisis. Meanwhile, a beta version of M-L-M, transmitted to space, triggers a multitude of SETI responses from all over the galaxy. However, no one understands the replies. What do these alien signals say? At the last possible moment, M-L-M is perfected, but it can’t be inculcated to all humans in time. Simulations using complex algorithms reveal that only weeks remain for humanity not to slide into a blackhole of extinction. A starship able to take 3000 passengers to a hospitable planet in another star system has been readied in order to propagate our species. Who will be selected to survive? Ensuing chaos tests the best and worst of humanity. And now the starship is under siege.

What happens when six creative girls accidentally open a Secret Door to a Magical Realm? It doesn't take long for adventure -- and danger -- to find them! Upon arriving in the Realm, eleven-year-old Shaylee and her friends learn they are the long-awaited princesses of the Six Kingdoms, and each girl has a unique magical power tied to her creative talents. But the kingdoms are in ruin thanks to an evil force that has drained nearly all of the power from the Wellspring of Magic. As if that wasn't bad enough, the door between the real world and the Realm is stuck! It can't be opened again -- and the girls can't go home -- until the magic is restored to the Wellspring. Shaylee and her friends must work together using their creative abilities, such as dancing, painting, and beading, to channel powers they never knew they had and fight the dark forces threatening to destroy the Realm. Their adventure will bring them face-to-face with gigantic grizzly bears claiming to be their protectors, green-skinned fairy folks, a scaly river dragon, vampire spiders, and killer plants -- things none of the girls expected to face during their summer break. Can they master their new powers in time to turn back the dark forces that want to trap them in the Realm forever? The Creative Girls Enchanted Adventures series is an irresistible mix of crafts, magic, humor, and adventure that will have girls hooked on reading!