While the Bubonic Plague spread across Europe during the Middle Ages, slaughtering millions indiscriminately, a young Italian girl becomes a powerful vampire and starts killing without remorse every mortal she encounters. After meeting a werewolf in the catacombs of Paris, they become allies to defeat a powerful werewolf out of Germany and his massive werewolf pack, intent on dominating the world of mankind for a food source. after creating her first vampire child, they embark for Great Britain before traveling across the ocean to America

Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in The Red Hourglass, prize-winning author Gordon Grice's masterful, poetic, often dryly funny exploration of predators he has encountered around his rural Oklahoma home. Grice is a witty and intrepid guide through a world where mating ends in cannibalism, where killers possess toxins so lethal as to defy our ideas of a benevolent God, where spider remains, scattered like "the cast-off coats of untidy children," tell a quiet story of violent self-extermination. It's a world you'll recognize despite its exotic strangeness--the world in which we live. Unabashedly stepping into the mix, Grice abandons his role as objective observer with beguiling dark humor--collecting spiders and other vermin, decorating a tarantula's terrarium with dollhouse furniture, or forcing a battle between captive insects because he deems one "too stupid to live." Kill. Eat. Mate. Die. Charting the simple brutality of the lives of these predators, Grice's starkly graceful essays guide us toward startling truths about our own predatory nature. The Red Hourglass brings us face to fanged face with the inadequacy of our distinctions between normal and abnormal, dead and alive, innocent and evil.

"Colonial Marines arrive on a planet to investigate illegal prospecting. What they find are the survivors of a battle with extraterrestrial hunters over the possession of a mysterious horseshoe-shaped spaceship"--Provided by publisher.

A vegan-turned-hunter reignites the connection between humans and our food sources and continues the dialog begun by Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver. While still in high school, Tovar Cerulli experimented with vegetarianism and by the age of twenty, he was a vegan. Ten years later, in the face of declining health, he would find himself picking up a rifle and heading into the woods. Through his personal quest, Tovar Cerulli bridges disparate worldviews and questions moral certainties, challenging both the behavior of many hunters and the illusion of blamelessness maintained by many vegetarians. In this time of intensifying concern over ecological degradation, how do we make peace with the fact that, even in growing organic vegetables, life is sustained by death? Drawing on personal anecdotes, philosophy, history and religion, Cerulli shows how America’s overly sanitized habits of consumption and disconnection with our food have resulted in so many of the health and environmental crises we now face.

It's a battle for survival against the three deadliest species in the galaxy! For Captain Paget and her platoon of Colonial Marines, a routine mission for the Weyland-Yutani Corporation becomes a running battle that will carry them halfway across the galaxy in a fateful four-way war. A fateful encounter with a tribe of the interstellar hunters known as the Predators--who are after the same prize as Weyland-Yutani: a seemingly derelict spaceship belonging to the god-like Engineers from the film Prometheus. But the ship is far from abandoned, and the Engineers move the battle to LV-223--where Paget and her team encounter the survivors from Dark Horse's Fire and Stone story cycle (2014), which leads all of them to a collision course with an army of Aliens! From sci-fi military action, to a confrontation with the most personal horror imaginable, Life and Death delivers all of the excitement fans of 20th Century Fox's monster franchises demand!

This book addresses the fundamental issues of predator-prey interactions, with an emphasis on predation among arthropods, which have been better studied, and for which the database is more extensive than for the large and rare vertebrate predators. The book should appeal to ecologists interested in the broad issue of predation effects on communities.

Humans, being visually oriented, are well versed in camouflage and how animals hide from predators that use vision to locate prey. However, many predators do not hunt by sight; they hunt by scent. This raises the question: do survival mechanisms and behaviors exist which allow animals to hide from these olfactory predators? If so, what are they, a