David Deamer

Wallace Kaufman

A Genomic Mystery Novel

The Hunt for FOXP5

Orrin H. Pilkey Jr.

Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you—all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system. The romantic desire to live on the seashore is in doomed conflict with an age-old pattern of beach migration. Yet it need not be so. Conservationist Wallace Kaufman teams up with marine geologist Orrin H. Pilkey Jr., in an evaluation of America's beaches from coast to coast, giving sound advice on how to judge a safe beach development from a dangerous one and how to live at the shore sensibly and safely.

The Drowning of America’s Shoreline

The Beaches Are Moving

Genetics professor Michelle Murphy loses her husband under mysterious circumstances and without warning, while their brilliant eight year old daughter Avalon, adopted in Kazakhstan, stubbornly believes she is a mutant. As if this were not enough she soon finds herself thrown into the middle of a quickly thickening plot, where the legacy of Genghis Khan meets the hunt for FOXP5, a genetic transcription factor that could herald the dawn of new human species. Initially caught helplessly between well-meaning fellow scientists, the government and more sinister agents, Michelle, with the help of a host of unlikely heroes, eventually takes control and finds the courage to confront the decision of whether to save human lives or humanity. The scientific and technical aspects underlying the plot - in particular aspects of FOX proteins, genetic mutations, viruses and cancer as well as the relation between intelligence and cortical complexity - are introduced and discussed by the authors in an extensive non-technical appendix.

Syl Ramsey Kaufman

Identify and understand the plants that are changing the North American landscape forever.

Guide to Identification and the Impacts and Control of Common North American Species

Invasive Plants

A beautifully written, unsentimental account that challenges our Thoreauvian romance with nature and offers the conclusion that in civilization is the preservation of the wildness that we cherish.

The Solitary Life Of A Maverick Naturalist

Coming Out Of The Woods

Sylvan Ramsey Kaufman

Full-color illustrated photographs of over 175 species of invasive plants in North America that describes their environmental and economic impact.

A Guide to Identification and the Impacts and Control of Common North American Species

An illustrated memoir that uses up-to-date science and the natural world as a portal intounderstanding the nature of life and our place in its unfolding drama. Each photo has a 4 line caption in the form of a Persian ruba'i(plural is the familiar 'rubaiyat'). Facing each photo is a short essay or memoir relevant to the photo

Wallace Kaufman

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