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What is a park ranger''s life?A wild bear who favors Kentucky Fried ChickenA fugitive wanted in eight statesA dog that saves his owner''s lifeWildland firefighters battling nature and fireA ghost haunting a colonial mansionHikers who stay lost because they think searchers calling their names are wild animalsBeing willing to risk your life to make our parks safe and help preserve them for the future These are just a few experiences you will read about in A Park Ranger''s Life. Drawn from the thirty-two-year career of National Park Ranger Bruce W. Bytnar, you will discover what it takes to be a park ranger, what threats to visitors and resources they deal with on a daily basis, and what you can do to help protect and preserve our national heritage.

Mary E. Matury Gibson's debut memoir depicts the life of a first-generation American coming of age in a small rural town. In a world before the Beatles and the computer age life was very different. It was a time of innocence before history would form us and affect us in ways we could have never imagined.Mary E. Matury Gibson is a first-generation American born to Sicilian parents. She is the youngest of six children. Educated at Purdue University Calumet, she holds a degree in industrial environmental psychology and a nursing degree. She has worked as a critical care staff nurse and a practicing nurse practitioner for almost fifty years. She has two adult daughters and five grandchildren. Mary lives in a southwestern suburb of Chicago and spends her retirement years writing about her life. Remembering Strawberry Fields is the first of these memoirs.

As kids begin making their first steps toward independence, they receive messages from a variety of sources-not all of them good. Television, movies, friends, the Internet, and music fill their minds with ideas about what they should be doing with their time, their bodies, and their lives. Once these ideas take hold, the results can be tragic. "Armed & Dangerous" offers powerful suggestions about how we can protect our children. If we can teach them to resist the evil thoughts that play in their minds, they can prevent those thoughts from corrupting their hearts.

Evolution: The Novel shows how the religions of the world express the growing relationship between the recently evolved neocortex and the ancient brain that preceded it. Religions and all culture are secondary evolution as humanity learns how to use this forebrain. It's common sense that evolution was not discovered by Darwin and Wallace. Humanity has always been at work on the concept, and one of its names is religion. Religious themes must include a confrontation with evil, and this story tracks the protagonist through the Southwest as thousands of perverts follow and slander him, giving him an education in human nature he would rather not have. This "monkey troop" behavior fits well with the topic of evolution. While this book could be described as "homophobic," gay readers will find this controversial story interesting. The debate of science versus intelligent design is touched on as the existential nature of fiction makes it an excellent mode in which to address this and other subjects. Included is a look at psychology's concept of the unconscious brain from the viewpoint of evolution. For instance, survival of the fittest does not explain the human journey up through time. The human species was already surviving well enough a million years ago and didn't need this incredible brain to simply survive. The human neocortex grew "far in advance of our ability to use it," and the unconscious original brain sponsored this phenomenal growth to help itself come into existence. The ancient brain needs a more conscious companion to help create the cultures and civilizations that express its nature.