Explores several of the physical features that enable animals to capture and kill prey, and to defend themselves from their own predators.

An historical novel set Wales before the Industrial Revolution, as human love tries to flower amidst squalor and serfdom. Wales, a mining village, pre-industrial revolution. A world of serfdom and squalor, its inhabitants oppressed by both Chapel conformist impulses and the predations of a new kind of capitalism being born. Sion, a metalworker, strikes up an illicit relationship with Katherine, the wife of the mineowner's personal dogsbody. And so begins the struggle of non-transactional and non-exploitative human love to be recognised in a place bent on the destruction and negation of that very thing. A mix of political anger, historical excavation, Celtic mysticism, praise of the human impulse to love and rage at avarice and exploitation, Of Talons and Teeth seeks to explore that moment when human beings and the natural beauties around them were turned into mere chattels; when Mammon became the only god worth worshipping.

Fantasy-roman.

Teeth and Talons Volume I describes different creatures for your players' characters to run into during a RPG adventure. This book also contains Quick-Start rules for Sage & Sand at the back. Statistics are provided for three other RPG systems besides Sage & Sand. Though conversion of the stats to the Astral Conflict RPG or other RPGs is easy. These creatures shown in this book are bizarre and unique. The artwork was done by a variety of artists, I am excited to work further with them. I hope you enjoy scaring your players with these monsters!

Is a life cycle that depends on eating or being eaten compatible with a creation in which 'the heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims His handiwork'? Are animal death and extinction manifestations of a good God's majesty and power? When creating the world, did God use animal death and extinction as a means to realize his intentions? This study challenges the view that the emergence and acceptance of the theory of evolution brought a break in thinking about animal suffering in a good creation. Even before Darwin, people thought about animal suffering, about how God's goodness and good creation related to this, and about whether animals were already subject to death in paradise. Historically, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution did not form a watershed in the debate about animal suffering, nor did concerns about animal suffering only emerge with the Darwinian theory of evolution.

"Hoof and Claw" is an exceptional collection of short stories by the Canadian poet Charles Roberts, first published in 1914. The author, often considered the Father of Canadian Poetry, was best known for his short fiction on animals and nature. The book contains 14 stories, mostly about animals and people who live and work in the backcountry of Canada.

Pale Blue Light is a rare espionage thriller set in the Civil War. Young Rabe Canon leaves his family's Alabama plantation at the start of the Civil War, befriending Major Thomas Jackson of Virginia Military Institute -- later the esteemed Stonewall Jackson. When Jackson suffers a mortal wound at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Canon suspects foul play. Canon undertakes a cross-country journey to discover the truth behind Jackson's death, one that entangles Canon with a beautiful Yankee spy as he tries to avoid capture in gold-rich California. Author Skip Tucker combines historical accuracy with plenty of gunfire and intrigue for an epic, entertaining novel.

Here is the sequel to Olive Clarke’s first novel ‘The Blessing of the Sun’ and it continues the tale of the wild cats. In ‘The Golden Claw’ its owner is given access to the spiritual world and can be an influence for good or evil. Now we look critically at the motives of the tribe’s elders, each of which have an interest in the claw’s mysterious owner, Mankie, and are determined to acquire the golden claw. Mankie is mated to the beautiful Brightness, but their destinies are irreconcilable. The senior cats are in turmoil at the death of their current leader; so who has the future of the tribe at heart, and who wants only their own selfish plans accomplished? We are kept in suspense till the final pages of the story. The tale is peppered with unexpected encounters at a crucial point in the life of any of the cats, by a friend or relative of theirs who is now ‘with the Eternal’. We have a glimpse of the nature of the Divine, of forgiveness, acceptance and the sense of ‘preparing a place’ for the eminent arrival of the next cat into Eternity.