This text discusses the theoretical developments, modelling approaches and results, and empirical data of landscape ecology. It also emphasizes selected topics in which landscape ecology has made the most contributions to our understanding of ecological processes.[...]

Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed a barr[...]

A unique study of Ice Age human and carnivore bone damage and its importance in understanding ancient life in Siberia.[...]

From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest takes on bandits, traitors and killers. Why is he so successful? The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivati[...]