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Interior and Northern Alaska: A Natural History (book) |
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Price: $34.95 Description Meet the species native to Alaska- the animals and plants that have been around for ages, as well as those that died out eons ago. How did these creatures manage to survive the extremes of Alaska’s environment? How did Alaskan dinosaurs handle months without sun and freezing temperatures? How have present-day animals and plants adapted to the harsh winters? Read about the Far North and you will discover that animal survival depends not only on size, coloring, and skin covering, but also on behavior. Smith highlights the most interesting of Alaska’s residents- mighty moose, mighty small bats, haymaking pikas, sun-following poppies, salmon, and “color-changing ptarmigan, ermine and hares. Ron asks questions we might not think of to discover the wonders of this wild land. How can a ponderously slow-growing evergreen ever survive when it is surrounded by rapidly growing deciduous trees? Why don’t voles grow to the size of beavers? Building upon the discoveries of Alaska’s extinct dinosaurs, ice-age mammals, and plants and the interrelationships of current species, Smith looks to the future. How are human impacts and climate fluctuations likely to affect the current flora and fauna? Past, present, or future, our country’s final frontier continues to fascinate. Take this journey within and around Alaska for a unique tour of its incredible inhabitants. Additional Information
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Interior and Northern Alaska Coloring Book |
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Price: $8.00
Description This coloring book contains twenty-five images of flowers, lichens, caribou, salmon, grayling, fox, murre, jaeger, ptarmigan, muskox skulls, plant succession, solifluction lobes, and others. All were drawn by Mareca Guthrie for Ron Smith’s book Interior and Northern Alaska: A Natural History. Each page has a drawing to be colored, some science information about the image, and coloring suggestions. And, pages are perforated for easy removal. |
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How Not to Die Hunting in Alaska |
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Price: $15.95
Description Everyone, from big-game hunter to outdoors enthusiast on the couch, will laugh at the exploits Ron Smith and his friends get into in their hunting adventures. You may even nod knowingly as he recounts stupidities in the field that strike just a bit too close to home. Better than a cat, Ron has lived through more than a dozen near-death experiences in search of game, and he gives you How Not to Die Hunting in Alaska to keep you from stretching your luck. Amid the “Why would anyone do that?” stories and Jeanne Mars Armstrong’s laugh out loud cartoons, Ron gives sage advice. His humorous accounts just hammer in the message for safety in the outdoors. The experienced will pick up pointers for more successful hunting. The novices will start smart by learning from Ron’s mistakes- and live to tell their own tales of How Not to Die Hunting in Alaska. Additional Information
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Alaska High School Biology Curriculum Packet |
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Price: $250.00 Items included: Interior and Northern Alaska: A Natural History (book), Spirit of the Arctic DVD, High School Biology curriculum flash drive Description The drive contains thirteen instructional units tied to chapters in Interior and Northern Alaska: A Natural History. Each unit consists of reading assignments from the text and other readings on the drive. References are made to online resources too. Other assignments include virtual labs virtual field trips, experiments, observations and writing assignments. Some of the work involves learning about cells, cell division, DNA and its replication, transcription and translation. All of the NGSS and Alaska state standards for biology are addressed. There are two assessments for each unit, one is multiple choice, the other short answer/ short essay. Additional Information
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Alaska Science Middle School Curriculum Packet |
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Price: $250.00 Description The flash drive contains ESS lessons in earth and space sciences (ESS), life sciences (LS) and physical sciences (PS) Unlike the high school curriculum which has students progressing through the text from chapter to chapter, the middle school curriculum progresses through ESS, then LS and finally PS. Students read portions of chapters plus additional materials on the drive. Therefor each unit consists of reading assignments from the text and other readings on the drive. References are made to online resources too. Other assignments include virtual labs virtual field trips, experiments, observations and writing assignments. Additional Information
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Spirit of the Arctic ™ DVD |
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Price: $10.00 Description A timeless northern journey of natural sounds, wrapped in Native voices and music matched by images of Alaskan wildlife and landscapes. The images were taken by world-famous Michio Hoshino and the animal sound recordings by marine scientist Kathy Turco. Included with each DVD is a booklet that names each image including the Alaska Native dialect name. Animal vocalizations are heard as the animal's image is viewed. |
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Undeserved Punishment novel |
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Price: $15.00 Description This novel is set in Arizona on and around the Navajo Reservation in the early 1950s. Two pre-teen boys, Tommy and Ben Baker, are forced to spend summers with their strict missionary grandfather Ernest and vicious grandmother Nina. The boys’ father Sam, dominated by his stern parents, cannot deal with conflict or emotions. The boys’ mother Eileen is a strong, competent woman who must negotiate the hazards of the patriarchal world of mid-20th Century America, and, help her sons navigate a set of unrealistic family rules. An old Navajo parishioner, Chester Yazzie, comes to be a spiritual guide to the boys and, earlier, to a Japanese-American, Kenji Kawasaki, imprisoned in the Leupp concentration camp. Themes addressed in the novel include bullying, family rules, Navajo culture and history, Navajo code-talkers, treatment of Japanese-Americans and subjugation of minorities. |
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Pulse: A Novel of Alaska (coming soon!) |
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Price: Approximately $20.00 Description Pulse is a novel about two people, Tom Baker and Beth Haney, trekking across Alaska from Cold Bay to Fairbanks, a distance of a thousand miles. They travel by small boat and on foot after being stranded by a series of solar superflares. The solar disruptions knock out communications, electrical generation, air travel and ship navigation. In the course of their journey they encounter rogue waves, an erupting volcano, bears, storms at sea, other shipwreck survivors, an aggressive wolverine, a bull moose in rut and a dangerous river crossing. Their journey is made easier by assistance from village elders, knowledge gleaned from Alaska Natives, Tom’s knowledge of Alaska landscapes and wildlife and Beth’s boatmanship and outdoor experience. A parallel story includes events happening in Fairbanks that involve the loved ones of Tom and Beth. After a successful return to Fairbanks, Tom and Beth join Ben’s band. As the novel ends, a romance develops between Ben and Beth. |
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Fred, Drugs, Russians and Agent Orange: A Novel of Fairbanks, Alaska (coming soon!) |
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Price: Approximately $19.00 Description Two eighty-year-old Fred Andersons in Fairbanks, Alaska, are long-time friends, sharing a love for running and creative writing. One is the District Attorney in Fairbanks, the other a retired carpenter. Fred, the carpenter, is plagued by a litany of geriatric and Vietnam war-combat-related infirmities that require him to use his mental resources to offset his frailties. In Part 1 (La Fuerza), Fred, DA, is at the center of an investigation of a drug gang in interior Alaska. His friend, Fred, carpenter, is targeted by the gang in an attempt to pressure Fred, DA, into dropping the investigation. Fred, carpenter, encounters gang members bent on, first, finding out what he knows, and, finally, on killing him. Even though beset with many of the maladies common among octagenarians, Fred, carpenter, finds ways to neutralize his enemies and prevail. In Part 2, The Russians and Agent Orange, Fred, carpenter, is targeted by Russian saboteurs intent on eliminating him. Their aim is to destroy Alaskan air offensive and defensive capabilities in advance of a Russian preemptive strike on Alaska. Fred, with the help of his friends, a dog that adopts him and a military-grade Alexa, counters the Russian efforts and eventually takes the conflict to Russian soil. His efforts become known to an egotistical President of the United States who wants to take the credit for Fred’s successes. |
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The Roswell Crash Survivors’ Benefit Concert novel (coming soon!) |
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Price: Approximately $15.00 Description Bill Bowman and Justine Archer, complete strangers, attend an off-Broadway concert engineered by alien Grays to bring them and their special but unrevealed powers together. The two are the only humans remaining conscious after an aborted raid by the National Guard and FBI. What ensues is a series of encounters between the couple and the FBI, the alien Grays, the U. S. Army and a second alien species, the Monsters. The action criss-crosses Manhattan and eventually leads the pair plus a young Navajo man who may be Bill’s relative on a journey to Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona as they are chased by the Monsters. The Monsters sense the couple’s powers and are trying to eliminate them. The powers derive from their hybrid, human-Gray nature, a fact that is slowly revealed to them. In New York, the couple is aided by a network of Gray-hybrids/sympathizers including a diner waitress, two musicians, an old FBI janitor and, ultimately, the President of the United States. The culmination of the hunt, a final showdown, occurs at the Nankoweap Granaries in Marble Canyon. |
