Best Selling Books by Cameron Stewart

Meet the "Vinyl Underground" - three ultra-hip Londoners who solve crimes the cops can''t even imagine! Pretty-boy Morrison Shepherd, autistic psychic Callum "Perv" O''Connor, morgue assistant-cum-internet porn star Leah King and no-nonsense Kim Abiola have cracked their first case and saved Kim''s father from jail. But as Morrison begins to unravel, and a series of young female corpses is discovered with apparent connections to William Blake, the team''s job is only just beginning... and they might not all make it to the end. By Si Spencer (Life During Wartime), with art by Simon Gane (Paris) and Cameron Stewart (The Other Side), this all-new series will dazzle you!

Is this ship sinking? That''s what Finn thought right before learning one of the most closely guarded pirate secrets ever whispered across the seas. When Finn was just a boy, his sleepy village was ravaged by a band of horrific pirates. The destruction they left behind was nothing compared to what they had taken - Finn''s mother. After years of wondering what happened to her, Finn finds an opportunity to set out in search of his long-lost mother with some help from the most notorious pirate captain to sail the seas, Captain Fortune Palmer. Finn''s only problem is that Fortune isn''t exactly what he''d imagined from all the stories he''d heard. With his furry companion by his side, Finn sets out into the exciting and dangerous world of swashbuckling adventure. Between Pirate Hunters, scorned ex-lovers, and ancient warriors with magical treasure, Finn has his hands full as he works to discover what became of his mother the day she was taken while also proving his worth to his legendary captain. Enjoy the first chapter of what is planned to be a series of four swashbuckling tales!

Lorsque les ennuis pointent le bout de leur nez, Barbara Gordon n''est pas du genre à abandonner ses vieilles habitudes. Alors, quand un terrible incendie la prive de tout ce qu''elle possédait, la jeune femme saisie l''opportunité de repartir à zéro. Tout comme le reste de la jeunesse branchée de Gotham, elle s''installe dans le quartier chic de Burnside et profite de ce renouveau pour redéfinir le style et les méthodes utilisées par son alter ego Batgirl. Mais changer d''environnement ne réduit pas pour autant les menaces et dangers quotidiens de l''héroïne.

Landscape change and biodiversity decline is a global problem and has sparked world-wide initiatives promoting biological conservation techniques such as reintroductions, protected area networks, and both preservation and restoration of landscape connectivity. Despite the increasing abundance of such working landscapes (i.e. "human-modified" landscapes), we know relatively little about their ecological mechanics; these landscapes can be vast, encompassing areas too large to obtain high resolution ecological data to test ecological process. To investigate the ecological mechanics of working landscapes, I use a small, tractable, landscape mesocosm situated in east-central Alberta, Canada, The Cooking Lake Moraine (a.k.a. the Beaver Hills Biosphere). The chapters within this dissertation quantify biodiversity across a hierarchy of measurements (from genes to communities) and investigate consistencies in ecological processes generating patterns in these biodiversity measurements across spatial scales. As a result, I investigate both a depth, and breadth, of spatial ecological processes underlying the efficacy of biodiversity conservation techniques in heterogeneous working landscapes. In Chapter I, I explore between-landscape functional connectivity by investigating the genetic contribution of reintroduced individuals to an ostensibly successfully reintroduced population within the mesocosm. I find that contemporary animals are the result of recolonization from adjacent sources rather than putative reintroduction founding individuals, indicating greater mesocosm functional connectivity to adjacent landscapes than previously thought. In Chapter II, I probe within-landscape functional connectivity by quantifying the contribution of protected areas, natural, and anthropogenic landscape features to animal movement across the mesocosm. I find that natural features had the largest effect on animal movements, despite the presence of protected areas. Chapter III investigates protected area network efficacy on biodiversity conservation by quantifying the contribution of protected areas, natural, and anthropogenic landscape features to mammalian functional diversity across multiple spatial scales within the mesocosm. I find that protected areas rarely predict functional diversity across spatial scales; instead natural features positively predict functional diversity at small spatial scales while anthropogenic features are negatively associated with biodiversity at large spatial scales. Finally, Chapter IV ties the previous three chapters together by testing implicit assumptions of the species occurrence data collected in each. I compare GPS collar data (Chapter II) to species occurrence data collected on wildlife cameras (Chapter III) to demonstrate that the magnitude of animal movements better predict species occurrence than the commonly assumed proximity of animal space use. Across chapters, two central themes emerge from this dissertation. First, the importance of natural features at small spatial scales, and anthropogenic features at large spatial scales, within the landscape matrix is predominant in predicting multiple measures of biodiversity. And second, we cannot assume predictable efficacy of conservation strategies or even the ecological process inferred from the data collected to test these strategies.

Sous la plume des auteurs primés aux Eisner Awards Karl Kerschl (The Flash, Superman) et Cameron Stewart (Batman & Robin, Catwoman) prennent vie de tout nouveaux personnages qui viennent agrandir l''univers de la célèbre franchise de jeu vidéo : Assassin''s Creed. Suivez les aventures de l''Assassin Nikolaï Orelov à la poursuite d''un artéfact au pouvoir immense à travers la Russie tsariste ; De la mystérieuse et dévastatrice explosion de Toungouska jusqu''aux rues de Pétrograd, où la révolution bolchévique fait rage. Pendant ce temps, plus près de nous, un jeune homme perturbé est aux prises avec des visions troublantes d''une possible vie passée... Des visions qui pourraient avoir des conséquences catastrophiques et irréversibles sur le monde présent.