Max R. Terman

Max R. Terman received his B. A. from Spring Arbor University and Ph. D in zoology from Michigan State University. For thirty seven years he taught biology and environmental science at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas and authored many scientific articles in the field of ecology and animal behavior. An avid golfer, he researched the potential of golf courses to be wildlife habitat and more environmentally compatible (see http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/pae/environmentalscience/casestudies/case3.mhtml). He retired in 2006 to devote more time to writing. His first book in 1985, "Earth Sheltered Housing: Principles in Practice", described the building of his solar powered earth-covered home on fifteen acres of restored prairie and introduced solutions to the looming energy crisis. In 1996, Princeton University Press published his engaging story "Messages From An Owl" about the radiotracking of a hand-reared great horned owl--for over ten years! This book reads like a novel and won wide acclaim from scientists and general readers alike. Recently, Dr. Terman used his writing skills to enter the world of an ancestor who fought in the American Civil War. "Hiram's Honor: Reliving Private Terman's Civil War" is a dramatized first person account of his great-uncle's capture at Gettysburg and amazing survival as a prisoner of war at Richmond's Belle Island and the infamous Andersonville prison camps. Dr. Terman writes as if he were Private Hiram Terman of the 82nd Ohio Infantry in this unique, amazing tale of friendship, faith, hope, and survival against incredible odds.

Following in the footsteps of Hiram's Honor, one of Online College's Best Books for Studying the Civil War, Hiram's Hope: The Return of Isaiah follows Isaiah Rinehart of the 82nd Ohio after he is left for dead at Andersonville, the infamous Confederate prison festering in the war-torn back country of Georgia. Hiram's Hope tells in vivid detail how Isaiah survives, not only Andersonville but the harrowing journey to Vicksburg where he again faces death on the ill-fated, overloaded riverboat steamer Sultana. Max Terman weaves a story around this tragic explosion on the Mississippi, the Lincoln Funeral Train, a woman left at Andersonville, and a veteran's struggle to recover his life as threads in an intricate tale about the last days of the American Civil War. It is a story of men pushed beyond human limits, of survival, of faith tried and tested, and how one man helps another find hope.

FREE ONLINE CHAPTERS

Online chapters of my book Hiram's Honor at:

http://tinyurl.com/7pg7tfr Gettysburg

http://tinyurl.com/6n495ql Andersonville Prison

http://tinyurl.com/6urlc8m Belle Island Prison

AUTHOR PRESENTATIONS

Hiram (played by Max Terman) talks to Abe Lincoln

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yl4078fa9m9h4b4/2014-02-25%2018.11.57.mp4?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4qif4y549rbtwdx/2014-02-25%2018.54.54.mp4?dl=0

REVIEWS OF CIVIL WAR BOOKS

http://tinyurl.com/736v8mh Ohio Civil War Genealogical Society

http://tinyurl.com/6pdhvv3 Civil War News

http://tinyurl.com/7upza5v Scott Mingus review

http://tinyurl.com/86kkxcs Emerging Civil War

http://tinyurl.com/82umka2 Salient Points

http://tinyurl.com/6vhqfm9 Historical Novel Society

http://tinyurl.com/aocn7jkCivil War Notebook

http://www.news-gazette.com/living/2014-12-03/illinois-ancestors-author-relives-civil-war-suffering.html

PUBLICATIONS

1972.---and David I. Johnson. The effects of Sigmodon hispidus on Microtus pennsylvanicus in a confined area. Trans. Kansas Acad. Science, 74: 217-220.

1973. Platt, D., F. Cross, D. Distler, O. Fent, E. Hall, M. Terman, J. Walstrom, and J. Zimmerman. Rare, endangered, and extirpated species in Kansas. III. Mammals. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 76: 267-272.

1974a. Variations in small mammal home range size: One hypothesis. Biologist, 56: 153-156.

1974b. The Ecology of Crayfish: Some observations on behavioral factors. Biologist, 56: 32-39.

1974c. Behavioral interactions between Microtus and Sigmodon: a model for competitive exclusion. J. Mammal., 55: 705-719.

1978. Population dynamics of Microtus and Sigmodon in central Kansas. Trans. Kansas Acad. Science, 81: 337-351.

1981. Performance data for a passive solar earth-sheltered home. Underground Space 6: 180-185.

1982. Teaching the scientific method through an experimentaldesign assignment in general zoology and general botany. In Meeth, L. R. and D. S. Gregory, Directory of teaching innovations in biology. Studies in Higher Education, American Institute of Biological Sciences, Arlington, Va.

1983. ---and Virleen Bailey. A comparative study of the Great Blue Heron in Kansas. Trans. Kansas Acad. Science, 86: 81-89.

1985. ---and Virleen Bailey. Update on the least weasel (Mustela nivalis) in Kansas. Trans. Kansas Acad. Science, 89 (1,2): 62-65.

1987. Terman Environmental Study Area. Trans. Kansas Acad. Science 91(1-2): 50-52.

1989. Bailey, V, and R. Wall. Noteworthy longevity in Crotalus viridus viridus (Rafinesque). Trans. Kansas Acad. Science 92 (1-2).

1992. Book review: The Environment and the Christian: What Can We Learn from the New Testament? by ed. Calvin B. DeWitt (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1991), 156 pp. Direction 21(2): 70-71.

1992. Book review: Earthkeeping in the 90’s: Stewardship of Creation. By Loren Wilkinson (ed.). Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. Direction 21(2): 70-71.

1994. Fall field trip in Marion County, central Kansas. By M. R. Terman and J. S. Aber. (Kansas Academy of Science, Multidisciplinary Guidebook no. 7. 40 p. Kansas Geological Survey Open File Report 94-33G.

1994. The promise of natural links. Golf Course Management 62 (12): 52-59.

1995. Naturalized golf courses may serve as nature preserves (Kansas). Restoration and Management Notes 13 (1):127.

1996. The bird communities of Prairie Dunes Country Club and Sand Hills State Park. USGA Green Section Record 34 (6): 10-14.

1997. Natural links: naturalistic golf courses as wildlife habitats. Landscape and Urban Planning 38:183-197.

2000a. Ecology and golf: saving habitats on human landscapes. Golf Course Management 68(1):52-54. [online]URL: http://www.gcsaa.org/gcm/2000/jan00/pdfs/01habitats.pdf

2000b. The ecology of golf: saving stepping stones for nature. Golf Research News 1(3):11-17.

2000c. Prairie Dunes Country Club: a golf course for birdies. McGraw-Hill.[online]URL:http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/pae/environmentalscience/casestudies/case3.mhtml

2000d. Naturalistic golf courses: stepping stones for nature. Conservation Ecology XX(YY): ZZ. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/volXX/issYY/respZZ

2000. The environmental crisis: thoughts of a Christian ecologist. Direction 29 (1): 38-45. [online] http://www.directionjournal.org/article/?1033

2001. Book review: Creation and the Environment: An Anabaptist Perspective on a Sustainable World by ed. Calvin W. Redekop (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 283 pp. Direction 30 (2):227-228.

2001-2005. Marion County Ks Conservation District: Reports on monitoring of bluegreen bacteria populations in Marion Reservoir.

Publications of General Interest:

1980-1982. Hillsboro Star Journal, Tabor Science Reports.

1980. Get attuned to nature. The Earth Shelter Digest and Energy Report, March-April 1980.

1980. The Ethical and Ecological Implications of Earth-Sheltered Housing. In E. Squires, ed., The Environmental Crisis: The Ethical Dilemma. AuSable Institute of Environmental Studies, Mancelona, Michigan.

1981. The use of natural energies. AuSable Forum Reports,Mancelona, Michigan.

1982. Stewardship and the nature of man. AuSable Forum Reports, Mancelona, Michigan.

1985. Earth sheltered science hall attests to stewardship. Earth Shelter Living, December, 1985.

Books

1985. Earth-Sheltered Housing: Principles in Practice. VanNostrand Reinhold Co., New York, 209 pages.

1996. Messages From an Owl. Princeton University Press Princeton, N.J.

2009. Hiram's Honor: Reliving Private Terman's Civil War. TESA Books, Hillsboro, Ks.

2014. Hiram's Hope: The Return of Isaiah. TESA Books, Hillsboro, Ks.