Married since they were teenagers. Builders of aquariums, animal preserves, and a large family.
The books are Ammon's. Everything else took two.
The booksCatalog
Digital editions are delivered as PDF and EPUB the moment Stripe says you paid.
01
The gap between what you think is there and what is actually there
Four insects, four ways a system answers pressure, and why human systems are not exempt. Free. Leave an address and it comes to you.
02
The Adventures of Life Itself
Where the self actually runs: in cells that budget energy, not in a ghost riding the body.
03
An Operating Manual for Life
The long one. Sixteen chapters with a prologue and an afterword: the operating manual for the animal you happen to be.
04
Why Humans Mistake Models for Reality
Why the picture you get is never the thing itself, and what to do once you know it.
05
Four Books, One Continuum
All four books in one: Ants, Butterflies, and Roaches; The Lens; The Mitochondrial Self; and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Homo Sapiens. One continuum, one download.
LIFE, in progress
In the news
Ammon and Crystal Covino are entrepreneurs, business partners, and parents of eight, three of whom joined the family through foster care and adoption. They have been together since they were teenagers, married more than thirty years, and have spent their adult lives in Texas building businesses and raising a large family.
Ammon generates the ideas and makes the ideas happen. Crystal is his partner and an owner in the businesses. From construction and real estate through interactive aquariums, animal experiences, and family entertainment, and now Ammon's books, building has been the constant.
Their story includes real successes and serious legal challenges, some of it covered extensively by others.
Ammon Covino is an entrepreneur, builder, and author.
He spent about thirty years in construction and real estate development before turning to interactive attractions. They own and operate Austin Aquarium, Houston Interactive Aquarium and Animal Preserve, The Reef in San Antonio, and Studio Giraffe, a venue in Houston, and is currently developing a sixteen-acre resort property in Leander, Texas. His side of the work is building.
He writes under the name A.M. Covino. His books are THE ALPHA-OMEGA WORKS, a set on why human systems behave the way they do: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Homo Sapiens, The Mitochondrial Self, The Lens, and Ants, Butterflies, and Roaches, which is free. A fifth, LIFE, is in progress.
Crystal Covino, who goes by Crysty, is an owner of Austin Aquarium, San Antonio Aquarium, and Houston Interactive Aquarium and Animal Preserve.
She is building how those places run, from animal care and staffing to the way a guest moves through the room. The animals are not props.
She has also run a doTERRA business, Essentially jOIful, since 2015, which sits under Covino Enterprises, LLC.