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  • The Last Temptation
    Richard B. Schwartz
    Still recovering from a serious shoulder wound, Gwen is having dinner near Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs when she sees a young woman inexplicably dining with an international arms dealer. As her investigation proceeds she discovers the existence of a syndicate utilizing rented demonstrators and protestors who will advance the activities of the syndicate members and attr...
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    18,46 €

  • Townhouse and Other Stories
    Richard B. Schwartz
    This book contains 12 original short stories that represent a number of subgenres within the broad field of crime and mystery fiction. From the humorous and explicitly comic to the dark and brooding, they vary in setting from early 21st-century Cincinnati to mid-18th-century London. Faithful readers will notice elements that served as early studies for one of the author’s favor...
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    16,11 €

  • Internal Family Systems Therapy for Addictions
    Cece Sykes / Martha Sweezy / Richard Schwartz
    So often, addiction is viewed as a disease or an uncontrollable habit that signals a lack of willpower. In Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy for Addictions, IFS educator Cece Sykes, IFS author Martha Sweezy, and IFS founder, Richard Schwartz, suggest a paradigm shift. Rather than viewing addiction as a pathology, they propose that it reflects the behavior of polarized, prot...
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    27,60 €

  • Red City
    Richard B. Schwartz
    Terry Rader is cleaning his rental port-o-lets in MacArthur Park when he finds a young woman, her blue hospital scrubs covered with thick, dried blood. Her name is Denise White. She is a nurse practitioner, employed by a USC health clinic in the mid-Wilshire district. She is the cousin of Lieutenant Frank White of the LAPD and the favorite niece of Charles White, the first blac...
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    18,11 €

  • No Exit
    Richard B. Schwartz
    Following the Jack Grant and Tom Deaton series, No Exit features a new series protagonist: FBI Special Agent Gwen Harrison. Introduced in Poison Touch, Gwen is a native American, descended from distinguished ancestors, including a warrior who fought beside Enchanted Horse (Gwen’s correction of ’Crazy’ Horse). She is an amateur tracker whose avocation becomes a dangerous obsessi...
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    18,14 €

  • Death Whispers
    Richard B. Schwartz
    We are in the California desert above Lake Elsinore; the remains of Terry Randall and his wife Susan are lying in the dust and grit. Susan’s right hand is missing. The initial verdict is that Terry killed Susan and then himself, using the shotgun which rests at his feet. The putative cause is post-traumatic stress disorder. Terry has recently returned from Iraq. The branch bank...
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    18,18 €

  • Nightmare Man
    Richard B. Schwartz
    The third Tom Deaton novel is dark and pulpy, with a full-tilt plot, the complete ensemble of previous series characters and a memorable antagonist who is the stuff of nightmares.            Earlon 'Snack' Harris earned his nickname when a Rotty named T-Bone interrupted Harris’ attack on his owner by sampling his fingers, toes, and testicles. Newly-released from a ten-year sent...
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    15,90 €

  • THE SURVIVOR’S SONG
    Richard B. Schwartz
    Using their frequent flier miles Marcy and Jim Morgan have left the icy shores of Lake Erie for the cloudless skies and warm sand of Laguna Beach. The bright sun and gentle wind are suddenly displaced by the anguished screams of their son, Ben, his toes entangled in a mound of kelp and the skeletal remains of what was once a very tall man, a man who now has no feet.            ...
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    18,22 €

  • Into The Dark
    Richard B. Schwartz / Richard Schwartz
    An engaging, hard-boiled mystery. The most prominent painter in southern California is found hanging in his Laguna Canyon studio. The Laguna Beach police initially think suicide; his sister says murder and works with Detective Tom Deaton to find her brother’s killer. Together they follow a trail of death that takes them from southern California to France, England, and, finally,...
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    18,15 €

  • The Pioneer
    Richard Alan Schwartz
    A new generation. A dangerous town. Can an immigrant family make room for new traditions?Portland, 1854. David Kaplan dreams of a fresh start. But when he and his family arrive in Oregon, he’s surprised to find the rules of the past no longer apply. As David and Myra fight to claim what’s rightfully theirs, the businessman wonders if the changing world has any place for him at ...
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    20,24 €

  • The Plays of Arthur Murphy
    Richard B. Schwartz
    Originally compiled and published in 1979, this volume contains six plays of Arthur Murphy: The Apprentice; The Upholsterer; The Old Maid; The Citizen; No One’s Enemy but His Own; Three Weeks After Marriage. ...
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    64,12 €

  • Wind Chimes, War and Consequence
    Richard Alan Schwartz
    A surgeon turned soldier. A courageous research mission. Will he survive his own wartime trauma?Texas, 1970. Vascular specialist Brian Levin has steady hands and a cool head under pressure. Eager to investigate the firsthand effects of traumatic stress, he enlists as an infantryman in the Vietnam War. But the real terror comes when an ambush stains his soul with blood.Through c...
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    30,21 €

  • Postwar Higher Education in America
    Richard B Schwartz / Richard B. Schwartz / Richard BSchwartz
    Postwar Higher Education in America: Just Yesterday explores the apogee of American Higher Education and its devolution into its current state. It offers concrete recommendations for capitalizing on its lost strengths and restoring the standards and expectations that our current students have been denied. ...
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    33,44 €

  • Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual
    Frank Anderson / Frank G. Anderson / Martha Sweezy / Richard Schwartz
    Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) provides a revolutionary treatment plan for PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders and more. Using a non-pathologizing, accelerated approach -- rooted in neuroscience -- IFS applies inner resources and self-compassion for healing emotional wounding at its core. This new manual offers straight-forward explanations and i...
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    27,64 €

  • Handbook of Child Language Disorders
    Richard G. Schwartz
    The acquisition of language is one of the most remarkable human achievements. When language acquisition fails to occur as expected, the impact can be far-reaching, affecting all aspects of the child’s life and the child’s family. Thus, research into the nature, causes, and remediation of children’s language disorders provides important insights into the nature of language acqui...
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    245,20 €

  • Logical Thinking in the Pyramidal Schema of Concepts
    Lutz Geldsetzer / Richard L. Schwartz
    This new volume on logic follows a recognizable format that deals in turn with the topics of mathematical logic, moving from concepts, via definitions and inferences, to theories and axioms. However, this fresh work offers a key innovation in its ’pyramidal’ graph system for the logical formalization of all these items. The author has developed this new methodology on the basis...
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    159,02 €

  • Law, Not War
    Richard Derecktor Schwartz
    Law is an institution that has evolved and flourished throughout its six-thousand-year history. Tracing this history in complex societies from the Ancient Middle East to the contemporary world, this book poses the following question: can international law become an effective instrument of social control among nations in the emerging world society? To develop effective internati...
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    15,88 €

  • Strong Writing
    Richard Schwartz
    The six most important elements of good writing are knowing why you are writing and what you hope to accomplish from it, understanding your audience, organizing your material logically and in sufficient detail for the purpose, writing grammatically, achieving an effective style, and proofreading your work rigorously. Strong Writing centers on these issues. ...
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    19,46 €

  • Wounds that Heal
    Judith A Schwartz / Judith A. Schwartz / Judith ASchwartz / Judith Schwartz / Richard B Schwartz / Richard B. Schwartz / Richard BSchwartz
    This book examines developmental theory in light of heroic narrative and argues that such theory should be adjusted to accommodate the experience of those who are, in many ways, our principal role models, examining figures such as Jane Austen, T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and George S. Patton, Jr. ...
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    58,65 €

  • Participant in the Evolution of American Corrections, 1931-1973
    Amelia R Fry / Mortimer D Schwartz / Richard A. ive McGee
    'Participant in the Evolution of American Corrections, 1931-1973' presents an oral history transcript featuring Richard A. McGee, a significant figure in the development of American corrections. This collection, spanning 1971-1973, offers firsthand insights into the evolution of penal systems and practices during a transformative period. McGee’s experiences and perspectives, ca...
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    31,78 €

  • The Lonely American
    Jacqueline Olds / MD Jacqueline Olds / MD Richard S. Schwartz / MD Richard SSchwartz
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    18,06 €

  • Accidental Soldier
    Richard B. Schwartz / Richard BSchwartz
    This book depicts the author’s military experiences during the Vietnam Era, first as an ROTC cadet at the University of Notre Dame and finally as an Army veteran teaching in Madison, Wisconsin, focusing upon Schwartz’s experience at West Point, its cadets, officer corps and system of education. ...
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    58,56 €

  • Outer Billiards on Kites
    Richard Evan Schwartz
    Outer billiards is a basic dynamical system defined relative to a convex shape in the plane. B. H. Neumann introduced this system in the 1950s, and J. Moser popularized it as a toy model for celestial mechanics. All along, the so-called Moser-Neumann question has been one of the central problems in the field. This question asks whether or not one can have an outer billiards sys...
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    110,57 €

  • Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War
    Richard Alan Schwartz
    Between January 17 and February 28, 1991, an international military coalition sanctioned by the United Nations and led by the United States defeated a large, well-equipped Iraqi army and forced it to withdraw from occupied Kuwait. The first major military action after the end of the Cold War, the Persian Gulf War is seen as the precursor of a new military doctrine; ground tr...
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    58,54 €

  • Spherical CR Geometry and Dehn Surgery
    Richard Evan Schwartz
    This book proves an analogue of William Thurston’s celebrated hyperbolic Dehn surgery theorem in the context of complex hyperbolic discrete groups, and then derives two main geometric consequences from it. The first is the construction of large numbers of closed real hyperbolic 3-manifolds which bound complex hyperbolic orbifolds--the only known examples of closed manifolds tha...
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    101,47 €

  • Law, Society, and Democracy
    Richard D. Schwartz
    In George Bush’s Second Inaugural Address, he stated, 'so it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture ...'Along with such a formidable challenge, comes the essential need for scholars and policy makers alike to gain a deeper understanding of the interrelationship between law, society, ...
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    102,24 €

  • The Cold War Reference Guide
    Richard Alan Schwartz
    For over forty years much of the world was held captive by a conflict between two wholly incompatible economic ideologies--capitalism and communism--and the two primary superpower countries who practiced them, the United States and the Soviet Union. Written in accessible language for readers with little or no previous knowledge about the subject, this work is first a genera...
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    71,66 €

  • Confessions of an Old Geezer
    Richard J. Schwartz Sr. / Richard JSchwartz Sr.
    Confessions of an Old Geezer are just that! Dick’s reflections of his childhood during the turbulent years of the 20’s and 30’s when he and his family struggled for their very survival. World War II interrupted his life when he served for 39 months in the military rising to the rank of Captain in the Corp of Engineers. Upon completing his military obligation Dick returned to hi...
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    19,24 €

  • RCRA Hazardous Wastes Handbook
    Richard E. Schwartz / Richard ESchwartz / Ridgway M. Hall / Ridgway M. Jr. Hall / Ridgway MHall / Ridgway MJrHall / Robert C. Davis / Robert C. Jr. Davis / Robert CDavis / Robert CJrDavis
    This updated edition examines the latest regulatory and judicial developments involving the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and provides a clear, practical explanation of its requirements. New issues addressed in this edition include the new provisions regarding recycling, the corrective action program, and the regulation of combustion units; changes in enforcemen...
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    299,02 €

  • A New History of Spanish Literature
    Kessel Schwartz / Richard E. Chandler
    First published in 1961, 'A New History of Spanish Literature' has been a much-used resource for generations of students. The book has now been completely revised and updated to include extensive discussion of Spanish literature of the past thirty years. Richard E. Chandler and Kessel Schwartz, both longtime students of the literature, write authoritatively about every Spanish ...
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    50,44 €