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  • In Flux
    Richard Seltzer / Tim Seltzer
    In Flux is a hybrid work-part memoir, part speculative essay-that chronicles Richard Seltzer’s personal journey through the early days of the internet, especially his time at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and his experience promoting AltaVista, the pioneering search engine. Co-authored with his son Tim Seltzer, the book traces technological change across decades, connecti...
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    33,01 €

  • One Family
    Richard Seltzer
    In this mosaic of historical and personal anecdotes, fact and fiction are intertwined. We lie to ourselves and to one another, and coincidence shifts the paths of our lives this way and that. We believe what we’re ready to believe, and what we believe is more important that what actually happens. And we all share a common ancestry, connected as one family. ...
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    42,71 €

  • The Bulatovich Saga
    Richard Seltzer
    Raised in the Ukraine, Alexander Bulatovich (1870-1919) was a tsarist cavalry officer, an African explorer, and a religious leader. He guided an Ethiopian army through territory unknown even to them and fought in Manchuria during the Boxer Rebellion. When he retired at age 33 to join a monastery, seven of his men followed him there. Later, he led a religious movement at Mount A...
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    38,80 €

  • Let the Women Have Their Say
    Richard Seltzer
    Because we’re blessed with the gift of not knowing the future, life isn’t just what happens. It’s enriched by the cloud of possibilities, what might happen, what we expect and hope for. This novel is a showing rather than a telling of the stories of Troy, restoring the immediacy of the moment as experienced by Cassandra, Helen, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia, Polyxena, Andromache, Led...
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    35,47 €

  • Meter Maid Marion, How to Tutor a Ghost, The Third Tortoise
    Richard Seltzer
    24 stories plus self-contained excerpts from 9 novels, ranging from romance to mind-twisting fantasy to realism, to history. In addition to the title stories, these include: The Princess Tango, The Seventh Note, Reinventing the Airplane, The Gentle Inquisitor, Aunt Rachel and the Wizard of Oz, Saint Smith, The Place Where Time Stopped, Give Me Now My Nevermind, The Abandoned Ho...
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    35,18 €

  • US Public Opinion since the 1930s
    Richard Seltzer
    This study examines American public opinion since the 1930s. The author analyzes data from Gallup and other sources and looks at such issues as US politics, international events, race, sex, gender, economics, the environment, and more. ...
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    51,21 €

  • We First Met in Ithaca, or Was It Eden?
    Richard Seltzer
    Honorable Mention! Novels Category in the 2023 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest.Elle and Oz, strangers ready to restart their lives, meet by chance and flirtatiously swap stories in a dark abandoned house. They soon sense that these stories are coming from an unknown source. It’s as if they are watching the stories rather than telling them. Then they become actor...
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    25,25 €

  • We All Are Shakespeare
    Richard Seltzer
    Because of Covid, Debbie Dawkins has been unable to stage high school plays. This summer she wants to do Shakespeare on the Beach, starting with Romeo and Juliet. No one answers the casting call, until a stranger, Liam, shows up and recites the entire play.He has no idea how he did that. She, by chance, quotes a line from Hamlet, and he starts reciting that play as well. Alarme...
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    20,17 €

  • Why Knot
    Richard Seltzer
    THIRD PLACE: CT Press Club Professional Communications Contest for General Non-FictionI don’t think outside the box. There is no box. The box is an illusion that limits the range of what we consider, squashing curiosity and creativity, ruling out possible solutions.Many of these short essays derive from my belief that, as individuals and as a species, self-regulating mechanisms...
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    35,27 €

  • The Lizard of Oz and Other Stories
    Richard Seltzer
    The Lizard of Oz is a satiric, child-like fantasy, for children fifth grade and up and also for adults This is a revised and expanded version of the underground classic, self-published in 1974. 'When an elementary class sets out on a quest to save the world from disenchantment, their adventures reveal paradoxes of the human mind and ways of awakening the magic within us.' The L...
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    20,05 €

  • Grandad Jokes
    Richard Seltzer
    HONORABLE MENTION: CT Press Club Professional Communications Contest for Humor3000 original jokes grouped as:Trump and CompanyNonsensical Science, Philosophy, History, and ReligionLetter, Number, and Grammar PlaySpeaking in Tongues - Word Play in Two LanguagesNever Grow Up - General FunBedtime Whimsy and RomancePithy jokes for every taste and mood and occasion. ...
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    26,44 €

  • US Public Opinion since the 1930s
    Richard Seltzer
    This study examines American public opinion since the 1930s. The author analyzes data from Gallup and other sources and looks at such issues as US politics, international events, race, sex, gender, economics, the environment, and more. ...
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    149,17 €

  • Gratuity
    Holona LeAnne Ochs / Richard Seltzer
    Gratuity provides a perspective on nonstandard compensation that demonstrates the process by which tipping norms have an impact on the experiences of workers. Understanding this under-researched perspective reveals a great deal about the role of norms in economic transactions as well as the management practices that shape the work environment and enhance organizational performa...
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    74,55 €

  • Experiencing Racism
    Nicole EJohnson / Richard Seltzer
    Collecting essays on personal experiences of race and racism from a wide spectrum of college students, the authors employ existing social science literature and textual analysis to illustrate common themes and departures. This valuable collection is a depiction of race in America that goes beyond black and white to show how the changing racial contours of America are impacting ...
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    88,93 €

  • Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide
    Richard Seltzer / ROBERT C SMITH / Robert C. Smith / Robert Charles Smith / Robert CSmith
    Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide is a detailed study of some of the most racially divisive issues America has encountered in the past decade. Smith and Seltzer employ more than forty surveys to explore race-based public opinion differences on high-profile controversies including the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson cases; the arrest, trial, jailing, and sub...
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    216,09 €

  • Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide
    Richard Seltzer / ROBERT C SMITH / Robert C. Smith / Robert Charles Smith / Robert CSmith
    Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide is a detailed study of some of the most racially divisive issues America has encountered in the past decade. Smith and Seltzer employ more than forty surveys to explore race-based public opinion differences on high-profile controversies including the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson cases; the arrest, trial, jailing, and sub...
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    69,82 €