Designed for the introduction to drugs and substance abuse course as taught in departments of health education, psychology, biology, sociology, and criminal justice, this full-color market-leading text provides the latest information on drug use and its effects on society and human behavior. For over thirty years, instructors and students have ...
Designed for the introduction to drugs and substance abuse course as taught in departments of health education, psychology, biology, sociology, and criminal justice, this full-color market-leading text provides the latest information on drugs and their effects on society and human behavior. For over thirty years, instructors and students have ...
Prepared by the American Institute of Architects Bruce Bassler, Student Edition Editor, and John Ray Hoke, Jr., FAIA, Editor in Chief, Architectural Graphic Standards Architectural Graphic Standards has been the bedrock design reference for architects, builders, and engineers for almost seventy years. This book gives students their own new edition ...
The unforgettable combat memoir from a Marine who survived a Vietnam platoon action that resulted in the largest number of medals ever given to a single unit in what one officer called the "Alamo--with survivors." Original.
Over 100,000 copies of this spectacular journey have already been sold. In forty-two consecutive scenes, each at a different 'power of ten' level of magnification, readers are taken from the dimension of one billion light years to the realm of the atom. The text and other illustrations depict what we can perceive at each progressively smaller ...
Written when the late Ray Charles was 48 years old, BROTHER RAY is an earthy, conversational account of the singer's early life story. Co-author David Ritz does an excellent job of giving Charles's distinctive voice free rein as the pianist recounts his early school years, the onset of his blindness around the age of five (horrifically, one of the ...
A classic of hard-boiled fiction, Wild Wives is amoral, sexy and brutal. Written in a sleazy San Francisco hotel in the early '50s, Willeford details a drama of deception featuring the crooked detective Jacob C. Blake and his nemesis: the beautiful wife of a socially prominent San Francisco architect. Blake becomes entangled in a web of deceit, ...
This text provides an examination of all aspects of drugs and their users, and considers drugs from all perspectives, including behavioural, pharmacological, historical, social, legal and clinical. Providing up-to-date facts, the text aims to assist readers in making well-informed decisions about behaviour and choices. This edition includes a new ...
Figueras will do anything - blackmail, burglary, assassination - to further his career, crossing the art world with the underworld. Then he takes a job for an art collector who doesn''t care how his art is collected, even if it involves murder.'
Praise from the industry says for C.L. Ray, Jr's "How to Start and Operate an electrical Contracting Business". "I have been instrumental in starting and managing two construction firms...with combined annual sales approaching fifty million dollars. Your book would have been extremely beneficial to me in helping me avoid many of the mistakes I ...
Richard Hudson, woman chaser and used car salesman, possesses a pimp's understanding of the ways in which women (and men) are most vulnerable. One day Richard decides to make an ambitious film, which turns into a fiasco. Enraged, he exacts revenge on all who have crossed him. "No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford. " -- ...
Like the extremely successful Guerrilla Marketing and Guerrilla Marketing Attack, this latest addition to the series is written in the traditional "guerrilla" style, presenting unconventional and unusual ideas that are accessible and exciting for salespeople at every level.
The Acoustic Analysis Of Speech presents essential information on modern methods for the acoustic analysis of speech. It assumes only a modest technical background and is intended for the reader who wants to know the basic issues in speech analysis but does not have an extensive background in engineering, physics or mathematics. The book discusses ...
Praise for the Scientific American Library Paperback Powers of Ten 'Dazzling' Publishers Weekly 'A brilliant pictorial and textual embodiment of a wonderful idea' Stephen Jay Gould Based on the best-selling classic Powers of Ten , this magnificent journey begins one billion light years away, with every two pages representing a view ten times ...
Holed up in his squalid little room at the Eldorado Hotel, Miami cop Hoke Moseley never saw his assailant coming. By the time the intruder was done, Hoke had lost his gun, his badge, and his pride and joy, his dentures. When he recovers from his brutal beating, Hoke gathers his dignity and stumbles down the trail of a pair of ill-suited lovers, ...
Startlingly amoral and painfully funny, "The Shark-infested Custard" dissects the vacuous heart of early 1970s America, where having a good time and being one of the boys was always more important than mere life and death.
The sport is cockfighting and Frank Mansfield is the cockfighter - a silent and fiercely contrary man whose obsession with winning will cost him almost everything. In this haunting, ribald, and percussively violent work, the author of Hoke Moseley detective novels yields a floodlit vision of the cockpits and criminal underbelly of the rural south. ...
Hoke Moseley, the Miami homicide cop first introduced in "Sideswipe", is posted to the migrant farms of the Florida Everglades, where rumours of slavery and murder are rife. He must deal in turn with vicious criminals, the manipulations of his commander and the unwelcome attention of a con artist. Charles Willeford has also written "Miami Blues".
Ray Charles' Own Story. }Ray Charles has led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the prevailing racism of the time, by the age of thirty-two Ray Charles was acclaimed worldwide as a genius. By combining the influences of gospel, jazz, blues, and even country ...
This reissue of Willeford's 1963 pulp classic is a timely reminder that madness is truly the dark heart of politics. Written at a time when people still had faith in their elected leaders, Willeford's book laid bare the American dream. There is an almost Chekhovian wistfulness in the treatment of his stories, which belies their considerable -- and ...
In this new collection of short stories, vignettes and autobiographical sketches-many previously unpublished-Charles Willeford, author of Miami Blues and The Burnt Orange Heresy creates a mosaic of the absurdities of life in the 20th century. From a malicious grandmother to prophetic depictions of the power of reality television, with his wry ...
He was white. She was the color of real coffee, expensive, exotic coffee diluted with pure, thick, yellow cream. She was a goddess all right, a high priestess of love. But this was how Sam Springer, a novelist from Miami, would have described her. And Merita was no fantasy. She was for real.
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