George Thomas' clear, precise calculus text with superior applications defined the modern-day, three-semester or four-quarter calculus course. The ninth edition of this proven text has been carefully revised to give students the solid base of material they will need to succeed in math, science, and engineering programs. This edition includes ...
Congressional consultant Benjamin Dill returns to his hometown in Texas to investigate the death of his sister Felicity, a police woman who died in a mysterious car-bombing.
Hired by a political kingmaker to investigate a cocaine war, journalist Morgan Citron uncovers a scandal involving the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. It's a story that will make Watergate look like a parking ticket--if Citron lives to tell about it.
A novel by the author of "Twilight at Mac's Place". Quincy Durant and Artie Wu, featured in "Out on the Rim", have set up Wudu Ltd to reorganize their depleted fortunes after the stockmarket crash, and are hired to locate two sexually-deviant British hypnotists, missing in California.
Learn Linear Circuits by Actually Designing Them! With more examples, problems, applications, and tools, the Third Edition of Thomas and Rosa's The Analysis and Design of Linear Circuits presents an effective learn-by-doing approach to linear circuits. The authors not only discuss Laplace transforms, new passive and active elements, time-varying ...
The updated tenth edition of this clear, precise calculus text with superior applications sets the standard in calculus. This proven text was carefully revised to give students the solid base they need to succeed in math, science and engineering programs. Through a comprehensive technology package, this edition now includes more opportunity to ...
Few seem to notice or care when 57-year-old Steadfast Haynes, a veteran CIA hired-hand, dies quietly in a Hay-Adams Hotel room. But official indifference turns to panic when it's discovered that his son has been offered $100,000 for all rights to his father's memoirs by an anonymous bidder.
George Thomas' clear precise calculus text with superior applications defined the modern-day calculus course. This proven text gives students the solid base of material they will need to succeed in math, science, and engineering programs.
A favourite Thomas novel on a hard list to choose from, Chinamans Chance, often considered Thomas' best, introduces the characters of Quincy Durant and Arthur Wu, pretender to the throne of the emperor of China. An accident involving a dead pelican sets Wu and Durant on a path to find a missing woman and retrieve treasure buried in Saigon left by ...
Though he was never known to the public as a great writer, the New Yorker editor Harold Ross was a prolific and thoughtful letter-writer, as this collection of his letters to E. B. White, John O'Hara, Noel Coward, and Henry Luce (to name but a few) indicates.
Millicent Altford is a rainmaker, showering politicos with cash, but someone has just stolen $1.2 million from her war chest. To help get the money back, Edd "Twodees" Partain enters a world populated with beautiful women and brutal men who take treachery to new levels of twisted insanity.
A brilliant new thriller in which Booth Stallings is asked to handle a huge sum of money for the leader of a rebel group opposed to the Aquino government in the Philippines. Stallings can't help trying to keep the money for himself, but he needs the help of the most inventive con artists in the hemisphere.
Unavailable since 1989, here is a trademark Philip St. Ives novel. Professional go-between extraordinaire, St. Ives is after an antique sword that happens to feature an egg-size diamond in its hilt. A gallery of rogues want it too, and soon staying alive seems much more important--and more unlikely--than getting the treasure.
When a legendary freedom fighter is kidnapped, his close friend the Libyan dictator angrily blames the CIA. In retaliation, the Libyans kidnap the U.S. President's brother. Enter the Mordida Man--an independent fixer and bribery expert who must find and free the President's brother . . . without causing an international incident.
Providing protection to a former state supreme court justice who has been framed for bribery, the California Fourth Durango team is up to their eyeballs in trouble when the judge's history clashes with that of Durango's.
The tenth edition of this clear, precise calculus text with superior applications sets the standard in calculus. The tenth edition of this proven text was carefully revised to give students the solid base they need to succeed in math, science and engineering programs. Through a comprehensive technology package, this edition now includes more ...
A classic mystery featuring Padillo and Mac, from the award-winning author of Ah, Treachery! McCorkle returns from Germany to Washington, D.C., with a beautiful wife, intending to live a quiet life as a saloon keeper in a classy neighborhood. But when his old friend Mike padillo is stabbed, his wife is kidnapped, and various assassination plots ...
In this critique of our legal system the author reveals how in making and justifying their opinions, judges rely to a startling degree on personal constructs that often perpetuate the deep biases in society.
The award-winning author of Out on the Rim and The Cold War Swap pens a first-rate novel of intrigue and espionage in which an ex-OSS operat ive and a dwarf team up after the Second World War to locate an assassin whose targets are ex-Nazi leaders.
A senator who resigns rather than facing charges of bribery attracts the attention of a powerful D.C. columnist, especially when it comes out that the senator has refused to help in a murder investigation--where the victim is his daughter.
A stolen, priceless 500-year-old book sets go-between Philip St. Ives in motion and lands him in a parking lot, out $250,000, and beside a recently murdered man. Things go downhill from there as St. Ives goes West with a great offer: a book for a bullet . . . and some blood.
A popular tale from the Philip St. Ives series, out of print since 1989. Philip is to deliver a quarter of a million dollars to whomever lifted a prized African shield from a museum. But this "normal" job for St. Ives soon becomes a dangerous game, as many powerful people with murder on their minds want the shield at any cost.
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