Author : James Hadley Chase
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Blondes
ISBN : 9781944520267
In "Just the way it is," a gangster becomes romantically entangled with a newspaper woman who also happens to be the girlfriend of his associate. Her investigation into the inexplicable purchase of a seemingly worthless piece of land propels them both into an ever-unraveling mystery with plenty of twists.
Author : James Hadley Chase
Publisher : Stark House Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781944520496
Two hardboiled 1940s novels which have never been previously published in U.S. paperback. In No Business of Mine, an American newspaperman tries to solve a London mystery involving the apparent suicide of his wartime lover. In Miss Shumway Waves a Wand, Chase creates a wild mixture of wisecracking humor and Mexican magic.
Author : Lee Server
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1438109121
Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.
Author : James Hadley Chase
Publisher :
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 1944
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780552103817
Author : James Hadley Chase
Publisher : Murder Room
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1471903265
When Dave Fenner is hired to solve the Blandish kidnapping, he knows the odds on finding the girl are against him - the cops are still looking for her three months after the ransom was paid. And the kidnappers, Riley and his gang, have disappeared into thin air. But what none of them knows is that Riley himself has been wiped out by a rival gang - and the heiress is now in the hands of Ma Grisson and her son Slim, a vicious killer who can't stay away from women, especially his beautiful new captive. By the time Fenner begins to close in on them, some terrible things have happened to Miss Blandish ...
Author : Mary Roach
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2004-05-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393069192
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s “acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating” (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue. For two thousand years, cadavers – some willingly, some unwittingly – have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery, cadavers have helped make history in their quiet way. “Delightful—though never disrespectful” (Les Simpson, Time Out New York), Stiff investigates the strange lives of our bodies postmortem and answers the question: What should we do after we die? “This quirky, funny read offers perspective and insight about life, death and the medical profession. . . . You can close this book with an appreciation of the miracle that the human body really is.” —Tara Parker-Pope, Wall Street Journal “Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.” —Entertainment Weekly
Author : Ordean A. Hagen
Publisher : New York : Bowker
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Author : Neal Stephenson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 1994-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141924047
THE 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED MATERIAL After the Internet, what came next? Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash. A cyberdrug that reduces avatars in the digital world to dust, but also infects users in real life, leaving them in a vegetative state. This is bad news for Hiro, a freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter, and mouthy skateboard courier Y. T.. Together, investigating the Infocalypse, they trace back the roots of language itself to an ancient Sumerian priesthood and find they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination. In this special edition of the remarkably prescient modern classic, Neal Stephenson explores linguistics, computer science, politics and philosophy in the form of a break-neck adventure into the fast-approaching yet eerily recognizable future. 'Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century' William Gibson 'Brilliantly realized' New York Times Book Review 'Like a Pynchon novel with the brakes removed' Washington Post 'A remarkably prescient vision of today's tech landscape' Vanity Fair
Author : Orson Ferguson Whitney
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Missions
ISBN :
Author : Tomasz Zaleskiewicz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3030455009
This book reviews the latest research from psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics evaluating how people make financial choices in real-life circumstances. The volume is divided into three sections investigating financial decision making at the level of the brain, the level of an individual decision maker, and the level of the society, concluding with a discussion of the implications for further research. Among the topics discussed: Neural and hormonal bases of financial decision making Personality, cognitive abilities, emotions, and financial decisions Aging and financial decision making Coping methods for making financial choices under uncertainty Stock market crashes and market bubbles Psychological perspectives on borrowing, paying taxes, gambling, and charitable giving Psychological Perspectives on Financial Decision Making is a useful reference for researchers both in and outside of psychology, including decision-making experts, consumer psychologists, and behavioral economists.
