Samuel Johnson and the New Science [Hardcover] Richard B. Schwartz

Samuel Johnson and the New Science

Schwartz, Richard B.

Science & Math

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Daily Life in Johnson's London

A guide to eighteenth-century urban life in Great Britain covers work, money, pastimes, home life, travel, health, and the law

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

University of Wisconsin Press

A guide to eighteenth-century urban life in Great Britain covers work, money, pastimes, home life, travel, health, and the law

Jack Grant, Vietnam vet turned L.A. private eye, spends his days busting small-time insurance defrauders. But his latest client gives him the cold shoulder―literally― when he turns up dead in a tub of ice. Another body in a downtown meat freezer is only the second in a chilling series of murders. Soon Jack is plunged into a murky underworld of Chilean exiles where evil masquerades as virtue and nothing is as it seems. The first book in the Jack Grant mystery series, Frozen Stare is guaranteed to give you goosebumps.

Frozen Stare

United States

St Martins Pr

Jack Grant is a Vietnam vet turned private eye in Los Angeles, who spends his days quietly tracking fraudulent insurance claims and small-time grifters. When he agrees to meet a potential client at the L. A. Market, he finds him dead—floating in a tub of ice. The next victim is found hanging in a downtown meat freezer. What started as a safe and easy case ends with a violent confrontation in San Antonio, as Jack is plunged into a world of murderous Chilean exiles in which evil masquerades as virtue, no one is who he seems to be, and all roads lead towards a shadowy figure with a haunting, nightmarish face.

Contemporary

Mystery Writers of Amer Presents

Jack Grant, Vietnam vet turned L.A. private eye, spends his days busting small-time insurance defrauders. But his latest client gives him the cold shoulder―literally― when he turns up dead in a tub of ice. Another body in a downtown meat freezer is only the second in a chilling series of murders. Soon Jack is plunged into a murky underworld of Chilean exiles where evil masquerades as virtue and nothing is as it seems. The first book in the Jack Grant mystery series, Frozen Stare is guaranteed to give you goosebumps.

Frozen Stare (The Jack Grant Mysteries)

Midnight Ink

Cynthia Bladen has been missing for weeks when private investigator Jack Grant takes the case. This time there is a motivating, if unsettling, force behind the investigation: Cynthia is Jack's ex-girlfriend. When her mutilated body is found, Cynthia's distraught husband accepts the grim outcome. But Jack can't give up until he finds her killer. he teams up with Lieutenant Diana Craig, a tough-as-nails tracker, whose razor-sharp insights and intellect give Jack a run for his money. It's a partnership peppered with barbs that soon progresses to cozy banter and trust. As romance unfolds, so does their investigation, and they uncover intriguing connections to organized crime.  Jack mines his memories for clues, hoping for anything that will give him an edge. When buried feelings also rise to the surface, he struggles to stay ahead of an emotional tidal wave that could compromise his detective instincts.

Proof of Purchase (The Jack Grant Mysteries)

Into the Dark: A Jack Grant Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

This comprehensive reference provides all the information emergency departments and personnel need to prepare for and respond to terrorist events. The first section covers all agents potentially used in terrorist attacks—chemical, biologic, toxicologic, nuclear, and explosive—in a systematic format that includes background, triage, decontamination, signs and symptoms, medical management, personnel protection, and guidelines for notifying public health networks. Algorithms show when to suspect and how to recognize exposure and detail signs and symptoms and management protocols. The second section focuses on all-hazards preparedness for hospitals, communities, emergency medical services, and the media, and includes an important chapter on simulation of disasters.

Medical Response To Terrorism: Preparedness and Clinical Practice

Medical Books

Keyes, Daniel C.

Burstein, Jonathan L.

Swienton, Raymond E.

Administration & Medicine Economics

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

Owners of mystery bookshops will tell you that there are several sorts of buyers: those who purchase on impulse or whim; genre addicts who buy paperbacks by the week and by the armful; and those who have caught up on canonical texts and regularly buy new novels by select authors in hardcover. Richard B. Schwartz belongs in the last group, with his own list of approximately seventy favorite writers.Nice and Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction explores the work of these writers, building upon a reading of almost seven hundred novels from the 1980s and 1990s. By looking at recurring themes in these mysteries, Schwartz offers readers new ways to approach the works in relation to contemporary cultural concerns.            With sensitivity to a culture consisting of frontiers and borders, Schwartz examines the position of the vigilante in art and society, racial bridges and divides, the absence of divine presence and compensating narrative strategies, the unresolved nature of the crime plot and its roots in chivalric romance. The special importance of setting and the growing importance of grotesque humor in the fiction studied here are addressed by the author, as is the journalistic/instructional dimension of the field and the importance of crossover narratives.            This book is not only a study and appreciation of an important subgenre and its contemporary practitioners; it also utilizes both literary history and theoretical material. Information has been drawn from fanzines, from discussions with writers, booksellers, agents, and editors, and from the author’s own extensive knowledge of literature and American culture.            Nice and Noir is wide-ranging but neither ponderous nor lugubrious. Its language is accessible but not simplistic. The book will have a broad appeal—both to academics and to general readers with some interest in American studies and popular culture.

Nice and Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction (Volume 1)

University of Missouri

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Samuel Johnson and the New Science

Daily Life in Johnson's London

Daily Life in Johnson's London

Frozen Stare

Frozen Stare

Frozen Stare (The Jack Grant Mysteries)

Proof of Purchase (The Jack Grant Mysteries)

Into the Dark: A Jack Grant Mystery

Medical Response To Terrorism: Preparedness and Clinical Practice

Nice and Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction (Volume 1)