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Don Carlos Buenaventura, the protagonist of "The Last of Our Kind, " is a powerful brujo living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a remote settlement on the edge of Spain's North American empire. The year is 1706. Comanche war parties are boldly conducting raids nearby, French traders and soldiers are aggressively expanding toward New Mexico from the Great Plains, and agents of the Spanish Inquisition have arrived in search of a brujo suspected of bein...

Black & white film, the cinema of shadows and light, is a filmgoer's pleasure and a film student's surprised delight. The greatest of films are black & white, from Chaplin and Keaton, through the masterpieces of Film Noir, up to the black & white rarities of modern cinema, from Raging Bull to The Artist. Featuring 40 well-chosen illustrations, this is the first full account, critique and history of the black & white film, which dominated the m...

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Research scientist Shea Caldwell has always had a thing for security consultant, Derek Oneiros. He's smart, handsome, and built like a Greek god. As attracted as she is to him, though, she's afraid to let him into her bed - because she's dangerous when she sleeps. Derek is known among his brothers as "The Machine, " yet his carefully cultivated control is put to the test whenever he's around Shea. The woman is as beautiful as she is intelligen...

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Private investigator Mitchell King is involved with two difficult cases. He fights to shield a female astronaut from a sexual harassment when he's asked to persuade the stalker to quit. Mitch then becomes personally involved with the sexy murder witness whom he's hired to protect. The investigations take Mitch from the refined engineering of space exploration to the squalor of biker bars and heroin shooting galleries. As he obsesses over his c...

For Nick Wade, life was an endless series of heroin-fuelled highs and lows. Alienated from most of his remaining family, Nick leads a vagabond existence as one of West Philly's lost addicts. When his girlfriend is killed in a car accident, Nick is ordered to Springbrook Healing and Recovery Center. There he forges an uneasy friendship with his roommate, an alcoholic named John Curran, and meets fellow heroin addict Sarah McCallister. As Nick s...

Do you have a taste for the bizarre, abstract, and peculiar? This eclectic collection of short stories will tantalize your imagination and your sense of propriety. Here you will find exploding chickens, flying giraffes, and one very ugly monkey. Barbers sick with love and school spirit. A mailman with a vendetta against junk mail. Mayhem. Love gone wrong. Lost souls of all stripes. Join Jeff Weddle-Eudora Welty Prize winning author-for twenty-...

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Roxins Buch über "Täterschaft und Tatherrschaft", das nunmehr in der 9. Auflage vorliegt, ist seit seinem ersten Erscheinen (1963) zu einem Klassiker der strafrechtswissenschaftlichen Literatur geworden. Das Werk ist die umfangreichste Monographie über die Abgrenzung von Täterschaft und Teilnahme im deutschen Strafrecht. Die Neuauflage bringt neben dem, wie immer unveränderten, Hauptteil des Buches einen durchgreifend bearbeiteten und erweiter...

In a topsy-turvy United States founded by pirates, the personal assassin to the chief justice receives a terrifying order: round up and kill all men who look like himself.Why does the chief justice want these men dead? What threat could they possibly pose? And can the assassin save them-or will he become the final victim?Spooky, sly and satirical, The Devil's Dictum recasts J. Edgar Hoover as a Satanic high priest, Calvin Coolidge as a private...

Childhood is not only about imagination, learning new things, and having a pleasant experience, but also learning to deal with some of the unknowns and frustrations of life. This is an unconventional winter story about a little girl with a big imagination. She and her mischievous friend have an adventure and make new friends along the way! This book is for the beginning reader. ***Caution: this story may contain violence against snowmen and ma...

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Under the Radar is a comprehensive guide on How to Protect and Maintain Your Own Financial Fortress by Flying Under the Radar. Topics include asset protection, income tax reduction, wealth preservation and risk management.

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