J Barber: 36 books

Detective inspector Ria Banker and her motley Serious Crimes Squad in the Middle England small city of Granerton in the Eighties find when the important town busybody falls over dead after drinking last out of the Communion cup, there is more than  murder going on among the high and low of the...

When the middling Middle England town of Granerton was to inaugurate its grand new Art Centre it found it was to be opened by the Town’s only artistic celebrity. Not only was he obnoxious, but Detective Chief Inspector Ria Banker found trouble followed in his wake This being the eighties she...

When Jean Sadler took on instructing yoga at lunchtime for a Granerton financial company, she little realized that someone would not find the relaxing could go too far. So  Detective Chief Inspector Ria Banker and her quirky Serious Crimes Squad would be looking at people and places high and low. As the saying goes- follow the money!  

This book is the outcome of a Bioenergetics workshop held at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in April 2018 to honour Professor Bertil Andersson for his outstanding contributions to scientific research and administration, particularly his very successful 11 years a NTU as Provost...

Four stories and one novel by J.M. Barber 10 BLOCKS DOWN-He's an old assassin with dementia. But he has one more job and he's willing to go through a new kind of hell to get his target. A COLD WORLD-In a world that kills babies to deal with overpopulation you do whatever you can to fight...

A man pens a note to his wife while stranded in the desert. A man tries to kill a mouse sent from hell. A man finally expresses how he feels to his family in the worst way imaginable. These stories and more are included in J.M. Barber's exciting collection of short stories.

Describing the diagnosis and management of maxillofacial and associated traumatic injuries step by step, Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma, 4th Edition takes you beyond the surgical management of head and neck trauma to cover the general management of traumatic injuries, systemic evaluation of the trauma...

Virginia Women is the first of two volumes exploring the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. This collection of seventeen essays, written by established and emerging scholars, recovers the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the seventeenth...

This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...

He's an elderly black man that has a disdain for black people. When gang members and police run amok in his hood he sees it all. In his hood there's always something going on, but most seem to miss what's going on just beneath the surface.

Tyler loves the strip clubs, so much that he's nearly destroyed his life for them. But things have changed for Tyler and now he has more money than he can spend. Finally he can do the things he desires and more freely than the average person. When he decides that he wants to use one night to get to...

What happened to best-selling fiction author Dennis Ridge? There's a reason they say to never pick up hitchhikers. Even if it is a pretty woman. 

This is a robust and relevant collection from a truly distinguished group of political theorists actively rethinking the promise and perils of democracy. The book is coherent in its focus on a common theme and aim: to advance and refine the political project of promoting democratic theory and practice....

What are the limits of justified retaliation against aggression? What actions are morally permissible in preventing future aggression? Against whom may retaliation be aimed? These questions have long been part of the debate over the ethics of warfare. They all took on new meaning after terrorists...