M Carlson: 35 books
Beneath The Surface
A Natural History of a Fisherman's Lake
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Each summer millions experience the beauty of America's lakes—the whirl of sights and sounds as boats cut through the water and birds call to each other from surrounding trees. Now biologist and ichthyologist Bruce M. Carlson takes nature lovers to the side of the lake that few will experience firsthand—a...
by Matthew M. Carlson, Steven R. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Combining history with comparative politics, Matthew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed take on political corruption and scandals, and the reforms designed to counter them, in post–World War II Japan.
Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan makes sense of the scandals that have plagued Japanese...
Ice Blink
Navigating Northern Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Northern Canada's distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and the wider public have shown increasing interest...
Home Is the Hunter
The James Bay Cree and Their Land
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The James Bay Cree lived in relative isolation until 1970, when Northern Quebec was swept up in the political and cultural changes of the Quiet Revolution. The ensuing years have brought immense change for the Cree, who now live with the consequences of Quebec's massive development of hydroelectricity,...
Stem Cell Anthology
From Stem Cell Biology, Tissue Engineering, Cloning, Regenerative Medicine and Biology
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
The fields of stem cell research, regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, and cloning are very closely related. It is important for researchers in each of these disciplines to be aware of the methods and principles in the others. Elsevier publishes some of the highest individual references in these...
Murder Unrenovated
Maggie Ryan, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Realtor Len Trager is anxious to sell the brownstone in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood, but prospective buyers don’t want to deal with Julia Northrup, who rents the basement apartment. Maggie Ryan and her husband Nick O'Connor love the property. They see though Julia’s act, and they’re...
by P.M. Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Statistician Maggie Ryan returns to her alma mater to consult for Professor Charlie Fielding, who is conducting experiments on how skilled readers read. She is invited to a celebratory luncheon with retired professor Tal Chandler. But Chandler is found dead before he gets to the restaurant. The police...
by P.M. Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
After an argument with her grandmother at her Maryland home, sixteen-year-old Ginny Marshall – “born rotten,” according to Gram – gets high and runs away. She turns up on the doorstep of Maggie Ryan and Nick O’Connor’s Brooklyn brownstone. Her presence in Brooklyn is unsettling, but, more...
by P.M. Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Steve Bradford has a loving wife and a precious daughter, but he dreams of life in Venezuela with another woman. Nick O’Connor has been cast in a production with the famous Ramona Ricci. But there are new responsibilities too, as he and his wife, Maggie Ryan, are adjusting to life with a baby daughter...
Performing Bodies in Pain
Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.
Human Embryology and Developmental Biology
with STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
This thoroughly revised 4th edition offers both clear descriptions and explanations of human embryonic development based on all the most up-to-date scientific discoveries and understanding. Particular attention is paid to the fundamental aspects of molecular mechanisms in development, introducing...
Audition for Murder
Maggie Ryan, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
Nick and Lisette O’Connor need a change. They leave New York City for a semester as artists-in-residence at a college upstate, where they take on the roles of Claudius and Ophelia, professional leads in a campus production of Hamlet. Threats and accidents begin to follow Lisette, and Nick worries...
Murder in the Dog Days
Maggie Ryan, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
On a sweltering summer day, reporter Olivia Kerr and her husband Jerry invite Olivia's colleague Dale Colby and his family to the beach. Accompanying them is a very pregnant Maggie Ryan, Jerry's sister, and her family. Dale's last-minute decision to remain at home to follow up on an important...
Murder Is Pathological
Maggie Ryan, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
The exploding wastebasket is a prank, but slaughtered lab rats have graduate students Maggie Ryan, Monica Bauer and the rest of the lab on edge. When the custodian is murdered, actor Nick O’Connor goes undercover to investigate, a protective gesture Maggie does not appreciate. While...