Robert W : 999 books

In the early twentieth century, the trends of rampant alcohol consumption, salacious dance crazes, and frolicking flappers threw traditional sexual mores into a tailspin. In the hilarious romantic farce The Younger Set, author Robert W. Chambers project the anxieties of this tumultuous early twentieth...

Richard West is sent to save a rural Area School from closure and to find what happened to the school's Principal. He meets with resentment and obstruction as farmers and foresters join together to hide an inconvenient truth. To further complicate matters, there is a gulf between the Maori people...

Richard West discovers his quiet exclusive girls' boarding school is a centre for drugs and prostitution directed by a Committee of otherwise respectable citizens. June Crawford has been investigating drug trafficking whilst working undercover as a teacher in another local school . Alex West befriends...

There was a red-headed slattern sweeping the veranda—nobody else visible about the house. All the shutters of the stone and timber chalet were closed; cow-barn, stable, springhouse and bottling house appeared to be deserted. Weeds smothered the garden where a fountain played above a brimming basin...

Voice Therapy: A Psychotherapeutic Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior is a thought-provoking work that provides clinicians with a detailed description of Voice Therapy, an innovative therapeutic procedure developed by Dr. Robert W. Firestone that can be used to elicit and bring to the foreground negative...

Robert W. Duemling's long career took him from Yale to the U.S. State Department where he worked his way up the ranks to become Ambassador to Suriname and then to Washington where he became the second director of the National Building Museum. Along the way, Duemling met and befriended an astonishing...

Brazil has the second-largest cattle herd in the world and is a major exporter of beef. While ranching in the Amazon—and its destructive environmental consequences—receives attention from both the media and scholars, the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul actually host the most cattle....

‘God’s domain’ takes Chesney Barrett, Travis Weld on a potentially world-changing mission' MIDLAND, Mich. – Travis Weld, leader of a clandestine government team, reaches out once more to environmental graduate student Chesney Barrett in the fourth book of Robert Gallant’s suspense...

While new techniques and instruments are constantly being developed, the fundamental concepts and principles of hand surgery remain the basic components of every surgeon's knowledge. This book provides the vital information needed to perform all types of hand surgery, including a guiding philosophy...

Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity is a collection of essays by Nobel laureate Robert W. Fogel on the theory and measurement of ageing and health-related variables. Dr Fogel analyzes historic data on height, health, nutrition and life expectation to provide a clearer understanding...

Please read "The Fern Valley Conspiracy" first. Richard West and his family are caught in an earthquake that isolates the town of Grantville, in the South Island of New Zealand. They find their way to Te Kouka Flats farm, which is deserted, with signs of a recent fire. The family search for survivors...

Some time after a girl went missing in Middle Creek, Richard West is sent to investigate whether there is truth in the claim that a six year old is being sexually abused. Due to media publicity the township is withdrawn and resentful at this new intrusion. An Irishman seeks revenge for what he believes...

These classic tales, centering on an American in Breton and a local French girl include stories about the murder of a butterfly collector and the haunting spirit of a renegade priest. A fantastic bit of story-telling from one of the masters, Robert W. Chambers!

Though his later novels took a turn toward political and romantic matters, Robert W. Chambers' early works mined a unique vein of the horror genre that has come to be known as "weird" fiction. Though he soon abandoned his literary ambitions in this direction, his early works gained a large following,...