Schaefer: 268 books
by F.C. Schaefer
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
No good deed goes unpunished, so beware when a desperate stranger comes to the door after sundown pleading for help and sanctuary. Good Samaritan Kyle takes in Jim and saves his life by slaying his attacker, only to discover that his new friend is a bloodthirsty creature of the night, one that is...
The Summerland
Mariposa, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
Sheriff Bill Ashton's life is good, quiet, until the bodies of five women are discovered in the remote foothills and all hell breaks loose. Then another woman disappears, leaving her estranged sister's stolen car and half a million in cash behind as their only clues.
Air Force Captain Arden...
Sleaze Artists
Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
Bad Girls Go to Hell. Cannibal Holocaust. Eve and the Handyman. Examining film culture’s ongoing fascination with the low, bad, and sleazy faces of cinema, Sleaze Artists brings together film scholars with a shared interest in the questions posed by disreputable movies and suspect cinema. They explore...
by Beth Schaefer
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
This mock term paper is the highlight of Beth Schaefer's book Grade A Papers: The Slap Stack. This satirical essay pokes harmless, wacky fun at both political parties and a slew of celebrities. The essay is stocked with wordplay. Includes two bonus papers: “Make No Room for Kids: Bells Ding for...
God on the Quad
How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Religious colleges and universities in America are growing at a breakneck pace. In this startling new book, journalist Naomi Schaefer Riley explores these schools-interviewing administrators, professors, and students-to produce the first popular, accessible, and comprehensive investigation of this...
Therapeutic Misadventures
A Narrative Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
In 1978, Martha Schaefer set off on a four-year adventure around the world with her new husband, a rising oilfield executive. As an expatriate corporate wife, Marthas main responsibilities were to find happiness and be supportive of her husbands career. But as the couple traveled and made homes in...
Rethinking Prestige Branding
Secrets of the Ueber-Brands
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2015
What makes someone covet a Kelly bag? Why are Cirque Du Soleil or Grey Goose so successful despite breaking all the conventions of their categories? What does Gucci's approach to marketing have in common with Nespresso's? And why do some people pay a relative fortune for Renova toilet paper or Aesop...
by Stacy B. Schaefer
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
For centuries the Huichol (Wixárika) Indian women of Jalisco, Mexico, have been weaving textiles on backstrap looms. This West Mexican tradition has been passed down from mothers to daughters since pre-Columbian times. Weaving is a part of each woman’s identity—allowing them to express their...
Liberalism as Utopia
The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820–1900
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Liberalism as Utopia challenges widespread perceptions about the weakness of Mexico's nineteenth-century state. Schaefer argues that after the War of Independence non-elite Mexicans - peasants, day laborers, artisans, local merchants - pioneered an egalitarian form of legal rule by serving in the...
Opportunity and Hope
Transforming Children's Lives through Scholarships
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The U.S. education system is not meeting the needs of all our children, especially those who are economically disadvantaged. For too many families, income level and ZIP code determine the quality of education available to their children. The need to give all children access to a good education, a...
Environmental Corrections
A New Paradigm for Supervising Offenders in the Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
A new paradigm for supervising offenders in the community
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Environmental Corrections is an innovative guide filled with rich insights and strategies for probation and parole officers to effectively integrate offenders back into the community and reduce recidivism. Authors Lacey...
Beautifully Prepared
Restoring Magnificence to Your Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The author in this book reflects on the luster of her life filled with wonderful success yet tarnished with feelings of emptiness and sorrow. Many women know this life. We appear good, whole, and complete on the outside while sadness fills the depths of the heart on the inside. We often wonder if...
The Formation of the BRICS and its Implication for the United States
Emerging Together
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Schaefer and Poffenbarger assess whether the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are attempting to balance US power and analyze the United States' responses to the creation of this IGO through a mix of theoretical and policy-focused approaches.
by Juan E. Small, MD, MSc
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Neuroradiology: Key Differential Diagnoses and Clinical Questions equips you to make efficient, accurate diagnoses and prepare for imaging exams with hundreds of high-quality, unknown cases in neuroradiology. Drs. Juan Small and Pamela Schaefer draw upon Massachusetts General Hospital’s vast case...