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Thomas McKinley, a recently retired Marine Corps officer, goes to Honduras to research a book on the Contras. In the town of Danlí not far from the Nicaraguan border, he meets Honduran-American Elena Johnson de Vasquez – attractive, divorced, the well-off owner a local cigar factory, and very good...

Harry Logan is a small-time Hollywood movie producer with a sense of humor, a slightly schizophrenic assistant usually named Lilith, and a still-loving and loved ex-wife, Judy, owner of an art gallery and a sharp, gutsy lady. Among Harry's friends is Al Lopez, a sometimes gruff LAPD detective. The...

Harry Logan is a producer of modest but successful Hollywood movies. From Gabriella Dellacroce, an amorous Italian TV producer and long-time friend who has gone back to Italy for a year, Harry has ‘inherited’ Mike Roman, a retired government horticulturist, to take care of his garden.One...

US Treasury agent and former Navy Seal Jack Becker is assigned to the German Finance Ministry for liaison. While there, the ministry receives reports from the Italian Guardia di Finanza of gold bars showing up in Sicilian gold markets with Third Reich stampings on them. Where they are coming from...

This whimsical collection of tales is based on the Buddhist collection of Jātaka tales. However, the author confesses to ‘ruthlessly’ altering them for the amusement of children and occasionally borrowing a ‘phrase or a versicle’. He opens the book with a warning; “To this work I refer...

This book contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 16-20 June 1986. The seed for this symposium arose from a group of physiologists , soU scientists and biochemists that met in Leningrad, USSR in July 1975 at the 12th Botanical Conference...

Technical improvements over the past twenty years have made endos­ copy the procedure of choice for examination of the hollow organs of the genitourinary and gastrointestinal tracts. The development of electro­ surgical techniques, laser technology, injection therapy, and a wide variety of other...

Just one bullet. That’s all it takes to land Rick Morgan, Chief Audit Executive for Seattle Life and Casualty into a world of hurt. With lowlife, Johnny Delaney lying dead in a fleabag hotel, Rick’s company is on the hook for a fifty-million-dollar diamond heist. He needs answers, but the trail...

Based on the fundamentals of electromagnetics, this clear and concise text explains basic and applied principles of transformer and inductor design for power electronic applications. It details both the theory and practice of inductors and transformers employed to filter currents, store electromagnetic...

Poetics, Praxis and Critique: Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason addresses contemporary problems of justice, the recognition of disabled persons, the role of imagination in political judgment, the need for religious hospitality and carnal hermeneutics. The essays in this volume are a...

This is a report on updated techniques, instrumentation and clinical application of PET, MRI and MRS in cancer management.

MY BIRTH AND PARENTAGE – EARLY TASTES AND TRAVELS – MARRIAGE, AND WIDOWHOOD.

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS (abridged list) PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. ILLUSTRATIONS. CHAPTER I. ... CHAPTER XXXVIII. APPENDIX A. APPENDIX B. APPENDIX C.

Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness offers practical strategies for addressing the harmful effects of stigma attached to mental illness. It considers both major forms of stigma: public stigma, which is prejudice and discrimination endorsed by the general population; and self-stigma, the loss...