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Description: A California congressman is impaled on an escalator in a London tube station and a big-shot real estate agent is poisoned on a Disneyland ride. Unusual sword-like murder weapons, public settings, and expert execution connect these two brutal homicides. Worlds apart from the sloppy street crime he usually deals with, LAPD lieutenant Frank White can't help admiring the killer's precision and perfect...
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Description: Jack Grant, Vietnam vet turned private eye, is plunged into a murky underworld when his latest client turns up dead in a tub of ice.
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Description: Schwartz speculates that Johnson - who revered hard facts, a wide cultural base, and common sense - would have exhibited scant patience with the heavily academic approaches currently favored in the study of literature. He considers it probable that the combatants in the early struggles of the culture wars are losing energy and that, in the wake of Alvin Kernan's declaration of the death of literat...
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Description: Postwar Higher Education in America: Just Yesterday explores the apogee of American Higher Education and its devolution into its current state. It offers concrete recommendations for capitalizing on its lost strengths and restoring the standards and expectations that our current students have been denied.
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Description: "By turns hilarious and poignant, satiric and nostalgic, the book focuses on a period and place through a perspective somehow both engaged and withdrawn - engaged through its feeling of innocent immediacy, and distanced because of the awareness developed in the intervening decades. If the memoir expresses a sense of loss at the passing of good times, it also exhibits a sense of relief at the end of those awkward years."--BOOK JACKET.
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Description: This book depicts the author's military experiences during the Vietnam Era, first as an ROTC cadet at the University of Notre Dame and finally as an Army veteran teaching in Madison, Wisconsin, focusing upon Schwartz's experience at West Point, its cadets, officer corps and system of education.
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Description: Owners of mystery bookshops will tell you that there are several sorts of buyers: those who purchase on impulse or whim; genre addicts who buy paperbacks by the week and by the armful; and those who have caught up on canonical texts and regularly buy new novels by select authors in hardcover. Richard B. Schwartz belongs in the last group, with his own list of approximately seventy favorite writers...
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Description: Dr. Leonard Barnes, a prominent Irvine surgeon, is the part-time medical examiner for the Laguna Beach PD. A gentle but formal man, his naked, comatose body is found beside the freeway near San Juan Capistrano. His coma has been brought on by alcohol poisoning; Len Barnes is a teetotaler. Len's friend and new love, Dr. Sally Cornell, is a UCSD forensic anthropologist. She knows that Len has been p...
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Description: "A rich, fascinating, enlightening if sometimes slightly terrifying tableau of real life in one of the world's most celebrated cities."--Los Angeles Times
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