Product Description: Accidental Soldier depicts Richard B. Schwartz's military experiences, first as an ROTC cadet at the University of Notre Dame and finally as an Army veteran teaching in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1959, Vietnam was little more than a word on a map; within ten years, Americans saw the Tet Offensive and their campuses in flames...read more

Product Description: Cynthia Bladen has been missing for weeks when private investigator Jack Grant takes the case. This time there is a motivating, if unsettling, force behind the investigation: Cynthia is Jack's ex-girlfriend. When her mutilated body is found, Cynthia's distraught husband accepts the grim outcome...read more

In this twisted tale of vengeance, a congressman is impaled on an escalator in a London tube station and a real estate agent is poisoned on a Disneyland ride. Unusual sword-like weapons, public settings, and expert execution--murders that are worlds apart from the crimes he usually deals with--Jack Grant finds a sordid connection between the victims and a heinous crime never brought to light that will blur the line between right and wrong.

Product Description: Jack Grant, Vietnam vet turned L.A. private eye, spends his days busting small-time insurance defrauders. But his latest client gives him the cold shoulder--literally-- when he turns up dead in a tub of ice. Another body in a downtown meat freezer is only the second in a chilling series of murders...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive reference provides all the information emergency departments and personnel need to prepare for and respond to terrorist events. The first section covers all agents potentially used in terrorist attacks—chemical, biologic, toxicologic, nuclear, and explosive—in a systematic format that includes background, triage, decontamination, signs and symptoms, medical management, personnel protection, and guidelines for notifying public health networks...read more

Product 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...read more

Product Description: One of Jack Grant’s former girlfriends is missing. Her husband hires Jack to investigate, but when her dead and mutilated body is found the husband suddenly turns ugly. Haunted by memories, Jack must reach into his own past to search out the clues that will help him find the killers...read more

Product Description: Jack Grant, who appeared in Frozen Stare, returns in a tale of heart-stopping revenge, accompanied by Frank White, Charles White, Jerry Dailey, and other members of the LAPD. Jack, a Vietnam vet and Pasadena PI, is drawn into a complex story with violent roots in the distant past...read more

Product Description: In a series of stories drawn from his own experiences coming of age during the 1950s, Richard B. Schwartz revisits his boyhood in southern Ohio. His memories of adolescence bring back the birth of rock and roll, the rigors and absurdities of religion and parochial schools, trials of little league baseball, grueling summer construction work and caddying jobs, the thin pleasure of 3...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Calling Samuel Johnson the greatest literary critic since Aristotle, Richard B. Schwartz assumes the perspective of that quintessential eighteenth-century man of letters to examine the critical and theoretical literary developments that gained momentum in the 1970s and stimulated the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a collection of nine essays by senior scholars Donald Greene, Morris R. Brownell, Richard B. Schwartz, Howard D. Weinbrot, Maximillian Novak, J. Paul Hunter, John H. Middendorf, Shirley Strum Kenny, and Gwin J. Kolb.They draw from their own experiences as students and scholars to assess the past and present position of theory in eighteenth-century studies and to discuss the important areas of scholarship that remain relatively unexplored, often proposing specific projects...read more

A guide to eighteenth-century urban life in Great Britain covers work, money, pastimes, home life, travel, health, and the law