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  • SALES MANAGEMENT
    THOMAS N. INGRAM / RAYMOND W. LAFORGE / RAMON A. AVILA / CHARLES H. SCHWEPKER JR / MICHAEL R. WILLIAMS
    This 11th edition of Sales Management continues the tradition of blending the most recent sales management research with the real-life "best practices" of leading sales organizations and sales professionals. Reflecting today’s emphasis on analytics and customer experience (CX), this edition focuses on the importance of employing different data-based selling strategies for diffe...

    $2,300.00

  • WORDS THAT WOUND
    MARI J MATSUDA / CHARLES R. LAWRENCE III / RICHARD DELGADO / KIMBERLE WILLIAMS CRENSHAW
    In this book, the authors, all legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory start from the experience of injury from racist hate speech and develop a theory of the first amendment that recognizes such injuries. In their critique of "first amendment orthodoxy", the authors argue that only a history of racism can explain why defamation, invasion of privacy and fraud ...

    $1,460.00

  • BIG CITY GIRL
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    Her husband in jail, a desperate young woman takes refuge among sharecroppers Once, Cass Neely's farm stretched across the entire valley, but decades of bad decisions and rotten luck have forced him to sell off nearly every inch. He and his son farm the meager remains of a once-great property, living in a grim downward spiral—until Cass's daughter-in-law, Joy, moves in. She's b...

    $119.00

  • MAN ON THE RUN
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    Pursued by the police, a desperate man fights to stay free—and stay alive It's raining hard when the man leaps off the train. He lands safely and creeps into town, praying he will find someplace to hide. It's nearly daylight, and the police are not far behind. He breaks into an unoccupied seaside cottage, and is overjoyed to find coffee, whiskey, and cigarettes. But before the ...

    $164.00

  • UNCLE SAGAMORE AND HIS GIRLS
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    It's election season in Blossom County, and that means it's time for moonshine Educated at the racetrack, Billy has never had a firm grip on his ABCs, but he sure knows how to read a racing form. When a family court judge threatens to put the seven-year-old in a foster home, Billy and his father go to live in the countryside, at the wholesome little farm owned by Billy's Uncle ...

    $119.00

  • AGROUND
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    A widow and a charter captain scour the ocean for a stolen yacht When Ingram lands in Miami, he doesn't even have time to finish his bath before the police come knocking. The out-of-work charter captain has just returned from Nassau, where he was looking to buy a boat on behalf of a millionaire. But the day after he toured the seventy-foot Dragoon, his "millionaire" disappeared...

    $119.00

  • AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    Edgar Award Finalist: A sailor stranded in the Pacific Ocean finds there are a million ways to die His life in pieces, Harry Goddard buys a thirty-two-foot sloop and sets out to sail the Pacific. He is a thousand miles from anywhere when his craft strikes an unseen object, and begins taking water. For all his desperate efforts, he cannot save her, and Harry is forced into his l...

    $119.00

  • THE BIG BITE
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    An ex-football player and a crooked insurance man cook up a blackmail scheme Professional football player John Harlan is driving back from a lakeside cabin when a drunk driver named Cannon knocks him off the road. When he comes to, Harlan's leg is shattered and Cannon is dead. His career over, Harlan goes on a bender, and a few days after his hangover clears, he dives headfirst...

    $119.00

  • THE CONCRETE FLAMINGO
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    A beautiful fraudster gives a drifter a chance at an irresistible score Jerry Forbes, on the run in Fort Lauderdale, is careful not to tell Marian Forsyth his real name. But Marian already knows his secrets. She's been following him since Miami Beach, fascinated by this handsome drifter since the first time she heard his voice. Finally she tells him the truth: Together, they're...

    $119.00

  • CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    A small town is doomed by jealousy, greed, and a shared love of hunting In the backwoods town of Carthage, there isn't much for the leading citizens to do but drink, sleep, and shoot. John Warren is preparing for an early morning duck hunt when he hears two shotgun blasts— only later does he learn they were the sound of Dan Roberts's death. Although it appears the handsome youn...

    $119.00

  • THE DIAMOND BIKINI
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    Raised at the racetrack, a boy comes to live on a Texas farm Billy doesn't know how to read a book, but give him a racing form and he can tell you everything about a pony that you'd ever want to know. He and his father live on the road, traveling from Aqueduct to Hialeah and back again, until an overzealous Welfare lady demands they settle somewhere more wholesome than the trac...

    $119.00

  • GO HOME, STRANGER
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    An engineer battles a small town to see his sister released from prison It takes Reno three days to get from Peru to the Gulf Coast, and when he gets to Waynesport he has only one stop to make: the city jail, where his sister is being held on a murder rap. The way Vickie tells it, she saw her husband having a drink with another woman, they quarreled, and she went to the bathroo...

    $119.00

  • THE HOT SPOT
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    A small Texas town heats up as a drifter turns to crime in this "ingeniously plotted" tale of guilt, greed, and lust that inspired the Dennis Hopper film ( The New York Times).   In a town so small that Main Street is only three blocks long, there isn't a lot to do—other than work, ogle women, and think about fast ways to get rich. After a year of aimless wandering, Madox has l...

    $119.00

  • MAN ON A LEASH
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    A son searches for the men who killed his mysterious father Even at sixty-six, Gunnar Romstead was a tough old salt. It took several men to bring him down, and even after they'd bound his feet and hands he was still a threat. But finally the man who'd survived waterfront brawls, World War II, and countless stormy nights at sea died on his knees—shot through the back of the head...

    $119.00

  • SCORPION REEF
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    Aboard a ghost ship, sailors discover a tale of treasure, lust, and murder When the tanker finds the yacht, she is far from land, adrift in the middle of the Caribbean. No one is onboard, but the hold is stuffed with cash, the coffeepot is still warm, and a hint of perfume hangs in the air. The passengers have vanished, but the ship's log tells a chilling story of the madness p...

    $119.00

  • TALK OF THE TOWN
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    Stranded in a small town, a stranger falls for a suspected murderess Bored, divorced, and unemployed, Chatham is on his way to the Gulf of Mexico when he passes through a small town by the river. It's a miserable little burg—four stoplights and not much else—and he's almost escaped it when a drunk's car darts out in front of him, causing a nasty fender-bender. The thought of th...

    $119.00

  • A TOUCH OF DEATH
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    The score would be an easy one—if it weren't for the women involved Out of work and dead broke, Lee Scarborough is a long way from his days as a football hero when he meets the sunbathing Diana James—an innocent-looking creature with a plan to make a fortune. A few months' back, her lover embezzled $120,000 from a bank, but disappeared before she could get her hands on the cash...

    $119.00

  • DEAD CALM
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    Two honeymooners take a stranger onto their yacht—with terrifying consequences—in this “superb” psychological thriller (The New York Times).  Rae and Ingram are nineteen days out of the Panama Canal, sailing slowly across the wide, flat Pacific on the Saracen, when they find Hughie Warriner in his dinghy. He was on a pleasure cruise in his yacht, the Orpheus, he says, when food...

    $149.00

  • REASON AND BEAUTY IN THE POETIC MIND
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    Reason and Beauty in the Poetic Mind focuses upon the two intertwined themes of Reason and Beauty as they are expressed poetically in English literature. It begins with a chapter on the unique characteristics of poetic creation, "The Ostentation of Verse," and then unfolds in an alternating pattern, analyzing the distinctive appearances of these two concepts in writers as vario...

    $444.00

  • JAMES I
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    "The following pages are concerned with James Stuart, and not the history of England except as it affected James Stuart," writes Williams in his preface. All relevant historical details are woven into this narrative account, however, like his novels, Williams pushes further into the very personality of James. Early chapters cover the alliances, plots, and threats of his Scotlan...

    $674.00

  • THE ENGLISH POETIC MIND
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    After an opening chapter that examines the nature of poetry itself and analyzes its effect upon the reader, the author, in The English Poetic Mind, moves on to his main purpose, which is to try to reveal the source of the drive to creation in three of the greatest English poets: William Shakespeare, John Milton, and William Wordsworth. In each he identifies a particular kind of...

    $479.00

  • THREE PLAYS
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    The Early Metaphysical Plays of Charles Williams (put in larger font at top of back page) Behold three plays by a major member of the Inklings, Charles Williams, none of which has been reprinted since 1930. The editor of his Collected Plays (1963) thought them unworthy of inclusion, but these works so surpass the general run of contemporary productions as to reveal how fresh ...

    $444.00

  • ALL HALLOWS' EVE
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    In post-Blitz London, humanity's last hope of defeating a powerful magician's insidious plans lies with a ghost trapped in a surreal city of the dead During World War II, soon after Ms. Lester Furnival married her beloved Richard, she died in an accident. Now she wanders the dark and lonely streets with her friend Evelyn. An empty mirror image of the London she once knew, the c...

    $119.00

  • SHADOWS OF ECSTASY
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    A charismatic and immortal leader rises up out of Africa to violently alter humankind's destiny There is great unrest on the African continent, and explosive uprisings that originated there are finding their way to Britain's shores. A man named Nigel Considine, a charismatic leader who calls himself the High Executive, is raising a great army to conquer the world. Universal lov...

    $119.00

  • THE PLACE OF THE LION
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    One man must save the human race from total destruction when a small British village is invaded by a terrifying host of archetypal creatures released from the spiritual world In the small English town of Smetham on the outskirts of London, a wall separating two worlds has broken down. The meddling and meditations of a local mage, Mr. Berringer, has caused a rift in the barrier ...

    $119.00

  • WAR IN HEAVEN
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    A satanic conspiracy threatens mankind when the Holy Grail is found in an English country church in this classic metaphysical thriller. An unidentified body lies lifeless in the offices of a British publishing house. Soon after it is discovered, an urgent request from an author arrives by post, pleading for the deletion of an important paragraph from an upcoming publication. Th...

    $179.00

  • MANY DIMENSIONS
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    An ancient stone possessing awesome and terrifying powers wreaks havoc in this intelligent and provocative literary excursion into the supernatural A remarkable object has fallen into the hands of the abominable scientist Sir Giles Tumulty. Once positioned at the center of the crown of King Solomon, it is a stone of astonishing and terrifying power, capable of good and evil ali...

    $119.00

  • THE GREATER TRUMPS
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    In this classic tale of spirituality, morality, and the occult, a dark plot to murder an unsuspecting Englishman who possesses the world's rarest tarot deck unleashes uncontrollable elemental forces The original and most mystical of all playing-card decks, the tarot has seduced seekers of otherworldly knowledge for centuries—and of all its cards, the most potent are the twenty-...

    $179.00

  • DESCENT INTO HELL
    CHARLES WILLIAMS
    In this provocative, classic metaphysical thriller, a group of suburban amateur actors plagued by personal demons and terrors explore the pathways to heaven and hell Certain inhabitants of Battle Hill, a small community on the outskirts of London, are preparing to mount a new play by the neighborhood's most illustrious resident, the writer Peter Stanhope. Each actor struggles w...

    $229.00