Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: james blake

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  • THE WAYS OF WOLFE
    JAMES CARLOS BLAKE
    A Mexican-American convict escapes prison to find his daughter in this "gripping ride" by the Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning author of The House of Wolfe ( Arizona Daily Star).   Axel Prince Wolfe was the heir apparent to his Texas family's law firm and its 'shade trade' criminal enterprises. Then he took part in a robbery that went wrong. Abandoned by his partners, he wa...

    $338.00

  • THE FRIENDS OF PANCHO VILLA
    JAMES CARLOS BLAKE
    The award-winning author blends fact and fiction to bring the Mexican Revolution to life in a "harrowing and brutal tale" of its famous leader ( Rocky Mountain News).   Waged from 1910 to 1920, the Mexican Revolution profoundly transformed Mexican government and culture. And Pancho Villa was its "incarnation and its eagle of a soul"—so says Rodolfo Fierro, the narrator of The F...

    $229.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO LANDSCAPE AND GARDEN DESIGN
    JAMES BLAKE
    How do you design a landscape book suitable for its intended uses? How can the natural qualities of a landscape be enhanced with new features and focal points? How can you make pedestrians stay on the footpath? What kind of plant, path or wall should you put where, and what sort of contract should you choose for your client's contractor? This refreshingly down-to-earth introduc...

    $1,560.00

  • TELEVISION AND THE SECOND SCREEN
    JAMES BLAKE
    Television is changing almost beyond recognition. In the battle for consumers, social media sites, smart phones and tablets have become rivals to traditional linear TV. However, audiences and producers are also embracing mobile platforms to enhance TV viewing itself. This book examines the emerging phenomenon of the second screen: where users are increasingly engaging with cont...

    $1,120.00

  • MACROECONOMIC POLICY
    MARTIN WEALE / ANDREW BLAKE / NICOS CHRISTODOULAKIS / JAMES MEADE / DAVID VINES
    This analysis of macroeconomic policy, originally published in 1989, argues that key government objectives, such as reduced inflation, decreased unemployment and an adequate level of national saving can be achieved only by employing both monetary and fiscal policies, in conjunction with supply-side policies expressly designed to improve the workings of the labour market. Part 1...

    $700.00

  • IN THE ROGUE BLOOD
    JAMES CARLOS BLAKE
    Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, In the Rogue Blood is "powerful . . . impressive . . . [an] epic of the 1840s frontier" ( Dallas Morning News). With soaring and masterful prose, James Carlos Blake brings to life an enthralling historical time and place—and a cast of memorable characters—in a stunning tale of dark instinct, blood reckoning, and fates forged in the ze...

    $200.00

  • BORDERLANDS
    JAMES CARLOS BLAKE
    A "gritty, raw, bare-knuckled" collection of stories set along the US-Mexico border from the LA Times Book Prize–winning author of In the Rogue Blood ( Publishers Weekly).   In this extraordinary collection of short fiction, James Carlos Blake, "one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life" and author of the Wolfe Family series of border noir novels, jou...

    $251.00

  • THE PISTOLEER
    JAMES CARLOS BLAKE
    The award-winning author's "fearless" debut novel chronicles the life of a legendary Texas outlaw with "a ruthless sensibility . . . spare and tough" ( Publishers Weekly).   Some called him a Texas hero. Some called him the Devil himself. But on one point they all agreed. While he was alive, John Wesley Hardin was the deadliest man in Texas.   A killer at fifteen, in the next f...

    $251.00

  • THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION
    JAMES MICHAEL LAMPINEN / JEFFREY S. NEUSCHATZ / STACY A. WETMORE / WILLIAM BLAKE ERICKSON
    This clear and accessible volume provides a tutorial review and evaluation of scientific research on eyewitness identification accuracy and reliability. The book examines conceptual and empirical problems with eyewitness identification as forensic evidence, comparable to challenges with other forensic evidence forms. It explores key findings in eyewitness memory research and th...

    $1,420.00

  • THE HOUSE OF WOLFE
    JAMES CARLOS BLAKE
    The award-winning author's "hard-edged, fast-moving thriller" about love, crime, family, and loyalty set around the borderlands of Texas and Mexico ( Booklist, starred review).   On a rainy winter night in Mexico City, a ten-member wedding party is kidnapped in front of the groom's family mansion. The perpetrator is a small-time gangster named El Galán, who wants nothing more t...

    $179.00

  • THE RULES OF WOLFE
    JAMES CARLOS BLAKE
    A "tough, honed-to-the-bone thriller" of family, revenge, and organized crime along the border of Texas and Mexico—from the award-winning author ( The Dallas Morning News).   Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gun-runners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his minor role in family operations and eager to set out on hi...

    $179.00

  • BREAKING BACK
    JAMES BLAKE / ANDREW FRIEDMAN
    "Blake serves up the rare sports memoir that actually has a heart. He cries, he mourns, he grows, he triumphs—and we cheer him on the entire way." — People James Blake's life was getting better every day. A rising tennis star and  People magazine's Sexiest Male Athlete of 2002, he was leading a charmed life and loving every minute of it. But all that ended in May 2004, when Bla...

    $251.00

  • THE BONES OF WOLFE
    JAMES CARLOS BLAKE
    Two outlaw brothers search for hijackers, stolen goods, and an adult film star in this action-packed noir tale by the author of The Ways of Wolfe. In the newest Wolfe-family adventure, Rudy and Frank Wolfe are engaging in routine miscellaneous business—some legitimate and some less so—for their family when they stumble upon a stash of high-quality pornographic films in a raid. ...

    $189.00