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  • SOCIAL CONTROL IN INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATIONS
    PETER BOWEN
    Based on an industrial relations case study conducted in a British Steel plant in the north east coast iron and steel industry, this book, first published in 1976, is an account of the application of sociological concepts and ideas to the process of social relations between employer and employee, and between all types of workers in industrial organisations. ...

    $980.00

  • RISK MANAGEMENT IN PROJECT ORGANISATIONS
    PETER EDWARDS / PAUL BOWEN
    This book enhances the reader's understanding of the nature and presence of risk by raising the organisation's awareness of the risks it faces, and formalising the systems needed to deal with and learn from those risks.While based on the experience of the construction industry, the book also acts as a broader project management text, meeting the needs of project managers and st...

    $1,420.00

  • THE YELLOWSTONE KELLY NOVELS
    PETER BOWEN
    Four fast-paced novels based on the real-life frontier adventures of Yellowstone Kelly, one of the Old West's most legendary soldiers. Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly had one of the longest, strangest, and most breathtaking careers in the American West. The intrepid scout's talent for being in the right place at an exciting time would take him all over the world, from the Great Plai...

    $399.00

  • IMPERIAL KELLY
    PETER BOWEN
    Yellowstone Kelly has dealt with Indians, Zulus, hapless Brits, and Mormons. Now the intrepid scout meets his greatest challenge: Theodore Roosevelt. Nowadays US Army Major Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly isn't the young lively man he once was. He's cantankerous, stubborn, and his nagging illnesses are exacerbated by the slightest provocation. Still, Kelly is called back into action...

    $109.00

  • KELLY AND THE THREE-TOED HORSE
    PETER BOWEN
    Only for Yellowstone Kelly can a lazy day at the bar turn into a race against time to recover a priceless skeleton Charles Darwin's survey aboard the HMS Beagle forever changed natural history, causing a flurry of wild speculation and exploration in the wake of every major find. Yellowstone Kelly, fresh off his misadventures in Kelly Blue, is cooling his heels in a Wyoming salo...

    $109.00

  • KELLY BLUE
    PETER BOWEN
    Yellowstone Kelly wasn't always a legend, but cast into the wilderness of the uncharted West , he finds he's a man with a talent for survival Before Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly was an unexpected hero of the Old West, he was a young greenhorn, cast out of the big city and onto the frontier.  This sequel to Yellowstone Kelly: Gentleman and Scout begins at the deathbed of Buffalo B...

    $109.00

  • YELLOWSTONE KELLY
    PETER BOWEN
    With "unparalleled dialogue" and "a very sly sense of humor," Luther Kelly's debut adventure takes him from the Wild West to the land of the Zulus ( Booklist).   Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly had one of the longest, strangest, and most breathtaking careers in the Old West. The intrepid scout's talent for being in the right place at an exciting time would take him all over the worl...

    $109.00

  • ASH CHILD
    PETER BOWEN
    In modern-day Montana, brushfires, meth dealers, and murder challenge a deputy in a mystery that's "a pleasure to read" ( Publishers Weekly).   In the midst of a drought in Toussaint, Montana, Métis Indian tracker and cattle investigator Gabriel Du Pré learns that Maddy Collins has been killed—and goes looking for answers.   Du Pré suspects a pair of boys who, despite their goo...

    $119.00

  • BADLANDS
    PETER BOWEN
    A mysterious cult takes over a ranch in this western thriller starring a crime solver who "resonates with originality and energy" ( Chicago Tribune).   The Eides have owned cattle in Montana since 1882, but a few days after they pull up stakes and sell their property, their homestead goes up in flames. When Métis Indian investigator Gabriel Du Pré arrives on the scene, nothing ...

    $109.00

  • COYOTE WIND
    PETER BOWEN
    First in the crime-fiction series set in the modern-day west, starring a half-French, half-Indian "character of legendary proportions" (Ridley Pearson).   Officially, Gabriel Du Pré is the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure no one tries to sell livestock branded by another ranch. Unofficially, he is responsible for much more than cows' backside...

    $109.00

  • CRUZATTE AND MARIA
    PETER BOWEN
    A deputy discovers Meriwether Lewis's journal in this modern-day mystery by an author who "writes about the rural West better than anyone" ( Rocky Mountain News).   When he's asked to serve as a consultant for a documentary about the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark's expedition up the Missouri River, Gabriel Du Pré's impulse is to flee. Eastern Montana isn't accustomed to getti...

    $109.00

  • LONG SON
    PETER BOWEN
    "With his distinctive, minimalist prose . . . Bowen's writing is lean. . . . An unsentimental, galvanizing portrait of life in small-town Montana" ( Publishers Weekly).   For generations, the Messmers have raised cattle in the rough country of eastern Montana. When the current owners die in a tragic accident, they leave the ranch to their son—an ominous development for everyone...

    $109.00

  • NAILS
    PETER BOWEN
    "Fiddler, father, widower, cowboy and lover, Du Pré has the soul of a poet, the eyes of a wise man, and the heart of a comic" ( The New York Times Book Review).   Gabriel Du Pré's precocious granddaughter, Pallas, has returned from her Washington, DC, boarding school, and trouble seems to have come along for the ride. Du Pré's girlfriend's son, Chappie, is also back from servin...

    $109.00

  • NOTCHES
    PETER BOWEN
    "[An] enjoyable series of interest to western crime readers, especially those favoring Montana authors C. J. Box, Craig Johnson, and Keith McCafferty as well as fans of the Hillermans" ( Booklist).   The news is bad: five young women—so far—raped, tortured, and left in the Montana wilderness to be devoured by coyotes. It's not long before Gabriel Du Pré, Métis Indian cattle ins...

    $109.00

  • SPECIMEN SONG
    PETER BOWEN
    A "plain-spoken, deep-thinking Montana cattle inspector" takes on a serial killer in DC ( The New York Times Book Review).   With misgivings, cattle inspector and sometime deputy Gabriel Du Pré has left his hometown of Toussaint, Montana, for big-city Washington, DC, where the Métis Indian fiddler has agreed to play his people's music for a Smithsonian festival. But like the fr...

    $109.00

  • THE STICK GAME
    PETER BOWEN
    A Montana deputy takes on a mining company that's poisoning reservation children in a novel the Washington Post calls "wonderful [and] wise."   Something is rotten in the Fort Belknap Reservation. Life has always been tough on this barren stretch just south of the Canadian border, but now the children are getting sick. While playing his fiddle in a reservation bar, part-time de...

    $109.00

  • STEWBALL
    PETER BOWEN
    "Peter Bowen does for Montana what Tony Hillerman does for New Mexico" ( Midwest Book Review).   Gabriel Du Pré's aunt Pauline has burned through more than her share of husbands, so it's no surprise when she shows up in Toussaint complaining that the latest one, Badger, has run off. Du Pré, the Métis Indian fiddler, retired cattle inspector, and sometime deputy, agrees to go lo...

    $109.00

  • THUNDER HORSE
    PETER BOWEN
    "A terrific writer . . . Thunder Horse makes this reviewer want to race to the bookstore for the rest of the Gabriel Du Pré series" ( Rocky Mountain News).   Usually it takes more than one beer to make the Toussaint Saloon shake. When the earthquake hits, part-time deputy Gabriel Du Pré and his friends are lamenting the fishing resort a Japanese firm has planned for their small...

    $109.00

  • THE TUMBLER
    PETER BOWEN
    "Truly mysterious—informed by Western legend, steeped in Indian superstition . . . Riding with Du Pré is some kind of enchantment" ( The New York Times Book Review).   A rumor circulates around academic circles that the long-lost journals of Meriwether Lewis are in the possession of a hard-bitten Montana fiddler named Gabriel Du Pré. A few years ago, the Métis Indian led a docu...

    $109.00

  • WOLF, NO WOLF
    PETER BOWEN
    A half-Indian, half-French deputy with "a shrewd mind and wry sense of humor" investigates a case of homicide on the range ( The New York Times Book Review).   Two men have been cutting fences at the ranches of Toussaint, Montana, loosing thousands of dollars' worth of cattle to use as target practice for their .22 rifles. Are they thieves? Pranksters? Local cattle inspector an...

    $119.00

  • THE MONTANA MYSTERIES FEATURING GABRIEL DU PRÉ VOLUME FOUR
    PETER BOWEN
    The half Indian cattle inspector and "character of legendary proportions" is back—in this beloved contemporary western mystery series (Ridley Pearson).   Officially, Gabriel Du Pré is the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure no one tries to sell cattle branded by another ranch. Unofficially, he is responsible for much more than cows' backsides. T...

    $279.00

  • THE MONTANA MYSTERIES FEATURING GABRIEL DU PRÉ VOLUME THREE
    PETER BOWEN
    The contemporary western mystery series follows the further adventures of a half Indian cattle inspector and "character of legendary proportions" (Ridley Pearson).   Officially, Gabriel Du Pré is the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure no one tries to sell cattle branded by another ranch. Unofficially, he is responsible for much more than cows' ...

    $279.00

  • THE MONTANA MYSTERIES FEATURING GABRIEL DU PRÉ VOLUME TWO
    PETER BOWEN
    The contemporary western mystery series continues in these novels featuring a half Indian cattle inspector and "character of legendary proportions" (Ridley Pearson).   Officially, Gabriel Du Pré is the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure no one tries to sell cattle branded by another ranch. Unofficially, he is responsible for much more than cows...

    $279.00

  • SOLUS
    PETER BOWEN
    Gabriel Du Pré is back in action, coming to the aid of a whistleblower on the run, in this all-new novel in a "wonderfully eclectic and enjoyable series" ( Booklist). When a hunted military whistleblower and his family need someplace to hide and someone to trust, Toussaint, Montana, is the place, and Gabriel Du Pré the man. The Métis Indian former cattle inspector and sometimes...

    $179.00

  • THE MONTANA MYSTERIES FEATURING GABRIEL DU PRÉ VOLUME ONE
    PETER BOWEN
    The first three novels in a contemporary western mystery series featuring a half-Indian cattle inspector and "character of legendary proportions" (Ridley Pearson).   Officially, Gabriel Du Pré is the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure no one tries to sell cattle branded by another ranch. Unofficially, he is responsible for much more than cows' ...

    $329.00

  • BITTER CREEK
    PETER BOWEN
    " Bitter Creek is likely the top of the Du Pré series . . . Lively and absolutely fascinating" (Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall).   Lt. John Patchen has come to Montana to persuade Chappie Plaquemines, his former gunnery sergeant in Iraq, to accept the Navy Cross. First, however, Patchen must find the wounded marine, who was last seen drinking heavily in the Toussai...

    $179.00

  • BITTER CREEK
    PETER BOWEN
    " Bitter Creek is likely the top of the Du Pré series . . . Lively and absolutely fascinating" (Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall).   Lt. John Patchen has come to Montana to persuade Chappie Plaquemines, his former gunnery sergeant in Iraq, to accept the Navy Cross. First, however, Patchen must find the wounded marine, who was last seen drinking heavily in the Toussai...

    $179.00

  • NOTCHES
    PETER BOWEN
    “[An] enjoyable series of interest to western crime readers, especially those favoring Montana authors C. J. Box, Craig Johnson, and Keith McCafferty as well as fans of the Hillermans” (Booklist).   The news is bad: five young women—so far—raped, tortured, and left in the Montana wilderness to be devoured by coyotes. It’s not long before Gabriel Du Pré, Métis Indian cattle insp...

    $109.00