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  • ADVANCED UNIVERSITY PHYSICS
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    ADVANCED UNIVERSITY PHYSICS
    MIRCEA S. ROGALSKI / STUART B. PALMER
    To move from empirical-based physics to the theoretical abstractness required for advanced physics requires a paradigmatic shift in logic that can challenge even the brightest mind. Grasping the play of phenomena as they are described in introductory compendiums does not necessarily create a foundation that allows for the building of a bridge to the higher levels of theoretical...

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  • ARCHITECTURES OF JUSTICE
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    ARCHITECTURES OF JUSTICE
    HENRIK PALMER OLSEN / STUART TODDINGTON
    Law can be seen to consist not only of rules and decisions, but also of a framework of institutions providing a structure that forms the conditions of its workable existence and acceptance. In this book Olsen and Toddington conduct a philosophical exploration and critique of these conditions: what they are and how they shape our understanding of what constitutes a legal system ...

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  • MISS WITHERS REGRETS
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    MISS WITHERS REGRETS
    STUART PALMER
    There are lessons to be learned for retired teacher Hildegarde Withers when a society murder reveals a love triangle gone bad.   The war in Europe is over, and America's fighting men are coming home. Lieutenant Pat Montague spent the war dreaming of a return to his beloved: society princess Helen Abbott. But when Uncle Sam finally lets him go, Pat finds that Helen has become Mr...

    $164.00

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  • MURDER ON WHEELS
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    MURDER ON WHEELS
    STUART PALMER
    The savvy Miss Withers investigates a mysterious hanging-while-driving in this delightful addition to a classic cozy mystery series. As snow falls on the steps of the New York Public Library, a line of cars moves sluggishly down Fifth Avenue. Oblivious to the traffic, a blue Chrysler roadster tears down the street, hops the curb, and slams to a halt. The car is empty, its drive...

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  • OMIT FLOWERS
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    OMIT FLOWERS
    STUART PALMER
    On a gloomy old California estate, the Cameron heirs confront greed, madness, and murder In the heyday of silent cinema, Cameron Heights was billed as the "California Wonder Town." A sprawling development of lavish bungalows, its streets were named after film stars, its houses decorated with Hollywood finery. Fifteen years later, it's a ghost town, and the spirit who rules over...

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  • THE PENGUIN POOL MURDER
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    THE PENGUIN POOL MURDER
    STUART PALMER
    On a trip to the New York Aquarium with her third-grade class, a teacher discovers a dead body: "One of the world's shrewdest and most amusing detectives" ( The New York Times).   For the third graders at Jefferson School, a field trip is always a treat. But one day at the New York Aquarium, they get much more excitement than they bargained for. A pickpocket sprints past, stole...

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  • THE PUZZLE OF THE PEPPER TREE
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    THE PUZZLE OF THE PEPPER TREE
    STUART PALMER
    On vacation in California, the spinster sleuth stumbles onto the case of a man murdered in mid-air—"[Withers is] still one of the best" (Anthony Boucher).   Because of the fog, the man in the brown suit arrives five minutes late for the ferry to Catalina Island. If he wishes to reach his destination today, his only option is the Dragonfly, a twelve-seat prop plane that makes up...

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  • THE PUZZLE OF THE RED STALLION
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    THE PUZZLE OF THE RED STALLION
    STUART PALMER
    A model is dead in Central Park, and the only witness to the crime is a horse: "A most readable and entertaining story" ( The New York Times).   The evening's party is over, and modeling sensation Violet Feverel wants to get in a quick horse ride before the dawn breaks. She saddles up Siwash the stallion, and gallops onto the Central Park bridle path, eager to begin what will b...

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  • THE PUZZLE OF THE BLUE BANDERILLA
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    THE PUZZLE OF THE BLUE BANDERILLA
    STUART PALMER
    A corrupt politician's trophy wife is targeted during a train ride: "The best of the Hildegarde Withers stories, and that is saying a good deal" ( The New York Times).   Oscar Piper doesn't belong on Mexican trains. A New York City detective, he's in the Dominican Republic as part of an international delegation come to cut the ribbon on a new transcontinental highway. This gran...

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  • THE PUZZLE OF THE HAPPY HOOLIGAN
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    THE PUZZLE OF THE HAPPY HOOLIGAN
    STUART PALMER
    On vacation in Hollywood, Miss Withers gets a job—and a case—in a mystery "that will keep you laughing and guessing from the first page to the last" ( The New York Times).   Hildegarde Withers—schoolteacher and occasional detective—has just finished planning her grand European tour when Germany invades Poland. Not wishing to join the international conflict, she books a ticket t...

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  • THE PUZZLE OF THE SILVER PERSIAN
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    THE PUZZLE OF THE SILVER PERSIAN
    STUART PALMER
    When fellow passengers on a ship bound for London start to disappear, Miss Withers must rely on a mischievous cat to help solve the mystery. Schoolteacher and occasional sleuth Hildegarde Withers has not had good luck with vacations. On her last trip, she found herself enmeshed in the investigation of a dead man on a small plane. Now, on a three-day steamer voyage to London, sh...

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  • ROOK TAKES KNIGHT
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    ROOK TAKES KNIGHT
    STUART PALMER
    A violent man is killed in a hit and run, and his wife is accused of the crime In the inky Los Angeles twilight, a man takes his dog for a walk. They are crossing the street when a station wagon comes charging around the curb, crashing into man and beast. Both are killed. The dog might have been innocent, but the man had it coming.   It only takes a day for the district attorne...

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  • COLD POISON
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    COLD POISON
    STUART PALMER
    When a Hollywood cartoonist is poisoned, sharp-witted sleuth Miss Withers must draw her own conclusions. "[Miss Withers is] . . . still one of the best" (Anthony Boucher). At Hollywood's most renowned cartoon studio, there are a few things you simply do not draw: snakes, cows with udders, violence, and death. So when Janet Poole finds a doodle of the studio's famous cartoon pen...

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  • FOUR LOST LADIES
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    FOUR LOST LADIES
    STUART PALMER
    A librarian who just came into money dies in a New York hotel room, and justice is overdue: "Full of fun and delightful people. A really terrific plot" ( Chicago Daily News).   With a seven-hundred-dollar inheritance in her pocket, small town librarian Harriet Bascom went to the track. By the time she left she had thousands—enough to live life the way she had always wanted: wit...

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  • HILDEGARDE WITHERS MAKES THE SCENE
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    HILDEGARDE WITHERS MAKES THE SCENE
    STUART PALMER / FLETCHER FLORA
    The spinster sleuth is out to rescue a young woman whose hippie adventure turns deadly in this classic mystery from the author of The Penguin Pool Murder.   During a six-week college break, Lenore Gregory does what all the young girls are doing in the winter of 1969: She heads to Greenwich Village to protest the Vietnam War, painting flowers on her Volkswagen. And just as she's...

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  • SOLID STATE PHYSICS
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    SOLID STATE PHYSICS
    MIRCEA S. ROGALSKI / STUART B. PALMER
    Solid State Physics opens with the adiabatic approximation to the many-body problem of a system of ions and valence electrons. After chapters on lattice symmetry, structure and dynamics, it then proceeds with four chapters devoted to the single-electron theory of the solid state. Semiconductors and dielectrics are covered in depth and chapters on m ...

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  • MURDER ON THE BLACKBOARD
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    MURDER ON THE BLACKBOARD
    STUART PALMER
    Schoolteacher sleuth Miss Withers finds a dead body during detention in this mystery starring "one of the world's shrewdest and most amusing detectives" ( The New York Times). Anise Halloran is young to be teaching school, and much too pretty, but third-grade teacher Hildegarde Withers is not the sort to condemn a coworker just because she wears high heels. When she overhears n...

    $149.00

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  • NIPPED IN THE BUD
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    NIPPED IN THE BUD
    STUART PALMER
    A comedian is dead, a witness is missing, and it's up to Miss Withers—"one of the world's shrewdest and most amusing detectives"—to solve the crime ( The New York Times).   In comedy, timing is everything. If Tony Fagan were a better comic, perhaps he would've known when to keep his mouth shut. After weeks of jokes at the expense of businessman Winston H. "Junior" Gault, the sp...

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  • UNHAPPY HOOLIGAN
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    UNHAPPY HOOLIGAN
    STUART PALMER
    A newspaperman investigates the strange case of a murdered society clown Howie Rook does not care for the police. After a long career in newspapers, he has seen too many cases loused up by unimaginative detectives to have any faith in by-the-book investigation. Recently retired, he spends his leisure hours writing letters to the editor regarding police stupidity. He's so good a...

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  • THE GREEN ACE
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    THE GREEN ACE
    STUART PALMER
    "One of the world's shrewdest and most amusing detectives" has nine days to save an innocent man from death row ( The New York Times).   On a steamy day on Staten Island, a speeding car tears past a couple of beat cops and smashes into a delivery truck. In the front seat is Andy Rowan, pale and unconscious. In the back is a blonde—beautiful, naked, and dead.   She was an aspiri...

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  • THE RIDDLES OF HILDEGARDE WITHERS
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    THE RIDDLES OF HILDEGARDE WITHERS
    STUART PALMER
    A sharp-witted Manhattan schoolteacher tackles eight little mysteries in this collection from the author of The Puzzle of the Happy Holligan.   When not teaching third graders, middle-aged singleton Hildegard Withers enjoys sipping orange pekoe tea, reading Sherlock Holmes stories, and tending to her tropical fish. And from time to time, she also helps her friend, Insp. Oscar P...

    $159.00

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  • OMIT FLOWERS
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    OMIT FLOWERS
    STUART PALMER
    On a gloomy old California estate, the Cameron heirs confront greed, madness, and murder In the heyday of silent cinema, Cameron Heights was billed as the “California Wonder Town.” A sprawling development of lavish bungalows, its streets were named after film stars, its houses decorated with Hollywood finery. Fifteen years later, it’s a ghost town, and the spirit who rules over...

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