Author: James Patterso
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Reader
Keywords: book, ride, maximum, max
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0316002909
ISBN-13: 9780316002905

James Patterson’s bestselling Maximum Ride series is back, with Max and the gang as The Protectors. Someone--or something--is decimating ships and sea life off Hawaii’s coast, and Max and her flock find themselves sucked into the Navy’s top-secret investigation of the catastrophe. Their objective: Rescue Max’s activist mom from a wicked subterranean enemy. The hitch: They must dive deep into dark waters, where gruesome evil dwells... and for high-flying Maximum Ride, could there be anything more terrifying than being trapped in the great abyss? Now in paperback, this so

Author: James Patterso
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Reader
Keywords: maximum, ride, protectors, final, warning
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0316002879
ISBN-13: 9780316002875

Hold on tight for the wildest ride yet as Max and the flock take on global warming--Earth’s biggest threat--in this #1 New York Times bestselling series. Maximum Ride and the other members of the flock are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It seems like a dream come true...until they’re hunted by the world’s nastiest villains. Max returns in a chilling adventure unlike any other. Safe havens for the six highly-sought-after winged kids have become increasingly hard to find, so the flock takes refuge in Antarctica with a team of environmentalists studyi

Author: James Patterso
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: club, murder, women, chance
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2005-05-20
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0446696633
ISBN-13: 9780446696630

2nd Chance reconvenes the Women’s Murder Club, four friends (a detective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner) who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles to solve a baffling series of murders in 1st to Die. This time, the murders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all the signs of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of San Francisco’s homicide squad. But there’s an odd detail she finds even more disturbing: both victims were related to city cops. A symbol g

Author: James Patterso
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: cross, alex, fire
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 031603617X
ISBN-13: 9780316036177

Wedding bells ringDetective Alex Cross and Bree’s wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.’s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of theories--is the marksman a hero or a vigilante?A murderer returnsThe case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation. As Alex and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, the murders continue. It becomes clear that they are the work of

Author: James Patterso
Publisher: Visio
Keywords: cross, alex, country
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 044653630X
ISBN-13: 9780446536301

Detective Alex Cross pursues the most ruthless killer he’s ever encountered-to a land of sheer terror and back. It’s the worst crime scene Alex Cross has ever seen, and then more killings, each one more ruthless than the last, quickly follow. After one death comes terrifyingly close to home, Alex realizes he’s chasing a horrible new breed of killer. Digging deeper into the case, Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, uncover a shocking Washington, D.C., underworld: a gang of teenage thugs headed by a warlord known only as the Tiger. When the Tiger’s elusive

Authors:Richard A. Luecke, James G. Patterso,
Publisher: AMACOM
Keywords: smart, work, negotiator
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2008-03-12
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0814400477
ISBN-13: 9780814400470

Whether it’s at home or at work, so much of our lives involves negotiating to get what we want. From negotiating a higher salary, to lowering costs from suppliers, to hammering out a new contract with a major customer, or even decid­ing where to go on vacation, the only way to consistently arrive at successful conclusions is to master the art of negotiation. Updated with completely new tac­tics and strategies, How to Become a Better Negotiator lets readers in on the same high-level skills that experienced negotiators use. Packed with fill-in-the-blank sections, tips, quizzes, and chapt

Author: S. J. Patterso
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: studies, advanced, mathematics, cambridge, function, theory, riemann, zeta, introduction
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 1995-02-24
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521499054
ISBN-13: 9780521499057

This is a modern introduction to the analytic techniques used in the investigation of zeta-function. Riemann introduced this function in connection with his study of prime numbers, and from this has developed the subject of analytic number theory. Since then, many other classes of "zeta-function" have been introduced and they are now some of the most intensively studied objects in number theory. Professor Patterson has emphasized central ideas of broad application, avoiding technical results and the customary function-theoretic approach.Book DescriptionThis modern introduction to the analytic