Author: Peter Schechter
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, entry, point
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0061205648
ISBN-13: 9780061205644

With calculated cunning, renegade Syrian intelligence operatives have discovered how to smuggle uranium-235—the key material required to manufacture an atomic weapon—into the United States undetected, exploiting a network of the most experienced and sophisticated smugglers the world has ever known. As the CIA repeatedly misinterprets numerous intelligence warnings, only Marta Pradilla—Colombia’s beautiful, hard-minded new president—can assist the United States’ conservative, isolationist President Stockman in finding the terrorists and their deadly cargo before it’

Author: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: terrifying, murderers, world, files, killer, serial
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2003-12-30
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0345465660
ISBN-13: 9780345465665

THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY’S MOST HEINOUS!Hollywood’s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can’t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved, comes the ultimate resource on the serial killer phenomenon.Rigorously researched and packed with the most terrifying, up-to-date information, this innovative and highly compellin

Author: Martin Schechter
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: studies, mathematics, graduate, analysis, functional, principles
Number of Pages: 425
Published: 2001-11-13
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0821828959
ISBN-13: 9780821828953

Functional analysis plays a crucial role in the applied sciences as well as in mathematics. It is a beautiful subject that can be motivated and studied for its own sake. In keeping with this basic philosophy, the author has made this introductory text accessible to a wide spectrum of students, including beginning-level graduates and advanced undergraduates. The exposition is inviting, following threads of ideas, describing each as fully as possible, before moving on to a new topic. Supporting material is introduced as appropriate, and only to the degree needed. Some topics are treated more tha

Author: Martin Schechter
Publisher: Dover Publicatio
Keywords: mechanics, quantum, methods, operator
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-02-03
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0486425479
ISBN-13: 9780486425474

This advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level text introduces the power of operator theory as a tool in the study of quantum mechanics, assuming only a working knowledge of advanced calculus and no background in physics. The author presents a few simple postulates describing quantum theory, gradually introducing the mathematical techniques that help answer questions important to the physical theory. The entire book is devoted to the study of a single particle moving along a straight line. By posing questions about the particle, the text gradually leads readers into the development of mathema

Author: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: killers, serial, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-07-04
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1416521747
ISBN-13: 9781416521747

Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre and blood-chilling world of serial murder. Through hundreds of detailed entries that span the entire spectrum -- the shocking crimes, the infamous perpetrators, and much more -- they examine all angles of a gruesome cultural phenomenon that grips our imagination.From Art (both by and about serial killers) to Zeitgeist (how killers past and present embody their times)...from Groupies (even the most sadistic killer can claim devoted fans) to Ma

Author: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: original, psycho, gein, story, shocking, true, deviant
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0671025465
ISBN-13: 9780671025465

The grisly true story that inspired Hitchcock’s classic film "Psycho". Now in its first trade paperback edition, "Deviant" details how killer Ed Gein turned a small Wisconsin farmhouse into a retreat of ghoulishness and blood.

Author: Stephen L. Schechter
Publisher: Madison House Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: documents, interpreted, founding, american, republic, roots
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 1991-11-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0945612192
ISBN-13: 9780945612193

Roots of the Republic shows how the Constitution was a product, not simply of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, but of a legal and philosophical tradition almost two centuries old. The editors have selected eighteen key documents in the development of that tradition and reproduced them with essays that explain what they mean, why they were written, and why they are important today. Each key document is accompanied by an interpretive essay written by a contemporary scholar. These essays focus on the importance of each frame of government and include commentaries on why they are meaningful