Richard Mueller: 14 books

Death on the Prairie, first in the series of Glen Gleason mysteries. Glen is a man who is dragooned into running for county sheriff against a brutal deputy who may have murdered his predecessor. Glen has to reconcile the shocks of dealing with crime and violence with the desire to spend a quiet life...

Sheriff Glen Gleason’s life has gone horribly wrong. Now, on the edge of a complete breakdown, he’s suddenly pulled back from the brink of the abyss to solve a horrible multiple murder — an entire family slaughtered by a fiend who has disappeared without a trace. Fighting his way past interference...

When the body of an Armani-suited wiseguy drops from the sky into Cornflower County, it sets in motion an investigation that pulls Sheriff Gleason into a mob conflagration. From a simulated war in Florida, to murder and revenge in Iowa, crime will take a terrible toll on the lives of Glen, Anne and Kat before it thunders to an explosive conclusion.

Roy Felker is with the National Security Agency. Pascia Tepec is a cop who works with dead people. It’s only natural that romance would blossom while they’re fighting to stop Los Angeles from being engulfed by the army of murderous, self-replicating aliens that’s sweeping down on the city from...

Who are the Zoonauts? David Simons created the Zoonauts who are based on some famous zoo animals and other animals that went into space with the international space programs. These Zoonauts have extraordinary talents and powers. Their travels take them to different continents and cultures. Readers...

Originally published in 1974, this introductory text has been designed specifically for teachers in training, and it presents the basic psychological principles governing learning, perception, motivation and the retention of knowledge at the time. The text is carefully tailored for would-be teachers...

The twentieth century witnessed an explosion of new nations carved out of existing ramshackle empires and multiethnic states. Many observers contend that the creation of new states will continue indefinitely, with the two hundred of today becoming the four hundred of tomorrow as more groups seek independence....

Step up, as close as you dare… …to a place at the edge of sanity, where cicadas scritch across balmy summer nights, at the edge of town, where the cell phone coverage is decidedly dodgy, at the edge of space, where a Mimbinus argut bounds among snowy rocks, at the edge...

The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy—an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theories...

Issue framing is the way that people, especially politicians, get other people to view a particular problem or issue. By framing the issue in a particular way, the goal is to get people to think about the issue, to believe that an action is required and, most importantly, to believe that a particular...

The purpose of NATO: From Regional to Global Security Provider is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Alliance’s new vision (the new Strategic Concept) and common security impact – associated tasks to be undertaken within a short and longer term time horizon. The book serves as a relevant...

Today we are moving into an Information Revolution that is every bit as life altering as the previous Industrial Revolution. Students must now stay in school longer, and achieve at a much higher rate than in the past. But high school students can benefit from adult learning and instructional design...

Often considered as a simple task, chemical analysis actually requires a variety of quite complex skills. As a practitioner in an interdisciplinary science, the analytical scientist is relied upon to have the knowledge and skill to help solve problems or to provide relevant information. They will...

The essential reference for human development theory, updated and reconceptualized The Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, a four-volume reference, is the field-defining work to which all others are compared. First published in 1946, and now in its Seventh Edition, the Handbook...