Thomas Ross: 48 books

In this book Thomas Ross and Margarete McCallahan brought forward something extremely powerful to help you with the virtually effortless removal of formerly hard-to-remove stubborn, bulging deposits of fat. The recipes are all new and created by chefs from across the globe just for this book, to help...

In diesem ersten Fall (von fünf) wird ein weltbekanntes Washingtoner Museum erpreßt. Ein wertvolles afrikanisches Messingschild wurde gestohlen und St. Ives soll das Lösegeld überbringen. Aber nichts ist, wie es scheint, und bevor St. Ives sichs versieht, sind mehrere Menschen tot. Der erste Band...

But be warned, fellow traveler… this is not just a book—it is a journey into the very life of Death. Listen to the tales of the afterlife: Halloween, vampires, Heaven, Hell, Armageddon, zombies, death-bringing angels, ghosts, cults, ritual killings, nightmares from Vietnam... The lists...

Band 15 der Ross-Thomas-Edition Benjamin Dill - Berater des jüngsten Repräsentantenhaus-Senators in Washington - erfährt, dass seine Schwester Felicity durch eine Autobombenexplosion ermordet wurde. Felicity war Detective bei der Mordkommission. Dill reist sofort in seine alte Heimatstadt und macht...

Renowned psychologists describe the five most useful insights from social psychology that will help make you “wise”: wise about why we behave the way we do, and wise about how to use that knowledge to understand others and change ourselves for the better. When faced with a challenge, we...

History, invention, the power of deduction…Clockwork Chaos is more than goggles and gears. It is about order and structure and timing striving for mechanical perfection. But in an era where mass production does not yet exist, the unique machinery brought forth into the world is at times bound to fall...

「兩位獨步全球的社會心理學家合力出擊， 這是你在大學裡從未聽過的經典課程，別再錯過第二次了！」 ──哈佛大學心理學教授，丹尼爾．吉伯特   聰明人懂算計，有智慧的人懂行為心理。 5種心理智慧，教你避開思維陷阱， 在資訊迷霧中，做出最睿智的判斷。 不靠利誘威脅，無須唇槍舌戰， 有心理智慧的人運用某些簡單技巧，就能輕鬆達到想要的變革！ ◎報稅單上，簽名欄位在前或在後，哪個比較會誠實申報？ ◎丹麥的駕駛僅有4%願意器捐，瑞典卻完全相反，難道瑞典人比較有社會良心？ ◎沒人願意為了社會福利多繳稅，卻願意為了「儲蓄保險」乖乖繳錢，但這筆錢真的是用在自己身上嗎？ ◎若要提醒勿亂丟垃圾，花朵圖示跟眼睛圖示，哪個比較有效？ ◎為何一般人偏好80%是瘦肉的牛排，勝過20%是肥肉的牛排？   美國最重量級的社會心理學家，康乃爾的吉洛維奇與史丹佛的羅斯，爬梳社會心理學的重要研究，擷取精華重點，從實際例子檢視你我可能會落入的思維陷阱。小從個人減重、消費行為，大至政策包裝、全球暖化，他們將提出意想不到的解決方案。 解釋人類行為，必須從影響我們思維的情境驅力開始理解，尤其是那些最不被看見的幽微細節。與聰明人不同的是，有智慧的人理解希望、恐懼、熱情與驅力對人所產生的影響，因此，他們會是讓員工感到幸福的老闆、將國家帶向下一步的政治人物、耐心陪伴叛逆期小孩的爸媽。理解這些驅力，我們就能在往後的決定上，有更睿智的理解與處理能力，進而成為房間裡最有智慧的人。   【各界推薦】 ◎台大經濟系副教授馮勃翰...

The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British...

The Pen & Cape Society, in conjunction with Local Hero Press, is proud to present The Good Fight, an anthology of superhero fiction from some of the best authors working in the genre. Collected within this volume are stories by Scott Bachmann, Frank Byrns, Marion Harmon, Warren Hately, Drew Hayes,...

"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?" -- Mark Twain Ross Thomas chose the quotation from Huckleberry Finn as the text of his post World War II story as well as for the title. When Lucifer Dye is released from three months...

The economy has fallen, and flesh is worth more than dollars. Across four different districts of the City, a desperate banker must keep his employer happy at any cost, a boxer must choose between honor and the woman he loves, a criminal must atone for his past, and a man with a terrifying condition...

"Anyone reading a Ross Thomas thriller for the first time is in imminent danger of addiction: One taste is never enough." - Los Angeles Times In Twilight at Mac's Place, the quiet death of an aged spy triggers a desperate race to control his memoirs, which threaten to reveal Cold...

The Fourth Durango is not your ordinary Durango. It's not in Spain, or Mexico, and it's not a ski town in the Colorado Rockies, although Durangos do exist in all of those places. This Durango has an industry, albeit a rather odd one-it is a hideout business, a place where people pay to find sanctuary...

“America's best storyteller.” —The New York Times Book Review From Edgar Award-winning author Ross Thomas comes Briarpatch, a thrilling mystery of one man’s personal mission to find justice for his family. Now the basis for the USA Network television series executive produced by Sam...