A former gun for hire and a federal agent find themselves on the right side of love but the wrong end of a bullet in this Richter installment from New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee.On a fateful night in Las Vegas, FBI agent Leo Grant is working on a critical detail in a high-profile child prostitution trial when a beautiful woman jumps into the path of a bullet meant for him. Little does Leo know that the woman is Olivia, an ex-assassin who...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee comes the steamy first novel in her new adrenaline-fueled Richter series.As an employee of MacBain Security and Solutions, Claire Kelly can certainly hold her own. Armed with an impressive set of covert skills, she’s more than prepared to tackle any job that comes her way…except one involving Cooper Lockman.Cooper and Claire used to work together before his feelings for h...

Das Buch der Richter im Alten Testament steckt voller Gewalt und bietet Bibellesern keinen einfachen Zugang. Deshalb lassen wir es in unserem Bibelstudium gern außen vor. In diesem Kommentar der Reihe »Die Bibel erklärt« hilft Timothy Keller uns, die Bedeutung der Erzählungen über die fragwürdigen Helden zu verstehen. Er zeigt, wie das wiederholte Versagen der Richter uns auf den wahren Helden Jesus hinweist und wie das unser Herz und unser Leben verändern kann. Neben dem Kommentar ist ein...

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt eines der bedeutendsten Künstler des 19. Jahrhunderts!„Ludwig Richter“ von V. Paul Mohn ist mehr als nur eine Biografie; es ist eine Reise in die Seele eines Künstlers, dessen Werke die Romantik prägten und bis heute inspirieren.In diesem fesselnden Buch tauchen Sie ein in die Lebensgeschichte von Ludwig Richter, einem Meister der Zeichnung und Illustration, dessen Werke die Schönheit und Melancholie der Natur au...

Few institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. Emerging in the 1820s as a sentimental space apart from the public world of commerce and politics, the Victorian home transcended its initial association with the private lives of the white, native-born bourgeoisie to cross lines of race, ethnicity, class, and region. Throughout the nineteenth century, home was celebrated as a moral force, domesticity moved freely into the worlds of politics and reform, an...

Family secrets and fresh romance collide in this heart-pounding Richter series installment by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee.Jacqueline “Jax” Simon knows how to expose secrets: she’s a skilled operative with MacBain Security and Solutions. When Jax hears her parents are divorcing, she races to London to find out why. She’s determined to learn the truth, especially when her investigation uncovers why her parents sen...

The text on your monitor looks smooth, but a microscopic examination reveals a jagged staircase of tiny red, green, and blue light bars. To eliminate blurry edges and create the illusion of perfect curves, software engineers exploit a technique known as sub-pixel rendering. By hijacking the individual color channels within a single pixel, algorithms can mathematically triple the horizontal resolution of any display. Implementing this optical illusion requires immense precision, especially ...

Recognizing the railroad’s importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there.For a time, Richter argues, nineteenth-century Americans imagined the public realm as a chaotic and dangerous place full of potential, where various groups came together, collided, and influenced one another, for better or worse. The example of the American railroad reveals how, by the beg...

Seine lieblichen Engelgestalten, seine naiven fröhlichen Kinder, die schämigen, aber gesunden Mägdlein und Jungfräulein, die Mütter im Kreise der Kinder, spinnend, belehrend oder wehrend; die Großmütter am warmen Kachelofen, den Enkeln — und es sind ihrer nie wenige — Märchen erzählend; die Familie um den Tisch zu Andacht oder Mahlzeiten versammelt; Kirchgang und Hochzeit, Taufgang und Friedhof, Abschied und Wiedersehen, Weihnachten und Ostern und Pfingsttag, die schönsten und weihevollste...

Paul Richter is back!An African prince is gunned down outside a London restaurant. But this is no ordinary assassination. Who is the third killer? Why was there no threat warning? And why did the killers kidnap one of the bodyguards, a former SAS soldier?Paul Richter is sent on the case. Before long he is in a deadly game of cat and mouse, wounded and chased through the English countryside. Richter will have to rely on all his combat skills and luck to av...

A long-forgotten threat becomes a deadly new danger.What should have been a routine arrest near Geneva turns into a bloody shoot-out. Four terrorists and four policeman are left dead, with Paul Richter on the run from a murder charge.Back in the UK, a tramp is viciously murdered on the Isle of Sheppey. Then a surveillance operation in Stuttgart goes badly wrong when a mole tips off the terrorists.As Richter hunts for the connection between these w...

The dramatic evolution of new technology in diagnostic and therapeutic radiology has changed the whole field of medicine. Ultrasonography, computed tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance, and digital radiography are those new techniques which are undergoing continuous development, providing us with increasingly re fined methods for establishing the cause of disease and for treating the patient. Using radiologic technique, ingenious methods are continuously being developed to en sure less e...