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  • How University Boards Work

    A Guide for Trustees, Officers, and Leaders in Higher Education

    by Robert A. Scott ...
    Series series Higher Ed Leadership Essentials
    A completely updated guide to helping university trustees become effective stewards of their institutions.Boards of trustees hold immense responsibility in guiding the future of colleges and universities. They hire and fire presidents, approve and monitor strategy, oversee finances, and safeguard institutional missions and autonomy. Yet many trustees enter this role with limited understanding of ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • The Gothic Enterprise

    A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral

    by Robert A. Scott ...
    The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that has fired the historical imagination for centuries. In it Robert A. Scott explores why medieval people built Gothic cathedrals ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Miracle Cures

    Saints, Pilgrimage, and the Healing Powers of Belief

    by Robert A. Scott ...
    Iconic images of medieval pilgrims, such as Chaucer’s making their laborious way to Canterbury, conjure a distant time when faith was the only refuge of the ill and infirm, and thousands traveled great distances to pray for healing. Why, then, in an age of advanced biotechnology and medicine, do millions still go on pilgrimages? Why do journeys to important religious shrines—such as Lourdes, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Making of Blind Men

    by Robert A. Scott ...
    The disability of blindness is a learned social role. The various attitudes and patterns of behavior that characterize people who are blind are not inherent in their condition but, rather, are acquired through ordinary processes of social learning. The Making of Blind Men is intended as a systematic and integrated overview of the blindness problem in America. Dr. Scott chronicles which aspects of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    The Pendleton Rule

    by Iris Bolling ...
    Narrated by Robert A Scott ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Night of Seduction Series

    Unabridged

    8 hours 8 min

    A year ago, Tyrone "Ty" Pendleton connected with Kendra "Kiki" Simmons due to their friends' dilemma. They shared months of hot passion that neither will ever forget. An emotional difference of opinion created a rift the couple could not overcome.Proud and stubborn, literary agent Kiki moved to New York to work with her father's publishing company and to put distance between her and the man who ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kill the Ones You Love

    by Robert Scott ...
    Experience the true crime story of a married father and ex-cop with a dark side in this “fast-paced, unforgettable real-life thriller” (Sue Russell).Family On The RunA handsome, married young father and former deputy sheriff, Gabriel Morris looked like the picture of respectability. When his mother and her boyfriend were found brutally murdered in their pleasant Oregon seaside home, authorities ... Read more

    $6.89 USD

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    Our Boston

    Writers Celebrate the City They Love

    by Andrew Blauner, Kevin Cullen, Mike Barnicle, E. M. Swift, Charles McGrath, Madeleine Blais, George Howe Colt, Susan Orlean, David M. Shribman, Joan Wickersham0, David Michaelis1, Katherine A. Powers2, Jabari Asim3, Lesley Visser4, Hugh Delehanty5, George Plimpton6, Leslie Epstein7, Bud Collins8, Nell Scovell9, Israel Horovitz0, Shira Springer1, Dennis Lehane2, Susan Sheehan3, James Atlas4, Leigh Montville5, Tova Mirvis6, Pagan Kennedy7, Scott Stossel8, Robert Pinsky9, Bill Littlefield0, Carlo Rotella1, Neil Swidey2, Jessica Shattuck3, John Updike4, Pico Iyer5, Sally Taylor6, André Aciman0 ...
    Narrated by various narrators7, Peter Berkrot8, Johnny Heller9, Malcolm Hillgartner0, Jim Meskimen1, Joe Barrett2, Bernadette Dunne3, Bronson Pinchot4, Carrington MacDuffie5, Susan Boyce6, Kevin Kenerly7, Meredith Mitchell8, Ralph Lister9 ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 57 min

    What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines?Perhaps the question should be, who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane, Boston has been beloved by many of America's greatest writers, and there is no better group of men and women to capture the heart and soul of the Hub. In Our Boston, editor Andrew Blauner has collected both original and ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Seize the Night

    New Tales of Vampiric Terror

    by Kelley Armstrong, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Laird Barron, Gary A. Braunbeck, Dana Cameron, Dan Chaon, Lynda Barry, Charlaine Harris, Brian Keene, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Michael Koryta, John Langan, Tim Lebbon, Seanan McGuire, Joe McKinney, Leigh Perry, Robert Shearman, Scott Smith, Lucy A. Snyder, David Wellington, Rio Youers ...
    A chilling vampire horror anthology featuring original short stories from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors—including Charlaine Harris (whose novels inspired HBO’s True Blood) and Scott Smith, in his first published fiction since The Ruins.Before vampires became romantic antiheroes, they were creatures of shadow and blood. In this terrifying collection, some of the biggest names ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Girl in the Leaves

    by Robert Scott, Sarah Maynard, Larry Maynard ...
    The shocking true crime story of one of the most bizarre mass murders ever recorded—and the girl who escaped with her life.In the fall of 2010, in the all-American town of Apple Valley, Ohio, four people disappeared without a trace: Stephanie Sprang; her friend, Tina Maynard; and Tina’s two children, thirteen-year-old Sarah and eleven-year-old Kody. Investigators began scouring the area, yet ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rope Burns

    by Robert Scott ...
    The true crime story of a killer couple from California, their gruesome torture chamber on wheels, and the terror they left in their wake.The true story of one of the most notorious crime couples in recent American history is told. Michelle Michaud and James Daveggio forged a perverse alliance in late 1997. After customizing Michaud's minivan into a mobile torture chamber, the pair hit the road ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Tales Before Narnia

    The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction

    by J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling ...
    In his acclaimed collection Tales Before Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson illuminated the sources, inspirations, and influences that fired J.R.R. Tolkien’s genius. Now Anderson turns his attention to Tolkien’s colleague and friend C. S. Lewis, whose influence on modern fantasy, through his beloved Narnia books, is second only to Tolkien’s own.In many ways, Lewis’s influence has been even wider than ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • A Primer on School Budgeting

    by Robert N. Kratz, Charles A. Scott, Harry T. Zechman ...
    Does the prospect of preparing your school district's budget seem daunting? Beginning school administrators, often having only one theoretical course on the subject under their belt, see the budget development process as a nightmare. New administrators, teachers, and board members who have little experience with budgeting are justifiably concerned by the prospect of their involvement in budgeting. ... Read more

    $60.79 USD