Bøger af Michael Rutter

Tall, strong, & knowing just how to use sex as a weapon, Kendra Vaughn skips out on her stuntman boyfriend and ends up in Scottsdale, Arizona. Adopting yet one more in a long line of aliases, that of Kandace Lange, Mz. "Kandy with a K" is enjoying a simple life hocking high-end used imports at AutoHaven. She's even got a new man in her life; Guy Yarnell, a Canadian IT consultant on temporary assignment. Then one day, while working with a young sales associate, she discovers someone is watching her every move. With a variety of dangerous suspects from a shady past, Kendra calls on an old friend, Recon, to assist with some counter-surveillance measures. The cloak & dagger begins, and 'Kandy' has to be very careful on both personal and professional fronts. Her past and present begin to collide, and now she'll have to choose which identity is the safe path to follow.

In this follow-up to his autobiography, Michael Rutter changes his focus and now reflects on his father's life - the victories, defeats, scrapes with the law and practical jokes. He also looks at his father's close brushes with death, including the horrific career-ending crash of 1985, and its aftermath.Tony Rutter (1942-2020) is best known for his four world TT-F2 championship wins, seven Isle of Man TT wins, nine North West 200 wins, and two British Championship titles during his twenty-two-year career - but the man himself has remained something of an enigma to everyone including his own son Michael, who himself went on to have a hugely successful career and keep the Rutter name alive in the world of motorcycle racing to the present day.Through his own memories, as well as those of longstanding teammates and friends, Michael pieces together his father's values, what mattered to him the most, his odd - sometimes maddening - traits. What unfolds is a profile of the man behind the incredible talent and singular focus of an elite racer. With a foreword by Carl Fogarty, this is the first-ever book about one of the finest racers in a great generation of racers, by those who knew and loved him the most.

Features twenty-one of the West's gun-slinging "bad girls," from serial killer Kate Bender to Elizabeth Potts and Ellen Watson, the first women hanged in Nevada and Wyoming. Meet these fascinating characters, complete with their pistols and petticoats, their knives and knaves, their vices and victims.

Prostitutes make up one of the most engaging chapters in the story of the American West. Upstairs Girls opens a window on the lives of these women for hire. Historian Michael Rutter offers a thorough and fascinating history of prostitution in the West, with details on why women turned to this profession and what their lives were like. Chapters on the notorious madams, the tragic Chinese sex trade, occupational hazards, rowdy dancehall girls, and the efforts of the ''Moral Purity Movement'' supplement the heart-breaking and sometimes humorous profiles on some of the most famous madams and prostitutes in history.

Author Michael Rutter examines the growing pains of the American West through the lens of nineteenth century vigilantes, outlaws, mob violence, and lynchings, proving that oftentimes our country's democratic progress comes at the cost of physical violence.

Bicycle past endangered birds at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, get up close and personal with some slimy reptiles at the Monte L. Bean Museum, follow in the hoofprints of the Pony Express, or experience a unique style of living at Hole 'N the Rock--author Michael Rutter reveals these lesser-known Utah attractions and many more.

For beginners eager to land their first fly-caught fish and for more experienced anglers looking to advance their skills.

Comprehensive review of the available evidence relating to delinquency by young people.

Autobiography of TT and Superbike motorcycle racer Michael Rutter.

"Most models of human development end abruptly with adolescence. But, according to the internationally renowned theorist and researcher Michael Rutter, we continue to mature throughout our life span. I"

Stress, Coping, and Development in Children is a work of signal importance to psychologists and to every mental health professional involved with infants and children.

How much of what we know about the history of the Old West is true? In this new book, author Michael Rutter looks at the legend and lore behind such notorious figures as Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane and the stories of famous gun fights and battles, telling what really happened. Truth may be stranger than fiction, but these 12 legends stand up to scrutiny, and this book will be a must-read for all western history buffs.

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Utah, 2nd Edition. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Midwest.

This volume aims to provide the reader with an up-to-date account of knowledge, research, education, and clinical practice in the field of au tism, from an international perspective. The book had its origins in the 1976 International Symposium on Autism held in St. Gallen, Switzerland but it is not in any sense a proceed ings of that meeting.

Explore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who hung out with Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch outlaw gang.