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Emotional Contagion

By: Elaine Hatfield,John T Cacioppo,Richard L Rapson

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Emotional Contagion

By: Elaine Hatfield,John T Cacioppo,Richard L Rapson

A study of the phenomenon of emotion contagion, or the communication of mood to others.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521449480

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9780521449489

Vengeance Is Mine

By: Elaine Hatfield,Elaine Hatfield & Richard L. Rapson

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Vengeance Is Mine

By: Elaine Hatfield,Elaine Hatfield & Richard L. Rapson

When Kate MacKinnon hears that Nikki Trixx, a Waikiki prostitute, has been found murdered on a sacred Hawaiian he iau, she is appalled. To Hawaiians, a heiau luakini is the most sacred of shrines, for it is there that their ancestors offered up human sacrifices. Kate knows there will be trouble from politicians, Hawaiian sovereignty activists, and racists each group accusing the others of the desecration. Near Julia's body, Kate discovers a Holy card titled "Pride" a strange, terrifying creation straight out of Hiëronymus Bosch. As Kate struggles to solve the mystery of a Waikiki serial killer, we find ourselves caught in a carnival fun house mirror. Assumptions glimmer, alter, and magically disappear. When Kate is finally rescued from peril, we learn that friends and enemies, and the innocent and the guilty, are not always who they seem.

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177

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Xlibris Corporation

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1413484859

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9781413484854

Deadly Wager

A Kate Mac Kinnon Murder Mystery

By: Elaine Hatfield; Richard L. Rapson

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Deadly Wager

A Kate Mac Kinnon Murder Mystery

By: Elaine Hatfield; Richard L. Rapson

Deadly Wager: A Kate MacKinnon Murder Mystery Elaine Hatfield & Richard L. Rapson Book Description A crack of gunfire and Ace MacKinnon, a Narcotics/Vice detective with the Hawaii Police Department lies dead. A few hours later, his daughter Caitlyn MacKinnon, a Hawaiian Studies graduate student, hears from her mother Annie that her father has been killed. Kate is perplexed to discover that Chief Fixxxa Nishida has advised her mother that, although the evidence suggests that Ace committed suicide, he will arrange things so that the death looks like an accident. What is going on? In the course of Kate’s investigation, she meets an old friend, Detective Sergeant David Ka‘ala Gresham. Although Kate is determined not to get involved romantically with Ka‘ala, he is an invaluable asset in searching for her father’s killer. Their search takes them through the dark political murk of Hawaii politics, cultural clashes, honor-systems within honor-systems, racial tensions, and criminal wheeling-and-dealing in the 50th State. In the end, when Kate and Ka‘ala have given up all hope of ever discovering who killed Ace MacKinnon, they stumble on a crucial bit of evidence—a starburst Christmas decoration—that casts a new and blinding light on Ace’s shocking past. The answer to the mystery of “Who killed Ace MacKinnon” is not one they would have hoped for, however. Deadly Wager is different from most crime stories both in character and locale. Kate and Ka‘ala are both Native Hawaiians. In the course of the investigation we learn a great deal about Hawaiian history and customs, the story of an ancient princess, the Hawaiian sovereignty fight, culture wars, K-bars, police connections to organized crime, illegal gambling, and cockfights. The exotic locale and atmosphere of this detective tale contributes to its fun . . . and suspense. This story is unique, in that (since the Charlie Chan mysteries in the 1930s) there has never been a detective series set in Hawaii. The detectives on the two big TV shows that were produced: Hawaii Five-0 and Tom Selleck’s Magnum PI, were Caucasians; Ka‘ala is a full-blooded Hawaiian and Kate MacKinnon is a part-Hawaiian (a hapa-haoli) and a Hawaiian sovereignty activist. This book will give you a vivid sense of life in 21st century Hawaii.

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294

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462809154

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9781462809158

Dangerous Characters

By: Elaine Hatfield,Richard L. Rapson

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Dangerous Characters

By: Elaine Hatfield,Richard L. Rapson

Dangerous Characters is about people of all kinds, stuck with their unique personalities and trying to negotiate their ways through lifes bramble strewn path. As intellectual historians, psychologists of love, and psychotherapists, Elaine Hatfield and Richard L. Rapson bring to bear their sharp and wry observations upon a constellation of vivid characters.

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325

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462805868

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9781462805860

Flimflam Artists

True Tales of Cults, Crackpots, Cranks, Cretins, Crooks, Creeps, Con Artists, and Charlatans

By: Elaine Hatfield,Richard L. Rapson

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Flimflam Artists

True Tales of Cults, Crackpots, Cranks, Cretins, Crooks, Creeps, Con Artists, and Charlatans

By: Elaine Hatfield,Richard L. Rapson

In the 17th century, critics of John Milton observed that in Paradise Lost, Lucifer steals the show. The same thing holds true today. We begin with a fanciful tale of God and Satan. What follows is a collection of true stories about Societys roguesthe flimflam artists, whores, painted ladies, voodoo queens, and honky-tonk angels that inhabit the world. We depict the lives of a few favorites among these captivating, infuriating, (sometimes) horrifying, and larger than life frauds.

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Xlibris Corporation

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146536031X

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9781465360311

The Adventures of Firefly, The Tiny Detective

By: Elaine Hatfield; Richard L. Rapson

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The Adventures of Firefly, The Tiny Detective

By: Elaine Hatfield; Richard L. Rapson

Our detective is April Gladstone, Miss Firefly, a 15-year-old “little person” who yearns to leave the world of circus “freaks.” When Delilah, the star attraction of Captain Barney’s Circus, tumbles to her death from a tightrope, the suspicious Firefly sets out to investigate. She soon discovers that in Captain Barney’s Circus, things are not as they seem. This tale, set in 1889, in the time of the famous Jack the Ripper murders, is a sweet, quirky story that provides an exotic glimpse into the world of Victorian San Francisco’s Barbary Coast and the harsh, gritty world of the traveling circuses and freak shows.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462805833

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9781462805839

The G-string Murders

By: Elaine Hatfield; Richard L. Rapson

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The G-string Murders

By: Elaine Hatfield; Richard L. Rapson

Elaine Hatfield, Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii, has written 12 books—two of which won the American Psychological Association’s National Media Award. Richard L. Rapson, Professor of History at the University of Hawaii, has also written a dozen books, most of which have focused on the psychology of American life, past and present. He has been a T.V. moderator, Dean of New College, and named by the Danforth Foundation as one of the nation’s best teachers. Together the authors have published a sextet of serious novels and detective stories.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462805876

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9781462805877

What's Next in Love and Sex

Psychological and Cultural Perspectives

By: Elaine Hatfield,Richard L. Rapson,Jeanette Purvis

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What's Next in Love and Sex

Psychological and Cultural Perspectives

By: Elaine Hatfield,Richard L. Rapson,Jeanette Purvis

What's Next in Love and Sex is a comprehensive examination of contemporary academic findings relating to all matters of the mind, body, and heart. Inspired by questions asked by students, the book covers cutting-edge topics so new that they are rarely addressed in current sexuality texts, providing insight into modern trends such as hookup culture, virtual pornography, robots, apps, and online dating as they evolve in this day and age. Written by one of the pioneers of love and sex research, Elaine Hatfield, along with historian Richard Rapson and social psychologist Jeannette Purvis, this book uses contemporary scientific findings to provide an updated and relevant explanation for why we do the things we do when we're in love, searching for love, making love, or trying to keep a faltering relationship together. Combining rigorous scholarship with an accessible and entertaining style, no other book will give college students and academics alike such a developed understanding of contemporary love and sex.

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400

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Oxford University Press

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0190647175

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9780190647179

Darwin's Law

By: Elaine Hatfield,Richard L Parson

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Darwin's Law

By: Elaine Hatfield,Richard L Parson

Calli Guerrero-Waite faces a wrenching moral dilemma. Caught in a painful marriage, she sees a new life opening up for her when she has an affair with Jake Sanchez. Ready to divorce her anthropologist husband, circumstances abruptly alter. Conscience calls her one way, love another. The way that Calli and Jake confront the pull of conscience, the dictates of Calli's powerful husband, the scorn of family and friends, and a concern for her two sons forms the crux of Darwin's Law.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1413400884

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9781413400885

Hijacked!

By: Elaine Hatfield; Richard L. Rapson

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Hijacked!

By: Elaine Hatfield; Richard L. Rapson

Hijacked! is the story of Alix Kerensky, a Jewish Russian émigré, who sets sail on an SS Infinity’s “Voyage of Discovery”—along with 250 American college students. In this love story and psychological “thriller,” the unthinkable occurs when the Georgetown University teaching ship is hijacked by Abu Ghazi and the men of Jabal an-Nar, a group of Palestinian terrorists. Hijacked!—a complex tale of Middle East politics, romance, and adventure—chronicles a momentous period in American history. It is a eulogy for an era. We travel from Spring, 2000, a time of American optimism and innocence, to September 15, 2001, four days after Osama bin Laden’s attack on New York’s World Trade Center—a time when Americans came to realize that they were facing an enemy more elusive, a war more intractable, and a world far more dangerous, than any they had imagined.

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Xlibris Corporation

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146280585X

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9781462805853

Book's by Richard L. Rapson

Emotional Contagion

Emotional Contagion

Vengeance Is Mine

Vengeance Is Mine

Deadly Wager

Deadly Wager

Dangerous Characters

Dangerous Characters

Flimflam Artists

Flimflam Artists

The Adventures of Firefly, The Tiny Detective

The Adventures of Firefly, The Tiny Detective

The G-string Murders

The G-string Murders

What's Next in Love and Sex

What's Next in Love and Sex

Darwin's Law

Darwin's Law

Hijacked!

Hijacked!

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