Kirjahaku

Pat Ruger is a retired detective who continues his new life on the road in an RV. Nashville is an interesting city but holds a lot of secrets that Pat must unravel, especially in the music industry, where he grudgingly agrees to help a popular country singing duo, Bobbie and June. A hit-and-run auto accident leaves the women in the hospital and it's possible that their new talent agent's disappearance is connected. What the heck is going on in the Music City?

Like earlier collections, the title, "Aspects Long Forgotten," is taken from a poem within. This book contains 51 poems and matching photographs in various classic poetic formats, and is the fifth book Jack has published, the fourth in paperback.Jack derives inspiration for poetry from his photographs. While traveling throughout his present home state, Jack visited many Kansas towns, lakes and rolling plains. There has been no shortage of photogenic views.Pictures were also taken in his home towns and during visits to Wyoming, Nevada, Western New York, England, and many places in between.

Pat Ruger is an ex-detective and P.I. that is planning to finally enjoy his retirement. After setting out for the midwest in a motorhome to begin a nomadic adventure, it isn't long before his nose for investigation takes him deep into an Missouri country legend. A run-in with a biker gang complicates Pat's travels and a new pet seems to have unexpectedly adopted him, but it's the Oblivion Highway that can't be ignored.

Pat Ruger is a retired detective living in Colorado. His ex-partner, Jimmy Stewart (no, not THE Jimmy Stewart), is a recurring character in the series, along with his business partners and other interesting folk. This compilation includes Books 1 through 3, "Pat Ruger: For Hire," "Pat Ruger: Caribbean Shuffle" and "Pat Ruger: Native Species."In "For Hire" Pat begins his private investigation adventure with a missing person case that leads him to meet his new agency partners, a cult, the FBI, a new girlfriend, the Muslim community, and a bomb threat.In "Caribbean Shuffle" Pat and Jimmy go on a cruise vacation that brings a murder investigation, pirates, a standoff with the Venezuelan Navy, and a scientist that wants to defect.In "Native Species" a Native American tribal leader in Western New York is murdered and Pat's investigation with his ex-fiance from the FBI leads them to kidnapping, missing witnesses, violence and intrigue leading to tragic consequences.

Pat Ruger is a retired detective living in Colorado. His ex-partner, Jimmy Stewart (no, not THE Jimmy Stewart), is a recurring character in the series, along with his business partners and other interesting folk. This compilation includes Books 4 through 6, "Pat Ruger: Children's Reprise," "Pat Ruger: Seattle Reign" and "Pat Ruger: Oblivion Highway."In "Children's Reprise," the cult Pat dealt with in Book 1 returns for retribution, with fatal repercussions from the plans of the group's hidden leader. In "Seattle Reign," Pat's murder investigation takes him to the CIA & FBI, while international intrigue draws him to Seattle and unforeseen repercussions. In "Oblivion Highway," Pat begins a new chapter of his life when he takes a motorhome out on the road for an extended period of time. Retirement is sweet until the country legend of the Oblivion Highway manages to gain his undivided attention.

Our lives are increasingly spent online. Work, friends, games, reading - all are increasingly digital and virtual. Google Glass is next. How are these extraordinary changes affecting our brains, our minds and the way we think, talk and relate? Parents, scientists, doom-mongers and sociologists are among the many people speculating about what is going to become of us as we become increasingly absorbed by electronic media and ever more remote from our natural environment. Jack Huber is clear that what he calls 'the cyberous' is changing the whole way that our minds work. But he is also clear that we can't hope to understand the effects and implications fully without a better understanding of how the mind came to be what it is over the course of human evolution. So he takes us on a historical and biological tour of the human-mind-in-its-environment and focuses on three 'trajectories' in particular: our capacity to recognise patterns (which includes our capacity to use and understand metaphor) vision (which is much more than sight post-birth development From there he looks at how our past will influence our future, giving us a glimpse of what collaboration with cyberous environments will bring to our minds and to 'self' in the future - a glimpse of what and who we will become. In doing so, he suggests three futures of the mind: Unknowable mind Absentee mind Transcendent mind Fascinating stuff! Is the future bright? You decide.

Pat Ruger is a retired detective who now runs a private investigation firm. A local poet is killed and he decides to lend his expertise to solving the murder. His investigation brings him to the CIA and they recruit him to continue his investigation in Seattle. There he finds an international connection and has to recover his kidnapped protege before the captors take him to Asia, never to be seen again.