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  • WHAT MOTHER WON'T TELL ME
    IVAR LEON MENGER
    "An intoxicating [thriller], well worth the sleep you will lose as you read 'just one more chapter'." — Clémence Michallon, internationally bestselling author of The Quiet Tenant Perfect for fans of Abigail Dean's Girl A and Adrian McKinty's The Chain, What Mother Won't Tell Me is a taut, Nordic thriller with a folk tale twist about a young girl raised in strict isolation, prot...

    $202.00

  • SINGAPORE INC.: A CENTURY OF BUSINESS SUCCESS IN GLOBAL MARKETS
    CHOONG, LEON
    This book features 100 local case studies examining the experiences of leading Singaporean companies across different sectors including aviation, logistics, banking, and real estate. They offer valuable insights into how companies adapted to evolving market dynamics, expanded their business portfolios, ventured into global markets, prioritised sustainability, and leveraged inno...

    $899.00

  • TENSEGRITY STRUCTURES DESIGN METHODS
    OREN VILNAY / LEON CHERNIN / MARGI VILNAY
    Tensegrity structures are pre-stressed systems of cables and bars in which no bar is connected to the other and the structure has no continuous rigid skeleton. This general introduction presents an original general method for the design of tensegrity structures, the first configurations of which were found by trial and error. The book begins with two-dimensional tensegrity stru...

    $1,339.00

  • AFRICA-EU RELATIONS AND THE AFRICAN CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA
    SAMUEL OJO OLORUNTOBA, CHRISTOPHER CHANGWE NSHIMBI AND LEON MWAMBA TSHIMPAKA
    This book explores relations between states in the Africa–European Union in view of the African Continental Free Trade Area, both at a regional level and as a series of informal processes of socioeconomic and political interactions between state and non-state actors. The book reconsiders the ways in which actors in the Africa–European Union relationship function, and what that ...

    $1,099.00

  • AROMATIC AND MEDICINAL PLANTS OF DRYLANDS AND DESERTS
    DAVID RAMIRO AGUILLÓN-GUTIÉRREZ, CRISTIAN TORRES-LEÓN, AND JORGE ALEJANDRO AGUIRRE-JOYA
    The description and analysis of the Mexican and other countries desertic plants from the point of view of their use in traditional medicine and their potential use in integrative medicine is the overall theme of this book. Aromatic and Medicinal Plants of Drylands and Deserts: Ecology, Ethnobiology and Potential Uses describes the historic use of drylands plants, botanical and ...

    $4,000.00

  • SPINOZA
    LEON ROTH
    Spinoza (1929) offers an ‘estimate’ of Spinoza – his life, philosophy and influences – while retaining, as far as possible through translation, ‘the very words Spinoza wrote’. Thereby the two essential things needed for a thorough appreciation of Spinoza are combined. ...

    $1,339.00

  • THE PIRATE WHO STOLE SCOTLAND
    LEON HOPKINS
    Economic warfare is not a new phenomenon. In the protectionist climate of the seventeenth century, trade embargoes, exclusions and boycotts were common. England was among the most active nations when it came to using economic clout to get its own way. It did so to force Scotland to accept an Act of Union: to submerge its independence within a United Kingdom governed from London...

    $383.99

  • THE PHILOSOPHY OF COURAGE OR THE OXFORD GROUP WAY
    PHILIP LEON
    First Published in 1939 The Philosophy of Courage talks about Philip Leon’s personal experience of God in the language of philosophy. It is a book on philosophy but also a book based on personal experience. Leon was the first philosopher to attempt to talk about some of the most important principles of the Oxford Group, and hence the first philosopher to attempt to discuss some...

    $1,339.00

  • THE USSR AND LATIN AMERICA
    EUSEBIO MUJAL-LEÓN
    The USSR and Latin America (1989) is an authoritative analysis of the Soviet Union’s strategy and policy towards the region. The contributors cover a variety of topics, including Latin America’s place in Soviet strategy for the developing world, US perceptions of Soviet strategy in the region, Soviet–Cuban relations, and relations between Latin American communist parties and th...

    $899.00

  • MATHEMATICA BEYOND MATHEMATICS
    JOSÉ GUILLERMO SÁNCHEZ LEÓN
    Although many books have been written about Mathematica, very few of them cover the new functionality added to the most recent versions of the program. This thoroughly revised second edition of Mathematica Beyond Mathematics: The Wolfram Language in the Real World introduces the new features using real-world examples based on the experience of the author as a consultant and Wol...

    $1,939.00

  • MUSICAL ECOLOGIES
    DE BRUIN, LEON R
    Community music around the world reflects the growing and diverse ways humans collectivise and express themselves in ways that articulate our cultural, social, and environmental complexity. Revisiting, redevising, and reimagining some of the field’s approaches, ideologies, and contexts, this co-edited volume investigates beyond generalist intercultural and internationalist conc...

    $979.00

  • CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN FINANCE AND INSOLVENCY LAW VOLUME 2
    LEON TRAKMAN / ROBERT WALTERS
    There is increasing regulatory interdependence amongst Central, East and South East Asia, European and North American financial markets, and these markets account for over one-third of the world’s population and global financial markets. As these Asian markets become more integral to global financial economy, more cohesive, compatible and integrated insolvency and restructuring...

    $999.00

  • CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN FINANCE AND INSOLVENCY LAW VOLUME 1
    LEON TRAKMAN / ROBERT WALTERS
    There is increasing regulatory interdependence amongst Central, East and South East Asian, European and North American financial markets, and these markets account for over one-third of the world’s population and global financial markets. As Asian markets become more integral to global financial economy, more cohesive, compatible and integrated insolvency and restructuring laws...

    $999.00

  • GOD AND MAN
    LEON ROTH
    Originally published in 1955, and containing some 500 passages, this Biblical anthology brings together, in their original wording, the highest expressions of the Biblical view of life. The anthology is non-historical and non-doctrinal. It starts with the confrontations of man with God as seen in the ‘calls’ of the prophets, and proceeds to the ways of life demanded of man and ...

    $859.00

  • OPTIMAL RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN OF STRUCTURES AGAINST SEVERAL NATURAL HAZARDS
    ALFREDO H-S ANG / DAVID DE LEON ESCOBEDO / WENLIANG FAN
    Interest in the topic of structural reliability and optimal design has been rapidly growing in recent years. Besides, the field of numerical methods and artificial intelligence is experiencing a surge of new methods and the refinement of existing ones to expand opportunities to apply robust formulations to complex engineering problems. Today, more than ever, the field is receiv...

    $539.00

  • GEAR-SHIFTING LEADERSHIP
    LEON CAI
    Drawn from his experience as the executive dean of Wilner Sales and Leadership Institute, Leon Cai shares his proven philosophy and methods for improving leadership skills among middle and high-level managers. Leon is one the top ten most influential trainers in China winning “Honor China Award” and is a leading figure in China’s training and consulting industry. Gear-Shifting ...

    $679.00

  • REHEARSING SHAKESPEARE
    LEON RUBIN
    Rehearsing Shakespeare offers a dynamic guide to practice in rehearsals and workshops for actors, directors and trainers in a UK and global context. The book analyses the roots and development of modern-day approaches to Shakespeare and applies theory of verse analysis to practical work, ranging from the drama student to the highest professional level in major global theatres. ...

    $899.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ART IN THE PUBLIC REALM
    CAMERON CARTIERE / LEON TAN
    This multidisciplinary companion offers a comprehensive overview of the global arena of public art. It is organised around four distinct topics: activation, social justice, memory and identity, and ecology, with a final chapter mapping significant works of public and social practice art around the world between 2008 and 2018. The thematic approach brings into view similarities ...

    $1,179.00

  • CORRUPT CAPITAL
    KENNETH SEBASTIAN LEÓN
    This book offers a deep dive into the social, political, and economic forces that make white-collar crime and corruption a staple feature of the nightlife economy. The author, a former bouncer-turned-bartender of party bars and nightclubs in a large U.S. city, draws from an auto-ethnographic case study to describe and explain the routine and embedded nature of corruption and de...

    $1,099.00

  • LASERS-INDUCED PLASMAS AND APPLICATIONS
    LEON J. RADZIEMSKI
    This book discusses the physics of plasma initiation and reviews the features of dissipating, propagating plasmas. It deals with advances in diagnostics for high-energy, laser-fusion plasmas. The book reviews the basic physical processes, plasma characteristics of the "continuous optical discharge". ...

    $7,500.00

  • ORDER AND DISORDER IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    DANIELLE IRELAND-PIPER / LEON WOLFF
    With a diverse group of contributors from law, business and the social sciences, this book explores the line not only between order and disorder in global affairs, but also chaos and control, continuity and change, the core and the margins. The key themes include: global crises and the role of international law, norms and institutions; the challenge of pluralism to regulatory c...

    $1,059.00

  • FOOD PROCESSING OPERATIONS AND SCALE-UP
    KENNETH J. VALENTAS / J. PETER CLARK / LEON LEVIN
    Intended for students and practitioners who have a basic education in chemical engineering or food science. Contains basic information in each area and describes some of the fundamental ideas of processing development and design. Examines the food industry structure, how it works, consumer products, ...

    $7,000.00

  • DESIGN, EDUCATION AND PEDAGOGY
    LEON BENADE / ‎MARK JACKSON
    This book explores the increasing emergence within educational institutions, such as schools and universities, of large, flexible spaces whose design is underpinned by cutting-edge principles and technologies. These changes in educational facilities have spawned a range of new terminology. For example, terms such as ‘modern learning environments’, ‘innovative learning environme...

    $1,299.00

  • THE HOLOCAUST IN THESSALONIKI
    LEON SALTIEL
    The book narrates the last days of the once prominent Jewish community of Thessaloniki, the overwhelming majority of which was transported to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in 1943. Focusing on the Holocaust of the Jews of Thessaloniki, this book maps the reactions of the authorities, the Church and the civil society as events unfolded. In so doing, it seeks to answer the que...

    $1,099.00

  • POLITICAL PARTIES IN WESTERN DEMOCRACIES
    LEON D. EPSTEIN
    Presents a brilliant, persuasive case that American political parties, so often dismissed as immature or ineffective compared with their European counterparts, are in fact old and durable political organizations, serving well the needs of a pluralistic society. What chiefly distinguishes this work is the inclusion of considerable material on American parties in a comparative co...

    $1,199.00

  • EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD
    LEON TIKLY
    Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) lies at the heart of global, regional and national policy agendas, with the goal of achieving socially and environmentally just development through the provision of inclusive, equitable quality education for all. Realising this potential on the African continent, however, calls for radical transformation of policy and practice. Develo...

    $999.00

  • POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
    LEON P. BARADAT / JOHN A. PHILLIPS
    Comprehensive yet accessible, this classic text, now in its thirteenth edition follows the evolution of political thought over 300 years. Organized chronologically, this text examines each ideology within a political, historical, economic, and social context. In addition to a thorough updating of examples and data, here’s what you’ll find in the new edition: Analyses of Preside...

    $2,200.00

  • THE IBERIANLATIN AMERICAN CONNECTION
    HOWARD J. WIARDA / EUSEBIO MUJAL-LEON / ALISTAIR HENNESSY / JANINE T PERFIT
    This book is especially timely as Latin America is diversifying its international connections, Spain and Portugal are seeking to expand their interests and presence in Latin America, and U.S. policy toward both regions has become increasingly complex. Contributors trace the history of Iberian-Latin American relations from colonial times and then examine the cultural, economic, ...

    $1,099.00

  • THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MAGO OR A PHŒNICIAN EXPEDITION B. C. 1000
    DAVID LÉON CAHUN
    The following pages pretend to no original or scientific research. It is their object to present, in a popular form, a picture of the world as it was a thousand years before the Christian Era, and to exhibit, mainly for the young, a summary of that varied information which is contained in books, many of which by their high price and exclusively technical character are generally...

    $39.70

  • LEND-LEASE, LOANS, AND THE COMING OF THE COLD WAR
    LEON C MARTEL
    This is the first study to discuss in detail the implementation phase of policy decisions. Dr. Martel examines several related foreign policy decisions that contributed significantly to the coming of the Cold War: President Truman's order to cut back lend-lease to the USSR after the defeat of Germany, the termination of lend-lease to the USSR after ...

    $1,099.00