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  • Soft City

    Building Density for Everyday Life

    by David Sim ...
    Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasures of everyday life. How do we move from the current reality in ... Read more

    $41.79 CAD

  • Egypt’s Desert Dreams

    Development or Disaster? (New Edition)

    by David Sims ...
    A rigorous and comprehensive examination of Egypt’s desert development over the past half-century, updated for a new paperback editionEgypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country’s problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors, all have been promoted for over half a century to ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Development Delusions and Contradictions

    An Anatomy of the Foreign Aid Industry

    by David Sims ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book analyses the shortcomings of the Western development aid programme. Through exploring the evolution of aid over more than seven decades, development is examined as an industry with a variety of motives and actors. The driving forces and dynamics in the relationship between aid and economic development are highlighted in relation to faulty development structures and misaligned aims. With ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Sermons to Live By

    by David Sims ...
    There is no available information at this time. ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Understanding Cairo

    The Logic of a City Out of Control

    by David Sims ...
    This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Union Forever

    The Irish Question and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Victorian Age

    by David Sim ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    In the mid-nineteenth century the Irish question—the governance of the island of Ireland—demanded attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In A Union Forever, David Sim examines how Irish nationalists and their American sympathizers attempted to convince legislators and statesmen to use the burgeoning global influence of the United States to achieve Irish independence. Simultaneously, he tracks ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • Livestock Protection Dogs, 2nd Edition

    by Orysia Dawydiak ...
    Small farms and large ranches are turning to dogs as a humane and ecologically sound way to protect their investments. This newly revised edition will make it easy to select a breed, care for, and train a livestock protection dog. Training methods have been refined and expanded, and there's even a chapter on guarding unusual stock, plus a discussion of theory, history and selection; livestock ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roman Imperial Armour

    The production of early imperial military armour

    by David Sim, J. Kaminski ...
    The Roman Empire depended on the power of its armies to defend and extend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate much of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Success was, in large part, founded on well-trained, well-disciplined soldiers who were equipped with the most advanced arms and armour available at that time. This is the story of the production of that armour. Roman Imperial ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Child in American Evangelicalism and the Problem of Affluence

    A Theological Anthropology of the Affluent American-Evangelical Child in Late Modernity

    by David A. Sims ...
    This work presents an evangelical theology of the child nurtured in the context of American evangelicalism and affluence. It employs an eclectic theological-critical method to produce a theological anthropology of the affluent American-evangelical child (AAEC) through interdisciplinary evangelical engagement of American history, sociology, and economics. Sims articulates how affluence constitutes ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World of Sport

    by David Long ...
    Illustrated by Cat Sims ...
    Series Book 1 - World of Sport
    From land-speed record-breakers to unforgettable rivalries, buckle up for an exhilarating ride through the evolution of motorsport with Blue Peter Award winning author David Long.When automobiles arrived in Britain in the 1890s, Queen Victoria was among the many who thought they were noisy, smelly machines. By 1906, the first Grand Prix was speeding through the French countryside, igniting a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    The End of the Web

    by George Sims ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    6 hours 3 min

    Leo Selver, a middle-aged antiques dealer, is stunned when the beautiful and desirable Judy Latimer shows an interest in him. Soon they are lying in each other's arms, unaware that this embrace will be their last. Popular opinion suggests that Leo murdered the girl, a theory Leo's wife – well aware of her husband's infidelities – refuses to accept. Ed Buchanan, a former policeman who has known the ... Read more

    $48.67 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm

    The Work and Legacy of Steven Box

    Edited by David Gordon Scott, Joe Sim ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection revisits Steven Box’s book, Power, Crime and Mystification, published in 1983, and considers its relevance forty years on. It introduces the critical analysis developed by Box which examined corporate crime, police crime, rape and sexual assault and female crime and analyses the continuities and discontinuities since 1983 in relation to crime, the state and the exercise ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD