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  • Voices from the Kitchen

    Personal Narratives from New York's Immigrant Restaurant Workers

    Edited by Marc Meyer ...
    **"This is a slim and modest book, a volume of oral histories in the vein of Studs Terkel’s Working (1974), but everyone who eats out regularly should know about it...Voices From the Kitchen is an optimistic book — it reminds you that if many restaurant careers begin that way, they don’t have to end there."— Dwight Garner, New York Times27 personal histories of immigrant restaurant workers in New ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • I SPEAK FRENCH LIKE A NATIVE

    500 EXPRESSIONS TO ENRICH YOUR FRENCH

    This handy guide is a useful and entertaining aid to enrich your French. It contains 500 commonly used expressions, complete with definitions, example sentences and, in some cases, notes about the origin of the phrase.At the end of the book, you will also find some of these expressions classified by relevant theme (love, ambition, social life, imagery and professions) and around fifty fill-in-the ... Read more

    $4.64 CAD

  • The Mischievous Life Of Teenage Jesus

    Hilarious Misadventures of the Divine Before Destiny Called

    by Marc Meyer ...
    Series Book 1 - The Mischievous Teenage Life of histories Superstars
    Step back in time to Nazareth, where the sands of history meet the humour of adolescence in an unforgettable retelling of the early life of Jesus. Before the world knew him as the Messiah, he was a teenager navigating the awkwardness of first dates, the chaos of goat races, and the challenges of discovering supernatural abilities he didn’t quite understand. These untold stories offer a rare ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taichi: The Story of a Chinese Master in America

    by Marc Meyer ...
    T'ai Chi Grandmaster Kuo Yun San leaves mainland China for what he thinks is the last time, creating a new life for himself,opening a T'ai Chi school in New York City and reconnecting with his Asian American family in Chinatown. He was once rumored to have been the bodyguard of Madame Chiang Kai Shek.Nevertheless, the city of New York in the 1960's is a very different place from the one he visited ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • My Friend Dahmer (Movie Tie-In Edition)

    by Derf Backderf ...
    “A well-told, powerful story. Backderf is quite skilled in using comics to tell this tale of a truly weird and sinister 1970s adolescent world.” —R. CrumbNATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed a BEST OF 2012 by Time, The Village Voice, A.V. Club, comiXology, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, MTV Geek, and more!“ASTOUNDING.” —Lev Grossman, TimeYou only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer—the most ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Natural Fibers and Biocomposites

    A Sustainable Solution

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Natural fibers' abundance, excellent properties, biodegradability, and low cost make this renewable resource a green alternative to synthetic fibers for composite material reinforcement. The need to create sustainable solutions has promoted applications in sports, transportation, armor, medicine, infrastructure, construction and building materials, and architecture. This collection promotes the ... Read more

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  • Natural Fibers and Biocomposites 2026

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Natural fibers’ abundance, excellent properties, biodegradability, and low cost make this renewable resource a green alternative to synthetic fibers for composite material reinforcement. The need to create sustainable solutions has promoted applications in sports, transportation, armor, medicine, infrastructure, construction and building materials, and architecture. This collection promotes the ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • The Fast Path to Corporate Growth

    Leveraging Knowledge and Technologies to New Market Applications

    by Marc H. Meyer ...
    Every company can point to a growth strategy. Few, however, systematically implement it; instead, they tweak current products with incremental innovations, or attempt to buy growth through acquisitions. Neither is a satisfactory solution. Internally generated growth accomplished thorugh product line renewal and new service development is essential to the long-term vitality of business across ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Metallurgical Applications of Shock-Wave and High-Strain Rate Phenomena

    Series series Mechanical Engineering
    This book examines the explosive and related technologies in the context of metallurgical and materials processing and fabrication. It is a record of the international exchange of information on the metallurgical and other material effects of shock-wave and high-strain-rate phenomena. ... Read more

    $687.10 CAD

  • New Venture Creation

    An Innovator′s Guide to Entrepreneurship

    Structured around the idea that innovation is at the core of successful entrepreneurship, this insightful guide by Meyer and Crane establishes innovation as a necessary first step before writing a business plan or developing a financial model. With a focus on pragmatic methods for gaining industry and customer insight and translating this insight into innovative product and service solutions, ... Read more

    $145.59 CAD

  • From Protoplanetary Disks to Planet Formation

    Saas-Fee Advanced Course 45. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Is the Sun and its planetary system special? How did the Solar system form? Are there similar systems in the Galaxy? How common are habitable planets? What processes take place in the early life of stars and in their surrounding circumstellar disks that could impact whether life emerges or not?This book is based on the lectures by Philip Armitage and Wilhelm Kley presented at 45th Saas-Fee ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Fruit Fly Research and Development in Africa - Towards a Sustainable Management Strategy to Improve Horticulture

    Horticultural sector presents many opportunities for economic development and improving livelihood of growers but several factors constrain production and limit the potential for trade of fruits and vegetables. Tephritid fruit flies constitute a major constraint. They cause enormous losses through direct feeding damage and loss of market opportunities through imposition of quarantine restrictions ... Read more

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