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  • The Allure of Chanel

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    With a foreword by Karl Lagerfeld, “this enchanting, tiny book”—a series of transcriptions from interviews with the fashion icon—is the closest anyone can get to a face-to-face with Coco [Chanel]” (The Spectator)Coco Chanel invited Paul Morand to visit her in St. Moritz at the end of the Second World War when he was given the opportunity to write her memoirs; his notes of their conversations were ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Agents of European overseas empires

    Private colonisers, 1450-1800

    Edited by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, L. H. Roper, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Agnès Delahaye ...
    Series Book 19 - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
    Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: ‘private’ European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the benediction of polities. The chapters adopt intra- as well as inter-imperial perspectives and transport the reader to colonial America, the West ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Her Husband's Secrets

    Catalonia crime novels – holiday thrills under the southern sun, #1

    by Katja Kleiber ...
    Series Book 1 - Catalonia crime novels – holiday thrills under the southern sun
    An accident. A surprising heritage. And lots of secrets.The ideal world of Hamburg hotel owner Irene collapses when her husband suddenly dies in an accident. He leaves behind a surprising inheritance: an apartment in Spain that Irene knew nothing about. And his supposed accident turns out to be an assassination. Little by little, Irene discovers that her marriage was built on lies.Irene wants to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man in a Hurry

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Pierre ruins everything-friendships, love, fatherhood-in his headlong race against time. As he rushes through life, he fails to appreciate those things that are of true value-the tendernesses shown to him by his wife, Hedwige, the poetry of the world. He burns himself up, and burns up those around him, in a constant striving for goals that change as soon as he reaches them. Too late, he will ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Card Girls

    Les Joueuses de Cartes

    by B. Morand ...
    "A dark, uncompromising look at a system of psychological dominance operating in plain sight within contemporary France."As an investigative journalist, B. Morand's field of inquiry has focused exclusively on the social architectures the civilized world refuses to see: insular cults, secret societies, and clandestine shadow networks.The Card Girls (Les Joueuses de Cartes) compiles the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Parasite Diversity and Diversification

    Evolutionary Ecology Meets Phylogenetics

    Edited by Serge Morand, Boris R. Krasnov, D. Timothy J. Littlewood ...
    The development of molecular tools has dramatically increased our knowledge of parasite diversity and the vectors that transmit them. From viruses and protists to arthropods and helminths, each branch of the Tree of Life offers an insight into significant, yet cryptic, biodiversity. Alongside this, the studies of host-parasite interactions and parasitism have influenced many scientific disciplines ... Read more

    $132.99 CAD

  • Coviability of Social and Ecological Systems: Reconnecting Mankind to the Biosphere in an Era of Global Change

    Vol.1 : The Foundations of a New Paradigm

    Edited by Olivier Barrière, Mohamed Behnassi, Gilbert David, Vincent Douzal, Mireille Fargette, Thérèse Libourel, Maud Loireau, Laurence Pascal, Catherine Prost, Voyner Ravena-Cañete, Frédérique Seyler, Serge Morand ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book considers the principle of ‘sustainable development’ which is currently facing a growing environmental crisis. A new mode of thinking and positioning the ecological imperative is the major input of this volume. The prism of co-viability is not the economics of political agencies that carry the ideology of the dominant/conventional economic schools, but rather an opening of innovation ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Emergence of infectious diseases

    Risks and issues for societies

    by Serge Morand, Muriel Figuié ...
    Series series Matière à débattre et décider
    From SARS to avian influenza, Ebola virus and MERS-CoV, infectious diseases have received increasing attention in recent decades from scientists, risk managers, the media and the general public. What explains the constant emergence of infectious diseases? What are the related challenges?In five chapters, experts from different scientific fields analyse the ecological, social, institutional and ... Read more

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  • Biodiversity Conservation in Southeast Asia

    Challenges in a Changing Environment

    Edited by Serge Morand, Claire Lajaunie, Rojchai Satrawaha ...
    Series series Earthscan Conservation and Development
    Southeast Asia is highly diversified in terms of socio-ecosystems and biodiversity, but is undergoing dramatic environmental and social changes. These changes characterize the recent period and can be illustrated by the effects of the Green Revolution in the late 1960s and 1970s, to the globalization of trade and increasing agronomic intensification over the past decade.Biodiversity Conservation ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Advances in Mechanics: Theoretical, Computational and Interdisciplinary Issues

    Proceedings of the 3rd Polish Congress of Mechanics (PCM) and 21st International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics (CMM), Gdansk, Poland, 8-11 September 2015

    Edited by Krzysztof Wilde, Jaroslaw Gorski, Karol Winkelmann, Michał Kleiber, Tadeusz Burczyński, Łukasz Smakosz ...
    Advances in Mechanics: Theoretical, Computational and Interdisciplinary Issues covers the domain of theoretical, experimental and computational mechanics as well as interdisciplinary issues, such as industrial applications. Special attention is paid to the theoretical background and practical applications of computational mechanics.This volume ... Read more

    $563.99 CAD

  • Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Andreea Marculescu, Charles-Louis Morand Métivier ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple medieval and early-modern sources (literary, medical, theological, and archival). It covers a large chronological and geographical span from eleventh-century France, to fifteenth-century Iberia and England, and ending with seventeenth-century Jesuit meditative literature. ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Infectious Diseases in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Serge Morand, Jean-Pierre Dujardin, Régine Lefait-Robin, Chamnarn Apiwathnasorn ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book pursues a multidisciplinary approach in order to evaluate the socio-ecological dimensions of infectious diseases in Southeast Asia. It includes 18 chapters written by respected researchers in the fields of history, sociology, ecology, epidemiology, veterinary sciences, medicine and the environmental sciences on six major topics: (1) Infectious diseases and societies, (2) Health, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD