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  • Chemistry and Technology of Lubricants

    by R. M. Mortier, S. T. Orszulik ...
    The use oflubricants began in ancient times and has developed into a major international business through the need to lubricate machines of increasing complexity. The impetus for lubricant development has arisen from need, so lubricatingpractice has preceded an understanding ofthe scientific principles. This is not surprising as the scientific basis of the technology is, by nature, highly complex ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Chemistry and Technology of Lubricants

    by R. M. Mortier, S. T. Orszulik ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The use oflubricants began in ancient times and has developed into a major international business through the need to lubricate machines of increasing complexity. The impetus for lubricant development has arisen from need, so lubricatingpractice has precededan understandingofthescientificprinciples. This is not surprising as the scientific basis of the technology is, by nature, highly complex and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Industrial Arene Chemistry

    Markets, Technologies, Sustainable Processes and Cases Studies of Aromatic Commodities, 4 Volume Set

    Edited by Jacques Mortier ...
    Industrial Arene ChemistryExplore the wide array of uses for aromatic hydrocarbons in this comprehensive referenceAromatics are a class of compounds—normally but not exclusively organic—which tend to be produced as by-products of various industrial processes. Their importance as petrochemical materials in themselves, along with the range of inter-relations between different aromatic chemicals, ... Read more

    $943.99 CAD

  • Chemistry and Technology of Lubricants

    Edited by Malcolm F. Fox, Roy M. Mortier, Stefan Orszulik ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    "Chemistry and Technology of Lubricants" describes the chemistry and technology of base oils, additives and applications of liquid lubricants. This Third Edition reflects how the chemistry and technology of lubricants has developed since the First Edition was published in 1992.The acceleration of performance development in the past 35 years has been as significant as in the previous century: ... Read more

    $705.99 CAD

  • Continuous Sedation at the End of Life

    Ethical, Clinical and Legal Perspectives

    Edited by Kasper Raus, Freddy Mortier, Sigrid Sterckx ...
    Series series Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    Continuous sedation until death (sometimes referred to as terminal sedation or palliative sedation) is an increasingly common practice in end-of-life care. However, it raises numerous medical, ethical, emotional and legal concerns, such as the reducing or removing of consciousness (and thus potentially causing 'subjective death'), the withholding of artificial nutrition and hydration, the ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • 1914 - Goodbye to All That

    Writers on the Conflict Between Life and Art

    by Jeanette Winterson, Elif Shafak, Colm Toibin, Erwin Mortier ...
    In this collection of essays, ten leading writers from different countries consider the conflicts that have informed their own literary lives. 1914-Goodbye to All That borrows its title from Robert Graves's "bitter leave-taking of England" in which he writes not only of the First World War but the questions it raised: how to live, how to live with each other, and how to write.Interpreting this ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Violence Against Women

    Contemporary Examination of Intimate Partner Violence

    by Paul Clements, PhD, RN, Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, RN, SANE-P, SANE-A, Karyn E. Holt, PhD, MSN, Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD, Soraya Seedat, MBChB, FC Psych (SA), MMed (Psych), PhD, Catherine Mortiere, PhD ...
    628 pages, 34 images, 51 contributorsViolence Against Women examines a wide range of relationships that may be affected by intimate partner violence and takes a culturally sensitive, international approach to issues underpinning family violence, dating violence, and the injuries children suffer when their caregivers perpetrate violence. This text offers insight into a variety of subjects affecting ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • While the Gods Were Sleeping

    by Erwin Mortier ...
    Translated by Paul Vincent ...
    Best Translated Fiction of the Year, The IndependentThis stunning historical fiction novel about the magnitude and impact of World War I—told through the written memories of an elderly Belgian woman—has “the footprint of Proust . . . on every page” (Financial Times)As a girl, Helena is sent to her uncle’s country house just before the Great War, and from here she witnesses scenes of indescribable ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Marcel

    by Erwin Mortier ...
    Translated by Ina Rilke ...
    Written from the point of view of a ten-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother, Marcel is a striking debut novel describing the vivid history of a family in a Flemish village. The mysterious death of Marcel, the family favourite, has always haunted the young boy. With the help of his schoolteacher, he starts to discover the secrets of Marcel’s ‘black’ past. The story of his death on the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Shutterspeed

    by Erwin Mortier ...
    Translated by Ina Rilke ...
    A wonderful, balanced novel about how the remains of the past reverberate in the present, Shutterspeed sensitively and delicately describes the powerful emotions which lie just beneath the surface of the unruffled sheen of village life. Joris’ father died young, and his mother moved to Spain, so he has lived with his aunt and uncle since early childhood. He is quiet and introverted, and his aunt ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Arene Chemistry

    Reaction Mechanisms and Methods for Aromatic Compounds

    by Jacques Mortier ...
    Organized to enable students and synthetic chemists to understand and expand on aromatic reactions covered in foundation courses, the book offers a thorough and accessible mechanistic explanation of aromatic reactions involving arene compounds.• Surveys methods used for preparing arene compounds and their transformations• Connects reactivity and methodology with mechanism• Helps readers apply ... Read more

    $231.99 CAD

  • Stammered Songbook

    A Mother's Book of Hours

    by Erwin Mortier ...
    Translated by Paul Vincent ...
    'What makes me saddest, is the double silence of her being. Language has packed its bags and jumped over the railing of the capsizing ship, but there is also another silence in her or around her. I can no longer hear the music of her soul.'One day, the author's mother no longer remembers the word for 'book'. This seemingly innocuous moment of distraction is the first sign of the slow ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD