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“david bessis”

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    Mathematica

    A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity

    by David Bessis ...
    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 12 min

    Math has a reputation for being inaccessible. People think that it requires a special gift or that comprehension is a matter of genes. Yet the greatest mathematicians throughout history, from René Descartes to Alexander Grothendieck, have insisted that this is not the case. Like Albert Einstein, who famously claimed to have "no special talent," they said that they had accomplished what they did ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Landscapes of the Ethnic Economy

    by Jock Collins, Felicitas Hillmann, Bessie House, Lucia Lo, David McEvoy, Pierpaolo Mudu, Alex Oberle, Giles A. Barrett, James M. Smith, Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira, David H. Kaplan, Christopher A. Airriess, Heike Alberts, Wei Li ...
    Immigration has expanded dramatically in both traditional and emerging receiving nations. This worldwide boom has profoundly altered urban areas as new arrivals have transformed inner cities and suburbs alike into bastions of new ethnic economic activity. Examining the essential role of space in assisting and modifying ethnic business activity, this book considers how ethnic economies are ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • On a Pedestal

    by Bessie M. David ...
    A provocative fusion of truth and fiction fill the pages of this memoir. Annie Mae relives her life from innocence to a world of poverty, abuse, neglect, and alcoholism. On a not-so-pretty trip down memory lane, she travels across Texas panning for love, food, and shelter. The characters that come in and out of her life resemble members from a museum of oddities. She leaves no stone unturned with ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Haunted Destiny

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    Between the evil and the deep blue sea…A historic cruise ship, a haunted ship, the Celtic American Line's Destiny, sets sail from the Port of New Orleans-with a killer on board.He's known as the Archangel Killer because of the way he displays his victims in churches. And how he places a different saint's medallion on each body. No one knows exactly who he is or why he's doing this.Jackson Crow ... Read more

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  • Millionaire Migrants

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    Series Book 97 - RGS-IBG Book Series
    Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s.An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative visits and ... Read more

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  • Urban Sociology

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    by Kristen Ashley ...
    The 'Burg Series boxed set is the collection of all six books of a series set in the author's hometown of Brownsburg, Indiana. It includes:FOR YOU - Lieutenant Alexander Colton and February Owens were high school sweethearts. Everyone in their small town knew from the moment they met they were meant for each other. But something happened and Feb broke Colt's heart. Fifteen years later, Feb comes ... Read more

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    by Yeong-Hyun Kim, John Rennie Short ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are all explored, along with economic globalization and its effects on cities in both developed and developing economies. This book provides a thorough examination of the role of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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    Montgomery Firefighters, #1

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    To help out his sister, Scott moved to the small town of Montgomery, where there isn't much to do and no one for him to date. Well, there's one other openly gay man in town—Henry 'Cole' Porter, a widower who runs the school library, but after one drunken night together, Cole has kept his distance. Scott is used to that. He spends a lot of time working out to look good, and from the slow way he ... Read more

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  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

    by Joel Kotkin ...
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