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  • The Square of Revenge

    by Pieter Aspe ...
    Translated by Brian Doyle ...
    Series Book 1 - The Pieter Van In Mysteries
    The #1 international bestselling crime thriller that introduces Belgian detective Pieter Van In, "a brusque cop with every bad habit you can think of" ( The New York Times Book Review).The beautiful medieval architecture of Bruges belies the dark longings of her residents. When the wealthy and powerful Ludovic Degroof's jewelry store is robbed, nothing is stolen, but the jewels have been dissolved ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Pieter Van In Mysteries

    The Square of Revenge, The Midas Murders, From Bruges with Love, and The Fourth Figure

    by Pieter Aspe ...
    Series series The Pieter Van In Mysteries
    Four gripping police procedurals set in Bruges, starring "a brusque cop with every bad habit you can think of" (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review).Featuring the bad-tempered, libidinous, alcoholic but skilled police investigator Deputy Commissioner Pieter Van In, these four gritty crime novels from a #1 international bestselling author reveal the darker side of the beautiful Belgian ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fastest Way

    The Method in Two Hours

    by Pieter Amersfoort ...
    Most problems you solve before you even notice. Some you don’t.Those are the problems that wake you at three in the morning. The project that keeps slipping. The decision that went wrong and keeps going wrong. The diagnosis that doesn’t fit. You’ve already tried the obvious answer, and it didn’t hold.And then the uncomfortable part: the harder you push, the worse you think. Under pressure your ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Midas Murders

    by Pieter Aspe ...
    Translated by Brian Doyle ...
    Series series The Pieter Van In Mysteries
    In the second novel by the international bestselling Pieter Aspe, Inspector Van In races against the clock to thwart a series of terrorist plotsOne quiet snow-covered Sunday morning in Bruges, a prominent business executive is found dead in the streets, apparently due to an alcoholic hemorrhage, but for Inspector Van In, there is something about the autopsy that does not add up. When he questions ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shatterzone of Empires

    Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands

    by Larry Wolfe, Gregor Thum, Dan Diner, Theodore R. Weeks, Gary B. Cohen, Pieter M. Judson, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Elke Hartmann, Patrice M. Dabrowski, Robert Nemes, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Tomas Balkelis, Taner Akçam, Eyal Ginio, Keith Brown, David Gaunt, Peter Holquist, Alexander V. Prusin, John-Paul Himka, Pamela Ballinger, Myroslav Shkandrij, Paul Robert Magocsi, Kai Struve, Philipp Ther ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "Anyone who studies nationalism, genocide, mass violence, or war in these regions, from the Enlightenment through the mid-20th century, needs to read [this]."— Central European HistoryShatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries.In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Stellenbosch Mafia

    Inside the Billionaire's Club

    by Pieter du Toit ...
    About 50km outside of Cape Town lies the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, nestled against vineyards and blue mountains that stretch to the sky. Here reside some of South Africa's wealthiest individuals: all male, all Afrikaans – and all stinking rich. Johann Rupert, Jannie Mouton, Markus Jooste and Christo Weise, to name a few.Julius Malema refers to them scathingly as 'The Stellenbosch Mafia', the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Personalized Medicine Revolution

    How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

    by Pieter Cullis ...
    Every one of us is unique. With recent advances in technology, we now know that that statement is more true that ever: we are each individuals, right down to a molecular level - a one-of-a-kind combination of genes, proteins, and metabolism. So why does healthcare still take a one-size-fits-all approach? The same methods are used on everyone to diagnose illness, and the same drugs are used to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El Infierno: Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder

    My time inside Ecuador’s toughest prisons

    by Pieter Tritton ...
    “Gato’s head snapped back… We could make out the shots of several 9mms, a couple of 38s and one or two 45s. I hurled myself through the doorway and into the room. I didn’t look back.”Caught in an Ecuador hotel room with 8kg of cocaine, Pieter Tritton was no mule or dupe. He had planned and organised everything. The consequence: a 12-year sentence inside one of the world’s deadliest prison systems, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Enemy of the People

    How Jacob Zuma stole South Africa and how the people fought back

    by Adriaan Basson, Pieter du Toit ...
    Enemy of the People is the first definitive account of Zuma's catastrophic misrule, offering eyewitness descriptions and cogent analysis of how South Africa was brought to its knees – and how a people fought back. When Jacob Zuma took over the leadership of the ANC one muggy Polokwane evening in December 2007, he inherited a country where GDP was growing by more than 6% per annum, a party enjoying ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Super Cadres

    ANC Misrule in the Age of Deployment

    by Pieter du Toit ...
    After taking power, the ANC implemented its policy of cadre deployment. It sought command of all levers of power, from the Cabinet, through the civil service, down to municipal level. Despite the party recently lasing its majority, cadre deployment will ensure that the ANC maintains its iron grip on power and patronage, and it remains fused with the state. In The Super Cadres, bestselling author ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • From Bruges with Love

    by Pieter Aspe ...
    Translated by Brian Doyle ...
    Series Book 3 - The Pieter Van In Mysteries
    Behind the glamorous facade of elite Belgian society lies a seedy world unseen by the public eye—but nothing stays hidden foreverInspector Pieter Van In is begrudgingly finishing up a healthy lunch when he hears the news: While restoring their farmhouse, the Vermasts have found a skeleton in the backyard. Van In, who happens to be married to the deputy public prosecutor, is determined to solve the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The ANC Billionaires

    Big Capital's Gambit and the Rise of the Few

    by Pieter du Toit ...
    'We were talking about the rise of Japan, about Ronald Reagan's Star Wars … globalisation, technology. And they were still banging on about the Freedom Charter.' – Anglo American's Michael Spicer on the ANC in the mid-1980s. In 1985, a group of white South African business leaders, led by Gavin Relly, the executive chairperson of Anglo American, travelled to a game lodge in Zambia to meet with the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus