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  • Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986

    How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City

    by Thomas Leslie ...
    Winner of The Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award, by The Pattis Family Foundation and the Newberry LibraryFrom skyline-defining icons to wonders of the world, the second period of the Chicago skyscraper transformed the way Chicagoans lived and worked. Thomas Leslie’s comprehensive look at the modern skyscraper era vie... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Just Cause

    by Ian Thomas Healy ...
    Narrated by Leslie Howard ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Just Cause Universe

    Unabridged

    10 hours 46 min

    A New Hero For A New EraMustang Sally has some speedy shoes to fill. This young superhero has waited her whole life to join Just Cause – the premiere team of American heroes. Now she’s hoping her super-speed will earn a spot on the same team to which her parents and grandparents belonged.An Old Grudge From An Old EnemyA chance encounter with the villain who killed her father changes everything. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beauty's Rigor

    Patterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi

    by Thomas Leslie ...
    Born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1891, Pier Luigi Nervi was a pioneer in the engineering and architecture of reinforced concrete. His buildings showed how the use of reinforced concrete expanded the possibilities of form and structure. His methods, meanwhile, ingrained his structures with patterns that came directly out of his economical, manual construction processes. The results were buildings that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Last Detective

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    Series Book 1 - Dangerous Davies
    A northwest London detective tackles a twenty-five-year-old missing persons case in this comic crime novel.Dangerous Davies, you understand, earned his nickname in the same way that fat men nicknamed "Tiny" earn theirs. But while he may not inspire dread in the hearts of London's bad guys, he is nevertheless on the side of right and good, and has a copper's badge to prove it. True, he is known as ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Design-Tech: Building Science for Architects

    by Jason Alread, Thomas Leslie, Rob Whitehead ...
    The third edition of Design-Tech provides an indispensable, holistic resource for integrating building technologies into critically designed, performance-based architectural projects. The book’s format follows the developmental stages of a typical architectural project; it provides a step-by-step process for addressing and integrating building sciences from first principles of human comfort, ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Kansas Matters

    Twenty-First-Century Writers on the Sunflower State

    Edited by Thomas Fox Averill, Leslie VonHolten ...
    A Kansas Notable BookAn anthology of poetry and prose from thirty-five of today’s leading literary voices from the Sunflower State, brought together to explore how Kansas makes us feel and why we’re proud to call it home.Kansas Matters gathers thirty-five of the state’s leading literary voices to offer profound insights into the feelings that Kansas evokes. This living map of personal geographies ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Complete Dangerous Davies

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    As plain-clothes men go, Dangerous Davies looks like a non-starter. The small fry of petty larceny and minor disturbances in the backwaters of north-west London are his daily round. His philosophising Welsh drinking companion Mod, his outsized and unruly dog Kitty, his quarrels with his landlady Mrs Fulljames - none of these bodes well for the efficient solving of crimes and outwitting of villainy ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Virgin Soldiers

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    'It rained a lot and steamed when the sun shone. It was always hot. But it was safe...'One way or another the Communist guerrilla war in Malaya kept a whole British army occupied from 1948 until 1952. They were the virgin soldiers. Idle, homesick, afraid, bored, oversexed and unsatisfied.A young virgin like Brigg had to grab his fun while and where he could - in the Liberty Club, in Juicy Lucy's ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Dearest And The Best

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    In the spring of 1940, the spectre of war turned into grim reality.And on the English home front, men, women and children found themselves swept into a maelstrom of fear and uncertainty while events abroad led inexorably from the debacles of Norway and Dunkirk to the horror and glory of the Battle of Britain.For the Lovatt family - James, seconded on a hush-hush assignment to work with Churchill, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Other Times

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    At the start of the war in 1939 James Bevan is a junior officer approaching middle-age, attached to a small anti-aircraft unit on the south coast.Abandoned by his wife, the soldiers he command are his family: Bairnsfather, whose sexual encounters with his girl friend Muriel take place in an air-raid shelter; Cartwright, trying to keep two women on his gunner's pay of a shilling a day; Hignet, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Aesthetics and Technology in Building

    The Twenty-First-Century Edition

    by Pier Nervi, Cristiana Chiorino, Elisabetta Nervi, Thomas Leslie, Joseph Abram, Hans-Christian Schink, Roberto Einaudi, Alberto Bologna0, Gabrielle Neri1 ...
    The UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The Pirelli skyscraper in Milan. The Palazetto dello Sport in Rome. The "soaring beauty" of Pier Luigi Nervi's visionary designs and buildings changed cityscapes in the twentieth century. His uncanny ingenuity with reinforced concrete, combined with a gift for practical problem solving, revolutionized the use of open internal space in structures like arenas and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Soldiers and Lovers

    by Leslie Thomas ...
    In a sunlit, secret valley in the green mountains of central Italy, two people meet away from the horrors and clamour of battle. David Hopkins, a young fisherman from west Wales and Kate Medhurst, from a genteel town in the Thames Valley, embark upon an idyllic love affair away from the conflict that surrounds them. However, they cannot escape the war forever, and when they are targeted by a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD