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  • An Ibero-American Perspective on Narratives of Pandemics

    by Zélia M. Bora, Animesh Roy, Ricardo de la Fuente Ballesteros, Juan Pascual Gay, Mercedes Pascual Zavala, Juan R. Coca, Martha Galvan-Mandujano, María Fernanda Solórzano Granada0, Norma Georgina Gutiérrez Serrano1, Georgina Vega Fregoso2, Siddharth Singh Monteiro Bora3, Evely Vânia Libanori4, Juarez Nogueira Lins5, Geralda de Miranda6, Bruno Matos Farias7, Marcos Alexandre Cavalcanti8, Katia Eliane Santos Avelar9 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    An Ibero-American Perspective on Narratives of Pandemics is a critique of the realities of the pandemic in the Ibero-American world and its intertwined relationship with the environment. Through a critical gaze into the history of the region as it has evolved through periods of socio-environmental and cultural conflicts, the book chronicles multiple experiences of how people managed to negotiate ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Gas Sector in Latin Europe’s Industrial History

    Lighting and Heating the World

    Edited by Ana Cardoso de Matos, Alexandre Fernandez, Antonio Jesús Pinto Tortosa ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume sheds light on the technical and institutional handicaps that the gas industry had to face since the early 19th century to consolidate its position in the energy market. It traces the history of gas energy use in a European context to understand the reasons for its crucial nature in the region. Going back to the start of gas production in England and France at the turn of the 18th ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society

    Edited by Nuno Guerra, Manuel Matos Fernandes, Cristiana Ferreira, António Gomes Correia, Alexandre Pinto, Pedro Sêco Pinto ...
    ‘Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society’ includes the papers presented at the XVIII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Lisbon, Portugal, August 26 to 30th, 2024). The papers aim to contribute to a better understanding of problems and solutions of geotechnical nature, as well as to a more adequate management of natural ... Read more

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    Revolution in Retreat

    by The Economist Publications (PUK Rights) ...
    Series series Penguin Specials
    The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.Raúl Castro is changing Cuba. Recognising the limits that the Soviet style economy places upon the Cuban people, he is allowing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Forests, Carbon Cycle and Climate Change

    by Denis Loustau ...
    Series series Update Sciences & technologies
    The results presented in this book summarize the main findings of the CARBOFOR project, which brought together 52 scientists from 14 research units to investigate the effects of future climate on the carbon cycle, the productivity and vulnerability of French forests. This book explains the current forest carbon cycle in temperate and Mediterranean climates, including the dynamics of soil carbon ... Read more

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  • Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe

    Productive Entanglements

    Edited by Fabio Giomi, Célia Keren, Morgane Labbé ...
    Series series Routledge Open History
    Since the 1980s, neoliberals have openly contested the idea that the state should protect the socio-economic well-being of its citizens, making ‘privatization’ their mantra. Yet, as historians and social scientists have shown, welfare has always been a ‘mixed economy’, wherein private and public actors dynamically interacted, collaborating or competing with each other in the provision of welfare ... Read more

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  • Cone Penetration Testing 2022

    Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing (CPT’22), 8-10 June 2022, Bologna, Italy

    Edited by Guido Gottardi, Laura Tonni ...
    This volume contains the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing (CPT’22), held in Bologna, Italy, 8-10 June 2022. More than 500 authors - academics, researchers, practitioners and manufacturers – contributed to the peer-reviewed papers included in this book, which includes three keynote lectures, four invited lectures and 169 technical papers. The contributions ... Read more

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  • The Collapse of High Tech Slums

    Illusions of the Presidential Era Lula & Dilma Rousseff

    by Maurício Waldman ...
    THE COLLAPSE OF THE HIGH TECH SLUMS: ILLUSIONS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ERA LULA & DILMA ROUSSEFF is an e-text elaborated by the Brazilian activist Maurício Waldman. This text was based on articles published by Brazilian press in 2015 and posted in several home-pages during the same year. This work, published by Kotev Publishing House, was enlarged and incorporates commented figures, bibliographical ... Read more

    $1.00 USD

  • Geophysical and Geotechnical Methods for Diagnosing Flood Protection Dikes

    Guide for Implementation and Interpretation

    by Cyrille Fauchard, Patrice Mériaux ...
    This book presents a three-phase methodology for the efficient diagnosis of “dry dikes”. It is invaluable for anyone involved in dike safety; notably owners, managers, engineers and contractors, and provides all the information required for effective dike diagnosis and for initiating more extensive work or more detailed study. ... Read more

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  • Anarchism and Workers' Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain

    Translated by Paul Sharkey ...
    by Frank Mintz, Chris Ealham ...
    This is the first English translation of Frank Mintz's seminal study of the economic experiments put into place during the Spanish Revolution to both sustain civil society during the war and, more importantly, act as the material basis for a new society. These plans weren't developed by professional economists but grew out of a political movement that put working people at the fore and believed ... Read more

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  • Geographical Information and Climatology

    Edited by Pierre Carrega ...
    This book includes two parts. The first part is more theoretical and general, and it covers fundamental principles : geospatial climate data measurement ; spatial analysis, mapping and climate ; geographical information, remote sensing and climatology ; and geographical information for initialisation of forecasting and climate models.The second part describes geographical information used in ... Read more

    $142.00 USD

  • FACERÍAS Urban Guerrilla Warfare (1939-1957).

    The Libertarian Movement's Struggle against Francoism in Spain and in Exile

    by Antonio Téllez ...
    BARCELONA, Friday, 30 August 1957, 10:45 am. In the deserted Sant Andreu district of Barcelona, a burst of automatic gunfire crackles and, as if pushed by some mighty hand, a man on the corner of the Paseo Verdún and the Calle del Doctor Pi i Molist slumps against a low wall. A pistol appears in his hand. His eyes scan the tree-lined boulevard leading off to his right towards the Santa Cruz mental ... Read more

    $4.70 USD