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  • 2nd International Conference on Durability, Repair and Maintanance of Structures

    Selected Contributions of DRMS 2025

    Edited by Lucas F. M. da Silva, António Torres Marques ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book provides selected papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Durability, Repair and Maintenance of Structures, held in Porto, Portugal, March 13-14, 2025.The volume focuses on the durability, repair and maintenance processes of engineering structures. A wide range of topics like durability in civil engineering applications, fatigue and fracture characterization, repair of ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Blues for a Lost Childhood

    A novel of Brazil

    by Antônio Torres ...
    It's another hot, sleepless night in Rio, punctuated by the sounds of jazz, TV, and gunshots from the cafés and shanties. In the narrator's drink-bruised mind, a nightmare begins with a parade of child coffins and a cascade of memories.One figure stands out: Calunga, local hero, iconoclast, joker and fixer, who battles his way out of the stagnant "Backlands" of his boyhood to become a big-city ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Environmental Governance of the São Paulo Macrometropolis

    Perspectives on Climate Variability

    Edited by Pedro Roberto Jacobi, Alexander Turra, Célio Bermann, Edmilson Dias de Freitas, Klaus Frey, Leandro Luiz Giatti, Luciana Travassos, Paulo Antônio de Almeida Sinisgalli, Sandra Momm, Silvia Zanirato, Pedro Henrique Campello Torres ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a set of chapters produced by six research groups that developed the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Thematic Project Environmental Governance of the São Paulo macrometropolis (SPMM) in the face of Climate Variability (2017–2022). It represents an academic experience based on the articulation of knowledge and interdisciplinary dialogue. For this publication, the ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Teaching Innovation in Architecture and Building Engineering

    Challenges of the 21st century

    Edited by David Bienvenido-Huertas, María Luisa de la Hoz-Torres, Antonio Jesús Aguilar Aguilera ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents contributions on teaching innovation in university architecture and building engineering studies. The authors explain how the construction sector demands that future architects and building engineers have the knowledge and skills that allow them to meet the decarbonization objectives established by international organizations and that this causes the level of knowledge to be ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Duodenal Switch and Its Derivatives in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery

    A Comprehensive Clinical Guide

    Edited by Andre Teixeira, Muhammad A. Jawad, Manoel dos Passos Galvão Neto, Antonio Torres, Laurent Biertho, João Caetano Marchesini, Erik Wilson ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book provides extensive information on the duodenal switch and all of its derivatives. The number of procedures performed is progressively increasing, as cases of obesity are on the rise and patients’ body mass index (BMI) is getting higher. It discusses all the techniques involved in the duodenal switch procedure and its derivatives used in the primary and revision situations. Readers will ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Land

    by Antônio Torres, Antonio Torres ...
    In The Land, Antônio Torres tells a universal story of tragic homecoming in a style that owes much to the popular cultural forms of his birthplace in Brazil's notoriously poor Backlands (Sertão).He uses snatches of song and prayer, rhyming jokes and fantasies, and the literatura de cordel (rope literature) - broadsheets telling of juicy local gossip, murders, laments, ghostly apparitions, sold in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Endocrinology of Aging

    Clinical Aspects in Diagrams and Images

    Edited by Emiliano Corpas, Marc R. Blackman, Ricardo Correa, S. Mitchell Harman, Antonio Ruiz-Torres ...
    According to the United Nations, the number of people aged 60 years or over in the world is projected to be 1.4 billion in 2030 and 2.1 billion in 2050. Endocrinologists and other clinicians face the challenge of caring for the elderly. To do so, they need to incorporate geriatric principles into their clinical practice. Endocrinology of Aging: Clinical Aspects in Diagrams and Images presents ... Read more

    $247.49 USD

  • Beyond the Supersquare

    Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism

    Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa ...
    Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism, which developed from a symposium presented by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2011, showcases original essays by distinguished Latin American architects, historians, and curators whose research examines architecture and urban designpractices in the region during a significant period of the twentieth century. Drawing ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Critique and Utopia

    New Developments in The Sociology of Education in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Antonio Teodoro, Carlos Alberto Torres ...
    Critique and utopia are two of the central concepts of the sociology of education, and they indeed exemplify the critical traditions in the sociology of education as a discipline. This book analyzes, using theoretical frameworks and empirical data, the state of the art of the sociology of education at the beginning of the century, offering a systematic criticism of the dominant theories, and ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Additive Manufacturing Hybrid Processes for Composites Systems

    Edited by António Torres Marques, Sílvia Esteves, João P. T. Pereira, Luis Miguel Oliveira ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book focuses on the emerging additive manufacturing technology and its applications beyond state-of-the-art, fibre-reinforced thermoplastics. It also discusses the development of a hybrid, integrated process that combines additive and subtractive operations in a single-step platform, allowing CAD-to-Part production with freeform shapes using long or continuous fibre-reinforced thermoplastics. ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • A Brief History of the British Empire

    (A Source of Geopolitical Conflicts)

    by Antonio Torres-Alcalá ...
    Uncover the Historical Roots of Today's Global ConflictsIn A Brief History of the British Empire (A source of geopolitical conflicts), Dr. Antonio Torres-Alcalá presents a stark, fact-based examination of one of history's most powerful empires. Challenging conventional narratives, this essay argues that the roots of many modern geopolitical crises—from the Middle East and Africa to Asia and beyond ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Olimpismo

    The Olympic Movement in the Making of Latin America and the Caribbean

    Edited by Antonio Sotomayor, Cesar R. Torres ...
    Series series Sport, Culture, and Society
    The Olympic Games are a phenomenon of unparalleled global proportions. This book examines the rich and complex involvement of Latin America and the Caribbean peoples with the Olympic Movement, serving as an effective medium to explore the making of this region. The nine essays here investigate the influence, struggles, and contributions of Latin American and Caribbean societies to the Olympic ... Read more

    $23.79 USD