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  • Specialty Optical Fibers

    Materials, Fabrication Technology, and Applications

    Edited by Mário Fernando Santos Ferreira, Mukul Chandra Paul ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials
    Specialty Optical Fibers reviews theoretical and experimental photonic research relevant to the synthesis, processing, characterization, modeling, physical features, and applications of Specialty Optical Fibers (SOFs) with significant technological impact potential. All fiber-based advanced photonics device components rely on specialty optical fibers, which have either a unique waveguide structure ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia

    Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance

    Edited by Fernando Santos-Granero, Emanuele Fabiano ...
    Urban life has long intrigued Indigenous Amazonians, who regard cities as the locus of both extraordinary power and danger. Modern and ancient cities alike have thus become models for the representation of extreme alterity under the guise of supernatural enchanted cities. This volume seeks to analyze how these ambiguous urban imaginaries—complex representations that function as cognitive tools and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Sugarcane Biorefinery, Technology and Perspectives

    Edited by Fernando Santos, Sarita Rabelo, Mario De Matos, Paulo Eichler ...
    Sugarcane Biorefinery, Technology and Perspectives provides the reader with a current view of the global scenario of sugarcane biorefinery, launching a new expectation on this important crop from a chemical, energy and sustainability point-of-view. The book explores the existing biorefinery platforms that can be used to convert sugarcane to new high value added products. It also addresses one of ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia

    Edited by Fernando Santos-Granero ...
    What is considered a good life in contemporary societies? Can we measure well-being and happiness? Reflecting a global interest on the topics of well-being, happiness, and the good life in the face of the multiple failures of millennial capitalism, Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia deliberately appropriates a concept developed by classical economists to ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Choledocholithiasis

    Comprehensive Surgical Management

    Edited by B. Fernando Santos, Nathaniel Soper ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This volume addresses the current lack of knowledge of many general surgeons and trainees in the comprehensive management of patients with choledocholithiasis, with an emphasis on how the surgeon can provide single-stage management for the majority of patients. It begins with a historical perspective on surgical techniques for laparoscopic common bile duct exploration (LCBDE) and reviews the ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Sugarcane

    Agricultural Production, Bioenergy and Ethanol

    Edited by Fernando Santos, Aluízio Borém, Celso Caldas ...
    Sugarcane: Agricultural Production, Bioenergy and Ethanol explores this vital source for "green" biofuel from the breeding and care of the plant all the way through to its effective and efficient transformation into bioenergy. The book explores sugarcane's 40 year history as a fuel for cars, along with its impressive leaps in production and productivity that have created a robust global market. In ... Read more

    $112.99 USD

  • The Power of Love

    The Moral Use of Knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru

    by Fernando Santos-Granero ...
    Series series LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
    An exploration of the moral use of knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru. ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Vital Enemies

    Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life

    by Fernando Santos-Granero ...
    Analyzing slavery and other forms of servitude in six non-state indigenous societies of tropical America at the time of European contact, Vital Enemies offers a fascinating new approach to the study of slavery based on the notion of "political economy of life." Fernando Santos-Granero draws on the earliest available historical sources to provide novel information on Amerindian regimes of servitude ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Slavery and Utopia

    The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer

    by Fernando Santos-Granero ...
    In the first half of the twentieth century, a charismatic Peruvian Amazonian indigenous chief, José Carlos Amaringo Chico, played a key role in leading his people, the Ashaninka, through the chaos generated by the collapse of the rubber economy in 1910 and the subsequent pressures of colonists, missionaries, and government officials to assimilate them into the national society. Slavery and Utopia ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Robotics

    12th Latin American Robotics Symposium and Third Brazilian Symposium on Robotics, LARS 2015/SBR 2015, Uberlândia, Brazil, October 28 - November 1, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Rogério Sales Gonçalves, Fernando Santos Osório ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Latin American Robotics Symposium and Third Brazilian Symposium on Robotics, LARS 2015 / SBR 2015, held in Uberlândia, Brazil, in October/November 2015. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The selected papers present a complete and solid reference of the state-of-the-art of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother

    Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas

    by Roberto Cintli Rodríguez ...
    “If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz.” That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States.Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a ... Read more

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  • Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race

    The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    by Marilyn Grace Miller ...
    Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and racial mixtures known collectively as mestizaje. These mixtures reflect the influences of indigenous peoples from Latin America, Europeans, and Africans, and spawn a fascinating and often volatile blend of cultural practices and products. Yet no scholarly study to date has provided an articulate context for fully ... Read more

    $23.99 USD