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  • Academic Dependency and Professionalization in the South

    Perspectives from the Periphery

    by Fernanda Beigel, Fernanda Beigel, Hanan Sabea, Hanan Sabea, Anabella Abarzúa Cutroni, Syed Farid Alatas, Víctor Algañaraz, Fabiana Bekerman, Sylvie Didou Aupetit, Adriana Gómez Bonilla, Nicolás Gómez Núñez0, Susan Mbula Kilonzo1, Pablo Kreimer2, Márcia Lima3, Marcela Mollis4, Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale5, Sujata Patel6, Diego Ezequiel Pereyra7, Natalia Rizzo8, Hebe Vessuri9 ...
    Series Book 5 - Encuentros Collection
    Since 1960, an unequal international structure is recognized in terms of production and circulation of knowledge in the international science system. This phenomenon is called academic dependency and motivated actions towards promoting the education of scientist and stimulating the bond between institutions and scholars of the periphery. This, considering that the peripheral knowledge-production ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Extended Finite Element Method for Crack Propagation

    by Sylvie Pommier, Anthony Gravouil, Nicolas Moes, Alain Combescure ...
    Novel techniques for modeling 3D cracks and their evolution in solids are presented. Cracks are modeled in terms of signed distance functions (level sets). Stress, strain and displacement field are determined using the extended finite elements method (X-FEM). Non-linear constitutive behavior for the crack tip region are developed within this framework to account for non-linear effect in crack ... Read more

    $142.00 USD

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  • Encountering Development

    The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

    by Arturo Escobar ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals

    by O. C. Zienkiewicz, R. L. Taylor ...
    Series series The Finite Element Method
    The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals offers a complete introduction to the basis of the finite element method, covering fundamental theory and worked examples in the detail required for readers to apply the knowledge to their own engineering problems and understand more advanced applications. This edition sees a significant rearrangement of the book's content to enable clearer ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Dilemmas of Difference

    Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy

    by Sarah A. Radcliffe ...
    In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies’s inability to recognize and reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long-standing social hierarchies, thereby reproducing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Finite Element Method for Solid and Structural Mechanics

    by O. C. Zienkiewicz, R. L. Taylor ...
    Series series The Finite Element Method
    The Finite Element Method for Solid and Structural Mechanics is the key text and reference for engineers, researchers and senior students dealing with the analysis and modeling of structures, from large civil engineering projects such as dams to aircraft structures and small engineered components. This edition brings a thorough update and rearrangement of the book's content, including new chapters ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Kuxlejal Politics

    Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities

    by Mariana Mora ...
    Over the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members have asserted their autonomy and self-determination by using everyday practices as part of their struggle for lekil kuxlejal, a dignified collective life connected to a specific territory. This in-depth ethnography summarizes Mariana Mora’s more than ten years of extended research and solidarity work in Chiapas, with Tseltal and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Elasticity

    Theory, Applications, and Numerics

    by Martin H. Sadd ...
    Elasticity: Theory, Applications and Numerics Second Edition provides a concise and organized presentation and development of the theory of elasticity, moving from solution methodologies, formulations and strategies into applications of contemporary interest, including fracture mechanics, anisotropic/composite materials, micromechanics and computational methods. Developed as a text for a one- or ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America

    Decades of Change

    Edited by Margit Ystanes, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen ...
    Series series Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to ... Read more

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  • Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Structures

    by Mike A. Crisfield, Joris J. C. Remmers, Clemens V. Verhoosel, René de Borst ...
    Series series Wiley Series in Computational Mechanics
    Built upon the two original books by Mike Crisfield and their own lecture notes, renowned scientist René de Borst and his team offer a thoroughly updated yet condensed edition that retains and builds upon the excellent reputation and appeal amongst students and engineers alike for which Crisfield's first edition is acclaimed.Together with numerous additions and updates, the new authors have ... Read more

    $98.00 USD

  • Education and Neoliberal Globalization

    by Carlos Alberto Torres ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This volume by noted critical education scholar Carlos Alberto Torres takes up the question of how structural changes in schooling and the growing impacts of neoliberalism and globalization affect social change, national development, and democratic educational systems throughout the world. The first section of the book offers analytical avenues to understand and criticize the practices and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Biomechanics

    Concepts and Computation

    by Cees Oomens, Marcel Brekelmans, Sandra Loerakker, Frank Baaijens ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in Biomedical Engineering
    Thoroughly revised and updated for the second edition, this comprehensive textbook integrates basic and advanced concepts of mechanics with numerical methods and biomedical applications. Coverage is expanded to include a complete introduction to vector and tensor calculus, and new or fully updated chapters on biological materials and continuum mechanics, motion, deformation and rotation, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD