Eduardo: 1120 books

Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or "second generation" reforms. The State of State Reform in Latin America reviews and assesses...

Conceptual Design of Green Transport Airplanes presents key information, methodologies, and modern tools for the conceptual design of airliners that comply with requirements to minimal environmental impact. The book is comprised of eight chapters that address relevant subjects such as airplane technological...

Os anos mais desconhecidos da história do Brasil são justamente aqueles que se estendem da descoberta de Cabral, em abril de 1500, à expedição de Martim Afonso de Sousa, em 1531. Repletas de drama, ação e aventura, essas três décadas não são apenas as mais misteriosas, mas também as mais...

The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional notions of childhood are repeatedly tethered to sites of...

The development of new sexualities and gender identities has become a crucial issue in the field of literary and cultural studies in the first years of the twenty-first century. The roles of gender and sexual identities in the struggle for equality have become a major concern in both fields. The legacy...

The subject of computational plasticity encapsulates the numerical methods used for the finite element simulation of the behaviour of a wide range of engineering materials considered to be plastic – i.e. those that undergo a permanent change of shape in response to an applied force. Computational...

A presente publicação "O Brasil e as Nações Unidas: 70 anos" se inspira no septuagésimo aniversário da Conferência de São Francisco que, ao final da Segunda Guerra Mundial, redigiu e aprovou a Carta das Nações Unidas e, logo, ajudou a dar nova face ao sistema internacional, sobretudo em...

When the history of HIV/AIDS is written, what will the final chapter look like? How AIDS Ends poses this question to 15 visionaries. We asked them to write history before it happens. The result is this first-of-its-kind anthology from San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Each author has been deeply touched...

This is the first textbook in the field of electrochemistry that will teach experimental electrochemists how to carry out simulation of electrode processes. Processes at both macro- and micro-electrodes are examined and the simulation of both diffusion-only and diffusion–convection processes are...

Presenting the physics of the most challenging problems in condensed matter using the conceptual framework of quantum field theory, this book is of great interest to physicists in condensed matter and high energy and string theorists, as well as mathematicians. Revised and updated, this second edition...

This book analyses protests against the Great Recession in the European periphery. While social movements have long been considered as children of affluent times - or at least of times of opening opportunities - these protests defy such expectations, developing instead in moments of diminishing opportunities...

(a5, 108 p.) - The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) once wrote that “The hell are the other”. The life, however, has made me think  otherwise or different, i.e., that  “The hell or heaven is ourselves”....

(A5, 134 P.) - "Secrets of the Prosperity" is a work of financial education, liberating, to the extent that, at the same time addresses historically the catastrophic nature of the processes of socioeconomic exclusion, produced by ethics of imperialist capital, teaches us to create tools to  overcome...

THE STORY OF THIS BOOK AND THE MEANING OF "POESOFIAS"         This book was born from a moment of existential nausea, chaos, in which every thinking being, sooner or later, tends to pass and where all our values are checkmated, being...