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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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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

  • 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 Politics of ‘Fait Accompli’ and the ‘New World Order’

    (On How to Create a Subservient Society)

    by Antonio Torres-Alcalá ...
    Considering the actual environment in society, would you, the middle and working class, say that you are better off today than, let’s say, a few years back? What has changed? This is the issue analyzed in this book. Our present state of affairs started long time ago, and it was put in motion, not by you, but by the United Nations, supported by the world’s elite. It’s called the 2030 Agenda, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Brief Tale of a Lost World

    by Antonio Torres-Alcala ...
    In the beginning God created the earth. A beautiful place in a desolate universe where cosmic forces make it very undesirable to live in. Not so in this beautiful, pale blue, aquamarine jewel hanging like a subtle shimmer of light in the infinity of all of God’s creation. Here, God worked hard to make a unique paradise for men (and for women, of course) and when everything was done, He realized ... Read more

    $3.99 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

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    Construction, Rehabilitation and Maintenance

    Edited by Alessio Pipinato ...
    As known, each bridge presents a unique set of design, construction, and maintenance challenges. The designer must determine the appropriate methods and level of refinement necessary to design and analyze each bridge on a case-by-case basis. The Innovative Bridge Design Handbook: Construction, Rehabilitation, and Maintenance encompasses the state of the art in bridge design, construction, ... Read more

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  • Acute Care Oncology Nursing

    by Cynthia C. Chernecky, Kathleen Murphy-Ende ...
    - Six new chapters — Biliary and Pancreatic Obstruction, Depression and Cognitive Dysfunction, Dyspnea and Airway Obstruction, GI Obstruction, Heart Failure, and Spiritual Distress — keep you up to date with the latest advances in oncology nursing. - Evidence-based rationales in the nursing interventions help you apply the latest research findings to actual practice. - Each chapter includes a new ... Read more

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  • Profit Over People

    Neoliberalism and Global Order

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a global financial crisis that left millions of people jobless and ... Read more

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  • Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials

    Edited by Povl Brondsted, Rogier P. L Nijssen, Stergios Goutianos ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
    Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials, Second Edition, builds on the thorough review of the design and functionality of wind turbine rotor blades and the requirements and challenges for composite materials used in both current and future designs of wind turbine blades. - Reviews the design and functionality of wind turbine rotor blades - Examines the requirements and challenges for ... Read more

    $238.49 USD