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  • LANGUAGE DEMOGRAPHY
    FRANCISCO MORENO-FERNÁNDEZ
    Language Demography presents, exemplifies, and develops linguistic concepts involved in demography and the demographic concepts involved in sociolinguistics. The first introductory guide of its kind, it is presented in a way that is accessible to non-specialists. The book includes numerous examples of the sources and types of data used in this field, as well as the various fact...

    $999.00

  • STATE, POLITICAL POWER AND CRIMINALITY IN CIVIL WAR
    FRANCISCO GUTIÉRREZ-SANÍN
    This book revisits and reframes the old, but active, debate on the relationship between criminality and civil war by bringing both the state and political power into the equation. It argues that the terms in which the debate is generally posed are still inadequate to address the complexities of this relationship, showing how criminalisation and de-criminalisation are deeply pol...

    $1,339.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL STUDIES OF OUTER SPACE
    JUAN FRANCISCO SALAZAR
    The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space offers state-of-the-art overview of contemporary social and cultural research on outer space. International in scope, the thirty-eight contributions by over fifty leading researchers and artists across a variety of disciplines and fields of knowledge, present a range of debates and pose key questions about the crafting of ...

    $1,179.00

  • INEQUALITY AND NUTRITIONAL TRANSITION IN ECONOMIC HISTORY
    FRANCISCO J. MEDINA-ALBALADEJO
    Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards driven by socioeconomic, gender, generational and geographical reasons. Nutrition directly impacts mortality, life expectancy, height and illness and thus becomes a good indicator of living standards and their evolution over time. However, one issue that rema...

    $1,099.00

  • AUGHEY AND FRYE’S COMPARATIVE VETERINARY HISTOLOGY WITH CLINICAL CORRELATES
    FRANCISCO JAVIER SALGUERO BODES / FRANCISCO JOSE PALLARES MARTINEZ
    Organised by body system, the new edition of this highly illustrated textbook covers the normal histological appearance of tissues in a wide range of animals, both domestic and exotic species, with relevant clinical correlates emphasising the need to appreciate the normal in order to recognise the abnormal. In this update by two experienced veterinary pathologists and histology...

    $1,439.00

  • POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HOUSING IN CHILE
    FRANCISCO VERGARA-PERUCICH / CARLOS AGUIRRE-NUÑEZ / FELIPE ENCINAS / RODRIGO HIDALGO-DATTWYLER / RICARDO
    Through the lens of political economy, this book positions housing as a key factor in understanding social inequality. It does so by drawing on rich empirical evidence from the case of the Chilean housing market. This book provides insights on the articulation between real estate development, housing provision and social inequality based on applied urban economics analyses that...

    $539.00

  • DIALECTOLOGÍA HISPÁNICA / THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SPANISH DIALECTOLOGY
    FRANCISCO MORENO-FERNÁNDEZ
    Dialectología hispánica / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Dialectology es una obra coral que presenta las últimas investigaciones sobre las variedades actuales de la lengua espanola en todas sus geografías, sumando los conocimientos de un importante número de especialistas en la materia. Este volumen consta de 49 capítulos, distribuidos en cuatro secciones, que ofrecen inform...

    $1,179.00

  • ALMOST ALL ALIENS
    PAUL SPICKARD / FRANCISCO BELTRÁN / LAURA HOOTON
    Almost All Aliens offers a unique reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. Setting aside the European migrant-centered melting-pot model of immigrant assimilation, Paul Spickard, Francisco Beltrán, and Laura Hooton put forward a fresh and provocative reconceptualization that embraces the multicultural, racialized, and colonially inflected reality of ...

    $1,179.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF URBAN WATER GOVERNANCE
    THOMAS BOLOGNESI, FRANCISCO SILVA PINTO AND MEGAN FARRELLY
    This handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of urban water governance. Of the many growing challenges presented by rapid urbanization, water governance is a critical one and while urban water governance is now regarded as a critical field of research, the literature is fragmented. For the first time, this handbook brings together urban water governance res...

    $1,179.00

  • VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
    ELISÂNGELA VILAR, ERNESTO FILGUEIRAS AND FRANCISCO REBELO
    Virtual Reality (VR) is the paradigm wherein people use a computer to interact with something which is not real but provides a real-life experience. It is one of the most advanced interfaces between users and computers, where people can interact with a virtual model in real-time allowing them to visualize and manipulate representations of the real world. Together with Augmented...

    $1,339.00

  • HANDBOOK OF USABILITY AND USER-EXPERIENCE
    MARCELO M. SOARES, FRANCISCO REBELO AND TAREQ Z. AHRAM
    This volume of the Handbook of Usability and User Experience (UX) presents research and case studies used to design products, systems and environments with good usability and consequent acceptance, pleasure in use, good user experience, and understanding of human interaction issues with products and systems for their improvement. The book presents concepts and perspectives of U...

    $1,339.00

  • HANDBOOK OF USABILITY AND USER-EXPERIENCE
    MARCELO M. SOARES, FRANCISCO REBELO AND TAREQ Z. AHRAM
    Handbook of Usability and User Experience: Methods and Techniques is concerned with emerging usability and user experience in design concepts, theories and applications of human factors knowledge focusing on the discovery, design and understanding of human interaction and usability issues with products and systems for their improvement. This volume presents methods and techniqu...

    $1,339.00

  • OIL, MONEY, AND THE MEXICAN ECONOMY
    FRANCISCO CARRADA-BRAVO
    In the mid-1970s unemployment, inflation and monetary disturbances were dominant forces in the Mexican economy. Beginning in late 1977, however the situation drastically changed. The discovery of enormous oil fields, combined with a structural and social factors, vastly improved the nation's prospects and in terms of business cycles, its economy moved from trough to peak. In as...

    $999.00

  • PLASMA APPLICATIONS FOR MATERIAL MODIFICATION
    FRANCISCO L. TABARÉS
    This book is an up-to-date review of the most important plasma-based techniques for material modification, from microelectronics to biological materials and from fusion plasmas to atmospheric ones. Each its technical chapters is written by long-experienced, internationally recognised researchers. The book provides a deep and comprehensive insight into plasma technology and its ...

    $3,000.00

  • CHARITY AND POVERTY IN ADVANCED WELFARE STATES
    CAMERON PARSELL / ANDREW CLARKE / FRANCISCO PERALES
    This book conceptualises the role of charity to people who are poor in wealthy countries and outlines a set of practical and conceptual ideas for how it could be reimagined. Despite professionalised welfare states and strong economies, in many advanced industrialised nations, charity continues to play a major role in the lives of people who are poor. Extending what we know abou...

    $1,059.00

  • ABSTRACT CALCULUS
    FRANCISCO JAVIER GARCIA-PACHECO
    Abstract Calculus: A Categorical Approach provides an abstract approach to calculus. It is intended for graduate students pursuing PhDs in pure mathematics but junior and senior researchers in basically any field of mathematics and theoretical physics will also be interested. Any calculus text for undergraduate students majoring in engineering, mathematics or physics deals with...

    $1,299.00

  • SMARTPHONE COMMUNICATION
    FRANCISCO YUS
    This book offers a unique model for understanding the cognitive underpinnings, interactions and discursive effects of our evolving use of smartphones in everyday app-mediated communication, from text messages and GIFs to images, video and social media apps. Adopting a cyberpragmatics framework, grounded in cognitive pragmatics and relevance theory, it gives attention to how bot...

    $1,059.00

  • MONKEY BOY
    FRANCISCO GOLDMAN
    A Guatemalan-American writer returns to the Boston suburb of his youth in this American Book Award–winning novel “full of rebellious comedy and vitality” (New Yorker). A 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist In Monkey Boy, Francisco Goldman’s “brilliantly constructed auto-fiction” (NPR), we meet Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer grappling with the challenges of family and love, l...

    $229.00

  • BUSINESS AND POLITICS IN PERU
    FRANCISCO DURAND
    An analysis of business/government relations in Peru which focuses on the complex and changing linkages between the social class that controls key material resources and the State. The author argues that, despite its traditional weakness, the national bourgeoisie has become a key political actor. ...

    $999.00

  • POPULISM IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
    PIERRE OSTIGUY / FRANCISCO PANIZZA / BENJAMIN MOFFITT
    Pathbreaking theoretically and innovative in treatment, Populism in Global Perspective is a seminal addition to the literature on arguably the most controversial and fervently discussed topic in political science today. The book brings together established and rising stars in the field of populism studies, in an integrated set of theoretical and empirical studies centered on a ...

    $1,039.00

  • R FOR POLITICAL DATA SCIENCE
    FRANCISCO URDINEZ / ANDRES CRUZ
    R for Political Data Science: A Practical Guide is a handbook for political scientists new to R who want to learn the most useful and common ways to interpret and analyze political data. It was written by political scientists, thinking about the many real-world problems faced in their work. The book has 16 chapters and is organized in three sections. The first, on the use of R,...

    $1,239.00

  • MATHEMATICAL TOPICS IN FLUID MECHANICS
    JOSE FRANCISCO RODRIGUES / ADELIA SEQUEIRA
    This Research Note presents several contributions and mathematical studies in fluid mechanics, namely in non-Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids and on the Navier-Stokes equations in unbounded domains. It includes review of the mathematical analysis of incompressible and compressible flows and results in magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic stability and thermoconvective f...

    $1,559.00

  • INTUITIVE UNDERSTANDING OF KALMAN FILTERING WITH MATLAB®
    ARMANDO BARRETO / MALEK ADJOUADI / FRANCISCO R. ORTEGA / NONNARIT O-LARNNITHIPONG
    The emergence of affordable micro sensors, such as MEMS Inertial Measurement Systems, which are being applied in embedded systems and Internet-of-Things devices, has brought techniques such as Kalman Filtering, capable of combining information from multiple sensors or sources, to the interest of students and hobbyists. This will book will develop just the necessary background c...

    $1,499.00

  • POLITICS OF RECUPERATION
    FRANCISCO MARTINEZ
    Through a range of ethnographic case studies focusing on the Portuguese recovery after the economic crisis, this book begins a conversation about the experience of recuperation and repair. Located in the cracks and gaps between the state and society, recuperation appears as a social and infrastructural answer linked to reciprocity, critical urbanity, generational interweaving, ...

    $1,059.00

  • ANTHROPOLOGIES AND FUTURES
    JUAN FRANCISCO SALAZAR / ‎SARAH PINK / ‎ANDREW IRVING
    Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary debates about futures. This game-changing new book presents new ways of conceptualising how to engage with a future-oriented research agenda, demonstrating how anthropologists can approach futures both theoretically and practically, and introducing a set of innovative research methods to tackle this field of re...

    $779.00

  • CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHIES
    FRANCISCO FERRÁNDIZ
    Contemporary Ethnographies is a call to use ethnography in imaginative ways, adjusting to rapidly evolving social circumstances. It is based on a reflexive and theoretically grounded exploration of the author’s two main research projects – the study of the spiritist possession cult of María Lionza in Venezuela, and the analysis of the contemporary exhumation of Civil War (1936–...

    $999.00

  • SANTA FE NOIR
    KIMMY SANTIAGO BACA / ANA CASTILLO / JAMES REICH / MIRIAM SAGAN / ISRAEL FRANCISCO HAROS LOPEZ
    Seventeen storytellers take readers on a dark tour of the arty New Mexican city in this collection of crime tales. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. With stories by: Ana Castillo, J...

    $229.00

  • ALGEBRAIC METHODS IN QUANTUM CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
    FRANCISCO M. FERNANDEZ / E.A. CASTRO
    Algebraic Methods in Quantum Chemistry and Physics provides straightforward presentations of selected topics in theoretical chemistry and physics, including Lie algebras and their applications, harmonic oscillators, bilinear oscillators, perturbation theory, numerical solutions of the Schrödinger equation, and parameterizations of the time-evolution operator. The mathematical t...

    $7,500.00

  • VARIEDADES DE LA LENGUA ESPAÑOLA
    FRANCISCO MORENO-FERNÁNDEZ
    Variedades de la lengua española ofrece un panorama general de la variación dialectal y sociolingüística en el espacio hispanohablante, presentado por uno de los más prestigiosos expertos en la materia. La lectura de este manual permitirá familiarizarse con los rasgos que distinguen las diferentes variedades geográficas del español, con una comprensión adicional de las causas h...

    $939.00

  • VARIEDADES DE LA LENGUA ESPAÑOLA
    FRANCISCO MORENO-FERNÁNDEZ
    Variedades de la lengua española ofrece un panorama general de la variación dialectal y sociolingüística en el espacio hispanohablante, presentado por uno de los más prestigiosos expertos en la materia. La lectura de este manual permitirá familiarizarse con los rasgos que distinguen las diferentes variedades geográficas del español, con una comprensión adicional de las causas h...

    $979.00