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  • HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTS AND APPLICATIONS
    RAVICHANDER JANAPATI, USHA DESAI, SHRIRANG AMBAJI KULKARNI, AND SHUBHAM TAYAL
    Human–Machine Interface Technology Advancements and Applications focuses on analysis, design, and evaluation perspectives in HMI technological breakthroughs and applications. It covers a wide range of ideas, methodologies, approaches, and instruments to give the reader a thorough understanding of the field's current academic and industry practice and debate. Physical, cognitive...

    $1,420.00

  • CREATING THIRD SPACES OF LEARNING FOR POST-CAPITALISM
    GARY L. ANDERSON / DIPTI DESAI / ANA INÉS HERAS / CAROL ANNE SPREEN
    In this book, the authors’ post-capitalist approach to change focuses less on what we need to dismantle and more on what educators and activists are building in its place. Studying schools and other social organizations in the Global North and South, the authors identify and examine some of the most interesting counterhegemonic spaces in both formal and informal education today...

    $1,100.00

  • INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE IN A MULTIPOLAR WORLD
    RADHIKA DESAI
    This book covers key aspects of the governance of the world economy, from the structures of capitalism to regional economic integration through the trading and production systems. International economic governance was already in crisis well before the pandemic, and talk of the crisis of multilateralism and of the postwar Bretton Woods arrangements had become commonplace. The pa...

    $1,200.00

  • SURVEILLANCE PRACTICES AND MENTAL HEALTH
    SUKI DESAI
    This book examines how CCTV cameras expose the patient body inside the mental health ward, especially the relationship between staff and patients as surveillance subjects. A key aspect of the book is that existing surveillance literature and mental health literature have largely ignored the influence of CCTV cameras on patient and staff experiences inside mental health wards. R...

    $1,200.00

  • FANON, PHENOMENOLOGY, AND PSYCHOLOGY
    LESWIN LAUBSCHER, DEREK HOOK, AND MIRAJ U. DESAI
    Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology is the first edited collection dedicated to exploring the explicitly phenomenological foundations underlying Frantz Fanon’s most important insights. Featuring contributions from many of the world’s leading scholars on Fanon, this volume foregrounds a series of crucial phenomenological topics – inclusive of the domains of experience, structur...

    $1,060.00

  • REVOLUTIONS
    DESAI , RADHIKA AND HELLER, HENRY
    As the centres of world capitalism struggle to overcome long-term stagnation and existential crisis, this book aims to recover the legacy of revolutions against capitalism and imperialism. The capitalist world today faces pervasive crises of unprecendented depth. To economic and social crises that were already deepening as the neoliberal decades wore on, it added the ecological...

    $1,200.00

  • SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
    ANOOP DESAI / ANIL MITAL
    This book outlines the process of sustainable product design and development. It presents design guidelines that help prolong the life of a product and minimize its environmental impact. These guidelines specifically enable product design for end-of-life (EoL) objectives such as reuse, recycling and remanufacturing. Sustainable Product Design and Development also presents mathe...

    $1,360.00

  • THE VIRTUAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE
    GAURAV DESAI
    This book explores how new media technologies such as e-mails, online forums, blogs and social networking sites have helped shape new forms of public spheres. Offering new readings of Jürgen Habermas’s notion of the public sphere, scholars from diverse disciplines interrogate the power and possibilities of new media in creating and disseminating public information; changing hum...

    $1,420.00

  • PRE-ECLAMPSIA
    PANKAJ DESAI
    Pre-eclampsia, a complication of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and/or edema and/or proteinuria, can have profound effects on the mother as well as the unborn fetus and even threaten their lives. Pre-eclampsia: Prevention, Prediction and Possibilities discusses the possible causes of the condition, its effects on various body systems, current methods of prediction, pre...

    $1,940.00

  • IDENTITY-CONSCIOUS SUPERVISION IN STUDENT AFFAIRS
    ROBERT BROWN / SHRUTI DESAI / CRAIG ELLIOTT
    This guide offers current and future student affairs practitioners a new conceptual framework for identity-conscious and intersectional supervision. Presenting an original and transformative model to address day-to-day challenges, this book gives practitioners a strategic approach to engage in self-work, identity exploration, relationship building, consciousness raising, trust ...

    $980.00

  • BECOMING A FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGIST
    DAVID DEMATTEO / JAYMES FAIRFAX-COLUMBO / ALISHA DESAI
    The paths to becoming a forensic psychologist are numerous and varied. Becoming a Forensic Psychologist provides insight into the process of pursuing a career in forensic psychology, from an introduction to the field itself to graduate school and beyond. This comprehensive guide extends beyond mere definitions and overviews to discuss tips, strategies, and questions to ask at e...

    $860.00

  • EQUITY IN HERITAGE CONSERVATION
    JIGNA DESAI
    Recognised by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals as a measure to make cities inclusive, safe and resilient, conservation of natural and cultural heritage has become an increasingly important issue across the globe. The equity principle of sustainable development necessitates that citizens hold the right to participate in the cultural economy of a place, requiring that inhab...

    $1,260.00

  • PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
    ANOOP DESAI / AASHI MITAL
    This book serves a unique purpose within the world of engineering. It covers the economics of modern manufacturing and focuses on examining the techniques and methods from a cost perspective. It can be used by both students and professionals alike. The book is useful to students in industrial engineering and mechanical engineering programs as a primary textbook for engineering ...

    $4,700.00

  • INTRODUCTORY FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
    CHANDRAKANT S. DESAI / TRIBIKRAM KUNDU
    Although there are many books on the finite element method (FEM) on the market, very few present its basic formulation in a simple, unified manner. Furthermore, many of the available texts address either only structure-related problems or only fluid or heat-flow problems, and those that explore both do so at an advanced level.Introductory Finite Element Method examines both str...

    $4,000.00

  • SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE ARTS
    LEE ANNE BELL AND DIPTI DESAI
    This book explores the relationship between social justice practices and the Arts in Education. It argues that social justice practices, at their best, should awaken our senses and the ability to imagine alternatives that can sustain the collective work necessary to challenge entrenched patterns and practices. Chapters display a range of arts-based pedagogies for challenging op...

    $1,120.00

  • THE BUNGALOW IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY INDIA
    MADHAVI DESAI / MIKI DESAI
    The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the new nation state of India. The processes that have been labeled 'westernization' and 'modernization' radically changed middle-class Indian life during the century. This book describes and explains the various technological, politic...

    $1,460.00

  • WOMEN ARCHITECTS AND MODERNISM IN INDIA
    MADHAVI DESAI
    Studies on architecture in South Asia continue to ignore women in canonical histories of the discipline. This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Writing their experiences into the narrative of mainstream architectural history within the challenge of non-exist...

    $1,200.00

  • FUNDAMENTALS OF WORK MEASUREMENT
    ANIL MITAL / ANOOP DESAI / AASHI MITAL
    This book will provide a quick reference on Work Measurement. While the nature of the work may differ, measuring work is fundamental to any industrial or service activity. It’s needed to determine such things as the amount a person should be paid, how much time should it take to perform an activity, what is an acceptable days’ work, or how any two or more methods or designs com...

    $1,420.00

  • ENVIRONMENTAL HYDROLOGY AND HYDRAULICS
    S N GHOSH / V.R. DESAI
    Water is a precious natural resource, which is crucial to our survival. It needs to be used judiciously in the context of an increasing population not only to sustain essential requirements such as those for drinking and domestic usage, but also for increased food production, industrial usage, power generation, navigational requirements, pisciculture, recreation, landscaping et...

    $5,300.00

  • SUBALTERN MOVEMENTS IN INDIA
    MANISHA DESAI
    Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations. Three subaltern struggles against development in Gujarat, India, succeeded, to varying degrees, due to legalism from below and translocal solidarity, but that success has been compromised by its gendered geographies. Based on extensive field research, this book examines the reasons for the three social mo...

    $1,320.00

  • KENANA KINGDOM OF GREEN GOLD
    OSMAN A. EL NAZIR / GOVIND D. DESAI
    First Published in 2001. The Kenana factory was officially inaugurated on 3 March 1981 by the President of Sudan amidst a blaze of publicity. The Kenana concept aimed to combine Western expertise, Arab financial resources and Sudan's natural resources of sun, fertile soil and plentiful water for irrigation purposes in the creation of a mega-agro-industrial project, bringing to...

    $1,320.00

  • ADVANCED GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
    CHANDRAKANT S. DESAI / MUSHARRAF ZAMAN
    Soil-structure interaction is an area of major importance in geotechnical engineering and geomechanics Advanced Geotechnical Engineering: Soil-Structure Interaction using Computer and Material Models covers computer and analytical methods for a number of geotechnical problems. It introduces the main factors important to the application of computer ...

    $4,500.00

  • THE PARADIGM OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
    MURLI DESAI
    This book takes a historical approach to analyse ideologies, policy approaches and development systems that have constructed the paradigm of international social development. It aims to review the social construction of "development" by tracing the historical dynamics of the modern ideologies and political economy of industrialization, colonization, the Cold War, and globalisat...

    $1,240.00

  • DEVELOPMENTAL AND CULTURAL NATIONALISMS
    RADHIKA DESAI
    Premature announcements of the eclipse of nation states under 'globalization' and 'empire' stand exposed as the 21st century's first economic crisis underlines their continuing importance. A predominantly cultural study of nationalism was unable to resist the 'globalization' thesis. Focusing on selected Asian cases, this book argues that nationalisms have always contained polit...

    $1,320.00

  • MONEY, MACROECONOMICS AND KEYNES
    PHILIP ARESTIS, MEGHNAD DESAI AND SHEILA DOW
    This volume, along with its companion volume, Methodology, Microeconomics and Keynes is published in honour of Victoria Chick, inspired by her own contributions to knowledge in all of these areas and their interconnections. It represents both consolidation and the breaking of new ground in Keynesian monetary theory and macroeconomics by leading figures in these fields. ...

    $1,420.00

  • HISTORY AS ART, ART AS HISTORY
    DIPTI DESAI / JESSICA HAMLIN / RACHEL MATTSON
    History as Art, Art as History pioneers methods for using contemporary works of art in the social studies and art classroom to enhance an understanding of visual culture and history. The fully-illustrated interdisciplinary teaching toolkit provides an invaluable pedagogical resource—complete with theoretical background and practical suggestions for teaching U.S. history topics ...

    $1,540.00

  • BEYOND BOLLYWOOD
    JIGNA DESAI
    Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the "Brown Atlantic" through a close look at films in English from and about South Asian diasporas in the United States, Canada, and Britain, including such...

    $1,120.00

  • SEEDS HANDBOOK
    BABASAHEB B. DESAI
    Revised and expanded throughout, this latest edition of the bestselling Seeds Handbook: Biology, Production, Processing, and Storage includes valuable information on all areas of seed biology, production, and processing. The author, one of the most respected and prolific scientists in the field, identifies current developments in seed testing and c ...

    $9,000.00

  • GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND FINANCIAL CRISES
    DESAI, MEGHNAD / SAID, YAHIA
    The editors of this book have pulled together a collection of chapters that review the spate of financial crises that have occurred in recent years starting with Mexico in 1994 and moving on to more recent crises in Turkey and Argentina. With impressive contributors such as Douglas Gale, Gabriel Palma and Andrew Gamble, the book is a timely and aut ...

    $1,460.00

  • MECHANICS OF MATERIALS AND INTERFACES
    CHANDRAKANT S. DESAI
    The disturbed state concept (DSC) is a relatively new development and until now has lacked extensive attention in a publication. This book presents the first detailed, theoretical treatment of the DSC and shows that it can provide a unified and simplified approach for mathematical characterization of the mechanical response of materials and interfaces. The author compares the D...

    $5,400.00


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