Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: rene

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  • COMPRESSION TEXTILES FOR MEDICAL, SPORTS, AND ALLIED APPLICATIONS
    NIMESH KANKARIYA AND RENÉ ROSSI
    Textile-based compression therapy is used in a range of applications, such as for athlete and sport recovery, enhanced proprioception, compression spacesuits, and in the management of chronic diseases. This book provides an overview of compression devices and products, testing methods to measure the properties of materials used in compression devices, and design considerations ...

    $2,000.00

  • TYPES OF RURAL ECONOMY
    RENÉ DUMONT
    Originally published in English in 1957 this book quickly became a classic of comparative agricultural studies. The book brings together a wide range of case studies from the UK, Europe, Africa and South East Asia which together form a broad yet highly detailed view of world agriculture in the 20th Century. ...

    $1,339.00

  • TRAVELS THROUGH CENTRAL AFRICA TO TIMBUCTOO AND ACROSS THE GREAT DESERT TO MOROCCO PERFORMED IN THE YEAR 1824-1828, VOL. II
    RENÉ CAILLIÉ
    Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and across the Great Desert to Morocco performed in the year 1824-1828, Vol. II is a travelogue written by René Caillié, a French explorer who made a journey to Timbuktu and back in the early 19th century. In the second volume of his work, Caillié details his return journey from Timbuktu to Morocco, covering a distance of approximatel...

    $39.70

  • TRAVELS THROUGH CENTRAL AFRICA TO TIMBUCTOO AND ACROSS THE GREAT DESERT TO MOROCCO PERFORMED IN THE YEAR 1824 - 1828 VOL I
    RENÉ CAILLIÉ
    Excerpt: “I offer, at length, to the public the narrative of my travels in the interior of Africa, which should have appeared long since; several causes have, however, concurred during the fifteen months that have elapsed since my return to my native soil, to retard its publication till the present time. I have brought home, from the regions I have traversed, only fugitive and ...

    $39.70

  • RUM REBELS
    MARTYNA HALAS / RENE VAN HOVEN
    Behind Every Great Rum Is a Powerful Woman “An essential book, which shows that women are taking an increasingly important place in the world of rum, that they can be very talented producers, but that there is still a lot to do in terms of gender equality.” —Rum Porter Once known as a sailor’s drink, rum has matured into a refined spirit. In some Caribbean countries, rum is off...

    $229.00

  • REMEMBERING GENOCIDES IN CENTRAL AFRICA
    RENE LEMARCHAND
    Scene of one of the biggest genocides of the last century Rwanda has become a household word, yet bitter disagreements persist as to its causes and consequences. Through a blend of personal memories and historical analysis, and informed by a lifelong experience of research in Central Africa, the author challenges conventional wisdom and suggests a new perspective for making sen...

    $1,099.00

  • COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES
    GUNTHER MESCHKE / RENE DE BORST / HERBERT MANG
    This conference proceedings brings together the work of researchers and practising engineers concerned with computational modelling of complex concrete, reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete structures in engineering practice. The subjects considered include computational mechanics of concrete and other cementitious materials, including masonry. Advanced discretisation m...

    $11,000.00

  • RANDOM TESTING OF DIGITAL CIRCUITS
    RENE DAVID
    "Introduces a theory of random testing in digital circuits for the first time and offers practical guidance for the implementation of random pattern generators, signature analyzers design for random testability, and testing results. Contains several new and unpublished results. " ...

    $8,000.00

  • MANAGING NATURAL SCIENCE COLLECTIONS
    ROBERT HUXLEY / CHRISTIANE QUAISSER / CAROL R BUTLER / RENÉ WRJ DEKKER
    Managing Natural Science Collections demonstrates the need for consistency and evidence-based decision making in the management of natural science collections, which are becoming increasingly valuable when it comes to addressing societal challenges. Drawing upon the experience of four experts who have managed some of the largest and most diverse collections in the world, the bo...

    $899.00

  • SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES TO COMMON SENSE PHILOSOPHY
    RIK PEELS / ‎JEROEN DE RIDDER / ‎RENÉ VAN WOUDENBERG
    Common sense philosophy holds that widely and deeply held beliefs are justified in the absence of defeaters. While this tradition has always had its philosophical detractors who have defended various forms of skepticism or have sought to develop rival epistemological views, recent advances in several scientific disciplines claim to have debunked the reliability of the faculties...

    $1,099.00

  • THE HANDBOOK OF COMMUNICATION SCIENCE AND BIOLOGY
    RENÉ WEBER / KORY FLOYD
    The Handbook of Communication Science and Biology charts the state of the art in the field, describing relevant areas of communication studies where a biological approach has been successfully applied. The book synthesizes theoretical and empirical development in this area thus far and proposes a roadmap for future research. As the biological approach to understanding communica...

    $2,300.00

  • A HISTORY OF INDIGENOUS LATIN AMERICA
    RENÉ HARDER HORST
    A History of Indigenous Latin America is a comprehensive introduction to the people who first settled in Latin America, from before the arrival of the Europeans to the present. Indigenous history provides a singular perspective to political, social and economic changes that followed European settlement and the African slave trade in Latin America. Set broadly within a postcolon...

    $979.00

  • DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES
    RENE DESCARTES
    The 'Discourse on the Method' is a philosophical and mathematical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. Its full name is Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Searching for Truth in the Sciences. The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation "Je pense, donc je suis", "I think, therefore I am".This is one of the most ...

    $9.00

  • TERRORISM AND GLOBAL SECURITY
    LOUIS RENE BERES
    The enormous potential for destruction that lies latent in nuclear technology inevitably gives rise to the possibility of nuclear terrorism—the use of nuclear explosives or radioactivity by insurgent groups. Professor Beres considers the factors that might foster such terrorism, the forms it might take, and the probable consequences of each form. He then identifies a coherent s...

    $1,099.00

  • GEORGE CRABBE AND HIS TIMES 1754-1832
    RENÉ HUCHON
    This book was first published in 1968 First appearing in 1907, René Huchon with the help of original manuscripts rewrote the biography of Crabbe published by his son in 1834. As the title suggests, however, Huchon was not merely concerned with the presentation of Crabbe as a literary figure in isolation, and by conjuring up the atmosphere and background of the eighteenth centur...

    $1,399.00

  • ENERGY POLITICS IN COLOMBIA
    RENÉ DE LA PEDRAJA
    This book, covering the period since 1920, attempts to answer Colombia's failure to properly utilize its vast reserves of coal, hydroelectricity, and petroleum. It examines Colombia's policies concerning a broad range of representative energy development projects. ...

    $299.00

  • U.S.- EC RELATIONS IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA
    RENE SCHWOK
    Relations between the European Community and the United States are taking on a new momentum. Are we heading towards a period of greater US-EC co-operation, or will the rapidly changing economic structure in Europe lead to possible conflicts across the Atlantic? This book offers an analysis of the economic implications of the current European Commu ...

    $1,099.00

  • THE LAW OF THE LIFEGIVERS
    CLAUDE BRODEUR / RENÉ DEVISCH
    African societies are gifted with a rich creativity, often expressed in intimate corporeal terms. For the Yaka people of southwestern Congo, such manifestations can have individual, social, or even cosmic significance. The Law of the Lifegivers investigates the importance among the Yaka of body and space in their daily life, exercise of power, and initiatic traditions. Through ...

    $1,059.00

  • LINKING, ALLIANCES, AND SHARED SPACE
    RENE KAES
    This book presents the general framework of the psychoanalytic approach to groups, describing the main elements of a psychoanalytic model of the group and of the subject within the group. It describes the various problems posed by extending the field of investigation and practices of psychoanalysis. ...

    $1,139.00

  • FREUD
    RENE MAJOR / CHANTAL TALAGRAND
    This book sheds a new light on Freud who, from the beginning, was aware that the edifice he was constructing – psychoanalysis – which revealed in each individual an "ego not master in its own house" –, had clear implications for understanding collective human behaviour. This man was profoundly concerned with matters of peace and war, religion, morality and civilisation. The aut...

    $939.00

  • STRUCTURAL STABILITY AND MORPHOGENESIS
    RENE THOM
    First Published in 2018. It is now some fifteen years since Structural Stability and Morphogenesis was first published in the French edition. The purely mathematical theory of singularities of smooth maps has developed tremendously in that time, however, the main interest of this book lies not in its mathematics, but in the methodological perspective opened up by Catastrophe Th...

    $1,939.00

  • COPPER PROTEINS AND COPPER ENZYMES
    RENE LONTIE
    These volumes of Copper Proteins and Copper Enzymes are intended to describe the contemporary spectroscopy and other biophysical chemistry now being applied to copper proteins in order to determine the structures of their active sites. Several chapters of the treatise describe the functional understanding which is emerging from the new work. The authors are all major contributo...

    $1,339.00

  • COPPER PROTEINS AND COPPER ENZYMES
    RENE LONTIE
    These volumes of Copper Proteins and Copper Enzymes are intended to describe the contemporary spectroscopy and other biophysical chemistry now being applied to copper proteins in order to determine the structures of their active sites. Several chapters of the treatise describe the functional understanding which is emerging from the new work. The authors are all major contributo...

    $4,800.00

  • COPPER PROTEINS AND COPPER ENZYMES
    RENE LONTIE
    These volumes of Copper Proteins and Copper Enzymes are intended to describe the contemporary spectroscopy and other biophysical chemistry now being applied to copper proteins in order to determine the structures of their active sites. Several chapters of the treatise describe the functional understanding which is emerging from the new work. The authors are all major contributo...

    $4,800.00

  • THE FOUR DOMAINS OF MENTAL ILLNESS
    RENE J. MULLER
    The Four Domains of Mental Illness presents an authentic and valid alternative to the DSM-5, which author René J. Muller argues has resulted in many patients being incorrectly diagnosed and wrongly medicated. Dr. Muller points out where the DSM-5 is mistaken and offers a guide to diagnosis based on the psychobiology of psychiatrist Adolf Meyer and the insights of existential ph...

    $1,299.00

  • COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR FRACTURE IN POROUS MEDIA
    RENÉ DE BORST
    Computational Methods for Fracture in Porous Media: Isogeometric and Extended Finite Element Methods provides a self-contained presentation of new modeling techniques for simulating crack propagation in fluid-saturated porous materials. This book reviews the basic equations that govern fluid-saturated porous media. A multi-scale approach to modeling fluid transport in joins, cr...

    $2,127.00

  • THE ATHLETIC SKILLS MODEL
    RENÉ WORMHOUDT / GEERT J.P. SAVELSBERGH / JAN WILLEM TEUNISSEN / KEITH DAVIDS
    The Athletic Skills Model offers an alternative to dominant talent development theories in the form of holistic broad-based movement education, focusing on health and wellbeing. It places the emphasis on ‘physical intelligence’ – including attributes such as agility, flexibility and stability – through adaptable and varied training programmes, creating a skilled athlete before ...

    $1,039.00

  • NONLINEAR LP-NORM ESTIMATION
    RENE GONIN
    Complete with valuable FORTRAN programs that help solve nondifferentiable nonlinear LtandLo.-norm estimation problems, this important reference/text extensively delineates ahistory of Lp-norm estimation. It examines the nonlinear Lp-norm estimation problem that isa viable alternative to least squares estimation problems where the underlying errordistribution is nonnormal, i.e.,...

    $1,559.00

  • BEAST OR ANGEL?
    RENE DUBOS
    The world of things is different now from what it was half a century ago, but Rene Dubos doubts that there have been basic changes in life itself, in those attitudes and activities, needs, and yearning, that are the most important for happiness and suffering, for hope and despair the differences between humanity and animality. Sophisticated and civilized as we may be, we have r...

    $1,179.00

  • SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION
    RENÉ JORNA
    HOW SUSTAINABLE IS INNOVATION? Problematically, most contemporary patterns of innovation in human social systems and organisations are not sustainable. This prevents people from learning effectively, from recognising and solving their problems, and from operating in sustainable ways. It is arguably why societies, businesses and industries around the world are so unsustainable. ...

    $1,099.00


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