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  • Martyr! (National Book Award Finalist)

    A novel

    by Kaveh Akbar ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ATIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR • A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Colliding Bodies Optimization

    Extensions and Applications

    by A. Kaveh, V.R. Mahdavi ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents and applies a novel efficient meta-heuristic optimization algorithm called Colliding Bodies Optimization (CBO) for various optimization problems. The first part of the book introduces the concepts and methods involved, while the second is devoted to the applications. Though optimal design of structures is the main topic, two chapters on optimal analysis and applications in ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Nature-based Solutions and Circularity Perspectives in the Built Environment

    Multidisciplinary Approaches

    Edited by Hasan Saygın, Hasan Volkan Oral, Kaveh Dehghanian, Tevfik Denizhan MüftüoĞlu ...
    The main purpose of this book is to examine the applications of nature-based solutions (NBS) and circularity in the built environment from a multidisciplinary perspective, but with a focus on energy, civil, and environmental engineering. The book is therefore divided into three sections, energy management, hydrology and water management, and applications of sustainable natural resources in soil ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Applications of Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms in Civil Engineering

    by A. Kaveh ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book presents recently developed efficient metaheuristic optimization algorithms and their applications for solving various optimization problems in civil engineering. The concepts can also be used for optimizing problems in mechanical and electrical engineering. ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Advances in Metaheuristic Algorithms for Optimal Design of Structures

    by A. Kaveh ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents efficient metaheuristic algorithms for optimal design of structures. Many of these algorithms are developed by the author and his colleagues, consisting of Democratic Particle Swarm Optimization, Charged System Search, Magnetic Charged System Search, Field of Forces Optimization, Dolphin Echolocation Optimization, Colliding Bodies Optimization, Ray Optimization. These are ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Advances in Metaheuristic Algorithms for Optimal Design of Structures

    by A. Kaveh ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents efficient metaheuristic algorithms for optimal design of structures. Many of these algorithms are developed by the author and his colleagues, consisting of Democratic Particle Swarm Optimization, Charged System Search, Magnetic Charged System Search, Field of Forces Optimization, Dolphin Echolocation Optimization, Colliding Bodies Optimization, Ray Optimization. These are ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • Computational Structural Analysis and Finite Element Methods

    by A. Kaveh ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Graph theory gained initial prominence in science and engineering through its strong links with matrix algebra and computer science. Moreover, the structure of the mathematics is well suited to that of engineering problems in analysis and design. The methods of analysis in this book employ matrix algebra, graph theory and meta-heuristic algorithms, which are ideally suited for modern computational ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Calling a Wolf a Wolf

    by Kaveh Akbar ...
    "The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." --Fanny HoweThis highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse

    110 Poets on the Divine

    Edited by Kaveh Akbar ...
    'A profoundly valuable collection, full of fresh perspective, and opening doors into all kinds of material that has been routinely neglected or patronized' Rowan Williams, TLSThis rich and surprising anthology is a holistic, global survey of a lyric conversation about the divine, one which has been ongoing for millennia. Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Armies of Ancient Persia

    The Sassanians

    by Kaveh Farrokh ...
    Throughout most of the classical period, Persia was one of the great superpowers, placing a limit on the expansion of Western powers. It was the most formidable rival to the Roman empire for centuries, until Persia, by then under the Sassanians, was overwhelmed by the Islamic conquests in the seventh century AD. Yet, the armies of ancient Persia have received relatively little detailed attention, ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of China

    A Persian Merchant’s Description of the Ming State for the Ottoman Court

    Translated by Kaveh Hemmat, John Curry ...
    by Hyunhee Park, Carol Fan, Lanshin Chang, Seyyed ʿAli Akbar Khatayi ...
    In the early sixteenth century, a Muslim merchant from Central Eurasia named ʿAli Akbar Khatayi traveled to China and stayed for six years, observing government agents and soldiers, interacting with ordinary people, and even obtaining inside knowledge of the Ming court. He then traveled thousands of miles west to Istanbul, where he presented a description of the Chinese state to the Ottoman ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Working for Oil

    Comparative Social Histories of Labor in the Global Oil Industry

    Edited by Elisabetta Bini, Touraj Atabaki, Kaveh Ehsani ...
    This volume examines the social history of oil workers and investigates how labor relations have shaped the global oil industry during the twentieth century and today. It brings together the work of scholars from a range of disciplines, approaching the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of oil. The contributors analyze a number of key oil producing regions, including the Americas, ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD