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  • IUTAM Symposium on Surface Effects in the Mechanics of Nanomaterials and Heterostructures

    Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Beijing, China, 8-12 August, 2010

    Edited by Alan Cocks, Jianxiang Wang ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume constitutes the proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Surface Effects in the Mechanics of Nanomaterials and Heterostructures, held in Beijing, 8-12 August, 2010. The symposium brought together the most active scientists working in this area from the fields of solid mechanics, composites, physics, and materials science and summarized the state-of-the-art research results with a view to ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Advances in Direct Methods for Materials and Structures

    Edited by Olga Barrera, Alan Cocks, Alan Ponter ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book offers a state-of-the-art overview and includes recent developments of various direct computational analysis methods.It is based on recently developed and widely employed numerical procedures for limit and shakedown analysis of structures and their extensions to a wide range of physical problems relevant to the design of materials and structural components.The book can be used as a ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era

    by Catherine Cocks, Peter C. Holloran, Alan Lessoff ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras
    The Progressive Era, the period in the United States between 1898 and 1917, was a time of great social, political, and industrial change. Following the Spanish-American War of 1898, an event that signaled the emergence of the United States as a great power, the country soon was involved in its first overseas guerrilla war, in the Philippines. Vast changes in communications and transportation, ... Read more

    $274.29 CAD

  • The A to Z of the Progressive Era

    by Peter C. Holloran, Catherine Cocks, Alan Lessoff ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    The Progressive Era, the period in the United States between 1898 and 1917, was a time of great social, political, and industrial change. Following the Spanish-American War of 1898, an event that signaled the emergence of the United States as a great power, the country soon was involved in its first overseas guerrilla war, in the Philippines. Vast changes in communications and transportation, ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

  • Treasure Your Exceptions

    The Science and Life of William Bateson

    by Alan G. Cock, Donald R. Forsdyke ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    William Bateson brought the work of Mendel (and much more) to the attention of the English-speaking world. He commanded the biological sciences in the decades after Darwin's death in 1882. To understand these years we must first understand Bateson. Through examination of the life of a major contributor to the turn-of-the-nineteenth-century revolution in biology, the authors reconcile the ... Read more

    $280.49 CAD

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  • American History:A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Paul S. Boyer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In a miracle of concision, Paul S. Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story of our nation. Ranging from the earliest Native American settlers to the presidency of Barack Obama, this Very Short Introduction offers an illuminating account of politics, diplomacy, and war as well as the full spectrum of social, cultural, and ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Great Depression

    America 1929-1941

    by Robert S. McElvaine ...
    One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The S Word

    A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism

    by John Nichols ...
    This fascinating history of socialism is “a chilling reminder of how much rich American history has been erased by shallow messaging” (Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine).During the Cold War, it became a dirty word in the United States, but “socialism” runs like a red thread through the nation’s history, an integral part of its political consciousness since the founding of the republic. In ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Republic for Which It Stands

    The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

    by Richard White ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Workshop of Democracy, 1863–1932

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series Book 2 - The American Experiment
    The second volume of Burns's acclaimed history of America, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great DepressionAbraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address pointed to a new way to preserve an old hope—that democracy might prove a vibrant and lasting form of government for people of different races, religions, and aspirations. The scars of the Civil War would not soon heal, but with that ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Standing at Armageddon

    A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era

    by Nell Irvin Painter ...
    **“A gripping and forceful narrative.”—Nancy F. Cott, author of Public VowsAn “enthralling” (Michael Kazin, Washington Post) account of America’s shift from a rural and agrarian society to an urban and industrial society.**In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, technological innovation made possible dramatic increases in industrial and agricultural productivity; by 1919, per capita ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

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  • A Fierce Discontent

    The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in A

    by Michael McGerr ...
    The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt, whose energy glinted through his pince-nez; Carry Nation, who smashed saloons with her axe and helped stop an entire nation from drinking; women suffragists, who marched in the streets until they finally achieved the vote; Andrew Carnegie ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD