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Reviews the book "Asymptotic Methods in the Buckling Theory of Elastic Shells," by Petr E. Tovstik and Andrei L. Smirnov.

The article reviews the book "Theories and Applications of Plate Analysis: Classical Numerical and Engineering Methods," by Rudolph Szilard.

Reviews the book "New Approaches to Structural Mechanics, Shells and Biological Structures," edited by H. R. Drew and S. Pellegrino.

Anna Curcio's militant co-research of the logistics industry in Italy shows how migration regimes actively ensure decomposition of the working class. In understanding the technical recomposition of capital and workers decomposition and recomposition, the assumption of state power as colluding with capital appears to be the dominant narrative, but, can one imagine state power in terms of public institutions serving as a tool for working class recomposition, or is this dirigiste statist imagination too outdated in a contemporary period of socialized capitalism. Does a class struggle need to absolutely move beyond any imagination of capturing state power, or can that imagination have a particular role in redefining workers control over resources?. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Applied Plasticity," 2nd Edition, part of the Mechanical Engineering Series, by J. Chakrabarty.

Book reviewed in this article: Rescuing the World Bank. Edited by Nancy Birdsall. The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organisation, and World Health Organisation Changed the World, 1945–1965. By Amy L. S. Staples. Visions of Development: Faith-based Initiatives. Edited by Wendy Tyndale. International Migration Outlook: Annual Report 2006 (SOPEMI). By the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place. Edited by Bjorn Lomborg. Global Issues for Global Citizens: An Introduction to Key Development Challenges. Edited by Vinay Bhargava. Financial Dollarization: The Policy Agenda. Edited by Adrian Armas, Alain Ize and Eduardo Levy Yeyati. Beyond the Numbers: Understanding the Institutions for Monitoring Poverty Reduction Strategies. By Tara Bedi, Aline Coudouel, Marcus Cox, Markus Goldstein and Nigel Thornton. Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics. By Carol Lancaster. Making Aid Work. By A. V. Banerjee with A. H. Amsden; R. H. Bates; J. Bhagwati; A. Deaton and N. Stern. Food is Different: Why We Must Get the WTO Out of Agriculture. By Peter M. Rosset. Development Issues in Global Governance: Public-private Partnership and Market Multilateralism. By Benedicte Bull and Desmond McNeill. Globalisation, Employment and Income Distribution in Developing Countries. Edited by Eddy Lee and Marco Vivarelli. Africa and Development Challenges in the New Millennium: The NEPAD Debate. Edited by J. O. Adesina, Yao Graham and A. Olukoshi. The Unsettled Land: State-making and the Politics of Land in Zimbabwe, 1893–2003. By Jocelyn Alexander. Confronting New Realities: Reflections on Tanzania's Radical Transformation. By Juma V. Mwapachu. Roadmap to an ASEAN Economic Community. Edited by Dennis Hew. China's Limits to Growth: Greening State and Society. Edited by Peter Ho and Eduard B. Vermeer. The Political Economy of Asian Transition from Communism. By Sujian Guo. China and India: Learning From Each Other — Reforms and Policies for Sustained Growth. Edited by Jahangir Aziz, Steven Dunaway and Eswar Prasad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Functional Adaptive Control. An Intelligent Systems Approach," by S. G. Fabri and V. Kadirkamanathan.

Reviews the book "Fluid Mechanics and the Environment: Dynamical Approaches. A Collection of Research Papers Written in Commemoration of the 60th Birthday of Sidney Leibovich," edited by J. L. Lumley.

Reviews the book "Stability of Elastic Structures," by N. A. Alfutov, translated by V. Balmont and E. Evseev.

Reviews the book "Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia," by Douglas Northrop.

The article reviews the exhibition "The Unilever Series: Olafur Eliasson" at the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in London, England from October 6, 2003 to March 21, 2004 .

Book reviewed in this article: Adult Attachment and Couple Therapy: The 'Secure-Base' in Practice and Research edited by Christopher Clulow. Within Time and Beyond Time: A Festschrift for Pearl King edited by Riccardo Steiner and Jennifer Johns. Crooked Angels by Carol Lee. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: John A. Davis, Italy in the Nineteenth Century . Michael Wintle, An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 1800–1920. Demographic, Economic and Social Transition . Stanislaw Eile, Literature and Nationalism in Partitioned Poland, 1795–1918 . Jerzy Kloczowski, A History of Polish Christianity . Robert Woods, The Demography of Victorian England and Wales . Alan Armstrong, The Population of Victorian and Edwardian Norfolk . Martin Gorsky, Patterns of Philanthropy. Charity and Society in Nineteenth-Century Bristol . John Belchem, Merseypride: Essays in Liverpool Exceptionalism . John Belchem (ed.), A New History of the Isle of Man: Volume V: The Modern Period 1830–1999 . Fabrice Bensimon, Les Britanniques face à la révolution française de 1848 . David Nash and Antony Taylor (ed.), Republicanism in Victorian Society . Ian Inkster, Colin Griffin, Jeff Hill, and Judith Rowbotham (eds), The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and Economic History, 1850–1870 . Mike Huggins, Flat Racing and British Society 1790–1914: A Social and Economic History . Simon Gunn, The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class: Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City 1840–1914 . Ida Blom, Karen Hagemann and Catherine Hall (eds), Gendered Nations: Nationalism and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century . Deirdre Beddoe, Out of the Shadows: A History of Women in Twentieth-Century Wales . John Milner, Art, War and Revolution in France 1870–1871. Myth, Reportage and Reality . William Kidd, Les Monuments aux morts mosellans de 1870 à nos jours . Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, Nicholas II. The Interrupted Transition . Mark Cornwall, The Undermining of Austria-Hungary. The Battle for Hearts and Minds . Ian F. W. Beckett, The Great War 1914–1918 . Robert Self, The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters, Volume 1: The Making of a Politician, 1915–1920 and Vo... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Computer Methods in Structural Analysis," by J.L. Meek, E. Spon and F.N. Spon.

The article reviews several books about social policy and administration, including "Despite the Welfare State," by Muriel Brown and Nicola Madge, "Housing Inequality and Deprivation," by Alan Murie, and "Families in Britain," edited by R. N. Rapoport, M. P. Fogarty and R. Rapoport.

Reviews several books. "The Economic Decline of Modern Britain," edited by D. Coates and J. Hillard; "Britain's Economic Problem: Too Few producers," by R. Bacon and W. Eltis; "The Wasting of the British Economy," by S. Pollard.

Reviews the book “The British Conquest and Dominion of India,” by Penderel Moon.

Reviews the book 'In Search of Safety: Chemicals and Cancer Risk,' by John D. Graham, Laura C. Green and Marc J. Roberts.

The article reviews the books "Douglas Fairbanks," by Jeffrey Vance and Tony Maietta and "Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando," by Stefan Kanfer.

The article reviews the book "The Structure of Post-Keynesian Economics: The Core Contributions of the Pioneers," by Geoff Harcourt.

This article reviews the book "Harry Marshall Ward and the Fungal Thread of Death," by Peter G. Ayres.

Books reviewed: Booth, B.D., Murphy, S.D. & Swanton, C.J., Weed ecology in natural and agricultural systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Book reviewed in this article: Physics for Ophthalmologists Douglas J Coster, editor Colour Atlas of Ophthalmic Surgery Retinal Surgery and Ocular Trauma Kenneth W Wright (Editor-in-Chief), William E Smiddy, Donald A Frambach, Lawrence P Chong. Anterior Segment Complications of Contact Lens Wear Joel A Silbert. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1994 Retina: The Fundamentals Gloria Wu, MD Philadelphia: W B Saunders, 1995 Colour Atlas of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery A G Tyers and J R 0 Collin, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1995 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Book reviewed in this article: KERATOPROSTHESES S. N. Fyodorov, Z. I. Moroz, V.K. Zuev. VITREOUS MICROSURGERY Steve Charles. 1987-YEARBOOK OF OPHTHALMOLOGY Edited by J. Terry Ernest and Thomas A. Deutsch. CLINICAL OPHTHALMOLOGY Edited by Sir Stephen Miller. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book `Postcranial Adaptation in Nonhuman Primates,' edited by Daniel L. Gebo.

A review of the book "Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887-1934," by Edward Wright-Rios is presented.

The article reviews the book "Mechanisms of Morphogenesis: The Creation of Biological Form," by Jamie A. Davies.