Towards a Normal Stratification Order
Towards a Normal Stratification Order

Author: Ellu Saar

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 9783631603543

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From a historical perspective, the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) until the Wall Street crash of 2008 was brief, but the social changes were far-reaching and resulted in the profound alteration of institutional frameworks of post-socialist societies in Central and East European countries, e.g. Estonia. This book examines the transformation of Estonian society, concentrating on changes in the stratification order. The (re)distribution of the risks and opportunities between different groups in Estonian society, the 'most neoliberal' in the European Union, and the perceptions about fairness of the most radical changes in post-socialist world are the main issues of this volume.

Design Engineering Manual
Design Engineering Manual

Author: Mike Tooley

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2009-10-30

Total Pages: 617

ISBN-13: 1856178641

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Design Engineering Manual offers a practical guide to the key principles of design engineering. It features a compilation of extracts from several books within the range of Design Engineering books in the Elsevier collection. The book is organized into 11 sections. Beginning with a review of the processes of product development and design, the book goes on to describe systematic ways of choosing materials and processes. It details the properties of modern metallic alloys including commercial steels, cast irons, superalloys, titanium alloys, structural intermetallic compounds, and aluminum alloys. The book explains the human/system interface; procedures to assess the risks associated with job and task characteristics; and environmental factors that may be encountered at work and affect behavior. Product liability and safety rules are discussed. The final section on design techniques introduces the design process from an inventors perspective to a more formal model called total design. It also deals with the behavior of plastics that influence the application of practical and complex engineering equations and analysis in the design of products. - Provides a single-source of critical information to the design engineer, saving time and therefore money on a particular design project - Presents both the fundamentals and advanced topics and also the latest information in key aspects of the design process - Examines all aspects of the design process in one concise and accessible volume