Almeida: 213 books
The Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures, 2000–2015
A Legacy in Byron Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This unique collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand, who has had an enduring influence on the appreciation and study of Lord Byron for sixty years. Generations of readers and writers have come to Byron through his biographies and his edition of...
The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York
Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This book is a collection of nine essays exploring the Irish-American experience in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan area, both historically and today. The essays place the local Irish-American experience in the wider context of immigration studies, assimilation, and historical theory. Using...
by Jolene Carissa Almeida
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
We often face many challenges in life and dealing with them requires us to be physically and emotionally strong. We may not always get the answers immediately and sometimes it is the various experiences in life that help us find the solutions. The four categories represented in this book sum up few of...
Take Me
A Contemporary Romance Short Story in the Countermeasure Series
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
"The Bytes of Life offer an almost illicit, forbidden glimpse at what goes on when no one else is supposed to be looking!" ~Mark Woods, Author of Fear of the Dark and Time of Tides
A warm welcome...
With his wife away on business, Trevor is spending his St. Patrick’s Day...
Roaming Pleasure
A Contemporary Romance Short Story in the Countermeasure Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
"The Bytes of Life offer an almost illicit, forbidden glimpse at what goes on when no one else is supposed to be looking!" ~Mark Woods, Author of Fear of the Dark and Time of Tides
Keeping their bond alive even when they are apart...
A business trip. Unlimited roaming. What...
Payback
A Contemporary Romance Short Story in the Countermeasure Series
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
"The Bytes of Life offer an almost illicit, forbidden glimpse at what goes on when no one else is supposed to be looking!" ~Mark Woods, Author of Fear of the Dark and Time of Tides
Trevor and Cassandra take a day off to hit the movies, but the action doesn’t only happen on the big...
School Buildings Rehabilitation
Indoor Environmental Quality and Enclosure Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
This book discusses the effect of different school building rehabilitation strategies on the classrooms’ indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and presents a multi-objective methodology for school building enclosure optimization combining artificial neural networks and lifecycle costs. The special...
Central Banking in Developing Countries
Objectives, Activities and Independence
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1996
This book examines the current state of central banking in 44 developing countries. The authors analyse the banks' achievement in their primary objective of price stability and discuss the reasons behind the general lack of success. The book covers: * government financing * foreign exchange systems * domestic banking systems. Rich in data, the book
Rap Beyond Resistance
Staging Power in Contemporary Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book fills the gap in existing literature by exploring other forms of political discourses in non-Western rap music. Theoretically, it challenges and explores resistance, arguing towards the need for different epistemological frameworks in which to look at narratives of cultural resistance in...
Alternate Connection
A Romantic Suspense Novel in the Countermeasure Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Countermeasure dives head-on into a melting pot of danger in the Middle East. The stakes just got higher.
CIA Operative Nathan Nelson has built his life on secrets, especially those that have shaped the man he is—secret feelings for a woman he’s viewed as off-limits for a decade and events...
Jinnah
Man of Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2001
Jinnah—a mysterious historical character of modern history is critically analysed with new facts which are brought to light in this book. This study is a dispassionate inquiry of Jinnah and the crucial role that he played.
by Oscar Wilde, Miguel Vale de Almeida, Isabel Robalinho
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 15, 2011
No Verão de 1891, Wilde é apresentado ao jovem Lord Alfred Douglas, familiarmente conhecido como Bosie, estudante de Oxford com aspirações literárias, filho do Marquês de Queensberry. Inicia-se então a tempestuosa amizade que culminará no julgamento e condenação de Oscar Wilde a dois anos de...
by Dermeval Saviani, Jane Soares de Almeida, Rosa Fátima de Souza
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Qual é o legado educacional do século XX? A questão não é simples e comporta inúmeras possibilidades de análise. Neste livro, os autores interrogam essa herança revisitando novos e velhos objetos, numa interpretação provocativa e fecunda. O balanço histórico volta-se para o processo de...
by Antonio Almeida
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2004
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2004
Building Spiritual Muscles is written in five parts. Part I talks about how my encounters with ordinary people during my world travels helped put my years of metaphysical understandings into perspective. Part II is a sketch of my early life where the seeds of my metaphysical thought processes were...