Bal: 152 books

From the colonial period to independence and into the twenty-first century, Latin American culture has been mapped as a subordinate “other” to Europe and the United States. This collection reconsiders geographical space and power and the ways in which theatrical and performance histories have...

The knowledge of database systems are an important part of an education in Computer Science. Without database, an organisation is blind. The book Introduction to Database Management System introduces concepts, design, applications and technologies of database in a very comprehensive manner. It assumes no previous knowledge of databases and database technology.

Practice, practice, practice!  The best way to prepare for a test is to take practice exams!  Each of our practice exams it designed to be slightly more difficult than the actual exam, to build confidence on the day of the test. This book includes three complete practice science...

Esta obra cubre un vacío en el mercado al editorial respecto a la prevención de riesgos laborales. Se divide en siete extensas partes que abarcan: caracterización técnica de la prevención de riesgos laborales; políticas e instituciones en materia de prevención de riesgos laborales: organización...

Greening the College Curriculum provides the tools college and university faculty need to meet personal and institutional goals for integrating environmental issues into the curriculum. Leading educators from a wide range of fields, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, literature,...

This collection of studies by anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, and biologists is an important contribution to the emerging field of historical ecology. The book combines cutting-edge research with new perspectives to emphasize the close relationship between humans and their natural environment. Contributors...

Now with Location Index!This new MWNF Travel Book was conceived not long before the war started. All texts refer to the pre-war situation and are our expression of hope that Syria, a land that witnessed the evolution of civilisation since the beginnings of human history, may soon become a place of...

In light of the rapid fluctuations in oil prices and subsequent impact on the stability and economic perspectives of energy producing and energy importing states in the Western Hemisphere, this book stresses the urgency to integrate sustainability at the very core of national energy security strategies....

Decision makers in the Renewable Energy sector face an increasingly complex social, economic, technological, and environmental scenario in their decision process. Different groups of decision-makers become involved in the process, each group bringing along different criteria therefore, policy formulation...

The book is a comparative analysis of the ideological constructions of national specificity in Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. Studying the growing infatuation with "national essence" it seeks to understand the radicalization of nationalism in East Central Europe in connection with the shift...

Idiomas espectrales: Lenguas imaginarias en la literatura latinoamericana es un acercamiento original a la presencia de lenguas inventadas en la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XX. Desde un enfoque que vincula exégesis literaria con crítica cultural y reflexión teórica con estudio de las...

From the protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square to the Tea Party in the United States to the campaign to elect indigenous leader Evo Morales in Bolivia, modern populist movements command international attention and compel political and social change. When citizens demand "power to the people,"...

This textbook will give students a clear understanding of the connection between faith and reason. Illuminating Faith gives students a clear and accessible introduction to some of the major ways faith and the relationship between faith and reason have been understood within Western Christianity. In...

While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in...