Filipe: 56 books
Loose Threads
A short story collection
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
Short stories about big changes.
From 2006 to 2010, Luís Filipe Alves wrote over fifty flash fiction stories, in as many genres as he could manage, to teach himself how to write short narratives. This book compiles the best of those stories:
The face in the mirror; Stay; Knut...
Loose Threads 2
A new short story collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
After two years writing novels, novellas, novelettes and comic books, Luis Filipe Alves returned to flash fiction, only to find that it wasn’t as easy as he remembered.
This book includes his best attempts to relearn the flash fiction format, all originally published at the author’s official...
by Filipe Vilicic
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 3, 2015
O Instagram, aplicativo de compartilhamento de fotos, é uma febre mundial desde seu lançamento em 2010, ainda em versão exclusivamente para iPhone. Comprado pelo Facebook em 2012 pela estonteante quantia de 1 bilhão de dólares, hoje em dia mobiliza mais de 300 milhões de usuários. O que poucos...
Hear Me
A psychological thriller
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
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PUNISHMENT HAS A VOICE.
Joana and Gonçalo are married. But their marriage is far from perfect. The tragedy of their daughter’s...
G.H. Mead
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
G. H. Mead is rightly considered to be one of sociology's founding fathers, yet to date there have been surprisingly few books devoted to his life and work. This book fills the gap by introducing Mead's ideas to a younger generation of social scientists.
Beginning with a biographical account...
by Filipe Vaz, Filipe Vaz, Nicolas Martin
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Oxynitride thin film technology is rapidly impacting a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from decorative functions (through optoelectronics) to corrosion resistance. Developing a better understanding of the relationships between deposition processes, structure and composition of the deposited...
The Politics of the Book
A Study on the Materiality of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019
It is impossible to separate the content of a book from its form. In this study, Filipe Carreira da Silva and Mónica Brito Vieira expand our understanding of the history of social and political scholarship by examining how the entirety of a book mediates and constitutes meaning in ways that affect...
Distributed Embedded Controller Development with Petri Nets
Application to Globally-Asynchronous Locally-Synchronous Systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
This book describes a model-based development approach for globally-asynchronous locally-synchronous distributed embedded controllers. This approach uses Petri nets as modeling formalism to create platform and network independent models supporting the use of design automation tools. To support...
Portuguese Sociology
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Sociology in Portugal provides the first English-language account of the history of sociology in Portugal from 1945 to the present day. Banned by the fascist regime until 1974, the institutionalization of sociology as an academic discipline came relatively late. Understanding academic disciplines...
Mead and Modernity
Science, Selfhood, and Democratic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Filipe Carreira da Silva addresses the basic questions 'How should we read Mead?' and 'Why should we read Mead today' by showing that the history of ideas and theory-building are closely-related endeavors. Following a contextualist approach in exploring the meaning of Mead's writings, Carreira da...
by Filipe S. Fernandes
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 16, 2015
A história de uma das mulheres mais poderosas que está a dominar Portugal.A mulher mais rica e poderosa de Portugal é a angolana Isabel dos Santos e segundo a revista Forbes é a primeira bilionária africana com uma fortuna avaliada em mais de 3 mil milhões de dólares. Contudo, pouco se sabe sobre...
by Ben Masters, Jay Kleberg, Heather Mackey
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
When a team of five explorers embarked on a 1,200-mile journey down the Rio Grande, the river that marks the southern boundary of Texas and the US-Mexico border, their goal was to experience and capture on film the rugged landscapes of this vast frontier before the controversial construction of a...
by Luis Filipe Silva
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Conto da antologia Space Opera: Aventuras fabulosas por universos extraordinários por Luis Filipe Silva, editor de Vaporpunk. O que há no espírito de todos aqueles que levam a presença da humanidade a lugares inóspitos, que lutam contra os rigores impostos pelo universo para marcar aquele caminho...
Talento no Alentejo
Histórias de Sucesso com Visão de Futuro
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Pensar no presente o futuro do Alentejo é o mote proposto a um conjunto de personalidades de várias áreas sociais, cujos contributos são editados em livro. Mais do que pensar o Alentejo que agora somos, à volta de diagnósticos tantas vezes feitos e repetidos, pedimos que se olhe para a frente,...