Luis Roberto: 13 books

Esta valiosa publicación es una propuesta que surge justo cuando nuestro país tiene en sus manos una oportunidad única e histórica para impulsar su industria petrolera, en medio de un mercado petrolero internacional que le es muy favorable, y cuenta con una base de recursos...

This book provides a general description of the search for and discovery of the Higgs boson (particle) at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The goal is to provide a relatively brief overview of the issues, instruments and techniques relevant for this search; written by a physicist who was directly involved....

A Aprendizagem Baseada em Problemas (ABP) ou PBL (Problem-based Learning) é uma metodologia de ensino e aprendizagem com larga utilização em escolas superiores (notadamente de medicina) e em outros níveis educacionais. Concebido no final dos anos 1960, o PBL, grosso modo, emprega problemas da...

Radiografia de uma aula em Engenharia traz uma análise de uma aula no ensino de engenharia, revelando aspectos institucionais e culturais que contribuem para seu formato - por exemplo, a relativa autonomia docente, a prevalência de currículos lineares, a existência de uma cultura positivista,...

La Isla del Tesoro  es una novela de aventuras del escritor escocés Roberto Luis Stevenson (Robert Louis Stevenson,) que narra una historia de "bucaneros y oro enterrado". Su influencia es enorme en las percepciones populares de los piratas, incluidos elementos tales como los mapas del tesoro...

Ionic liquids are attractive because they offer versatility in the design of organic salts. As ion-rich media, ionic liquids can control the systems properties by tuning the size, charge, and shape of the composing ions. Whilst the focus has mainly been on the potential applications of ionic liquids...

Somando-se ao debate público sobre a crise política no Brasil, Por que gritamos Golpe? proporciona ao leitor diversas análises sobre a dinâmica do processo de impeachment da presidente Dilma Rousseff, dentro de uma perspectiva multidisciplinar e de esquerda. Os textos que compõem a coletânea...

Poverty reduction challenges in the twenty-first century are not the same as those from the previous century. The shift is due in no small part to climate change and climate-related weather disasters, such as extreme flood and drought. The magnitude and frequency of such events are only expected to...

After a short-lived slowdown in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis and a swift rebound, emerging markets (EM) are now entering a period of slower growth. In fact, growth is now lower than the post-crisis peak of 2010-11, as well as the rates seen in the decade before the crisis....

The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...

 What would you do if you had the cure for a terrible disease but you couldn’t get anyone to listen to you? Our expert team has obtained three U.S. patents and we firmly believe that we have the answer to the scourge of diabetes. Further, we have written to everyone from President Barack Obama...

There is a growing demand for cocoa. However, cultivation is dependent on ageing trees with low yields and increasing vulnerability to disease. There is growing concern about the environmental impact of cultivation in areas soil health and biodiversity. There is therefore an urgent need to make cocoa...

"Manuel Uribe Ángel siempre fue reconocido como una de las más importantes figuras intelectuales de su tiempo. Fue testigo y participante del cambio y el crecimiento demográfico, económico y social de Antioquia, especialmente de la segunda mitad del siglo xix: el surgimiento de la banca comercial,...