M M Silva: 66 books
The Stairwell
A Meagan Maloney Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Private Investigator Meagan Maloney is back with another action-packed mix of mystery, intrigue, and suspense. When an old acquaintance makes a dreadful discovery in his new house on the beautiful Rhode Island coastline, the authorities deem the event an accident. Unconvinced and unsettled, he enlists...
Coming Up Short
Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
What does it mean to grow up today as working-class young adults? How does the economic and social instability left in the wake of neoliberalism shape their identities, their understandings of the American Dream, and their futures? Coming Up Short illuminates the transition to adulthood for working-class...
by António M. Silva
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Num futuro longínquo, onde o passar do tempo já ficou esquecido. A raça humana evoluiu tecnologicamente, de tal maneira que os corpos se tornaram imortais. Partiram para o espaço, onde foram povoando novos mundos. O planeta Terra pouco mais é do que uma lembrança.Um grupo de exploradores foi...
by M.J. Silva
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
When Ally realizes that the mysterious man sitting in front of her on the beach café where she now spends her afternoons after work, is reading her personal favorite book, she has no idea what life and fortune have reserved for her. For them.
On that March afternoon, Ally Julliard, an uncommon free...
Songs of Yesterday
A Heartman's Bay Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
M.J.Silva's heartwarming romantic comedy/ drama series, set in picturesque Heartman's Bay reveals the author’s talent for creating a town that feels like home and characters that feel like friends. In this original short story, witty and passionate Grace Waldorf is finally ready for her...
The Psychology of Marriage
An Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural View
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
From their location in the heart of Detroit, Michigan, the Weisfelds’ lab has reached out for thirty years to couples in long-term partnerships around the world. In living rooms of Detroit, London, Moscow, Beijing, and beyond, couples of all types and ages have shared their insights into adult romantic...
by M.J. Silva
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
There are moments that become melodies that wander forever in the movement of time, and places that stand still in the perfect endlessness of the ecosphere.
Moments and places that never remain alike from the moment two people’s hearts, two people’s souls - like the hearts and souls...
Computational Metrics for Soccer Analysis
Connecting the dots
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book provides an account of the use of computational tactical metrics in improving sports analysis, in particular the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) data in soccer. As well as offering a practical perspective on collective behavioural analysis, it introduces the computational metrics...
Ultimate Performance Analysis Tool (uPATO)
Implementation of Network Measures Based on Adjacency Matrices for Team Sports
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
This book introduces the ultimate performance analysis tool (uPATO) as a new software to compute social network metrics in the scope of team sports analysis. The reader will identify the algorithms to test the general properties of the team, the co-dependencies and the centrality levels of players,...
Aloha Betrayed
Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the U.S. Senate. This event was unknown to...
Clientes Por Todos os Lados
Sempre há alguém para servir
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Clientes por todos os lados amplia o conceito de “serviço ao cliente” à medida que considera todas as pessoas, com as quais nos relacionamos, como clientes, alguém importante que devemos servir com amor e dedicação. O autor, no livro Clientes por todos...
by Alessandra Soletti, Aline Cristina Moreira, Ana Farias Ferrari
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 19, 2019
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 19, 2019
A antologia "Contatos Imediatos" é uma coletânea de contos organizada por Janaina Storfe. O livro tem como temática encontros, avistamentos e abduções extraterrestres, e os contos foram selecionados através de um concurso literário. O objetivo da obra é dar mais espaço para escritores...
Globalization and America
Race, Human Rights, and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
As globalization expands, more than goods and information are traded between the countries of the world. Hattery, Embrick, and Smith present a collection of essays that explore the ways in which issues of human rights and social inequality are shared globally. The editors focus on the United States'...
Imaniman
Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...