Marta: 630 books
Psychological Selection and Optimal Experience Across Cultures
Social Empowerment through Personal Growth
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
What does Western science know about the relationship between individual well-being and cultural trends? What can learn from other cultural traditions? What do the recent advancements in positive psychology teach us on this issue, particularly the eudaimonic framework, which emphasizes the connections...
New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
'Hearts Resolved and Hands Prepared'
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor...
Ecolinguistics
Communication Processes at the Seam of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
This volume proposes a new, post-Newtonian alley in modern language and communication studies. The new linguistics receives here the label ecolinguistics, as the conceptual-terminological field founded on the «ecological» metaphor seems optimal to formulate the thesis of human language being a life...
Molecular Spintronics
From Organic Semiconductors to Self-Assembled Monolayers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This thesis targets molecular or organic spintronics and more particularly the spin polarization tailoring opportunities that arise from the ferromagnetic metal/molecule hybridization at interfaces: the new concept of spinterface. Molecular or organic spintronics is an emerging research field at the...
Querétaro
Historia breve
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Se presenta la historia de Querétaro desde sus primeros pobladores: los pames y los otomíes, estudiando sus costumbres y organizaciones, y el cambio radical de estas al llegar las avanzadas colonizadoras, militares y religiosas del siglo XVI y el espíritu de empresa de españoles, criollos y mestizos...
by Marta A. Lomeli
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2004
Cuentos from the House on West Connecticut Avenue began as a writing exercise in a teachers seminar. The assignment was to write about your first house with as much detail as possible. As I wrote, I remembered and began to lose track of time.
That is how the first story, The Bottom Drawer,...
Gendered Tropes in War Photography
Mothers, Mourners, Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Photographic stills of women, appearing in both press coverage and relief campaigns, have long been central to the documentation of war and civil conflict. Images of non-Western women, in particular, regularly function as symbols of the misery and hopelessness of the oppressed. Featured on the front...
Philosophy of Cancer
A Dynamic and Relational View
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Since the 1970s, the origin of cancer is being explored from the point of view of the Somatic Mutation Theory (SMT), focusing on genetic mutations and clonal expansion of somatic cells. As cancer research expanded in several directions, the dominant focus on cells remained steady, but the classes...
by Vittoria Barsotti, Paolo G. Carozza, Marta Cartabia
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Italian Constitutional Justice in Global Context is the first book ever published in English to provide an international examination of the Italian Constitutional Court (ItCC), offering a comprehensive analysis of its principal lines of jurisprudence, historical origins, organization, procedures,...
by Tomasz Jadczyk, Ewa Bryndza Tfaily, Sachin Mishra
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2017
This book focuses on nanorobotic agents and stem cells for biomedical applications.It is intended for researchers and clinicians interested in innovative diagnostic and therapeutic strategies based on nanorobots and stem cells.It presents current advances in the field of molecular machines, which could be applied to generate novel therapeutic-diagnostic systems.
The Draft Common Frame of Reference as a "Toolbox" for Domestic Courts
A Solution to the Pure Economic Loss Problem from a Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
This book investigates whether national courts could and should import innovative solutions from abroad in the adjudication of complex legal disputes. Special attention is paid to the concept of “legally relevant damage” and its importance in overcoming the deadlock created by the category of...
Glycopolymer Code
Synthesis of Glycopolymers and their Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Glycopolymers are important for cell signalling, recognition pathways, and their role in the immune system. They are gaining attention for new applications in tissue engineering and drug delivery. Glycopolymer Code discusses the preparation, characterization and applications of glycopolymers providing...
by Marta Krepska
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1,7, Hertie School of Governance, language: English, abstract: Partnership has become a central principle of EU policies and is nowadays treated as a vital part of EU structural funds....
by Marta Fernández Prieto, Pablo Búa Burgos, Jaime Cabeza Pereiro
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Los sistemas de previsión social giran en nuestro ordenamiento en torno a dos ejes o pilares. Un eje hasta ahora central, la Seguridad Social, que constituye un sistema de previsión social obligatorio básico y de carácter público, necesario para garantizar el Estado de bienestar ante determinadas...