Miguel De: 707 books
Die Schlümpfe und das verlorene Dorf Bd. 1: Der verbotene Wald
Der Comic zum Kinofilm
Language: German
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Die Schlümpfe und das verlorene Dorf Bd. 1: Der verbotene Wald – Der Comic zum neuen Kinofilm Jeder kennt sie, ob aus den Comics oder der 80er-Jahre-Fernsehserie: 100 kleine blaue Wichte leben glücklich und zufrieden, im Einklang mit sich und der Natur wohlbehütet in kleinen, aus Pilzen gebauten...
The First Class
Transits of Brazilian Literature Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
What does a professor Brazilian or otherwise think and do on the first day of class, standing before a group of “foreign” students to talk about Brazilian literature? This apparently simple question that gave rise to the essays gathered in this book opens a series of other questions: Who is...
by Swapan K. Bala, Munim Kumar Barai, K. V. Bhanu Murthy
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development in Emerging Economies is an anthology of seven case studies plus two theoretical chapters in a comparative context. It analyzes issues related to the rise of multinational corporations, their immense economic and political influence in a...
Globalization and Agriculture
Redefining Unequal Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and...
Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Human Security
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This anthology of scholarly essays on climate change, sustainable development, and human security presents a comprehensive analysis of severe global warming and its potential to impact all aspects of human life and security. It has been observed that climate change will most drastically impact poor...
by Sara de Miguel
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
It is curious that every time someone asks me what I do for a living, and I answer that I am a palliative care psychologist, they automatically change the subject. Almost no one asks me about my work, almost nobody wants to hear about illness, much less death, when the only thing certain in our life...
Let's Hubble! (Fixed format layout)
A journey into the brand new beadwork stitch
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
In this book, Melanie presents to you her beautiful new beadwork technique – Hubble stitch. Packed with tips, all presented in Melanie’s fun and friendly style, you will feel as if you’re in a creative and dynamic beading workshop.
You will soon be incorporating this wonderfully...
Across Borders
Latin Perspectives in the Americas Reshaping Religion, Theology, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
While work in theology and religious studies by scholars in Latin America and by Latino/a scholars in the United States has made substantial contributions to the current scholarship in the field, there are few projects where scholars from these various contexts are working together. *Across Borders:*Latin...
Trans Studies
The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
From Caitlyn Jenner to Laverne Cox, transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender and embodiment mean. The vibrant discipline...
Combating Desertification and Land Degradation
Spatial Strategies Using Vegetation
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
This book reports an approach developed to research and apply methods of assessing patterns of processes in the landscape, and suitability of different types of vegetation to mitigate soil erosion and sediment flux. Practical guidelines on a spatially strategic approach to management of land degradation...
King Alfonso VIII of Castile
Government, Family, and War
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Continues Fordham's work to bring scholarship on medieval Iberia to an anglophone audience
by Javier Contreras, Miguel Asensio, Gregorio Muñoz-Delgado
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Joint RES and Distribution Network Expansion Planning Under a Demand Response Framework explains the implementation of the algorithms needed for joint expansion planning of distributed generation and distribution network models, discussing how to expand the generation and distribution network by adding...
Robust Modelling and Simulation
Integration of SIMIO with Coloured Petri Nets
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This book presents for the first time a methodology that combines the power of a modelling formalism such as colored petri nets with the flexibility of a discrete event program such as SIMIO. Industrial practitioners have seen the growth of simulation as a methodology for tacking problems in which...
by Luís Filipe Rosário Lucas, Eduardo Antônio Barros da Silva, Sérgio Manuel Maciel de Faria
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This book discusses efficient prediction techniques for the current state-of-the-art High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, focusing on the compression of a wide range of video signals, such as 3D video, Light Fields and natural images. The authors begin with a review of the state-of-the-art...