Os: 143 books
by Alfonso Baños, Antonio Barreiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Reset Control Systems addresses the analysis for reset control treating both its basic form, and some useful variations of the reset action and reset condition. The issues regarding reset control – concepts and motivation; analysis tools; and the application of design methodologies to real-world...
Translation as Conquest
Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing...
Earthquake Disasters in Latin America
A Holistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
This book is an attempt to demonstrate the analytical power of the holistic approach for understanding disasters. Six major earthquakes in Latin America are used as an example: the general idea is to place disasters in a broad social and regional context. Understanding disasters is a way of...
by Manuel Jofré Berríos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Silencio. Nace una semilla es ensayo, testimonio y crónica. Se refiere al movimiento estudiantil chileno del 2011, donde emerge el nuevo sujeto político colectivo que Chile requería, que volvería obsoleto al régimen político y económico heredado de la dictadura militar.Desde el punto de vista...
Constitutional Courts as Mediators
Armed Conflict, Civil-Military Relations, and the Rule of Law in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book offers a new theoretical framework for understanding the mediator role played by constitutional courts in democratic conflict solving. The book proposes an informational theory of constitutional review in which constitutional courts obtain, process, and transmit information to parties in...
Deconstructing Psychosis
Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Deconstructing Psychosis: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V provides an all-important summary of the latest research about the diagnosis and pathophysiology of psychosis. This volume gives the reader an inside look at how psychotic phenomena are represented in the current diagnostic system and...
by JoAnn Fagot Aviel, Lincoln Bizzozero, Elsa Cardozo da Silva
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
This comprehensive text analyzes the foreign policies of eighteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. First assessing the state of the discipline, the introduction develops a common framework that compares the relevant explanatory weight of foreign policy determinants at the individual,...
Last Call for Liberty
How America's Genius for Freedom Has Become Its Greatest Threat
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The hour is critical. The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War.
Weak Constitutionalism
Democratic Legitimacy and the Question of Constituent Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
It has been frequently argued that democracy is protected and realized under constitutions that protect certain rights and establish the conditions for a functioning representative democracy. However, some democrats still find something profoundly unsettling about contemporary constitutional regimes....
Master Dentistry E-Book
Volume 1: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Radiology, Pathology and Oral Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Master Dentistry is designed as a revision guide for dental students and presents the key elements of the curriculum in an easy-to-digest format. Based on sound educational principles, each volume in the series is fully illustrated throughout and is supported by extensive self-assessment questions...
Mathematical Models of Electrical Network Systems
Theory and Applications - An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This book is for all those who are looking for a non-conventional mathematical model of electrical network systems. It presents a modern approach using linear algebra and derives various commonly unknown quantities and interrelations of network analysis. It also explores some applications of algebraic...
Making Godly Decisions
How to Know and Do the Will of God
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
The scripture says in Jeremiah 17:9 that “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” This passage begs, “What protects you and I from the deceit of our own heart?”Every day men and women are faced with life-changing decisions that impact their future. What...
Cómo el #15M cambió la información
Una guía de periodismo móvil
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Cómo el #15M cambió la información recoge la cobertura del movimiento ciudadano del 15 de mayo de 2011 en la red social Twitter. A través de esa narración, la autora va desgranando sus reflexiones y consejos sobre el periodismo móvil ejercido por medio de las redes sociales, que se descubren...
Inequalities and Extremal Problems in Probability and Statistics
Selected Topics
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Inequalities and Extremal Problems in Probability and Statistics: Selected Topics presents various kinds of useful inequalities that are applicable in many areas of mathematics, the sciences, and engineering. The book enables the reader to grasp the importance of inequalities and how they relate to...