Vel: 76 books

Book cover of Subtitling African American English into French
by Pierre-Alexis Mével
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017

In Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, African American character Mookie throws a rubbish bin through the window of the pizzeria he works for, which is owned by an Italian American family. Translators often find themselves in a position of moral ambiguity similar to that of Mookie: at the nexus between...
Book cover of Missing in Machu Picchu
by Cecilia Velástegui
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013

High in the Andes Mountains on the legendary Inca Trail, four thirty-something professional women embark on an Ivy League hike to help them confront their online dating dependency--only to find themselves victims to a predator's ruse, and soon in a fight for their very lives. The women are eager to...
Book cover of Olinguito Speaks Up
by Cecilia Velástegui
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013

Olinguito is a shy and furry animal that sucks his thumb all day long and hides in the treetops of the Ecuadorian cloud forest. No one in the whole world knows that he exists. Olinguito is too shy to let the other creatures know that he has been listening and watching them, and enjoying the tales...
Book cover of La chica más valiente del mundo
by Lizzie Velásquez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 17, 2017

Por el hecho de haber nacido con una enfermedad genética rara, Lizzie Velasquez siempre ha sido diferente. Cuando tenía 17 años, encontró un vídeo que se había hecho viral y que se titulaba «La chica más fea del mundo». Ella era la protagonista, pero este hecho no la hundió. Lizzie se dio...
Book cover of Infrared Imaging

Infrared Imaging

A casebook in clinical medicine

by Allen John, Katarzyna Jobs, Rafal Dulski
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

Medical thermography or infrared thermal imaging is a rapid and non-invasive procedure for mapping skin-temperature distribution of the human body. The natural infrared emission from the skin is captured by the imaging camera, and is displayed as a digital image where abnormal physiological activity...
Book cover of Teatro completo
by Elena Garro, Guillermo Schmidhuber de la Mora, Jesús Garro Velázquez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 13, 2016

Los diálogos ágiles y anticonvencionales, el peculiar universo interior de sus personajes, la soledad y la melancolía que colman su universo literario, aunado a su sentido del humor muchas veces macabro y cínico, hacen de la obra de Elena Garro una de las más importantes del siglo XX en México.
Book cover of La Romance de la rose
by Jacques Offenbach, Jules Prével, Étienne Tréfeu
Language: French
Release Date: May 31, 2016

Scène PREMIÈRE JEAN-LOUIS, seul. Il brosse des vêtements près du pavillon, à droite de l’acteur. Elle est là… (Au public.) Oui, elle est là celle que je baignons depuis huit jours, et moi, je suis t’ici, chargé de nettoyer...
Book cover of Der Manoppello-Code

Der Manoppello-Code

Edition 2011

by Markus van den Hövel
Language: German
Release Date: October 13, 2011

Das geheimnisvolle Muschelseidentuch von Manoppello ist seit dem Papstbesuch im Jahre 2006 in den Blickpunkt der Weltöffentlichkeit gerückt. Handelt es sich um das authentische Jesus-„Foto“, um die "Veronika" (vera ikon), das wahre Antlitz Christi? Zahlreiche zerstörungsfreie Untersuchungen des...
Book cover of Turismos e imaginarios
by Eloy Méndez, Mario Velázquez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 31, 2018

Los lugares turísticos descansan en la búsqueda por la reconstrucción para darles un sentido general a las vidas fragmentarias. A lo largo del libro se examina la forma en que se construye e institucionaliza el sentido de los lugares. Por tanto, cuando a algunos de ellos se les otorgan nombramientos...
Book cover of Una navidad de muerte
by Julia D. Velázquez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2013

Bienvenidos a una Navidad de muerte, un conjunto de relatos en los que lo sobrenatural se mezcla con lo cotidiano, y donde la vida y la muerte están separadas por una línea apenas imperceptible. Hemos querido hacer un homenaje a estas entrañables fiestas preparando un libro especial, y para ello...
Book cover of Studium - Charles Journet: la città di Dio e la città degli uomini
by Giorgio La Pira, Daniele Bardelli, Claudia Villa
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 10, 2017

Scienza, filosofia, teologia: una partizione e una correlazione da migliorare, e intanto un organico profilo della ragione umana, della sua apertura alla scoperta e al mistero, nonché al dubbio e alla certezza. Pensare è avere il coraggio di accompagnarsi alla fiducia nell’intrascendibile. Verrà...
Book cover of James L. Heskett - De la logistique au management des services
by Olivier Mével, Thierry Morvan, Odile Chanut
Language: French
Release Date: January 16, 2017

James L. Heskett a toute sa place dans un ouvrage sur les grands auteurs en logistique et Supply Chain Management (SCM) en raison notamment de ses travaux fondateurs dans cette discipline. Pourtant, James Heskett aurait pu tout autant être présenté dans un ouvrage sur les grands auteurs en marketing...
Book cover of El Derecho en Colombia
by Olga Lucía Alfonso Velásquez, Carlos Guillermo Castro Cuenca, Roger Pita Pico
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2015

Compendio del ordenamiento jurídico colombiano, con referencias a la Constitución, a la estructura del Estado, al funcionamiento de la administración de justicia, la nacionalidad y la condición de extranjeros, finalizando con la inversión extranjera y exportaciones.
Book cover of Lalo Loves to Help
by Cecilia Velástegui
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014

Lalo, a yellow-naped Amazonian parrot speaks many languages and loves to sing opera. He lives a happy life, and is always ready to help everyone and everything living in the Ecuadorian rainforest.On the day of an opera, Lalo is summoned downriver to translate the words of an elderly lady. Could this...
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