Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ricardo

332 resultados

  • VAIṢṆAVA CONCEPTS OF GOD
    RICARDO SOUSA SILVESTRE
    This book explores a number of concepts of God in Vaiṣṇavism, which is commonly referred to as one of the great Hindu monotheistic traditions. By addressing the question of what attributes God possesses according to particular Vaiṣṇava textual sources and traditions, the book locates these concepts within a global philosophical framework. The book is divided into two parts. The...

    $1,099.00

  • NATURE SPORTS
    MELO, RICARDO
    This book represents the first international collection that challenges current thinking and research in the emerging field of nature sport. Owing to its inherent connections with fields such as business, leisure, health, tourism, and education, this emerging field has attracted perspectives from a wide range of theoretical viewpoints – much of which are discussed within this c...

    $1,339.00

  • SYSTEMS THEORY AND APPLICATION
    SCOTT JACKSON / RICARDO MORAES
    This book describes the characteristics of he five different disciplines of systems which are Systems Theory, Systems Science, Thinking in Systems, Systems Architecting, and Systems Engineering. The book discusses how they all relate to each other and form a synergistic set of disciplines. Systems Theory and Application: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach presents how the five diffe...

    $539.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
    ALFRED J. LÓPEZ AND RICARDO QUINTANA-VALLEJO
    The Routledge Companion Literature and the Global South offers a comprehensive overview of the field at a key moment in its development—a snapshot of where Global South literary studies stands in its second decade. As the aftermath of a string of global cataclysms since the rise of neoliberal globalization has demonstrated, it is the poor, the disenfranchised, and the marginali...

    $1,179.00

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN COMMERCIAL AVIATION
    RICARDO V. PILON
    This book is a must read for aviation managers and all stakeholders that are interested in improving the business performance of airlines. In this book, the first of its kind on AI in Commercial Aviation, the author outlines how Machine Learning and AI are accelerating and improving the performance of airlines. Moreover, the author shares insights into many new use cases that e...

    $1,239.00

  • DATA DRIVEN STRATEGIES
    WANG JIANHONG / RICARDO A. RAMIREZ-MENDOZA / RUBEN MORALES-MENENDEZ
    A key challenge in science and engineering is to provide a quantitative description of the systems under investigation, leveraging the noisy data collected. Such a description may be a complete mathematical model or a mechanism to return controllers corresponding to new, unseen inputs. Recent advances in the theories are described in detail, along with their applications in eng...

    $1,339.00

  • POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HOUSING IN CHILE
    FRANCISCO VERGARA-PERUCICH / CARLOS AGUIRRE-NUÑEZ / FELIPE ENCINAS / RODRIGO HIDALGO-DATTWYLER / RICARDO
    Through the lens of political economy, this book positions housing as a key factor in understanding social inequality. It does so by drawing on rich empirical evidence from the case of the Chilean housing market. This book provides insights on the articulation between real estate development, housing provision and social inequality based on applied urban economics analyses that...

    $539.00

  • A HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT
    RICARDO BIELSCHOWSKY
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of Brazilian economic thought ranging from colonial times through to the early 21st century. It explores the production of ideas on the Brazilian economy through various forms of publication and contemporary thoughts on economic contexts and development policies, all closely reflecting the evolution of economic histor...

    $1,099.00

  • BIOMETRY
    RICARDO A. RAMIREZ-MENDOZA, JORGE DE J. LOZOYA-SANTOS, RICARDO ZAVALA-YOÉ, LUZ MARÍA ALONSO-VALERDI,
    Biometrics provide quantitative representations of human features, physiological and behavioral. This book is a compilation of biometric technologies developed by various research groups in Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. It provides a summary of biometric systems as a whole, explaining the principles behind physiological and behavioral biometrics and exploring different type...

    $1,339.00

  • NUEVAS TENDENCIAS EN ADMINISTRACIÓN DEL TALENTO HUMANO
    ENRIQUE LOUFFAT / LETTY COSSI / RICARDO ALIAGA
    Esta obra presenta un enfoque acorde con el mundo turbulento actual en el que vivimos, en donde las organizaciones tienen el gran desafío de administrar el talento humano en condiciones de gran incertidumbre, en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19 que pareciera no tener un final definido. Las organizaciones han pasado hoy de la presencialidad a la virtualidad, o a los llamad...

    $441.00

  • MÉTODO DE NEGOCIACIÓN: NEGOCIADORES NO NACEN, SE HACEN
    ALAIN LEMPEREUR, COLSON AURÉLIEN, RICARDO PÉREZ NÜCKEL
    Este libro proporciona la información necesaria sobre cómo negociar tanto en entornos empresariales como políticos. Propone un método que es a la vez una filosofía y un programa de técnicas específicas, que te permitirán hacer lo correcto en el momento adecuado. Diariamente se negocian cosas. Dentro de las familias, en las empresas, en la esfera pública, en entornos internacion...

    $239.33

  • MASSACRES IN THE JUNGLE
    RICARDO FALLA
    Between 1975 and 1982 the Guatemalan military systematically and sadistically punished the campesino population for the activities of guerrilleros in their region. This account by Ricardo Falla, an anthropologist and Jesuit priest who is himself a Guatemalan exile, shows how the victims and their communities were destroyed and provides a detailed record of assassinations and di...

    $1,039.00

  • CHILDREN OF GLOBALIZATION
    RICARDO QUINTANA-VALLEJO
    Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels subvert the horizon of expectations of the originating and archetypal form of the genre, the traditional Bildungsroman, which encompasses the works of Johann Wolfgang von G...

    $1,099.00

  • MULTILINGUAL MEDIATED COMMUNICATION AND COGNITION
    RICARDO MUÑOZ MARTÍN / SANDRA L. HALVERSON
    This collection provides a snapshot of cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of cognitive approaches to multilingual mediated communication. The chapters cover important trends in current work, including: the increasing interaction between translation and interpreting research, the emergence of neuroscientific theories and methods, the role of emotion in translat...

    $1,099.00

  • SYSTEMS APPROACH TO THE DESIGN OF COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT
    SCOTT JACKSON / RICARDO MORAES DOS SANTOS
    While aviation fatalities have thankfully fallen dramatically in recent years, the phenomena of complexity and cognitive bias have been shown to be factors in many accidents. An understanding of these phenomena promises to bring the fatality rate even lower, and a deeper understanding of commercial aircraft in the context of systems engineering will contribute to that trend. Sy...

    $2,100.00

  • A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO METAHEURISTICS USING LABVIEW AND MATLAB®
    PEDRO PONCE-CRUZ / ARTURO MOLINA GUTIÉRREZ / RICARDO A. RAMÍREZ-MENDOZA / EFRAÍN MÉNDEZ FLORES / ALEXAND
    Metaheuristic optimization has become a prime alternative for solving complex optimization problems in several areas. Hence, practitioners and researchers have been paying extensive attention to those metaheuristic algorithms that are mainly based on natural phenomena. However, when those algorithms are implemented, there are not enough books that deal with theoretical and expe...

    $1,499.00

  • THE NATURE AND METHOD OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES
    RICARDO F. CRESPO
    The Nature and Method of Economic Sciences: Evidence, Causality, and Ends argues that economic phenomena can be examined from five analytical levels: a statistical descriptive approach, a causal explanatory approach, a teleological explicative approach, a normative approach and, finally, the level of application. The above viewpoints are undertaken by different but related econ...

    $1,099.00

  • POLYMER OPTICAL FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS
    RICARDO OLIVEIRA / LUCIA MARIA BOTAS BILRO / ROGERIO NUNES NOGUEIRA
    Polymer optical fibers (POFs) have been regarded as a viable alternative to silica fibers in a variety of sensing applications. Fiber optic sensors offer key advantages over other sensing technologies, which include immunity to electromagnetic interference, compact, lightweight, multiplexing capability, and higher sensitivity. This book gives an overview of the polymer optical ...

    $1,199.00

  • ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES FOR THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
    RICARDO C.S. SIU
    Economic Principles for the Hospitality Industry is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of economics in this dynamic and highly competitive sector. Applying economic theory to a range of diverse and global hospitality industry settings, this book gives the theory real-world context. Looking at critical issues around sustainable economic development in the hospitality ind...

    $1,379.00

  • MASTERING THE UCAT, THIRD EDITION
    CHRISTOPHER NORDSTROM / GEORGE RENDEL / RICARDO TAVARES / DR CHRISTOPHER NORDSTROM / DR RICARDO TAVARES
    Drawing on The Medic Portal’s established track record, the third edition of this popular revision aid, retitled Mastering the UCAT to reflect the extension of the former UK-specific exam to prospective medical and dental students in Australia and New Zealand, takes you, step by step, through the proven techniques that have already helped thousands of our students achieve top s...

    $499.00

  • EVOLUTIONARY ELECTRONICS
    RICARDO SALEM ZEBULUM / MARCO AURELIO PACHECO / MARLEY MARIA BE VELLASCO
    From the explosion of interest, research, and applications of evolutionary computation a new field emerges-evolutionary electronics. Focused on applying evolutionary computation concepts and techniques to the domain of electronics, many researchers now see it as holding the greatest potential for overcoming the drawbacks of conventional design techniques. Evolutionary Electroni...

    $4,400.00

  • HEAVY ION REACTIONS
    RICARDO A. BROGLIA
    Combining elastic and inelastic processes with transfer reactions, this two-part volume explores how these events affect heavy ion collisions. Special attention is given to processes involving the transfer of two nucleons, which are specific for probing pairing correlations in nuclei. This novel treatment provides, together with the description of surface vibration and rotation...

    $1,559.00

  • NEGOTIATING THE EURO-MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP
    RICARDO GOMEZ
    This title was first published in 2003. In this study Ricardo Gomez traces the origins of the external Mediterranean policy of the European Union (EU) and examines in detail the negotiations that shaped the policy and its impact. Combining historical analysis with case studies of the Euro-Med partnership initiative, EU policy on Algeria and the EU's involvement in the Middle Ea...

    $859.00

  • XML-BASED CONTENT MANAGEMENT
    RICARDO EITO-BRUN
    XML-based Content Management: Integration, Methodologies and Tools covers the design and deployment of XML-based solutions and how to manage content and metadata, a practice that requires a more methodological approach than those traditionally applied to the design and deployment of document and content management solutions. The extensive use of XML implies the need of adding ...

    $1,050.00

  • THE INTERNET OF THINGS
    RICARDO ARMENTANO, ROBIN SINGH BHADORIA, PARAG CHATTERJEE AND GANESH CHANDRA DEKA
    This book provides a dual perspective on the Internet of Things and ubiquitous computing, along with their applications in healthcare and smart cities. It also covers other interdisciplinary aspects of the Internet of Things like big data, embedded Systems and wireless Sensor Networks. Detailed coverage of the underlying architecture, framework, and state-of the art methodologi...

    $4,400.00

  • ACTIONS AND INVARIANTS OF ALGEBRAIC GROUPS
    WALTER RICARDO FERRER SANTOS / ALVARO RITTATORE
    Actions and Invariants of Algebraic Groups, Second Edition presents a self-contained introduction to geometric invariant theory starting from the basic theory of affine algebraic groups and proceeding towards more sophisticated dimensions." Building on the first edition, this book provides an introduction to the theory by equipping the reader with the tools needed to read advan...

    $4,400.00

  • REMOTE SENSING FOR LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY
    RICARDO LOPEZ / ROBERT FROHN
    This book provides the practical basis for the use of remote sensing to accomplish landscape ecological projects, through the merging of theory and practice, with examples. This is a specialized application and both these topics have evolved rapidly in the past decade. This evolution is not in the previous edition, and indeed this update provides much new information and valuab...

    $1,339.00

  • ECONOMICS AND OTHER DISCIPLINES
    RICARDO F. CRESPO
    During the second half of the twentieth century, economics exported its logic – utility maximization – to the analysis of several human activities or realities: a tendency that has been called “economic imperialism”. This book explores the concept termed by John Davis as “reverse imperialism”, whereby economics has been seen in recent years to have taken in elements from other ...

    $1,099.00

  • ISSUES IN LATINO EDUCATION
    MARIELLA ESPINOZA-HEROLD / RICARDO GONZÁLEZ-CARRIEDO
    Candid and illuminating, this text exposes the educational realities of Latinos (U.S. and foreign-born) in K–12 public schools in the Western United States from the students’ own perspectives. Through the testimonies of students who struggled to graduate from high school, issues that are often oversimplified and commonly misunderstood are brought to life. The students themselve...

    $1,139.00

  • THE STOICS ON DETERMINISM AND COMPATIBILISM
    RICARDO SALLES
    The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism is an important book which reconstructs the arguments deployed by the Stoics in favour of the view that everything is necessary and examines the development of the different arguments given by the Stoics that this is compatible with moral responsibility and desert. The book carefully distinguishes two separate theses in Stoic theory, ...

    $1,239.00