Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: romero

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  • SPANISH HORROR FILM AND TELEVISION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    VICENTE RODRÍGUEZ ORTEGA / RUBÉN ROMERO SANTOS
    This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics. It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films and TV series as well as novel approaches to key works within the history of Spanish cinema. While addressing the specificities of the Spanish landscape, this volume also situates th...

    $539.00

  • TERRORISM
    JUAN ROMERO
    This book adopts an innovative historical approach to Terrorism, focusing on the weaknesses of terrorist states and organizations as reflected in the ideologies, methodologies and propaganda of Russian populist, National Socialist and Islamic Terrorism. Drawing upon multilingual primary sources, the book challenges the oft repeated claim that the Nazi regime and Islamic State p...

    $1,099.00

  • GAME BALANCE
    IAN SCHREIBER / BRENDA ROMERO
    Within the field of game design, game balance can best be described as a black art. It is the process by which game designers make a game simultaneously fair for players while providing them just the right amount of difficulty to be both exciting and challenging without making the game entirely predictable. This involves a combination of mathematics, psychology, and occasionall...

    $1,399.00

  • REAL ESTATE IN CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO AND THE CARIBBEAN
    CLAUDIA MURRAY / CAMILLA WEEN / YADIRA TORRES-ROMERO / YAZMIN RAMIREZ
    This book examines real estate markets and urban development in Central America, Mexico and The Caribbean (CAMEC). It considers both residential and commercial real estate with a focus on industrial and hospitality sectors, infrastructure and logistics. The CAMEC region is besieged by complexity. Prone to natural disasters, and with the Mexico/US border constituting the largest...

    $1,239.00

  • METALLICA
    SOLEDAD ROMERO MARIÑO
    Behind-the-scenes stories and sophisticated artwork will give lifelong buffs and new fans alike a rare glimpse into the world of one of the most iconic rock bands ever, Metallica! From the day that Lars Ulrich stepped off the tennis court and into the record store, to his epic meeting with James Hetfield and their claim on pure Heavy Metal, Metallica has reigned supreme with th...

    $121.00

  • SUBTITLING THROUGH SPEECH RECOGNITION
    PABLO ROMERO-FRESCO
    Based on sound research and first-hand experience in the field, Subtitling through Speech Recognition: Respeaking is the first book to present a comprehensive overview of the production of subtitles through speech recognition in Europe. Topics covered include the origins of subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing, the different methods used to provide live subtitles and the...

    $1,659.00

  • QUEEN
    SOLEDAD ROMERO MARIÑO
    Behind-the-scenes stories and sophisticated artwork will give lifelong buffs and new fans alike a rare glimpse into the world of one of the most iconic and famous rock bands ever, Queen! From Freddie Mercury's childhood in Zanzibar and the early days of the band in London, to epic concerts and worldwide stardom, prepare to experience a theatrical event—the story of Queen. Reade...

    $121.00

  • TOURISM AND DEGROWTH
    MACIÀ BLÁZQUEZSALOM / ASUNCIÓN BLANCO ROMERO / IVAN MURRAY
    Tourism and Degrowth develops a conceptual framework and research agenda for exploring the relationship between tourism and degrowth. Rapid and uneven expansion of tourism as a response to the 2008 economic crisis has proceeded in parallel with the rise of social discontent concerning so-called "overtourism." Meanwhile, despite decades of concerted global effort to achieve sust...

    $1,099.00

  • ACCESSIBLE FILMMAKING
    PABLO ROMERO-FRESCO
    Translation, accessibility and the viewing experience of foreign, deaf and blind audiences has long been a neglected area of research within film studies. The same applies to the film industry, where current distribution strategies and exhibition platforms severely underestimate the audience that exists for foreign and accessible cinema. Translated and accessible versions are u...

    $979.00

  • GENDER AND SHORT FICTION
    JORGE SACIDO-ROMERO
    In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue turning to the short story, a genre that has not yet attained the degree of literary prestige and social recognition the novel has had in the modern period. In this timely volume, the ed...

    $1,099.00

  • THE FRONTIER OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY
    ALAN S. MILWARD / FRANCES M. B. LYNCH / FEDERICO ROMERO / RUGGERO RANIERI / VIBEKE SØRENSEN
    Many theoretical explanations had been offered for the rise of the European Community, but none had used historical analysis to draw out the deeper significance of the events that surrounded Maastricht. However, in this book, first published in 1993, the authors explored the process of European integration, and its future, drawing on extensive empirical research into the nation...

    $1,039.00

  • THE TRAUMA GRAPHIC NOVEL
    ANDRÉS ROMERO-JÓDAR
    The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narratives and testimonies of suffering in literature and the arts. Graphic novels, free at last from long decades of stern censorship, helped explore these topics by developing a new subgenre: the trauma graphic novel. This book seeks to analyze this trend through ...

    $1,199.00

  • THE AGILE LONDON SYSTEM
    ALFONSO ROMERO HOLMES / OSCAR DE PRADO
    It is not difficult to understand why The London System is such a popular chess opening with club players all over the world. Against virtually every Black defence after 1.d4 it offers White an easy-to-learn and reliable set of lines with interesting choices between strategic or more aggressive approaches, while avoiding tons of opening theory. Lately an increasing number of Gr...

    $309.00

  • MAID IN THE USA
    MARY ROMERO
    This is a classic work in the fields of Women's Studies and Sociology. On its 10th Anniversary, it is still a vital and moving study of the lives of immigrant domestic workers, and is constantly cited in the research. Romero's new introduction will offer a fresh look at the material, including more recent events, proving that the issues discussed in the book are still very rele...

    $1,559.00

  • THE FOUNDATIONS OF CIVIL WAR
    FRANCISCO J. ROMERO SALVADO
    This book analyzes the decay of Liberal politics in Spain as the regional version of the general crisis that engulfed most of Europe between 1916 and 1923. Romero enriches the important wider debate about this watershed period of European history when, in the face of unprecedented mass social protest and political mobilization, incumbent governing elites struggled to find a val...

    $1,239.00

  • THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF BRONZE AGE IBERIA
    GONZALO JIMENEZ / SANDRA SUBÍAS / MARGARITA ROMERO
    After more than a century of research, an enormous body of scientific literature in the field of El Argar studies has been generated, comprising some 700 bibliographic items. No fully-updated synthesis of the literature is available at the moment; recent works deal only with specific characteristics of Argaric societies or some of the regions where their influence spread. The A...

    $1,099.00

  • HANDBOOK OF CRITICAL ISSUES IN GOAL PROGRAMMING
    C. ROMERO
    Goal Programming (GP) is perhaps the oldest and most widely used approach within the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) paradigm. GP combines the logic of optimisation in mathematical programming with the decision maker's desire to satisfy several goals. The primary purpose of this book is to identify the critical issues in GP and to demonstrate different procedures capab...

    $1,223.00

  • CHALLENGING FRONTERAS
    MARY ROMERO
    Challenging Fronteras reflects an important new wave of research that moves beyond sweeping generalizations that treat Latinos as a monolithic cultural group. This anthology focuses on the diversity of Latino experiences by providing historical specificity and cutting-edge research that employs the conceptual and analytical tools of social science. Contributors, selected from l...

    $1,599.00

  • INTERNATIONAL SUMMITRY AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
    MOURLON-DRUOL, EMMANUEL / ROMERO, FEDERICO
    This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. Summit meetings of heads of government have become 'banal' in today's world. Yet they are a relatively recent practice that took off only in the mid-1970s. The aim of the book is to explore the origin...

    $1,279.00

  • UNITED STATES AND VENEZUELA
    CARLOS A. ROMERO / JANET KELLY
    Oil makes up one-third of Venezuela's entire GDP, and the United States is far and away Venezuela's largest trading partner. Relations between Venezuela and the United States, traditionally close for most of the last two centuries, began to fray in the last decade as the end of the Cold War altered the international environment. The United States and Venezuela attempts to p...

    $1,179.00

  • SPAIN 1914-1918
    FRANCISCO J. ROMERO SALVADO / FRANCISCO JOSE ROMERO SALVADO
    This work analyses the Spanish experience of the First World War in terms of the general crisis in Europe at this time. In Spain, as elsewhere, the impact of four years of devastating conflict resulted in ideological militancy, economic dislocation and social struggle. The author examines the slow decay of the ruling Liberal Monarchy during the war years, and the failure of the...

    $1,179.00

  • THE MAID'S DAUGHTER
    MARY ROMERO
    A “detailed, intimate” account of a Mexican American girl growing up in the luxurious Los Angeles home where her mother is a live-in maid (Publishers Weekly).   Born in Los Angeles, Olivia was taken to Mexico to live with her extended family until age three. Then she returned to L.A. to be with her mother, a live-in maid to a wealthy family. Mother and daughter sleep in the mai...

    $382.00

  • HANDBOOK OF EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING
    CRISTOBAL ROMERO
    Handbook of Educational Data Mining (EDM) provides a thorough overview of the current state of knowledge in this area. The first part of the book includes nine surveys and tutorials on the principal data mining techniques that have been applied in education. The second part presents a set of 25 case studies that give a rich overview of the problems ...

    $1,299.00

  • HOTEL CONVENTION SALES, SERVICES, AND OPERATIONS
    PAT GOLDEN-ROMERO
    This text provides a comprehensive look at the fast growing meetings and convention market segment. A useful “how- to” guide, it takes students through all aspects of selling and servicing a convention at a hotel or other group meeting facility. In addition, it profiles the customer for meetings and conventions, the planners in charge of site selection, and facilities they comm...

    $1,659.00

  • ZOOLÓGICO HUMANO
    SILVA ROMERO, RICARDO
    Simón Hernández, un escritor bogotano con más ínfulas que obra, ha muerto. Y en su viaje por el inframundo se encuentra con siete personajes de todas las épocas y paisajes: una monja del siglo XVII, un enterrador portugués que presencia la destrucción de Lisboa de 1755, una joven impostora colaboradora de Dumas, un soldado alemán de la Primera Guerra Mundial, un astronauta tras...
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    $299.00

  • LITTLE WORDS 2
    DIAZ VASS DIANA ROSEMARIE, GONZALEZ ROMERO MARIA DE LOURDES, GONZALEZ GARCIA SANDRA MARIA
    Little Words 1, 2 y 3 es una serie que integra diferentes habilidades, puede usarse en forma independiente o como complemento de un programa de inglés para los niños en edad preescolar. Está diseñada para que los niños realicen las actividades en casa con el apoyo de un adulto y practique la aprendido en la escuela. La serie presenta vocabulario relacionado con el ambiente esco...
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    $279.00

  • VIVIR BAJO EL CIELO: POBREZA Y MASCULINIDAD EN LAS FRONTERAS
    ROMERO PLANA VIRGINIA
    Sebastián, Santiago, Julián y Alejandro son los protagonistas de este libro, donde se muestran los obstáculos y las bondades de una vida tildada por la pobreza a través de historias contadas en primera persona. La obra que se presenta es un texto de divulgación, cuyo objetivo es compartir los relatos de vida de cuatro hombres en situación de pobreza extrema, con el fin de inte...
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    $140.00

  • RITOS DE PRIMAVERA
    ROMERO LORENZO, CARMEN
    Luna líquida, luna vigía, luna de primaveras, lleva mi mensaje tu señora, la que dormirá en los claros y en los ríos. Le ruego que me guíe en mi periplo y que me acepte entre las suyas». Delia es hija de un héroe de guerra y de una mujer que traicionó a su pueblo por amor. Ha crecido entre secretos y medias verdes sobre la historia de su familia. Tras la muerte de su madre, con...
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    $420.00

  • EL SOL Y EL VACÍO
    ROMERO LA CRUZ, GABRIELA
    Dos mujeres se embarcan en una búsqueda inolvidable que las llevará a un mundo de dioses oscuros y magia antigua en un soberbio debut de literatura fantástica que bebe de la historia y las leyendas de la Sudamérica colonial. El periplo de dos mujeres jóvenes en busca de un hogar en medio de un exuberante mundo que bebe de la historia y las leyendas de América del Sur. Gabriela ...
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    $399.00

  • GANADERÍA CAPRINA ECOLÓGICA: MANEJO, GESTIÓN Y COMERCIALIZACIÓN
    CARMELO-VÍCTOR GARCÍA ROMERO
    La ganadería ecológica caprina ha tenido un fuerte incremento en el medio rural del siglo XXI referido al último decenio, acaparando en la actualidad más del 9% del total de granjas, predominando las de carne (89,4%) frente a las lecheras (10,6%), con una cabaña alrededor de 51.000 animales (8% del total del censo de rumiantes y porcino), siendo mayoritarios las razas cárnicas,...
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    $650.00


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