Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alberto

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  • FOUR PHILOSOPHERS AND THE BOMB
    ALBERTO CASTELLI / GIUNIA GATTA / MICAELA LATINI / FRANCESCO RASCHI
    In this book, Alberto Castelli, Giunia Gatta, Micaela Latini, and Francesco Raschi examine how four prominent intellectuals of the 20th century (Bertrand Russell, Karl Jaspers, Raymond Aron, and Günther Anders) understood atomic warfare. With a chapter devoted to the philosophical ideas of each thinker and how they understood and interpreted war, the authors analyze the histori...

    $680.00

  • 30ª ED. O GÊNESIS. O OBSERVADOR NA SUPERFÍCIE DA TERRA
    ALBERTO CANEN
    Gênesis, os sete dias da Criação... De onde vem o texto que compõe a primeira parte da Bíblia? Seu texto é apenas um poema introdutório... ou é uma narrativa? O que está por trás de suas palavras? Alberto Canen encontrou uma maneira alternativa de responder a essas e outras perguntas no Gênesis. Ele trilhou um caminho que ninguém havia percorrido antes e convida o leitor a desc...

    $123.00

  • FOOTBALL AND VIOLENT EXTREMISM
    ALBERTO TESTA / MASSIMILIANO MAIDANO / HADIDŽA BOROVIĆ
    This book examines the ways that nationalist leaders and extremist groups have used football to advance their often-violent ideological narratives and to recruit and radicalise young people. Drawing on applied ethnographic research with the Ultra fan groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the book explores the behavioural dynamics of the BiH Ultras both on, and outside of, the...

    $1,300.00

  • SEX CHROMOSOMES AND SEX DETERMINATION IN VERTEBRATES
    ALBERTO J. SOLARI
    The cloning of the SRY gene and the attainment of XX mice transgenic for the Sry gene opened a new era in research on sex determination. This book surveys current knowledge of sex chromosomes and sex determination in all vertebrate classes, relying on the restriction of genetic recombination in sex chromosomes as the unifying concept of this subject. The book's interdisciplinar...

    $9,600.00

  • MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHODS
    BRYAN F. J. MANLY / JORGE A. NAVARRO ALBERTO / KEN GEROW
    Multivariate Statistical Methods: A Primer offers an introduction to multivariate statistical methods in a rigorous yet intuitive way, without an excess of mathematical details. In this fifth edition, all chapters have been revised and updated, with clearer and more direct language than in previous editions, and with more up-to-date examples, exercises, and references, in areas...

    $1,560.00

  • THE LABYRINTH OF LOVE
    ALBERTO CASTELLI
    This book studies the various narrative shades of love in twentieth-century Latin American fiction. It examines writings by Isabel Allende, Roberto Arlt, García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa. The author provides a close textual reading of each novel and discusses how humans make sense of their lives through love. He shifts the focus of these writings from political violence a...

    $1,180.00

  • PRIVATE LAW AND COMPETITION REGULATION
    ALBERTO BROWN
    This book explores the distinction between private and public aspects in competition law and focuses on how the concept of competition is incorporated into the legal framework. Distinguishing between antitrust regulations and competition-related legal rules in private law, such as unfair competition and contract laws, the book also differentiates between the utilitarian and deo...

    $1,300.00

  • INTENTIONALITY AS CONSTITUTION
    ALBERTO VOLTOLINI
    This book develops a novel theory of intentionality. It argues that intentionality is an internal essential relation of constitution between an intentional state and an object, or between such a state and a possible state of affairs as subsisting. The author’s main claim is that intentionality is a fundamentally modal property, hence a non (scientifically) natural property in t...

    $1,300.00

  • SURREALISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS IN GRACE PAILTHORPE'S LIFE AND WORK
    LEE ANN MONTANARO / ALBERTO STEFANA
    This book outlines the life and intellectual thought of the English surrealist artist and psychoanalyst, Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883–1971). It gathers her published and unpublished writings, providing an in-depth study of the importance of Surrealism in her work and legacy. Pailthorpe’s theoretical understanding of the psyche informed her approach to art, setting her work apart f...

    $640.00

  • 8ED DER BEOBACHTER DER GENESIS
    ALBERTO CANEN
    Die Genesis ist seit Tausenden von Jahren ein Rätsel. Niemand war in der Lage zu verstehen, wovon der Text sprach, ob er nur ein einleitendes Gedicht zur Heiligen Schrift war oder ob er tatsächlich Informationen über die Schöpfung enthielt. Der Text der Genesis spaltet bis heute die Gemüter von Kreationisten und Wissenschaftlern. Mit diesem Buch hoffe ich, diese Trennung zwisch...

    $51.00

  • TRANSLANGUAGING AND MULTIMODALITY AS FLOW, AGENCY, AND A NEW SENSE OF ADVOCACY IN AND FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH
    MORA, RAÚL ALBERTO
    This volume provides six distinct frameworks for integrating translanguaging and multimodality as pedagogical possibilities in today’s classrooms and beyond. It brings the two constructs together in investigating the language and literacy experiences of multilingual learners across a range of sociocultural and educational contexts. The book features contributions from scholars ...

    $1,200.00

  • PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES ON SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN'S WORK
    ALBERTO ANGELINI
    In this insightful book, Alberto Angelini shows the influence of psychoanalysis and psychology on Sergei M. Eisenstein, one of the most celebrated Russian directors, and his cinematic output. Angelini situates Eisenstein’s life and oeuvre in the history and culture of twentieth-century Russia, drawing clear parallels between his networking with key figures such as Lev Vygotsky ...

    $1,100.00

  • DIDACTIC AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION
    NOA TALAVÁN / JENNIFER LERTOLA / ALBERTO FERNÁNDEZ-COSTALES
    This book offers an updated and comprehensive view of the possibilities of didactic audiovisual translation (didactic AVT or DAT) in language education, by presenting the methodological bases that support its pedagogical use at all levels of linguistic proficiency, as well as in different educational stages and contexts. The volume defines the main didactic AVT modes, accompani...

    $800.00

  • MARION MILNER
    ALBERTO STEFANA / ALESSIO GAMBA
    This focused and thorough book by Alberto Stefana and Alessio Gamba delves into Marion Milner’s contribution to psychoanalytic clinical theory and technique. The authors offer an overview of Milner’s work as a psychoanalyst, writer, and gifted painter. They bring to light how each of her clinical concepts and theorisations have been shaped by predecessors and, in turn, have ins...

    $680.00

  • EU LAW AND NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONS
    ALBERTO NICÒTINA, PATRICIA POPELIER AND PETER BURSENS
    This book provides an in-depth guide to researchers and practitioners who are interested in analysing the evolution of EU law from a national and comparative constitutional law perspective. The volume deals with questions of how EU member states’ constitutional systems, including the subnational tier, interact with the supranational level. It maps the evolution over time of con...

    $1,300.00

  • FOOD RHEOLOGY
    PEDRO E. D. AUGUSTO / MELIZA L. ROJAS / ALBERTO C. MIANO
    Rheology is the study of material flow and deformation, defining different aspects of food processing and product design. Food rheology affects several unit operations during food processing, the behavior during shelf life, the consumer perception during consumption and the interaction of food products with the human body (from chewing and swallowing to digestion). Therefore, i...

    $2,420.00

  • HOW TO CREATE A SUSTAINABLE FOOD INDUSTRY
    MELISSA BARRETT / MASSIMO MARINO / FRANCESCA BRKIC / CARLO ALBERTO PRATESI
    This book presents a practical guide to help businesses navigate the complex topics of sustainability in the food industry. The book takes you on a journey along the food value chain, from farm to fork, exploring key opportunities to increase positive impacts and circularity at each step of the journey. Written by a team of authors with decades of experience in the food industr...

    $1,100.00

  • HEGEL AND THE PRESENT OF ART’S PAST CHARACTER
    ALBERTO L. SIANI
    This book reclaims Hegel’s notion of the “end of art”—or, more precisely, of “art’s past character”—not just as a piece of the history of philosophy but as a living critical and interpretive methodology. It addresses the presence of the past character of art in both Hegel and contemporary philosophy and aesthetics. The book’s innovative contribution lies in unifying the Hegelia...

    $1,220.00

  • DIGITAL HABITUS
    ALBERTO ROMELE
    This book proposes a new theoretical framework for approaching the causes and effects that digital technologies and the imaginaries related to them have on the processes of self-interpretation and subjectivation. It formulates three main theses. First, it argues that today’s digital technologies, which are primarily based on artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and big data ...

    $1,220.00

  • MAFIA, DEVIANT MASONS AND CORRUPTION
    ANNA SERGI / ALBERTO VANNUCCI
    This book is the first to consider the intersection between mafia power and deviant masonic lodges within the political sphere of the contemporary Italian state. At its core, it offers an analysis of the shifting interactions across powerful actors and the ways in which they balance reciprocal obedience, and a unique insight into the political processes where mafia actors and d...

    $1,180.00

  • ADAM SMITH AND MODERNITY
    ALBERTO BURGIO
    This volume features 19 original chapters on Adam Smith’s conception of modernity. The contributions demonstrate the relevance of Smith as the great interpreter of modernity 250 years after the publication of The Wealth of Nations. The chapters in Part 1 focus on structural aspects of Smith’s work. They cover topics such as Smith as the theorist of a spontaneous order, the syst...

    $1,186.00

  • GRACE PAILTHORPE’S WRITINGS ON PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SURREALISM
    ALBERTO STEFANA / LEE ANN MONTANARO
    This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine and surrealist artist to provide an in-depth study of her work and legacy. Pailthorpe’s theoretical understanding of the psyche informed her approach to art, setting her work apart from other Surrealist artists by unifying artistic, ...

    $920.00

  • INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELS OF CULTURAL EVOLUTION
    ALBERTO ACERBI / ALEX MESOUDI / MARCO SMOLLA
    Individual-Based Models of Cultural Evolution shows readers how to create individual-based models of cultural evolution using the programming language R. The field of cultural evolution has emerged in the last few decades as a thriving, interdisciplinary effort to understand cultural change and cultural diversity within an evolutionary framework and using evolutionary tools, co...

    $1,560.00

  • HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN PRISON DESIGN
    ALBERTO URRUTIA-MOLDES
    This book establishes a new framework for prison design to promote the health and well-being of all prison users. Based on international research in Norway, Finland, the USA, and Chile, and drawing on the expertise of key international advisors, this book uniquely reveals the perspectives of both designers and prison authorities concerning well-being in prison architecture. It ...

    $1,260.00

  • SOCIALIST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    ALBERTO GABRIELE / ELIAS JABBOUR
    Over a hundred years after the first socialist revolution broke the global monopoly of capitalism, a new class of socialist-oriented socioeconomic development is coming to the fore. Capitalism is still dominant worldwide, although its hegemony is no longer undisputed, and humankind is now faced with a key existential challenge. This book proposes an alternative path to overcomi...

    $1,260.00

  • SÁNDOR FERENCZI
    ALBERTO FERGUSSON / MIGUEL GUTIÉRREZ-PELÁEZ
    This book aims to present an up-to-date introduction and critical study of one of the most important psychoanalysts of all times, Sándor Ferenczi. The book presents Ferenczi as a person; his discovery of psychoanalysis and his relationship with Freud; the theoretical and clinical novelties he introduced to psychoanalysis; his deep political and social commitment, striving for t...

    $700.00

  • THE BATTLE OF NÖRDLINGEN 1634
    ALBERTO RAÚL ESTEBAN RIBAS
    In 1634, the Thirty Years' War had taken a spectacular turn; the great protagonists of 1630 had died: King Gustav Adolf of Sweden and Generals Tilly and Wallenstein. The Swedish army was disoriented without the presence of its charismatic king. Chancellor Oxenstierna was to preserve his legacy, so the Heilbronn League was formed, with various Protestant states in western and no...

    $421.99

  • INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS IN SMART CITIES
    ALBERTO OCHOA-ZEZZATTI
    This book is a compilation of chapters on scientific work in novel and innovative reference that compiles interdisciplinary perspectives about diverse issues related with Industry 4.0 and smart cities in different ways, i.e., intelligent optimisation, industrial applications in the real world, social applications and technology applications with a different perspective about ex...

    $1,940.00

  • ACCOUNTING ETHICS EDUCATION
    ALBERTO J. COSTA / MARGARIDA M. PINHEIRO
    Accounting education ought to prepare future professionals to enter a principles-based, rules-oriented field of activity wherein technical knowledge of accounting standards (principles, rules and decision procedures) and ethical awareness (the capacity to discern moral issues and resolve ethical dilemmas) are crucial. Accounting education is best performed by the accountant’s a...

    $1,160.00

  • AGRARIAN EXTRACTIVISM IN LATIN AMERICA
    BEN M. MCKAY / ALBERTO ALONSO-FRADEJAS / ARTURO EZQUERRO-CAÑETE
    Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models. The concept goes beyond the more apparent features of monocultures and raw material exports to examine the inherent logic and und...

    $1,100.00