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  • THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION
    ABÍLIO ALMEIDA
    The book is divided into two sections: one focusing on the phenomenon of television and the other on audiences. It argues that television is changing from a singular object, fixed in a particular place, to a social phenomenon distributed across many devices and platforms. It also argues that audiences are increasingly demanding an ‘open relationship’ with television, as their a...

    $640.00

  • THE DEAD UNIVERSE THEORY
    J. ALMEIDA
    The Dead Universe Theory explores a provocative concept: viewing our observable universe as a remnant of a once vibrant cosmos. In this theory, light emerges as an anomaly, born from the nuclear fusion processes within stars and galaxies. This hypothesis challenges conventional perspectives on cosmic origins, proposing that what we perceive as the vast expanse of the universe i...

    $444.00

  • THE DEAD UNIVERSE THEORY
    J. ALMEIDA
    The Dead Universe Theory explores a provocative concept: viewing our observable universe as a remnant of a once vibrant cosmos. In this theory, light emerges as an anomaly, born from the nuclear fusion processes within stars and galaxies. This hypothesis challenges conventional perspectives on cosmic origins, proposing that what we perceive as the vast expanse of the universe i...

    $444.00

  • A CULTURAL HISTORY OF LAUGHTER
    ABÍLIO ALMEIDA
    Is laughter a sin? Or is it man’s best medicine? Is laughter now trivialised, mechanised or even weaponised by contemporary media? This book explores the social history of laughter in the West, from classical antiquity to the present day. Engaging with a range of thought from Plato to Nietzsche, it moves from classical to modern thought, considering the changing emotional clima...

    $540.00

  • ESSENTIAL NUTRITION
    BRUNO ALMEIDA
    The writer has tried to be as accurate and complete as possible in the creation of this report, but he does not guarantee the content described due to the rapid changes on the internet.  Although every attempt has been made to verify all information in this publication, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions, or misinterpretations of this book. Any refere...

    $157.00

  • UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE CONTACT
    EVANGELIA ADAMOU / BARBARA E. BULLOCK / ALMEIDA JACQUELINE TORIBIO
    Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics. Rather than taking a traditional focus on the outcomes of language contact, this book takes the novel approach of considering these outcomes as an endpoint of bilingualism and multilingualism. Covering speech production and comprehension, language diffusion across d...

    $1,040.00

  • INTERNET TELETRAFFIC MODELING AND ESTIMATION
    ALEXANDRE BARBOSA DE LIMA / JOSE ROBERTO DE ALMEIDA AMAZONAS
    Network traffic has fractal properties such as impulsiveness, selfsimilarity, and long-range dependence over several time scales, from milliseconds to minutes. These features have motivated the development of new traffic models and traffic control algorithms. This book presents a new statespace model for Internet traffic, which is based on a finite-dimensional representation of...

    $1,260.00

  • THE BUSINESS PLAN REFERENCE MANUAL FOR IT BUSINESSES
    FERNANDO ALMEIDA / JOSÉ SANTOS
    There is a great worldwide desire to launch new technology-based business. In this sense, and increasingly, entrepreneurship courses have arisen in several universities and many of the courses in the management, administration and engineering areas already offer entrepreneurship curricular units. Throughout those programs, the teams develop key integrated competencies in innova...

    $1,125.00

  • DEATH AND FUNERAL PRACTICES IN PORTUGAL
    RAFAELA FERRAZ FERREIRA / ANA JÚLIA ALMEIDA MIRANDA / FRANCISCO QUEIROZ
    Academic studies on death and cemeteries are relatively recent in Portugal; those that do exist tend to adopt an essentially historical and artistic point of view. Studies on the practicalities of managing the dead and their spaces are even more recent, and they do not yet form a cohesive body of work. Combining both approaches, Death and Funeral Practices in Portugal is the fi...

    $700.00

  • A SOCIOLEGAL ANALYSIS OF FORMAL LAND TENURE SYSTEMS
    BERNARDO RIBEIRO DE ALMEIDA
    This sociolegal study focuses on the political, legal and institutional problems and dilemmas of regulating land tenure. By studying the development of the Timorese formal land tenure system, this book engages in the larger debate about the role of state systems in addressing and aggravating social problems such as insecurity, poverty, inequality, destruction of nature, and cul...

    $1,200.00

  • EMPOWERING TEACHERS THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION
    MELISSA BARNES / DEBORAH MOORE / SYLVIA CHRISTINE ALMEIDA
    Empowering Teachers through Environmental and Sustainability Education draws inspiration from an empirical study exploring early career teachers’ attempts at enacting Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in their everyday teaching practices. It showcases how a confluence of personal, professional and environmental identities supports implementation of ESE. Additiona...

    $1,060.00

  • UNDERSTANDING STUDENT MOBILITY IN EUROPE
    JOANA ALMEIDA
    Understanding Student Mobility in Europe interprets student mobility in European higher education through an active dialogue between disciplines, voices and variables of interest. Providing the conceptual, methodological, pedagogical and empirical foundations of an interdisciplinary approach, this book advances readers’ understanding of the student exchange experience, whilst o...

    $980.00

  • EXPANSIONS OF FEMINIST FAMILY THEORY THROUGH DIVERSITY
    RHEA ALMEIDA
    Expansions of Feminist Family Theory Through Diversity reconstructs feminist family therapy to include issues of race, class, gender, culture, and sexual orientation. The contributors assist you with creating possible solutions to mental health problems in all types of families. This will enable you to find specific working strategies to help solve the problems inherent in fami...

    $960.00

  • GEOSYNTHETIC ENCASED COLUMNS FOR SOFT SOIL IMPROVEMENT
    MÁRCIO ALMEIDA / MARIO RICCIO / IMAN HOSSEINPOUR / DIMITER ALEXIEW
    The geosynthetic encased column (GEC) is a relatively recent method developed for soft soil improvement. The method was firstly introduced as a concept in the 1980s and first practical applications started in the 1990s. GECs have been widely used in some parts of the world for the last three decades. However, there is no book in the literature summarizing the knowledge accumula...

    $1,380.00

  • LEARN FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING WITH ELIXIR
    ULISSES ALMEIDA
    Elixir's straightforward syntax and this guided tour give you a clean, simple path to learn modern functional programming techniques. No previous functional programming experience required! This book walks you through the right concepts at the right pace, as you explore immutable values and explicit data transformation, functions, modules, recursive functions, pattern matching,...

    $494.00

  • LATIN AMERICA AND THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
    PAULA WOJCIKIEWICZ ALMEIDA AND JEAN-MARC SOREL
    This book aims to evaluate the contribution of Latin America to the development of international law at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This contemporary approach to international adjudication includes the historical contribution of the region to the development of international law through the emergence of international jurisdictions, as well as the procedural and ma...

    $1,320.00

  • POLLUTION AND FISH HEALTH IN TROPICAL ECOSYSTEMS
    EDUARDO ALVES DE ALMEIDA
    The tropical zone contains the highest diversity of fish species on the planet. Many of these species are being continuously exposed to pollutants that pose serious hazards to fish health thereby posing serious risks for entire fish populations. This book presents information about the different responses of fish to pollutants from the molecular levels to changes in behavior, w...

    $1,480.00

  • REIMAGINING THE TRANSATLANTIC, 1780-1890
    JOSELYN M. ALMEIDA
    In her thought-provoking study of Britain's relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean during the Romantic and Victorian periods, Joselyn M. Almeida makes a compelling case for extending the critical boundaries of current transatlantic and circumatlantic scholarship. She proposes the pan-Atlantic as a critical model that encompasses Britain's relationship to the non-Angl...

    $1,380.00

  • TERRITORIES OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
    PATRICIA ALMEIDA ASHLEY
    CSR is a fragile concept if conceived only at the organizational level or driven only by leadership will. Many writers deal with aspects of social responsibility, but most deal with it as this kind of organizational and voluntary initiative. Few address the wider policy agenda. The contributors to Territories of Social Responsibility - researchers and practitioners from four co...

    $1,340.00

  • PERSPECTIVES OF NATIONAL ELITES ON EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP
    CONTI, NICOLÒ / COTTA, MAURIZIO / DE ALMEIDA, PEDRO TAVARES
    Over the last two decades, the process of European integration has become interwoven with the theme of citizenship and the debate on the democratic quality of the EU and of its institutions has become more salient. What are the views about Europe which emerge when we interrogate the national elites of the four large South European countries, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and w...

    $1,160.00

  • DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF EMBANKMENTS ON VERY SOFT SOILS
    MÁRCIO DE SOUZA S. ALMEIDA / MARIA ESTHER SOARES MARQUES
    Embankment construction projects on very soft soil often give rise to serious problems. This volume on geotechnics and soft soil engineering therefore treats all phases of the design and construction process exhaustively, from the first investigation step to the monitoring of constructed work. The book presents the development concepts necessary fo ...

    $2,120.00

  • TRANSFORMATIONS OF GENDER AND RACE
    RHEA ALMEIDA
    Transformations of Gender and Race will help you become a better therapist by arming you with new theories and practices that concern inclusiveness of identity, psyche, and culture in the therapy room. This book radically shifts current thinking in systemic theory and practice with individuals, children, couples, and families, giving you a fresh perspective on working with your...

    $1,200.00

  • THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ON POLITICAL PARTIES
    DIMITRI ALMEIDA
    This book traces the positions of national partisan actors towards the development of the European polity in an in-depth comparative analysis covering all member states of the European Union over a period of 60 years. The author examines the approach of the social democratic, radical left, liberal, Christian democratic and radical right party families, eliciting a comprehensive...

    $1,320.00

  • THE METAPHYSICS OF PERFECT BEINGS
    MICHAEL J. ALMEIDA
    The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings addresses the problems an Anselmian perfect being faces in contexts involving unlimited options. Recent advances in the theory of vagueness, the metaphysics of multiverses and hyperspace, the theory of dynamic or sequential choice, the logic of moral and rational dilemmas, and metaethical theory provide the resources to formulate the new challe...

    $1,560.00

  • CENTRAL BANKING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
    ÁLVARO ALMEIDA / MAXWELL J. FRY / CHARLES GOODHART
    This book examines the current state of central banking in 44 developing countries. The authors analyse the banks' achievement in their primary objective of price stability and discuss the reasons behind the general lack of success. The book covers: * government financing * foreign exchange systems * domestic banking systems. Rich in data, the book ...

    $2,540.00

  • FISH PHYSIOLOGY: THE PHYSIOLOGY OF TROPICAL FISHES: THE PHYSIOLOGY OF TROPICAL FISHES
    VAL, ADALBERTO LUIS / FONSECA DE ALMEIDA E VAL, VERA MARIA / RANDALL, DAVID J.
    The Physiology of Tropical Fishes is the 21st volume of the well-known Fish Physiology series and consists of 12 chapters. The purpose of the book is to consolidate and integrate what is known about tropical fishes (marine and freshwater species). The twelve chapters focus on the physiological adaptations acquired during the evolutionary process to cope with warm and shallow hy...

    $1,742.00

  • GPI MEMBRANE ANCHORS
    ALMEIDA, M
    GPI Membrane Anchors ...

    $928.00

  • AQUELLO QUE PERSEGUIMOS
    MANU ALMEIDA
    Todo el mundo tiene deseos de cosas imposibles o, al menos, improbables. El de Víctor es encontrar su lugar en el mundo, recorrer países conociendo ciudades, chicas, y, sobre todo, a sí mismo. El de Álex es besar a su mejor amigo.Víctor y Álex son mejores amigos, siempre han estado juntos y no sabrán cómo enfrentarse a ciertas cosas cuando sus caminos se tengan que separar, por...
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    $298.00

  • LA ADMIRABLE AVENTURA DE MALALA
    ALMEIDA MARÍA INÉS
    ¿Conoces la historia de Malala Yousafzai, la niña pakistaní que, en 2014, se volvió la más joven ganadora de un Premio Nobel por creer que la educación es la herramienta más poderosa para mejorar el mundo? Malala cree que todos los niños independientemente del sexo, de la raza, del origen social o de la creencia religios tienen el derecho indiscutible a aprender. ¡Y no se resig...
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    $268.00

  • KLEIN, BION, AND WINNICOTT
    ALEXANDRE PATRICIO DE ALMEIDA / ALFREDO NAFFAH NETO / FILIPE PEREIRA VIEIRA
    This book fills a gap in psychoanalytic literature by offering a rigorous analysis of the intersections and divergences between the three foundational figures in psychoanalysis: Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, and Donald Winnicott. Klein, Bion, and Winnicott: Theoretical and Clinical Convergences and Divergences invites professionals and academics into a comparative dialogue acros...

    $960.00


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