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  • THE EU AND CHINA
    THOMAS MEYER, JOSÉ LUÍS DE SALES MARQUES
    This edited book is devoted to an analysis of how the multiple modernities approach might help strengthen the strategic autonomy of the European Union and foster cooperative EU–China relations at a time when some observers believe that a new global cold war may be on the horizon. An international, interdisciplinary team of eminent scholars analyzes both the forces causing dange...

    $999.00

  • CARNATION REVOLUTION
    JOSÉ AUGUSTO MATOS / ZELIA OLIVEIRA
    In March 1974, a climate of conspiracy reigned in Portugal. Premier Marcello Caetano, insisted on the continuation of the Portuguese presence in Africa and the wars being waged against the liberation movements in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea. Costa Gomes and Spínola, Portugal’s two most senior generals, did not share this view. Spínola, with Costa Gomes's permission, had publi...

    $229.99

  • THE GREEN ODYSSEY
    PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER
    The Green Odyssey is an adventure story, involving an astronaut named Alan Green stranded on a primitive planet, where he is claimed as a gigolo by a duchess and is married to a slave woman. Upon hearing of two other stranded astronauts, he escapes from the duchess, and sets sail to find them. However, because of the peculiar geography of the planet, there is a vast expansive p...

    $39.70

  • THEY TWINKLED LIKE JEWELS AND FOUR MORE STORIES
    PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER
    This is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five stories by Philip José Farmer: "They Twinkled Like Jewels", "Rastignac The Devil", "Heel", "Daughter", and "How Deep The Grooves". ...

    $39.70

  • RETALHOS DE UM MUNDO INCOERENTE
    JOSE CARLOS BERMEJO
    Esses são os relatos de um Mundo INcoerente, mas também divertido. Muito humor de todas as cores SINOPSE DE LOS RELATOS: DIVINO ABURRIMIENTO Deus, em sua eternidade, se aburre. Um pequeno e inocente querubín fez surgir uma idéia genial para contentar, entreter e alegrar seu senhor. O que aconteceu com Angelito? O DETETIVE E A MULHER Um detetive em decadência recebe o encargo de...

    $34.00

  • OPTICAL METHODS FOR MANAGING THE DIABETIC FOOT
    GENNADI SAIKO / ROBERT L. BARTLETT / JOSE L. RAMIREZ-GARCIALUNA
    This book discusses optical technologies for Diabetic Foot management. It combines the current medical literature review with an overview of the technology and physics behind it. Thus, it is a single-source introduction to the topic. It can also be used as a reference source and practical guide for the use of technology. The particular focus is on low-cost technologies, includi...

    $1,339.00

  • GAMIFICATION AND DESIGN THINKING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    CARMEN BUENO MUÑOZ / NÚRIA HERNÁNDEZ NANCLARES / LUIS R. MURILLO ZAMORANO / JOSÉ ÁNGEL LÓPEZ SÁNCHEZ
    This book analyzes the use of gamification and design thinking in higher education, examining how both techniques can be combined and used together to promote motivation, engagement, and participation among students. Using two in-depth examples, the authors show that the introduction of a gamified design in a design thinking activity can be a powerful tool to enhance the experi...

    $539.00

  • RITUAL AND SYSTEMS THINKING
    JOSÉ-RODRIGO CÓRDOBA-PACHÓN
    To many individuals and organisations, situations generated by the world coronavirus pandemic have posed challenges and opportunities. We need to rethink how we interact with each other and with our natural environments. This book offers a way forward by proposing the use of rituals insight: semi-encoded patterns of thinking or actions to help us rebuild a sense of community, w...

    $1,099.00

  • SANCTUARY LOST: PORTUGAL'S AIR WAR FOR GUINEA 1961-1974
    MATTHEW M HURLEY / JOSÉ MATOS
    From 1963 to 1974, Portugal and its nationalist enemies fought an increasingly intense war for the independence of "Portuguese" Guinea, then a colony but now the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. For most of the conflict Portugal enjoyed virtually unchallenged air supremacy, and increasingly based its military strategy and political pacification program on this singular advantage. The...

    $229.99

  • CARNATION REVOLUTION
    JOSÉ AUGUSTO MATOS / ZELIA OLIVEIRA
    On 25 April 1974, a movement of young captains brought down, with practically no resistance, the dictatorial regime that had been in power for over 40 years in Portugal. In the early hours of that day, a military movement unleashed a series of operations that, in less than 24 hours, defeated the forces loyal to the regime, neutralizing any possibility of reaction. Few forces re...

    $229.99

  • SCHOOL FOOD POLITICS IN MEXICO
    JOSÉ TENORIO
    Intertwining policy analysis and ethnography, José Tenorio examines how, and why now, the promotion of healthy lifestyles has been positioned as an ideal ‘solution’ to obesity and how this shapes the preparation, sale and consumption of food in schools in Mexico. This book situates obesity as a structural problem enabled by market-driven policy change, problematizing the focus ...

    $1,099.00

  • PARTICIPATORY WORLDS
    JOSÉ BLÁZQUEZ
    This book is an in-depth analysis of participatory worlds, practices beyond the mainstream models of content production and IP management that allow audience members to contribute canonically to the expansion of storyworlds, blurring the line between the traditional roles of consumers and producers. Shifting discussions of participatory culture and cross-media production and co...

    $1,099.00

  • THE BLACK CODEX
    JOSE HERNANDEZ
    The Black Codex of José Hernández (Medieval historical fiction novel set in the 11th century A.D.) Adventure, intrigue, action and excitement in a medieval story. The Black Codex The Black Codex is a story of passion, intrigue, and power in a time no longer remembered. It is revealed through the investigations of Raquel, a young engineer who is shocked by a detail in a Romanesq...

    $68.00

  • CONCRETE MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY
    KAMBIZ JANAMIAN / JOSÉ AGUIAR
    The design and implementation of high-quality concrete demands an underlying knowledge of concrete fundamentals as well as its constituent materials, and in various formulations. Starting with the basics, Concrete Materials and Technology: A Practical Guide examines the production and chemistry of cement, as well as the different types and their applications. Quality control pr...

    $2,800.00

  • GLOBAL IDENTITARIANISM
    PEDRO ZÚQUETE, JOSÉ
    Global Identitarianism is about the global spread of the new far-right ideology and social movement Identitarianism. Founded in France in 2003, Identitarianism has inspired a range of groups such as Generation Identity in Europe and the alt-right in America. It has been spread by a far-right constellation that includes white nationalist direct action groups, think tanks, ‘alter...

    $999.00

  • FUTURE HEALTH SCENARIOS
    JOSÉ SOUSA, MARIA
    Digital technologies is a major emerging area to invest and research in new models of health management. Future health scenarios are constituted by technologies in health and clinical decision-making systems. This book provides a unique multidisciplinary approach for exploring the potential contribution of AI and digital technologies in enabling global healthcare systems to res...

    $1,339.00

  • BOLIVIA'S BORDER SYSTEM
    JOSÉ BLANES JIMÉNEZ
    This volume demonstrates how Bolivia is part of a regional border system and intends to contribute to public policies, related to violence and distortions stemming from global illegal markets, specifically for vulnerable populations. The book offers a multinational investigation on the changing and unknown image of the relationship systems that surround countries and, in partic...

    $1,099.00

  • DAUGHTER
    PHILIIP JOSE FARMER
    Keep quiet, all you virgins and Mothers, while I communicate. Listen, listen, all you who are hooked into this broadcast. Listen, and I will tell you how I left my Mother, how my two sisters and I grew our shells, how I dealt with the olfway, and why I have become the Mother with the most prestige, the strongest shell, the most powerful broadcaster and beamer, and the pulser of...

    $9.00

  • AUGHEY AND FRYE’S COMPARATIVE VETERINARY HISTOLOGY WITH CLINICAL CORRELATES
    FRANCISCO JAVIER SALGUERO BODES / FRANCISCO JOSE PALLARES MARTINEZ
    Organised by body system, the new edition of this highly illustrated textbook covers the normal histological appearance of tissues in a wide range of animals, both domestic and exotic species, with relevant clinical correlates emphasising the need to appreciate the normal in order to recognise the abnormal. In this update by two experienced veterinary pathologists and histology...

    $1,439.00

  • ETHNOBOTANY
    JOSÉ L. MARTINEZ
    Ethnobotany: Ethnopharmacology to Bioactive Compounds comprises of carefully selected studies focusing on the importance of ethnobotanical data as an effective approach towards the discovery of novel ethnopharmacological properties and bioactive compounds that characterize herbal products, pharmaceutical drugs and medicinal plants. This book incorporates therapeutic, nutritiona...

    $1,339.00

  • BANK-INDUSTRY VERSUS STOCK MARKET-INDUSTRY RELATIONSHIPS
    GARCÍA-RUIZ, JOSÉ L.
    This book focuses on a variety of themes concerning the relationship between financial systems in a broader sense and firms’ growth in historical perspective in some European countries. Financial systems are nowadays largely acknowledged to be a crucial element in determining economic growth. In modern economies, they play a key role by mobilizing savings, pricing risks and all...

    $1,339.00

  • CORPORATE FINANCIALIZATION
    MARCELO JOSÉ DO CARMO / MÁRIO SACOMANO NETO / JULIO CESAR DONADONE
    The economic process of financialization is defined by many as the development of the dependence and subordination of the productive sector to the financial sector. Leading to an emphasis on maximizing shareholder value above all else, the financialization of the economy and production has an enormous impact on the everyday life of ordinary people including the erosion of emplo...

    $1,099.00

  • CHILD-FRIENDLY PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER AND SEXUAL DIVERSITY
    ANTONIO LANGARITA, JOSE
    This book discusses LGBTI+ childhood from a critical, interdisciplinary perspective with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of the complex relationship between sexuality, gender and childhood. Placing adultcentrism at the centre of the analytical inquiry, the international range of contributors consider experiences and subjectivities of children, their families a...

    $1,099.00

  • DANCING WITH LONELINESS
    JOSÉ MARÍA R. OLAIZOLA SJ
    Loneliness and connection are not enemies, rather two facets of everyone’s life. We just need to get to know them. That’s especially true of loneliness, so that, far from being oppressive or a threat, it can become an opportunity or a learning point. Through loneliness we can learn to bond with ourselves and with others. Far from consuming our self-esteem or wearing us out, alo...

    $114.99

  • MONEY, DEBT AND POLITICS
    JOSÉ LUÍS CARDOSO
    This book presents an innovative history of the first Portuguese public bank, by exploring the relationship between banking activities and the political context. It provides an overview of the origins of the banking system in Portugal, and also in Brazil, and explores new archive materials related to the first years of activity of the Bank of Lisbon and to the public debates on...

    $1,099.00

  • MATHEMATICA BEYOND MATHEMATICS
    JOSÉ GUILLERMO SÁNCHEZ LEÓN
    Although many books have been written about Mathematica, very few of them cover the new functionality added to the most recent versions of the program. This thoroughly revised second edition of Mathematica Beyond Mathematics: The Wolfram Language in the Real World introduces the new features using real-world examples based on the experience of the author as a consultant and Wol...

    $1,939.00

  • HEALING MULTICULTURAL AMERICA
    HENRY T. TRUEBA / CIRENIO RODRIGUEZ / YALI ZOU / JOSÉ CINTRÓN
    Healing Multicultural America (1993) looks at a group of Mexican immigrants who managed to understand and use the US democratic system to gain access to the ‘American Dream’. The book aims to assist its readers to understand the significance of the politics of education for ethnic minorities. The authors point up the gravity of the problems experienced by minority groups worldw...

    $859.00

  • NANOPHYTOMEDICINE
    PARIMELAZHAGAN THANGARAJ / LUCINDO JOSE QUINTANS JUNIOR / N. PONPANDIAN
    Nanophytomedicine is a branch of medicine that involves the application of nanomedicine-based systems to phytotherapy and phytopharmacology and the use of phytonanoparticles for biomedical applications. Nanophytomedicine covers recent advances in experimental and theoretical studies on various properties of nanoparticles derived from plant sources. This book assesses the recent...

    $1,339.00

  • TRUST, DIGITAL BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY
    JOANNA PALISZKIEWICZ, JOSE LUIS GUERRERO CUSUMANO, AND JERZY GOŁUCHOWSKI
    Trust, Digital Business and Technology: Issues and Challenges presents and discusses the main issues and challenges related to digital trust and information technologies. The subject of trust is relevant to both practitioners and researchers. It is widely recognized and confirmed that trust, especially mutual trust, when it is built at the right level, reduces the risk of inter...

    $1,099.00

  • GENRE NETWORKS
    CARMEN PÉREZ-LLANTADA / MARÍA-JOSÉ LUZÓN
    This innovative book employs genre as a fruitful lens for exploring the complexity of science communication online and the new genre assemblages formed at the interface of multiple genres in digital environments. Pérez-Llantada and Luzón argue for a conceptualization of Science 2.0 that views digital genres in conjunction with other genres, accounting for the ways in which dive...

    $1,099.00