Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: medina

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  • CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF QUEER AGING IN SPAIN
    MEDINA, RAQUEL
    This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity in Spanish culture with wider implications for queer aging studies research. The volume builds on theoretical foundations establis...

    $1,240.00

  • SOLVENT ENGINEERING
    YAOCIHUATL MEDINA-GONZALEZ
    This book aims to present the concept of Solvent Engineering within a broad scope, ranging from mixtures of solvents to achieve the desired solvation properties, to stimuli-responsive solvents. It covers diverse aspects such as thermodynamics and transfer phenomena associated with solvent engineering, as well as applications found in recent literature, spanning materials across...

    $1,480.00

  • GENERATIVE AI IN WRITING EDUCATION
    DYLAN MEDINA
    This book provides a theoretical framework to allow educators, researchers, and policymakers to better understand computer‑generated writing and the policy and pedagogical implications of generative AI. Generative AI, such as ChatGPT and Gemini, has substantially disrupted educational spaces, forcing educators, policymakers, and other stakeholders to reconsider writing and how ...

    $640.00

  • ECOCENTRISM FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
    DAVID ISRAEL CONTRERAS-MEDINA
    Through theoretical-practical studies, this book explains the foundational concepts of ecocentrism, knowledge management, and sustainability and advances the understanding of how ecocentric paradigms can be leveraged for the process of knowledge management and knowledge creation, showcasing various applications of this practice and illustrating advantages and disadvantages of a...

    $1,240.00

  • CRIME MAPPING AND SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS USING R
    JUAN MEDINA ARIZA / REKA SOLYMOSI
    Crime mapping and analysis sit at the intersection of geocomputation, data visualisation and cartography, spatial statistics, environmental criminology, and crime analysis. This book brings together relevant knowledge from these fields into a practical, hands-on guide, providing a useful introduction and reference material for topics in crime mapping, the geography of crime, en...

    $2,120.00

  • LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
    MONTGOMERY VAN WART / PAUL SUINO / PAMELA S. MEDINA
    Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Fourth Edition provides a compact but complete analysis of leadership for students and practitioners who work in public and nonprofit organizations. Offering a comprehensive review of leadership theories in the field, from the classic to the cutting-edge, and how they relate specifically to the public sector and nonprofit contex...

    $1,580.00

  • INEQUALITY AND NUTRITIONAL TRANSITION IN ECONOMIC HISTORY
    FRANCISCO J. MEDINA-ALBALADEJO
    Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards driven by socioeconomic, gender, generational and geographical reasons. Nutrition directly impacts mortality, life expectancy, height and illness and thus becomes a good indicator of living standards and their evolution over time. However, one issue that rema...

    $1,160.00

  • AMPLIFY STUDENT VOICES
    ANNMARIE BAINES / DIANA MEDINA / CAITLIN HEALY
    Learn how to cultivate student voices and facilitate equitable participation so that young people are prepared to speak up and lead when the moment calls for it.In a world where public speaking often determines whose needs are addressed and whose values prevail, how can we create brave classroom spaces where young people can effectively express their thoughts and advocate for t...

    $585.00

  • PLAYFUL METHODS
    CARMEN LILIANA MEDINA / MIA PERRY / KAREN WOHLWEND
    This book introduces three new subjects to the context of literacy research—play, the imaginary, and improvisation—and proposes how to incorporate these important concepts into the field as research methods in order to engage people, materials, spaces, and imaginaries that are inherent in every research encounter. Grounded in cutting-edge theory, chapters are structured around ...

    $1,060.00

  • KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
    CONTRERAS-MEDINA, DAVID ISRAEL
    Based on the importance of human beings as creators and managers of knowledge towards the achievement of sustainability in the current digital age, this book is an effort to present many studies taking individuals as centers of knowledge and starting points for environmental, social, and economic development. From various theoretical and empirical studies developed by researche...

    $1,200.00

  • ADAPTIVE DISASTER RISK ASSESSMENT
    NEILER MEDINA PENA
    Climate change, combined with the rapid and often unplanned urbanisation trends, is associated with a rising trend in the frequency and severity of disasters triggered by natural hazards. In order to face the impacts of such threats, it is necessary to have an appropriate Disaster Risk Assessment (DRA). Traditional DRA approaches for disaster risk reduction (DRR) have focused m...

    $2,800.00

  • TOURISM RESEARCH IN IBERO-AMERICA
    ARTAL-TUR, ANDRÉS, CORREIA, ANTÓNIA AND JIMÉNEZ-MEDINA, MARÍA PILAR
    This comprehensive volume includes new contributions in research by Ibero-American specialists in tourism analysis. The chapters deal with outstanding areas of interest at the level of tourism research, both from the professional and academic perspectives in the Ibero-American region. The content spreads along a number of varied topics like the urban destination planning from a...

    $1,200.00

  • READING IN-BETWEEN
    NÉSTOR MEDINA
    This volume presents a tapestry of narratives in which the lived experiences of eight racially minoritized theologians and biblical scholars are woven together to present an interdisciplinary exploration of the direct impact that ethnocultural traditions have in shaping the way people read and interpret the biblical text. Moving beyond traditional approaches to biblical hermene...

    $444.00

  • ATTACK OF THE TEENAGE BRAIN
    JOHN MEDINA
    Marvel at the neuroscientific reasons why smart teens make dumb decisions!Behold the mind-controlling power of executive function!Thrill to a vision of a better school for the teenage brain!Whether you're a parent interacting with one adolescent or a teacher interacting with many, you know teens can be hard to parent and even harder to teach. The eye-rolling, the moodiness, the...

    $621.00

  • MANAGING PROJECT COMPETENCE
    ROLF MEDINA
    For companies to be successful, the management of an organization needs to understand how competence evolves and how it can be utilized and linked to the organization’s goals. When executive managers understand this, there is a higher probability that the people working in the organization will be more satisfied with their working situation. Satisfaction increases because compe...

    $1,200.00

  • ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
    EDUARDO VICTOR LOPEZ / ALICIA MEDINA
    This book shows executive, project, program, and portfolio managers how ethical behavior can ensure that an organization has proper governance. Improper governance and unethical behavior have led to such well-known financial disasters as Enron and Madoff Investments. The book arms managers with two important tools: Small Sins Allowed (SSA) and Line of Impunity (LoI), which toge...

    $1,200.00

  • INFLATION TARGETING AND POLICY RULES
    OSCAR R. MEDINA / ELIAS A. LAGUNA
    Inflation Targeting and Policy Rules is an essential book for understanding how Mexico's monetary policy has been evolving and functioning, from the beginning of the century to recent, highlighting the doctrine of policy rules and focusing on inflation targeting, both fundamental elements necessary to comprehend the operation of the main central ba ...

    $2,900.00

  • MODERNISM AND THE AVANT-GARDE BODY IN SPAIN AND ITALY
    NICOLAS FERNANDEZ-MEDINA
    This interdisciplinary volume interrogates bodily thinking in avant-garde texts from Spain and Italy during the early twentieth century and their relevance to larger modernist preoccupations with corporeality. It examines the innovative ways Spanish and Italian avant-gardists explored the body as a locus for various aesthetic and sociopolitical considerations and practices. In ...

    $1,380.00

  • GHOSTS AND LEGENDS OF YONKERS
    JASON MEDINA
    Former NYPD officer and current ghost hunter Jason Medina travels up the Hudson River to a hotbed of paranormal activity.   The quiet New York suburb of Yonkers hides a history of hauntings. Now converted into apartments, old Public School 13 is the site of strange apparitions that may be ghosts of former students and teachers who died in a tragic fire. The Boyce Thompson Insti...

    $251.00

  • REBELS AT WORK
    LOIS KELLY / CARMEN MEDINA / DEBRA CAMERON
    Ready to stand up and create positive change at work, but reluctant to speak up? True leadership doesn’t always come from a position of power or authority. By teaching you skills and providing practical advice, this handbook shows you how to engage your coworkers and bosses and bring your ideas forward so that they are heard, considered, and acted upon. Authors Carmen Medina an...

    $267.00

  • LITERACY, PLAY AND GLOBALIZATION
    CARMEN L. MEDINA / KAREN E. WOHLWEND
    This book takes on current perspectives on children’s relationships to literacy, media, childhood, markets and transtionalism in converging global worlds. It introduces the idea of multi-sited imaginaries to explain how children’s media and literacy performances shape and are shaped by shared visions of communities that we collectively imagine, including play, media, gender, fa...

    $700.00

  • CENTERS AND PERIPHERIES IN KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
    LEANDRO RODRIGUEZ MEDINA
    This book examines the circulation of knowledge within globalization, focusing on the differences between centers and peripheries of knowledge production in the social sciences. It explores not only how knowledge is appropriated in peripheral fields but also how foreign ideas shape those fields and the trajectories of scholars, and uses actor-network theory to explain circulati...

    $1,320.00

  • CUBOP CITY BLUES
    PABLO MEDINA
    The celebrated Cuban American poet and novelist delivers "[a] haunting love letter to New York . . . with tales of love, death, and exile" ( Publishers Weekly).   Pablo Medina's Cubop City Blues fuses raw, passionate language and elegant lyricism to breathe life into a musically-disguised New York City shaped by jazz masters, refugees, and storytellers.   Our guide into Cubop C...

    $179.00

  • THE CIGAR ROLLER
    PABLO MEDINA
    The celebrated Cuban American poet and novelist offers "a fine portrait of a hedonist and a cad" set in "the Cuban, expatriate community in Florida" ( The New York Times).   Pablo Medina's The Cigar Roller recounts the life of Cuban master cigar roller Amadeo Terra. A proud and capricious man, tobacco has been the center of his life, the source of his passion. Though he committ...

    $229.00

  • NEUROLOGIC CONSEQUENCES OF MALNUTRITION
    MARCO T. MEDINA
    Nearly 800 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. In many developing countries, inadequate amounts of food and inadequate diversity of food continue to be priority health problems. Malnutrition in all its forms increases the risk of disease and early death. Neurologic Consequences of Malnutrition, edited by Dr. Marco T. Medina, seeks to underline the magnitude o...

    $975.00

  • COMPLIANCE HANDBOOK FOR PHARMACEUTICALS, MEDICAL DEVICES, AND BIOLOGICS
    CARMEN MEDINA
    This text lists the necessary steps for meeting compliance requirements during the drug development process. It presents comprehensive approaches for validating analytical methods for pharmaceutical applications. ...

    $1,800.00

  • CASA CACAO
    JORDI ROCA / IGNACIO MEDINA
    El Celler de Can Roca is the restaurant in Girona, Spain opened in 1986 by the Roca brothers: Joan, Josep and Jordi. It holds three Michelin stars and in 2013, 2015, 2018 it was named the best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine. Jordi Roca is currently one of the world’s most advanced chocolatiers, and was proclaimed best pastry chef in the world in the 2014, 50 Bes...

    $459.94

  • DECEMBER ROSES
    HECTOR M. MEDINA
    Divorce, the termination of marriage, currently affects approximately one out of two marriages in the United States. There is no guarantee for those attending church required marital preparation classes or by celebrating a religious ceremony that the union will not conclude in the tragedy of divorce. As the Church lists marriage as a vocation (a call from God), it is quite evid...

    $426.00

  • MEDICINA FORENSE
    TAKAJASHI MEDINA FELIPE EDMUNDO / SUSANO POMPEYO MACARIO
    La medicina legal y forense constituye, en la actualidad, la especialidad médica que tiene por objeto la utilización de los conocimientos médicos, jurídicos, administrativos, éticos y ciencias afines, para la aplicación, desarrollo y perfeccionamiento del Derecho, de la asistencia sanitaria y de la actividad profesional médica. Por lo anterior, Editorial El Manual Moderno prese...
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    $535.00

  • DERECHO HUMANO DE ACCESO AL AGUA GESTION DEL ORO AZUL
    MEDINA ARELLANO MARIA DE JESUS, AZAR LOPEZ BERNARDO ANWAR
    Se examina la concepción del derecho humano de acceso al agua como un derecho universal, para que todo ser humano tenga acceso al vital líquido en cantidad y calidad adecuadas, para satisfacer todas sus necesidades de techo, comida, actividades productivas y de salud. ...
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    $295.00


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