Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: pereira

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  • UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY BRAZIL
    JEFF GARMANY / ANTHONY PEREIRA
    Brazil has famously been called a country of contradictions. A place where narratives of "racial democracy" exist in the face of stark inequalities, where politics can swing dramatically between the right and left, and where the natural environment is celebrated as a point of national pride, but at the same time is exploited at alarming rates. To people on the outside looking i...

    $1,160.00

  • THE MARKET SPACE OF PORTUGUESE CITIES
    DANIELA NUNES PEREIRA
    This book explores the transformation of market spaces in Portuguese cities during the intensification of trade driven by increasing profits from overseas exchanges, and how architectural structures and urban planning were directly impacted by these changes to accommodate the new economic dynamics. The terminology and architectural elements of commercial spaces are analyzed to ...

    $1,240.00

  • SLOW PSYCHIATRY
    JOÃO G PEREIRA
    Slow Psychiatry analyses the way in which the industrial model of mental health is currently organised and suggests a counterculture to allow for deeper psychiatry. João G. Pereira is a pioneer in the implementation of Slow Psychiatry and open dialogue, and he uses his clinical experience to highlight how these principles can be applied in the organisation of mental health serv...

    $640.00

  • NATIONAL APPROACHES TO HYDROCARBON DEVELOPMENT
    EDUARDO G. PEREIRA
    This book analyses the legal obstacles associated with the advancement of unitization processes and procedures at a national, domestic level. It uses case studies of identified jurisdictions with relevant States practice and unitization experience in terms of the domestic legal framework and practices. For experience in unitization, the book will focus on the following countrie...

    $1,240.00

  • INTERNATIONAL APPROACHES TO HYDROCARBON DEVELOPMENT IN DISPUTED ZONES
    EDUARDO G. PEREIRA
    This book analyses the legal obstacles associated with the advancement of unitization processes and procedures at an international level. Using case studies in international (cross-border) unitization and joint development agreements, the book uses regional examples from the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. It also touches upon case studies related to ongoing dispu...

    $1,240.00

  • JUST A GP
    DENIS PEREIRA GRAY
    ‘With General Practice currently facing existential challenges, it is truly inspirational to be reminded what determined individuals, with a clear set of intensely human values, can achieve… This is the story of an extraordinary career during a profoundly important phase in the history of British medicine – someone who was justifiably proud to be “just a GP”.’ Sir David Haslam ...

    $1,060.00

  • SMALL STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND BREXIT
    FERREIRA-PEREIRA, LAURA C.
    This book seeks to offer a better understanding of the strategic responses to Brexit from ten small European Union (EU) member states: Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal and Slovakia. Inspired in an intersection of different streams of research, it examines the extent and the ways Brexit has impacted these countries, analysing...

    $1,240.00

  • SYNTHESIS OF PYRROL-BASED BIOCONJUGATES
    MARIETTE M. PEREIRA / SARA M.A. PINTO / LUCAS D. DIAS
    In recent years, the use of bioconjugation as strategy for development of more specific and directed drugs has been widely researched. Tetrapyrrolic macrocycles are one of the most common families of organic compounds applied in medicinal chemistry, specifically for diagnosis and therapy. For optimization of their efficiency as therapeutic molecules, it is relevant to promote t...

    $1,420.00

  • HANDS-ON DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY
    ETHAN COWAN / MICHAEL SHOEMATE / MAYANA PEREIRA
    Many organizations today analyze and share large, sensitive datasets about individuals. Whether these datasets cover healthcare details, financial records, or exam scores, it's become more difficult for organizations to protect an individual's information through deidentification, anonymization, and other traditional statistical disclosure limitation techniques. This practical ...

    $801.00

  • ENERGY LAW AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
    EDUARDO G PEREIRA
    The UN Sustainable Development Goals are an ambitious agenda for environmental sustainability, economic development, and social transformation. The SDGs include targets for governments, in partnership with private industry and communities, to improve access to affordable and reliable energy, reduce inequality, protect natural resources, and invest in transparent legal instituti...

    $1,240.00

  • ELEKTRONISCHE FREUNDSCHAFT
    ADRIANO PEREIRA LIMA
    Freundschaften online durch soziale Netzwerke der Sprachen, ich spreche darüber, wie ich meinen ersten virtuellen Freund kennengelernt habe. Wie ich meinen ersten Freund im wirklichen Leben kennengelernt habe. Mein Standpunkt im realen und virtuellen Leben. ...

    $39.00

  • RIGHT-WING POPULISM IN LATIN AMERICA AND BEYOND
    PEREIRA, ANTHONY W.
    With contributions from 22 scholars and empirical material from 29 countries within and beyond Latin America, this book identifies subtypes of populism to further understand right-wing populist movements, parties, leaders, and governments. It seeks to examine whether the term populism continues to have any validity and what relationship(s) it has to democracy. Part 1 is an expl...

    $1,160.00

  • PEACE OR DEMOCRACY?
    IZABELA PEREIRA WATTS
    Contrary to the common belief that peace and democracy go hand in hand after a civil war, Pereira Watts argues they are, in fact, at a crossroads. Offering an innovative framework based on Philosophical, Actors, and Tactical considerations, Pereira Watts identifies 14 dynamic dilemmas in democratic peacebuilding, with respective trade-offs. She focuses on explaining the contrad...

    $1,060.00

  • REGULATORY SUPPORT FOR OFF-GRID RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY
    NGOZI CHINWA OLE, EDUARDO G. PEREIRA, PETER KAYODE ONIEMOLA, AND GUSTAVO KAERCHER LOUREIRO
    This book investigates the role of law in enabling and addressing the barriers to the development of off-grid renewable electricity (OGRE). The limited development of OGRE is ascribed to a host of social, economic, and legal barriers, including the problem of initial capital costs, existing subsidies for conventional electricity, and lack of technological and institutional capa...

    $1,160.00

  • THE CONSEQUENCES OF BRAZILIAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
    VALESCA LIMA, RAFAELA N. PANNAIN AND GABRIELA PEREIRA MARTINS
    This book sheds light on the outcomes of social movements in Brazil. It provides an extensive analysis of how and when collective mobilization and protest activities brought about social and political change. Charting the dynamics and characteristics of Brazil’s social movements from the abolition of slavery in 1888 to the present day, the contributors to this edited volume dem...

    $1,160.00

  • FASCISM IN BRAZIL
    LEANDRO PEREIRA GONÇALVES / ODILON CALDEIRA NETO
    Fascism in Brazil analyzes the long and varied history of the Brazilian extreme right. The book examines integralism, the main historical Brazilian fascist ideology represented by Brazilian integralist Action, the largest fascist movement outside Europe. It analyzes the Integralist tradition from its founding in 1932 to the present day. It examines how Brazilian integralist Act...

    $1,120.00

  • PHYTOTECHNOLOGY
    WANDERLEY PEREIRA OLIVEIRA
    Herbal products have traditionally been used in several industrial sectors and have gained a notable reputation in recent years due to the current trend in society, which seeks natural, healthier, and more sustainable products. The processing of these products, however, is multiplex but important for the production of a high-quality standardised product. Phytotechnology: A Sust...

    $1,360.00

  • PROMOTING HEALTHY AND ACTIVE AGEING
    TELMO PEREIRA
    This book demonstrates the efficacy of a multidisciplinary intervention strategy for promoting active and healthy ageing, with the assistance of dedicated technological resources. Taking an applied approach, this book promotes active and healthy ageing through the implementation of an intervention model based on the comprehensive geriatric approach (AGA). The proposed AGA model...

    $1,160.00

  • THE EXCEPTIONAL CASE OF POST-BAILOUT PORTUGAL
    ELISABETTA DE GIORGI AND JOSÉ SANTANA-PEREIRA
    This book explores the argument that Portugal has been an exception to the trend of political upheaval and electoral instability across Southern Europe following the financial crisis and the bailout period. It does so by mapping and exploring in-depth three key dimensions: the governmental arena, the party system and citizens’ political attitudes. The five chapters in this edit...

    $1,200.00

  • HOPE TEACHER RATING SCALE
    MARCIA GENTRY / NIELSEN PEREIRA / SCOTT J. PETERS / JASON S. MCINTOSH / C. MATTHEW FUGATE
    The HOPE Teacher Rating Scale is designed to help guide teachers in identifying gifted students for programming. It is unique in several ways. First, it is short, with only 11 items that measure academic and social/affective components of giftedness, making it easy to use. Second, it is invariant when used to identify students from low-income and culturally diverse families. Th...

    $1,660.00

  • CLIMATE CHANGE AND BIODIVERSITY GOVERNANCE IN THE AMAZON
    JOANA CASTRO PEREIRA / EDUARDO VIOLA
    This book provides an analysis of the recent governance of the Amazon in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia with a particular focus on deforestation processes, demonstrating that current policies and political and socioeconomic dynamics in the four countries are risking the forest’s resilience. The authors examine and compare Amazonian politics and policies under different admi...

    $580.00

  • BEETHOVEN’S DEDICATIONS
    ARTUR PEREIRA
    The dedication of a piece of music is a feature generally overlooked, but it can reveal a great deal about the work, the composer, the society and the music world in which the composer lived. This book explores the musical, biographical and sociological aspects of the practice of dedicating new compositions in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and makes a significant cont...

    $1,240.00

  • LINGUISTIC CLAIMS AND POLITICAL CONFLICTS
    ANDREA C. BIANCULLI / JACINT JORDANA / MÓNICA FERRÍN PEREIRA
    This book explores and assesses the multiple levels at which linguistic policies can be challenged, devised and enacted, i.e. sub-national, national and supranational, and the variety of state and non-state actors involved. Moving beyond descriptive and normative approaches, it provides an empirical comparative assessment of the policy responses and strategies deployed to deal ...

    $540.00

  • STATISTICAL LEARNING USING NEURAL NETWORKS
    BASILIO DE BRAGANCA PEREIRA / CALYAMPUDI RADHAKRISHNA RAO / FABIO BORGES DE OLIVEIRA
    Statistical Learning using Neural Networks: A Guide for Statisticians and Data Scientists with Python introduces artificial neural networks starting from the basics and increasingly demanding more effort from readers, who can learn the theory and its applications in statistical methods with concrete Python code examples. It presents a wide range of widely used statistical metho...

    $1,480.00

  • LA SEXY KELY
    ADRIANO PEREIRA LIMA
    Alvaro Gutierres es un abogado, casado, ya no puede soportar ser controlado por su esposa Valeria, hasta que en el trabajo al entrevistar a una candidata para pasanta, queda hechizado por la sensualidad y belleza de Kely Monteiro. ...

    $39.00

  • MOTHERHOOD, CHILDLESSNESS AND THE CARE OF CHILDREN IN ATLANTIC SLAVE SOCIETIES
    CAMILLIA COWLING / ‎MARIA HELENA PEREIRA TOLEDO MACHADO / ‎DIANA PATON
    This book provides critical perspectives on the multiple forms of ‘mothering’ that took place in Atlantic slave societies. Facing repeated child death, mothering was a site of trauma and grief for many, even as slaveholders romanticized enslaved women’s work in caring for slaveholders' children. Examining a wide range of societies including medieval Spain, Brazil, and New Engla...

    $1,200.00

  • SPILLWAY DESIGN - STEP BY STEP
    GERALDO MAGELA PEREIRA
    Most dam accidents with hydroelectric plants are due to under-dimensioning of the maximum floods of spillway design, causing extravasation and dam breaks (this occurs in 23% of the accidents). This work highlights the relationship between spillway design and potential dam failure and other important aspects of these structures and presents the methodology of design based on the...

    $1,120.00

  • LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN BLIND CHILDREN
    MIGUEL PEREZ PEREIRA / GINA CONTI-RAMSDEN
    The Classic Edition of this foundational text includes a new preface from Miguel Pérez-Pereira, examining how the field has developed since first publication. The volume provides an in-depth account of blind children's developing communicative abilities, with particular emphasis on social cognition and language acquisition from infancy to early school age. It provides insights ...

    $1,240.00

  • PROBLEM-BASED OBSTETRIC ULTRASOUND
    AMAR BHIDE, ASMA KHALIL, ARIS T PAPAGEORGHIOU, SUSANA PEREIRA, SHANTHI SAIRAM AND BASKY THILAGANATHA
    This book contains a series of clinical cases that address and illustrate difficult problems in obstetric ultrasound. The approach is strongly didactic and will aid trainees in maternal-fetal medicine and obstetrics to appreciate potential pitfalls and recognize rare presentations. Each case sets out one page of text, then one of treatment algorithms, and then presents sample u...

    $1,080.00

  • BRAZILIAN YOUTH
    CLÁUDIA PEREIRA
    The collection brings together texts of Brazilian researchers who are dedicated to themes related to studies of youth cultures: social interactions, subcultures, identities and belonging, pop culture, social movements, migration, consumption and materialities, generational exchanges, media representations and digital media, among others. The objective is to promote a broad dial...

    $1,260.00


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