Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: rafael

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  • CHORD TRANSFORMATIONS IN HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL NETWORKS
    RAFAEL CUBARSI
    Chord Transformations in Higher-Dimensional Networks proposes an in-depth formal framework for generalized Tonnetze. It takes an algebraic approach and studies systems of k-chords in n-TET scales derived from a given k-mode (array of step intervals) through mode permutations and chord root translations, by combining key ideas of the neo-Riemannian Tonnetz theories with serial a...

    $4,700.00

  • CAD-BASED OPTICAL DESIGN WITH QUADOA
    RAFAEL G. GONZÁLEZ-ACUÑA
    In CAD-Based Optical Design with Quadoa, we explore how optical design entails evaluating application requirements and creating optical systems specifically engineered to meet the exact needs of optical instruments. This extensive system may include optics, light sources, sensors, electronic boards, display devices, and other components. Primarily, optical design focuses on det...

    $3,000.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE
    RAFAEL A. IRIZARRY
    Unlike the first edition, the new edition has been split into two books. Thoroughly revised and updated, this is the first book of the second edition of Introduction to Data Science: Data Wrangling and Visualization with R. It introduces skills that can help you tackle real-world data analysis challenges. These include R programming, data wrangling with dplyr, data visualizatio...

    $1,700.00

  • A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO CODING AND PROGRAMMING IN STATA
    RAFAEL GAFOOR
    This book is an introductory guide to programming and coding in Stata. Commonly encountered code in the field of medical statistics as well as the analyses of observational data are presented. For those who are involved in the analyses of observational studies, the need to sometimes assemble large datasets will necessitate a detailed understanding of loops and macros. This book...

    $1,800.00

  • BATMAN AND THE SHADOWS OF MODERNITY
    RAFAEL CARRIÓN-ARIAS
    This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. To this end, it offers for the first time a new type of methodology adequate to the object, which delves both into materials scarcely studied in this context and well-known materials seen in a new light. This is a multidisciplinary work aimed at ...

    $800.00

  • SEOUL
    RAFAEL LUNA
    This book focuses on understanding how a megacity like Seoul can be read as a formal architectural composition and not an endless urban sprawl. In a broader sense, the book discusses the dichotomy between city and urbanization: “city” being an architectural problem of bounded forms, while “urbanism” is an infrastructural project of expansion. It is an uncontested reality that u...

    $640.00

  • THE FIRST CHRISTIAN LETTERS
    RAFAEL RODRÍGUEZ
    Paul's letters to the Thessalonians are the earliest surviving Christian documents. They are also among the most easily overlooked parts of the New Testament. What could these short, simple letters possibly have to say to a world caught in the throes of racial discord, political polarization, fears of an uncertain future, and fights over truth and false news? While Paul and his...

    $444.00

  • METAPHOR AND CORPUS LINGUISTICS
    RAFAEL ALEJO-GONZÁLEZ
    Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics: Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus offers a model for building a corpus of oral EMI seminars. It demonstrates how incorporating metaphor to the process of corpus building affords a more comprehensive description of the role of metaphor in discourse. EMI is the specific context outlined in this volume, and as ...

    $1,240.00

  • ETHICS AND CONTEXT IN SECOND LANGUAGE TESTING
    M. RAFAEL SALABERRY
    This innovative, timely text introduces the theory and research of critical approaches to language assessment, foregrounding ethical and socially contextualized concerns in language testing and language test validation in today’s globalized world. The editors bring together diverse perspectives, qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and empirical work on this subject that...

    $1,160.00

  • VOICE MADE VISIBLE: MULTI-OCTAVE VOICE TRAINING AND TECHNIQUES FOR PERFORMERS
    RAFAEL LOPEZ-BARRANTES
    Voice Made Visible is an exploration of voice training and performance practice based on the use and application of Multi-Octave Vocal Range techniques. "Multi-Octave" is understood as the arsenal of sounds that exists uniquely within each human voice, beyond the comfortable average octave that we use in everyday life. In Voice Made Visible, Rafael Lopez-Barrantes builds on the...

    $960.00

  • SANDTRAY APPLICATIONS TO TRAUMA THERAPY
    JOSÉ LUIS GONZALO MARRODÁN / RAFAEL BENITO MORAGA
    Sandtray Applications to Trauma Therapy presents the theory behind and the practicalities of using sandtray therapy in treatment with traumatized patients, both children and adults. The book begins with a review of the most frequently asked questions that professionals ask themselves when using the sandtray. It then details the Barudy and Dantagnan model of trauma therapy to un...

    $560.00

  • DIGITALIZATION OF FINANCIAL SERVICES IN THE AGE OF CLOUD
    JAMIL MINA / ARMIN WARDA / RAFAEL MARINS / RUSS MILES
    If you're planning, building, or implementing a cloud strategy that supports digitalization for your financial services business, this invaluable guide clearly sets out the crucial factors and questions to consider first. With it, you'll learn how to avoid the costly and time-consuming pitfalls and disappointments of cloud adoption and take full advantage of the cloud operation...

    $454.00

  • A LANGUAGE OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
    RAFAEL LUNA / DONGWOO YIM
    As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary language of architecture described as “contemporism” through a review of topology (form) and typology (system and elements). The contemporary project has been trying to answer th...

    $1,060.00

  • THE NAZI PARTY AND THE GERMAN COMMUNITIES ABROAD
    JOÃO FÁBIO BERTONHA / RAFAEL ATHAIDES
    The Nazi Party and the German Communities Abroad examines the German Nazi Party’s actions around the world in the 1930s and 1940s. The book particularly focuses in on the formation and development of the Auslandsorganization der NSDAP (AO) (Nazi Party/Foreign Organization), the party branch charged with the task of connecting with foreign fascist movements and, especially with ...

    $1,160.00

  • BARASH, CULLEN Y STOELTING. FUNDAMENTOS DE ANESTESIA CLÍNICA
    BRUCE F. CULLEN / M. CHRISTINE STOCK / RAFAEL ORTEGA / SAM R. SHARAR / NATALIE F. HOLT / CHRISTOPHER W. C
    Fundamentos de anestesia clínica atesora cerca de 30 años de experiencia en la enseñanza de la anestesiología como parte de la serie Anestesia Clínica. Fundada inicialmente por el doctor Paul G. Barash, esta obra presenta, en un formato amigable y de fácil lectura, los fundamentos de ciencias básicas en anestesiología y su aplicación dentro de entornos clínicos específicos.El c...

    $1,875.00

  • STORY MACHINES: HOW COMPUTERS HAVE BECOME CREATIVE WRITERS
    MIKE SHARPLES / RAFAEL PÉREZ Y PÉREZ
    This fascinating book explores machines as authors of fiction, past, present, and future. For centuries, writers have dreamed of mechanical storytellers. We can now build these devices. What will be the impact on society of AI programs that generate original stories to entertain and persuade? What can we learn about human creativity from probing how they work? In Story Machines...

    $520.00

  • CAPTAIN BLOOD
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    Captain Blood: His Odyssey is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. Sabatini was a proponent of basing historical fiction as closely as possible on history. Although Blood is a fictional character, much of the historical background of the novel is loosely based on fact. A group of Monmouth rebels was indeed condemned to ten years' hard labor in Ba...

    $39.70

  • THE STROLLING SAINT -- BEING THE CONFESSIONS OF THE HIGH & MIGHTY AGOSTINO D'ANGUISSOLA TYRANT OF MONDOLFO & LORD OF CARMINA, IN THE STATE OF PIACENZA.
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    The Strolling Saint, first published in 1913, is a swashbuckler romance set in 16th century Italy. There is a strong underlying theme of religious hypocrisy, as the main character is forced into a career in the clergy, before having to fight the church to regain his inheritance. (Goodreads) ...

    $39.70

  • THE HISTORICAL NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT SECOND SERIES
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    A selection of short works in which Sabatini writes as different protagonists out for a night on the town. Using his talent for imagery, his art as a wordsmith and his wry sense of humor, it makes these books a window into the past. To this edition of the Second Series of The Historical Nights' Entertainment are added three stories from the volume originally published under the...

    $39.70

  • TORQUEMADA AND THE SPANISH INQUISITION A HISTORY
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    Torquemada, the dour Dominican Friar, was responsible for one of the cruellest examples of religious persecution the world has ever known. Driven by his own warped genius, and against the express wishes of his king and queen, he single-handedly engineered torture and fear to a staggering degree. For Torquemada was the original President of the Spanish Inquisition. All you might...

    $39.70

  • THE LION'S SKIN
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    Justin Caryll, after being raised by a vengeful guardian, travels to England to destroy his birth father for the crime of dishonouring and abandoning his late mother. When we first meet Hortensia, she responds to a cruel trick by beating a villain with his own sword. It's awesome. Justin's mixed feelings on what to do about his absent father are still the main focus of the nove...

    $39.70

  • ST. MARTIN'S SUMMER
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    The life of an heiress is in jeopardy and her only hope is to place her trust in the wiles of a middle-aged swordsman with no use for "women's troubles." As the plots of the conspirators converge it will take all the wiles and accumulated wisdom of Martin Marie Rigobert de Garnache to uncover their identity, to save Valerie de La Vauvraye and keep his promise to his Queen. A gr...

    $39.70

  • THE SUITORS OF YVONNE BEING A PORTION OF THE MEMOIRS OF THE SIEUR GASTON DE
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    The Suitors of Yvonne also known as The Lovers of Yvonne was written in 1902. This first novel of Sabatini is told in the first person narrative style. It is a swashbuckling romance, full of swordplay, foiled assassination attempts, and a heroic rescue. Sabatini is a master of writing action and adventure scenes. (Goodreads) ...

    $39.70

  • BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    Bardelys the Magnificent is a 1906 historical adventure novel by the Italian-born British writer Rafael Sabatini. It is set in France during the reign of Louis XIII. In 1926 the story was adapted into a film version Bardelys the Magnificent by the Hollywood studio MGM, with John Gilbert playing the title role. It is is a first-person adventure told by a wealthy French nobleman ...

    $39.70

  • THE LIFE OF CESARE BORGIA
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    The Most Evil Man in Italy? Cesare Borgia served as Machiavelli's model of the ideal ruler for The Prince. The illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, he was a cardinal at age 22. He lived hard and died hard, murdering his enemies, seizing power in Florence, and marrying off his sister Lucretia for political gain, not once but three times. This is his remarkable story. Sabatini ...

    $39.70

  • THE HISTORICAL NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT FIRST SERIES
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    A selection of short works in which Sabatini writes as different protagonists out for a night on the town. Using his talent for imagery, his art as a wordsmith and his wry sense of humor, it makes these books a window into the past. (Goodreads) ...

    $39.70

  • FORTUNE'S FOOL
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    London 1665 is no place for Randal Holles, a former soldier in Cromwell’s army, now that the monarchy has been restored and the exploits of the Republicans are being condemned in the highest degree. Holles, desperate for an escape from his hopeless situation and almost certain execution, sees no option but to accept the Duke of Wellington’s rather dubious commission – to abduct...

    $39.70

  • THE TAVERN KNIGHT
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    The Tavern Knight is set in the age of Cromwell and the conflict features in the story. The protagonist is a debauched man, living without much care for ethics or honor - he's living just for revenge that he doubts he'll ever get. Then, opportunity presents itself. He begins to make decisions that will result in his long desired revenge, but he'll have to burn some folks to do ...

    $39.70

  • LOVE-AT-ARMS
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    In 15th century Italy, Francesco del Falco agrees to help Valentina, a young woman who decides she'd rather face a literal siege from an unwanted suitor than accept his offer of marriage. Unfortunately, Valentina's castle is not exactly prepared for action. Francesco makes the best of their limited ammunition and undependable mercenaries, but treachery inside the castle's walls...

    $39.70

  • THE SHAME OF MOTLEY -- BEING THE MEMOIR OF CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS IN THE LIFE OF LAZZARO BIANCOMONTE, OF BIANCOMONTE, SOMETIME FOOL OF THE COURT OF PESARO.
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    The Shame of Motley is a swashbuckler romance first published in 1908, set in Italy at the turn of the 16th/17th century. The main character, Lazzaro Biancomonte, is of noble birth but now reduced to the role of a court fool. His redemption comes in his part in an adventure involving the Madonna Paola, with whom he becomes besotted. (Goodreads) ...

    $39.70