Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ricardo

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  • RESEARCHING WELL-BEING IN AN INDIGENOUS AMAZON COMMUNITY
    RICARDO GODOY
    This book aims to provide the first comprehensive, multi‑year, systematic, quantitative assessment in the behavioral sciences of how well‑being changes over time in a small‑scale rural society of Indigenous People in the Global South. Using data compiled by the Tsimane’ Amazonian Panel Study (2002–010) that monitored change in Tsimane’ communities, this book analyzes economic, ...

    $1,160.00

  • POWERS OF ABJECTION
    RICARDO LALEFF ILIEFF
    In this book, Ricardo Laleff Ilieff presents a new ontological understanding of politics through the writings of Julia Kristeva’s notion of “abjection” in dialogue with Sigmund Freud’s concept of “Unheimlich” and Jacques Lacan’s ontology “du rél”. Aimed at those who are interested in the politics-psychoanalytic “praxis”, Laleff Ilieff argues that the abject enables one to criti...

    $640.00

  • DEVELOPING THE FRONTIERS OF CASINO TOURISM
    RICARDO C.S. SIU
    This book explicates how the frontiers and path of development of casino tourism in various destinations in East and Southeast Asia are shaped by a set of social, cultural, political and economic forces and their interplays in a dynamic environment, and the prospects of this industry in different destinations in the 2020s and onward. Casino tourism has been a rapidly growing in...

    $1,240.00

  • AUTOMATE YOUR HOME USING GO
    RICARDO GERARDI / MIKE RILEY
    Take control of your home and your data with the power of the Go programming language. Build extraordinary and robust home automation solutions that rival much more expensive, closed commercial alternatives, using the same tools found in high-end enterprise computing environments. Best-selling Pragmatic Bookshelf authors Ricardo Gerardi and Mike Riley show how you can use inexp...

    $467.00

  • LUIS VALDEZ
    JORGE A. HUERTA / GUILLERMO AVILÉS-RODRÍGUEZ / KARINA GUTIÉRREZ / JADE POWER-SOTOMAYOR / RICARDO ROCHA
    Luis Valdez studies the life and work of this Chicano playwright, director, performer, and producer along with the implications of his legacy for Chicana/o/x communities and for all who engage with his work. Valdez’s work broadened the scope of theater and arts in the Chicano community, and his formation of El Teatro Campesino brought together students and farmworkers. This vol...

    $1,120.00

  • CITIES AND TERRITORIES OF THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE
    RICARDO GONZÁLEZ-VILLAESCUSA
    This book showcases the unique shape of urban development that took hold during the Roman Empire, beginning in the Mediterranean basin before spreading out across Europe, and offers a fresh perspective on the cities and territories of the Roman West. With the expansion of Rome came a particular form of social organisation: the Roman city. This book provides a basic introduction...

    $520.00

  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INNOVATION, AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
    NADER H. ASGARY / EMERSON A. MACCARI / HELOISA C. HOLLNAGEL / RICARDO L.P. BUENO
    Entrepreneurship and innovation play a vital role in fostering sustainable development. Advances in technology and communications have both transformed the process of business and strengthened the role of entrepreneurship in developed and developing countries. This new edition of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Sustainable Growth provides the fundamental concepts and applicat...

    $1,460.00

  • RAMSAR WETLANDS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN WEST COAST AND CENTRAL PACIFIC
    RICARDO D. LOPEZ
    This is the first comprehensive international atlas featuring all ecological services provided by Ramsar wetlands, with complete views of all Ramsar sites, through remote sensing and mapping. Written by an international expert on wetlands and remote sensing, this atlas is for a broad audience and compiles much-needed information on how the Ramsar wetlands are of significant val...

    $1,620.00

  • VAIṢṆAVA CONCEPTS OF GOD
    RICARDO SOUSA SILVESTRE
    This book explores a number of concepts of God in Vaiṣṇavism, which is commonly referred to as one of the great Hindu monotheistic traditions. By addressing the question of what attributes God possesses according to particular Vaiṣṇava textual sources and traditions, the book locates these concepts within a global philosophical framework. The book is divided into two parts. The...

    $1,240.00

  • NATURE SPORTS
    MELO, RICARDO
    This book represents the first international collection that challenges current thinking and research in the emerging field of nature sport. Owing to its inherent connections with fields such as business, leisure, health, tourism, and education, this emerging field has attracted perspectives from a wide range of theoretical viewpoints – much of which are discussed within this c...

    $1,140.00

  • SYSTEMS THEORY AND APPLICATION
    SCOTT JACKSON / RICARDO MORAES
    This book describes the characteristics of he five different disciplines of systems which are Systems Theory, Systems Science, Thinking in Systems, Systems Architecting, and Systems Engineering. The book discusses how they all relate to each other and form a synergistic set of disciplines. Systems Theory and Application: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach presents how the five diffe...

    $640.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
    ALFRED J. LÓPEZ AND RICARDO QUINTANA-VALLEJO
    The Routledge Companion Literature and the Global South offers a comprehensive overview of the field at a key moment in its development—a snapshot of where Global South literary studies stands in its second decade. As the aftermath of a string of global cataclysms since the rise of neoliberal globalization has demonstrated, it is the poor, the disenfranchised, and the marginali...

    $1,360.00

  • PSYCHOANALYSIS FOR INTERSECTIONAL HUMANITY
    RICARDO ESPINOZA LOLAS
    Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity considers both the vast realm of sexual diversities emerging under capitalism and outlines what a psychoanalytic clinic that considers these diversities should be like. Ricardo Espinoza Lolas explores these themes hand in hand with the Marquis de Sade, exploring the monstrous side of our existence – not as a negative aspect of humanity...

    $820.00

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN COMMERCIAL AVIATION
    RICARDO V. PILON
    This book is a must read for aviation managers and all stakeholders that are interested in improving the business performance of airlines. In this book, the first of its kind on AI in Commercial Aviation, the author outlines how Machine Learning and AI are accelerating and improving the performance of airlines. Moreover, the author shares insights into many new use cases that e...

    $1,360.00

  • DATA DRIVEN STRATEGIES
    WANG JIANHONG / RICARDO A. RAMIREZ-MENDOZA / RUBEN MORALES-MENENDEZ
    A key challenge in science and engineering is to provide a quantitative description of the systems under investigation, leveraging the noisy data collected. Such a description may be a complete mathematical model or a mechanism to return controllers corresponding to new, unseen inputs. Recent advances in the theories are described in detail, along with their applications in eng...

    $1,620.00

  • POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HOUSING IN CHILE
    FRANCISCO VERGARA-PERUCICH / CARLOS AGUIRRE-NUÑEZ / FELIPE ENCINAS / RODRIGO HIDALGO-DATTWYLER / RICARDO
    Through the lens of political economy, this book positions housing as a key factor in understanding social inequality. It does so by drawing on rich empirical evidence from the case of the Chilean housing market. This book provides insights on the articulation between real estate development, housing provision and social inequality based on applied urban economics analyses that...

    $580.00

  • A HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT
    RICARDO BIELSCHOWSKY
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of Brazilian economic thought ranging from colonial times through to the early 21st century. It explores the production of ideas on the Brazilian economy through various forms of publication and contemporary thoughts on economic contexts and development policies, all closely reflecting the evolution of economic histor...

    $1,160.00

  • PSYCHOANALYSIS, CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY DISCONTENTS
    RICARDO ALEJANDRO RUBINSTEIN
    Ricardo Rubinstein explores the contemporary culture and its discontents – including subjectivity, fanaticism, panic attacks, technology, and pandemics – through a psychoanalytic lens. Each chapter considers an aspect of modern society and attempts to unpick these complex facets of the world we live in. Psychoanalytic understandings of the triggers and socio-environmental facto...

    $920.00

  • BIOMETRY
    RICARDO A. RAMIREZ-MENDOZA, JORGE DE J. LOZOYA-SANTOS, RICARDO ZAVALA-YOÉ, LUZ MARÍA ALONSO-VALERDI,
    Biometrics provide quantitative representations of human features, physiological and behavioral. This book is a compilation of biometric technologies developed by various research groups in Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. It provides a summary of biometric systems as a whole, explaining the principles behind physiological and behavioral biometrics and exploring different type...

    $1,360.00

  • DATABASES ILLUMINATED
    CATHERINE M. RICARDO / SUSAN D. URBAN / KAREN C. DAVIS
    Databases Illuminated, Fourth Edition is designed to help students integrate theoretical material with practical knowledge, using an approach that applies theory to practical database implementation. The text helps students understand the difference between traditional database technology and the new directions created by big data, outlining motivation, fundamental concepts, te...

    $565.74

  • MÉTODO DE NEGOCIACIÓN: NEGOCIADORES NO NACEN, SE HACEN
    ALAIN LEMPEREUR, COLSON AURÉLIEN, RICARDO PÉREZ NÜCKEL
    Este libro proporciona la información necesaria sobre cómo negociar tanto en entornos empresariales como políticos. Propone un método que es a la vez una filosofía y un programa de técnicas específicas, que te permitirán hacer lo correcto en el momento adecuado. Diariamente se negocian cosas. Dentro de las familias, en las empresas, en la esfera pública, en entornos internacion...

    $239.33

  • POWERFUL COMMAND-LINE APPLICATIONS IN GO
    RICARDO GERARDI
    Whether you want to automate tasks, analyze data, parse logs, talk to network services, or address other systems requirements, writing your own command-line tool may be the fastest - and perhaps the most fun - way to do it. The Go programming language is a great choice for developing tools that are fast, reliable, and cross-platform. Create command-line tools that work with fil...

    $534.00

  • MASSACRES IN THE JUNGLE
    RICARDO FALLA
    Between 1975 and 1982 the Guatemalan military systematically and sadistically punished the campesino population for the activities of guerrilleros in their region. This account by Ricardo Falla, an anthropologist and Jesuit priest who is himself a Guatemalan exile, shows how the victims and their communities were destroyed and provides a detailed record of assassinations and di...

    $1,200.00

  • CHILDREN OF GLOBALIZATION
    RICARDO QUINTANA-VALLEJO
    Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels subvert the horizon of expectations of the originating and archetypal form of the genre, the traditional Bildungsroman, which encompasses the works of Johann Wolfgang von G...

    $1,160.00

  • MULTILINGUAL MEDIATED COMMUNICATION AND COGNITION
    RICARDO MUÑOZ MARTÍN / SANDRA L. HALVERSON
    This collection provides a snapshot of cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of cognitive approaches to multilingual mediated communication. The chapters cover important trends in current work, including: the increasing interaction between translation and interpreting research, the emergence of neuroscientific theories and methods, the role of emotion in translat...

    $1,240.00

  • GUÍA DERMATOLÓGICA PARA ATENCIÓN PRIMARIA
    RICARDO SUÁREZ FERNÁNDEZ
    Los procesos dermatológicos en medicina primaria son cada vez más frecuentes. Con el objetivo de ayudar a abordarlos de manera práctica y eficaz, en esta monografía se describen las afecciones más significativas que el personal de atención primaria debe manejar en su consulta, y se establecen unos criterios básicos de derivación a la medicina especializada en los casos que la r...

    $304.78

  • SYSTEMS APPROACH TO THE DESIGN OF COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT
    SCOTT JACKSON / RICARDO MORAES DOS SANTOS
    While aviation fatalities have thankfully fallen dramatically in recent years, the phenomena of complexity and cognitive bias have been shown to be factors in many accidents. An understanding of these phenomena promises to bring the fatality rate even lower, and a deeper understanding of commercial aircraft in the context of systems engineering will contribute to that trend. Sy...

    $1,060.00

  • A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO METAHEURISTICS USING LABVIEW AND MATLAB®
    PEDRO PONCE-CRUZ / ARTURO MOLINA GUTIÉRREZ / RICARDO A. RAMÍREZ-MENDOZA / EFRAÍN MÉNDEZ FLORES / ALEXAND
    Metaheuristic optimization has become a prime alternative for solving complex optimization problems in several areas. Hence, practitioners and researchers have been paying extensive attention to those metaheuristic algorithms that are mainly based on natural phenomena. However, when those algorithms are implemented, there are not enough books that deal with theoretical and expe...

    $1,600.00

  • QUEMADOS. VALORACIÓN Y CRITERIOS DE ACTUACIÓN
    RICARDO PALAO DOMÉNECH
    Las quemaduras, a pesar de ser una patología de relativa baja prevalencia entre la población, implican un gran impacto físico y psicológico para el paciente que las padece. La cicatriz que en muchos casos quedará como secuela será un recordatorio de la quemadura tanto para el paciente como para la sociedad. Quemados. Valoración y criterios de actuación revisa la fisiopatología,...

    $142.25

  • THE NATURE AND METHOD OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES
    RICARDO F. CRESPO
    The Nature and Method of Economic Sciences: Evidence, Causality, and Ends argues that economic phenomena can be examined from five analytical levels: a statistical descriptive approach, a causal explanatory approach, a teleological explicative approach, a normative approach and, finally, the level of application. The above viewpoints are undertaken by different but related econ...

    $1,200.00