Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: romero

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  • SPANISH HORROR FILM AND TELEVISION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    VICENTE RODRÍGUEZ ORTEGA / RUBÉN ROMERO SANTOS
    This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics. It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films and TV series as well as novel approaches to key works within the history of Spanish cinema. While addressing the specificities of the Spanish landscape, this volume also situates th...

    $580.00

  • PERFORMANCE, RELIABILITY, AND AVAILABILITY EVALUATION OF COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS, VOLUME I
    PAULO ROMERO MARTINS MACIEL
    This textbook intends to be a comprehensive and substantially self-contained two-volume book covering performance, reliability, and availability evaluation subjects. The volumes focus on computing systems, although the methods may also be applied to other systems. The first volume covers Chapter 1 to Chapter 14, whose subtitle is ``Performance Modeling and Background". The seco...

    $1,280.00

  • PERFORMANCE, RELIABILITY, AND AVAILABILITY EVALUATION OF COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS, VOLUME 2
    PAULO ROMERO MARTINS MACIEL
    This textbook intends to be a comprehensive and substantially self-contained two-volume book covering performance, reliability, and availability evaluation subjects. The volumes focus on computing systems, although the methods may also be applied to other systems. The first volume covers Chapter 1 to Chapter 14, whose subtitle is ``Performance Modeling and Background". The seco...

    $1,280.00

  • GENTRIFICATION, DISPLACEMENT, AND ALTERNATIVE FUTURES
    ERUALDO GONZÁLEZ ROMERO
    Gentrification is one of the most debilitating—and least understood—issues in American cities today. Scholars and community activists adjoin in Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures to engage directly and critically with the issue of gentrification and to address its impacts on marginalized, materially exploited, and displaced communities. Authors in this collec...

    $1,100.00

  • TERRORISM
    JUAN ROMERO
    This book adopts an innovative historical approach to Terrorism, focusing on the weaknesses of terrorist states and organizations as reflected in the ideologies, methodologies and propaganda of Russian populist, National Socialist and Islamic Terrorism. Drawing upon multilingual primary sources, the book challenges the oft repeated claim that the Nazi regime and Islamic State p...

    $1,160.00

  • GAME BALANCE
    IAN SCHREIBER / BRENDA ROMERO
    Within the field of game design, game balance can best be described as a black art. It is the process by which game designers make a game simultaneously fair for players while providing them just the right amount of difficulty to be both exciting and challenging without making the game entirely predictable. This involves a combination of mathematics, psychology, and occasionall...

    $1,180.00

  • COVID-19. VIROLOGÍA, INMUNOLOGÍA, CLÍNICA Y APROXIMACIÓN DIAGNÓSTICA Y TERAPÉUTICA
    LENIN PAVÓN ROMERO / EDUARDO FERAT OSORIO
    A finales de 2019, el mundo y sus habitantes fuimos tomados por sorpresa ante un brote epidémico causado por un nuevo coronavirus denominado SARS-CoV-2. La globalización, los medios de transporte ultra eficientes, la carencia inicial de pruebas de detección eficientes y la ausencia de tratamientos y medios de prevención específicos, aunados a la existencia de portadores asintom...

    $1,148.00

  • REAL ESTATE IN CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO AND THE CARIBBEAN
    CLAUDIA MURRAY / CAMILLA WEEN / YADIRA TORRES-ROMERO / YAZMIN RAMIREZ
    This book examines real estate markets and urban development in Central America, Mexico and The Caribbean (CAMEC). It considers both residential and commercial real estate with a focus on industrial and hospitality sectors, infrastructure and logistics. The CAMEC region is besieged by complexity. Prone to natural disasters, and with the Mexico/US border constituting the largest...

    $1,280.00

  • METALLICA
    SOLEDAD ROMERO MARIÑO
    Behind-the-scenes stories and sophisticated artwork will give lifelong buffs and new fans alike a rare glimpse into the world of one of the most iconic rock bands ever, Metallica! From the day that Lars Ulrich stepped off the tennis court and into the record store, to his epic meeting with James Hetfield and their claim on pure Heavy Metal, Metallica has reigned supreme with th...

    $121.00

  • RAMONES
    SOLEDAD ROMERO MARIÑO
    Behind-the-scenes stories and sophisticated artwork will give lifelong buffs and new fans alike a rare glimpse into the world of one of the most iconic bands ever, the Ramones! The Ramones are punk rock. It started in Queens, New York in the early seventies. Four shy boys who couldn't even play instruments got a couple guitars, found some ripped jeans and black leather jackets,...

    $121.00

  • SUBTITLING THROUGH SPEECH RECOGNITION
    PABLO ROMERO-FRESCO
    Based on sound research and first-hand experience in the field, Subtitling through Speech Recognition: Respeaking is the first book to present a comprehensive overview of the production of subtitles through speech recognition in Europe. Topics covered include the origins of subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing, the different methods used to provide live subtitles and the...

    $1,800.00

  • QUEEN
    SOLEDAD ROMERO MARIÑO
    They didn't just play music—they changed the rules. With Queen: The Unauthorized Biography, kids can meet the legendary band that turned being different into a superpower. Designed especially for early readers, this beautifully illustrated biography introduces Queen's members—Freddie, Brian, Roger, and John—in clear, age-appropriate language. It blends exciting moments from the...

    $121.00

  • TOURISM AND DEGROWTH
    MACIÀ BLÁZQUEZSALOM / ASUNCIÓN BLANCO ROMERO / IVAN MURRAY
    Tourism and Degrowth develops a conceptual framework and research agenda for exploring the relationship between tourism and degrowth. Rapid and uneven expansion of tourism as a response to the 2008 economic crisis has proceeded in parallel with the rise of social discontent concerning so-called "overtourism." Meanwhile, despite decades of concerted global effort to achieve sust...

    $1,200.00

  • LOGÍSTICA DEL TRANSPORTE MARÍTIMO
    ÁLEX LEÓN ÁRIAS, ROSA ROMERO SERRANO
    La calidad en la gestión logística es un factor de éxito en los intercambios comerciales, y el conocimiento de los procesos operativos del transporte marítimo y el entorno portuario es la clave de la eficiencia. Esta obra aborda todas las cuestiones que configuran el transporte marítimo como un servicio “puerta-a-puerta”. Un manual para los usuarios del transporte y los profesi...

    $202.91

  • ACCESSIBLE FILMMAKING
    PABLO ROMERO-FRESCO
    Translation, accessibility and the viewing experience of foreign, deaf and blind audiences has long been a neglected area of research within film studies. The same applies to the film industry, where current distribution strategies and exhibition platforms severely underestimate the audience that exists for foreign and accessible cinema. Translated and accessible versions are u...

    $1,100.00

  • GENDER AND SHORT FICTION
    JORGE SACIDO-ROMERO
    In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue turning to the short story, a genre that has not yet attained the degree of literary prestige and social recognition the novel has had in the modern period. In this timely volume, the ed...

    $1,240.00

  • THE FRONTIER OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY
    ALAN S. MILWARD / FRANCES M. B. LYNCH / FEDERICO ROMERO / RUGGERO RANIERI / VIBEKE SØRENSEN
    Many theoretical explanations had been offered for the rise of the European Community, but none had used historical analysis to draw out the deeper significance of the events that surrounded Maastricht. However, in this book, first published in 1993, the authors explored the process of European integration, and its future, drawing on extensive empirical research into the nation...

    $1,160.00

  • THE TRAUMA GRAPHIC NOVEL
    ANDRÉS ROMERO-JÓDAR
    The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narratives and testimonies of suffering in literature and the arts. Graphic novels, free at last from long decades of stern censorship, helped explore these topics by developing a new subgenre: the trauma graphic novel. This book seeks to analyze this trend through ...

    $1,360.00

  • MAID IN THE USA
    MARY ROMERO
    This is a classic work in the fields of Women's Studies and Sociology. On its 10th Anniversary, it is still a vital and moving study of the lives of immigrant domestic workers, and is constantly cited in the research. Romero's new introduction will offer a fresh look at the material, including more recent events, proving that the issues discussed in the book are still very rele...

    $1,760.00

  • THE FOUNDATIONS OF CIVIL WAR
    FRANCISCO J. ROMERO SALVADO
    This book analyzes the decay of Liberal politics in Spain as the regional version of the general crisis that engulfed most of Europe between 1916 and 1923. Romero enriches the important wider debate about this watershed period of European history when, in the face of unprecedented mass social protest and political mobilization, incumbent governing elites struggled to find a val...

    $1,360.00

  • WHEN CARE WORK GOES GLOBAL
    MARY ROMERO
    Women who migrate into domestic labour and care work are the single largest female occupational group migrating globally at present. Their participation in global migration systems has been acknowledged but remains under-theorized. Specifically, the impacts of women migrating into care work in the receiving as well as the sending societies are profound, altering gendered aspect...

    $1,200.00

  • EVERYDAY LAW FOR IMMIGRANTS
    VICTOR C. ROMERO
    Immigration is one of the most controversial topics of the decade. Citizens and pundits from across the political spectrum argue for major and disparate changes to American immigration law. Yet few know what American immigration law actually is and how it functions. Everyday Law for Immigrants is an ideal guide for U.S. citizens who want a better understanding of our immigratio...

    $1,320.00

  • BIOLOGÍA FUNDAMENTAL Y DE LA SALUD
    RAFAEL GALÁN ROMERO / RAFAEL TORRONTERAS SANTIAGO
    * Libro de texto de gran valor didáctico que recoge los contenidos de la asignatura de la asignatura de Biología general , incluyendo aspectos teóricos, y prácticos de bioquímica y biología molecular, biología celular, biotecnología, microbiología, inmunología y (cito)genética, así como contenidos fundamentales y biosanitarios. * Los autores, el Profesor Rafael Galán y el Pro...

    $495.97

  • THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF BRONZE AGE IBERIA
    GONZALO JIMENEZ / SANDRA SUBÍAS / MARGARITA ROMERO
    After more than a century of research, an enormous body of scientific literature in the field of El Argar studies has been generated, comprising some 700 bibliographic items. No fully-updated synthesis of the literature is available at the moment; recent works deal only with specific characteristics of Argaric societies or some of the regions where their influence spread. The A...

    $1,240.00

  • HANDBOOK OF CRITICAL ISSUES IN GOAL PROGRAMMING
    C. ROMERO
    Goal Programming (GP) is perhaps the oldest and most widely used approach within the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) paradigm. GP combines the logic of optimisation in mathematical programming with the decision maker's desire to satisfy several goals. The primary purpose of this book is to identify the critical issues in GP and to demonstrate different procedures capab...

    $1,223.00

  • CHALLENGING FRONTERAS
    MARY ROMERO
    Challenging Fronteras reflects an important new wave of research that moves beyond sweeping generalizations that treat Latinos as a monolithic cultural group. This anthology focuses on the diversity of Latino experiences by providing historical specificity and cutting-edge research that employs the conceptual and analytical tools of social science. Contributors, selected from l...

    $1,800.00

  • INTERNATIONAL SUMMITRY AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
    MOURLON-DRUOL, EMMANUEL / ROMERO, FEDERICO
    This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. Summit meetings of heads of government have become 'banal' in today's world. Yet they are a relatively recent practice that took off only in the mid-1970s. The aim of the book is to explore the origin...

    $1,420.00

  • UNITED STATES AND VENEZUELA
    CARLOS A. ROMERO / JANET KELLY
    Oil makes up one-third of Venezuela's entire GDP, and the United States is far and away Venezuela's largest trading partner. Relations between Venezuela and the United States, traditionally close for most of the last two centuries, began to fray in the last decade as the end of the Cold War altered the international environment. The United States and Venezuela attempts to p...

    $1,320.00

  • U.S.-VENEZUELA RELATIONS SINCE THE 1990S
    JAVIER CORRALES / CARLOS A. ROMERO
    Oil makes up one-third of Venezuela's entire GDP, and the United States is far and away Venezuela's largest trading partner. Relations between Venezuela and the United States, traditionally close for most of the last two centuries, began to fray as the end of the Cold War altered the international environment. U.S.-Venezuela Relations since the 1990s explores relations between ...

    $1,260.00

  • SPAIN 1914-1918
    FRANCISCO J. ROMERO SALVADO / FRANCISCO JOSE ROMERO SALVADO
    This work analyses the Spanish experience of the First World War in terms of the general crisis in Europe at this time. In Spain, as elsewhere, the impact of four years of devastating conflict resulted in ideological militancy, economic dislocation and social struggle.The author examines the slow decay of the ruling Liberal Monarchy during the war years, and the failure of the ...

    $1,320.00