Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: santos

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  • EXPLORING ANCIENT SOUNDS AND PLACES
    MARGARITA DÍAZ-ANDREU AND NEEMIAS SANTOS DA ROSA
    Archaeoacoustics studies historical sound, merging archaeology, anthropology, and psychology to reveal insights about ancient music and acoustic environments. Exploring Ancient Sounds and Places: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Archaeoacoustics brings together scholars from diverse academic fields – including archaeology, anthropology, architecture, classics, histo...

    $421.99

  • THE MARCUSEAN MIND
    EDUARDO ALTHEMAN C. SANTOS
    Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) was a member of the Frankfurt School, a leading figure of 1960s counterculture, and a fundamental character for the New Left. His ideas and theories, inspired by a rich fusion of Marxian and Freudian thought, exert a strong influence on contemporary thinking about activism, emancipation, and political resistance. He was also a student of Martin Heide...

    $1,380.00

  • CAFÉ AVEC AMOUR
    BRUNO SANTOS
    Café avec amour on Amor raconte l'histoire d'un jeune adulte en mal d'amour qui apprend qu'un ami possède un café avec un petit plus : les gens peuvent s'y rendre pour rencontrer de nouvelles personnes et peut-être trouver leur moitié. Avec la première tasse de café, les gens reçoivent une carte à remplir et ils doivent « choisir » quelqu'un parmi les personnes qu'ils ont renco...

    $194.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PRIVATE LAW AND SUSTAINABILITY
    MARTA SANTOS SILVA
    The Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability reflects on how the law can help tackle the current environmental challenges and make our societies more resilient to future crises. Sustainability has been high on the political agenda since the approval of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 and the EU Green Deal in 2019. The Green Agenda aims at making Europe the...

    $880.00

  • DATA REPRESENTATIVITY AND GRANULARITY IN SPANISH SYNTAX
    IVÁN ORTEGA-SANTOS
    Data Representativity and Granularity in Spanish Syntax focuses on the dialogue between Generative Grammar, Variationism, and experimental linguistics with a unique emphasis on Spanish linguistics. Combining formal syntax and empirical data collection, this volume analyzes and compares various data collection methods in syntactic theory, and examines a wide variety of approache...

    $800.00

  • SANTOSAINT
    SANTOS J. HERNANDEZ JR.
    Evil prowls twenty-four-seven, waiting for that one opportunity to sneak in or weasel its way into your mind while encouraging you to embrace fear, lies, hate, division, despair, and all things miserable. It wreaks havoc and fools you into believing the lies it peddles to the lowest bidder.Resisting evil is all about choices; the problem is that most are unaware of the influenc...

    $408.00

  • SANTOSAINT
    SANTOS J. HERNANDEZ JR.
    Evil prowls twenty-four-seven, waiting for that one opportunity to sneak in or weasel its way into your mind while encouraging you to embrace fear, lies, hate, division, despair, and all things miserable. It wreaks havoc and fools you into believing the lies it peddles to the lowest bidder.Resisting evil is all about choices; the problem is that most are unaware of the influenc...

    $408.00

  • ROTARY DRUM
    MARCOS ANTONIO DE SOUZA BARROZO / DYRNEY ARAÚJO DOS SANTOS / CLÁUDIO ROBERTO DUARTE / SUELLEN MENDONÇA
    Rotary Drum: Fluid Dynamics, Dimensioning Criteria, and Industrial Applications provides in-depth analysis of fluid dynamics in rotary drums. In addition, it provides analysis on the different configurations, including nonconventional ones, diverse industrial applications, and comparison with competing dryer types, as well as the modeling of these devices. Covering important as...

    $1,320.00

  • DECOLONIZING CONSTITUTIONALISM
    DE SOUSA SANTOS, BOAVENTURA
    The modern state, law, and constitution result from a legal canon that (re)produces the abyssal lines dividing the world that is validated from the world whose humanity and epistemological validity are denied. This book aims to contribute to a post-abyssal reflection on law and constitutionalism by considering the structural axes of power that are constitutive of modern law “ca...

    $1,160.00

  • 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

  • ETHNICITY IN COLLEGE
    ANNA M. ORTIZ / SILVIA J. SANTOS
    This book explores the importance, and construction, of ethnic identity among college students, and how ethnicity interfaces with students’ interactions on campus, and the communities in which they live. Based on qualitative interviews with White, Latina/o, African American and Asian students, it captures both the college context and the individual experiences students have wit...

    $960.00

  • FROM THE PANDEMIC TO UTOPIA
    BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS
    The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity. It has brought to the surface dimensions of human fragility that partially contradict the euphoria and human hubris of the fourth industrial revolution (artificial intelligence). It has also aggravated the social inequality and racial discrimination that characterize our societies. The book argues that the virus...

    $1,060.00

  • UNTAMING GIRLHOODS
    CRISTINA SANTOS
    This is an interdisciplinary examination of depictions of girlhoods through a comparative study of foundational fairy tales revised and reimagined in popular narrative, film, and television adaptations. The success of franchises such as The Hunger Games, Twilight and Divergence have re-presented the young heroine as an empowered female, and often a warrior hero in her own right...

    $1,160.00

  • INNOVATION IN TBM TRAFFIC TUNNELS
    SILVINO POMPEU-SANTOS
    Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) constructed tunnels are widespread, and can deliver significant environmental and cost benefits. However, as noted in the noteworthy examples of TBM traffic tunnels presented in this book, there are still important challenges associated with them, linked in particular to structural safety in the event of earthquakes, as well as cost and safety issues...

    $2,540.00

  • CULTURES OF SILENCE
    LUÍSA SANTOS
    This book investigates the notion of silence as both an oppressing instrument and a powerful tool of resistance under the lenses and practices of cultural production. Taking a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach to the study of creative and cultural practices, the chapters ask how cultural production is dealing with surges of oppressive regimes, censorship, and fake ne...

    $1,160.00

  • LANGUAGE PRACTICES AND PROCESSES AMONG LATIN AMERICANS IN EUROPE
    ROSINA MÁRQUEZ REITER AND ADRIANA PATIÑO-SANTOS
    Language Practices and Processes among Latin Americans in Europe is an innovative and thematically organised collection of studies dedicated to contemporary sociolinguistic research on Latin Americans across European contexts. This book captures some of the language practices and experiences of Spanish-speaking Latin Americans (SsLAs) across various regions in Europe, addressin...

    $1,160.00

  • HEALTH DISPARITIES AND THE APPLIED LINGUIST
    MARICEL G. SANTOS / RACHEL SHOWSTACK / GLENN MARTÍNEZ / DREW COLCHER / DALIA MAGAÑA
    Health Disparities and the Applied Linguist bridges theory and practice to demonstrate how applied linguists are uniquely positioned to make vital contributions towards advancing health equity in the U.S. As language, power, and health are deeply interconnected, learning to articulate these connections is essential to understanding persistent health disparities in linguisticall...

    $580.00

  • MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES
    JASMIN GRAHAM CAMILA CÁCERES DEBORAH SANTOS DE AZEVEDO MENNA
    Minorities in Shark Sciences showcases the work done by Black, Indigenous and People of Color around the world in the fields of shark science and conservation. Edited by three minority researchers, it provides positive role models for the next generation. Highlighting new and important research done in the fields of biology, ecology, and evolution, the book places emphasis on s...

    $1,060.00

  • THE BUSINESS PLAN REFERENCE MANUAL FOR IT BUSINESSES
    FERNANDO ALMEIDA / JOSÉ SANTOS
    There is a great worldwide desire to launch new technology-based business. In this sense, and increasingly, entrepreneurship courses have arisen in several universities and many of the courses in the management, administration and engineering areas already offer entrepreneurship curricular units. Throughout those programs, the teams develop key integrated competencies in innova...

    $1,125.00

  • BIG DATA
    MARIBEL YASMINA SANTOS / CARLOS COSTA
    Big Data is a concept of major relevance in today’s world, sometimes highlighted as a key asset for productivity growth, innovation, and customer relationship, whose popularity has increased considerably during the last years. Areas like smart cities, manufacturing, retail, finance, software development, environment, digital media, among others, can benefit from the collection,...

    $1,125.00

  • UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS PRINCIPLES—A TUTORIAL APPROACH
    HÉCTOR J. DE LOS SANTOS
    Wireless communications and sensing systems are nowadays ubiquitous; cell phones and automotive radars typifying two of the most familiar examples. This book introduces the field by addressing its fundamental principles, proceeding from its very beginnings, up to today's emerging technologies related to the fifth-generation wireless systems (5G), Multi-Input Multiple Output (MI...

    $1,305.00

  • UNDERSTANDING NANOELECTROMECHANICAL QUANTUM CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS (NEMX) FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) ERA
    HÉCTOR J. DE LOS SANTOS
    The operational theme permeating most definitions of the IoT concept, is the wireless communication of networked objects, in particular, smart sensing devices and machines, exchanging data a la Internet. In this book, a detailed look is taken at the fundamental principles of devices and techniques whose exploitation will facilitate the development of compact, power-efficient, a...

    $1,080.00

  • 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

  • CYBERSECURITY
    HENRIQUE M. D. SANTOS
    Cybersecurity: A Practical Engineering Approach introduces the implementation of a secure cyber architecture, beginning with the identification of security risks. It then builds solutions to mitigate risks by considering the technological justification of the solutions as well as their efficiency. The process follows an engineering process model. Each module builds on a subset ...

    $1,140.00

  • BRIDGING FLUID BORDERS
    FABIO SANTOS
    Interweaving rich ethnographic descriptions with an innovative theoretical approach, this book explores and unsettles conventional maps and understandings of Europe and the Americas. Through an examination of the recently inaugurated cross-border bridge between France’s overseas department of French Guiana and Brazil’s northern state of Amapá, which effectively acts as a one-wa...

    $1,200.00

  • GOOGLE CLOUD COOKBOOK
    RUI SANTOS COSTA / DREW HODUN
    Get quick hands-on experience with Google Cloud. This cookbook provides a variety of self-contained recipes that show you how to use Google Cloud services for your enterprise application. Whether you're looking for practical ways to apply microservices, AI, analytics, security, or networking solutions, these recipes take you step-by-step through the process and provide discussi...

    $681.00

  • THE PLURIVERSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS: THE DIVERSITY OF STRUGGLES FOR DIGNITY
    BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS AND BRUNO SENA MARTINS
    The impasse currently affecting human rights as a language used to express struggles for dignity is, to a large extent, a reflection of the epistemological and political exhaustion which blights the global North. Since the global hegemony of human rights as a language for human dignity is nowadays incontrovertible, the question of whether it can be used in a counter-hegemonic s...

    $1,100.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK ON THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION OF BREXIT
    RAMSES A. WESSEL / JUAN SANTOS VARA
    This handbook provides comprehensive and expert analysis of the impact of the Brexit process and the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on existing and future EU–UK relations within the context of both EU and international law. Examining the wider international law implications, it additionally assesses the complex legal consequences of Brexit for both the...

    $1,340.00

  • FINANCIALISATION IN THE EUROPEAN PERIPHERY
    ANA CORDEIRO SANTOS / NUNO TELES
    In many European countries, the process of financialisation has been exacerbated by the project of closer EU integration and accelerated as a result of austerity policies introduced after the Euro crisis of 2010–2012. However, the impact has been felt differently in core and peripheral countries. This book examines the case of Portugal, and in particular the impact on its econo...

    $1,560.00

  • 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


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