João: 361 books

Book cover of Chapters of Brazil's Colonial History 1500-1800
by João Capistrano de Abreu
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998

In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the...
Book cover of The Woodland Southeast
by Patty Jo Watson, Janet Rafferty, Joseph M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States. The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...
Book cover of Why I Believe in God

Why I Believe in God

Atheism: a Self-Delusion

by João de Deus Brasil
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012

Joo de Deus Brasil's book comprises two independent but related works: Why I Believe in God and Atheism: a Self-Delusion. In Why I Believe in God, the author reveals the origins of his faith whereas in Atheism: a Self-Delusion he refutes atheists' arguments expressed by their current world...
Book cover of Death Is a Festival

Death Is a Festival

Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

by João José Reis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003

This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazil's independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia. The book opens with a lively account of the popular riot that ensued when, in 1836, the government...
Book cover of Marquesa de Alorna
by MARIA JOÃO LOPO DE CARVALHO
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 28, 2012

Book cover of Parallel Genetic Algorithms for Financial Pattern Discovery Using GPUs
by João Baúto, Rui Neves, Nuno Horta
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2018

This Brief presents a study of SAX/GA, an algorithm to optimize market trading strategies, to understand how the sequential implementation of SAX/GA and genetic operators work to optimize possible solutions. This study is later used as the baseline for the development of parallel techniques capable...
Book cover of Organizational Change and Strategy

Organizational Change and Strategy

An Interlevel Dynamics Approach

by David Coghlan, Nicholas S. Rashford, João Neiva de Figueiredo
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015

Organizations change, usually driven by strategies, yet strategic management and organizational change are generally understood as separate domains in the business world. This book integrates the behavioural dynamics of learning, change and strategy at and across individual, team, interdepartmental,...
Book cover of Neighborhood Change and Neighborhood Action

Neighborhood Change and Neighborhood Action

The Struggle to Create Neighborhoods that Serve Human Needs

by Eileen Ahlin, Maria João Lobo Antunes, Daniel Brisson
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

This book is an examination of neighborhood mobilization and engagement from the perspective of several disciplines: psychology, social work, political science, planning, and education. The essays included in the work examine both internal and external factors related to the ability of neighborhoods...
Book cover of Moodle 2.5 Multimedia
by João Pedro Soares Fernandes
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013

A tutorial-based guide where readers can work through practical examples that clearly describe how to create multimedia applications using Moodle and integrate existing multimedia resources into Moodle courses.If you are a teacher or trainer who runs online courses and has a basic understanding of Moodle,...
Book cover of Hygrothermal Risk on Building Heritage

Hygrothermal Risk on Building Heritage

A Methodology for a Risk Map

by João M.P.Q. Delgado, Ana Sofia Guimarães, Vasco Peixoto de Freitas
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015

This book presents a critical review of a criterion of risk, created to assess the flood risk to heritage buildings, and evaluates this criterion by applying it to the sample Portuguese heritage buildings. In a first approach, the total number of potential parameters is effectively reduced and the...
Book cover of The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Book cover of Requirements in Engineering Projects
by Ricardo J. Machado, João M. Fernandes
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015

This book focuses on various topics related to engineering and management of requirements, in particular elicitation, negotiation, prioritisation, and documentation (whether with natural languages or with graphical models). The book provides methods and techniques that help to characterise, in...
Book cover of Stability and Stabilization of Linear Systems with Saturating Actuators
by Sophie Tarbouriech, Germain Garcia, João Manoel Gomes da Silva Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011

This monograph details basic concepts and tools fundamental for the analysis and synthesis of linear systems subject to actuator saturation and developments in recent research. The authors use a state-space approach and focus on stability analysis and the synthesis of stabilizing control laws in both...
Book cover of The Forge Anthology

The Forge Anthology

Flash Fiction Straight off the Anvil

by Rebecca Reynolds, Kerry Hudson, Damyanti Biswas
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016

An ice cream van rolls into a war zone. A goldfish pleads with its owner, who has seasonal affective disorder. An advertising agency of the future struggles to capture the zombie market. A woman screams silently at a pair of social workers who visit to talk about her anorexic daughter. Brought...
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