João: 361 books
FEM Analysis of the Human Knee Joint
A Review
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
In recent years, numerous scientific investigations have studied the anatomical, biomechanical and functional role of structures involved in the human knee joint. The Finite Element Method (FEM) has been seen as an interesting tool to study and simulate biosystems. It has been extensively used to...
Mobile Positioning and Tracking
From Conventional to Cooperative Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
This book presents the most recent state of the art in mobile positioning and tracking techniques.
This book discusses mobile positioning solutions applied on top of current wireless communication networks. In addition, the authors introduce advanced and novel topics such as localization in...
by João Rosa de Castro
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
The reflections herein gathered differ from the mental forms of the conventional Brazilian, a meaning in which they exert a pedagogical and therapeutic function: pedagogical because they explicit certain littleness of the Brazilian mental means, exalt values better than the trivial, clarify situation;...
Deutsch Portugiesisch Bibel
Lutherbibel 1912 - Almeida Recebida 1848
Language: German
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Diese eBible hat 173,771 Referenzen. Sie ist ~4× so groß wie die Bibel. Nutzen Sie sie auf so vielen persönlichen Geräten, wie Sie möchten. Sie wurde veröffentlicht 02-03-2017. Diese gerlut-par parallele eBible enthält Lutherbibel (1912) und Almeida Recebida (1848). Darüber hinaus enthält...
by João Gaspar
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Created to provide an experience closer to drawing and modeling with real objects, SketchUp has won over a host of loyal users year after year. SketchUp stands out for its speed and ease when creating volumetric objects and studies, being used to produce from simple to highly complex designs. The...
School Buildings Rehabilitation
Indoor Environmental Quality and Enclosure Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
This book discusses the effect of different school building rehabilitation strategies on the classrooms’ indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and presents a multi-objective methodology for school building enclosure optimization combining artificial neural networks and lifecycle costs. The special...
Conflicts in Curriculum Theory
Challenging Hegemonic Epistemologies
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
This book challenges educators to be agents of change, to take history into their own hands, and to make social justice central to the educational endeavor. Paraskeva embraces a pedagogy of hope championed by Paulo Freire where people become conscious of their capacity to intervene in the world to make it less discriminatory and more humane.
A Multiple Community
Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018
The proposal of this second volume of Leituras is to address the debate on the global South from other models of constructing reality and to speculate on the potential impact of alternative forms of organization on current times. To this end, it compiles a series of non-Western cosmologies which,...
The Good Holiday
Development, Tourism and the Politics of Benevolence in Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Drawing on ethnographic research in the village of Canhane, which is host to the first community tourism project in Mozambique, The Good Holiday explores the confluence of two powerful industries: tourism and development, and explains when, how and why tourism becomes development and development,...
by João Rosa de Castro
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
I read in Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human that, to be a writer, one has to “let a person make a hundred or more drafts of short stories, none longer than two pages, yet each of a clarity such that each word in it is necessary." [...] At that time, I was in a state of excitement about reading Machado...
The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty
A view from Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Joao Carlos Espada's provocative survey of a group of key Anglo-American and European political thinkers argues that there is a distinctive, Anglo-American tradition of liberty that is one of the core pillars of the Free World. Giving a broad overview of the tradition through summaries of the careers...
A Shadow’S Heart
A Reflection of Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
The name of the book is A Shadows Heart (An Effect of Emotion as the subtitle). The poems were inspired by life difficulties and challenges, and a few were inspired by the things I love and heartbreaking moments. Some of the interesting collections of my poetry are Beautiful, Blue, and Black, It was...
Game Changers
How a Team of Underdogs and Scientists Discovered What it Takes to Win
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Great Britain ranked thirty-sixth in the medals table, finishing below countries like Algeria, Belgium and Kazakhstan. It was their worst ever record, a dismal performance labelled a national disgrace. But then something happened. In Sydney in 2000 and then Athens in...
by João Rosa de Castro
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Even not having a “deceased author”, like in The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Saint Mary From The West develops, with much talent, the elements of the great novel by Machado de Assis, by placing them in a contemporary living that invites the reader to follow the reflections of a narrator character...