Jorge: 1196 books
by Jorge Luis González-Velázquez
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This book presents fractography and failure analysis at a level that is accessible for non-expert readers, without losing scientific rigor. It offers a comprehensive description of fracture surfaces in engineering materials, with an emphasis on metals, and of the methodology for the observation of...
by Jorge Ancheyta
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Modeling and Simulation of Catalytic Reactors for Petroleum Refining deals with fundamental descriptions of the main conversion processes employed in the petroleum refining industry: catalytic hydrotreating, catalytic reforming, and fluid catalytic cracking. Common approaches for modeling of catalytic...
The Trump Effect and Brexit
The 2016 United States Elections and the 2017 European Elections
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
A free reflection about Questions, Challenges and Threats posed to the Contemporary World:
How was it possible what happened and continues
to happen in Aleppo?
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How is it possible that a new form of Censorship
is being promoted in the West?
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The “useful idiots”, the “Charlatans of Jihadism”,...
by Ruby Mrs. Randall, Jorge Mr. Shepherd, Frits Mr. Van Beek
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2000
The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank is one of just a few regional central banks in the world and the only one where the member countries have pooled all their foreign reserves, the convertability of the common currency is fully self-supported, and the parity of the exchange rate has not changed. This...
Heat Transfer
A Problem Solving Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
A core task of engineers is to analyse energy related problems. The analytical treatment is usually based on principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer, but is increasingly being handled computationally.
This unique resource presents a practical textbook, written for both undergraduates...
Cuba's Second Economy
From behind the Scenes to Center Stage
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Without doubt, Cuba is facing its most serious economic challenge in nearly thirty-five years of revolutionary rule. There is consensus that as the official, centrally planned economy has faltered, ordinary citizens eke out a living only by engaging in under-the-table, unrecorded, and mostly illegal...
Gaudete et exsultate
Esortazione apostolica sulla chiamata alla santità nel mondo contemporaneo. In appendice Lettera Placuit Deo
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 16, 2018
"Mi piace vedere la santità nel popolo di Dio paziente: nei genitori che crescono con tanto amore i loro figli, negli uomini e nelle donne che lavorano per portare il pane a casa, nei malati, nelle religiose anziane che continuano a sorridere. Questa è tante volte la santità della porta accanto."...
Utopia Unarmed
The Latin American Left After the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Castro's Cuba is isolated; the guerrillas who once spread havoc through Uruguay and Argentina are dead, dispersed, or running for office as moderates. And in 1990, Nicaragua's Sandinistas were rejected at the polls by their own constituents. Are these symptoms of the fall of the Latin American left?...
Sport Mega-Events in Emerging Economies
The South American Games of Santiago 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Chile and the South American Games of Santiago 2014 offers an interesting case to examine an event of sizeable magnitude in a country with little history of hosting sport mega-events (SMEs). This case study will expand the readers understanding of third-order SMEs like the South American Games and...
by John R. Sabin, Erkki J. Brandas, Michael C. Zerner
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1998
Quantum mechanics can describe the detailed structure and behavior of matter, from electrons, atoms, and molecules, to the whole universe. It is one of the fields of knowledge that yield extraordinary precessions, limited only by the computational resources available. Among these methods is density...
by Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, Hong Liu, David Mateos
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Heavy ion collision experiments recreating the quark-gluon plasma that filled the microseconds-old universe have established that it is a nearly perfect liquid that flows with such minimal dissipation that it cannot be seen as made of particles. String theory provides a powerful toolbox for studying...
Syncing the Americas
José Martí and the Shaping of National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The essays in this collection reflect two of Martí’s key observations during his time in the United States: first, how did he, an exile living in New York, view and read his North American neighbors from a sociocultural, political and literary perspective? Second, how did his perception of the...
Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida
Block-Experiments in Cosmococa—Program in Progress
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
An illustrated study that casts a new light on Oiticicas most important work of “quasi-cinema” on its fortieth anniversary.
by Jorge Guzman
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
While known in Chile mostly for his historical novels, JOB BOJ should introduce Guzman to American readers as a missed treasure of the Latin American literary boom of the 60's and 70's.