Mar: 1984 books

Modern and Contemporary American Literature is a course book especially designed for students of UNED s Literatura Norteamericana II: Moderna y Contemporánea of the Grado en Estudios Ingleses: Lengua, Literatura y Cultura. It offers a survey of the main authors, texts and concerns of twentieth-century...

New image-processing tools and data-processing network systems have considerably increased the volume of transmitted information such as 2D and 3D images with high resolution. Thus, more complex networks and long processing times become necessary, and high image quality and transmission speeds are...

This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians and ethicists on the topic of social justice. Each essay mines the major themes present in Augustine's extensive corpus...

The Euro in the 21st Century clarifies the perception of the euro and empirically demonstrates that the euro has become a true common currency and the Eurozone a true optimal currency area, presenting, in turn, a model to imitate. In order to demonstrate this, this study analyzes the economic and...

In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from South Dakota, Zora Neale Hurston, an African American woman from Florida, and Jovita González, a Mexican American woman from the Texas borderlands, achieved...

The certification of the structural integrity of buildings, bridges, and mechanical components is one of the main goals of engineers. For civil engineers especially, understanding the tools available for infrastructure analysis is an essential part of designing, constructing, and maintaining safe...

This book reports on a set of new techniques for resolving current issues in networked control systems. The main focus is on strategies for event-based control, for both centralized and decentralized architectures. The first part of the book addresses the problem of single-loop networked control systems...

Este breve diccionario de textos recorre el itinerario intelectual de Newman, y ofrece las grandes líneas de su pensamiento teológico, ascético-espiritual e histórico. Sus citas son una bendición para los comunicadores en asuntos religiosos y espirituales, y ayudan a entender cómo la vida y...

Nanomaterials are defined as materials in which at least one length dimension is below 100 nanometers. In this size regime, these materials exhibit particular - and tunable - optical, electrical or mechanical properties that are not present at the macro-scale. This opens up the possibility for a plethora...

INDUSTRIAL BIORENEWABLES A Practical Viewpoint This unique text provides an in-depth industrial view in its discussion of industrial biorenewables; industries report on real cases of biorenewables, dealing with economics, the motivation of implementing industrial biorenewable-based processes,...

Conozca la apasionante historia de los estilos musicales de cada período, desde la prehistoria, el renacimiento, barroco, clásico hasta el rock y el jazz en el siglo XX. Una visión moderna, rigurosa y sintética de los principales hitos de la historia de la música y sus protagonistas. Conozca...

I Love Men is a self-help book. It focuses on the positive aspects of men. They are required to do many things that sometimes are not easy to achieve or reach. Many of them have childhood experiences that make them cry, and they have been told on many occasions that men dont cry. In fact, men of good...

In a fascinating story of 220 pages, through a selection of more than 300 images from 65 archives in America, Europe and Asia; the Mexican Football Federation and Cooperativa La Joplin celebrate, in an unprecedented and playful way, one of the great contributions of Mexico to all humanity: the ball.The...

A l'approche des fêtes, Pierre, jovial directeur d'une succursale de la SAQ, et sa charmante femme Johanne, propriétaire d'une boutique de produits naturels, s'apprêtent à affronter la tempête de clients qui envahiront bientôt leurs magasins. Toutefois, ils sont loin de se douter que la fureur...