Alberto: 1641 books
Variational Approach to Gravity Field Theories
From Newton to Einstein and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
This book offers a detailed and stimulating account of the Lagrangian, or variational, approach to general relativity and beyond. The approach more usually adopted when describing general relativity is to introduce the required concepts of differential geometry and derive the field and geodesic equations...
Crisis, Austerity, and Transformation
How Disciplinary Neoliberalism Is Changing Portugal
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Discussions of the recent austerity measures in Southern Europe as a response to the sovereign debt crisis have been usually framed in terms of their economic impact. However, the general impoverishment of these countries has induced other massive social and political changes, a fact which is ignored...
Democracy, Education, and Multiculturalism
Dilemmas of Citizenship in a Global World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1998
This important book looks at developments that are changing our understanding of the role of education in citizenship and the possibilities of democratic participation. The first chapter reviews theories of citizenship and education based on the classical contributions to political theory of C.B....
Leading Rogue State
The U.S. and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Most Americans would be surprised to learn that their government has declined to join most other nations in UN treaties addressing inadequate housing, poverty, children's rights, health care, racial discrimination, and migrant workers. Yet this book documents how the U.S. has, for decades, declined...
by Direttore Generale Alberto Mingardi
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This volume makes a compelling case for the continued relevance and significance of Herbert Spencer (1820-1904), one of the foremost intellectuals of the Victorian era whose work now tends to be regarded as being of purely historical interest.
One of the originators of the evolutionary classical...
Justice in the United States
Human Rights and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
Justice in the U.S. is a sequel to Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision, and the second in a trilogy on human rights. The Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution explicitly clarifies the personal political and civil rights of persons, and by court interpretation, the rights of corporations. Yet...
Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces
Somos de Una Voz?
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Taking up the charge to study discourses of marginalized groups, while simultaneously extending scholarship about Latina/os in the field of Communication, Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz? provides the most current work examining the vernacular voices of Latina/os. The editors...
Leyendas urbanas
Entre la leyenda y la superstición
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Una colección de historias que le pondrá los pelos de punta o le hará sonreír. En cualquier caso, una forma entretenida de conocer los miedos y supersticiones que, en mayor o menor grado, todos compartimos.
Las historias fantásticas nos acompañan desde el principio de los tiempos, relatadas...
by Alberto Granados
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Fraudes, errores, experimentos inauditos... Todas las respuestas a tus preguntas sobre el mundo científico.
Desde los albores del mundo el ser humano ha satisfecho sus ansias de conocimiento con la experimentación y la observación de su entorno para encontrar respuestas a preguntas aparentemente...
Freshwater Crustaceans (Malcostraca) in Connecticut
Including Some Notes Regarding Their Re-Population in Connecticut After the Ice Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
More than 850 freshwater crustacean collections were done since 1959 by a number of researchers including me. All the crustaceans in this paper consist of isopods, amphipods, crayfish and freshwater shrimp were identified to species and their collection localities were marked on a map of Connecticut,...
Variable Lebesgue Spaces
Foundations and Harmonic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
This book provides an accessible introduction to the theory of variable Lebesgue spaces. These spaces generalize the classical Lebesgue spaces by replacing the constant exponent p with a variable exponent p(x). They were introduced in the early 1930s but have become the focus of renewed interest since...
Perdidas
Histórias para crianças que não têm vez
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Contos e poemas para as meninas e meninos mortos por bala perdida no Rio de Janeiro, por escritores consagrados. Projeto originalmente publicado, de forma anônima, na São Paulo Review. Parte da receita desta edição será revertida para ações de educação e atendimento de jovens em comunidades cariocas.
by Alberto Mussa
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 30, 2017
O mais novo romance de um dos mais aclamados autores da literatura brasileira, que une mitologia indígena e africana, criando um cenário mítico tipicamente brasileiro. Tiros na noite e um crime: são misteriosas as circunstâncias que envolvem o assassinato de Domitila, filha do coronel Chico Eugênio....
by Alberto Pian
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Una guida introduttiva per l'avviamento al pensiero computazionale e alla programmazione informatica attraverso strumenti e metodi facilmente utilizzabili, che non richiedono una conoscenza approfondita del computer e dei linguaggi di programmazione. L'opera ha un taglio interdisciplinare; propone esperienze...