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La sociedad del siglo XXI demanda nuevas vías de solución de conflictos que ofrezcan al ciudadano una respuesta más rápida, eficaz y satisfactoria, y es en este marco donde la mediación en los últimos años se viene mostrando como un mecanismo especialmente adecuado para la gestión de un buen...

In the comparative physiology of photoreception by the Protista and the invertebrates two aspects are emphasized: (1) the diversity of visual processes in these groups and (2) their bearing upon general mechanisms of photoreception. Invertebrates have evolved a far greater variety of adaptations than...

This is the story of lives that become ruined by jealousy and greed. Three children who grew up together as best friends change as they become adults and the eternal triangle becomes an obsessive problem when both the males fall for the same girl. The girl chooses one of them and the other man tries...

An African American boy being raised by a white family in the 1950s struggles to learn to be a man, and specifically a black man, amid the building tensions of the early Civil Rights Movement.

Jamie McAlister was born Chaim Metzger. He survived Buchenwald as a four-year-old; now it’s 1953 and he’s been adopted by an American family in which he’s the only Jew. At his bar mitzvah, he realizes he needs to come to terms with his identity and with the demons of his past. This is the story of his journey to self-discovery, and of the family that helps him make it.

Esta obra abrirá a los lectores las puertas de un micromundo poco conocido, pero que como argumentan los autores, es una más de las claves para entender la dinámica de la desigualdad en la sociedad mexicana. A la vez, es un ejercicio teórico de empalmar tres esquemas teóricos previamente separados,...

Published in 1901, M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud is an early "last man" science fiction novel. Foretold by a priest as being against the will of God, Adam Jeffson's Arctic expedition unleashes a terrible fate on the world - a mysterious purple cloud that spreads far into the heavens and across the earth....

The international version includes all material covered in the standard edition, but numerical data and calculations are expressed in Système International (SI) units. Bringing to the forefront the most critical areas of effective energy cost cutting, this fully revised edition of this best-selling...

Sri M. P. Pandit goes through Sri Aurobindos epic poem Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol and provides us a systematic prose summary of the poem with its key issues, points and organization, opening up Sri Aurobindos master work in a useful and concise way.

Completely revised and edited throughout, includes four new chapters covering electrical distribution systems; motors and drives; building commissioning; and the impact of human behavior on facility energy management. Also updated are chapters on lighting, HVAC systems, web based building automation...