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Paisaje con dromedario

Autor: Saavedra, Carola

Número de Páginas: 142

Érika, artista plástica autoexiliada en una isla volcánica, registra en una grabadora mensajes en los que relata su vida diaria y los acontecimientos recientes de su vida con la intención de reconstruir su pasado y la profunda relación que mantuvo con Alex. Ambos estuvieron involucrados durante años en experiencias estéticas y existenciales, que incluyeron trabajos en sociedad y un triángulo amoroso inusual con la joven Karen, quien fallece de cáncer.

Teología en América Latina

Autor: José Ignacio Saranyana , Carmen José Alejos-grau

Número de Páginas: 40

En dos partes ofrece el marco de la vida teológica latinoamericana del siglo XIX y el ciclo concordatorio, así como la teología que legitimó las guerras de independencia. Se dedica un capítulo a los movimientos mesiánicos de Brasil.

Sam no es mi tío: Veinticuatro crónicas migrantes y un sueño americano

Autor: Varios Autores

Número de Páginas: 327

Con crónicas de Daniel Alarcón, Jorge Volpi, Santiago Roncagliolo, Ilán Stavans, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Claudia Piñeiro, Jon Lee Anderson, Joaquín Botero, João Paolo Cuenca, André de Leones, Aileen El-Kadi, Gabriela Esquivada, Diego Fonseca, Eduardo Halfon, Yuri Herrera, Hernán Iglesias Illa, Andrea Jeftanovic, Camilo Jiménez, Juan Pablo Meneses, Diego Enrique Osorno,Guillermo Osorno, Carola Saavedra, Wilbert Torre y Eloy Urroz. Veinticuatro cronistas participan en Sam no es mi tío, escritores, periodistas, y académicos latinoamericanos que se propusieron narrar América, las Américas. Para ellos la realidad está compuesta por millones de historias como las suyas que conforman nuestras sociedades. Estas crónicas son los relatos de la microhistoria americana contemporánea. Donde las eternas migraciones, la violencia, las partidas y los regresos, el éxito y la derrota, los cruces lingüísticos y culturales, el racismo y la xenofobia cohabitan dentro de un relato que permanecerá siempre incompleto. El lector de estas crónicas va a acompañar trayectos tan fascinantes como familiares. Se acercará a mundos bajos de los que ya escuchó hablar alguna vez. Reirá y...

Jours parfaits

Autor: Raphael Montes

Número de Páginas: 261

« Parsemée de grands élans d’humour noir, une histoire agile, tendue et troublante ! »Veja Téo, étudiant en médecine légale, passe le plus clair de son temps au laboratoire de la faculté à disséquer des cadavres. Il sort peu et ne s’intéresse pas aux femmes, jusqu’au soir où il rencontre Clarice. Ils n’ont qu’un bref échange, mais la jeune femme l’obsède et Téo commence à la suivre. Lorsqu’il apprend qu’elle s’apprête à partir plusieurs mois, il ne voit qu’une solution pour éviter la séparation : la kidnapper, la droguer et la séquestrer loin de tout. Une fois à sa merci, il aura le temps de lui prouver qu’ils sont faits l’un pour l’autre. Et il s’assurera que rien ni personne ne vienne entraver leurs jours parfaits. Traduit de portugais (Brésil) par François Rosso

Narradores del caos

Autor: Carlos Mario Correa Soto

Número de Páginas: 405

Narradores del caos es un juicioso seguimiento de la crónica periodística latinoamericana que permite conocer cómo se la concibe, cuáles son los temas que trata y aquellos que no, cuál es el papel del cronista y su importancia dentro de la historia que narra, aspectos que la han revelado como un género vigoroso y la han convertido en un gran crisol donde bulle la memoria de la humanidad narrada, desde México hasta la Patagonia.

Granta 121

Autor: John Freeman

Número de Páginas: 258

Since Granta's inaugural list of the Best of Young British Novelists in 1983 - featuring Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis and Julian Barnes - the Best of Young issues have been some of the magazine's most influential. In 2010, Granta looked beyond the English-speaking world with Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists. Now, with its first-ever issue fully translated from Portuguese in partnership with Granta em Português, the magazine continues its work of celebrating emerging talent from around the world. Submissions by young and promising authors from across Brazil have been read and discussed by a judging panel comprised of the country's foremost literary figures - including Manuel da Costa Pinto, coordinator of the Paraty Literary Festival, Cristovão Tezza is one of the most important writers in the country, and Benjamin Moser, author of a biography on Clarice Lispector. Their final choices will introduce the world to the diversity and uniqueness of Brazilian literature today.

Brésil 25 (2000-2015)

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 224

La production littéraire brésilienne dessine une mosaïque saisissante d’une réalité complexe. Il n’y a pas une littérature brésilienne mais des auteurs singuliers. Les 25 écrivains réunis dans ce recueil ont commencé ou consolidé leur carrière à partir des années 90. Ils représentent le Brésil de l’après-dictature, leurs histoires dressent le portrait de l’imaginaire d’un pays contradictoire et paradoxal, au moment où il émerge sur la scène internationale comme puissance politique et économique, et comme synonyme de corruption et de violence urbaine. - Introduction de Luiz Ruffato : Chico Buarque, On devrait interdire - traduit par Jacques Thiériot Ronaldo Correia de Brito, Un homme traversant des ponts - Traduit par Emilie Audigier Milton Hatoum, Barbara en hiver - Traduit par Michel Riaudel Critovao Tezza, Béatriz et la vieille dame - Traduit par Sébastien Roy Paulo Lins, Chronique de deux grandes amours - Traduit par Michel Riaudel Cintia Moscovich, Le toit et le violoniste - Traduit par Meei-huey Wang Marcal Aquino, Sept épitaphes pour une dame blanche - Traduit par Danielle Schramm Bernardo Carvalho, C'est juste une répétition - Traduit...

Constelación latinoamericana: intelectuales y escritores entre traducción, crítica y ficción

Autor: Marco Paone

Número de Páginas: 360

Este volumen se propone ahondar en el papel agencial de escritores, intelectuales y traductores en la conformación historiográfica y crítica de América Latina en clave transnacional e internacional. Cada contribución aporta una perspectiva diferente acerca de las actividades de mediación que estas figuras han desarrollado entre lenguas, artes, disciplinas y naciones diferentes con el fin de investigar nuevas formas de escritura literaria y crítica, repensar los conceptos de autoría y traductoría, analizar las redes informales e institucionales en las que estos mediadores participan, y hacer hincapié en la circulación de ideas y en la recepción de modelos literarios y culturales dentro y fuera de América Latina.

Yo he venido a hablar de mi libro

Autor: Vv. Aa.

Número de Páginas: 87

La idea que dio lugar a Yo he venido a hablar de mi libro (frase que confesamos que todo escritor que se precie ha querido decir al menos una vez en su vida) surgió en la Feria del Libro de Madrid de 2024; rememorando entre nosotros situaciones vividas en años anteriores surgió la pregunta: «¿Por qué no escribimos un libro de anécdotas de ferias?». Ese fue el punto de partida pero, como era de esperar, ni todas las que recoge este libro son anécdotas feriantes ni todas son experiencias reales, sino que cada cual ha escrito… lo que le ha salido del alma. Y muy bien: ante todo la libertad creativa (por no decir que somos un gremio un poco ingobernable). Espero que disfruten de estos relatos tanto como nosotros escribiéndolos. Y, sobre todo, no dejen, por favor, de leer, de asistir a las ferias, de que escritores desconocidos les enreden con sus historias. Permítannos soñar con dedicarnos algún día de manera exclusiva a nuestra pasión. Y, sobre todo, compren libros, no pirateen; y si son libros de autores a los que no conocen, mejor: podemos sorprenderles gratamente y, además, tendremos más posibilidades de que nos publiquen el siguiente. (Esta última frase me la...

Juicio Ejecutivo de Cobro de Impuesto Territorial

Autor: Fernando Ugarte Vial

Número de Páginas: 265

Este libro estudia el juicio ejecutivo de cobro de impuesto territorial en los diversos problemas que enfrentan tanto los dueños de inmuebles como los jueces, y ofrece soluciones prácticas a la luz de la jurisprudencia de los tribunales de justicia. El autor analiza la naturaleza jurídica de la obligación de pagar el impuesto territorial y el patrimonio en que la ejecutante puede hacer efectivo el crédito fiscal, así como el juicio ejecutivo de cobro de contribuciones morosas. También se incluye una revisión histórica de las normas e instituciones, que permite comprender su evolución hasta las actualmente vigentes, y se abordan los vicios y errores que suelen tener lugar en la tramitación de este juicio. Finalmente se presenta una exhaustiva revisión de decenas de fallos y un análisis crítico de los más significativos. Esta obra constituye una valiosa contribución al estudio del juicio ejecutivo de cobro de impuesto territorial y tanto por su rigor conceptual, como por su espíritu práctico y lenguaje accesible, es una guía de gran utilidad para jueces y abogados.

The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship

Autor: Daniel Fisher-livne , Michelle May-curry

Número de Páginas: 607

Across humanities disciplines, public scholarship brings academics and community members and organizations together in mutually-beneficial partnership for research, teaching, and programming. While the field of publicly engaged humanities scholarship has been growing for some time, there are few volumes that have attempted to define and represent its scope. The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship brings together wide-ranging case studies sharing perspectives on this work, grounded in its practice in the United States. The collection begins with chapters reflecting on theories and practices of public humanities scholarship. The case studies that follow are organized around six areas of particular impact in public humanities scholarship: Informing contemporary debates; amplifying community voices and histories; helping individuals and communities navigate difficult experiences; preserving culture in times of crisis and change; expanding educational access; and building and supporting public scholarship. The Companion concludes with a glossary, introducing select concepts. Taken together, these resources offer an overview for students and practitioners of public...

A cidade e a casa

Autor: Natalia Ginzburg

Número de Páginas: 295

Ao contar, por meio de cartas, histórias de amizade, amor e perdas, A cidade e a casa traz de volta o estilo inconfundível de Natalia Ginzburg, capaz de extrair das miudezas do dia a dia um profundo sentido humano. Um conjunto de cartas narra a vida de um grupo de amigos na Itália da virada dos anos 1970 para os 1980. A história começa com a ida de um deles para os Estados Unidos, onde o plano de viver com o irmão professor em Princeton parece promissor, e termina no relato resignado que uma mulher, devastada pela passagem do tempo, faz de um antigo amante com "longo nariz" e mãos "sempre frias, mesmo quando fazia calor". Entre uma coisa e outra há mortes, desencontros, separações. É verdade que A cidade e a casa pode ser lido a partir da dicotomia sugerida pelo próprio título: um romance sobre a dissolução familiar que reflete (ou impulsiona) uma dissolução maior, numa época politicamente turbulenta para a sociedade italiana. Mas a melancolia é só um ponto de partida: a energia da prosa de Natalia Ginzburg, autora capaz de extrair grande intensidade e beleza do cotidiano, é um farol que sempre aponta para um mundo mais humano e generoso. Nos variados tons das ...

Vida conyugal, maltrato y abandono

Autor: Francisca Rengifo S.

Número de Páginas: 263

El divorcio eclesiástico fue la vía legalmente institucionalizada en Chile para resolver los conflictos conyugales hasta 1884. Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, el matrimonio era una institución social definida por el derecho canónico en cuanto a su validez, nulidad y separación, y sus efectos sobre la persona y los bienes de los cónyuges eran regulados por el Código Civil. De esta forma, ambas justicias –la eclesiástica y la civil- se combinaron para resolver los conflictos conyugales. Bajo este marco jurídico, la autora estudia el quiebre del matrimonio a través de los pleitos de divorcio y cómo los esposos contendientes esgrimieron un concepto de orden conyugal socialmente aceptado y legalmente definido en defensa de sus respectivas posturas. La ruptura marital muestra la tensión entre la obediencia de la esposa y el deber de protección del marido expresada en las demandas por maltrato y abandono. La discusión sobre los límites de las prerrogativas de mando y corrección que competían al hombre en el ejercicio de su potestad marital revela un concepto de matrimonio jerárquico que establecía la subordinación legal de la mujer y cómo ella utilizó el...

Ciberfeminismos, tecnotextualidades y transgéneros

Autor: Isabel Navas Ocaña , Dolores Romero López

Número de Páginas: 381

¿Qué es el ciberfemismo? ¿Cómo está evolucionando el texto literario en la era digital? ¿Cómo interaccionan los géneros con los formatos digitales? En Ciberfeminismos, tecnotextualidades y transgéneros. Literatura digital en español escrita por mujeres se recogen las reflexiones sobre su propia práctica artística de creadoras digitales como Belén Gache, María Mencía, Tina Escaja y Alex Saum para enriquecerla con aspectos teóricos y críticos de investigaciones que contextualizan su obra y la de otras mujeres (Dora García, Belén García Nieto, Lidia Bocanegra, Mariela Yeregui, Frida Robles, etc.), y la ponen en valor dentro del conjunto de la creación digital en el ámbito hispánico. En este volumen colectivo se pone de manifiesto, desde distintas perspectivas, cómo las creadoras de literatura digital en español se hacen eco en sus obras de universos simbólicos donde lo femenino transita en la búsqueda de nuevas identidades multiculturales, transnacionales y plurilingüísticas. De esta manera, la reflexión sobre la práctica de la literatura digital se imbrica a menudo con el planteamiento de cuestiones sobre la identidad, el cuerpo, la memoria o la...

Terra fresca da sua tumba

Autor: Giovanna Rivero

Número de Páginas: 154

O ruído da terra estrangeira, o fantástico e o macabro emaranhados no cotidiano, a crueldade de que só a família é capaz. Tramas de vingança e reconciliação circundam o abismo da morte e do trauma, em uma prosa intrépida e sensível, que extrai do dia a dia uma beleza brutal. Os seis contos longos que compõem a estreia em livro no Brasil da boliviana Giovanna Rivero são um chamado a outras vidas possíveis; expurgo e oração. "Tierra fresca de su tumba" foi publicado no idioma original na Argentina (Marciana, 2020); na Bolívia (El Cuervo, 2020); na Espanha (Candaya, 2021); e no Chile (Los libros de la mujer rota, 2022). Alguns contos foram traduzidos para o italiano e incluídos no livro "Ricomporre amorevoli scheletri" (Gran Via, Itália, 2020). A edição em português, "Terra fresca da sua tumba", é o primeiro livro da autora lançado no Brasil, em coedição das editoras Incompleta e Jandaíra. Apresentação de Carola Saavedra. Posfácio de Paloma Franca Amorim. Tradução de Laura Del Rey.

Literatura brasileira & contemporaneidade

Autor: Cimara Valim De Melo (org.)

Número de Páginas: 248

Literatura brasileira & contemporaneidade: uma perspectiva transnacional concentra-se nos processos transnacionais experimentados pela literatura brasileira contemporânea, seja na forma como ela tem absorvido os reflexos da globalização e experimentado trânsitos culturais e geográficos, seja na relação que trava com processos tradutórios dentro e para além de seu sistema literário. Os ensaios aqui presentes reúnem pesquisadores do Brasil e do Reino Unido, cujos estudos – dentro dos eixos temáticos “O romance brasileiro contemporâneo em trânsito” e “Mercado cultural e literatura brasileira em trânsito” – buscam refletir sobre as letras brasileiras a partir de uma abordagem crosscultural e em suas conexões com diferentes tempo-espaços, artes e linguagens.

Applied Computer Sciences in Engineering

Autor: Juan Carlos Figueroa-garcía , Eduyn Ramiro López-santana , José Ignacio Rodriguez-molano

Número de Páginas: 635

This two-volume set (CCIS 915 and CCIS 916) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Engineering Applications, WEA 2018, held in Medellín, Colombia, in October 2018. The 50 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from126 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as computer science; computational intelligence; simulation systems; software engineering; power and energy applications.

Computational Neuroscience

Autor: Dante Augusto Couto Barone , Eduardo Oliveira Teles , Christian Puhlmann Brackmann

Número de Páginas: 194

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop of Computational Neuroscience, held in Porto Allegre, Brazil, in November 2017.The 12 full papers and 3 short papers presented have been thoroughly reviewed andselected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: neural networks; artificial intelligence; computer vision; machine learning; graphic systems and interfaces; decision trees; nonlinear equations; nano-electromechanical systems.

Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications

Autor: José Francisco Martínez-trinidad , Jesús Ariel Carrasco Ochoa , Josef Kittler

Número de Páginas: 1014

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2006, held in Cancun, Mexico in November 2006. The 99 revised full papers presented together with three keynote articles were carefully reviewed and selected from 239 submissions. The papers cover ongoing research and mathematical methods.

Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications

Autor: Manuel Lazo , Alberto Sanfeliu

Número de Páginas: 1114

CIARP 2005 (10th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, X CIARP) is the 10th event in the series of pioneer congresses on pattern recognition in the Iberoamerican community, which takes place in La Habana, Cuba. As in previous years, X CIARP brought together international scientists to promote and disseminate ongoing research and mathematical methods for pattern recognition, image analysis, and applications in such diverse areas as computer vision, robotics, industry, health, entertainment, space exploration, telecommunications, data mining, document analysis, and natural language processing and recognition, to name a few. Moreover, X CIARP was a forum for scientific research, experience exchange, share of new knowledge and increase in cooperation between research groups in pattern recognition, computer vision and related areas. The 10th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition was organized by the Cuban Association for Pattern Recognition (ACRP) and sponsored by the Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics (ICIMAF), the Advanced Technologies Application Center (CENATAV), the University of Oriente (UO), the Polytechnic Institute “José A Echevarria”...

Terre noire

Autor: Rita Carelli

Número de Páginas: 180

À travers le monde, les terres noires, exceptionnellement fertiles, sont la preuve d’une activité humaine qui les a fertilisées depuis des millénaires. Les terres noires amazoniennes montrent que la jungle actuelle n’est pas une forêt primaire mais qu’elle est le résultat du travail des occupants indiens qui l’ont cultivée bien avant la période historique connue. Le père de l’héroïne est un archéologue qui fouille ces territoires pour prouver cette occupation humaine. À la mort soudaine de sa mère, Ana suit son père dans une tribu amazonienne et entre en contact avec la nature et la cosmogonie indienne. Adolescente timide, elle observe la vie de la tribu qui l’accueille. Ses relations avec le groupe des jeunes de la tribu sont plus faciles que celles qu’elle avait au collège. Dans la forêt, elle est exotique mais acceptée telle qu’elle est. Ana établit des relations d’amitié clandestines avec une jeune fille de son âge soumise à l’isolement traditionnel de l’initiation. Kassuri est là pour apprendre à être une femme, à la fin de la réclusion elle se mariera. Ana, elle, est livrée à elle-même, personne ne lui apprendra ce...

New Narratives on the Peopling of America

Autor: T. Alexander Aleinikoff , Alexandra Délano Alonso

Número de Páginas: 489

Why an account of "the peopling" of the United States must include the stories of indigenous people, enslaved persons, and those living in territories and foreign nations taken and acquired by the United States. In New Narratives on the Peopling of America, editors T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso present an extraordinary collection of original essays that reshape our understanding of the peopling of the United States. This thought-provoking volume goes beyond conventional accounts of immigration by reexamining narratives about foreign-born populations in the United States. It situates them as part of a larger story of forced displacement and dispossession that needs to include indigenous people, enslaved persons, deported and returned migrants, and those residing in territories and foreign nations acquired by the United States. The diverse range of contributors—which include academics, journalists, artists, legal scholars, and activists—confront complex topics such as migration, racial justice, tribal sovereignty, and the pursuit of equality. As nationalism, globalization, and economic challenges reshape the social and political landscape, this timely...

Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

Autor: Karl Erik Schollhammer

Número de Páginas: 191

This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus, an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary, and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic, ethical, and political role of literature and art in the twentieth century. In contemporary Brazilian prose, two simultaneous ambitions are often reconciled. The commitment to individual or social reality is a challenge that is assumed without thereby necessarily accepting and following the molds of the traditional search for national or cultural identities. This foundation is one of the constants of contemporary prose, without thereby eliminating the continuous existence of a formal experimentalism that is the clearest heir of the modernist project.

Contemporary Middle Class in Latin America

Autor: Omar Pereyra

Número de Páginas: 159

In the last decades, the Latin American middle class is growing in size while becoming more heterogeneous. Sustained economic growth explains its increasing size, but behind its heterogeneity there is not only the diversification of lifestyles, but also the crystallization of a large process of upward social mobility of second and third generation migrants to capital cities and their incorporation into middle-class positions. In the last decades, these individuals are now part of the different spheres of socialization formerly occupied by the traditional middle class: private schools, college and universities, middle-class jobs and occupations, and traditional middle-class neighborhoods. To explore the genesis of this phenomenon and its consequences, the author studies Residential San Felipe, a quintessential traditional middle-class neighborhood in Lima, Peru, which is currently receiving an important influx of upwardly mobile families. The case of San Felipe shows that inside the contemporary middle class a strong boundary between the “traditional middle class” and the “new middle class” permeates the everyday life of the neighborhood. However, though this difference...

Perfect Days

Autor: Raphael Montes

Número de Páginas: 273

A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writer. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver—that is, until he meets Clarice. She's almost his exact opposite: exotic, spontaneous, unafraid to speak her mind. An aspiring screenwriter, she's working on a screenplay called Perfect Days about three friends who go on a road trip across Brazil in search of romance. Teo is obsessed. He begins to stalk her, first following her to her university, then to her home, and when she ultimately rejects him, he kidnaps her and they embark upon their very own twisted odyssey across Brazil, tracing the same route outlined in her screenplay. Through it all, Teo is certain that time is all he needs to prove to Clarice that they are made for each other, that time is all he needs to make her fall in love with him. But as the journey progresses, he digs himself deeper and deeper into ...

A Viagem na Literatura

Autor: Manuela Rodrigues Furtado

Número de Páginas: 123

Esta dissertação visa a discutir e refletir sobre o tema viagem a partir de dois conceitos: o deslocamento e o despaisamento. A viagem é vista como um processo, uma jornada que se dá por duas vias, a física e a metafórica. Trata-se aqui de compreender tais conceitos com base em ideias dos teóricos Michel Onfray, Renato Modernell e Alain de Botton, principalmente. Parte-se de termos como espaço e tempo, dimensão e intervalo; é apresentado ainda um terceiro entendimento, o do processo de individuação. Este comporta as forças afetivas e efetivas – emocionais e morais – das experiências vividas pelo indivíduo na viagem da vida, no constructo de sua subjetivação. Assim, tomada como ação que exige uma locomoção – o sair de um lugar para outro – e um translocamento – uma mudança de contexto –, a viagem é abordada como o viver de uma experiência que não somente nos desloca, mas também nos transforma. Nossas vivências e os sentimentos nelas compreendidos, nossas escolhas e atitudes éticas e morais, nos mudam a cada passo, como seres históricos, sociais e culturais que somos, em constante experimentação e ressignificação de nossos olhares e de...

Stairway to Murder (A Detective Joe Ezell Mystery, Book 2)

Autor: P.j. Conn

Número de Páginas: 206

". . . a gumshoe you'd like to spend time with . . . a sweet love story and a good mystery with a satisfying ending." ~Pete Croisant, eBook Discovery Reviewer VA Nurse Found Dead, Murderer At Large in Stairway to Murder by P.J. Conn -- Los Angeles, California, Summer, 1947 -- World War II G.I. turned gumshoe, Joe Ezell is hunting a murderer. A Los Angeles VA hospital nurse has been found dead, and RN Mary McBride, the love of Joe's life, is next. Has the Black Dahlia killer struck again or was it one of the VA hospital doctors trying to keep a malpractice case under wraps? There are too many suspects, too few leads, and LAPD Detective Lynch is thwarting Joe's every move. If Joe doesn't succeed, he'll never get the chance to slip a ring on Mary's finger. Publisher Note: The Detective Joe Ezell Mystery Series is a "clean and wholesome" read with no sex or vulgar language and will be enjoyed by readers of cozy mysteries and classic detective "whodunit" mysteries in the spirit of Sam Spade and Humphrey Bogart. While not a true noir or hard-boiled mystery, this series captures the charm of film noir without the drugs, sex and beatings. "This is a wonderful series. The period facts are...

Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications

Autor: Ruben Vera-rodriguez , Julian Fierrez , Aythami Morales

Número de Páginas: 1001

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 23rd Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2018, held in Madrid, Spain, in November 2018 The 112 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 187 submissions The program was comprised of 6 oral sessions on the following topics: machine learning, computer vision, classification, biometrics and medical applications, and brain signals, and also on: text and character analysis, human interaction, and sentiment analysis

Cohabitation and Marriage in the Americas: Geo-historical Legacies and New Trends

Autor: Albert Esteve , Ron J. Lesthaeghe

Número de Páginas: 311

This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. Using an extensive sample of individual census data for nearly all countries on the continent, it offers a cross-national, comparative view of this recent demographic trend and its impact on the family. The book offers a tour of the historical legacies and regional heterogeneity in unmarried cohabitation, covering: Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, Colombia, the Andean region, Brazil, and the Southern Cone. It also explores the diverse meanings of cohabitation from a cross-national perspective and examines the theoretical implications of recent developments on family change in the Americas. The book uses data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International (IPUMS), a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. This large sample size enables an empirical testing of one of the currently most powerful explanatory frameworks for changes in family formation around the world, the theory of the Second Demographic Transition. With its unique geographical scope, this book will provide...

Recent Research on Geotechnical Engineering, Remote Sensing, Geophysics and Earthquake Seismology

Autor: Mourad Bezzeghoud , Zeynal Abiddin Ergüler , Jesús Rodrigo-comino , Mahesh Kumar Jat , Roohollah Kalatehjari , Deepak Singh Bisht , Arkoprovo Biswas , Helder I. Chaminé , Afroz Ahmad Shah , Ahmed E. Radwan , Jasper Knight , Dionysia Panagoulia , Amjad Kallel , Veysel Turan , Haroun Chenchouni , Attila Ciner , Matteo Gentilucci

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This book is based on the accepted papers for presentation at the 2nd MedGU Annual Meeting, Marrakesh 2022. With five parts spanning a large spectrum of geological and geophysical topics, this book presents a series of newest research studies that are nowadays relevant to Middle East, Mediterranean region, and Africa. The book includes the latest research studies on seismic hazard and risk assessment, earthquake geodesy, seismotectonics, archeoseismology and active faulting, well logging methods, geodesy and exploration/theoretical geophysics, geological engineering, geotechnical engineering, numerical and analytical methods in mining sciences and geomechanics, and geo-informatics and remote sensing.

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Autor: Vanessa Agredo-delgado , Pablo H. Ruiz , Carlos Augusto Meneses Escobar

Número de Páginas: 368

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Iberoamerican Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI-COLLAB 2024, held in Pereira, Colombia, during June 4–7, 2024. The 26 full papers presented here were carefully selected and reviewed from 85 submissions. Among the topics addressed in this edition were key areas such as accessibility, usability, video games and gamification, computational thinking, Internet of Things (IoT), software engineering, information and communication technologies (ICT) in education, virtual, augmented and mixed reality applied to education, artificial intelligence in HCI, industry 4.0, infotainment systems, collaborative work and learning, cognition and interaction. The diversity and topicality of these topics reflect the breadth of the discipline and its relevance to meet the technological and social challenges of today's world.

Poéticas da Diversidade: Estudos de Literatura na Contemporaneidade

Autor: Paulo Cesar Silva De Oliveira , Shirley De Souza Gomes Carreira

Número de Páginas: 157

Poéticas da diversidade: estudos de literatura na contemporaneidade é uma coletânea de textos que contempla as representações da diversidade, por meio do discurso literário, e assume a missão de olhar (para) o outro, não se detendo apenas à questão da diversidade social, mas abarcando, também, as diferentes formas de apreensão do objeto estético literário, seja por meio da análise das construções formais das obras literárias e críticas investigadas, seja pelo exame do papel do escritor-intelectual no âmbito do discurso. A tônica da obra recai na problemática das questões identitárias em um mundo globalizado e nos fenômenos sociais, culturais e políticos da modernidade tardia, o que a torna uma leitura valiosa para uma reflexão mais ampla sobre os múltiplos modos de pensar a diversidade.

American English File 3E Level 5 Student Book

Autor: Christina Latham-koenig , Clive Oxenden , Jerry Lambert

Número de Páginas: 180

American English File Second Edition retains the popular methodology developed by world-renowned authors Christina Latham-Koenig and Clive Oxenden: language + motivation = opportunity. With grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation practice in every lesson, students are equipped with a solid foundation for successful speaking. Plus - an array of digital resources provides even more choice and flexibility. Students can learn in the classroom or on the move with Online Practice. language assessment. The first goal is to explore the difference between fairness and justice in language assessment. The authors distinguish internal and external dimensions of the equitable and just treatment of individuals taking language tests which are used as gatekeeping devices to determine access to education and employment, immigrant status, citizenship, and other rights. The second goal is to show how the extent of test fairness can be demonstrated and improved using the tools of psychometrics, in particular the models collectively known as Rasch measurement. “This book will have an enormous impact on the field of language assessment. Using Rasch analysis models to explore and identify sources of...

Ser el otro. Apuntes sobre la traducción literaria y versiones de poesías italianas contemporáneas

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Guía administrativo publicado por encargo del Ministerio del Interior para el servicio de las intendencias y gobernaciones de la República

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