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  • The Civilising Process of Portuguese Bullfighting

    Warriors, Courtiers, Professionals...and Barbarians?

    by Fernando Ampudia de Haro ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book uses Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilising process to provide a sociological and historical study of Portuguese bullfighting. Its aim is to understand how bullfighting is historically configured according to the transformations undergone by the society in which it takes place. This means that bullfighting is approached in terms of its relationship with factors such as social structure ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology

    Edited by Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Haizhou Li ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents the outcomes of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), “Towards creating more human-like conversational agent technologies”. It compiles and provides a synopsis of current global research to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances in the context of the classical problems of language understanding, dialogue ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade

    Edited by Luis Fernando D'Haro, Zoraida Callejas, Satoshi Nakamura ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book compiles and presents a synopsis on current global research efforts to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances to the classical problems of dialogue management, language generation, question answering, human–robot interaction, chatbots design and evaluation, as well as topics related to the human nature of the conversational phenomena such as humour ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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  • Multimedia Information Extraction

    Advances in Video, Audio, and Imagery Analysis for Search, Data Mining, Surveillance and Authoring

    by Mark T. Maybury ...
    The advent of increasingly large consumer collections of audio (e.g., iTunes), imagery (e.g., Flickr), and video (e.g., YouTube) is driving a need not only for multimedia retrieval but also information extraction from and across media. Furthermore, industrial and government collections fuel requirements for stock media access, media preservation, broadcast news retrieval, identity management, and ... Read more

    $96.00 USD

  • Capoeira

    The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art

    by Matthias Röhrig Assunção ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Originally the preserve of Afro-Brazilian slaves, the marginalized and the underclasses in Brazilian society, capoeira is now a mainstream sport, taught in Brazilian schools and practised by a range of social classes around the world. Some advocates now seek Olympic recognition for Capoeira. This apparent change in the meaning and purpose of Capeoira has led to conflicts between traditionalists, ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

  • Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions

    Edited by Amy Neustein, Judith A. Markowitz ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    "Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions" presents the discussion of the most recent advances in intelligent human-computer interaction, including fascinating new study findings on talk-in-interaction, which is the province of conversation analysis, a subfield in sociology/sociolinguistics, a new and emerging area in natural language understanding. Editors Amy Neustein and Judith A. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Companion to Hispanic Studies

    by Catherine Davies ...
    What is 'Hispanic Studies'? This companion gives a concise and accessible overview of the discipline as taught today and suggests new directions for future developments. 'Hispanic Studies' is broadly concerned with the languages and cultures of the vast 'Hispanic' world, extending chronologically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Symbiotic Interaction

    5th International Workshop, Symbiotic 2016, Padua, Italy, September 29–30, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Luciano Gamberini, Anna Spagnolli, Giulio Jacucci, Benjamin Blankertz, Jonathan Freeman ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book is published open access under a CC BY license.This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction, Symbiotic 2016, held in Padua, Italy, in October 2016.The 12 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The idea of symbiotic systems put forward in this workshop capitalizes ... Read more

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  • The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico

    by Angélica Jimena Afanador-Pujol ...
    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
    Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics in colonial Mexico.The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Handbook of Research on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: Trends and Perspectives

    Edited by Nak-Young Chong, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni ...
    Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a multidisciplinary approach aimed at enriching physical environments with a network of distributed devices, such as sensors, actuators, and computational resources, in order to support humans in achieving their everyday activities. Handbook of Research on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: Trends and Perspectives covers the cutting-edge aspects of AMI ... Read more

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  • Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance

    Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico

    Edited by William H. Beezley, Cheryl E. Martin, William E. French ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    This book presents readers with scholarship on public celebrations and popular culture throughout Mexican history. Leading scholars from the Americas and Great Britain discuss aspects of Mexico's popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present. The vast range of Mexican expression is examined, including Corpus Christi celebrations, New Spain, stone murals, and folk theater. Filling a ... Read more

    $42.19 USD