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  • Architecture and Nature

    by Abilio Guerra ...
    Series Book 1 - Latin America: Thoughts
    The first book of the collection "Latin America: Thoughts" presents a collection of Abilio Guerra's texts that gravitate around a birthmark of modernism in Brazil. At issue is the belief (found in texts, narratives and speeches from 1920-1940) in an alternative modern action – where culture and nature play leading roles – which because of its discursive effectiveness metamorphoses into real ... Read more

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  • Mona and Other Tales

    Translated by Dolores M. Koch ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Mona and Other Talescovers Reinaldo Arenas's entire career: his recently rediscovered debut (which got him a job at the Biblioteca Nacional in Havana), stories written in a political prison, and some of his last works, written in exile. Many of the stories have not previously appeared in English.Here is the tender story of a boy who recognizes evil for the first time and decides to ignore it; the ... Read more

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  • Nutritional Neuroscience

    From Bench to Bedside

    Nutritional Neuroscience: From Bench to Bedside navigates the complex connections between nutrition and neurological health, from neurodevelopmental disorders influenced by early-life malnutrition to the neuroprotective effects of functional foods. Each chapter offers a detailed examination of the latest research in the field, spanning the mechanisms of taste and food processing in the brain, the ... Read more

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  • Fatigue of Materials and Structures

    Physics and Data Science

    Series series Structural Damage, Fatigue and Fracture
    Fatigue failure of engineering materials and structures has long been a great challenge for structural integrity, reliability and safety in mechanical, civil and aerospace engineering. These failure mechanisms and their modeling are critical concerns for managing aging structures, and directly affect sustainability across society.In this context, the fundamental theories and methods of fatigue ... Read more

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  • Walter Carnielli on Reasoning, Paraconsistency, and Probability

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is a collection of essays and research articles honoring Walter Carnielli and his work. It brings together contributions from renowned scholars from all over the world whose work draws on or is somehow related to the several important researches Carnielli has conducted throughout his career. It includes advanced work in paraconsistent and non-classical logics, computability, probability ... Read more

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  • Apolipoprotein E

    From Biochemistry and Biology to Translational Medicine

    Series series Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
    This edited work is a constructive collaboration between experts and authorities worldwide on the biology, function, and translational medicine of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) polymorphisms and protein isoforms. It encompasses various aspects of innate and acquired immunology, and gastrointestinal and neurological functions, and presents the latest literature on the basic mechanisms, signaling ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Oasis in a Desert: Xeriscaping Techniques for Arid Regions

    by Reinaldo Page ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Alistair G ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 47 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This comprehensive guide delves into the world of xeriscaping, offering a wealth of knowledge on creating water-efficient landscapes in arid regions. From selecting drought-tolerant plants to implementing irrigation systems, this book covers all aspects of xeriscaping design and maintenance. Learn how to conserve water while still achieving a beautiful ... Read more

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  • Before Night Falls

    A Memoir

    Translated by Dolores M. Koch ...
    Series series Penguin Vitae
    **"Any attempt to reckon with Cuba's torturous twentieth century will have to take into account Arenas's monumental work ... an essential human testimony, joyful and enraged, a triumph of conscience." -- Garth GreenwellThe acclaimed memoir of queer Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas chronicling his tumultuous yet luminary life, from his impoverished upbringing in Cuba to his imprisonment at the hands of ... Read more

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  • Structural Integrity and Fatigue Failure Analysis

    Experimental, Theoretical and Numerical Approaches

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book contains full papers presented at the First Virtual Conference on Mechanical Fatigue (VCMF 2020), which was organised by the University of Porto (FEUP, Portugal), the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (China), Siberian Federal University (Russia), and the ESIS/TC12 Technical Committee (European Structural ... Read more

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  • Global Legal History

    A Comparative Law Perspective

    This collection brings together a group of international legal historians to further scholarship in different areas of comparative and regional legal history. Authors are drawn from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to produce new insights into the relationship between law and society across time and space. The book is divided into three parts: legal history and legal culture across borders, ... Read more

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  • Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Brazil

    Series series Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
    Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that “traditional” knowledge is always in flux and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of ... Read more

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  • The Double Life of Fidel Castro

    My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Líder Máximo

    "Remarkable revelations! Fidel Castro's worst hypocrisies, regal indulgences, and narcissistic excess are bared by his former chief bodyguard." —Brian Latell, author of After FidelIn The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of seventeen years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, ... Read more

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