Gomes: 254 books

This volume offers an informed and critical analysis of the operationalization and institutionalization of the peace and security architecture by the African Union and Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs). In creating this architecture, the African Union and the RECs tread new ground with...

Towards an African Peace and Security Regime: Continental embeddedness, transnational linkages, strategic relevance provides an informed and critical reflection on the adequacy of the emerging African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) to the medium- and long-term challenges and opportunities...

Bilingual dictionary English-Portuguese, Portuguese-English of the 5000 most common words with pronunciation included specially designed to help people to speak like a native. Dicionário bilingüe inglês, português/português,inglês das 5000 palavras mais usuais e com a pronúncia indicada especialmente para quem deseja falar como um nativo.

This text introduces the basic concepts of function spaces and operators, both from the continuous and discrete viewpoints. Fourier and Window Fourier Transforms are introduced and used as a guide to arrive at the concept of Wavelet transform. The fundamental aspects of multiresolution representation,...

O livro que mostra aos portugueses que há soluções para sair da crise e o que devemos fazer para evitar a repetição dos erros do passado. A minha vida pessoal e o meu percurso profissional deram-me a possibilidade de analisar a sociedade portuguesa, a economia, a governação e a realidade europeia...

A seis de Fevereiro de 1452 nasceu em Lisboa, no paço d'Alcaçoba, D. Joanna de Portugal. A nova do nascimento foi alegre e enthusiasticamente celebrada, a ponto da recordação do tristissimo drama de Alfarrobeira ser quasi que totalmente deslembrada. Os laços conjugaes entre Affonso V e D. Izabel...

Statistical Physics (SP) has followed an unusual evolutionary path in science. Originally aiming to provide a fundamental basis for another important branch of Physics, namely Thermodynamics, SP gradually became an independent field of research in its own right. But despite more than a century of...

The zeal and dedication of Jehovah's Witnesses mask a highly disciplined organization that has a troubled history. Moreover, their thorough knowledge of their own scriptures gives a pretense of having spiritual truth. The movement has grown from about 1.1 million worldwide in 1965 to 4.4 million today....

A presente coletânea reúne os textos das palestras ocorridas nas mesas-redondas da II Jornada do Histedbr, realizada no estado do Paraná, entre os dias 8 e 11 de outubro de 2002. O evento teve por tema geral "A produção em história da educação na região Sul do Brasil" e oportunizou...

Uma coletânea de textos poéticos em língua inglesa com tradução livre para o português que traz o intuito de conectar o leitor à subjetividade da poesia e à diversidade de significados que vão além do idioma, procurando comunicar através de sensibilidade e paixão. A busca pelo encaixe...

The classic guide to mixtures, completely updated with new models, theories, examples, and data. Efficient separation operations and many other chemical processes depend upon a thorough understanding of the properties of gaseous and liquid mixtures. Molecular Thermodynamics of Fluid-Phase Equilibria,...

This first volume in the AOSpine Masters Series integrates the expertise of oncologists and radiology interventionalists with that of master spine surgeons, all of whom are actively involved in the care of patients with metastatic spine tumors. The book provides expert guidance to help clinicians...

This book focuses on the United States'' views and political actions in Portugal during the democratic transition, and should not be taken for a history of the Portuguese revolution. In other words, its aim is to evaluate the impact of American actions in the final outcome of the transition from an...

Polymers from natural sources are particularly useful as biomaterials and in regenerative medicine, given their similarity to the extracellular matrix and other polymers in the human body. This important book reviews the wealth of research on both tried and promising new natural-based biomedical polymers,...