J Torres: 48 books
Mathematical Models with Singularities
A Zoo of Singular Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
The book aims to provide an unifying view of a variety (a 'zoo') of mathematical models with some kind of singular nonlinearity, in the sense that it becomes infinite when the state variable approaches a certain point. Up to 11 different concrete models are analyzed in separate chapters. Each chapter...
by Diana J. Torres
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Questo è un libro senza concessioni: una critica spietata dell'ipocrisia, una negazione radicale della censura e dell'autocensura, un grido per il diritto di ognuno a godere come preferisce del proprio corpo e della propria sessualità, una denuncia al conformismo e, soprattutto, un'apologia estrema...
Crossing the Borders
New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques.
During the past few decades, Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and employed new methods and techniques for the study of archaeological materials. The...
Tibes
People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2009
The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico.
The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and...
by Richard T. Callaghan, Michael P. Pateman, Daniel Torres Etayo
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from specific artifacts, ancient rock art, and features of the built environment and modified landscapes. As a region of multiple independent nations and...
Capitalism and Critique
Unruly Democracy and Solidarity Economics
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
While there are signs of recovery from recent economic collapses, relatively few protective measures are in place in the United States to prevent future crises and widespread destruction of livelihoods around the globe.
This book, a follow-up and further development of Martin’s and Torres’...
Infrared Imaging
A casebook in clinical medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Medical thermography or infrared thermal imaging is a rapid and non-invasive procedure for mapping skin-temperature distribution of the human body. The natural infrared emission from the skin is captured by the imaging camera, and is displayed as a digital image where abnormal physiological activity...
by Alan Sikes, Andrew Gibb, Nicole Berkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography.
The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes’s discussion...
by Guillermo J. Jiménez Sánchez, Alberto Díaz Moreno, Guillermo J. Jiménez Sánchez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Desde su primera aparición, fieles al propósito de ofrecer un instrumento auxiliar para el estudio de un curso básico de Derecho Mercantil, estas Lecciones exponen los contenidos esenciales de la materia contemplada con concisión en su desarrollo, rigor en su exposición y actualidad en su contenido....
Higher Education Assessments
Leadership Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Higher Education Assessments: Leadership Matters reflects the work of a select group of researchers, scholars, and practitioners in higher education assessment with the goal of identifying strategies that assist senior campus leaders as they respond to the challenges of a changing economic landscape...
Decolonizing the Westernized University
Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without provides a sharper understanding of the crisis and the responses to the westernized university at multiple sites around the world.
As an intervention in the philosophy of education discourse,...
by Paula Allman, Estanislao Antelo, Ursula Apitzsch
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2002
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is one of the major social and political theorists of the 20th century whose work has had an enormous influence on several fields, including educational theory and practice. Gramsci and Education demonstrates the relevance of Antonio Gramsci's thought for contemporary educational...
by Michael W. Austin, Raymond Angelo Belliotti, Scott F. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
It is said the champions of the ancient Olympic Games received a crown of olive leaves, symbolizing a divine blessing from Nike, the winged goddess of victory. While the mythology of the ancient games has come to exemplify the highest political, religious, community, and individual ideals of the time,...
U5: the Truth Behind the Lives
The Mystery, the Rumors, the Sadness, the Truth.
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
This book is written to provide insight on the lives of a group of inner city youths known as U-5. Hopefully it will provide enough of the insight needed to truly understand the type of lives they led, the way they were perceived by others, and the repercussions of events set in motion by the actions...