Joana: 111 books

I know they say going through cancer treatment is a journey. It's not a journey. Journey sounds like a road trip...It's more like being shoved into a rocket ship and blasted off into space. It's frightening, it's disorienting, you'll never be the same person ever again, it's even a little bit funny...

About one in five of the population are intolerant to the food that they eat. Most have sensitivities to a range of different foods making preparing food a nightmare and sitting down to a meal can be torture. What can they eat without getting ill or running the risk of nutritional deficiency? What...

The aim of this book is to analyse the current development scenario in the Amazon, using Terra Preta de Índio as a case study. To do so it is necessary to go back in time, both in the national and international sphere, through the second half of the last century to analyse its trajectory. It will...

JoJo & Mia were best friends who lived in a place called Beetletown underneath lily pads and a large lake! Everyone leads a happy life in Beetletown and come to realize that there is another place beyond that one may go to after beetles go on top of the lily pads. What happens? No one may fully...

Tall buildings represent one of the most energy-intensive architectural typologies, while at the same time offering the high density work and living conditions that many believe will an important constituent of future sustainable communities. How, then, can their environmental impact be lessened? This...

“Following up on the promise of the NETMundial meeting, this timely and useful book explores the challenges of implementing its roadmap for the future of Internet governance.” — Milton L. Mueller, Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies, USAInternet Governance: The NETmundial...

Latin America’s bold fiscal policy reaction to the global financial crisis was hailed as a sign that the region had finally overcome its procyclical fiscal past. However, most countries of the region have not yet rebuilt their fiscal space, despite buoyant commodity revenues and relatively strong...

With an aging population and declining productivity growth, Europe faces serious challenges to raising its output growth. Adding to these challenges are the various gender gaps in the labor market. Despite significant progress in recent decades, there are still fewer women than men participating in Europe’s...

What caused the decline in wage inequality of the 2000s in Latin America? Looking to the future, will the current economic slowdown be regressive? Wage Inequality in Latin America: Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future addresses these two questions by reviewing relevant literature and providing...

This short book provides an update on various methods for incorporating phase changing materials (PCMs) into building structures. It discusses previous research into optimizing the integration of PCMs into surrounding walls (gypsum board and interior plaster products), trombe walls, ceramic floor...

Irony is an intriguing topic, central to the study of meaning in language. This book provides an introduction to the pragmatics of irony. It surveys key work carried out on irony in a range of disciplines such as semantics, pragmatics, philosophy and literary studies, and from a variety of theoretical...

Zwischenprüfungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Wissenschaft, Theorie, Anthropologie, Note: 2,0, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Pädagogik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Am Anfang des 'Emile' steht die berühmte These, die keinen Zweifel darüber aufkommen lässt, dass seine...

Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry, grade: 1,0, University of Hannover (Anorganische Chemie), language: English, abstract: Separation and identification of mass-limited chemical samples is the key to understand the complex nature of pharmaceutical and environmental...

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2006 in the subject Pedagogy - Intercultural Pedagogy, grade: 1, University of Hamburg (Institut fuer Allgemeine erziehungswissenschaft), language: English, abstract: Since the end of the Second World War, migratory movements have increased within Europe, while trans-oceanic...