Jose Garcia: 17 books

In this timely book, Emilio Jose Garcia and Brenda Vale explore what sustainability and resilience might mean when applied to the built environment. Conceived as a primer for students and professionals, it defines what the terms sustainability and resilience mean and how they are related to each other...

The centennial edition of major Filipino writer José Garcia Villa's collected poetry Known as the "Pope of Greenwich Village," José Garcia Villa had a special status as the only Asian poet among a group of modern literary giants in 1940s New York that included W. H. Auden, Tennessee...

How would you define eternity? If you could fly to the sky and beyond, what would you hope to find? Answers to creation? Something that defines who we are? What is our meaning in this world? I dont have the answer, this I know. Still, that doesnt mean that I cant try to find it. In the pages of this...

This book discusses the digital design of integrated circuits under process variations, with a focus on design-time solutions. The authors describe a step-by-step methodology, going from logic gates to logic paths to the circuit level. Topics are presented in comprehensively, without overwhelming...

Have you already crochet doilies and a few other simplistic stitch patterns and you’re looking for more? Then this book is perfect for you! First, you’ll see patterns that are for small projects such as a handbag and some barefoot sandals. Second, you’ll run into patterns of the medium size...

“The Feathered or ‘Winged’ Serpent is known throughout the world by over 8,000 names originating from every indigenous culture on Earth. The single defining attribute of this ‘deity’ was its ability to give to human beings the ‘knowledge of gods’ so they too could ‘ascend into the...

Fourier Analysis and Partial Differential Equations presents the proceedings of the conference held at Miraflores de la Sierra in June 1992. These conferences are held periodically to assess new developments and results in the field. The proceedings are divided into two parts. Four mini-courses present...

Vivat diversitas – Romania una, linguae multae ist nicht nur der Titel, sondern auch das Motto des vorliegenden Bandes. Denn es ist gerade die diversitas ‚Vielfalt‘, die das Forschungsinteresse der Jubilarin Isabel Zollna kennzeichnet. Aus der großen Romania hat sie sich viele kleine Teile...

Be afraid, be very afraid of Terrifying Tales, the sixth volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading. Eleven masters of suspense—Kelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adam Gidwitz, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Daniel José Older, Dav Pilkey, R.L. Stine, and...

Movies are often examined for subtext and dramatizations of social and psychological issues as well as current movements. Studies of well-known Catholic directors, such as Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford, have made the search for Catholic themes a reputable field of examination. Through a Catholic...

The challenges that women face as political candidates can be compounded by race. In the case of Latinas, stereotypes as well as national media coverage and labeling of “Latino” issues potentially creates an electoral burden for Latina candidates at the local, state, and national level. The intersection...

Pharmacognosy (the science of biogenic or nature-derived pharmaceuticals and poisons) has been an established basic pharmaceutical science taught in institutions of pharmacy education for over two centuries. Over the past 20 years though it has become increasingly important given the explosion of...

The field of research related to neurocritical care has grown significantly in recent years, and the clinical demands for current and dependable expertise has followed suit. It can be a challenge for the neurocritical practitioner to keep up with cutting-edge evidence-based research and best practices,...

This book provides a decentralized approach for the identification and control of robotics systems. It also presents recent research in decentralized neural control and includes applications to robotics. Decentralized control is free from difficulties due to complexity in design, debugging, data gathering...