Maria S Costa: 9 books

A rabbit and a squirrel are alone and lonely, each wishing for a friend. Obviously they'd be perfect friends for each other. But as they go through their day, they keep missing each other, each totally oblivious to the other's presence. When they finally—and literally—bump into each other, each...

This book offers the state of the art on the progress and accomplishments of 25 years of research at the Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM - Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering - Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials on lignin conversion to value-added products and their downstream separation....

Uma das maiores preocupações do novo século está na exploração dos recursos ambientais. Se por um lado há consenso quanto à necessidade urgente de preservação destes recursos, por outro há um número cada vez maior de conflitos sociais relacionados aos modos de exploração e preservação...

The first edition of this book was a first book for atomic spectroscopists to present the basic principles of experimental designs, optimization and multivariate regression. Multivariate regression is a valuable statistical method for handling complex problems (such as spectral and chemical interferences)...

Originating in South America, cassava is now grown in over 100 countries around the world. It is the third most important source of calories in the tropics after rice and maize. Its caloric value, as well as its ability to tolerate dry conditions and poor soils, makes it a key food security crop in...

Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...

Muito antes do homem, há o mistério. Em meio à imensidão das florestas, existe algo que vai além dos rios, igapós e das barrancas de terras caídas. Uma chave que brilha em verde-esmeralda e que guarda a entrada da origem de tudo: da copa intransponível das árvores, que quase não permite...

Somando-se ao debate público sobre a crise política no Brasil, Por que gritamos Golpe? proporciona ao leitor diversas análises sobre a dinâmica do processo de impeachment da presidente Dilma Rousseff, dentro de uma perspectiva multidisciplinar e de esquerda. Os textos que compõem a coletânea...

Discussions of the recent austerity measures in Southern Europe as a response to the sovereign debt crisis have been usually framed in terms of their economic impact. However, the general impoverishment of these countries has induced other massive social and political changes, a fact which is ignored...