Torres: 690 books
The Politics of Survival in Academia
Narratives of Inequity, Resilience, and Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2002
This volume presents the personal accounts of African American, Asian American, and Latino faculty who use 'narratives of struggles' to describe the challenges they faced in order to become bona fide members of the U.S. Academy. These narratives show how survival and success require a sophisticated...
by David Torres
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Irises are easy-to-grow perennials, making them a favorite of home gardeners. The bearded iris, with its furry stripe, is the most common type. Beardless irises include the large-flowered Japanese iris and the Siberian iris with narrow blooms. You can grow irises from seeds or, more easily, from...
My Cave My View
I Couldn't Make This Up
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Gary has used a Twain-like humor with a folksy small town snapshot of life to make us stop and reconsider our own life. He opens up with humor and tenderness that will bring laughter and tears from the same page as he paints pictures of the people, places, and activities that surround him. He and...
Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence
Global Responses, Local Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices addresses the gaps in theory, methods, and practices that are currently used to engage the problem of gender-based violence. This book complements the work carried out in the legal, social work, and medical fields by...
by Monica Torres, William P. Ziemer
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This first year graduate text is a comprehensive resource in real analysis based on a modern treatment of measure and integration. Presented in a definitive and self-contained manner, it features a natural progression of concepts from simple to difficult. Several innovative topics are featured, including...
Drama and CLIL
A new challenge for the teaching approaches in bilingual education
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has transformed the educational scene and brought about a revolution of teaching methods and principles in the bilingual education environment. The major challenge in the implementation of a teacher education curriculum in CLIL is the integration of...
by Stephen Torres
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
A range hood is a kitchen appliance installed above the stove for gathering and removing the cooking fumes, gases, steam, oils, greases, odor and heat. It is also referred to as an extractor hood or electric chimney. For every range hood configuration, there are three main components - capture panel,...
Colombia siglo XX
Desde la guerra de los mil días hasta la elección de Álvaro Uribe. Segunda edición corregida y aumentada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 17, 2011
La historia política de Colombia es a la vez compleja, intensa y trágica. Múltiples han sido sus actores nacionales: movimientos sociales, élites económico-políticas, trabajadores urbanos y campesinos, gremios, Congreso, Estado, Iglesia, Fuerzas Militares, guerrillas, organizaciones paramilitares,...
The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth
Dental Morphology and Its Variation in Recent and Fossil Homo sapien
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
All humans share certain components of tooth structure, but show variation in size and morphology around this shared pattern. This book presents a worldwide synthesis of the global variation in tooth morphology in recent populations. Research has advanced on many fronts since the publication of the...
Touch the Source Use Your Substance
Unlock Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
The Birthing of Touch the Source, use your substance, was birth through the leading of the Holy Ghost. The spirit of God spoke to the writer, first in April 2008 about what her assignment would be: therefore, her first book name would be How to know God in a greater way. However, this endeavorment...
The Pauson-Khand Reaction
Scope, Variations and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Pauson-Khand reaction is an important reaction in the field of organic chemistry. It involves the transition-metal catalysed cycloaddition of an alkyne, an alkene and carbon monoxide, to produce cyclopentenones. The importance of this reaction originates from its high value in transforming simple...
Introduction to Graphene-Based Nanomaterials
From Electronic Structure to Quantum Transport
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Beginning with an introduction to carbon-based nanomaterials, their electronic properties, and general concepts in quantum transport, this detailed primer describes the most effective theoretical and computational methods and tools for simulating the electronic structure and transport properties of...
by Miguel Torres
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Recent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces. Understanding cities as spaces for encounter, conflict and otherness, this book argues that this indeterminacy is not marginal but a key characteristic of urban space, and degrees of liberty foster change, creativity,...
by Lucy Torres
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Imagine going to bed tonight, not knowing the moment you close your eyes will be the last time you feel whole and healthy- ever again. The Taste of Broken explores the painful question of whether a normal life is possible amidst the chaos of an unsuspecting and unknown illness. From the initial shock...