Luis Martin: 15 books
The Rise of Euroskepticism
Europe and Its Critics in Spanish Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Covering from 1915 to the present, this book deals with the role that artists and intellectuals have played regarding projects of European integration. Consciously or not, they partake of a tradition of Euroskepticism. Because Euroskepticism is often associated with the discourse of political elites,...
Labyrinth of Memories
A Child in the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Luis Martins family was separated when he was a child during the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. He grew up hearing the stories of their separation and reconciliation recounted over and over. Combining his own childhood memories of those events with the remembered stories from his family members,...
The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting
Essays on Trauma, History, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Essays on Trauma, History, and Memory brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines that draw on multiple perspectives to address issues that arise at the intersection of trauma, history, and memory. Contributors include critical...
Art School
(Propositions for the 21st Century)
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Leading international artists and art educators consider the challenges of art education in today's dramatically changed art world.
The last explosive change in art education came nearly a century ago, when the German Bauhaus was formed. Today, dramatic changes in the art world—its increasing...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
by Alvaro Bracamontes, Oscar Contreras, Moisés Gómez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Anteriormente se creía que los factores que determinaban el dinamismo de la economía eran la capacidad de ahorro y la disponibilidad de capital de los países; un poco más en la actualidad, en un marco de libre mercado, lo han determinado la estabilidad y el equilibrio macroeconómico. El predominio...
by Gérard Bonnet, Mary Canning, Kai-ming Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
In Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform, Rotberg brings together examples of current education reforms in sixteen countries, written by 'insiders'. This book goes beyond myths and stereotypes and describes the difficult trade-offs countries make as they attempt to implement reforms...
Power Electronics Handbook
Devices, Circuits and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Power electronics, which is a rapidly growing area in terms of research and applications, uses modern electronics technology to convert electric power from one form to another, such as ac-dc, dc-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac with a variable output magnitude and frequency. Power electronics has many applications...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1
Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;
Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;
Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...
All Else Equal
Are Public and Private Schools Different?
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Private schools always provide a better education than public schools. Or do they? Inner-city private schools, most of which are Catholic, suffer from the same problems neighboring public schools have including large class sizes, unqualified teachers, outdated curricula, lack of parental involvement...
After Prisons?
Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
As recently as five years ago mass incarceration was widely considered to be a central, permanent feature of the political and social landscape. The number of people in U.S. prisons is still without historic parallel anywhere in the world or in U.S. history. But in the last few years, the population...
Beyond Walls and Cages
Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized...
Knowledge Management in Law Firms
Expertise in Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Knowledge has always been at the heart of the legal profession. This is because an essential component of practising law involves applying knowledge and expertise to solve clients' legal problems. In the rapidly changing contemporary legal world, where cases, transactions and legal issues become increasingly...
by Jorge Alvar, Charles Mowdray, Fabiana Alves
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
For human health, leishmaniasis is among the most important protozoan diseases, superseded only by malaria. Globally, 10 to 12 million people are infected with 1.5 million new cases every year. The development of cheaper new drugs is urgently needed for this neglected disease that is developing resistance...
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