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Rosa, an American in Paris, marries an alcoholic émigré from Chile and finds herself trapped in an unhappy liaison. The book focuses on Rosa’s effort to have a fake independence by evading their unhealthy relationship.... More

This book is about five accounts of journeys filled with much humour and irony. They are five reports at a time in which travellers didn’t have a digital camera with them able to contain thousands of pictures and not even a mobile phone with a lot of functions in order to solve any unforeseen event.... More

Five humorous and ironic chronicles of journeys from a time in which travelers didn’t carry a digital camera with storage for thousands of photos, nor a mobile telephone with infinite functions capable of resolving any unexpected problems encountered along the way. The reader will be immersed in an ... More

»Vergangene Nostalgien« ist eine Sammlung von Kindheitserinnerungen, in denen sich der Autor in seiner gewohnt ironischen Art an seine Kindheit und Jugend erinnert, aber diesmal umgeben von der Zärtlichkeit und Schönheit dieser fast schon mystifizierten Erinnerungen. Einige dieser »Nostalgien« wurde... More

Cinco relatos de viagens contados com muito humor e ironia. Cinco crônicas de um tempo no qual os viajantes não carregavam uma câmera digital com memória para milhares de fotos; nem um telefone móvel com uma infinidade de funções, capazes de resolver qualquer imprevisto. O leitor será submerso em um... More

Cinco relatos de viagens contados com muito humor e ironia. Cinco crônicas de um tempo no qual os viajantes não carregavam uma câmera digital com memória para milhares de fotos; nem um telefone móvel com uma infinidade de funções, capazes de resolver qualquer imprevisto. O leitor será submerso em um... More

Cinque storie di viaggio raccontate con molto humour e ironia. Cinque racconti di un tempo in cui i viaggiatori non portavano una fotocamera digitale con memoria per migliaia di foto; né un telefono cellulare con un'infinità di funzioni in grado di risolvere qualsiasi evento imprevisto. Il lettore s... More

Cinque storie di viaggio raccontate con molto humour e ironia. Cinque cronache di un tempo in cui i viaggiatori non portavano una fotocamera digitale con memoria per migliaia di foto; né un telefono cellulare con molte funzioni in grado di risolvere qualsiasi imprevisto. Il lettore s’immergerà in un... More

Cinco relatos de viagens contados com muito humor e ironia. Cinco crónicas de uma época em que os viajantes não transportavam uma câmara digital com memória suficiente para milhares de fotografias, nem um telemóvel com uma infinidade de funções capazes de resolver qualquer imprevisto. O leitor mergu... More

Agriculture is the product of a complex mixture of behavioural, biophysical and market drivers. Understanding how these factors interact to produce crops and livestock for food has been the focus of economic investigation for many years. The advent of optimisation algorithms and the exponential gro... More

The two-volume set LNAI 11288 and 11289 constitutes the proceedings of the 17th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2018, held in Guadalajara, Mexico, in October 2018. The total of 62 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 149 ... More

With contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essay... More

In a Kingdom inhabited by all kinds of violent people, a petty thief, because of his clumsiness and lust, triggers a series of terrible events that will change everything. Thus, we will attend the practice of barbaric games and customs, the harassment of ferocious animals in forests where no one pen... More

Five travel stories told with a whole lot of ironic humour. Five tales of a time when travellers didn’t carry a digital camera with space for thousands of photos; or a mobile phone infinitely capable of solving any unforeseen problems. The reader will be immersed in an eye-opening journey, through p... More

The two-volume set LNAI 11288 and 11289 constitutes the proceedings of the 17th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2018, held in Guadalajara, Mexico, in October 2018. <p><p> The total of 62 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected f... More

Using great amounts of humour, tenderness and realism, "The synergies of Marcio" manages to form a demystifying portrait, as well as demolishing, of the life of an IT engineer in Spain. Taking as protagonist a professional named Marcio (which is a rare name and, thus, any resemblance to reality will... More

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral ... More

Cronache, diari e racconti di viaggi e avventure di un tempo in cui i viaggiatori scoprivano il mondo senza l'aiuto delle innovazioni tecnologiche attuali Cinque racconti di viaggi, narrati con molto humor e ironia. Cinque cronache di un tempo in cui i viaggiatori non portavano con sé una fotocamer... More

"Viaggi a cavallo dei secoli - Portogallo" fa parte di una collana di diari di bordo che risalgono ai tempi in cui i viaggiatori non avevano a disposizione una macchina fotografica digitale con cui scattare migliaia di foto, né tantomeno un cellulare con infinità di funzioni pensate per risolvere qu... More