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The first a speculative detective series set in Lisbon

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COVID-19 has hit the world unprepared, as the deadliest pandemic of the century. Governments and authorities, as leaders and decision makers fighting the virus, enormously tap into the power of artificial intelligence and its predictive models for urgent decision support. This book showcases a collection of important predictive models that used during the pandemic, and discusses and compares their efficacy and limitations.Readers from both hea...

This book by André Marques' is an important reference (the only in English so far) on the work of Brazilian architect João Filgueiras Lima. João Filgueiras Lima's work is an great example of bioclimatic architecture - an architecture in which aspects of sun control, resulting in a low energetic consumption or uses the benefits from sea breeze, ensuring healthy nurseries without air conditioning.

This striking collection of scholarly essays highlights the hermeneutic contribution of the French theologian and sociologist Jacques Ellul, revealing him to be one of the twentieth century's most creative and insightful readers of the Bible. With a breadth of contributors ranging from established biblical scholars and theologians to pastoral practitioners, from top Ellul scholars to emerging voices--and including six first-time English transl...

This striking collection of scholarly essays highlights the hermeneutic contribution of the French theologian and sociologist Jacques Ellul, revealing him to be one of the twentieth century's most creative and insightful readers of the Bible. With a breadth of contributors ranging from established biblical scholars and theologians to pastoral practitioners, from top Ellul scholars to emerging voices--and including six first-time English transl...

This book report the advances in the synthesis of new nanomaterials for the remediation of natural waters, groundwaters, and wastewaters. The authors describe synthetic routes for the assembly of different nanomaterials for the removal of contaminants by adsorption, catalytic degradation, and antibacterial activity. The hazardous effects of nanomaterials in aquatic ecosystems are discussed. This book presents the trends in the development of a...

This book presents the fundamentals of mobile visual computing in iOS development and provides directions for developers and researchers interested in developing iOS applications with image processing and computer vision capabilities. Presenting a technical overview of some of the tools, languages, libraries, frameworks, and APIs currently available for developing iOS applications Image Processing and Computer Vision in iOS reveals the rich ca...

Hey Beautiful You, This planner was created to help you grow in your goals, dreams, and caring for yourself. Often we forget how important we are, who we are, and how much we need to pour into ourselves. My vision for this planner is to provide a support for one's daily habits such as, better sleeping patterns, diet, meeting goals, cultivating healthy relationships, self-care, and more. It's time to make yourself the priority, and this powerfu...

This book presents the state of the art of Internet of Things (IoT) from the perspective of healthcare and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). It discusses the emerging technologies in healthcare services used for healthcare professionals and patients for enhanced living environments and public health. The topics covered in this book include emerging eHealth IoT applications, Internet of Medical Things, health sensors, and wearable sensors for perv...

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This book intends to be an alert to the fact that the curve measuring environmental costs against the economic benefits of capitalism has irreversibly entered into a negative phase. The prospect of an environmental collapse has been evidenced by the sciences and the humanities since the 1960s. Today, it imposes its urgency. This collapse differs from past civilizations in that it is neither local nor just civilizational. It is global and occur...

This successful textbook is intended for students, professionals and research workers who need to apply statistical analysis to a large variety of practical problems using SPSS, MATLAB, STATISTICA and R. The book provides a comprehensive coverage of the main statistical analysis topics important for practical applications such as data description, statistical inference, classification and regression, factor analysis, survival data and directio...

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Eva's World is the story of a transgender pansexual hard-working woman that travels the world for business and pleasure. She and her three friends Linda, Olympia and Victoria come together regularly, talk about their lives, their loves and their expectations. Two of these girls are transgender, the other two are cisgender - their lives and expectations are similar, just some small differences. This is a positive book about life as a very privi...

In my first book, I Was Born a Boy, from Venus, I wrote my autobiography, stories about the great life experiences I had, about the struggles I went through, and about the beginnings of my transition. This book, Coming Home to Venus, is about my transition, from the first steps I took up to gender reassignment surgery, what happened, the changes I went through, the lessons I learned, the changes in and to my environment, the similar experience...

This book provides a deep analysis of the social, spatial and economic transformations of São Paulo in recent decades in terms of social structure, inequalities, demography, processes of space production and segregation. The resulting picture shows stability in segregation, intense spatial changes and less intense, but reconfigured social inequa

From the Author Ella Marques: I would like to share with you my extraordinary life, not only because I am transgender, but because I am an international person who has lived in many countries, gone to some of the best schools in the world, worked at management levels within international companies, and had many different, wild, and wonderful experiences. I would like for you to understand what it means to be transgender, the courage it takes t...

An unprecedented and important reference work, this research companion covers a range of aspects of happiness, an aim everyone aspires to achieve, yet can be easily overlooked in today¿s demanding and multi-challenged world, or confused with a plethora of quantifiable or career goals.