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This ebook describes the pathogenesis of malaria and the major consequences of the parasitism to the vertebrate host. Malaria is one of the oldest infectious diseases of mankind, which still exerts a high burden on human health and society. It is caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium, and transmitted by Anopheline mosquitoes. Despite several decades of intensive control efforts, malaria remains widely distributed with an estimated 3.3 bi...

Applaud Matt Tavares's latest feat — a gripping tale of real-life daredevilry perfectly balanced by stunning illustrations."Monsieur Blondin is to cross Niagara Falls this afternoon, or perish in the attempt.” — Troy Daily Times, June 30, 1859When the Great Blondin announced that he was going to walk from America to Canada across the Niagara River on a rope that was more than 1, 100 feet long and just 3 inches wide, hanging 160 feet above the ...

This exceptionally engaging chronicle recounts Ruth's amazing rags-to-riches story. . . . Equally important, the art captures Ruth's irrepressible personality and joy in playing baseball." - Booklist (starred review)Before he becomes known as the Babe, George Herman Ruth is just a boy who lives in Baltimore and has a knack for getting into trouble. But when he turns seven, his father takes him to Saint Mary's Industrial School for Boys, and hi...

This exceptionally engaging chronicle recounts Ruth's amazing rags-to-riches story. . . . Equally important, the art captures Ruth's irrepressible personality and joy in playing baseball." - Booklist (starred review)Before he becomes known as the Babe, George Herman Ruth is just a boy who lives in Baltimore and has a knack for getting into trouble. But when he turns seven, his father takes him to Saint Mary's Industrial School for Boys, and hi...

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The second installment in Tavares s acclaimed Kingdom series.

The widespread expansion of digital device market has forced embedded system companies to deal with several additional challenges in order to provide complex systems in this market niche. One of the most important challenges is related to energy consumption, mainly, due to the following factors: (i) mobility issues, (ii) environmental problems and (iii) energy costs. This book presents a software synthesis method for hard real-time systems, wh...

The story is a factual account and a cautionary tale of the local and national events that shaped the world we live in. Thus it is a must read for anyone who longs for development of sustainable communities, who would avoid the mistakes of the past, and who would be a partner in the ultimate triumph of conservation.

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Zachary receives a foul ball at a major league game, and his baseball fantasies start to come alive.Zachary is amazed by the sights and sounds at Fenway Park when he goes to his first major-league baseball game. But when his father catches a foul ball at the game and gives it to Zachary, something really amazing happens - suddenly, he finds himself on the pitcher's mound, wearing a Red Sox uniform! As long as Zachary has the ball, all of his b...

Matt Tavares hits one out of the park with this powerful tale of a kid from the segregated south who would become baseball's home-run king. Before he was Hammerin' Hank, Henry Aaron was a young boy grow ing up in Mobile, Alabama, with what seemed like a foolhardy dream: to be a big-league baseball player. He didn't have a bat. He didn't have a ball. And there wasn't a single black ball player in the major leagues. B ut none of this could stop ...

Zachary's Ball is a children's classic." -Peter Gammons, hall-of-Fame baseball reporterWhen Zachary's father catches a foul ball at Fenway Park and gives it to him, something really amazing happens. Zachary finds himself on the pitcher's mound, wearing a Red Sox uniform and playing against New York! As long as Zachary has the ball, all his baseball fantasies seem to come true. But can he hold on to its magic? Zachary's Ball, Matt Tavares's deb...

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Paul Ricoeur, pensador contemporáneo centrado de modo especial en los temas de carácter antropológico (incluidas sus implicaciones metodológicas), es seguramente uno de los filósofos más críticos y a la vez dialogantes del Siglo XX. Su pensamiento, deliberadamente fragmentario y abierto, según sus propias palabras, no deja por ello de ser riguroso, encauzado en una especie de "dialéctica sin síntesis". Manuel Tavares tiene el mérito, de conect...

Exigiendo la promesa de una vida mejor frente al abandono de un gobierno que no atendía a sus necesidades más básicas, los portugueses, ese pueblo al que uno de sus grandes poetas, como lo fue Teixeira de Pascoães, otorgó el adjetivo de saudoso, decidieron hacerse de nuevo al mar. Esta vez ya no sería para construir la historia de un imperio, sino una historia algo más discreta, pero no por ello menos trascendental: la historia de su experienc...

The young pastor of a Southern church and a hospital volunteer, Lanier is hiding a dark history behind the mask of a model citizen. As a child, he unintentionally killed his sister. Obsessed with the belief that murder-a form of sacrifice-will allay his extreme guilt, Lanier has since killed three girls and now spends his nights watching young Sadie through her bedroom window. In this community of magnolia and crepe myrtle, four rich teenage b...

Imagine you could create your own utopian writers' quarter--a close-knit community of those you admire or who have influenced you profoundly. For award-winning Portuguese author Goncalo M. Tavares, six favorite "senhores" --"Misters" Calvino, Valery, Juarroz, Kraus, Walser, and Henri--haunt the sidewalks, cafes, and back alleys of a fictive Lisbon "bairro."Readers will appreciate the homages to Italian fabulist Italo Calvino, French poet and c...

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