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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “brigida lorbach”
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  • Experiences of Donor Conception

    Parents, Offspring and Donors through the Years

    by Caroline Lorbach ...
    Drawing on the experiences of parents, offspring and donors and including her own and her family's story, this thought-provoking and informative book explores the process of donor conception. From finding out about an infertility problem, to considering whether - and how - to tell the children about their conception, and how those children feel as the adult offspring of a donor, she provides ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • Natural Enemies of Insect Pests in Neotropical Agroecosystems

    Biological Control and Functional Biodiversity

    Edited by Brígida Souza, Luis L. Vázquez, Rosangela C. Marucci ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book aims to address the importance of natural enemies and functional diversity for biological control in Neotropical agroecosystems. Several aspects related to the conservation of natural enemies, such as vegetation design and climate change, are discussed in Part 1 and the bioecology of several insects groups used in biological control in Latin America is presented in Part 2. Part 3 is ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Mathematical Models in Biology

    Bringing Mathematics to Life

    Edited by Mario R. Guarracino, Valeria Zazzu, Maria Brigida Ferraro ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book presents an exciting collection of contributions based on the workshop “Bringing Maths to Life” held October 27-29, 2014 in Naples, Italy. The state-of-the art research in biology and the statistical and analytical challenges facing huge masses of data collection are treated in this Work. Specific topics explored in depth surround the sessions and special invited sessions of the workshop ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Soft Methods for Data Science

    Edited by Maria Brigida Ferraro, Paolo Giordani, Barbara Vantaggi, Marek Gagolewski, María Ángeles Gil, Olgierd Hryniewicz, Przemysław Grzegorzewski ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This proceedings volume is a collection of peer reviewed papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS 2016) held in Rome (Italy).The book is dedicated to Data science which aims at developing automated methods to analyze massive amounts of data and to extract knowledge from them. It shows how Data science employs various programming ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Two Women

    A Novel

    Translated by Barbara F. Ichiishi ...
    by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda ...
    In 1842, a young Cuban woman living in Spain published a novel that was so passionate and boldly feminist in content, it did not appear in her homeland until more than seventy years later. Two Women tells the riveting tale of a tumultuous love triangle among three wealthy Spaniards: a brilliant, young, widowed countess named Catalina, her inexperienced lover Carlos, and his pure and virtuous wife ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Boron Proxies in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

    by Stephen M. Eggins, Laura L. Haynes, Katherine A. Allen, Katherine D. Holland, Katja Lorbacher, Bärbel Hönisch ...
    Series series Analytical Methods in Earth and Environmental Science
    Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions do not only warm our planet but also acidify our oceans. It is currently unclear to which degree Earth's climate and marine life will be impacted by these changes but information from Earth history, particularly the geochemical signals of past environmental changes stored in the fossil remains of marine organisms, can help us predict possible future changes. ... Read more

    $155.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Clustering with R

    by Paolo Giordani, Maria Brigida Ferraro, Francesca Martella ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The purpose of this book is to thoroughly prepare the reader for applied research in clustering. Cluster analysis comprises a class of statistical techniques for classifying multivariate data into groups or clusters based on their similar features. Clustering is nowadays widely used in several domains of research, such as social sciences, psychology, and marketing, highlighting its ... Read more

    $217.79 CAD

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    by Thornton Wilder ...
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who witnesses the accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die. Is there a direction or meaning in lives ... Read more

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  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    Translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    **"One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written." --Dave Eggers, The New YorkerA revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the AmericasA Penguin Classic**The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Death In The Afternoon

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    In Death in the Afternoon, American literary icon Ernest Hemingway, a true bullfighting aficionado, takes an in-depth look at the history of Spanish bullfighting, its ceremony, and the dangerous rituals that govern the lives of the matadors. Hemingway's passion turns the act of bullfighting into a magnificent and artistic production as Death in the Afternoon contemplates the nature of courage and ... Read more

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  • The Tunnel

    by Ernesto Sabato ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again. When he happened upon her one day, a relationship was formed ... Read more

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  • Dom Casmurro

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...
    Translated by John A. Gledson ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Like other great nineteenth century novels--The Scarlet Letter, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary--Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro explores the themes of marriage and adultery. But what distinguishes Machado's novel and what makes it such a delightful discovery for English-speaking readers, is its eccentric and wildly unpredictable narrative style. As he recounts the events of his life from the vantage ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD