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  • Curse of Aname'yma

    by Rodrigo Rosa ...
    A story about strength in the face of powerlessness, mixing elements of Brazilian folklore and social issues.Lip is a hyper-aware, one-legged little person with a knack for deception. Caliandra is a quiet seventeen-year-old girl with an unforgiving smart mouth. Lip's simple life on a ranch in the middle of the Brazilian Cerrado (savanna ecosystem) in the early 1970s couldn't be more different from ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exploring Contemporary Challenges to Equality in Academia

    Gendered Higher Education and Research Under Pressure

    Edited by Rodrigo Rosa ...
    This book offers a comprehensive and global examination of the persistent gender-related challenges universities face in their pursuit of equality, diversity, and inclusion across teaching, research, management, and leadership. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from sociology, political science, gender studies, education, law, and more, it critically explores the pressures of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • The Good Cripple

    by Rodrigo Rey Rosa ...
    Translated by Esther Allen ...
    This muscular, starkly impressive novel from Guatemala's premiere young writer fiercely addresses the seemingly endless violence of Latin America.A young man, Juan Luis Luna, is kidnapped in Guatemala City and held at the bottom of a rusty, empty underground fuel tank in an abandoned gas station. The kidnappers demand a ransom; his rich father does not reply. The kidnappers threaten to cut off his ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Blockchain Technology for Industry 4.0

    Secure, Decentralized, Distributed and Trusted Industry Environment

    Edited by Rodrigo da Rosa Righi, Antonio Marcos Alberti, Madhusudan Singh ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book explores recent advances in blockchain technology and its impact on Industry 4.0 via advanced technologies. It provides an in-depth analysis of the step by step evolution of Industry 4.0 and blockchain technologies for creating the next-generation, secure, decentralized, distributed and trusted industry environment and enhancing the productivity of industries. The book describes how ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Country of Toó

    by Rodrigo Rey Rosa ...
    Translated by Stephen Henighan ...
    Series series Biblioasis International Translation Series
    A Crime Reads Best International Crime Fiction of 2023 • One of Crime Reads most anticipated LatinX Horror and Crime Fiction of 2023This sumptuously written thriller asks probing questions about how we live with each other and with our planet.Raised on his wits on the streets of Central America, the Cobra, a young debt collector and gang enforcer, has never had the chance to discern between right ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing

    14th International Conference, GPC 2019, Uberlândia, Brazil, May 26–28, 2019, Proceedings

    Edited by Rodrigo Miani, Lasaro Camargos, Bruno Zarpelão, Erika Rosas, Rafael Pasquini ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing, GPC 2019, held in Uberlândia, Brazil, in May 2019.The 17 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 initial submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: machine learning; Internet of Things and mobility; cloud and related ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The African Shore

    by Rodrigo Rey Rosa ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Gray ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A riveting and highly praised novel by Guatemala’s leading writer of fiction, now in English for the first timeIn the vein of the writings of Paul Bowles, Paul Theroux, and V. S. Naipaul, The African Shore marks a major new installment in the genre of dystopic travel fiction. Rodrigo Rey Rosa, prominent in today’s Guatemalan literary world and an author of growing international reputation, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Human-Animal Relations in Tourism, Leisure and Development

    Perspectives from Latin America

    by Carlos Monterrubio, Dr Xavier López-Medellín, Katherine Dashper, Dr Helen Wadham, Natalia Balzaretti Merino, S. Pelayo Benavides, Myrna Leticia Bravo Olivas0, Ludger Brenner1, Ivonne Cassaigne2, Rosa Maria Chávez-Dagostino3, J. Antonio de la Torre4, Marcos Díaz Videla5, Yancen Diemberger6, Iyari Janethzy Espinoza-Rodríguez7, Luisa Amador Fanaro8, Claudia Galicia-Castillo9, Mariela García-Sánchez0, Siavash Ghoddousi1, Lara Ailton2, Ezequiel Lovera Rojas3, Octavio Iván Martínez Vaca-León4, Rodrigo A. Medellin5, Alberto Mellado6, Ricardo Adrián Ojeda-Adame7, Edi Alves de Oliveira Neto8, David Ricardo Ortiz-Ramírez9, Andrés Ried0, Bernal Rodríguez Herrera1, Valeria Berenice Salinas-Ramos,2, Natalie T Schmitt3, Alinka Vanessa Olea y Wagner4 ...
    Humans and animals have developed multiple and complex interactions in the fields of tourism, leisure, and development. However, much of the existing research on how humans and animals interact in these fields has emerged from within the context of developed countries. As a result, little has been documented about human-animal interactions in the socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental contexts ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Severina

    by Rodrigo Rey Rosa ...
    Translated by Prof. Chris Andrews ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    “Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn’t take anything. . . . I knew she’d be back,” the narrator/bookseller of Severina recalls in this novel’s opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is dangerous. Imagine the mesmerized bookseller secretly tracking the volumes she steals, hoping for insight into her character, her motives, her love ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Weed management in Conservation Agriculture systems

    by Professor Gottlieb Basch, Dr Emilio J. González-Sanchez, Dr Seyed Vahid Eslami, Dr Marie L. C. Bartz0, Dr Carol C. Baskin1, Dr Jerry M. Baskin2, Dr Jose Gonzalez-Andujar3, Prof Cesar Fernandez-Quintanilla4, Dr Francisco Skora Neto5, Dr Sami Ul-Allah6, Dr Amar Matloob7, Dr Mubshar Hussain8, Dr Muhammad Farooq9, Professor Bernhard Streit0, Dr Martin V. Bauer1, Dr Per Kudsk2, Dr Stéphane Cordeau3, Dr Maé Guinet4, Dr Nicolas Munier-Jolain5, Dr Guillaume Adeux6, Dr Violaine Deytieux7, Dr Julio Roman-Vazquez8, Dr Oscar Veroz-Gonzalez9, Dr Rosa Carbonell-Bojollo0, Dr Francisco Marquez-Garcia1, Dr Antonio M. Conde-Lopez2, Dr Miguel A. Repullo-Ruiberriz de Torres3, Dr Manuel Morena-Garcia4, Dr Rafaela Ordoñez-Fernandez5, Dr Jesus A. Gil-Ribes6, Mr Marcelo Zanella7, Dr Darlan Rodrigo Marchesi8, Dr Arcângelo Loss9, Dr Guilherme Wilbert Ferreira0, Dr Jamil Abdalla Fayad1, Prof. Paolo Bàrberi2, Dr Stefano Carlesi3, Dr Federico Leoni4, Dr Ademir Calegari5, Prof Telmo Jorge Carneiro Amado6, Dr Rolf Derpsch7, Dr Ray Archuleta8, Martin Cubilla9, Dr Frédéric Thomas0, Dr Sergio Argenteri1, Dr Fabricio Kryzaniak2, Dr Kelso Silva Franco Junior3, Dr Donizeti Aparecido Fornarolli4, Dr Benedito Noedi Rodrigues5, Dr Ronaldo Hissayuki Hojo6, Dr Cassio Egidio Cavenaghi Pretes7, Dr Danilo Rheinheimer dos Santos8, Dr Søren Ilsøe9, Dr Miguel Barnuevo-Rocko0, Dr Anderson Schmitz1, Dr Benjamin Dias Osorio Filho2, Dr Luiz Antônio Pradella3, Dr Valmor dos Santos4, Dr Corey Loessin5, Dr Omer Farooq6 ...
    Series Book 160 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    There remains considerable uncertainty surrounding the future of effective weed control in agriculture. In Conservation Agriculture (CA) systems where ploughing has been replaced with no-tillage systems, weed management without reliance on herbicides has proven to be even more challenging.Weed management in Conservation Agriculture systems reviews the range of alternative, non-chemical methods of ... Read more

    $211.99 CAD

  • Brazil in the Geopolitics of Amazonia and Antarctica

    by Adriana Marcos Vivoni, Andrei Polejack, Andrés Zarankin, Carina Costa de Oliveira, Carlos Alfredo Lazary Teixeira, Everton Vieira Vargas, Gilberto Fernando Fisch, Jose Antonio Marengo Orsini, Luiz Henrique Rosa, Marcia Bezerra, Maria Lucia Marques da Fonseca, Rodrigo Augusto Lima de Medeiros, Carlos Henrique Rubens Tomé Silva, Flávio Helmold Macieira, Leandra Regina Gonçalves, Luiz Octávio Gavião, Paulo E.A.S. Câmara ...
    The book presents a comprehensive and original analysis from a Brazilian perspective of both traditional and emerging topics related to the so-called “El Dorados of the 21st century”: Amazonia and Antarctica. By gathering distinguished scholars, the resulting set of high-level findings, stemming from multiple epistemological standpoints, provides important and innovative insights into the wide ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Microscopic Wonders

    The Science of Seeing the Invisible

    by Abraham Rosas-Arellano, Carmen Reyes Luna, Fabiola García-Zamorategui, Ricardo Piña-Muñoz, Yazmín Ramiro-Cortés, Gerardo Rodrigo Perera-Murcia, Alfonso Cárabez-Trejo ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book takes the reader on a visual journey of the microscope and shares exciting stories about its development and the new technologies that exist that renders the invisible visible. The book begins with the history of microscopy and follows with the basics of various types of microscopy: brightfield, widefield, confocal, transmission electron, and scanning electron. All chapters feature ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD