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    Essays for the Centenary of the International Geographical Union

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume of specially commissioned interpretative essays marks the centenary of the establishment of the International Geographical Union in 1922. Written by leading human and physical geographers from all parts of the world, A Geographical Century considers the history and present condition of geography as an international science.Based on the latest research, A Geographical Century provides ... Read more

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  • Beneath the Lines

    Borders and Boundary-Making from the 18th to the 20th Century

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book brings together ten empirically rich and theoretically informed contributions that aim to clarify both geo-historical specificities and common transnational and global features of the cultures and practices of boundary making that shaped modern statehood. Written by scholars from Spain, France, Italy, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, the essays included in this volume provide a comparative ... Read more

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  • The Neural Matrix

    Understanding Jacobo Grinberg's Vision of Consciousness

    In December 1994, Mexican neuroscientist Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum vanished without a trace; right before delivering what he claimed would be a 'paradigm-shifting' lecture about consciousness. He left behind fifty plus scientific papers, custom-built brain-scanning equipment, and research suggesting that human minds might be connected through an invisible field of consciousness. This book tells ... Read more

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  • The Lung in Autoimmune Diseases

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    The Lung in Autoimmune Diseases, Volume Seventeen identifies and describes the role of the lung in the most common systemic autoimmune diseases. From disease patterns, prognosis and risks to treatment, this book provides a comprehensive approach for the role of the lung in autoimmune diseases and the influence of autoimmune disease on the lung's functionality. In recent years, there is increasing ... Read more

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  • Defeating Los Zetas

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  • I Am Me

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    Series Book 1 - Il leone verde piccoli
    “I am me, but I am also like my mother when I make the bread with her and like my father when I pick up the leaves with him...”On the pages of this book we can play to discover that little piece of the other remaining in the young protagonist after each meeting. Many colored pieces that enrich and make the child grow. Then the wind carries away everything, but nothing is lost... The heart knows ... Read more

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  • Advanced Control Methods for Industrial Processes

    Modeling, Design, and Simulation of Emerging Systems in Real Time

    A detailed introduction to mathematical models for new and established control engineersControl engineering is a system that helps us understand electrical, physical, chemical, and biochemical systems through the use of mathematical modeling, using inputs, outputs, and simulations. These experimental platforms are implemented in most systems of modern advanced control engineering.Advanced Control ... Read more

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  • Integrated Strategies for Developing Sustainable Energy Systems

    From Carbon Capture to Energy System Optimization

    Integrated Strategies for Developing Sustainable Energy Systems: From Carbon Capture to Energy System Optimization brings together insights into sustainable energy production and carbon capture technologies, as well as strategies for more sustainable chemical processes, from all aspects from process design and optimization strategies, through to effective implementation. This book equips readers ... Read more

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  • Lila's House

    Male Prostitution in Latin America

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  • Macho Love

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  • The Zeta Yoke

    Northern Coahuila, 2010-2011

    Confronting organized crime requires an understanding of its workings. The Zeta Yoke is based on legal documents made available by the government of the state of Coahuila, information submited by the National Human Rights Commission and an exhaustive research of other material. This report details how the Zetas controlled northern Coahuila for several years and their interactions with the ... Read more

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  • A Confederacy of Fear

    The Role of Congress and the American Media in the Fall of Jacobo Árbenz

    "A Confederacy of Fear" examines the developments that led American legislators and journalists to see the reformist regime of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (1951-1954) as a beachhead for international communism in the Western Hemisphere and an existential threat to American democracy. It draws on the archives of prominent Senators and Congressmen; press accounts; Guatemalan and ... Read more

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