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Newly translated from Spanish, The Man of Villa Tevere paints a remarkably vivid portrait of the day-to-day life of St. Josemaría Escrivá, “the saint of the ordinary.” Set in the world headquarters of Opus Dei and rich with anecdotes culled from the Founder’s contemporaries, this acclaimed biography chronicles the construction of the Roman center through Monsignor Escrivá's death there in 1975. When St. Josemaría arrived in Rome, nearly twenty years after founding Opus Dei, there was still much to be done and little was to come easily. Escrivá maintained that full canonical confirmation from the Catholic Church was imperative to the mission of Opus Dei, but he would not live to se...
Contains short biographies of three hundred Hispanic American women who have achieved national or international prominence in a variety of fields.
Carlos Garcia is a Miami entrepreneur, a shrewd businessman who runs a chain of markets and provides a comfortable living for his family. His wife and daughter mean the world to him, and he will do anything for them. But when his teenage daughter contrives a plan to visit her parents homeland, Carlos balks. His sour childhood experiences during the Castro regime will not allow him to return to Cuba. Under pressure by his wife, he obtains the best trip arrangement for her and his daughter, which unbeknownst to him will lead them straight into the arms of a Mexican gang. Danger and drama are the rule of the day in this story of high emotions in which the most obscure feelings surface and are allowed to prevail. Let the Breeze Blow is a story of high passion in which the unexpected is the norm. A bold story that leaves nothing untold.La Nacin
The two-volume set LNAI 8856 and LNAI 8857 constitutes the proceedings of the 13th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2014, held in Tuxtla, Mexico, in November 2014. The total of 87 papers plus 1 invited talk presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 348 submissions. The first volume deals with advances in human-inspired computing and its applications. It contains 44 papers structured into seven sections: natural language processing, natural language processing applications, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, and social network applications, computer vision, image processing, logic, reasoning, and multi-agent systems, and intelligent tutoring systems. The second volume deals with advances in nature-inspired computation and machine learning and contains also 44 papers structured into eight sections: genetic and evolutionary algorithms, neural networks, machine learning, machine learning applications to audio and text, data mining, fuzzy logic, robotics, planning, and scheduling, and biomedical applications.
Cell biology is a multidisciplinary scientific field that its modern expansion in new knowledge and applications owes to important support of new technologies with the rapid development, such as ICTs. By integrating knowledge from nano-, molecular, micro-, and macroareas, it represents a strong foundation for almost all biological sciences and disciplines, as well as for biomedical research and application. This book is a compilation of inspiring reviews/original studies, which are divided into sections: New Methods in Cell Biology, Molecular and Cellular Regulatory Mechanisms, and Cellular Basis of Disease and Therapy. The book will be very useful for students and beginners to gain insight into new area, as well as for experts and scientists to find new facts and expand their scientific horizons through biological sciences and biomedicine.
Identifies and describes specific government assistance opportunities such as loans, grants, counseling, and procurement contracts available under many agencies and programs.
Winning the Global TV News Game (1995) examines the worldwide TV news revolution of the 1990s, dealing with live TV news as an industry–consumer relationship. It’s a marketing approach – focusing on regional markets across the globe, looking at industry players and the hardware they had put in place. Much of this analysis is told by leading news media professionals who describe the latest thinking and newest developments in their own words.