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A comprehensive and practical guide, providing technical background and user context for researchers, graduate students, practitioners and decision makers. This book presents the main approaches and describes their underlying assumptions, skill and limitations. Guidelines for the application of downscaling and the use of downscaled information in practice complete the volume.
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La leyenda del amante uruguayo de Lorca narrada por Santiago Roncagliolo, Premio Alfaguara 2006 En 1953, el escritor uruguayo Enrique Amorim erigió un misterioso monumento en la frontera entre Uruguay y Argentina. El memorial tenía la forma de una lápida, y en su interior Amorim enterró un osario. El discurso inaugural y la correspondencia posterior sugieren que ahí yacían los restos de Federico García Lorca. Este libro comienza con el enigma de este monumento y luego pasa al enigma del propio Amorim. Millonario pero comunista, escritor pero hacendado, homosexual pero casado, uruguayo pero argentino, Amorim fue cambiando de identidad para estar cerca de los artistas que amaba: un Neru...
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António Gama Mendes, geógrafo, brilhante professor e investigador, faleceu prematuramente em Dezembro de 2014. A sua competência científica, a sua aptidão pedagógica, a sua vastíssima bagagem cultural e, acima de tudo, uma estatura académica muito assente na sua qualidade intelectual e numa imensa generosidade do ponto de vista humano, fizeram com que a Universidade Portuguesa e, particularmente, a Geografia tenham sofrido um forte abalo com a sua partida. Para além de deixar uma obra significativa em diferentes domínios da Geografia Social, da Geografia Política e da Geografia Cultural, deixou muitos amigos em Portugal e no estrangeiro, em diferentes áreas disciplinares que vão da Geografia à Economia e da Sociologia à Filosofia e à Literatura. Por isso, este livro, com que alguns dos seus amigos de diferentes áreas científicas pretendem homenageá-lo, revisitando alguns dos temas de investigação que lhe eram mais queridos, de modo a perpetuar a memória de um nome, de uma obra e de uma personalidade absolutamente ímpares na Universidade e na ciência portuguesas.
Wildland fires are occurring more frequently and affecting more of Earth's surface than ever before. These fires affect the properties of soils and the processes by which they form, but the nature of these impacts has not been well understood. Given that healthy soil is necessary to sustain biodiversity, ecosystems and agriculture, the impact of fire on soil is a vital field of research. Fire Effects on Soil Properties brings together current research on the effects of fire on the physical, biological and chemical properties of soil. Written by over 60 international experts in the field, it includes examples from fire-prone areas across the world, dealing with ash, meso and macrofauna, smoul...
Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had assembled this set, it would still be hailed today as one of the great achievements of the book world. Volume 42 is Part One of a dictionary of authors-from Alexis Aar to Juvenal-that serves as a handy, condensed reference to the authors quoted in the first 40 volumes, as well as a guide to thousands more authors whose works are notable but not featured in this set.