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Global Apartments
As the 20th Century progressed, urban housing became quite homogenized throughout the world. Apartment buildings in Sao Paulo are very similar to those in Seoul, Moscow, and even Chicago. It is clear that the modernist architectural vocabulary made famous by the so-called "International style" has gone much beyond corporation identity buildings and prevails in the housing sector in most of the urbanized world. According to a study supported by the United Nations Habitat (ANGEL, 2000), residential buildings - although varying in size, shape and construction materials - now take on one of four basic forms: the single family house, the row house, the walk-up apartment building and the high-rise. This book is the result of almost a decade of research on multi-family buildings, known worldwide as apartments. The main goal is to investigate the extent to which those buildings are or are not alike, or whether the similarities are more visual than experiential.
A Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho
This companion offers a critical overview of a great part of the literary oeuvre of the acclaimed Mozambican writer and historian João Paulo Borges Coelho. The book advances new critical paths within Portuguese-speaking literary studies from a comparative perspective.
Noncooperative Game Theory
Noncooperative Game Theory is aimed at students interested in using game theory as a design methodology for solving problems in engineering and computer science. João Hespanha shows that such design challenges can be analyzed through game theoretical perspectives that help to pinpoint each problem's essence: Who are the players? What are their goals? Will the solution to "the game" solve the original design problem? Using the fundamentals of game theory, Hespanha explores these issues and more. The use of game theory in technology design is a recent development arising from the intrinsic limitations of classical optimization-based designs. In optimization, one attempts to find values for pa...
Politics and Parentela in Paraiba
This richly documented work focuses on the parentela (extended family), including Epitacio's, to illustrate the role bonds of blood, marriage, and friendship played in formal politics at local, state, and national levels throughout the Old Republic (1889-1930). Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Linear Systems Theory
A fully updated textbook on linear systems theory Linear systems theory is the cornerstone of control theory and a well-established discipline that focuses on linear differential equations from the perspective of control and estimation. This updated second edition of Linear Systems Theory covers the subject's key topics in a unique lecture-style format, making the book easy to use for instructors and students. João Hespanha looks at system representation, stability, controllability and state feedback, observability and state estimation, and realization theory. He provides the background for advanced modern control design techniques and feedback linearization and examines advanced foundation...
João Paulo II - Uma Vida de Santidade
A vida de João Paulo II facilmente pode ser transformada em palavras escritas, como neste livro, mas o significado de sua presença no mundo nem sempre é simples de ser expresso. Letras, gestos e imagens muitas vezes são insuficientes para descrever o Papa que tornou possível a paz e a unidade mundial. Por isso, esta obra foi escrita apenas como uma forma de alento, uma maneira de homenagear e eternizar a história do Papa "jovem", esportista, poeta e exemplo de determinação, força e dignidade. Em João Paulo II: Uma Vida de Santidade, padre Roger Araújo narra, com magnitude, assim como eram os atos do Santo Papa, a luta incessante do "Magno" pelo direito à vida, à paz, à justiça e à igualdade entre os povos, sem se esquecer de mencionar sua mão forte, que jamais abandonou os fiéis e infiéis, indicando-lhes o caminho da verdade. Além disso, esta nova edição da obra, revisada e atualizada, conta com capítulos inéditos, que deixam transparecer em cada linha o exemplo de santidade que João Paulo II deixou a todos os cristãos, e com novos anexos, incluindo as homilias realizadas em sua beatificação e em sua canonização.
The Sounds of Silence
Portugal was the pioneer of the transatlantic slave trade, the ruler of both Brazil and Angola -- the all time champions of that trade --, and one of the last western countries to decree the abolition of slaving institutions. Paradoxically, and in spite of the overwhelming number of works devoted to the problems of slavery produced in recent decades, little was known about the way Portugal dealt with the twilight of the age of slavery and, most of all, with abolitionism. This book offers the first study of the abolition of the Portuguese slave trade, covering the period from the end of the eighteenth century to the mid-1860s, and bringing to life a dark and silenced corner in the history of the odious commerce. Based on a thorough examination of Portuguese and British historical sources -- most of them never used before --, and on his awareness of the international scholarship in the field in which he writes, it investigates not only the Portuguese pro and anti-abolitionist attitudes but also the underlying ideologies, and whether and how those attitudes and ideologies changed over time and in the light of events in the political, economic and social spheres.
Progress in Artificial Intelligence
This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 7th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA'95, held in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, in October 1995. The 30 revised full papers and the 15 poster presentations included were selected during a highly competitive selection process from a total of 167 submissions from all over the world. Among the topics covered are automated reasoning and theorem proving, belief revision, constraint-based reasoning, distributed artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms, machine learning, neural networks, non-monotonic reasoning, planning and case-based reasoning, qualitative reasoning, robotics and control, and theory of computation.
City Maps Joao Pessoa Brazil
City Maps Joao Pessoa Brazil is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Attractions, pubs, bars, restaurants, museums, convenience stores, clothing stores, shopping centers, marketplaces, police, emergency facilities are only some of the places you will find in this map. This collection of maps is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this map be part of yet another fun Joao Pessoa adventure :)
João Paulo II Homem de Oração
«Wojtyla era uma pessoa complexa, um gigante intelectual, um filósofo brilhante, um acadêmico muito instruído», cuja fé era no fundo muito simples e consistia sobretudo numa sede de Deus consciente de que só n'Ele as maiores aspirações da alma humana podem ser realizadas. A exortação com que abriu o seu pontificado – «Não tenham medo!» – testemunha bem essa sua entrega simples e confiante ao Pai. E a principal razão por que foi capaz de inspirar e elevar tanta gente a uma escala tão extraordinária foi a decisão de pôr a sua vida inteiramente nas mãos de Deus, vivendo-a com uma fé e uma coragem diárias e persistentes. A oração, como tão bem sublinham as autoras deste livro, é absolutamente indissociável do resto da vida do Papa polonês. Por isso é tão relevante a investigação que fizeram acerca da sua vida espiritual, que nos ajuda a compreender melhor, de uma forma simples e cativante, o papel fundamental que a oração ocupou na vida do filósofo, poeta, dramaturgo, sacerdote e santo que foi o Papa João Paulo II.
