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Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929Ð1939
The news media have given us potent demonstrations of the ambiguity of ostensibly truthful representations of public events. Jordana Mendelson uses this ambiguity as a framework for the study of Spanish visual culture from 1929 to 1939--a decade marked, on the one hand, by dictatorship, civil war, and Franco's rise to power and, on the other, by a surge in the production of documentaries of various types, from films and photographs to international exhibitions. Mendelson begins with an examination of El Pueblo Español, a model Spanish village featured at the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. She then discusses Buñuel's and Dalí's documentary films, relating them not only to Fren...
Vitralls
El nou llibre de poemes de Lluís Calvo. El vitrall deixa passar la llum però un no veu què hi ha més enllà, a l'altra banda. També és el cas de tants misteris de la vida, que patim o gaudim, però n'ignorem l'origen i el sentit. Vitralls, com tots els llibres de Lluís Calvo, és una obra ambiciosa i ben estructurada, formalment i intel·lectualment.
The Politics of Chemistry
Agust Nieto-Galan argues that chemistry in the twentieth century was deeply and profoundly political. Far from existing in a distinct public sphere, chemical knowledge was applied in ways that created strong links with industrial and military projects, and national rivalries and international endeavours, that materially shaped the living conditions of millions of citizens. It is within this framework that Nieto-Galan analyses how Spanish chemists became powerful ideological agents in different political contexts, from liberal to dictatorial regimes, throughout the century. He unveils chemists' position of power in Spain, their place in international scientific networks, and their engagement in fierce ideological battles in an age of extremes. Shared discourses between chemistry and liberalism, war, totalitarianism, religion, and diplomacy, he argues, led to advancements in both fields.
The Barcelona Reader
Over the last twenty years there has been a growing international interest in the city of Barcelona. This has been reflected in the academic world through a series of studies, courses, seminars, and publications. The Barcelona Reader hinges together a selection of the best academic articles, written in English, about the city, and its main elements of identity and interest: art, urban planning, history and social movements. The book includes scholarly essays about Barcelona that can be of interest to the student and the general public alike. It focuses on cultural representations of the city: the arts (including literature) provide a complex yet discontinuous portrait of the city, similar to a patchwork. The authors selected create a kaleidoscope of views and voices thus presenting a diverse yet inclusive Barcelona portrait. The Barcelona Reader offers a multifaceted assessment that will be essential reading for anyone interested in this iconic city.
Spooks the Unofficial History of MI5 From Agent Zig Zag to the D-Day Deception 1939-45
The real history of MI5.
Advances in Expert Systems
Intelligent systems, known as expert systems, serve to this purpose in the extent that they have signed as facilitators in this process. These are systems that are based on expert knowledge, on any subject, in order to emulate human expertise in the specific field. To obtain this knowledge, the knowledge engineers, also called software engineers, need to develop methodologies for intelligent systems. In this area there is still no unified methodology that provides effective methods, notations and tools to aid in development.
Muscles
There are three different kinds of muscles that all help our bodies function. They are the skeletal muscles, smooth muscles, and cardiac muscles. Within this fun and fact-filled volume, readers learn about each kind of muscle, how it works, and where muscles are located in the body. The engaging narrative presents this essential science curriculum topic in an easy-to-understand and entertaining way as Dr. Seymour Skinless takes readers under the skin to venture through the muscular system. Additional features include informative fact boxes and diagrams, a detailed glossary, charming illustrations, and vibrant, full-color photographs of the muscular system in action.
Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2020
This two-volume set of LNCS 12489 and 12490 constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2020, held in Guimaraes, Portugal, in November 2020.* The 93 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. These papers provided a timely sample of the latest advances in data engineering and machine learning, from methodologies, frameworks, and algorithms to applications. The core themes of IDEAL 2020 include big data challenges, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval and management, bio-/neuro-informatics, bio-inspiredmodels, agents and hybrid intelligent systems, real-world applications of intelligent techniques and AI. * The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The EU Succession Regulation
The European Succession Regulation is a landmark in the field of EU private international law. It unifies the conflicts of laws, jurisdiction and recognition of foreign judgments and some other legal instruments in the field of succession and wills. This volume provides an article-by-article commentary on the individual provisions of the Regulation, introduced by an overview of its general framework and underlying principles. As a reference tool for the Regulation, this book is intended to promote a high standard of interpretation and application. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, it uses a comparative approach in its analysis to enrich the academic debate and highlight the problems likely to arise in the practical application of the Regulation.
Caminhos da identidade
Livro que apresenta uma reunião de textos que adicionam novos temas a questões tradicionalmente abordadas, ao longo de mais de quatro décadas, por Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira. Aqui é tratada temática da identidade étnica, a sua relação com os fenômenos culturais e com o mundo moral: a recuperação da dimensão do Ego associada ao problema da liberdade frente às possibilidades de manipulação da identidade étnica; as vicissitudes da identidade étnica e/ou nacional nas mais variadas situações observáveis no interior das sociedades anfitriãs de grande escala; e, finalmente, a transposição de uma experiência de pesquisa até então centrada nas relações entre índios e não índios passa, agora, para um estudo voltado à gênese de ideologias étnicas numa nação milenar.
