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A obra faz um balanço da vigência da Lei de Acesso aos Documentos Administrativos (LADA), que desde a sua aprovação, há 30 anos, foi sendo alterada e ajustada às novas realidades, estando atualmente em discussão uma alteração legislativa que deverá dar resposta, entre outras questões, aos atuais desafios da transparência.
Con el presente trabajo, el autor nos ofrece un corpus genealógico que contiene a todas las grandes familias de la Edad Media peninsular, desde el siglo VIII hasta finales del siglo XV. La obra se divide en tres partes: Galicia, León y Castilla. El interés del tema es evidente, cuando constatamos la extraordinaria importancia que el estudio de la genealogía implica para el mejor conocimiento del mundo medieval. Nos encontramos con una sociedad de carácter estamental, regida por diversos linajes, todos ellos interconectados entre sí. Todo el entramado social que late por debajo de ellos está constituido por un conjunto de familias de segundo rango, también interconectadas entre sí, y...
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year: A “hypnotic” novel of the Spanish Civil War and one man’s quest to escape it (Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books). October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, Ignacio reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embattled country, his transformation from a bricklayer’s son to a respected bourgeois husband and professional, and the all-consuming love affair with an American woman that forever altered his life. Winner of the 2012 Prix M...
A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to embark on an unstoppable rampage through the city’s train network… A young woman is accompanied home one night by a reclusive student, and finds herself lured into a flat full of eerie Egyptian artefacts… A man suspects his young wife’s obsession with picnicking every weekend in the city’s parks hides a darker motive… At first, Tokyo appears in these stories as it does to many outsiders: a city of bewildering scale, awe-inspiring modernity, peculiar rules, unknowable secrets and, to some extent, danger. Characters observe their fellow citizens from afar, hesitant to stray from their daily routines to engage with them....
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Engineering Applications, WEA 2019, held in Santa Marta, Colombia, in October 2019. The 62 revised full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 178 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: computer science; computational intelligence; bioengineering; Internet of things; power applications; simulation systems; optimization.
Pattern recognition is a central topic in contemporary computer sciences, with continuously evolving topics, challenges, and methods, including machine learning, content-based image retrieval, and model- and knowledge-based - proaches, just to name a few. The Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recog- tion (CIARP) has become established as a high-quality conference, highlighting the recent evolution of the domain. These proceedings include all papers presented during the 15th edition of this conference, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in November 2010. As was the case for previous conferences, CIARP 2010 attracted parti- pants from around the world with the aim of promoting and disseminating - goin...
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Drawn from case examples of incidents from around the world, Targeted Violence: A Statistical and Tactical Analysis of Assassinations, Contract Killings, and Kidnappings is the most complete resource of information on the attack methodologies, tactics used, and groups responsible for targeted killings and kidnappings. The author, a former SWAT and