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  • High Performance Computing in Clouds

    Moving HPC Applications to a Scalable and Cost-Effective Environment

    Edited by Edson Borin, Lúcia Maria A. Drummond, Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Alba Melo, Maicon Melo Alves, Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book brings a thorough explanation on the path needed to use cloud computing technologies to run High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications. Besides presenting the motivation behind moving HPC applications to the cloud, it covers both essential and advanced issues on this topic such as deploying HPC applications and infrastructures, designing cloud-friendly HPC applications, and optimizing ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Animal Biodiversity and Conservation in Brazil's Northern Atlantic Forest

    Edited by Alexandre Vasconcellos, Gentil Alves Pereira Filho, Frederico Gustavo Rodrigues França, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book describes the fauna of the Pernambuco Endemism Center in Brazil's Northern Atlantic Forest, an understudied global biodiversity hotspot. Through fifteen curated chapters, it provides the latest information about the fauna of the northern portion of the Atlantic Forest, gathering important information about the faunal composition of the region for the first time. The chapters address ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • Proceedings of the Iberian Meeting on Rheology (IBEREO 2019)

    Edited by Francisco José Galindo-Rosales, Laura Campo-Deaño, Alexandre M. Afonso, Manuel A. Alves, Fernando T. Pinho ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents the proceedings of IBEREO 2019. This conference addresses the most recent trends in rheology with a special emphasis on both basic science and industrial applications. Papers presented cover different perspectives, like experimental, theoretical and numerical. Topics include Microfluidics and microrheology, Food, Cosmetics and Pharmaceutical Products; Suspensions and Colloids; ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • New Perspectives on the Good Neighbor Policy

    by Fernando Atique, Alexandre Fortes, Olival Freire Junior, Dennison de Oliveira, Ursula Prutsch, Alexandre Busko Valim, Ana Maria Mauad, Vinícius Marcondes Araújo, Adriana Mendonça Cunha0, Francisco César Alves Ferraz1, Maria Girardello Gatti2, Luis Felipe Kojima Hirano3, Simone Petraglia Kropf4, Aline Vanessa Locastre5, Érica Gomes Daniel Monteiro6, Eliza Mitiyo Morinaka7, Cristina Soreanu Pecequilo8, Richard Cándida Smith9, Antonio Pedro Tota0 ...
    The Second World War was a watershed moment in US–South American relations. Yet the Good Neighbor Policy—the driving force behind many of the changes during this time—remains underanalyzed, especially from a South American perspective. Examining topics ranging from literary fashions and trends in the press to science, militarism, and gender categories, New Perspectives on the Good Neighbor Policy ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Woke Cinderella

    Twenty-First-Century Adaptations

    by Suzy Woltmann, Christine Case, Brittany Eldridge, Ryan Habermeyer, Loraine Haywood, Svea Hundertmark, Christian Jiminez, Alexandra Lykissas, Jessica Raven, Camille S. Alexander0, Carolina Alves Magdali1, Sarah E. Maier2, Lucas Alves Mendes3, Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh4, Rachel L. Carazo5 ...
    Series series Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations
    Glass slippers, a fairy godmother, a ball, a prince, an evil stepfamily, and a poor girl known for sitting amongst the ashes: incarnations of the "Cinderella" fairy tale have resonated throughout the ages. Hidden between the lines of this fairy tale exists a history of fantasy about agency, power, and empowerment. This book examines twenty-first-century “Cinderella” adaptations that envision the ... Read more

    $34.09 USD

  • Precarious Democracy

    Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil

    by Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Mitchell, Alvaro Jarrin, Lucia Cantero, Lila Moritz Schwarcz, Jessica Jerome, Isabela Kalil0, Rosana Pinheiro-Machado1, Lucia Mury Scalco2, Patricia de Santana Pinho3, Karina Biondi4, John Collins5, David Rojas6, Andrezza Alves Spexoto Olival7, Alexandre de Azevedo Olival8, Falina Enriquez9, Moisés Kopper0, Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer1, LaShandra Sullivan2, Carlos Eduardo Henning3, Melanie A. Medeiros4, Patrick McCormick5, Erika Schmitt6, James Kale7 ...
    Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century’s second decade. In 2010, the country’s outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval. As the presidency passed to his Workers' Party successor, Dilma Rousseff, many across the world hailed Brazil as a model of progressive governance in the Global South. Yet, by 2019, those progressive gains were being dismantled as the far right-wing ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Relações Internacionais : Olhares Cruzados

    by Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão, Corival Alves do Carmo / Érica C. A. Winand / Israel Roberto Barnabé / Lucas Miranda Pinheiro(orgs.) ...
    Series series Coleção Relações Internacionais
    O estudo e a formação em Relações Internacionais no Brasil consolidaram-senas últimas quatro décadas. O Itamaraty cumpriu importante papel no processo.Como parte de sua missão institucional, a Fundação Alexandre de Gusmãotem organizado e promovido estudos e pesquisas sobre relações internacionais,em parceria com o meio acadêmico de diferentes partes do Brasil. Este livropublicado pela FUNAG ... Read more

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  • Getting Started with Oracle Event Processing 11g

    by Alexandre Alves ...
    This getting started book will use practical chapters which follow logical and progressively more complex tasks and examples, which will impart the skills of how to use Oracle Complex Event Processing to the reader. This book is aimed at both those with some knowledge of java and SQL database experience, but it is also written so that if you are completely new to this topic you will understand ... Read more

    $27.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • El Hierro Island Global Geopark

    Diversity of Volcanic Heritage for Geotourism

    Edited by Javier Dóniz-Páez, Nemesio M. Pérez ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book explores El Hierro Island, which is geologically the youngest of the Canary Islands (Spain). Having registered its latest volcanic eruption in 2011-2012, it is an oceanic subtropical island with low population pressure and a largely unchanged natural landscape. Accordingly, a great geodiversity of volcanic morphologies and erosion processes has been preserved. In addition, ... Read more

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  • Sacrificing Families

    Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders

    by Leisy J. Abrego ...
    Widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children, and both mothers and fathers often find that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Their dreams are straightforward: with more money, they can improve their children's lives. But the reality of their experiences is often harsh, and structural barriers—particularly those ... Read more

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  • Distributed and Cloud Computing

    From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things

    by Kai Hwang, Jack Dongarra, Geoffrey C. Fox ...
    Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things offers complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid, service-oriented architecture, massively parallel processors, peer-to-peer networking, and cloud computing. It is the first modern, up-to-date distributed systems textbook; it explains how to create high-performance, ... Read more

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  • Natural Hazards and Human-Exacerbated Disasters in Latin America

    Special Volumes of Geomorphology

    by Edgardo Latrubesse ...
    Series Book 13 - Developments in Earth Surface Processes
    The main objective of the book is to offer a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. The chapters are written by selected specialists of each country. Human-induced disasters are also included, such as desertification in Patagonia and soil erosion in Brazil. The receding of South-American glaciers as a ... Read more

    $131.39 USD