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  • The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art

    Edited by Stephen J. Campbell, Stephanie Porras ...
    Series series Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    This companion examines the global Renaissance through object-based case studies of artistic production from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe in the early modern period.The international group of contributors take an art historical approach characterized by close analysis of form and meaning as well as function, and a focus on questions of crosscultural dialogue and adaptation. Seeking to de ... Read more

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  • The Cost of Capital

    by E. Porras ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The relationship between risk, return and the cost of capital is contextualized by relating it to the needs of investors and borrowers, the historical evidence, and theories of choice and behavior. The text spans financial theory, its empirical tests and applications to real-world financial problems while keeping an entertaining easy-to-read style. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives

    Young Lives in Crisis

    Edited by María Porras Sánchez, Gerardo Vilches ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
    This volume explores comics as examples of moral outrage in the face of a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young lives. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters devote attention to the expression and representation of precarious subjectivities, as well as to the economic and professional precarity that characterizes comics creation and production.An international team ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Advancing U.S. Latino Entrepreneurship

    A New National Economic Imperative

    Edited by Marlene Orozco, Alfonso Morales, Michael J. Pisani, Jerry I. Porras ...
    Advancing U.S. Latino Entrepreneurship examines business formation and success among Latinos by identifying arrangements that enhance entrepreneurship and by understanding the sociopolitical contexts that shape entrepreneurial trajectories. While it is well known that Latinos make up one of the largest and fastest growing populations in the U.S., Latino-owned businesses are now outpacing this ... Read more

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  • Information Technology and Systems

    Proceedings of ICITS 2022

    Edited by Álvaro Rocha, Carlos Ferrás, Abel Méndez Porras, Efren Jimenez Delgado ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is composed by the papers written in English and accepted for presentation and discussion at The 2022 International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (ICITS'22), held at Tecnológico de Costa Rica, in San Carlos, Costa Rica, between the 9th and the 11th of February 2022.ICIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent findings and ... Read more

    $260.09 USD

  • Myth and Environmentalism

    Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet

    Edited by Esther Sánchez-Pardo, María Porras Sánchez ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This volume traces the interconnections between myth, environmentalism, narrative, poetry, comics, and innovative artistic practice, using this as a framework through which to examine strategies for repairing our unhealthy relationship with the planet. Challenging late capitalist modes encouraging mindless consumption and the degradation of human–nature relations, this collection advocates a re ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Life Cycle Analysis Based on Nanoparticles Applied to the Construction Industry

    A Comprehensive Curriculum

    Edited by Pilar Mercader-Moyano, Paula Porras-Pereira ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book describes in the recent years, there has been a notable upsurge in the use of nanomaterials, particularly within the construction and building sectors. The incorporation of nanoparticles introduces noteworthy changes in the physico-mechanical and physical–chemical characteristics of construction materials.Despite the acknowledged advantages of employing nanomaterials, ... Read more

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  • Vindicatory Justice

    Beyond Law and Revenge

    Edited by Raúl Márquez Porras, Riccardo Mazzola, Ignasi Terradas Saborit ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This volume offers a new theoretical approach to the analysis of the law/revenge binary, and attempts to dismantle the common idea of revenge as lacking any legal, moral or rational dimension. In contrast, the book puts forward a model of a complex system of justice—which it terms 'vindicatory'—wherein vendetta constitutes an authorized action, the core of which does not (just) lie in vengeance ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Think Tanks and Global Politics

    Key Spaces in the Structure of Power

    Edited by Alejandra Salas-Porras, Georgina Murray ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This text provides a cutting edge analysis of the increasingly central role think tanks play in societies worldwide. Examining their control of global resources both in economic and political policy fields and their inroads into structures of power, it addresses key questions. How have think thanks reached these positions of power? Has the northern core produced neoliberal clones that have hydra ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Management of Water Resources in Protected Areas

    Edited by Hermes Farfán González, José Luis Corvea Porras, Irene de Bustamente Gutiérrez, James W. LaMoreaux ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Natural ecosystems are heavily dependent on water, as it is essential to the development of life. The ecology and landscape play an important role in the quality and availability of water. It is no coincidence that exceptional hydrological phenomena are found in protected areas. Such is the case with, for example, the geothermic occurrences (principally, geysers) in America's Yellowstone National ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Growing Up in La Colonia

    Boomer memories from Oxnard's barrio

    by Margo Porras, Sandra Porras ...
    La Colonia is half a square mile of land separated from the rest of Oxnard by the railroad tracks and home to the people who keep an agricultural empire running. In decades past, milpas of corn and squash grew in tiny front yards, kids played in the alleys and neighbors ran tortillerias out of their homes. Back then, it was the place to get the best raspadas on Earth. It was a home to Cesar Chavez ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Built to Last

    Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

    by Jim Collins ...
    Narrated by Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Good to Great

    Abridged

    6 hours 16 min

    Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day -- as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations ... Read more

    $23.99 USD