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  • Role of Ecosystem Services in Enabling Rural-Urban Synergies

    A European Perspective

    Edited by Maria Rosario Partidario, Daniel Keech, Isabel Loupa-Ramos ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access book elaborates on the role Ecosystem Services play in relation to establishing, and enhancing, rural-urban synergies. It draws on the concept of Ecosystem Services (ESS) as the ecological characteristics, functions, or processes that directly or indirectly contribute to human wellbeing, that is, the benefits that people derive from functioning ecosystems. The empirical and ... Read more

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  • The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art

    On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the 16th–17th Centuries

    Edited by Manuel João Ramos, Isabel Boavida ...
    In the rural plateaux of northern Ethiopia, one can still find scattered ruins of monumental buildings that are evidently alien to the country's ancient architectural tradition. This little-known and rarely studied architectural heritage is a silent witness to a fascinating if equivocal cultural encounter that took place in the 16th-17th centuries between Catholic Europeans and Orthodox Ethiopians ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Women's Health and Biomechanics

    Where Medicine and Engineering Meet

    Edited by Sofia Brandão, Thuane Da Roza, Isabel Ramos, Teresa Mascarenhas ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book focuses on particular mental and physical aspects of women’s health, presenting topics concerning the pelvis and pelvic floor dysfunction and the breast during a woman’s life, such as rehabilitation for pelvic and breast disorders, and the benefits of biomechanical analysis in treating these conditions. With each chapter providing a brief survey of a major research area related to the ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    Ugly Cat & Pablo

    by Isabel Quintero ...
    Narrated by Rogelio Ramos ...

    Unabridged

    42 min

    From the 2015 winner of the ALA William C. Morris Award comes a humorous chapter book series about a not-so-attractive cat and his well-dressed mouse friend.Ugly Cat is dying for a paleta, or ice pop, and his friend Pablo is determined to help him get one by scaring a little girl who is enjoying a coconut paleta in the park. Things go horribly wrong when, instead of being scared, the little girl ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Information Systems for Industry 4.0

    Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Information Systems

    Edited by Isabel Ramos, Rui Quaresma, Paulo Silva, Tiago Oliveira ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book provides a selection of the best papers presented at the 18th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Information Systems (CAPSI), which was held in 2018. The focus of the conference and of these proceedings lies on the interplay between information systems and Industry 4.0. All contributions, which include original research, review papers and case studies, were peer-reviewed in a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Environmental Innovation in the Utility Industries

    by Elizabeth Shove, Heather Chappells, Bas Van Vliet ...
    For many years, a uniform and uncontested picture of utility system organization has endured across Europe. Provider and consumer roles have been largely taken for granted, and consumers have had little choice but to use the infrastructure of the only network provider available. Recent transformations have challenged this model. This book examines the ongoing environmental restructuring of ... Read more

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  • Design Activism

    Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World

    by Alastair Fuad-Luke ...
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  • The Secret Lives of Buildings

    From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

    by Edward Hollis ...
    A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents.Concrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. ... Read more

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  • Transformative Pathways to Sustainability

    Learning Across Disciplines, Cultures and Contexts

    Edited by Adrian Ely ...
    Transformations to sustainability are increasingly the focus of research and policy discussions around the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the different roles played by transdisciplinary research in contributing to social transformations across diverse settings have been neglected in the literature. Transformative Pathways to Sustainability responds to this gap by presenting a set of ... Read more

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  • The Alhambra

    by Robert Irwin ...
    The Alhambra, the 'red fort' on its rocky hill above Granada with its fountained courts and gardens and intricate decoration has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In a stimulating new book in the 'Wonders of the World' series Robert Irwin, Arabist and novelist, examines its engrossing and often mysterious history.Built by a bloody and threatened dynasty of Muslim Spain, the ... Read more

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  • Resilient Sustainable Cities

    A Future

    Edited by Leonie Pearson, Peter Newton, Peter Roberts ...
    Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world’s people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, products we consume, houses we live in and technology we use will all determine how sustainable our cities will be. Bridging the increasing divide between cross-disciplinary academic insights and the latest practical innovations, Resilient Sustainable ... Read more

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  • Designing for Zero Waste

    Consumption, Technologies and the Built Environment

    Edited by Steffen Lehmann, Robert Crocker ...
    Series series Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
    Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an accelerating speed and rising consumption trends across the globe have placed material efficiency, waste reduction and recycling at the centre of many government policy agendas, giving them an unprecedented urgency. While there has been a considerable literature addressing ... Read more

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