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  • The Sergio Torres Story

    From the Brick Factory to Old Trafford

    by Sergio Torres, Juan Manuel Lopez ...
    An inspirational, personal story of one soccer star's never-say-die attitudes, and his rise to the topSergio Torres's is an incredible true story of the benefits of willpower, sacrifice, joy, and daring to dream. Imagine you're working in a brick factory in the Argentine city Mar del Plata, and a 22-year-old colleague tells you he's going to quit his job to become a professional soccer player in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Triumph of the Fake: Artificial Intelligence, Trump, Musk, and Jianwei Xun

    by Sergio Torres ...
    The fake—the counterfeit, the bogus, the inauthentic—is not merely a deviation from reality; it is, fundamentally, a relative and socially constructed phenomenon. Increasingly, what we label as "fake" is not defined by its distance from truth, but by the consensus that allows it to inhabit the space of belief. It is sanctioned fiction, clothed in certainty. In contemporary political and cultural ... Read more

    $35.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar: Mind, Agency and the Materiality of Language

    Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar

    by Sergio Torres-Martínez ...
    Series series Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar
    Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar (AgCCxG) redefines language as an adaptive, embodied semiotic system shaped by cognition, interaction, and prediction. Rooted in Peircean semiotics and Active Inference, it sees speakers as agent-interpretants adjusting semiotic representations based on need-driven processes rather than rigid hierarchies. Rejecting dualism, AgCCxG highlights the interplay ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bestiary of Shadows (Bestiario de sombras): A Bilingual poetic collection

    Poetry 1

    by Sergio Torres-Martínez ...
    Series series Poetry 1
    This collection of poems was written within a concentrated period, resulting from an exercise in intense introspection. It reflects on personal themes, obsessions, and memories that needed compiling, akin to editing a video. The poems function as sequences that guide the reader to viscerally experience the writer's mindscape through vivid readings and fetishized characters. There are no extreme ... Read more

    $24.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Human Consciousness and Agency in the Age of Machinic Simulation

    Artificial Intelligence, #1

    by Sergio Torres-Martínez ...
    Series Book 1 - Artificial Intelligence
    The rise of generative AI (GenAI), exemplified by ChatGPT and Claude, has triggered profound debates about technology's impact on humanity. These systems, while powerful, lack embodied cognition, challenging assumptions about agency, creativity, and intelligence. This book critiques reductive narratives equating computational fluency with understanding, emphasizing the biological and intentional ... Read more

    $39.55 USD

  • Dermatology in Public Health Environments

    A Comprehensive Textbook

    Edited by Renan Rangel Bonamigo, Sergio Ivan Torres Dornelles ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book provides a reference guide in the field of dermatology, presenting and discussing its interface with public health.Dermatological diseases are extremely common in populations around the globe, and the systematization of knowledge about these dermatoses and their relationships with different epidemiological factors may help us to understand the challenges that governments and private ... Read more

    $305.09 USD

  • Emerging Capital Markets And Globalization: The Latin American Experience

    by De la Torre Augusto; Schmukler Sergio ...
    Back in the early 1990s, economists and policy makers had high expectations about the prospects for domestic capital market development in emerging economies, particularly in Latin America. Unfortunately, they are now faced with disheartening results. Stock and bond markets remain illiquid and segmented. Debt is concentrated at the short end of the maturity spectrum and denominated in foreign ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Beyond the Supersquare

    Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism

    Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa ...
    Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism, which developed from a symposium presented by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2011, showcases original essays by distinguished Latin American architects, historians, and curators whose research examines architecture and urban designpractices in the region during a significant period of the twentieth century. Drawing ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Emerging Capital Markets and Globalization

    The Latin American Experience

    by Stanford University Press, Augusto de la Torre, Sergio Schmukler ...
    Series series Latin American Development Forum
    Back in the early 1990s, economists and policy makers had high expectations about the prospects for domestic capital market development in emerging economies, particularly in Latin America. Unfortunately, they are now faced with disheartening results. Stock and bond markets remain illiquid and segmented. Debt is concentrated at the short end of the maturity spectrum and denominated in foreign ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creep Behaviour in Cracked Sections of Fibre Reinforced Concrete

    Proceedings of the International RILEM Workshop FRC-CREEP 2016

    Edited by Pedro Serna, Aitor Llano-Torre, Sergio H. P. Cavalaro ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This is the first publication ever focusing strictly on the creep behaviour in cracked sections of Fibre Reinforced Concrete (FRC). These proceedings contain the latest scientific papers about new testing methodologies, results and conclusions of multiple experimental campaigns and recommendations about significant factors of long-term behaviour, experiences from more than ten years of creep ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Financial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Road Ahead

    by Augusto de la Torre, Alain Ize, Sergio L. Schmukler ...
    During the 1980s and 1990s, financial sectors were the Achilles' heel of economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Since then, these sectors have grown and deepened, becoming more integrated and competitive, with new actors, markets, and instruments springing up and financial inclusion broadening. To crown these achievements, the During the 1980s and 1990s, financial sectors ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Innovative Experiences in Access to Finance

    Market-Friendly Roles for the Visible Hand?

    by Augusto de la Torre, Juan Carlos Gozzi, Sergio L. Schmukler ...
    Series series Latin American Development Forum
    Interest in access to finance and awareness of its importance have increased significantly since the early 2000s. Growing evidence suggests that lack of access to credit prevents many households and firms from financing high-return investment projects, which has an adverse effect on growth and poverty alleviation. Despite the increasing awareness of the importance of access to finance among both ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus