Search results for ""author albert"

Babies of women with diabetes are nearly five times more likely to be stillborn and almost three times more likely to die in the first three months. The incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus in the U.S. is high—between 3 and 7 percent—and rising. The condition is often complicated by other risk factors such as obesity and heart disease. The Textbook of Diabetes and Pregnancy presents a comprehensive review of the science, clinical management, and medical implications of gestational diabetes mellitus, a condition with serious consequences that is on the increase in all developed societies. This new edition supports the latest initiatives and strategies of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) and adds chapters on noncommunicable diseases, obesity, bariatric surgery, and epidemiology outside Western cultures.Written by a cadre of experts, the book provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and international view of gestational diabetes mellitus and will be invaluable to maternal-fetal medicine specialists, diabetologists, neonatologists, and a growing number of gynecologists and general physicians concerned with the management of noncommunicable diseases in pregnancy.

Read more less

The physical properties of knotted and linked configurations in space have long been of interest to mathematicians. More recently, these properties have become significant to biologists, physicists, and engineers among others. Their depth of importance and breadth of application are now widely appreciated and valuable progress continues to be made each year.This volume presents several contributions from researchers using computers to study problems that would otherwise be intractable. While computations have long been used to analyze problems, formulate conjectures, and search for special structures in knot theory, increased computational power has made them a staple in many facets of the field. The volume also includes contributions concentrating on models researchers use to understand knotting, linking, and entanglement in physical and biological systems. Topics include properties of knot invariants, knot tabulation, studies of hyperbolic structures, knot energies, the exploration of spaces of knots, knotted umbilical cords, studies of knots in DNA and proteins, and the structure of tight knots. Together, the chapters explore four major themes: physical knot theory, knot theory in the life sciences, computational knot theory, and geometric knot theory.

Read more less

How do social justice and environmental activists determine or define their effectiveness? This unique consideration shares the stories of eight diverse social justice movements-including the Alberta College of Social Workers, the Calgary Raging Grannies, Oxfam Canada, and the Youth Project of Halifax-as they contemplate their own achievements. Revealing that success is not measured only in large-scale social reform, but is also found in moments of connection, such as in building relationships and raising awareness, this record provides meaningful insights into the struggle against neoliberal capitalism. A contribution to the movements challenging the domination of free market ideology, this book will offer a space for reflecting on the impacts of activist groups.

Read more less

This book covers all aspects of research into Giardia as an organism and giardiasis the disease. Based on papers presented at the 2000 'Giardia in the Rockies conference, held in Alberta, Canada, it contains contributions from leading international experts. Includes chapters on: biochemistry, biology, detection and diagnosishost-parasite relationships, zoonotic transmission and epidemiology therapeutics and new drug targets water treatment, legislation and policy, Giardia in companion animals, in farm animals, and as a public health problem.

Read more less

A novel from the dark heart of early twentieth-century Alberta, featuring a new introduction by Dr. Lily Cho.A bully cattle rancher upends the lives of everyone he encounters and a pandemic makes those lives even more precarious. A full century after its first publication, Cattle remains a story of brutality. A curious Canadian mixture of Hardy and Steinbeck,Cattle is built on the deep contradictions of a settler ideology, asking readers to not look away from the many modes of violence bound up in Canadian history.Our Throwback books also give back: a percentage of each book’s sales will be donated to a designated Canadian cultural organization. Royalties from sales of Cattle benefit Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter.

Read more less

The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies provides a forum for the scrutiny of significant issues in EU Law, the law of the European Convention on Human Rights, and Comparative Law with a 'European' dimension, and particularly those issues which have come to the fore during the year preceding publication. The contributions appearing in the collection are commissioned by the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Cambridge, a research centre in the Law Faculty of the University of Cambridge specialising in European legal issues. The papers presented are at the cutting edge of the fields which they address, and reflect the views of recognised experts drawn from the University world, legal practice, and the institutions of both the EU and its Member States. Inclusion of the comparative dimension brings a fresh perspective to the study of European law, and highlights the effects of globalisation of the law more generally, and the resulting cross fertilisation of norms and ideas that has occurred among previously sovereign and separate legal orders. The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies is an invaluable resource for those wishing to keep pace with legal developments in the fast moving world of European integration.

Read more less

Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings Volume 34, Issue 9 - Ceramic Materials for Energy Applications III A collection of 15 papers from The American Ceramic Society's 37th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 27-February 1, 2013. This issue includes papers presented in Symposia 6 - Advanced Materials and Technologies for Rechargeable Energy Storage; Symposium 13 - Advanced Ceramics and Composites for Sustainable Nuclear Energy and Fusion Energy; Focused Session 4 - Advanced Processing for Photonics and Energy; and the Engineering Summit of the Americas session.

Read more less

The profound changes that we are experiencing at the political, environmental, economic, social, and cultural levels of our "postmodern" society pose immense challenges to education. In order to empower students to analyse, reflect, and take action for a sustainable world, the learning and educational process must be experienced in the context of citizenship; that is, it must be designed, planned, and implemented having global sustainability as a framework, thus developing societal awareness, values, and principles.Teaching and Learning Practices That Promote Sustainable Development and Active Citizenship is an essential research book that provides comprehensive research on education as a fundamental factor in empowering citizens to understand and act on the multiple risks and challenges to the sustainability of our society and world. Highlighting a range of critical learning strategies such as global and critical education, development education, and transformational education, among others, this book is ideal for academicians, education professionals, researchers, policymakers, and students.

Read more less

The pursuit of gender in the archaeological record is explored in this exciting new collection of essays by renowned archaeologists and gender theorists. These essays place gender in the context of the past, by approaching the data in light of the previous decades of gender research. Issues such as tool-making, hunting, and evolution take on new meaning as the contributors examine the impact of gender worldwide. They do so in terms of the theories, methods, and ways of teaching and learning amassed through archaeological data. These essays provide insight into the study of gender in archaeology and will prove valuable to the scholarship of gender-based theory.

Read more less

The twentieth century has been marked by the expansion of educational opportunities worldwide. It has been the century of education, and the role of the state in the promotion of public education has been decisive. Yet, at the millennium's turn efforts to diminish the role of the state are rapidly changing education, especially in terms of its role in democracy. This comprehensive handbook offers a fresh view of the social context of education, outlining the challenges as well as the advances in public and private education systems. The book offers a systematic account of current social theory and methodologies, applied perspectives on the development of education in many regions of the world, and compares key themes such as access, school choice, equity, and educational performance.

Read more less

Este Canto fue leído por su autor en el Anfiteatro "Bolívar", en el acto celebrado por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, en la tarde del 24 de julio de 1941, CXI aniversario de la muerte del Libertador. La edición consta de 500 ejemplares y se hizo por acuerdo del Rector de la misma Universidad, en la imprenta Universitaria, bajo la dirección del Jefe de Servicio Editorial. Dibujó capitular y viñetas de Julio Prieto. Esta nueva edición facsimilar fue editada conmemorando el centenario del nacimiento de Pablo Neruda, sobre el ejemplar que su autor con una AMPLIA DEDICATORIA regaló a Rafael Alberti, ahora en posesión de Aitana Alberti.

Read more less

An innovative examination of sixteenth-century Netherlandish drawing against the backdrop of the urban economic boom, the Protestant Reformation, and the Eighty Years’ War Featuring works by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516), Jan Gossaert (c. 1478–1532), Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574), Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569), Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617), and others, this book positions drawing in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century as a dynamic, multifaceted practice. Drawings played roles as varied as the artists who made them: they were designs for prints, paintings, stained glass windows, decorative objects, and tapestries, as well as tools for presentation, translation, and the display of knowledge and virtuosity. The artists’ diversified urban communities shaped their drawing practices, as did shifting cultural and political circumstances surrounding Protestant Reform and the Eighty Years’ War. In addition to the book’s four illuminating essays, many of the more than eighty catalogue entries—selected from the holdings of The Albertina Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art—present new research.Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of ArtExhibition Schedule:The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 9, 2022–January 8, 2023)The Albertina Museum, Vienna (2023)

Read more less

While the history of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) has been a very popular theme among researchers in Italy and other countries, it first became the subject of scholarly research in Russia at the conference held in Moscow in 1995: "Vatican Council II: The View from Russia". The holding of such a conference became possible because of the opening of Russian archives. The opportunity to undertake research in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Council for Religious Affairs, and other departments made it possible to present a number of papers and communications which disclosed the attitude of the Soviet leadership towards the Council, discussions about the Council in the upper echelons of the Russian Orthodox Church, ...The holding of the conference was of great scholarly importance for Russian historians. First, it was an important part in the realization of a research programme on the history of world religions. Second, the vast historical problem of "Religion, Church and Power" was raised at the conference. Third, this topic is one of the elements of general research being undertaken on the history of the Soviet state and society as a whole. Fourth, the conference and the problems it raised undoubtedly have contemporary significance. Today, when problems of relations between Orthodoxy and Catholicism, the Russian Orthodox Church and the Vatican are provoking interest and raising disputes and discussions, addressing the comparatively recent history of these relations may be useful in providing evidence of historical experiences and precedents.

Read more less

Encuadernación: Rústica

Read more less

Poemario dirigido a prelectores y primeros lectores. El libro presenta 7 poemas sobre la estación del invierno. Todos ellos relacionados con temáticas cercanas a la edad de sus lectores: el frío, la navidad, la nieve, los resfriados, etc.

Read more less

Esta gran novela de aventuras narra una historia que nadie conoce: la de los españoles que, en el siglo XVIII, vivieron entre las riberas de los ríos Grande y Pecos. Colonizaron aquellas tierras y fueron los primeros en enfrentarse a un enemigo fiero e imprevisible: los apaches.Porque mucho antes de que existiera el Far West, miles de españoles se establecieron en las tierras del salvaje norte de América y levantaron allí sus hogares. Hogares que defendieron los soldados más duros y olvidados de nuestro pasado: los dragones presidiales de Norteamérica.Esta es la gran novela que narra lo que nadie antes había contado: la épica aventura de los españoles que, a finales del siglo XVIII, colonizaron los actuales territorios de Texas y Nuevo México. Esta es la historia de los que fueron buscando un hogar y hallaron a un enemigo formidable: los apaches. Fieros e imprevisibles, jamás se doblegaban jamás se rendían y no les importaba morir.España no se cruzó de brazos y situó, entre la

Read more less

Descripción: 24x17 cm.Encuadernacion:Rustica.Colección: Colección de pensamiento medieval y renacentista.Juan Escoto Eriúgena fue el pensador medieval que unió la mayor precisión y energía conceptual con la más rica imaginación al servicio de la fundamentación argumentativa de la verdad de la doctrina christiana. Con ello pasó a ser el autor de la cientificidad de la teología en la Edad Media. Desde mediados de los años sesenta, un determinado interés de la investigación por la historia de las fuentes y de la repercusión, y no en menor medida un interés objetivo-analítico, se volvieron en una medida creciente al pensamiento filosófico y teológico de Eriúgena. El autor ha buscado la aclaración progresiva de pensamientos fundamentales en la filosofía de Eriúgena, con una conciencia permanente de su mutua correspondencia interna con sus intenciones teológicas, apuntan a una comprensión de la situación de los problemas transmitidos históricamente y de las propias preguntas espec

Read more less

La enfermedad tarde o temprano acaba por llegar a nuestra vida. A veces de forma inesperada. Sin avisar. Y casi siempre como compañía indeseada que inquieta y desazona. Y es que nadie nos enseña a estar enfermos.Este libro es una pequeña ayuda para esa batalla que nadie puede librar por ti. La de no dejarte ahogar por la soledad y la desesperanza. Una guía para percibir, en el misterio de la enfermedad, esa buena noticia que brota casi en cualquier situación y lugar. Una forma de dejarse acariciar, leyendo, por la mano amable de Dios.

Read more less

David, un guionista un poco negro, es el artífice de la serie de televisión más exitosa de la historia, Vuela, Amanda, que, temporada tras temporada, arrasa entre el público. Su protagonista, Amanda, es un personaje un tanto grotesco, aunque Eva, la actriz que lo interpreta, está encantada con ella. Sin embargo, un día, una desconocida, harta de Amanda, decide buscar por tierra y cielo al creador del personaje con el fin de que intente hacerla más real. Hasta que lo consiga, vivirá todo tipo de enredos e intrigas. Al fin y al cabo, el mundo de la tele no queda tan lejos del mundo real, y sus miserias y alegrías tampoco son tan diferentes. Y además, Amanda no surgió de la nada, sino de una novela que escribió David bajo seudónimo y que le ha reportado miles de beneficios, entre otros, sustanciosos royalties.

Read more less

'Psiconautas' es una intensa historia definida por su notable carga poética y social. Entre toda una galería de seres antropomórficos, donde caben también relojes que cobran vida y patos hinchables parlantes, destacan dos jóvenes insatisfechos, Dinky y Birdboy, ratita y chico pájaro, que ansían, cada uno a su manera, huir de un entorno asfixiante, escapar de unas vidas opacas con un alto grado de alienación.La falta de expectativas laborales, el control familiar y social a quienes son percibidos como distintos a la norma general, la querencia por sustancias adictivas o un penoso medio ambiente es el ámbito por el que se mueven los protagonistas de esta historia en la que no faltan la ternura, la amistad, el amor y la esperanza por hallar, en otro lugar, un mejor porvenir.'Psiconautas' cuya presente edición recupera la ilustración de cubierta realizada para la versión francesa del cómic, ha tenido continuidad en el medio audiovisual: primero dando lugar al cortometraje, 'Birdboy'

Read more less

?Poemas de sol y moscas? es un nuevo título de la colección Olivia entorno a la estación del año del verano: poesía, música y color para los más pequeños. Es un libro en formado cartón, con lados redondeados, porque los más pequeños puedan manipularlo sin ningún riesgo, presentando, a la vez, un libro firme y consistente ideal para pequeños y pequeñas como experiencia lectora iniciática del género poético.

Read more less

Matar a un hombre es fácil, lo verdaderamente emocionante es conseguir matarlo sin matarlo. Darle muerte en vida. Enterrarlo en su propia miseria, sin que deje de respirar, sin que su corazón deje de latir, aunque sea inútilmente, aunque sea sin un propósito. Abocarlo a una muerte que no le deje más remedio y esperanza que aguardar a la muerte de verdad.Que esperar un anhelado día en que se cierren sus ojos y no los vuelva a abrir y, por fin, poder morir, sin duda.Sí.Morir, sin duda.Quién es Miguel Morera verdaderamente? Guillermo Arganda, inspector de la Brigada de Investigación Criminal que patea los arrabales de la Barcelona inhóspita, fétida y cerril de 1952, cree saberlo. Empieza una persecución que, a través de una narración coral, une y desune el destino de estos dos hombres en un arco narrativo de cuarenta años, hasta 1991, en la Barcelona preolímpica y de diseño, cuando llega el momento de ajustar cuentas que han sembrado de cadáveres y ruina las vidas de Morera

Read more less