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  • Experiences of Donor Conception

    Parents, Offspring and Donors through the Years

    by Caroline Lorbach ...
    Drawing on the experiences of parents, offspring and donors and including her own and her family's story, this thought-provoking and informative book explores the process of donor conception. From finding out about an infertility problem, to considering whether - and how - to tell the children about their conception, and how those children feel as the adult offspring of a donor, she provides ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Mathematical Models in Biology

    Bringing Mathematics to Life

    Edited by Mario R. Guarracino, Valeria Zazzu, Maria Brigida Ferraro ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book presents an exciting collection of contributions based on the workshop “Bringing Maths to Life” held October 27-29, 2014 in Naples, Italy. The state-of-the art research in biology and the statistical and analytical challenges facing huge masses of data collection are treated in this Work. Specific topics explored in depth surround the sessions and special invited sessions of the workshop ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Natural Enemies of Insect Pests in Neotropical Agroecosystems

    Biological Control and Functional Biodiversity

    Edited by Brígida Souza, Luis L. Vázquez, Rosangela C. Marucci ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book aims to address the importance of natural enemies and functional diversity for biological control in Neotropical agroecosystems. Several aspects related to the conservation of natural enemies, such as vegetation design and climate change, are discussed in Part 1 and the bioecology of several insects groups used in biological control in Latin America is presented in Part 2. Part 3 is ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Soft Methods for Data Science

    Edited by Maria Brigida Ferraro, Paolo Giordani, Barbara Vantaggi, Marek Gagolewski, María Ángeles Gil, Olgierd Hryniewicz, Przemysław Grzegorzewski ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This proceedings volume is a collection of peer reviewed papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS 2016) held in Rome (Italy).The book is dedicated to Data science which aims at developing automated methods to analyze massive amounts of data and to extract knowledge from them. It shows how Data science employs various programming ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Two Women

    A Novel

    Translated by Barbara F. Ichiishi ...
    by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda ...
    In 1842, a young Cuban woman living in Spain published a novel that was so passionate and boldly feminist in content, it did not appear in her homeland until more than seventy years later. Two Women tells the riveting tale of a tumultuous love triangle among three wealthy Spaniards: a brilliant, young, widowed countess named Catalina, her inexperienced lover Carlos, and his pure and virtuous wife ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Boron Proxies in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

    by Stephen M. Eggins, Laura L. Haynes, Katherine A. Allen, Katherine D. Holland, Katja Lorbacher, Bärbel Hönisch ...
    Series series Analytical Methods in Earth and Environmental Science
    Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions do not only warm our planet but also acidify our oceans. It is currently unclear to which degree Earth's climate and marine life will be impacted by these changes but information from Earth history, particularly the geochemical signals of past environmental changes stored in the fossil remains of marine organisms, can help us predict possible future changes. ... Read more

    $117.00 USD

  • An Introduction to Clustering with R

    by Paolo Giordani, Maria Brigida Ferraro, Francesca Martella ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The purpose of this book is to thoroughly prepare the reader for applied research in clustering. Cluster analysis comprises a class of statistical techniques for classifying multivariate data into groups or clusters based on their similar features. Clustering is nowadays widely used in several domains of research, such as social sciences, psychology, and marketing, highlighting its ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

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    by Thornton Wilder ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    This Pulitzer Prize-winning, fable-like short novel—by the author of Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—has been beloved around the world for nearly a century.This splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." A traveling ... Read more

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  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    Translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    **"One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written." --Dave Eggers, The New YorkerA revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the AmericasA Penguin Classic**The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Tunnel

    by Ernesto Sabato ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again. When he happened upon her one day, a relationship was formed ... Read more

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  • Dom Casmurro

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, John A. Gledson ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    "A palm tree, seeing me troubled and divining the cause, murmured in its branches that there was nothing wrong with fifteen-year old boys getting into corners with girls of fourteen; quite the contrary, youths of that age have no other function, and corners were made for that very purpose. It was an old palm-tree, and I believed in old palm-trees even more than in old books. Birds, butterflies, a ... Read more

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  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis;Gregory Rabassa;Enylton de Sa Rego;Gilberto Pinheiro Passos ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man" writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. But while he may be dead he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound The ... Read more

    $29.69 USD