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Rails Scales!

Practical Techniques for Performance and Growth

by Cristian Planas ...

Rails doesn't scale. So say the naysayers. They’re wrong. Ruby on Rails runs some of the biggest sites in the world, impacting the lives of millions of users while efficiently crunching petabytes of data. This book reveals how they do it, and how you can apply the same techniques to your applications. Optimize everything necessary to make an application function at scale: monitoring, product ... Read more

$33.19 USD

Rails doesn't scale. So say the naysayers. They’re wrong. Ruby on Rails runs some of the biggest sites in the world, impacting the lives of millions of users while efficiently crunching petabytes of data. This book reveals how they do it, and how you can apply the same techniques to your applications. Optimize everything necessary to make an application function at scale: monitoring, product
... Read more
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Basic Catalan

An Introductory Language Course

by Rosa Planas ...

Narrated by Rosa Planas ...

Unabridged

1 hour 47 min

Learn the beautiful Catalan language with this five-session course for complete beginners. No prior Catalan experience is needed to start learning this important language today. The course focuses on commonly used vocabulary, giving you a way to effectively communicate on your travels, or with relatives if you have an ancestral connection to the language. Starting out with the absolute basics of ... Read more

$39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn the beautiful Catalan language with this five-session course for complete beginners. No prior Catalan experience is needed to start learning this important language today. The course focuses on commonly used vocabulary, giving you a way to effectively communicate on your travels, or with relatives if you have an ancestral connection to the language. Starting out with the absolute basics of
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Law, Security and Migration

The Nationalistic Turn in the International Order

by Laura Planas Gifra ...

This book analyzes the impact of the increasing securitization of migration within the international legal and political order.Migration has increasingly become a security issue. Examining this tendency towards the securitization of migration around the world, this book argues that it is indicative of a shift in the international order towards geopolitical and security strategies, and away from ... Read more

$64.99 USD

This book analyzes the impact of the increasing securitization of migration within the international legal and political order.Migration has increasingly become a security issue. Examining this tendency towards the securitization of migration around the world, this book argues that it is indicative of a shift in the international order towards geopolitical and security strategies, and away from
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Faces of Precarity

Critical Perspectives on Work, Subjectivities and Struggles

by Jean-Claude Barbier, Emiliana Armano, Cristina Morini, André Barata, Klaus Dörre, Charles Umney, Valeria Pulignano, Glenn Morgan, Agnieszka Piasna, Patrick Cingolani, Mireia Bolíbar Planas, Francesc X. Belvis, Mariana Gutiérrez-Zamora, Charlotta Hedberg, Barbora Holubová, Marta Kahancová, Alice Mattoni, Jane Hardy ...

The words ‘precarity’ and ‘precariousness’ are widely used when discussing work, social conditions and experiences. However, there is no consensus on their meaning or how best to use them to explore social changes.This book shows how scholars have mapped out these notions, offering substantive analyses of issues such as the relationships between precariousness, debt, migration, health and workers’ ... Read more

$47.69 USD

The words ‘precarity’ and ‘precariousness’ are widely used when discussing work, social conditions and experiences. However, there is no consensus on their meaning or how best to use them to explore social changes.This book shows how scholars have mapped out these notions, offering substantive analyses of issues such as the relationships between precariousness, debt, migration, health and workers’
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AfroLatinas and LatiNegras

Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective

by Rosita Scerbo, Concetta Bondi, Algris Xiomara Aldeano Vásquez, Jamie Lee Andreson, Yoiseth Patricia Cabarcas, Natasha Carrizosa, Meaghan Jeanne Coogan, Karen S. Christian, Renata Dorneles Lima0, Yesenia Escobar Espitia1, Lesley Feracho2, Lindsay Gary3, Kerry Green4, Keturah Nichols5, Lillie Padilla6, Melissa Castillo Planas7, Brenda Romero8 ...

Series series Critical Africana Studies
AfroLatinas as a subject of scholarship are woefully underrepresented, and this edited volume, AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective, offers an important and timely intervention. The consistent attention to AfroLatinas’ agency across all the chapters is empowering and attentive to the difficult circumstances of asserting that agency, and to ... Read more

$32.39 USD

AfroLatinas as a subject of scholarship are woefully underrepresented, and this edited volume, AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective, offers an important and timely intervention. The consistent attention to AfroLatinas’ agency across all the chapters is empowering and attentive to the difficult circumstances of asserting that agency, and to
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Fracture and Size Effect in Concrete and Other Quasibrittle Materials

by Zdenek P. Bazant, Jaime Planas ...

Series series New Directions in Civil Engineering
Fracture and Size Effect in Concrete and Other Quasibrittle Materials is the first in-depth text on the application of fracture mechanics to the analysis of failure in concrete structures. The book synthesizes a vast number of recent research results in the literature to provide a comprehensive treatment of the topic that does not give merely the facts - it provides true understanding. The many ... Read more

$375.00 USD

Fracture and Size Effect in Concrete and Other Quasibrittle Materials is the first in-depth text on the application of fracture mechanics to the analysis of failure in concrete structures. The book synthesizes a vast number of recent research results in the literature to provide a comprehensive treatment of the topic that does not give merely the facts - it provides true understanding. The many
... Read more
A Mexican State of Mind

New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture

by Melissa Castillo Planas ...

Series series Global Media and Race
A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young undocumented Mexican population in New York City since September 11, 2001. Inspired by a dialogue between the landmark works of Paul Gilroy and Gloria Anzaldúa, it develops a new analytic framework, the Atlantic Borderlands, which bridges Mexican diasporic ... Read more

$21.59 USD

A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young undocumented Mexican population in New York City since September 11, 2001. Inspired by a dialogue between the landmark works of Paul Gilroy and Gloria Anzaldúa, it develops a new analytic framework, the Atlantic Borderlands, which bridges Mexican diasporic
... Read more
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Classical Tales Better Than Ever (Parte 2)

Inglés

by Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde, Tradición oral árabe, Hermanos Grimm, Anónimo, VOCA Editorial ...

Narrated by Max Planas, Molly Malcolm, James Phillips, Beth Trollan ...

Unabridged

2 hours 14 min

Discover with your children the fantastic world of classic tales better than ever! These magic audio-tales are locuted by famous voice actors, with an amazing soundtrack and binaural effects! They are perfect for both listening at home before sleeping and in the car. VOCA Editorial provides in its collection Colorín colorado more than 2 hours of fun in which 15 classic tales are included: Sleeping ... Read more

$12.30 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Discover with your children the fantastic world of classic tales better than ever! These magic audio-tales are locuted by famous voice actors, with an amazing soundtrack and binaural effects! They are perfect for both listening at home before sleeping and in the car. VOCA Editorial provides in its collection Colorín colorado more than 2 hours of fun in which 15 classic tales are included: Sleeping
... Read more
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Classical Tales Better Than Ever (Parte 1)

Inglés

by Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, Hermanos Grimm, Cuento Popular, Joseph Jacobs, Cuento Infantil Inglés, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, VOCA Editorial ...

Narrated by Max Planas, Molly Malcolm, Beth Trollan, James Phillips ...

Unabridged

2 hours 10 min

Discover with your children the fantastic world of classic tales betther than ever! These magic audio-tales are locuted by famous voice actors, with an amazing soundtrack and binaural effects! They are perfect for both listening at home before sleeping and in the car. VOCA Editorial provides in its collection Colorín colorado more than 2 hours of fun in which 15 classic tales are included: Little ... Read more

$12.30 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Discover with your children the fantastic world of classic tales betther than ever! These magic audio-tales are locuted by famous voice actors, with an amazing soundtrack and binaural effects! They are perfect for both listening at home before sleeping and in the car. VOCA Editorial provides in its collection Colorín colorado more than 2 hours of fun in which 15 classic tales are included: Little
... Read more
Scholars in COVID Times

Edited by Melissa Castillo Planas, Debra A. Castillo ...

Series series Publicly Engaged Scholars: Identities, Purposes, Practices
Scholars in COVID Times documents the new and innovative forms of scholarship, community collaboration, and teaching brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this volume, Melissa Castillo Planas and Debra A. Castillo bring together a diverse range of texts, from research-based studies to self-reflective essays, to reexamine what it means to be a publicly engaged scholar in the era of COVID ... Read more

$18.09 USD

Scholars in COVID Times documents the new and innovative forms of scholarship, community collaboration, and teaching brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this volume, Melissa Castillo Planas and Debra A. Castillo bring together a diverse range of texts, from research-based studies to self-reflective essays, to reexamine what it means to be a publicly engaged scholar in the era of COVID
... Read more
Marine Ornamental Species Aquaculture

Edited by Ricardo Calado, Ike Olivotto, Miquel Planas Oliver, G. Joan Holt ...

The global trade of aquatic organisms for home and public aquariums, along with associated equipment and accessories, has become a multi-billion dollar industry. Aquaculture of marine ornamental species, still in its infancy, is recognized as a viable alternative to wild collection as it can supplement or replace the supply of wild caught specimens and potentially help recover natural populations ... Read more

$195.00 USD

The global trade of aquatic organisms for home and public aquariums, along with associated equipment and accessories, has become a multi-billion dollar industry. Aquaculture of marine ornamental species, still in its infancy, is recognized as a viable alternative to wild collection as it can supplement or replace the supply of wild caught specimens and potentially help recover natural populations
... Read more
Working with Young People

A Social Pedagogy Perspective from Europe and Latin America

Edited by Xavier Úcar, Pere Soler-Masó, Anna Planas-Lladó ...

Series series Social Justice and Youth Community Prac
Working with Young People offers a new outlook on social, cultural, and educational work with young people. It utlizes the perspective of social pedagogy--a theoretical and practical perspective that has been developing in continental Europe over the last 150 years--in placing young people at the center of socio-educational work and giving value to their decisions and actions. The text supports ... Read more

$44.09 USD

Working with Young People offers a new outlook on social, cultural, and educational work with young people. It utlizes the perspective of social pedagogy--a theoretical and practical perspective that has been developing in continental Europe over the last 150 years--in placing young people at the center of socio-educational work and giving value to their decisions and actions. The text supports
... Read more

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