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  • Cuba

    From Economic Take-off to Collapse Under Castro

    by Jorge Salazar-Carrillo, Andro Nodarse-Leon ...
    This book is a study of Cuba's economic development under communism over the last fifty-five years. The authors find that Cuba's socioeconomic development has gone backward since the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The authors conclude that Fidel Castro's revolution has been an economic disaster for Cuba.The book first outlines Cuba's economic position prior to the revolution. It reviews Cuba's rankings ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction

    16th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2025, Madrid, Spain, September 9–12, 2025, Proceedings

    Edited by Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz, Alba García Seco de Herrera, Julio Gonzalo, Laura Plaza, Josiane Mothe, Florina Piroi, Paolo Rosso, Damiano Spina, Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the CLEF Association on Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, CLEF 2025, held in Madrid, Spain, during September 9–12, 2025.The 25 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. They were organized in the following sections: Conference Papers ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Prospects for Biological Control of Plant Feeding Mites and Other Harmful Organisms

    Edited by Daniel Carrillo, Jorge E. Peña, Gilberto José de Moraes ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The history of biological control of harmful organisms by mites is marked by outstanding achievements with a few premiere natural enemies. Early works concentrated on the use of predatory mites for the control of synanthropic flies, More recently, the focus has been mostly on mites of the family Phytoseiidae for the control of plant feeding mites. This is an important family of acarine predators ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chavez

    by Javier Corrales, Michael Penfold ...
    This new and expanded edition of Dragon in the Tropics-the widely acclaimed account of how president Hugo Chávez (19992013) revamped Venezuela’s political economy-examines the electoral decline of Chavismo after Chavez’s death and the policies adopted by his successor, Nicolás Maduro, to cope with the economic chaos inherited from previous radical populist policies. Corrales and Penfold argue that ... Read more

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  • Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs

    First International Workshop, NSLP 2024, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, May 27, 2024, Proceedings

    Edited by Georg Rehm, Stefan Dietze, Frank Krüger, Technical University of Berlin and Fraunhofer FOKUS ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This Open Access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs, NSLP 2024, held in Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, on May 27, 2024.The 10 full papers and 11 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 26 submissions.The proceedings aims to bring together ... Read more

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  • Brazil

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Riordan Roett ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world. A nation of 200 million people, it has vast natural resource reserves, rich cultural traditions, a middle class undergoing explosive growth, and social welfare policies that are models for much of the world ('la bolsa familia,' which provides a guaranteed income to poor families). And, after decades of authoritarian rule, it ... Read more

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  • Volunteered Geographic Information

    Interpretation, Visualization and Social Context

    Edited by Dirk Burghardt, Elena Demidova, Daniel A. Keim ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This open access book includes methods for retrieval, semantic representation, and analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), geovisualization and user interactions related to VGI, and discusses selected topics in active participation, social context, and privacy awareness. It presents the results of the DFG-funded priority program "VGI: Interpretation, Visualization, and Social ... Read more

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  • Open for Business

    Building the New Cuban Economy

    by Richard Feinberg ...
    90 miles off the coast of Florida a new revolution is afoot. This time instead of guerillas marching through the streets of Havana, it is a global economy that will revolutionize Cuba. Now open to the world, how will this nascent economy develop?Open for Business: The Cuban Economy after Castro, Richard Feinberg’s new book, examines the Cuban economy from its long held and outdated economic model ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Chile Project

    The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism

    by Sebastian Edwards ...
    How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment—and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globeIn The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the remarkable story of how the neoliberal economic model—installed in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship and deepened during three decades of left-of-center governments—came to an end in 2021, when ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

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  • Information Retrieval: Advanced Topics and Techniques

    Edited by Omar Alonso, Ricardo Baeza-Yates ...
    Series series ACM Books
    In the last decade, deep learning and word embeddings have made significant impacts on information retrieval (IR) by adding techniques based in neural networks and language models. At the same time, certain search modalities such as neural IR and conversational search have become more popular. This book, written by international academic and industry experts, brings the field up to date with ... Read more

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  • Cuba Under Embargo: the Macro Impact

    by Joe Atikian ...
    America's embargo against Cuba has obviously had a broad and serious impact on the island's economy, but nobody has said exactly why it is obvious.We hear that food is rationed and that medicines are scarce, and yet Cuba's life expectancy is just as good as America's. Newspapers report that cars in Cuba are over 50 years old, and yet new hotels welcome thousands of wealthy foreigners each week. ... Read more

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  • Educational Data Mining

    Applications and Trends

    Edited by Alejandro Peña-Ayala ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book is devoted to the Educational Data Mining arena. It highlights works that show relevant proposals, developments, and achievements that shape trends and inspire future research. After a rigorous revision process sixteen manuscripts were accepted and organized into four parts as follows:· Profile: The first part embraces three chapters oriented to: 1) describe the nature of educational ... Read more

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