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  • Chora 5

    Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

    by Alberto Pérez-Gomez, Stephen Parcell ...
    Series Book 5 - CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture
    Provocative views on why architecture matters offer vital information for developing a richer architecture. ... Read more

    Was $87.99 CAD Now $27.99 CAD

  • Elisa, Confessions to Her Son

    by Alberto Gómez de la Torre Flores ...
    At ninety, Elisa calls her son Simón to her bedside and, with a voice as firm as it is trembling, begins to unveil a life lived in silence. From a childhood on the coast of El Milagro, where fire devours everything she loves, to the cold corridors of a boarding school in Quito, Elisa learns early on that loss can arrive like a whisper in the dark. Yet kindness persists in small gestures that ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Built upon Love

    Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics

    by Alberto Perez-Gomez ...
    A vision of architecture that transcends concerns of form and function and finds the connections between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society.The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture—opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression—obscures the deep connections ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Attunement

    Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science

    by Alberto Perez-Gomez ...
    How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities.Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In Attunement, Alberto Pérez-Gómez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Magnetic Nanoparticles

    Materials Engineering, Properties and Applications

    Edited by Alberto López-Ortega, Alejandro Gómez Roca ...
    Series series
    This book covers the most cutting-edge developments in the field of magnetic nanoparticles and nanomagnetism, such as novel synthetic and fabrication technologies, diverse magnetic characterization techniques and highly proved and most innovative applications of magnetic nanoparticles. In addition, the book addresses characterization techniques including structural, morphological and magnetic.It ... Read more

    $271.99 CAD

  • Multicultural and Interreligious Perspectives on the Ethics of Human Reproduction

    Protecting Future Generations

    Edited by Joseph Tham, Alberto Garcia Gómez, John Lunstroth ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book includes a number of distinct religious and secular views on the anthropological, ethical and social challenges of reproductive technologies in the light of human rights and in the context of global bioethics. It includes contributions of bioethics experts from six major religions—Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism—as well as secular authors. The chapters ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Simplifying Medical Ultrasound

    5th International Workshop, ASMUS 2024, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, October 6, 2024, Proceedings

    Edited by Alberto Gomez, Bishesh Khanal, Andrew King, Ana Namburete ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Simplifying Medical Ultrasound, ASMUS 2024, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2024, the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. The conference took place in Marrakesh, Morocco on October 6, 2024.The 21 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Research on Metaheuristics for Order Picking Optimization in Warehouses to Smart Cities

    Edited by Alberto Ochoa Ortiz-Zezzatti, Gilberto Rivera, Claudia Gómez-Santillán, Benito Sánchez–Lara ...
    Building accurate algorithms for the optimization of picking orders is a difficult task, especially when one considers the delays of real-world situations. In warehouse environments, diverse algorithms must be developed to enhance the global performance relating to combining customer orders into picking orders to reduce wait times. The Handbook of Research on Metaheuristics for Order Picking ... Read more

    $367.99 CAD

  • Religious Perspectives on Social Responsibility in Health

    Towards a Dialogical Approach

    Edited by Joseph Tham, Chris Durante, Alberto García Gómez ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book discuss the meaning and implications of the social and ethical implications of the notion of social responsibility in healthcare in six major world religions — Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, & Judaism. This collection of papers is based on a four-day workshop where bioethics experts from various religious traditions gathered. They discussed the ways in which their ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Enhancement Fit for Humanity

    Perspectives on Emerging Technologies

    Edited by Michael Baggot, Alberto García Gómez, Alberto Carrara, Joseph Tham ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    This book explores what constitutes an enhancement fit for humanity in the age of nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, information technologies, and technologies related to the cognitive sciences. It considers the influence of emergent technology upon our understanding of human nature and the impact on future generations. Drawing on the Catholic tradition, in particular, the book gathers ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Interreligious Perspectives on Mind, Genes and the Self

    Emerging Technologies and Human Identity

    Edited by Joseph Tham, Chris Durante, Alberto García Gómez ...
    Series series Routledge Science and Religion Series
    Attitudes towards science, medicine and the body are all profoundly shaped by people’s worldviews. When discussing issues of bioethics, religion often plays a major role. In this volume, the role of genetic manipulation and neurotechnology in shaping human identity is examined from multiple religious perspectives. This can help us to understand how religion might affect the impact of the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Advances in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA 2016

    15th Ibero-American Conference on AI, San José, Costa Rica, November 23-25, 2016, Proceedings

    Edited by Manuel Montes y Gómez, Hugo Jair Escalante, Alberto Segura, Juan de Dios Murillo ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15 Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IBERAMIA 2016, held in San José, Costa Rica, in November 2016. The 34 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: knowledge engineering, knowledge representation and probabilistic reasoning; agent ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD