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  • City of God

    A Novel

    Translated by Alison Entrekin ...
    by Paulo Lins ...
    The searing novel on which the internationally acclaimed hit film was based. "A Scarface-like urban epic . . . punctuated with lyricism and longing" ( Publishers Weekly).City of God is a gritty, gorgeous tour de force from one of Brazil's most notorious slums. Cidade de Deus: a place where the streets are awash with narcotics, where violence can erupt at any moment over drugs, money, and love—but ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • City of God

    by Paulo Lins ...
    A sprawling, magnificently told epic about the history of gang life in Rio's favelas.THE ORIGINAL NOVEL BEHIND 'THE GREATEST CRIME FILM OF ALL TIME'Cidade de Deus, the City of God ... welcome to one of Rio's most notorious slums. A place where the streets are awash with drugs, where violence can erupt at any moment, over drugs, money ... and love... but also where the samba beat rocks til dawn, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics 2024

    Proceedings of ICBHI 2024, October 30 – November 2, 2024, Tainan, Taiwan

    Edited by Kang-Ping Lin, Ratko Magjarević, Paulo de Carvalho ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book covers current advances and challenges in biomedical and health informatics. It reports on the latest technologies and on strategies and concepts to implement them for medicine, health and education. Contributions deals with a range of topics, including artificial intelligence and precision medicine, e-health and training, medical devices and wearables, and medical imaging. Gathering the ... Read more

    $293.99 CAD

  • Proceedings of the 38th International MATADOR Conference

    Edited by Srichand Hinduja, Paulo Jorge da Silva Bartolo, Lin Li, Wen-Yuh Jywe ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents 58 refereed papers given at the 38th Matador Conference held at National Formosa University, Taiwan in March 2015. The MATADOR series of conferences covers the topics of manufacturing automation and systems technology, applications, design, organisation and management, and research.These proceedings include original papers contributed by researchers from around the globe, ... Read more

    $408.99 CAD

  • The Agent ID Model

    A Multidisciplinary Framework of Evolutionary Human Behavior

    Edited by Orlando Gomes, Michelle Lins de Moraes, Paulo Fagandini ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive model that simulates human behavior in society, meticulously selecting and analyzing fundamental determinants such as skills and productivity, connectivity and network formation, psychological biases, moral behavior, consumption preferences, institutional arrangements, and political choices. Each agent in the model is characterized by a unique profile, and the ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • Future Trends in Biomedical and Health Informatics and Cybersecurity in Medical Devices

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, ICBHI 2019, 17-20 April 2019, Taipei, Taiwan

    Edited by Kang-Ping Lin, Ratko Magjarevic, Paulo de Carvalho ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book gathers the proceedings of the IV International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (ICBHI 2019), held on 17-20 April, 2019, in Taipei, Taiwan. Contributions span a range of topics, including medical imaging, biosignal processing, biodata management and analytics, public and personalized health systems, mobile health applications and many more. The IV conference edition gave ... Read more

    $280.99 CAD

  • Ultra-Low-Power and Ultra-Low-Cost Short-Range Wireless Receivers in Nanoscale CMOS

    by Pui-In Mak (Elvis), Zhicheng Lin, Rui Paulo Martins ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides readers with a state-of-the-art description of techniques to be used for ultra-low-power (ULP) and ultra-low-cost (ULC), short-range wireless receivers. Readers will learn what is required to deploy these receivers in short-range wireless sensor networks, which are proliferating widely to serve the internet of things (IoT) for “smart cities.” The authors address key challenges ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century**At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was ... Read more

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    How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter

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