When Puerto Rican ladies' man Alex awakes one morning to find a mysterious woman in his bed, he assumed he's suffered another embarrassing blackout. He soon learns, however, that Ava is no one-night stand - in fact, he's never met her before. As her story begins to unfold and her reason for appearing in his bed emerges, it is not just Alex's life that she risks, nor her own, but the entire character of the South Bronx...
Dinky is trying to distance himself from his jailed father's reputation. Jose hasn't gotten over being dumped by a high-maintenance girlfriend. Together, the two boys are the secret masterminds behind the "Buddha Book", an underground comic book that tells outrageous--but true--tales about their life in the Bronx.
En las calles del sur del Bronx, Miguel es uno de los selectos. Tiene un Impala ’68 con interior color cereza, todo el sexo que quiera de cualquier mujer que desee, y siete mil dólares guardados en su apartamento—porque a los dieciséis años es joven demasiado para sacar una tarjeta bancaria. Por delante tiene una carrera prometedora como mulo para Spider, jefe narcotraficante, “que puede agarrar u un niñito de diez años y hacer de él un negociante próspero más rápido de IBM”. En esta obra ardiente de realismo urbano, Abraham Rodríguez, Jr. Nos destapa las vidas, los anhelos, y los dolores atrás de los titulares periodísticos. Cuando Miguel se enamora de Cristalena, una muchacha con un nombre poético y a la herencia moral de padres pentecostales, descubre una dulzura que no se puede comprar con los narcodólares. Pero también aprende lo peligroso que es tratar de escaparse de la telaraña de Spider. En partes un thiller, en otras una historia de amor, y en otras un cuento de hadas del Barrio, Spidertown es la más aplaudida imagen de la vida neoyorquina desde Estas calles bravas.
Tense, gritty, and moving, this tale of life in the South Bronx is both a love story and a street's-eye view of life as a drug runner. When he meets the beautiful Cristalena, Miguel dreams of escaping the ghetto with her. But crack kingpin Spider has other plans. "Powerful".--The New York Times Book Review.
This book introduces readers to the basic concepts of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and its most important analysis algorithms using a hands-on approach based on the open-source RHRV software. HRV refers to the variation over time of the intervals between consecutive heartbeats. Despite its apparent simplicity, HRV is one of the most important markers of the autonomic nervous system activity and it has been recognized as a useful predictor of several pathologies. The book discusses all the basic HRV topics, including the physiological contributions to HRV, clinical applications, HRV data acquisition, HRV data manipulation and HRV analysis using time-domain, frequency-domain, time-frequency, nonlinear and fractal techniques. Detailed examples based on real data sets are provided throughout the book to illustrate the algorithms and discuss the physiological implications of the results. Offering a comprehensive guide to analyzing beat information with RHRV, the book is intended for masters and Ph.D. students in various disciplines such as biomedical engineering, human and veterinary medicine, biology, and pharmacy, as well as researchers conducting heart rate variability analyses on both human and animal data.
This book presents some aspects of the cosmological scientific odyssey that started last century. The chapters vary with different particular works, giving a versatile picture. It is the result of the work of many scientists in the field of cosmology, in accordance with their expertise and particular interests. Is a collection of different research papers produced by important scientists in the field of cosmology. A sample of the great deal of efforts made by the scientific community, trying to understand our universe. And it has many challenging subjects, like the possible doomsday to be confirmed by the next decade of experimentation. May be we are now half way in the life of the universe. Many more challenging subjects are not present here: they will be the result of further future work. Among them, we have the possibility of cyclic universes, and the evidence for the existence of a previous universe.
In the last years we have witnessed how the field of Cosmology has experienced a metamorphosis. From being essentially the search for three numbers (the expansion rate, the deceleration parameter, and the cosmological constant), it has become a precision science. This scientific discipline is determined to unravel the most minute details of the elementary processes that took place during the most primitive stages of the Universe and also of the mechanisms driving the cosmic expansion and the growth of structures at the largest scales. To achieve these goals one needs not only the development of new experimental and observational techniques but also a deep understanding of the underlying theoretical frameworks. This book gathers the work of leading experts in these fields and provides a broad view of some of the most relevant open questions faced by Cosmology at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies, Eight Volume Set provides an authoritative assessment of the sustainable technologies that are currently available or in development. Sustainable technology includes the scientific understanding, development and application of a wide range of technologies and processes and their environmental implications. Systems and lifecycle analyses of energy systems, environmental management, agriculture, manufacturing and digital technologies provide a comprehensive method for understanding the full sustainability of processes. In addition, the development of clean processes through green chemistry and engineering techniques are also described. The book is the first multi-volume reference work to employ both Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and Triple Bottom Line (TBL) approaches to assessing the wide range of technologies available and their impact upon the world. Both approaches are long established and widely recognized, playing a key role in the organizing principles of this valuable work. Provides readers with a one-stop guide to the most current research in the field Presents a grounding of the fundamentals of the field of sustainable technologies Written by international leaders in the field, offering comprehensive coverage of the field and a consistent, high-quality scientific standard Includes the Life Cycle Analysis and Triple Bottom Line approaches to help users understand and assess sustainable technologies
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