Product Description: This volume examines, in English, the role of emblems in the Portuguese-speaking world, their distinctive qualities and their links with the wider European tradition. Luís Gomes brings together studies ranging over a wide corpus of material, in both Portugal and Brazil, from manuscripts to printed books to the famous azulejos...read more

Product Description: This photo book focuses on different humanitarian problems facing the urban poor by taking illustrations from different cities around the world. We cover a range of ills that affect the urban poor such as the lack of decent housing, water, work, sanitation, protection from nature and vulnerability to food deficit and slum violence...read more

Product Description: Hardware Design and Petri Nets presents a summary of the state of the art in the applications of Petri nets to designing digital systems and circuits. The area of hardware design has traditionally been a fertile field for research in concurrency and Petri nets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)