About the BookBranches: An Epic Biography of a Central American Family began as Flor's exploration into her family's past its origins, its challenges, and the remarkable journeys that shaped its identity. The story traces her family's roots through discovery, conquest, political upheaval in Central America, tragedy, migration, and renewal. Through this narrative, Flor illustrates the universal threads of family experiences that connect us all.In this second...

El material que se presenta abarca siete capítulos, tomando como punto de partida la base conceptual necesaria para tratar el importante y complejo tema de la Gestión de la Tecnología y la Innovación pasando por la evolución y las tendencias empresariales que hoy exigen esfuerzos de I+D+i como parte de su actividad, el tema de la transferencia tecnológica, la programación de nuevos productos o servicios, o el rediseño para estos, es un elemento tratado con énfasis innovador y con la actual...

Sleep is a necessary, active, diverse and periodic condition, homeostatically regulated and precisely meshed with waking time into the sleep-wakefulness cycle. The authors present a detailed and updated review of the structures involved in the phase of wakefulness, including their morphological, functional and chemical characteristics, as well as their anatomical connections

I’m Tomoki Yuuji—just your standard, run-of-the-mill high school student. I also happen to be faking a relationship with Ike Touka, the school’s newest queen bee. While everyone’s afraid of me and avoid me like the plague, Touka’s always trying to grab their attention whenever possible. It’s so the whole school knows we’re the “real deal,” I guess.There are people who understand my situation and aren’t scared of me. There’s the actual protagonist of this story, Ike Haruma, or one o...

Asahi Kagami is a curt sort of guy, yet never hesitates to lend a hand. Slowly, but surely, he’s finally getting through to the frigid Fuyuka Himuro—a girl aptly nicknamed “The Ice Queen” for her standoffish attitude—and melting her icy exterior.In the midst of it all, two hearts inch closer, inciting a tangible change—not only in Fuyuka’s personal life, but even at school.This is the second volume of a slow-paced love story where characters experience the double-edged natu...

What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical? What is it the relation between ascribing mental states to an organism and understanding its behavior? Are animals and complex systems vehicles of inner evolutionary environments? Is there a difference between personal and sub-personal level processes in the brain? Answers to these and other questions were developed in Daniel Dennett’s first book, Content and Consciousness (1969), where he sketched a uni...

Unjustly exiled from his former party, the Silver Wings Battalion, he moves away from the city and opens his own restaurant: the Outcast’s Restaurant!Under the management of the world’s strongest chef, Dennis, and his companion Atrielle—a former slave—the Outcast’s Restaurant rapidly becomes the hangout of choice for eccentrics and oddballs from all walks of life.One day, a magic doll dressed in a maid uniform arrives.The doll, whose name is Olivia, has forgotten th...

The volume set LNCS 15621-15622 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2025, which took place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, during September 22-25, 2025.The 65 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. The proceedings focus on Facial and Video Recognition, Image Segmentation, Object Detection and Applications, 3D Vision and Reconstruction, Biomedical Imaging and...

Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary? Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio present essays that address these essential questions. Ranging from Canada and the United States to Chile and Argentina, the authors search for common factors in the appearance of labor courts while recognizing the specific character of the...

Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniquesDuring the past few decades, Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and employed new methods and techniques for the study of archaeological materials. The aim of earlier research in the Caribbean was mainly to define typologies on the basis of pottery and lithic assemblages leading to the establishment of chronological charts for the ...

In Meg Medina’s follow-up to her Newbery Medal–winning novel, Merci takes on seventh grade, with all its travails of friendship, family, love—and finding your rhythm.Seventh grade is going to be a real trial for Merci Suárez. For science she’s got no-nonsense Mr. Ellis, who expects her to be a smart as her brother, Roli. She’s been assigned to co-manage the tiny school store with Wilson Bellevue, a boy she barely knows, but whom she might actually like. And she’s t...

Winner of the 2019 Newbery MedalThoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina.Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholars...