Profitability Blueprint: Strategies for Sustainable Business Growth! provides practical strategies for businesses to achieve profitability while adopting sustainability. Alejandro Rodriguez offers insights on integrating environmental responsibility and social equity into business models, driving innovation, and involving stakeholders. Through case studies from companies like Unilever and Tesla, the book shows how sustainable practices can lead to competitive advantage and long-term succes...

Pierrot Lunaire: Rondels Bergamasques is an 1884 cycle of poems by Belgian author Albert Giraud that revolves around the character of Pierrot and the universe of the Commedia dell'arte. Initially received with moderate success, the work was undeniably immortalized after Arnold Schönberg published the musicalization of its German translation in 1912. Since then, Pierrot Lunaire has been the source of inspiration for numerous works of art in all sorts of disciplines. This bilingual edition p...

This microhistory of early modern transatlantic migration follows the journey of the Agata, a Dutch frigate hired by Spanish merchants in 1747 to travel between Cádiz and Veracruz. Manned by migrants from across Europe, the Agata was intercepted by British privateers on its return trip, an event that led to the preservation of most of the documents on board, including a collection of personal letters.Through a microscopical lens, this book delves into the lives of some of ...

Active blended learning (ABL) is a pedagogical approach that combines sensemaking activities with focused interactions in appropriate learning settings. ABL has become a great learning tool as it is easily accessible online, with digitally rich environments, close peer and tutor interactions, and accommodations per individual learner needs. It encompasses a variety of concepts, methods, and techniques, such as collaborative learning, experiential learning, problem-based learning, team-base...

Since the arrival of the Spanish conquerors at the beginning of the colonial period, Cuba has been hugely influenced by international migration. Between 1791 and 1810, for instance, many French people migrated to Cuba in the wake of the purchase of Louisiana by the United States and turmoil in Saint-Domingue. Between 1847 and 1874, Cuba was the main recipient of Chinese indentured laborers in Latin America. During the nineteenth century as a whole, more Spanish people migrated to Cuba than...

This book presents innovative and high-quality research regarding the implementation of Semantic Web technologies for knowledge representation and developing intelligent applications in various domains. Semantic Web technologies have inspired many people to create innovative technologies and applications for knowledge representation, Semantic Searches, NLP and Social Networks. The goal of this book is to collect and consolidate novel and high-quality research contributions on Semantic Web ...

This atlas comprehensively describes the application of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in real-world scenarios using 192 illustrative clinical cases. These imaging techniques are revolutionizing the diagnostic and therapeutic approach for cardiovascular patients and are progressively becoming viable sub-specialties among radiologists and cardiologists.Clinical Atlas of Cardiac and Aortic CT and MRI features clinically relevant case-based examp...

Not every treasure is made of gold or diamond, nor does every adventure pursue wealth. In this intriguing story, a group of people will embark on a journey to hidden lands full of wonders, in search of the most valuable object that exists: the Elixir. In order to achieve that, they will have to cross a dangerous territory, protected by powerful and wise guardians, who will not allow the corruption of their lands nor the theft of the treasure they value most. Guided by the masters of alchem...

This book offers a systematic historical analysis of the relationships between migration and the development of cities, including their physical, economic, and cultural evolution.The volume results from a comparative project that examines the interface between migration and the development of cities throughout different periods including current conditions. Nine strategic sites are examined: Three cities in Europe, three in Latin America and three in North America. The editors cont...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First Conference of the Spanish Society of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine, CIABiomed 2025, held in Seville, Spain, during October 23–24, 2025.The 38 full papers presented together with 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Explainable and interpretable AI in clinical and biomedical contexts; Ethics, privacy and security in AI applications in the...

''Rodríguez puts in place an interaction between a rich philosophical anthropological model, constructivist learning theories and the Salesian style of preventive education. All the components are intended to reflect the specific requirements of Higher Education in a Latin American context. Well documented, the author approaches different aspects of leadership with the goal to present a set of not exhaustive principles which “could be read as a provocation to deepen them, rather than a set...

This book focuses on why the diffusion of the political theology of royal wisdom created “Solomonic” princes with intellectual interests all around the medieval West and how these learned rulers changed the face of Western Europe through their policies and the cultural power of medieval monarchy.Princely wisdom narratives have been seen simply as a tool of royal propaganda in the Middle Ages but these narratives were much more than propaganda, being rather a coherent ideology which...