“Anyone who believes that faeries are wee, golden-haired creatures with dragon-fly wings and sweet intentions has never met a real faerie.” –Suzanne J. Willis, “A Silver Thread Between Worlds”Retellings of familiar favourites from new perspectives, and brand new tales share the pages of this collection of fairy stories. Within these tales you’ll find fairy music and food, contracts (making and breaking them), changelings, circles and curses–these stories deliver all the things you ...

O livro está dividido em dez capítulos, fugindo apenas alguns pontos que não foram anotados. Mas creio que a leitura não deixará de ser prazerosa. Não vou me apegar a detalhes e nem me aprofundar tanto, por se tratar de um trabalho acadêmico e o tempo para a entrega ser um tanto quanto curto, apesar de que desde o início do primeiro semestre de 2010, eu estava esperando a confirmação do meu nome na lista da turma para dar início aos meus trabalhos. Enfim, depois dos vinte e três dias finai...

Write a haiku is easy. Difficult it's to be true to its rules. In this little book, I present to you, some haiku that he wrote walking the streets of the world, using only a cell phone to record your inspiration. And as the name says, some are hungers, others quite relevant. The cats throughout the book are a tribute to me, Oliver, my black white cat pet. No more, have fun!

Cada conto faz parte de uma teia invisível que os moradores dessa cidade não conhecem, pois os aracajuanos já nascem presos a ela. E somente aqueles que param para refletir sobre isso percebem esse detalhe. Essa teia é tecida por uma gigantesca aranha que, por mais que procurem ninguém nunca irá encontrar. Essa aranha representa o cotidiano, e é ela quem faz com que essa cidade seja exposta e oculta ao mesmo tempo.Por isso venho entregar em suas mãos, leitor (a) anônimo (a) de qual...

The automotive industry is one of the most complex, demanding, and rapidly evolving sectors in the world. Behind every successful vehicle launch lies a network of projects, teams, processes, and leaders working together to transform ideas into reality. In Project Management Principles for the Automotive Industry, Murilo Marson Cerqueira combines nearly two decades of hands-on automotive experience with globally recognized project management practices to create a practical guide for profess...

"When she was at the height of the conversation, Grandier approaches, hold back the Agnes's neck, pull and kiss. She stayed scared with the attitude, but if left rocked by the mouth of the beautiful blond. And he kissed very well! So much that his kiss was lighting up and down. She does not know if the packed beverage (were drinking imported beers, whose bottle was green), allowed herself to be kissed abruptly that". Read the tale and be surprised!

The three-volume set LNAI 14195, 14196, and 14197 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2023, which took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 2023.The 90 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 242 submissions. They have been organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Best papers; resource allocation and planning; rules and feature extraction; AI and educa...

Our mind and body nourish the soul. The journey of life experiences requires determination and patience, often making us question and seek answers. When we are open to receive, inspiration and opportunity are available when we least expect, affirming the ever-present power within and beyond to motivate and guide. This poetry collection of 66 poems, prayers and affirmations is a witness to that journey, with the accompanying photos and images capturing a deeper meaning behind the writing. M...

The three-volume set LNAI 14195, 14196, and 14197 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2023, which took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 2023.The 90 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 242 submissions. They have been organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Best papers; resource allocation and planning; rules and feature extraction; AI and educa...

This book provides a comprehensive list of the methods used in basic and applied geminivirus research. Chapters guide readers through foundational methods, advanced techniques in cloning, sequencing, phylogenetic, recombination analysis, diagnostics, and virus-host interaction studies. Written in the format of the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, each chapter includes an introduction to the topic, lists necessary materials and reagents, includes tips on troub...

This book focuses on the research and development challenges posed by 3D video systems based on multi-view plus depth (MVD) technology. This technology can produce a realistic immersive experience generating synthetic video views on the decoder side, reducing the amount of information on the encoder side. The discussion presented in this book explores the MVD characteristics to propose high-throughput and energy-efficient architectures/systems, focusing on 3D-HEVC, the state-of-the-art sta...

The Unwritten Brazilian Constitution offers an unexplored topic outside Portuguese language: the leading cases on human rights in the Brazilian Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal – STF). The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 represents an institutional framework able to restructure the relationship between the powers after the military dictatorship. The constituents drafted the Brazilian Constitution in order to set an extensive system of judicial protection for fundamental righ...