Author: Alfredo Cramerotti
Publisher: Intellect Ltd
Keywords: informing, inform, journalism, aesthetic
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2009-10-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1841502685
ISBN-13: 9781841502687

Addressing a growing area of focus in contemporary art, Aesthetic Journalism investigates why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries, and reportage. Art theorist and critic Alfredo Cramerotti traces the shift in the production of truth from the domain of the news media to that of art and aestheticism—a change that questions the very foundations of journalism and the nature of art. This volume challenges the way we understand art and journalism in contemporary culture and suggests future developments of this new relationship.

Author: Alfredo Vea
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: begging, gods
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0452281156
ISBN-13: 9780452281158

Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times and Winner of the 1999 Bay Area Book Reviewers’ Award for FictionFor Vietnam veteran Jesse Pasadoble, now a defense attorney living in San Francisco, the battle still rages: in his memories; in the gang wars erupting on Potrero Hill; and in the recent slaying of two women-one black, one Vietnamese. In seeking justice for the young man accused of the brutal double murder, Jesse must walk with the men who died on another hill . . . men who were his comrades and friends in a war that crossed racial divides. Finding the tru

Author: Alfredo Vea
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: maravilla
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1994-04-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0452271606
ISBN-13: 9780452271609

"A forceful vision of the vibrant, symbiotic co-existence of colliding cultures" (San Francisco Chronicle), this much-praised literary debut by Mexican-American author Vea spins a lyrical and largely autobiographical tale of life in a squatter’s community outside Phoenix in the 1950s.

Author: E. Alfredo Campo
Publisher: Hanser Gardner Pubns
Keywords: molding, thermoplastics, injection, handbook, part, design, complete
Number of Pages: 870
Published: 2006-06-15
List price: $299.00
ISBN-10: 1569903751
ISBN-13: 9781569903759

This indispensable, all inclusive reference guide to plastic part design is compiled with the product designer in mind, who is looking for more detailed information on plastic resins, the rules and geometries underlying their use in product design, and the advantages and limitations of their use in industrial applications. The designer will also find valuable advice on resin and tool selection and processing parameters that will allow fast and successful product development and manufacture. Thousands of hours of research and cross-referencing have gone into the completion of this work. In

Author: Alfredo Campo
Publisher: Plastics Design Library
Keywords: design, standards, plastics, library, different, properties, materials, select, selection, polymeric
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2007-09-17
List price: $230.00
ISBN-10: 0815515510
ISBN-13: 9780815515517

Today engineers, designers, buyers and all those who have to work with plastics face a dilemma. There has been a proliferation of test methods by which plastic properties are measured. The property data measured by these test methods are not identical and sometimes have large differences. How are engineers, designers, buyers going to decide the type and resin grade and their property data? Which are the valid test methods? The right plastic property data are the difference between success and failure of a design, thus making the property selection process critical. For the first time this book

Authors:Hyo-Nam Cho, Dan M. Frangopol, Alfredo H-S Ang,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: monographs, proceedings, engineering, water, sciences, earth, balkema, systems, cost, cycle, performance, civil, infrastructure, life
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2007-07-18
List price: $185.95
ISBN-10: 0415413567
ISBN-13: 9780415413565

This bookcontains papers covering a wide range of studies on life-cycle performance analysis, design, maintenance, monitoring, management, and cost of civil infrastructure systems. Topics include reliability and optimization as design basis tools, monitoring systems, life-cycle cost analysis and management, bridge management systems, and quality control acceptance criteria. The book also discusses seismic reliability analysis of deteriorating structures, bridge inspection strategies, life-cycle cost analysis of structures on a network level, optimal risk-based design of infrastructures, updati

Author: Alfredo Conde
Publisher: Galaxia
Keywords: narrativa, galaxia, breixo
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 1990
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8471547155
ISBN-13: 9788471547156

The Celtic people of northwestern Spain, the Gallegos, are ironic, sensual, and-according to legend-intrinsically sad. To these qualities, the main character of this novel, named Breixo, adds luck. He has affairs with married women; their husbands know it but do nothing. Yet Breixo leads a barren life and begins to dream, to imagine a different life that becomes more real than the real life it is his lot to lead. Now, that cuckolding; was it real?