Author: I. F. Cruz
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Keywords: intelligence, applications, artificial, frontiers, semantic, web, emerging
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $96.00
ISBN-10: 1586032550
ISBN-13: 9781586032555

The World Wide Web has been the main source of an important shift in the way people get information and order services. However, the current Web is aimed at people only. The Semantic Web is a Web defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but also for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications. Facilities and technologies to put machine understandable data on the Web are rapidly becoming a high priority for many communities. In order for computers to provide more help to people, the Semantic Web augments the current Web

Author: Jon Cruz
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: american, cultural, interpretation, rise, spiritual, margins, black, culture
Number of Pages: 289
Published: 1999-07-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0691004749
ISBN-13: 9780691004747

In Culture on the Margins, Jon Cruz recounts the "discovery" of black music by white elites in the nineteenth century, boldly revealing how the episode shaped modern approaches to studying racial and ethnic cultures. Slave owners had long heard black song making as meaningless "noise." Abolitionists began to attribute social and political meaning to the music, inspired, as many were, by Frederick Douglass’s invitation to hear slaves’ songs as testimonies to their inner, subjective worlds. This interpretive shift--which Cruz calls "ethnosympathy"--marks the beginning of a mainstream

Author: Melissa De La Cruz
Publisher: Hyperion Book
Keywords: book, bloods, blue, revelations
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-10-28
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 1423102282
ISBN-13: 9781423102281

Have you ever wondered what secrets lurk behind the closed doors of New York City’s wealthiest families? They’re powerful, they’re famous... they’re undead. Schuyler Van Alen’s blood legacy has just been called into question--is the young vampire in fact a Blue Blood, or is it the sinister Silver Blood that runs through her veins? As controversy swirls, Schuyler is left stranded in the Force household, trapped under the same roof as her cunning nemesis, Mimi Force, and her forbidden crush, Jack Force. When one of the Gates of Hell is breached by Silver Bloods in R

Author: Angie Cruz
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: novel, coffee, rain
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-04-25
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0743212045
ISBN-13: 9780743212045

Angie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction, her writing compared to Gabriel García Márquez’s by The Boston Globe. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the Colón family and the dreams, love, and heartbreak that bind them to their past and the future.Esperanza risked her life fleeing the Dominican Republic for the glittering dream she saw on television, but years later she is still stuck in a cramped tenement with her husband, Santo, and their two children, Bobby and Dallas. She works as a home aide and, at n

Author: Nilo Cruz
Publisher: Dramatist’s Play Service
Keywords: tropics, anna
Published: 2004-12-30
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0822220008
ISBN-13: 9780822220008

Winner of the 2003 Pulitizer Prize for Drama . . . there are many kinds of light.The light of fires. The light of stars.The light that reflects off rivers.Light that penetrates through cracks.Then there’s the type of light that reflects off the skin.—Nilo Cruz, Anna in the TropicsThis lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect the arrival of a new "lector" (who reads Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina to the wo

Author: San Juan de la Cruz
Publisher: Linkgua Ediciones
Keywords: spanish, espiritual, cã¡ntico
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2009-07-29
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 8496290174
ISBN-13: 9788496290174

El Cántico espiritual presenta el tópico del amor entre Dios y sus devotos. El matrimonio con la divinidad como metáfora de la comunión cristiana. Esta es una obra de referencia en la llamada contrarreforma de España.

Author: Khavn De La Cruz
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: ultraviolins
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2009-07-31
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 9715425747
ISBN-13: 9789715425742