This book is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice OODA, designed as a "dream state" inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice's work and exploring path from Porto to the world. Read together, these two parts are less about buildings than about a way of being in the world, offering an open narrative where architecture is presented as if in a chronicle, ...

" Ler esta aventura Pedagógica é refletir sobre a angústia do educador que se transformou em educando trocando experiências com suas meninas; é descobrir, com amargura, que às vezes as teorias só funcionam quando aprendemos a ser menos frios e mais humanos, capazes de conhecer na prática o caminho da revelação; é emocionar-se com a alegria do educador que, pouco a pouco, grão por grão, migalha por migalha, construiu um mundo novo no seu duríssimo dia a dia...

This book responds to the increasing interest of maritime historians in the study of ports. These enclaves offer significant insights into a variety of subjects, including ships and shipping; trade, commodities, and consumption patterns; the economy, society and culture of port workers and port communities; and systems of regional and international integration. Based on extensive research in a wide range of European archives, the book provides much detailon the nature of ports in the medie...

Assesses performance of conventional techniques such as backcross and hybrid breeding in introducing new traitsMaps current progress in methods to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) linking phenotypic traits with genetic information for selectionShows comparative strengths and weaknesses of marker-assisted selection (MAS) techniques such as genome wide association studies (GWAS) and nested association mapping (NAM)