An inspirational, personal story of one soccer star's never-say-die attitudes, and his rise to the topSergio Torres's is an incredible true story of the benefits of willpower, sacrifice, joy, and daring to dream. Imagine you're working in a brick factory in the Argentine city Mar del Plata, and a 22-year-old colleague tells you he's going to quit his job to become a professional soccer player in Europe. Yeah, right. Next, he blows his savings on a ticket to England...

The fake—the counterfeit, the bogus, the inauthentic—is not merely a deviation from reality; it is, fundamentally, a relative and socially constructed phenomenon. Increasingly, what we label as "fake" is not defined by its distance from truth, but by the consensus that allows it to inhabit the space of belief. It is sanctioned fiction, clothed in certainty. In contemporary political and cultural spheres, the fake takes form not as a sophisticated illusion or strategic deceit, but ...

Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar (AgCCxG) redefines language as an adaptive, embodied semiotic system shaped by cognition, interaction, and prediction. Rooted in Peircean semiotics and Active Inference, it sees speakers as agent-interpretants adjusting semiotic representations based on need-driven processes rather than rigid hierarchies. Rejecting dualism, AgCCxG highlights the interplay between semiotic agency, embodied cognition, and adaptive mechanisms, emphasizing the t...

This collection of poems was written within a concentrated period, resulting from an exercise in intense introspection. It reflects on personal themes, obsessions, and memories that needed compiling, akin to editing a video. The poems function as sequences that guide the reader to viscerally experience the writer's mindscape through vivid readings and fetishized characters. There are no extreme pains, traumas, or passions portrayed, only images gathered in the serenity afforded by time - o...

The rise of generative AI (GenAI), exemplified by ChatGPT and Claude, has triggered profound debates about technology's impact on humanity. These systems, while powerful, lack embodied cognition, challenging assumptions about agency, creativity, and intelligence. This book critiques reductive narratives equating computational fluency with understanding, emphasizing the biological and intentional roots of human consciousness. It explores epistemological limits, ontological differences, and ...

This book provides a reference guide in the field of dermatology, presenting and discussing its interface with public health.Dermatological diseases are extremely common in populations around the globe, and the systematization of knowledge about these dermatoses and their relationships with different epidemiological factors may help us to understand the challenges that governments and private institutions face and must try to overcome in order to improve global health. Undergraduat...

Back in the early 1990s, economists and policy makers had high expectations about the prospects for domestic capital market development in emerging economies, particularly in Latin America. Unfortunately, they are now faced with disheartening results. Stock and bond markets remain illiquid and segmented. Debt is concentrated at the short end of the maturity spectrum and denominated in foreign currency, exposing countries to maturity and currency risk. Capital markets in Latin America look par...

Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism, which developed from a symposium presented by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2011, showcases original essays by distinguished Latin American architects, historians, and curators whose research examines architecture and urban designpractices in the region during a significant period of the twentieth century. Drawing from the exuberant architectural projects of the 1940s to the 1960s, as well as from criti...

Back in the early 1990s, economists and policy makers had high expectations about the prospects for domestic capital market development in emerging economies, particularly in Latin America. Unfortunately, they are now faced with disheartening results. Stock and bond markets remain illiquid and segmented. Debt is concentrated at the short end of the maturity spectrum and denominated in foreign currency, exposing countries to maturity and currency risk. Capital markets in Latin America look ...

This is the first publication ever focusing strictly on the creep behaviour in cracked sections of Fibre Reinforced Concrete (FRC). These proceedings contain the latest scientific papers about new testing methodologies, results and conclusions of multiple experimental campaigns and recommendations about significant factors of long-term behaviour, experiences from more than ten years of creep testing and some reflections about future perspectives on this topic. This book is an essential ref...

During the 1980s and 1990s, financial sectors were the Achilles' heel of economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Since then, these sectors have grown and deepened, becoming more integrated and competitive, with new actors, markets, and instruments springing up and financial inclusion broadening. To crown these achievements, the During the 1980s and 1990s, financial sectors were the Achilles' heel of economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Since th...

Interest in access to finance and awareness of its importance have increased significantly since the early 2000s. Growing evidence suggests that lack of access to credit prevents many households and firms from financing high-return investment projects, which has an adverse effect on growth and poverty alleviation. Despite the increasing awareness of the importance of access to finance among both researchers and policymakers, there are still some major gaps in our understanding of the main ...