In this book, former Formula One racing driver María de Villota recounts the 180 degree turn her life took after the fatal accident that happened during aerodynamic tests conducted with her Formula One team during the summer of 2012 and which left her with serious injuries. Far from becoming discouraged, her tenacity and courage proved more powerful than that tragic event.
LIFE IS A GIFT is the moving and passionate testimony of a woman who refused to give up driving her own life with a firm hand until the end.

Barcelona is full of unforgettable places.
Its Roman layout, its medieval streets, its Gothic churches and palaces, the Cathedral, La Rambla, Sagrada Família and other Modernist buildings at the Eixample, constructions for the 1888 and 1929 World Fairs or the 1992 Olympic Games, Picasso Museum, and some of its more recent architectural landmarks like Camp Nou, Miró Foundation or MACBA (Barcelona Museum of Modern Art) all have room in this album with «sketches to remember».
It is the best souvenir you can take home from this charming city.

Globalization has become the buzzword of our time -a term that describes a variety of changing economic, political, cultural, ideological, environmental, and technological processes that are transforming our experience of the world.
This third edition of this Very Short Introduction provides an accessible exploration of both the causes and effects of globalization.

This book arrives at a time of heightened concerns about patient safety in medical care and the overall responsibility assumed by health professionals. It begins by exploring experiences of error and harm in general, and it covers medical errors that can be attributed to system failures and errors in an individual’s reasoning, subsequent decision-making, and execution of tasks in medical care. It focuses on how to detect, correct, and avoid errors and their sometimes disastrous consequences. The book concludes with an analysis of the contributions and expectations of physicians in tort litigation and legal decision-making.
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Healthcare Management
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The second edition of a bestseller, this book critically examines the successes and failures of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) during the course of the past decade. The new subtitle reflects this edition’s focus on meta-principles critical to moving ahead and successfully building ITS infrastructures that take advantage of smart/green technologies. The book identifies challenging problems that must be addressed in order to bring real quality of life improvements and positively impact our environmental and civil infrastructure systems.
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A delineation of the basics of sensory analysis and how it applies to shelf-life studies, this book includes discussions of experimental design aspects, survival analysis methodology, and its extensions. It provides detailed instructions and software functions for performing SSL estimations, accompanied by data sets and the R Statistical Package functions that are available for download. The author presents the cut-off point methodology used to estimate SSL when the survival analysis methods get complicated. He includes a chapter on accelerated storage covering kinetics, calculations of prediction confidence intervals and potential pitfalls.
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A comprehensive collection of seminal pieces on environmental criminology, this work focuses on the role that the immediate environment plays in the occurrence of a crime. Legendary contributors demonstrate that a careful analysis of environmental factors is key to understanding the causes of crime, solving crimes, and helping to predict and prevent them. Topics covered include routine activity theory, the geometric theory of crime, the rational choice theory, and the pattern theory of crime. The book also explores concepts related to crime prevention. This volume is invaluable as a textbook and as a professional reference.
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