Biblioteca Victor de Sá - Universidade Lusófona

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Thrall’s textbook of veterinary diagnostic radiology / Gabriela Seiler,Donald E. Thrall. - 8th ed. - St. Louis : Elsevier, 2025
COTA : CMV/229-BC

Improve your radiographic interpretation skills, regardless of your level of experience with Textbook of Veterinary Diagnostic Radiology, 8th Edition, your one-stop resource for understanding the principles of radiographic technique and interpretation for dogs, cats, and horses. Within this bestselling text, high-quality radiographic images accompany clear coverage of diagnostic radiology, ultrasound, MRI, and CT. User-friendly direction helps you develop essential skills in patient positioning, radiographic technique and safety measures, normal and abnormal anatomy, radiographic viewing and interpretation, and alternative imaging modalities.

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Essential criminology / Stuart Henry, Desiré J. M. Anastasia. - 5th ed. - New York : Routledge, 2025
COTA : CC/237-BC

This significantly expanded edition of Essential Criminology covers the broadest range of criminological theories-the essential criminological theories-from longstanding ones such as classical theory and strain theory to recently introduced ones such as ultra-realism and green cultural criminology. Whether all are "essential" depends on one's theoretical stance. The value of this text is its carefully designed comparative analysis, which helps readers consider their relative contribution to the field. Originally designed as an alternative to lengthy and expensive introductory texts, Essential Criminology provides a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the field. The book offers a clear, structured, student-friendly, critical analytical examination of the nature of crime, theories of crime causation, and their criminal justice policy implications. Causal theories covered range from micro-level classical and rational choice to biological psychological, social learning, social control, and interactionist perspectives, to macro-level social ecology, anomie/strain, conflict, Marxist, feminist, and postmodernist theories. Over its 26-year history the book has added new theoretical perspectives as these have gained prominence. New to this edition are chapters on critical and ultra-realism, and critical green criminology and discussions of zemiology, critical race theory, and quantum holographic criminology. The authors have also expanded some theoretical frameworks that had previously been underdeveloped such as opportunity theory, subcultural theory, and social constructionism.Essential Criminology contextualizes criminology in the globally interdependent 21st century, addressing the crimes of terrorism, global pandemics, and climate change.

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Atlas of small animal ultrasonography / ed.lit. Dominique Penninck , Marc-André d'Anjou. - 3rd ed. - Hoboken : Wiley, 2025
COTA: CMV/225-BC

Atlas of Small Animal Ultrasonography, Third Edition is a comprehensive reference for ultrasound techniques and findings in small animal practice. Offering more than 2500 high-quality sonograms and illustrations of normal structures and disorders, the book takes a systems-based approach to ultrasound examinations in small animals. With complete coverage of small animal ultrasonography, this reference guide is an essential resource for veterinary sonographers of all skill levels.In addition to updates reflecting current diagnostic imaging practice, the Third Edition adds two new chapters, on Point of Care Ultrasonography (POCUS) and on vascular diseases of the abdomen. Also, pertinent ultrasound-assisted interventional procedures were added in several chapters.

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El arte del color / Johannes Itten ; trad. Isabel Hernández. - Barcelona : GG, 2025
COTA: DS/161-BC

La teoría del color de Johannes Itten puede considerarse una referencia universal para todas aquellas personas -artistas, diseñadores, historiadores del arte, estudiantes- interesadas en el color y sus complejidades. No hay libro o curso de introducción al color que de forma directa o indirecta no haga referencia a las aportaciones teóricas y pedagógicas de Itten. Publicado en 1961, El arte del color recoge el material didáctico de los cursos que el autor impartió acerca del color en la famosa escuela de arte y arquitectura de la Bauhaus, un libro que, con el tiempo, se ha convertido en un clásico en plena vigencia. Con un enfoque esencialmente divulgativo, el estudio explica los conceptos, teorías y comportamientos del color como el círculo cromático, los contrastes cromáticos, las mezclas de colores, el efecto espacial de los colores… Cuestiones fundamentales de la teoría del color que son planteadas con la maestría del artista y la sencillez del pedagogo. Esta edición abreviada de la obra de Itten se dirige a un público amplio, tanto a aquellas personas vinculadas al mundo de la creatividad como al lector interesado en la cultura visual.

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Atlas de patologia veterinária : biopatologia / Maria dos Anjos Pires... [et al.]. - 2.ª ed. - Lisboa : Lidel, 2025
COTA: CMV/8-BC

Este livro, agora na sua 2.ª edição, explica os fenómenos e mecanismos gerais da doença nos seus processos macro e microscópicos, ilustrados com um riquíssimo atlas com mais de 400 imagens originais a cores de elevada qualidade.

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Empire of AI : dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman's openAI / Karen Hao. - New York : Penguin Press, 2025.
COTA: IA/73-BC

When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong? Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that its vision of success requires an almost unprecedented amount of resources: the "compute" power of high-end chips and the processing capacity to create massive large language models, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans "cleaning up" that data for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the usage of energy and water underlying it all. The truth is that we have entered a new and ominous age of empire: only a small handful of globally scaled companies can even enter the field of play. At the head of the pack with its ChatGPT breakthrough, how would OpenAI resist such temptations?Spoiler alert: it didn't. Armed with Microsoft's billions, OpenAI is setting a breakneck pace, chased by a small group of the most valuable companies in human history-toward what end, not even they can define. All this time, Hao has maintained her deep sourcing within the company and the industry, and so she was in intimate contact with the story that shocked the entire tech industry-Altman's sudden firing and triumphant return. The behind-the-scenes story of what happened, told here in full for the first time, is revelatory of who the people controlling this technology really are. But this isn't just the story of a single company, however fascinating it is. The g forces pressing down on the people of OpenAI are deforming the judgment of everyone else too-as such forces do. Naked power finds the ideology to cloak itself; no one thinks they're the bad guy. But in the meantime, as Hao shows through intrepid reporting on the ground around the world, the enormous wheels of extraction grind on. By drawing on the viewpoints of Silicon Valley engineers, Kenyan data laborers, and Chilean water activists, Hao presents the fullest picture of AI and its impact we've seen to date, alongside a trenchant analysis of where things are headed. An astonishing eyewitness view from both up in the command capsule of the new economy and down where the real suffering happens, Empire of AI pierces the veil of the industry defining our era.

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Artificial intelligence and games / Georgios N. Yannakakis, Julian Togelius. - 2nd ed. - Cham : Springer, 2025.
COTA: IA/71-BC

This book covers artificial intelligence methods applied to games, both in research and game development. It is aimed at graduate students, researchers, game developers, and readers with a technical background interested in the intersection of AI and games. The book covers a range of AI methods, from traditional search, planning, and optimization, to modern machine learning methods, including diffusion models and large language models. It discusses applications to playing games, generating content, and modeling players, including use cases such as level generation, game testing, intelligent non-player characters, player retention, player experience analysis, and game adaptation. It also covers the use of games, including video games, to test and benchmark AI algorithms. The book is informed by decades of research and practice in the field and combines insights into game design with deep technical knowledge from the authors, who have pioneered many of the methods and approaches used in the field.This second edition of the 2018 textbook captures significant developments in AI and gaming over the past 7 years, incorporating advancements in computer vision, reinforcement learning, deep learning, and the emergence of transformer-based large language models and generative AI. The book has been reorganized to provide an updated overview of AI in games, with separate sections dedicated to AI's core uses in playing and generating games, and modeling their players, along with a new chapter on ethical considerations. Aimed at readers with foundational AI knowledge, the book primarily targets three audiences: graduate or advanced undergraduate students pursuing careers in game AI, AI researchers and educators seeking teaching resources, and game programmers interested in creative AI applications. The text is complemented by a website featuring exercises, lecture slides, and additional educational materials suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses.

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Global logistics and supply chain management / John Mangan, Agustina Calatayud, Chandra Lalwani. - 5th ed. - Hoboken : Wiley, 2025
COTA: G/326-BC

Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management equips students with the knowledge and tools to navigate today's complex, interconnected global markets. Covering both practical applications and strategic decision-making, this comprehensive textbook combines theory with real-world case studies to provide a thorough understanding of logistics systems and supply chain management (SCM) practices.Designed to meet the needs of today's students and instructors, the fifth edition of Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management offers a balanced and student-friendly presentation of both qualitative and quantitative content, emphasizing key concepts such as sustainability, supply chain vulnerabilities, and digital transformation. Covering both foundational principles and advanced topics, each chapter builds a robust framework for students to critically assess and improve supply chain operations. Throughout the text, the authors provide expert insights into the latest trends, emerging technologies, and global events, including the COVID-19 pandemic.Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Fifth Edition, is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in logistics, supply chain management, and operations management in business, engineering, management, and international trade programs.

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If anyone builds it, everyone dies : why superhuman AI would kill us / Eliezer Yudkowsky , Nate Soares. - New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025.
COTA: IA/63-BC

In 2023, hundreds of AI luminaries signed an open letter warning that artificial intelligence poses a serious risk of human extinction. Since then, the AI race has only intensified. Companies and countries are rushing to build machines that will be smarter than any person. And the world is devastatingly unprepared for what would come next.For decades, two signatories of that letter-Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares-have studied how smarter-than-human intelligences will think, behave, and pursue their objectives. Their research says that sufficiently smart AIs will develop goals of their own that put them in conflict with us-and that if it comes to conflict, an artificial superintelligence would crush us. The contest wouldn't even be close. How could a machine superintelligence wipe out our entire species? Why would it want to? Would it want anything at all? In this urgent book, Yudkowsky and Soares walk through the theory and the evidence, present one possible extinction scenario, and explain what it would take for humanity to survive. The world is racing to build something truly new under the sun. And if anyone builds it, everyone dies.