Bamako, capitale du Mali, Jomo a une passion dévorante pour le basket. Son rêve ? Passer pro. Grâce à Richard, un recruteur pour des clubs européens, il va intégrer l'Academy, un centre de formation français où des jeunes du monde entier viennent se former. Mais Jomo a aussi un secret, une honte qui...

Il y a d'abord eu les oiseaux figés dans le ciel. Les cadavres de vaches au milieu de la route. Les adultes devenus fous furieux dans l'aire de repos. Les flics partout, les sorties fermées et lourdement gardées. Et toujours l'autoroute, interminable. Au moindre arrêt, au moindre ralentissement : un...

This book brings together a rich selection of studies in mathematical modeling and computational intelligence, with application in several fields of engineering, like automation, biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical, electronic, geophysical and mechanical engineering, on a multidisciplinary appro...

The purpose of `Numerical Analysis of Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media' is to provide a collection of recent contributions in the field of computational heat and mass transfer in porous media. The main benefit of the book is that it discusses the majority of the topics related to numerical tra...

This collection explores the emergence of new spatialities and subjectivities in Brazilian films produced from the 1990s onwards, a period that became known as the retomada, but especially in the cinema of the new millennium. The chapters take spatiality as a powerful tool that can reveal aesthetic,...

In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman. Da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse ethnic groups and male homosexuals into the range of "femmes" fatales and examines how the Brazilian representations cross gender, race, and class and offer...

This edited collection explores how contemporary Latin American cinema has dealt with and represented issues of human rights, moving beyond many of the recurring topics for Latin American films. Through diverse interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches, and analyses of different au...