Carlos Otero Livres

Focusing on practical applications, the book provides software designers with essential concepts through examples, review questions, and lab exercises. It begins with fundamental software design principles and introduces a structured top-down design process that encompasses various design activities. Each topic features a detailed breakdown of design execution, accompanied by evaluations and justifications for chosen solutions, ensuring that both students and practitioners gain a comprehensive understanding of designing complex software systems.

This book presents a cameo of private rural estates throughout Europe and in particular their role in conserving Europe's natural and cultural heritage. An extensively researched and lavishly produced book.

"This book focuses on rural businesses for biodiversity. This recent publication depicts sixty-one estates, active in various sectors such as agriculture, forestry, tourism, food supply chain and extractive industry, but all of them involved in biodiversity conservation. These businesses stand as model representatives of new solution and innovative techniques favourable to biodiversity. Land managers explain on more than 750 pages how they decided to move towards a perfect balance between modern business and biodiversity protection. Each chapter is accompanied by maps, graphics, pictures, historical overview, list of species and habitats, geographical data and detailed explanation of various techniques of sustainable biodiversity management such as field margins, sustainable harvest, habitat protection, creation of areas for nesting and bird surveys."--Publisher.