Bøger af João Costa

Questo libro è un invito ad applicare i principi del management alla vita quotidiana, costruendo un'esistenza più organizzata, produttiva e soddisfacente. Il professore di Management João Costa, in collaborazione con il figlio Lucca Costa, studente di Psicologia Clinica presso l'Università del Kent, ha ideato un'opera rivolta a chiunque sia interessato a migliorare le proprie prestazioni personali attraverso gli strumenti di management. Il libro accompagna il lettore attraverso i classici strumenti di gestione sapientemente adattati alla sfera personale. I concetti procedurali, esemplificati dalle 5S e dal Metodo SMART, ridefiniscono l'organizzazione personale e la definizione di obiettivi raggiungibili. Strumenti creativi come SCAMPER e Brainstorming sbloccano il potenziale innovativo. L'esplorazione delle strategie di negoziazione integra elementi del Metodo di negoziazione di Harvard, metamorfosandoli in strumenti pratici per rafforzare le connessioni interpersonali e fare scelte sagge. Più che una raccolta di concetti, questo libro è una guida pragmatica per trasformare la teoria in azione, indispensabile per chiunque voglia migliorare la propria persona.

This book is an invitation to apply management principles to daily life, building a more organized, productive and fulfilled existence. Professor of Management João Costa, in collaboration with his son, Lucca Costa, a student of Clinical Psychology at the University of Kent, have designed a work aimed at anyone interested in improving their personal performance through management tools. The book takes the reader through classic management tools skillfully adapted for the personal sphere. Procedural concepts, exemplified by 5S and the SMART Method, redefine personal organization and the setting of achievable goals. Creative tools such as SCAMPER and Brainstorming unlock innovative potential. The exploration of negotiation strategies integrates elements of the Harvard Negotiation Method, metamorphosing them into practical tools for strengthening interpersonal connections and making wise choices. More than a compilation of concepts, this book is a pragmatic guide to transforming theory into action, making it indispensable for anyone seeking personal improvement.

Perfeita para iniciantes, esta obra traz dicas valiosas para dar os primeiros passos na arte de desenhar. Nestas páginas, você vai desenvolver o domínio da mão, entender a concepção de formas vazias, linhas de eixo e proporções, além de aprender escalas tonais, luz, sombra e perspectiva. O livro inclui exercícios que aprofundam temas como elementos da natureza, animais e rostos masculinos e femininos, todos com tutoriais objetivos e simples, a fim de que você possa atingir técnica e qualidade em suas criações.

Cuidadosamente elaborada, esta obra reúne os princípios essenciais que caracterizam o estilo mangá. Aprenda, passo a passo, como manipular os traços para criar proporções e movimentos do corpo, além de praticar detalhes como vestimentas, incluindo dobras e tecidos, além de dicas de diagramação, planos cinematográficos, roteiros e outros fundamentos que vão permitir a você atingir todo o seu potencial como artista! Este é, sem dúvida, um livro único para aqueles que desejam desenvolver este que é um dos estilos de arte mais apreciados e propagados em todo o mundo.

While it has become fashionable in the arena of international health to think about health systems, the theoretical underpinning of Niklas Luhmann's vast and productive theory has been given too little consideration in the field. It is rich in concepts that can facilitate a fuller understanding of what health systems are. João Costa applies these concepts and shows the analytical possibilities they open up. He argues concisely how Luhmann's Social Systems Theory offers an integrated theoretical body as well as a consistent articulation of concepts that can lay the groundwork for a vastly improved health systems thinking.

European Portuguese, like other Romance languages, display a great amount of word order variation. Out of the six logically possible permutations between Subject, Verb and Complement in a transitive sentence, five are possible: SVO, VSO, VOS, OVS and OSV. The primary goal of this book is to provide an analysis of the several positions where the subject may surface in European Portuguese. Departing from an architecture of the clause as sketched in early minimalist work, containing two subject-related functional categories above VP (AgrP and TP), it is shown that the subject may surface in all potential landing sites: Spec,AgrP, Spec,TP and Spec,VP. Moreover, just like any other argument of the clause, it is claimed that subjects also have the possibility of surfacing in a left-dislocated position, arguably adjoining to the clause's left periphery. It is shown that there is no free variation. Each of these positions may be occupied by the subject, only if two requirements are met:i)The position is made available by syntax;ii)The position does not violate any interface condition.In other words, the following model is argued for: syntax generates legitimate outputs. At the interface levels, each output may be selected or filtred out, according to requirements of the interface. The picture emerging from the proposal made in this book is the following: syntax proper does not need to refer to conditions best placed at the interface. All that is needed from syntax is that it generates an array of well-formed outputs. Such outputs may be evaluated a posteriori by each of the interfaces. If they meet requirements of the interface, they are selected as legitimate. If, on the contrary, some interface condition is violated, they are ruled out. Under this approach, three in-dependent results are derived: i) an explanation is found for the patterns of word order variation; ii) syntax proper may be reduced to its own tools, not having to manipulate semantic, discourse or prosodic variables; iii) the intuition that European Portuguese is an SVO language is derived: this word order corresponds to the one in which the subject occupies the only specifier position in which the other interfaces play no role.