Annalisa: 174 books

2017 is a crucial year for Iran. In January, while the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) entered the second year of implementation, in Washington the Trump Administration took office, with the promise to “renegotiate a disastrous deal”. In May, in Tehran, the incumbent President Hassan...

Save the date for two waterfront weddings. . .if the couples can overcome rocky pasts to walk down the aisle. Wedding planner Summer Nelson is putting the finishing touches on a fairytale wedding when a hurricane strands her at a swanky Charleston resort hotel with some crazy tourists—and her estranged...

Research on polyhedral manifolds often points to unexpected connections between very distinct aspects of Mathematics and Physics. In particular triangulated manifolds play quite a distinguished role in such settings as Riemann moduli space theory, strings and quantum gravity, topological quantum field...

This book discusses key conceptual aspects and explores the connection between triangulated manifolds and quantum physics, using a set of case studies ranging from moduli space theory to quantum computing to provide an accessible introduction to this topic. Research on polyhedral manifolds...

Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology, Third Edition is a succinct, yet comprehensive text devoted to the systematics, evolution, morphology, ecology, physiology, and behavior of marine mammals. Earlier editions of this valuable work are considered required reading for all marine biologists...

Alexandre Dumas racconta in questo romanzo la storia della famiglia Borgia, fatta di congiure, efferati omicidi, incesti e perversi giochi di potere. Fanno da sfondo a queste torbide vicende la Roma dei papi e l'Italia del Rinascimento. Dopo la prima scena, che si svolge a Firenze nella stanza di...

Isn't it enough Cleora Butterfield has agreed to be her enormously pregnant BFF's back-up birth coach? Does she really have to repeat last year's disastrous New Year's Eve blind date with Ross Hollister—one of said friend's favorite people—even if the man is smokin' hot? She has enough on her...

Private Investigator Meg Cavelli wonders why her traitorous family has trotted out the fatted calf for Seth Truitt, the boy who left her flat eight years ago. Now he’s back, sexier than she remembers, and needs her help. How can Meg accept Seth’s no-strings-attached deal in return for bringing...

Freelance writer Retta Delaney thinks she finally has it all: her dream job at Popular Magazine, a home of her own—well, hers and the bank’s—and a sexy new neighbor, commercial artist Sam Parnetti. But their budding attraction is complicated when a fortune turns up via the mailman. Delivery...

Archaeologist Raphael Cavelli wonders why he isn’t in some watering hole in Peru drinking a lukewarm cerveza next to a bosomy blonde. Instead, back in Chicago trying to stay one step ahead of the law for stealing the archaeological find of the century, he bumps, literally, into the reason he left...

Jillian Magee, a fifth-grade math teacher who loves Christmas, has a freezer filled with Christmas cookies, all her Christmas gifts wrapped, and the red scarves all knitted for her caroling party. Unfortunately, the universe seems bent on depriving her of joy this season, even when it supplies her...

Charity O’Malley is about to break the law of the land in order to follow her dreams. They’ll call her a whisper sister. A tarnished female. A Jezebel. As a woman who wants to shape her own destiny, she’s about to reopen her father’s speakeasy, but Big Mike O’Malley reaches out from the...

Milano, 1982. Marta ha poco più di vent’anni quando arriva in città decisa a lasciarsi alle spalle un passato di cui non intende far parola con nessuno. Nel giro di qualche settimana, la ragazza dall’aspetto selvatico scesa dal treno cede il passo a una donna nuova, sicura di sé, che si muove...

Nel sessantesimo anniversario della prima apparizione,un libro per conoscere la Madonna delle lacrime di Siracusa. Tra la fine di agosto e l'inizio di settembre del 1953 il bassorilievo di una Madonnina di gesso sconvolge dapprima la città di Siracusa, poi l'Italia intera e, infine, il mondo. «La Madonna...