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This book examines the insecurity that besets our lives in the contemporary world, whether as a result of natural disasters, human negligence or, more recently, threats to security in the form of terrorist activity, which itself gives rise to new fears: fear of travel, agoraphobia, distrust of others...

The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making according to some widespread practices in academic and professional circles. Recently, new expertise maintains that place-making...

The book distils and articulates international law as a social construct. It does so by analysing its social foundations, essence, and roots in practical and socially workable (as opposed to 'pure') reason. In addition to well-known doctrines of jurisprudence and international law, it draws upon psycho-analytic...

The Global eBook report documents and analyses how ebook markets emerge in the US, UK, continental Europe, Brazil, China, India, Russia and the Arab world. It combines the best available data and references to specialized local actors, with thematic chapters, focusing on critical policy debates and...

Integrating newcomers and minorities into the social fabric of receiving countries has become one of the crucial challenges of contemporary Western societies. This volume seeks to understand patterns of changing institutional practices and public policies where the challenges of including cultural...

Presenting some impressive recent achievements in differential geometry and topology, this volume focuses on results obtained using techniques based on Ricci flow. These ideas are at the core of the study of differentiable manifolds. Several very important open problems and conjectures come from this...

Urban planning is a complex field of knowledge and practice. Through the decades, theoretical debate has formed an eclectic set of possible perspectives, without finding, in our opinion, a coherent paradigmatic framework which can adequately guide the interpretation and action in urban planning. The...

New Trends in Basic and Clinical Research of Glaucoma: A Neurodegenerative Disease of the Visual System is the latest volume from Progress in Brain Research focusing on new trends in basic and clinical research of glaucoma. This established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical...

The strategic concepts and tools illustrated in this book provide a framework for devising and implementing strategies favouring longevity of family-controlled business entities. The authors illustrate their arguments with examples drawn from their direct knowledge of representative Italian and European family firms.

Qui ne connait pas cette célèbre phrase : "Si tu mens ton nez va s'allonger comme celui de Pinocchio ?", ce dont on se rappelle moi cela dit c'est des aventures de cette marionette qui a prit vie sous les mains experte de son père Guepeto... Ce grand classique de littérature enfantines, cache...

Edita per la prima volta nel 1933, Sole d’estate è l’ultima raccolta di novelle pubblicata in volume da Grazia Deledda prima della sua morte, avvenuta nel 1936, ed è una delle opere della piena maturità. Questa antologia di racconti fu composta, quindi, in un periodo particolare per...

In un building progettato da Kubo, ieratico architetto pazzo, dove sembra dominare una paranoia tranquillamente accettata da tutti, si svolgono le paradossali vicende aziendali di una non meglio identificata corporation e dei suoi dipendenti. Suddivisi in surreali ranghi organizzativi e addetti...

Quali tesori nasconde il cuore apparentemente cinico e disincantato di un giovane venditore giunto in breve tempo ai vertici aziendali e abituato a giocare vere e proprie partite di abilità intellettuali e astuzia e raffinate trattative di business con clienti di rilievo internazionale? Ci sono valori...

Tre tecnici, un ingegnere e due assistenti che stanno eseguendo dei rilievi su un’area prospiciente un bosco sul Monte Volturino in Basilicata, vengono brutalmente assassinati. Un giornalista, che è tornato nei luoghi natii per rigenerarsi dallo stress della città, viene, suo malgrado, indotto...