Cortese: 28 books

Cosa accadrebbe se ci lasciassimo condurre dalla marea invece di farci travolgere quando non ne possiamo più? Myrta crede di poter controllare tutto e pretende di andare contro il flusso naturale delle cose perché nella sua testa ha un copione stabilito da seguire. Lei e Jacopo sono una coppia come...

Healthcare in America is wildly inconsistent and uncomfortably close to bankruptcy, and the only way it can be rescued is with leaders in all the different areas of healthcare stepping up with the right kind of leadership. The problem is that they don’t realize the importance of their leadership, and...

A former college president offers a framework for sustainability on campus, describing initiatives that range from renewable energy to a revamped curriculum to sustainable investment. Colleges and universities offer our best hope for raising awareness about the climate crisis and the other...

This family saga takes place in Ireland and New York City in the second half of the nineteenth century. It begins in 1849 when a thirteen-year-old boy, through a cruel twist of fate, lands at the tip of the island at Castle Garden. Frightened and alone, James Barry simply walks off the ship onto the...

The IS (Iosef Stalin) heavy tanks were some of the most widely used AFVs produced by the USSR. First entering combat in 1944, the IS-2 went head-to-head with German tanks such as the Panther, Tiger and King Tiger, and post war IS-2s and IS-3s were exported to China, Cuba and North Korea. This book...

The T-55 tank first appeared in 1958, a result of numerous improvements made to the (1949) T-54 series, and with a lineage stretching back to the wartime T-34 and the T-44. The T-55 series has seen service around the world with many armed forces, including the Warsaw Pact countries, Afghanistan, Angola,...

Come and meet the scheming scientist called Cromdork, who has astronomical aspirations to seize the throne; Klanky, the shaggy dog in shining armour; Miss V.O.R., a practical woman with a passion for shoes and glitter; a pair of gossiping geese, Chatter and Banter, and the local natural disaster expert,...

A year ago Izabella Van Strauss (Bella) thought her life was perfect, ambitious and energetic; living carefree from the ties of a husband or significant other to bind her of her single life. As she glances over the dining room table, she sees him; Nicholas De Basilone (Niko) and wonders how he changed...

Hers is the story of how an ordinary middle aged woman is transported from a humdrum existence; morally sedate and sexually naive, to pushing the boundaries of her conscience and experiencing pleasure of a magnitude she had never imagined. Her journey takes her into the realms of illicit love and...

Edgy, provocative and emotionally honest, each of the twelve plays of *Roulette explores the nuances and subtleties involved when two people meet. Based on the ancient Chinese cosmology, The Twelve Branches of Life, the plays are a revealing mosaic of human interaction across a range of emotional...

Il volume Diritto dei contratti pubblici, in continuità con l’edizione e-book del 2014, reca una trattazione organica e sistematica della disciplina sui contratti pubblici (appalti e concessioni) contenuta nel d.lgs. 18 aprile 2016, n. 50, nel decreto correttivo, di cui al d.lgs. 19 aprile 2017,...

Quattro testimonianze sul genocidio armeno che ne ricostruiscono la storia, ne chiariscono le peculiarità e ne descrivono gli orrori denunciando le responsabilità con il coraggio di chi non rimane in silenzio davanti all'umanità calpestata e l'indignazione di chi vede il mondo restare inerme se non indifferente davanti al crimine. Prefazione di Antonia Arslan.

The robots continued to drag me through doors and corridors, and I started to panic when I realized that Jan wasnt doing what he was supposed to do. We went down two floors to the buildings basement. There were no marble floors or wooden ornamentation down there, only metal, concrete, and bricks....

Il volume contiene una trattazione organica e sistematica, anche se essenziale, della disciplina dei contratti pubblici, utile sia a fini didattici che ad un pubblico di professionisti, che intende usufruire di un inquadramento serio, attendibile ed aggiornato dei vari istituti, suscettibile di ulteriore...