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Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was one of the first books to take advantage of the close relationship between medicine, trade and empire in the early modern period. The book was printed in Goa, the capital of the Portuguese empire in the East, and the city where...

Two thousand years after his death Horace is still recognised as a unique poet, having exerted marked influence on later European literature. This collection, first published in 1973, explores the different aspects of Horace’s poetic achievement in his main works: the Odes, Epistles¸ Satires and...

(a5, 108 p.) - The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) once wrote that “The hell are the other”. The life, however, has made me think  otherwise or different, i.e., that  “The hell or heaven is ourselves”....

(A5, 134 P.) - "Secrets of the Prosperity" is a work of financial education, liberating, to the extent that, at the same time addresses historically the catastrophic nature of the processes of socioeconomic exclusion, produced by ethics of imperialist capital, teaches us to create tools to  overcome...

THE STORY OF THIS BOOK AND THE MEANING OF "POESOFIAS"         This book was born from a moment of existential nausea, chaos, in which every thinking being, sooner or later, tends to pass and where all our values are checkmated, being...

O Homem e A Única Criatura Que, Sendo da especie "homo sapiens", Nao Traz also UMA pré-determinação e / ou UMA Natureza Completa e terminou los si MESMO e, conseguinte POR, Nao Ser Realizado, devido a UMA Falta de hum Educação de Qualidade, ELE PODE also Jogar-se de: Não E Capaz de "ser Tudo...

International relations is a vibrant field of significant growth and change. This book guides students through the complexities of the major theories of international relations and the debates that surround them, the core theoretical concepts, and the key contemporary issues. Introduced by an overview...

Released in April 08, 2014, this is an updated and longer version of the book. Is it possible to have a reliable map of people's personalities and behaviors, including yours? What are the forces that lead people to behave in so many different ways and have so many different personalities? Are you sure...

This book is the result of a conference organised by the Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre (CPHRC) and the University of Dundee that took place during September 2000. The purpose of this conference, and the resulting book, was to bring together various experts in the field...

Il volume raccoglie gli atti del VII Convegno Nazionale dell’ARCo “Attualità delle aree archeologiche: esperienze e proposte”, svoltosi dal 24 al 26 ottobre 2013 presso la Facoltà di Architettura Roma Tre. Il Convegno ha posto temi che attengono al restauro, alla conservazione, alle metodologie...

Attraverso la partecipazione a tre edizioni di MADE Expo ( Milano Architettura Design Edilizia - Fiera di Rho) con l'organizzazione di convegni nel 2008, 2009 e 2010, l'ARCo ha voluto proporre ed offrire sul tavolo del confronto e del dibattito una divulgazione capillare del "buon restauro"...

In un periodo dove la dittatura imperversa, un uomo e una donna riescono a trovare il loro angolo nel mondo. In un piccolo paesino calabrese, Menuccia, una donna forte e all’avanguardia, e un ribelle socialista, Giuseppe Leardi, trovano l’amore e la libertà durante il ventennio fascista.

Good values are relevant in any era, are character building and are conducive to building a better society. Values have been selected that will enable the reader to emulate and pass on to others. Stories inspire people of all ages to critically think about their own behavior and that of others, objectively evaluate these behavioral patterns and improve where necessary.

Enzo Baiamonte, investigatore per caso del quartiere della Zisa di Palermo, ha fatto la sua scelta. Chiudere il laboratorio elettrotecnico che ormai non rende niente e dedicarsi professionalmente all’investigazione. Qualcosa su cui indagare arriva sempre. Questa volta si tratta di un caso di morte...