Francesca: 997 books

The book presents Henry Totting of Oyta (d. 1397), a late medieval intellectual who was active in Erfurt, Prague, Paris, and Vienna. In spite of the fact that he is a well-known figure, the majority of his works remain unedited in manuscripts. The authors analyse and provide the first editions of...

Collana Archinauti diretta da Claudio D'Amato / Archinauti series edited by Claudio D'Amato L'obiettivo generale del presente lavoro 6 stato quello di promuovere e favorire il recupero integrato e la valorizzazione delle architetture rurali, dei borghi e dei relativi contesti ambientali, in ambito...

Questo volume vi farà scoprire la complessità e la multiformità del modello classico romano che ha determinato e ancor oggi continua a influenzare il mondo moderno. Umberto Eco, con la collaborazione dei più prestigiosi esperti del mondo classico, vi conduce in un percorso di riscoperta delle radici dell’occidente, con nuove e sorprendenti chiavi di lettura.

Spesso si parla di donne vittime di violenza, ma mai abbastanza. La notizia arriva quasi sempre quando ormai è troppo tardi e allora occupa la prima pagina dei quotidiani. Non meno grave della violenza consumata è l'indifferenza della maggior parte della gente nell'apprendere questo genere di notizie....

L’altro lato del sé non è altro che quella parte che non mostriamo, quella parte inerme che emerge soltanto per arrendersi. Così Samira, come un bambino che espone il suo uccellino alla finestrella per fargli ammirare il cielo, lo vede volar via e ne rimane amareggiato, cerca di trattenere se...

Presenting an integrated and holistic perspective on innovation management and product design and development, this monograph offers a unique and original understanding of how these two perspectives are interconnected. This book explores these themes in a scientifically rigorous manner, associating...

According to recent studies, this disorder is an obsession with shopping, need to make frequent and repeated charges of objects often unnecessary or that exceed their financial capabilities. This publication reviews the general characteristics of the phenomenon, taking into account the latest discoveries...

In ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A MARRIED BLACK MAN, a hot, sultry young Puerto Rican woman struggles to stop herself from having sex with married men. Just when she thinks she’s got her habit licked, she runs into a tall, muscular, handsome black man…with his family…eyeing her at a holiday Black Friday sale. From the anthology collection, Bad Girls, Good Sex 2: Naughty Not Nice.

"The idea of BlaBlaCar was born one Christmas when I wanted to get home to my family in the French countryside. 500 km away from Paris, it wasn’t the easiest place to reach. With no car and all the trains sold out, I finally convinced my younger sister to make a lengthy detour via Paris to...

Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some...

Gaia ha 24 anni e sogna di diventare una giornalista professionista. La gavetta nella redazione di un grande quotidiano milanese non la spaventa, finché a metterle i bastoni tra le ruote non arriva Diego, un nuovo e brillante cronista: maledettamente bravo… e bello! Da un giorno all’altro tutti...

This interdisciplinary study explores the interaction between memory and transitional justice in post-dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay and develops a theoretical framework for bringing these two fields of study together through the concept of critical junctures.

In the spring of 1940, Elsa Jones finds herself lonely and homesick in a changing Hong Kong as war threatens. Bomb shelters spring up and soldiers appear on the streets. When Hong Kong falls to the Japanese, Elsa and her husband Tommy are captured and interned in a makeshift camp on the southern side...

Noted as a ‘civil poet’ by Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini was a creative and philosophical genius whose works challenged generations of Western Europeans and Americans to reconsider not only issues regarding the self, but also various social concerns. Pasolini’s works touched and continues...