Francesco Francesco: 1846 books

This book focuses on nanotechnology in electrocatalysis for energy applications. In particular the book covers nanostructured electrocatalysts for low temperature fuel cells, low temperature electrolyzers and electrochemical valorization. The function of this book is to provide an introduction to...

“Dr.Grasso,” came the shout. I hate shouting across the room. “Dr.Grasso,” this time louder. Then finally a blood curdling shout “I need you in eight now!!” It wasn’t like I was far away mind you. Hell, the whole ER was little more than the size of the produce section at Quick Check,...

Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. This book discusses both psychoanalytic theory and art criticism. It addresses critics, readers, and spectators interested in the keys of...

The story of the International Heart School in Bergamo and its founder Lucio Parenzan

At this very moment the most ambitious scientific experiment of all time is beginning, and yet its precise aims are little understood by the general public. This book aims to provide an everyman's guide for understanding and following the discoveries that will take place within the next few years...

Dopo oltre settant’anni dalla caduta del fascismo, mai come ora l’idra risolleva la testa, soprattutto su Internet, ma non solo. Frasi ripetute a mo’ di barzelletta per anni, che parevano innocue e risibili fino a non molto tempo fa, si stanno sempre più facendo largo in Italia con tutt’altro...

“La verità è che c’è la volontà di tenere basso il livello della cultura degli italiani, perché la cultura è pericolosa”. (Andrea Camilleri) Quello che avete in mano è il primo libro-intervista ad Andrea Camilleri sul Camilleri Maestro, un uomo che a 85 anni ha ancora tanto da dire e...

In the face of death, the hope of every man is put to the test. When one is dealing with the illness and death of a young boy, one seems to oscillate on the edge of incomprehensibility. Yet there are testimonies that enter the darkness of the mind like a ray of light and warm the hearts of those who...

A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the present We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem incapable of producing the radical change that is so desperately needed....

Il libro narra la storia degli eventi che nell’arco dell’ultimo cinquantennio hanno portato dalla nascita di un piccolo Reparto di Chirurgia Pediatrica in un ospedale di provincia, come quello di Bergamo, all’affermazione di un polo di Cardiochirurgia Pediatrica di rilievo internazionale assoluto....

It is generally accepted as a historical fact that Julius Caesar suffered from epilepsy, an illness which in classical times was sometimes associated with divinely bestowed genius. The ancient sources describe several episodes when, sometimes at critical junctures, one of the most famous military...

The narration of humankind’s past, that is to say its history, has up to now been done using the extrinsic method of geographic territorial reference and temporal chronological and local topical reference, sometimes together, sometimes separately, almost to form a single expression or two different...

Institutions are central to economic life. They have a major impact on consumer preferences, the actions and processes of firms, levels of wealth and poverty in countries, the growth of international trade, and much more. Indeed, none of the preconditions for economic activity - such as the existence...

Gesù rinominò il pescatore Simone "Kepha", nome aramaico equivalente al greco "petra", pietra, da cui "Petros", Pietro. Il nuovo nome prefigurava un destino speciale. Il mistero di Pietro, pescatore, primo apostolo, pietra angolare della Chiesa: un uomo mite, illetterato,...