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«A Pasqualino, perché aveva sei anni e ogni mattina portava giù l'immondizia, al pescatore monco, perché ammansiva il mare, a santo Strato, perché proteggeva il palazzo e i malati»: a loro Márai dedica il suo «romanzo napoletano», ambientato nella città dove visse dal '48 al '52, prima di...

Dicembre 1944. L’armata rossa, che già dall’inizio di novembre è arrivata alla periferia di Budapest, sta per completare l’accerchiamento della città. L’antivigilia di Natale una ragazza di venticinque anni, Erzsébet, che già da mesi vive braccata, sotto falsa identità, riesce a trovare...

Se il professor Victor Henrik Askenasi, proveniente da Parigi e diretto in Grecia, ha deciso di fermarsi a Dubrovnik (che negli anni Trenta si chiama ancora Ragusa), è forse perché – non diversamente dal Giacomo Casanova della "Recita di Bolzano", né da tanti altri personaggi di Márai...

Trauma to the abdomen, both accidental and willful, has become increasingly common in this era of increasing violence. Large numbers of patients all over the country are admitted to emergency rooms because of abdominal trauma of varying degrees of severity. All too often the correct diagnosis is suspected...

The abdominal wall has always been of interest to surgeon-anato­ mists. It was recognized as a barrier, and volumes have been written demonstrating how to breach this wall. Similarly, great importance has been placed on the methods of repairing the abdominal wall, whether that repair is necessitated...

There is a growing demand for cocoa. However, cultivation is dependent on ageing trees with low yields and increasing vulnerability to disease. There is growing concern about the environmental impact of cultivation in areas soil health and biodiversity. There is therefore an urgent need to make cocoa...

An essential resource for anyone providing help or services to women at risk for alcohol-exposed pregnancies. Drinking during pregnancy can cause a range of disabilities that have lifelong effects yet are 100% preventable. A variety of brief motivational behavioral interventions developed for nonpregnant...

Metaheuristic Algorithms in Maritime Operations Optimization focuses on the seaside and port side problems regarding the maritime transportation. The book reviews and introduces the most important problems regarding the shipping network design, long-term and short-term scheduling and planning problems...

The aim of this work was not an exhaustive review of all pediatric echo graphic problems but a presentation of our daily experience with ultrasonography in pediatric practice. Several teams of pediatric radiologists from France and Belgium have combined their experiences to produce a practical book....

Based on the results of the latest congress of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), this volume makes excellent reading since it explores in detail the role of free radical reactions in liver diseases. Studies in recent years using various methods have shown that free radicals...

For more than 60 years, the Californian Family Hinman has exercised a very considerable influence on the development and practice of the highest grade of urology, not only in the American West but worldwide. The leitmotiv of the Hinman School has been honest and thoughtful consideration of the problems...

Given that treatment with curative intent is possible in only one-half of cancer victims, and that such treatment frequently fails, the majority of patients with cancer will require relief of symptoms and signs caused by their disease. In this book, the specific contribution of radiation therapy to...

Seit Kindertagen verzaubern die dreiunddreißigjährige Bea Schneekugeln und Geschichten aus 1001 Nacht. Sie träumt vom märchenhaft anmutenden Orient, bis ihr eines Tages ihr Traumprinz über den Weg läuft. Majid, groß, schlank, olivfarbene Haut, schwarze Haare, dunkle blitzende Augen, Jordanier....

Historiker, Journalisten und Politologen analysieren in diesem Buch politische Morde an 28 historischen Persönlichkeiten, z.B. Gaius Iulius Cäsar, Thomas Becket, Wallenstein, Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand von Österreich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Aldo Moro, Yitzhak Rabin oder Zoran Djindjic,...