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by Massimo di Terlizzi
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Forty-four women. Forty-four stories of incredible lives, each different from the other, but linked by the same leitmotif of excellence, perseverance and passion. This book aims at being a homage to all the women whose revolutionary discoveries and works have forever changed the history of humankind....
Pope Francis
Tradition in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Captures some special moments and some key issues at the heart of the transition from Pope Benedict XVI to Francis, with the intuition that this unexpected transition reveals something which is not only a special "Catholic event," but also a particular historical moment in a tradition in flux.
Acculturation and Its Discontents
The Italian Jewish Experience Between Exclusion and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2008
Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontents assembles essays by leading historians, literary scholars, and musicologists to present a well-rounded history of Italian Jewry.
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The Rising Laity
Ecclesial Movements since Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
An analysis of the new ecclesial movements from an historical and transatlantic perspective (Europe-USA).
Catholicism and Citizenship
Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
The beginning of the twenty-first century has provided abundant evidence of the necessity to reexamine the relationship between Catholicism and the modern, global world. This book tries to proceed on this path with a focus on the meaning, legacy, and reception in today’s world of the ecclesiology...
by Massimo Livi Bacci
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Translated by Carl Ipsen.
This short book provides a succinct and masterly overview of the history of migration, from the earliest movements of human beings out of Africa into Asia and Europe to the present day, exploring along the way those factors that contribute to the successes and failures...
Applied Welfare Economics
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Projects and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
What is the effect of a new infrastructure on the well-being of a local community? Is a tax reform desirable? Does the privatization of a telecommunication provider increase social welfare? To answer these questions governments and their policy advisors should have in mind an operative definition...
Il libro dei Gas
Gruppi d'acquisto solidali: come fare la spesa giusta, dalla “a” al Km zero
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 15, 2015
I gruppi d’acquisto solidali o Gas sono una rivoluzione silenziosa -scoppiata 20 anni fa- che ha cambiato per sempre il modo di fare la spesa di centinaia di migliaia di persone.
Questo libro spiega in modo semplice e concreto che cosa sono i Gas e come funzionano, quali prodotti è possibile...
Counterparty Credit Risk, Collateral and Funding
With Pricing Cases For All Asset Classes
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The book’s content is focused on rigorous and advanced quantitative methods for the pricing and hedging of counterparty credit and funding risk. The new general theory that is required for this methodology is developed from scratch, leading to a consistent and comprehensive framework for counterparty...
by Massimo Guidolin, Manuela Pedio
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Essentials of Time Series for Financial Applications serves as an agile reference for upper level students and practitioners who desire a formal, easy-to-follow introduction to the most important time series methods applied in financial applications (pricing, asset management, quant strategies, and...
La nuova contabilità delle amministrazioni pubbliche
Princìpi e strumenti dell'armonizzazione contabile nel rinnovato contesto tecnico e normativo europeo
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Il volume analizza il variegato sistema della contabilità pubblica italiana e traccia il perimetro oggettivo, delle fonti e dei soggetti coinvolti nel processo di armonizzazione contabile, attraverso la disamina delle modifiche apportate all’impianto costituzionale ed a quello legislativo ordinario...
Information Systems for eGovernment
A Quality-of-Service Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Written from a data-centric perspective, Information Systems for eGovernment presents a methodology that is grounded in computer science, but leveraged by sociological, organizational, economical, juridical analyses and methods. Examples and case studies are included, which illustrate the relevance of the approach.
by Ralf Wilden, Massimo Garbuio, Federica Angeli
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Entrepreneurship in the Healthcare sector has received increased attention over the last two decades, both in terms of scholarly research and number of innovative enterprises. Entrepreneurial activities and innovations have emerged from and will continue to be driven by several actors along the healthcare...
Geothermics
Heat Flow in the Lithosphere
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
After a brief review of global tectonics and the structure of the crust and upper mantle, the basic relations of conductive heat transport and the rock thermal properties are introduced as well as the various methods for measuring thermal conductivity and heat generation due to the decay of radioactive...