Romano: 348 books

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and...

This book explores the evolving political culture in Indonesia, by discussing the country's dominant political philosophies, then showing how those philosophies affect the working lives of ordinary Indonesian citizens. It focuses in particular on the working lives of news journalists, a group that occupies a strategic social and political position.

Alexandra Stoddard, world famous interior decorator, author and lecturer, originally opened the eyes of millions to the beauty and grace of simplicity in her phenomenal bestseller Living a Beautiful Life and the books that followed. Now, in Making Choices, she teaches us to widen our horizons by helping...

Winner of the Independent Publishers Book Awards (Gold Medal, Romance) Set in China in the late 1800’s, The Secret Language of Women tells the story of star-crossed lovers, Zhou Bin Lian, a Eurasian healer, and Giacomo Scimenti, an Italian sailor, driven apart by the Boxer Rebellion. When...

In order to conduct a well-grounded search for meaning, this book wants to renew the ancient attempt to seek wisdom in everyday life, training ourselves to modify our own perceptions of the world in as authentic a manner as possible. This path places analysis, philosophical practices and religion...

This is the first analysis of periodicals’ key role in U.S. feminism’s formation as a collective identity and set of political practices in the 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, more than five hundred different feminist newsletters and newspapers were published in the United States. Agatha Beins shows...

En 1763, le Gévaudan est ravagé par la terreur : une bête mystérieuse égorge et tue femmes, enfants et vieillards. Un homme dit avoir vu la Bête : pour lui, ce ne peut être qu'un singe ou un loup-garou. Un autre prétend qu'elle a la gueule semblable à celle d'un lion. Qui croire ? Le roi en personne envoie alors son Grand Louvetier et ses soldats pour vaincre le monstre.

Il quinto volume, che appartiene alla COLLANA COMMENTARIO DEL CODICE DI PROCEDURA CIVILE, è quello riguardante gli articoli titoli III e IV del Libro II (processo di cognizione) del codice di procedura civile, che riguardano le disposizioni in tema di revocazione e opposizione di terzo (artt. 395-408...

Self-breast examination and annual mammography is important in detecting breast cancer in its early stage. Reporting any abnormalities of the breast early and getting treatment early is the key to survival.

The Bronx. A priest is found dead with a sharpened crucifix sticking in his neck. A crazed killer on the loose or a damaged man with an extreme sense of justice? Three tough New York city cops hot on the trail, one with a painful secret. What happens when those we trust most in our communities abuse...

Los estudios y ensayos que se presentan en este volumen examinan algunos puntos de particular importancia para la comprensión de la evolución histórica del subcontinente americano con el propósito de arrojar luz en torno a temas fundamentales como la religión, geografía, identidad nacional, economía y aspectos jurídicos en diferentes etapas históricas americanas.

Este tercer volumen valora puntos nodales de la historia del subcontinente americano, sin pretender estudiarlos todos, ni cubrir todas las variantes posibles de los diferentes espacios. Los temas estudiados se agrupan en: aspectos políticos, constitucionalismo, políticas económicas, alimentación y el estudio de la encomienda.

El primer volumen de esta obra presenta las dimensiones estructurales de la evolución americana. Los autores introducen al lector en los procesos básicos que conforman el espacio geohistórico, proponen las formas que adoptaron los componentes económicos y sociales y señalan las transformaciones que ocurrieron en el ámbito de la cultura material y de los imaginarios colectivos.

This brief investigates the role of interference management in Heterogeneous Networks (Het Nets), focusing on cognitive approaches and the use of beamforming. Key concepts of Het Nets are introduced and different deployment strategies are examined, such as sharing the same frequency band of the macro...