Sandro: 263 books

Node.js is a popular choice for teams that need to design, build, test, deploy, maintain, and monitor large-scale distributed systems. Starting with a detailed overview of the Node.js architecture, this book covers topics that will help in application development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.You...

The book begins by describing in detail the mechanisms of energy exchange – radiative, convective, conductive and evaporative – together with techniques for their determination. The discussion extends to the importance of CO2, ozone and methane, together with that of aerosol pollutants and the...

This book is designed as an advanced undergraduate or a first-year graduate course for students from various disciplines like applied mathematics, physics, engineering. It has evolved while teaching courses on partial differential equations during the last decade at the Politecnico of Milan. The main...

Secondo alcuni interpreti dei vaticini di Nostradamus, l'anno 2007 sarebbe anno d'inizio dell'annunciata Fine della civiltà tecnologica e occidentale. La fine dell'Età dell'Oro. Il 2007 è anche l'anno, astronomicamente parlando, delle "tredici" lunenuove. Un racconto per ognuna delle lunenuove del 2007, questa raccolta di 13 racconti narra di amori, viaggi, emozioni.

Il tennis è forse lo sport che ha ingaggiato i duelli più riusciti con la letteratura. Da Nabokov a Foster Wallace, generazioni di scrittori hanno contribuito a costruire l’immaginario di uno sport unico, elegante e popolare al tempo stesso, emozionante e silenzioso, rovente e glaciale come i...

Nell’Impero Connettivo, un Impero postumano esteso sul tempo e sullo spazio, fortemente simile a quello Romano, governa un alieno, un Nephilim: l’imperatore Totka_II. Con il suo alto funzionario Sillax, continuano a progettare espansioni territoriali e temporali. Le loro nuove mire si concentrano...

The application of CMOS circuits and ASIC VLSI systems to problems in medicine and system biology has led to the emergence of Bio/CMOS Interfaces and Co-Design as an exciting and rapidly growing area of research. The mutual inter-relationships between VLSI-CMOS design and the biophysics of molecules...

This SpringerBrief explores features of digital protocol wireless communications systems, and features of the emerging electrical smart grid. Both low power and high power wireless systems are described.  The work also examines the cybersecurity vulnerabilities, threats and current levels of risks...

Over the past several decades, computational approaches to studying strongly-interacting systems have become increasingly varied and sophisticated. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to state-of-the-art quantum Monte Carlo techniques relevant for applications in correlated systems. Providing...

The landscape and vegetation of the Dolomites have characteristics that are very particular. Some 2300 species live here, about a fifth of the flora in Europe as a whole. This book depicts what the plant cover of the Dolomites is composed of, how it was formed, and what future evolution may bring....

This book describes the mountain forests of East Asia (Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan), the tree layers of which contain different species of the genus Fagus. The vegetation is primarily deciduous in the northern regions, whereas in South China evergreen trees can also be found: a total of 21 plant...

Bourvil. Quarante ans après sa disparition, l’homme reste un monument indétrônable de notre culture populaire. Acteur, chanteur, comique, homme de théâtre… André Bourvil était cet artiste complet dont les films et les chansons (La Grande Vadrouille, Le Corniaud ou La cuisine au beurre,...

Vingt-cinq ans après sa disparition, Lino Ventura reste l’un des acteurs préférés des Français. En plus de 70 films, celui qui incarnait avec bonheur la brute au grand cœur s’est imposé au panthéon du cinéma aux côtés des plus grands : Gabin, Delon, Bourvil… Cette biographie raconte...

I musei sono luoghi in cui si possono conoscere storie e cose capaci di suscitare emozioni: ogni museo ha la sua storia e la sua ragion d'essere. Il Museo nazionale della Emigrazione Italiana nasce con l'obiettivo di rappresentare un contributo alla comprensione del fenomeno dell'emigrazione, con...