Guido: 735 books

Money by Guido Galeano Vega Money is something that we love, because we all need it, but it is a double-edged tool; it can brighten your life or it can destroy you. Money has an origin, it has a history, and it has evolved; not only in its purchasing power, but also in its versatility...

Created by the famous Italian graphic artist Guido Crepax, Valentina is one of the most iconic, sexy graphic novel heroines of all time. With her distinctive black bob and demure, reserved exterior, Valentina is the very essence of European sophistication. However, below the surface burns a passionate...

This extended autobiographical essay explains in clear, engaging terms how the role of economics and finance in the Western world has shifted in the twenty-first century, from cultivating wellbeing in society to eroding the wealth of the middle class. Just a handful of years into the new millennium,...

'Just give me a few viruses.' When young researcher Guido van der Groen went to his boss with that request in 1976, it marked the start of an improbable career as a virus hunter. A cheap thermos flask containing blood samples from a deceased Belgian missionary in Zaïre put him on the trail of a 'humdinger'...

When his beloved wife Nina suddenly dies - after 23 years of life together - Alberto Landi understands he has to leave Milan Italy, where he has always lived and worked. He leaves his friends, colleagues, a good job and the polluted big city he has never loved which has now become even more intolerable...

Standards shape markets. Without them there would be chaos. They are relevant for enterprises and other organizations, stamping their success. This book gives insight into the world of standardization and how you could actively participate: you learn about opportunities and risks of standardization,...

What determines the size and form of redistributive programs, the extent and type of public goods provision, the burden of taxation across alternative tax bases, the size of government deficits, and the stance of monetary policy during the course of business and electoral cycles? A large and rapidly...

Questo romanzo, forse il più sottilmente paradossale e ragionato di Guido Morselli, invece che a un possibile futuro ci guida a un «contro-passato prossimo» pieno di sorprese. Come avvenne che la Prima guerra mondiale fu vinta, non già dalle potenze dell’Intesa, e con esse dall’Italia, ma...

Come fa un re a evadere dai suoi doveri regali, che gli si manifestano poi per lo più come opprimente burocrazia? È la domanda che balena nella mente non certo complessa di Umberto I, appena gli si presenta l’occasione di trattare direttamente un affare vantaggioso per le incerte finanze della...

"Harkening back to the pulp thrillers of yesteryear, Guido Henkel delivers action and frights galore in Hunted.  Jason Dark is a worthy addition to characters like Carl Kolchak and Fox Mulder; a supernatural investigator with style, grit, and a few mysteries of his own!"  — New York Times bestseller...

In his theory of the novel, Guido Mazzoni explains that novels consist of stories told in any way whatsoever about the experiences of ordinary men and women who exist as contingent beings within time and space. Novels allow readers to step into other lives and other versions of truth, each a small, local world, absolute in its particularity.

The fact that Cavlacanti’s friend, Dante Alighieri, was a supremely fine poet ought not blind us to Cavalcanti’s own, rather different excellence. Both men were attracted to the dolce stil nuovo, the “sweet new style” that emerged in thirteenth-century Florence. While Dante’s poetry was...

Most of the patients with urethral stricture can be treated by the techniques described in the book. The book offers detailed information on the different techniques with surgical steps illustrated by color photos used by the authors for the treatment of male urethral strictures. Authored by world...

Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen, course: Linguistics, language: English, abstract: Between Whorf's (+1941) and Sapir's (+1939) death and the reprinting of some of their writings in 1949...