Nicola A : 18 books
Knowledge, policy and power in international development
A practical guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
This book presents an academically rigorous yet practical guide to efforts to understand how knowledge, policy and power interact to promote or prevent change.
It offers a power analysis perspective on the knowledge-policy process, illustrated with rich empirical examples from the field of...
Magnetic Materials
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Magnetic Materials is an excellent introduction to the basics of magnetism, magnetic materials and their applications in modern device technologies. Retaining the concise style of the original, this edition has been thoroughly revised to address significant developments in the field, including the...
Current Challenges in Stability Issues for Numerical Differential Equations
Cetraro, Italy 2011, Editors: Luca Dieci, Nicola Guglielmi
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This volume addresses some of the research areas in the general field of stability studies for differential equations, with emphasis on issues of concern for numerical studies.
Topics considered include: (i) the long time integration of Hamiltonian Ordinary DEs and highly oscillatory systems,...
by Luigi Filippelli, Davide Cancarini, Nicola Fantoni
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Schitarrate! è una jam session fra musicisti disposti a cimentarsi con la penna e scrittori desiderosi di confrontarsi con il mondo della musica.
Un’antologia nata dall’omonimo concorso letterario in cui undici autori ci propongono un repertorio di racconti che spazia dal punk, al jazz, fino...
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
Sensors and Wearable Technologies in Sport
Technologies, Trends and Approaches for Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book explores emerging trends in wearable sensors for sport and highlights the developments taking place. Drawing on the literature both the approaches and principals for the use of sensors in sport are outlined, and together with references to key works the reader finds this useful in considering...
by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...
Democratic Contestation on the Margins
Regimes in Small African Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
This edited volume focuses on the democratic performance of regimes in some of the least populous countries on the African continent. Using a framework developed by Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, each case study provides in-depth analysis of democratic contestation in the following arenas: electoral,...
Human Trafficking Finances
Evidence from Three European Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2019
This unique volume addresses the financial mechanisms that enable human trafficking - its actors, structures, and logistics. Viewing each stage of the market, human traffickers may need significant financial resources for recruitment, transportation, and exploitation.
Drawing upon cross-disciplinary...
Tellurium in Organic Synthesis
Second, Updated and Enlarged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
The increasing number of publications that use tellurium clearly demonstrates the important role of tellurium compounds as unique and powerful tools in a broad range of organic chemical manipulations, often characterized by their selective behavior.
Tellurium in Organic Synthesis provides an...
by Nicola Graziano (a cura di)
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Un manuale per orientare le scelte degli operatori del diritto nel complesso settore del mutuo bancario nel quale si ritrovano a dover convivere, spesso tra loro in rapporto di conflittualità anche grave, contrapposti interessi, non solo di carattere patrimoniale, ma anche non patrimoniale.
Centralità...
Farmland Conservation
Evidence for the effects of interventions in northern and western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife. It is restricted to evidence captured on the website www.conservationevidence.com. It includes papers published in the journal Conservation Evidence, evidence summarized on our database and systematic...
by Jason Colby, Abraham H. Gibson, Sandra Swart
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as
the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have
scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of
historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings...
by A.C.S. Peacock, Bruno De Nicola
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Islam and Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization...
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