Alessandro: 1471 books

I bombardamenti Alleati del 1943 sulla Sicilia raccontati attraverso i diari di guerra delle aviazioni coinvolte: le tattiche aeree alleate, le contromisure dell’Asse, le rotte d’attacco, i primi raid americani del gennaio 1943, le bombe su Palermo, la battaglia degli aeroconvogli di aprile, la resa di Pantelleria, lo sbarco in Sicilia di luglio, le nuove tattiche d’assalto, ecc.

I Balcani, lembo estremo dellimpero romano dOriente. I Goti, popolazione in fuga da una terra devastata dalla guerra. Il Danubio, confine fragile e mal presidiato. Un impero corrotto, una sconfitta disastrosa, un racconto appassionante.«Questo libro racconta di una battaglia che ha cambiato la storia...

Filling a significant gap in the historiography, the essays in this volume show that debt slavery has played a crucial role in the economic history of numerous societies which continues even today.

Eugenio Montale’s idiosyncratic poetry has challenged many English-language translators because of its obscure, often cryptic language. This essential anthology of Montale's work, the latest and most comprehensive English translation of this century, features poems from his masterpiece collections...

The book provides a comprehensive description of the basic ultrasound principles, normal anatomy of the lower limb muscles and classification of muscle strain injuries. Ultrasound images are coupled with anatomical schemes explaining probe positioning and scanning technique for the various muscles...

The most comprehensive English translation of the work of Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888 – 1970,) the leading representative of the experimental literary movement called Hermeticism, or Hermetic poetry. This edition includes poems from all of his major collections: "Porto Sepolto (1916,) “L'allegria...

Libby est bouleversée. Voilà que Trey Marbury, après douze ans d'absence, vient d'emménager dans la maison voisine de la sienne. Trey, qui lui a fait tant de mal autrefois... Comble de malchance pour Libby, il n'a pas changé : il est resté l’homme si séduisant qu'elle pensait avoir pourtant...

After celebrated author Jasper Gwyn suddenly and publicly announces that he will never write another book, he embarks on a strange new career path as a "copyist," holding thirty-day sittings in a meticulously appointed room and producing, at the end, brief but profoundly rich portraits in...

«Un romanzo sorprendente, originalissimo, dagli sviluppi inattesi e imprevedibili.» Valerio Evangelisti Philip è un uomo normale, con un lavoro che in fondo non gli piace più di tanto, ma che cerca di svolgere al meglio, quando la sua tranquilla quotidianità è sconvolta da una drammatica...

The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Japan.There Joncour...

Offering a comprehensive analysis of the development of economies in the Middle East and North Africa over the past half century, this book charts the progress of these countries through an examination of an Islamic model of economic development, reform processes, and economic integration. Far...

The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces while also contributing to...

This fourth volume of a four-volume textbook covers the oscillations of systems with one or more degrees of freedom; the concept of waves, focusing on light and sound; phase and group velocities, their physical meaning, and their measurement; diffraction and interference of light; polarization phenomena;...

This book offers a novel interpretation of the Great Recession and the ensuing Euro Crisis as a consequence of the evolution of capitalism since the 1970s. Chapters argue that the neoliberal development trajectory pursued in recent decades is unsustainable, and posit that neither sound macroeconomics...