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In March 2003 the United States military launched an invasion of Iraq. Months afterwards rumors began circulating about human rights violations in military prison facilities throughout occupied Iraq. In January 2004, an Army MP serving in Abu Ghraib Prison left a disc containing photographs of prisoner...

Per aver creato nuove espressioni poetiche nella grande tradizione della canzone americana’. Con questa motivazione, il 13 ottobre 2016, l’Accademia svedese ha assegnato a Bob Dylan il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura, l’ultimo e forse il più importante dei tanti riconoscimenti a lui tributati....

In the 1840s, post-Napoleonic Italy was 'a geographical expression' – not a country, but a patchwork of states, divided between the Austrian-occupied north, and a Spanish-descended Bourbon monarchy, who ruled the south from Naples. Two decades later, it was a nation united under a single king and...

This book is a survey of the theory of formal deformation quantization of Poisson manifolds, in the formalism developed by Kontsevich. It is intended as an educational introduction for mathematical physicists who are dealing with the subject for the first time. The main topics covered are the theory...

The restoration of the Meiji Imperial dynasty in 1868, after 250 years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, decisively opened Japan to the outside world and the monarchy embraced modernization, including the creation of a new Westernized army. However, this modernization process was resisted by the traditional...

The great powers of medieval Europe fought continuously in the Italian peninsula between the 12th and 14th centuries as they sought to expand their territory. Invading armies from Germany – the Holy Roman Empire – saw the creation of the defensive Lombard League of northern Italian city-states....

The First Carlist War broke out after the death of King Ferdinand VII, the king restored at the end of the Peninsular War thanks to Wellington's victory. The crown was claimed by both his daughter Isabella, backed by the Liberal party and his brother Don Carlos, at the head of northern ultra-conservatives...

This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment employed by the armies of the Hellenistic States. After Alexander the Great’s death in 323 BC, his immense Macedonian empire was divided between his ambitious generals, who in turn formed their own monarchies across...

Protagonisti nell’ombra. Scudieri, accompagnatori preziosi dei primattori, spesso primattori anch’essi, mai avvezzi però alla prima pagina e al titolo a nove colonne. Presenze fondamentali, essenziali, al fianco dei campioni, le cui vittorie sono sovente il prodotto del lavoro degli insostituibili:...

Com’era e come eravamo. Il mercato dei calciatori e noi italiani, all’alba degli anni Cinquanta e nei decenni immediatamente successivi. L’Italia si nutriva di fermenti e andava in vacanza in Topolino. Siano benedetti gli inventori del calciomercato: un bizzarro Principe palermitano e un signore...

Increasing prescription drug cost-sharing by patients - in the form of increasing copayments - is one of the most striking, and controversial, developments in the health sector over recent years. The exact nature and use of copayments by health care insurers continues to be hot topic of debate. This...

This work explores the power of visual and vocal channels, in conveying emotional cues exploiting realistic, dynamic and mutually related emotional vocal and facial stimuli, and aims to report on a cross cultural comparison on how people from different Western Countries perceive emotional dynamic...

Get up and running with reactive programming paradigms to build fast, concurrent, and powerful applications About This Book Get to grips with the core design principles of reactive programming Learn about Reactive Extensions for .NET through real-world examples Improve your problem-solving ability...

This book will help you understand what "programming for performance" means, and use effective coding patterns and techniques to optimize your .NET applications. You will begin by understanding what "high performance coding" means, and the different performance concerns. You will see how CLR works...