To understand theGuise is to understand the profound transformations that shook sixteenth-century Europe. So it is mystifying that outside France they are all but forgotten. For in their day theGuisewere held in awe throughout Europe. Admiring or appalled, none could ignore them. Enemies at one time or another of the great dynasties of Tudor,...
This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2002) that was held in Geneva on October 9–11, 2002. After more modest beginnings in 1994 as a largely Italian conference, over the years ACRI has gradually become firmly established as one of the premier conferences...
It is my great pleasure to see the book, written together with Lev Aslamazov, to appear in English. The original Russian edition, followed by the Italian one, were accepted enthusiastically by readers and I hope that the wide English-speaking audience will find the book to merit attention too. It would be a fair tribute to the good memory of my...
From the savory splendor of crisply fried artichokes to the easy indulgence of spaghetti alla carbonara perfectly al dente, the cooking of Rome is every bit as glorious as the city’s breathtaking art and architecture. In a Roman Kitchen explores the delights of this rich culinary heritage with a spectacular tour of the markets,...
In today's networked societies, a key factor of the social and economic success is the capability to exchange, transfer, and share knowledge. In the wide-ranging area of knowledge management, the issue of knowledge exchange in networked environments emerges in several application fields, and is treated with different approaches....
Modern Italian Grammar follows an entirely new approach to learning Italian. It
embraces a new way of looking at grammar not as an ultimate goal, but as the
tool with which we construct a dialogue or a piece of writing.
Modern Italian Grammar is specifically designed to be accessible to the
English reader not...
Wine enthusiasts and novices, raise your glasses! The #1 wine book has been extensively updated! If you’re a connoisseur, Wine For Dummies, Fourth Edition will get you up to speed on what’s in and show you how to take your hobby to the next level. If you’re new to the world of wine, it will clue you in on what...
In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities. In Dante’s Divina Commedia, Luigi Pulci’s Morgante, Ludovico Ariosto’s...
This book contains a selection of the contributions presented and discussed
during the 1 1” AISEM (Associazione Italiana Sensori e Microsistemi) National
Conference on Sensors and Microsystems, held in Lecce, Italy, on February 8-10,
2006.
The Conference has been organized by the Institute for...
"A deeply felt and moving account from an enterprising and conscientious news photographer who worked the always-busy beat of the Middle East in the last, great days of film photography." Rod Nordland, Chief Foreign Correspondent, Newsweek
"Reading Danger Pay was a harrowing experience. Being a photojournalist...
This book provides the first English study (comprehensive of introductory essays, translations, and notes) of five prominent Italian Renaissance utopias: Doni’s Wise and CrazyWorld, Patrizi’s The Happy City, and Zuccolo’s The Republic of Utopia, The Republic...
Covers Libyan history from the prehistoric period through the Phoenician, Roman, and Islamic/Ottoman periods to Italian colonization, independence, and the 2011 uprising and civil war.
Libya experienced its own Arab Spring in February of 2011, ultimately leading to a civil war in which different groups have since been...