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  • BLOOD ON ALBINTIMILIUM
    FRANCO GARRONE
    Albintimilium, a Roman city in Cisalpine Gaul, in the year 264 AD. The lifeless body of a prostitute is found tied to a pole on the beach. The milites immediately sense they are dealing with a ruthless killer. The murders have just begun. Milites Marco Decimo Apronio is young, determined, and more intelligent than the older colleagues he works with in the local Urbaniciani barr...

    $69.00

  • ANCIENT SACRED SITES IN THE GULF OF NAPLES
    LUCA DI FRANCO
    The geographical position between the gulfs of Naples and Salerno made pre-Roman Sorrento a fundamental point of passage. Around the inhabited centre, sacred sites or scattered settlements developed, including the sanctuary of Athena on the extreme tip of the peninsula near Punta Campanella. This book explores the historical development of the sanctuary from the 6th century BC ...

    $539.00

  • THEATRE AND BOXING
    FRANCO RUFFINI
    Theatre and Boxing focuses on a problem which is of paramount importance for any theatre practitioner and researcher: the actor’s believable body. This problem has been taken up by Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Artaud, Brecht, Decroux, Copeau, Grotowski, and many others. It is an essential hurdle for all who practice the theatrical craft or want to study it theoretically. This hurdl...

    $659.00

  • BIOLOGICAL AND NEUROSCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY
    FRANCO FABBRO
    Biological and Neuroscientific Foundations of Philosophy is an authoritative text addressing both academicians and students, and it proposes an integrated and holistic view of scientific study and presents a new paradigm by which to study philosophy. It highlights, in a systematic and sufficiently simple manner, the fundamental role of neuroscience, neuropsychology and biology ...

    $979.00

  • A HISTORY OF ECOLOGICAL ECONOMIC THOUGHT
    MARCO P. VIANNA FRANCO / ANTOINE MISSEMER
    Contributing to a better understanding of contemporary issues of environmental sustainability from a historical perspective, this book provides a cohesive and cogent account of the history of ecological economic thought. The work unearths a diverse set of ideas within a Western and Slavic context, from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the late 1940s, to reveal insights ...

    $1,099.00

  • GEORGE ELIOT’S ‘THE LIFTED VEIL’
    FRANCO MARUCCI
    The negative historical judgment given to George Eliot’s ‘The Lifted Veil’ amounts nowadays to a gross critical blunder, and in the last three decades the story has been firmly reinstated in Eliot’s major canon. The premise of the present book is that George Eliot’s oeuvre is a compact macrotext where themes, motifs, patterns and cultural and personal archetypes recur with vari...

    $1,179.00

  • AGELESS TALENT
    LISA M. FINKELSTEIN / DONALD M. TRUXILLO / FRANCO FRACCAROLI / RUTH KANFER
    Ageless Talent: Enhancing the Performance and Well-Being of Your Age-Diverse Workforce provides organizational leaders, managers, and supervisors with clear, evidence-based tactics by which to develop and manage an aging and age-diverse talent pool. This volume provides an easy-to-implement set of tools for addressing the difficult problems related to employee performance and w...

    $799.00

  • SUSTAINABLE PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCH IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    CECÍLIA GUERRA / ‎AMANDA FRANCO / ‎MÓNICA SEABRA
    Considering both the theoretical and practical possibilities of the sustainability of higher education research in a world in which research budgets are often hard to secure, this book shares results from international research to demonstrate the innovation occurring to secure sustainable research funding. Rooted in diverse research experiences and reflections of academics and ...

    $979.00

  • ELECTIONS AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE PHILIPPINES
    JENNIFER FRANCO
    First published in 2001. This study shows how legitimate elections held under centralized authoritarian conditions before 1986, though not democratic, still contributed to democratization by creating the political space needed for democratic oppostion to arise. ...

    $1,199.00

  • A HISTORY OF SIENA
    MARIO ASCHERI / BRADLEY FRANCO
    A History of Siena provides a concise and up-to-date biography of the city, from its ancient and medieval development up to the present day, and makes Siena’s history, culture, and traditions accessible to anyone studying or visiting the city. Well informed by archival research and recent scholarship on medieval Siena and the Italian city-states, this book places Siena’s develo...

    $1,039.00

  • THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
    FRANCO AMATORI - ANDREA COLLI
    The Global Economy: A Concise History traces the history of the global economy over the past thousand years. In doing so, it explores all the main waves of globalization, from the trade revolution of the Middle Ages, to the Great and Little Divergence between the West and the East, as well as the North and the South of the world. This book examines the Industrial Revolution and...

    $1,039.00

  • DEMOBILISATION AND REINTEGRATION IN COLOMBIA
    FRANCY CARRANZA-FRANCO
    This book investigates demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR) in Colombia during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The six large peace processes and amnesties that took place in Colombia over this period were nation-led, providing an interesting case study for the wider DDR literature, which has historically focused on Africa and Asia. The continuous proces...

    $1,099.00

  • RADIATION SENSORS WITH 3D ELECTRODES
    CINZIA DA VIÀ / GIAN-FRANCO DALLA BETTA / SHERWOOD PARKER
    Written by the leading names in this field, this book introduces the technical properties, design and fabrication details, measurement results, and applications of three-dimensional silicon radiation sensors. Such devices are currently used in the ATLAS experiment at the European Centre for Particle Physics (CERN) for particle tracking in high energy physics. These sensors are ...

    $1,239.00

  • 1001 CHESS EXERCISES FOR BEGINNERS
    FRANCO MASETTI / ROBERTO MESSA
    Chess is 99% tactics. If this celebrated observation is true for the master, how much more so for beginners and casual players! If you want to win more games, nothing works better than training combinations. There are two types of books on tactics, those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain numerous exercises. Chess masters and train...

    $129.00

  • NETWORKS AND DEVICES USING PLANAR TRANSMISSIONS LINES
    FRANCO DI PAOLO
    A single text that incorporates all of the theoretical principles and practical aspects of planar transmission line devices - since the early development of striplines, it has been sought by countless microwave engineers, researchers, and students. With the publication of Networks and Devices Using Planar Transmission Lines, the search for that one authoritative resource is ove...

    $1,099.00

  • EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS WITH MAPLE
    FRANCO VIVALDI
    As discrete mathematics rapidly becomes a required element of undergraduate mathematics programs, algebraic software systems replace compiled languages and are now most often the computational tool of choice. Newcomers to university level mathematics, therefore, must not only grasp the fundamentals of discrete mathematics, they must also learn to use an algebraic manipulator an...

    $2,000.00

  • NEURAL NETWORKS FOR ROBOTICS
    NANCY ARANA-DANIEL / ALMA Y. ALANIS / CARLOS LOPEZ-FRANCO
    The book offers an insight on artificial neural networks for giving a robot a high level of autonomous tasks, such as navigation, cost mapping, object recognition, intelligent control of ground and aerial robots, and clustering, with real-time implementations. The reader will learn various methodologies that can be used to solve each stage on autonomous navigation for robots, f...

    $1,499.00

  • UNDERSTANDING MOLECULES
    FRANCO BATTAGLIA / THOMAS F. GEORGE
    Chemistry is a subject that many students with differing goals have to tackle. This unique general chemistry textbook is tailored to more mathematically-oriented engineering or physics students. The authors emphasize the principles underlying chemistry rather than chemistry itself and the almost encyclopedic completeness appearing in a common textbook of general chemistry is sa...

    $1,239.00

  • KARL ABRAHAM
    FRANCO DE MASI
    This book describes the life of Karl Abraham, his work in Zurich and Berlin, and his scientific relationship with Freud. Abraham wrote important papers which form the base of clinical psychoanalysis and analytic technique: transference, countertransference, narcissism, envy and childhood trauma. In particular, the book takes into account the contribution Abraham made to underst...

    $499.00

  • VULNERABILITY TO PSYCHOSIS
    FRANCO DE MASI
    This book postulates that the trigger of the psychotic condition is located in the basic processes which structure the first emotional relations. It presents some of the reasons why patients succumb to the attraction of a course doomed to result in the permanent derangement of their minds. ...

    $1,139.00

  • THE ENIGMA OF THE SUICIDE BOMBER
    FRANCO DE MASI
    Why does someone resolve to take his own life in order to murder other people? What is the state of mind which allows him to commit such a monstrous act? This book explores the mental state that compels certain individuals to perform murderous, suicidal acts and emphasizes that, whereas a suicidal terrorist attack can be described as a crime against humanity, its protagonists c...

    $979.00

  • THE GIRL WHO COMMITTED HARA-KIRI AND OTHER CLINICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS
    FRANCO BORGOGNO
    This book bears witness to the author's psychoanalytic journey from the years 1994-1995 to the present, and as such is a completion and a continuation of his previous Psychoanalysis as a Journey of 1999. The book is divided into two parts: one clinical and the other theoretical. The two parts are connected to each other, since the concepts and authors on whom the second (theore...

    $1,399.00

  • BIO-INSPIRED ALGORITHMS FOR ENGINEERING
    NANCY ARANA-DANIEL / CARLOS LOPEZ-FRANCO / ALMA Y ALANIS
    Bio-inspired Algorithms for Engineering builds a bridge between the proposed bio-inspired algorithms developed in the past few decades and their applications in real-life problems, not only in an academic context, but also in the real world. The book proposes novel algorithms to solve real-life, complex problems, combining well-known bio-inspired algorithms with new concepts, i...

    $1,728.00

  • SUPER CHESS KIDS
    FRANCO ZANINOTTO
    If you want to improve in chess you usually have to settle for instructional material based on games played long ago by old masters with who you have no affinity at all. Or contrived puzzles that have little in common with the reality of your own games. Italian FIDE Master and chess instructor Franco Zaninotto has a different approach. He knows from experience how stimulating i...

    $89.00

  • MUSICIANS' MIGRATORY PATTERNS: THE ADRIATIC COASTS
    FRANCO SCIANNAMEO
    Musicians’ Migratory Patterns: The Adriatic Coasts contains essays dedicated to the movement of musicians along and across the coasts of the Adriatic Sea. In the course of this book, the musicians become narrators of their own stories seen through the lenses of wanderlust, opportunity, exile, and refuge. Essayists in this collection are scholars hailing from Croatia, Italy, and...

    $499.00

  • GENERATIVE SYSTEMS ART
    FRANCESCA FRANCO
    In this unique book the author explores the history of pioneering computer art and its contribution to art history by way of examining Ernest Edmonds’ art from the late 1960s to the present day. Edmonds’ inventions of new concepts, tools and forms of art, along with his close involvement with the communities of computer artists, constructive artists and computer technologists,...

    $1,099.00

  • POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS
    ALEJANDRO A. FRANCO
    This book focuses on the recent research progress on the fundamental understanding of the materials degradation phenomena in PEFC, for automotive applications. On a multidisciplinary basis, through contributions of internationally recognized researchers in the field, this book provides a complete critical review on crucial scientific topics related ...

    $1,179.00

  • READING ITALIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS
    FRANCO BORGOGNO
    Winner of the American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Prize for best Edited book published in 2016 Psychoanalysis in Italy is a particularly diverse and vibrant profession, embracing a number of influences and schools of thought, connecting together new thinking, and producing theorists and clinicians of global renown. Reading Italian Psychoanalysis provides a comprehensive ...

    $2,000.00

  • DYNAMICS OF KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
    FRANCO MALERBA
    Knowledge intensive entrepreneurship lies at the core of the structural shift necessary for the growth and development of a knowledge based economy, yet research reveals that the EU has fewer young leading innovators, and Europe’s new firms do not adequately contribute to industrial growth. This is especially true in the high R&D intensive, high-tech sectors. This structural ma...

    $1,059.00

  • BLACKS, MULATTOS, AND THE DOMINICAN NATION
    FRANKLIN FRANCO
    Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation is the first English translation of the classic text Los negros, los mulatos y la nación dominicana by esteemed Dominican scholar Franklin J. Franco. Published in 1969, this book was the first systematic work on the role of Afro-descendants in Dominican society, the first society of the modern Americas where a Black-Mulatto population ...

    $1,179.00


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