Darwin: 388 books

La tentazione di non passare mai la palla. Lo sfottò paralizzante dei compagni. La timidezza piena di grinta dei difensori. L'incubo del rigore, l'esaltazione del goal. La scoperta del gioco di squadra... Francesco, Bobo, Alex, Paolo e i loro amici si preparano al campetto per la Grande Sfida. Sono...

Tutto è irregolare in Domingo. Il viso, «costruito su triangoli, sporgenze, ombre scoscese»; il passo sbilenco di volpe; i quarant’anni lunghi e stretti come il suo profilo. Vive di invenzioni, cabale e furberie perfette, è il re dei picari, dei puttanieri e dei bugiardi, un ladro solitario...

Michele è poco più che un ragazzino, gioca da centravanti e sta per esordire in serie A. La notte prima del grande giorno, lui e il vecchio massaggiatore Manon si raccontano i debutti dei campioni, da Buffon a Messi, da Totti a Maldini, da Ibrahimovic a Pato e Balotelli; e le prodezze di Pelé e...

Jump in and build working Android apps with the help of more than 200 tested recipes. With this cookbook, you’ll find solutions for working with the user interfaces, multitouch gestures, location awareness, web services, and device features such as the phone, camera, and accelerometer. You also...

This book will be a step-by-step guide showing the readers how to build a complete web app with AngularJS. This book will be most useful to developers who are evaluating or have decided to use AngularJS for a real life project. You should have some prior exposure to AngularJS, at least through basic examples. We assume that youve got working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

From lambda expressions and JavaFX 8 to new support for network programming and mobile development, Java 8 brings a wealth of changes. This cookbook helps you get up to speed right away with hundreds of hands-on recipes across a broad range of Java topics. You’ll learn useful techniques for everything...

If you've felt the unabashed freedom that comes with a motorcycle, then you know the Harley lifestyle. The Life Harley-Davidson takes a deep look at all aspect of the life that comes with these bikes. From the moment we first saw riders experiencing the joy and the freedom that can only be...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

Sleep as a factor in physical economics ranks in importance with respiration and digestion. Those who live normally, who throughout all ordinary exigencies maintain a natural attitude toward life, its strains and responsibilities, may expect to enjoy a full measure of this restorative function ...

Just about any type of art you can think of you can find at art auctions. All you have to do is a little research for areas near you that are holding auctions, find out when and if they will be having one for the type of art you are interested in and go! If you are more of the type of person that...

This book contributes substantially to urban affairs and public policy literature by presenting an introduction to the complex politics and public policy issues of Washington, D.C. The uniqueness of the city, as elaborated in this volume, provides background for understanding the non-traditional congressional...

The object of this work is not to describe all the many races of animals which have been domesticated by man, and of the plants which have been cultivated by him; even if I possessed the requisite knowledge, so gigantic an undertaking would be here superfluous. It is my intention to give under the...

The Introductory Remarks begin: "There is weighty and abundant evidence that the flowers of most kinds of plants are constructed so as to be occasionally or habituallycross-fertilised by pollen from another flower, produced either by the same plant, or generally, as we shall hereafter see reason to believe,...