Luciano: 348 books

Neuroendocrinology is a discipline which originated about 50 years ago as a branch of Endocrinology and that is now strictly linked to neuroscience. Volumes 181 and 182 of Progress in Brain Research provide a rapid view of the major points presently discussed at biological and clinical levels. The...

The subject of the book includes the study of control problems for systems which are encountered in viscoelasticity, non-Fickian diffusion and thermodynamic with memory. The common feature of these systems is that memory of the whole past history persists in the future. This class of systems is...

This Brief is concerned with the material chemistry of food packaging materials. It introduces the properties and peculiarities of typical packaging materials, such as plastics, cellulose components, ceramics and metals. Their overall performance as food packaging material is determined by the chemical...

Situated in the centre of Italy, Abruzzo lies just an hour's drive from Rome. Often overlooked, it has never been discovered by mass tourism. Abruzzo has something for everyone: hiking on the slopes of the Majella mountain range, wine tasting along olive-strewn roads that disappear into the labyrinths...

La seconda guerra mondiale ha portato all’Italia sconfitte e umiliazioni. Il Paese non era preparato al conflitto, gli italiani non lo volevano. I vertici militari, spesso incompetenti, erano divisi da rivalità e gelosie. Una cosa però è certa: moltissime volte i nostri soldati si sono comportati...

Sulla morte di Benito Mussolini e di Claretta Petacci restano ancora solo nuvole nere. Che cosa accadde veramente tra Dongo e Bonzanigo nella giornata del 28 aprile 1945? Chi ha materialmente premuto il grilletto? Chi fu l’effettivo mandante? Questo libro fa il punto sulla «vulgata» ufficiale,...

Il 20 luglio 1944 la Resistenza antinazista tedesca tentò di uccidere il Führer: l’attentato – com’è noto – fallì, e scatenò una spaventosa repressione con oltre settemila esecuzioni capitali. Il libro getta luce sull’«Operazione Walkiria» con l’ineccepibile (e sconvolgente) eloquenza...

Verbal and Physical Abuse is about control, and power, and knows no gender. It is without question a sensitive subject. It is a real subject, and it hurts. It can be domestic violence, family and spousal abuse, and it’s bone-chilling how prevalent it is. What may shock you is that men are abused almost...

Ad Atene, dentro una palestra, un giovane viene ucciso con un giavellotto. Sembra un incidente. Le indagini del detective Aristotele rivelano però una verità diversa. Ambientato nella Grecia classica, 'Aristotele e il giavellotto fatale' è un giallo costruito con fedeltà nei suoi risvolti storici.

A través de entrevistas a doce de los periodistas de mayor trayectoria en el país, los autores reconstruyen un mundo en vías de extinción: el de las redacciones de algunos de los diarios y las revistas más importantes de la Argentina, con experiencias fundamentales de la radio y la televisión....

Performance is one of the main issues that every administrator faces at one point or another. This book will help you to identify and mitigate it.The book starts with an introduction to Zabbix and the most common mistakes that are usually overlooked while deploying it. You will discover the...

This book analyzes some of the most recent advances in the field of decision making and fuzzy systems applied to business and economics presented at the International Conference on Modeling and Simulation (MS'12 Rio de Janeiro), 10–13 December, 2012. In this conference, a special focus is given...

Professionals who work with patients and clients struggling with chronic pain will benefit from this values-based behavior change program for managing the effects of pain. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain addresses case formulation and clinical techniques for working with pain patients...

This short book provides a unified view of the history and theory of random sets and fuzzy random variables, with special emphasis on its use for representing higher-order non-statistical uncertainty about statistical experiments. The authors lay bare the existence of two streams of works using the...