Silvana: 142 books

An oral history biography of the legendary Latin American writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, brimming with atmosphere and insight. Irrevent and hopeful, Solitude & Company recounts the life of a boy from the provinces who decided to become a writer. This is the story of...

The book presents the various viewpoints that poetics, literary history and Western rhetoric have adopted throughout Western history. The aim of poetics is to render the specificity of the literary discourse by either highlighting the extra literary generative forces or by focusing on the intrinsic...

Una donna, Myriam, felicemente sposata e madre di due figli, lavora per una casa editrice come traduttrice. Conduce vita tranquilla e di tanto in tanto non disdegna un week-end per ritemprarsi. Parigi, città amata, è la prediletta . È qui che la sua esistenza piegherà, approdando a limiti a lei...

With this volume, Ezequiel P. M. Leiva and co-authors fill a gap in the available literature, by providing a much-needed, comprehensive review of the relevant literature for electrochemists, materials scientists and energy researchers. For the first time, they present applications of underpotential...

This book gathers case studies presented at the International Conference on Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Innovation and Society (RRI-SIS2017). It highlights European initiatives and projects in various domains and contexts, each of which explores how to create guidelines and good...

This book presents evidence of the evolution of the gender inequalities in Latin America during the twentieth century, using basic indicators of human development, namely education, health and the labour market. There are very few historical studies that centre on gender as the main analytical category...

Sonocrystallization of Fats will summarize the latest research efforts and discoveries in the relatively new area of sonocrystallization of edible lipids. Ultrasound has been used extensively in the past to induce the crystallization of molecules. Until recently, however, very little work has been...

This book analyzes the Early Cretaceous volcanic processes in Misiones Province and in Sierra Chica de Córdoba (Argentina). The volcanism in Misiones is tholeiitic and belongs to the Parana Magmatic Province (PMP), which extends throughout South America. In contrast, the volcanism in Córdoba is...

Many primary schools across the world are introducing Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). This resource book for primary teachers provides appropriate, easy-to-use resources for teaching subjects through English.

Los estudios sobre memoria han sido, desde el inicio, un campo interdisciplinario cuya complejidad incluye una variedad de objetos, metodologías y conceptos que constantemente lo modifican. Durante los últimos años hemos sido testigos de la notable trayectoria del término ‘transnacional’,...

Il fantasy Salani di qualità che ha conquistato il mondo. Un caso letterario, un successo italiano senza precedenti, tradotto in dodici lingue. In una landa desolata, annegata da una pioggia torrenziale, l’ultimo Elfo trascina la propria disperazione per la sua gente. Lo salveranno due umani che...

Da una casetta nel bosco passeranno storie e personagi, con luoghi che diventano personaggi e personaggi che diventano luoghi; perché vogliono esser madre ed esser padre. Tra avventure e tempo metereologico scontroso, un abbraccio alla genitorialità. L’opera prima d’una donna che affida alle...

Voller Magie und Zärtlichkeit, spannend und humorvoll Elf und Mensch, das passt nicht zusammen! So viel weiß Yorsch, der Kürzlicherstgeborene, auch wenn er sonst noch fast nichts über die Welt weiß. Doch sind es ausgerechnet zwei Menschen, die sich seiner annehmen, als er verwaist und...

In un regno lontano c'è un principe giovane e crudele che governa con pugno di ferro. È talmente cattivo che i suoi sudditi gli augurano tutti i giorni di sparire, di perdersi nei boschi e di non tornare più. E poi, un giorno, una vecchia strega lo trasforma in cane. Non in una bestia spaventosa:...