Simona: 264 books
by Simona Ahrnstedt
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
A novel of betrayal and passion in a frozen landscape far from the city lights, by the bestselling author of All In and Falling . . .
Ambra Vinter dreams of making it to the top of her chosen field. But instead, the beautiful young journalist is sent on assignment to Kiruna, a tiny mining town...
by Yenna Wu, Simona Livescu, Ramsey Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
This interdisciplinary volume of essays studies human rights in political prison literature, while probing the intersections of suffering, politics, and aesthetics in an interliterary and intercultural context. As the first book to explore the concept of global aesthetics in political prison narratives,...
Social Media and Social Movements
The Transformation of Communication Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
This book examines the increased utilization of social media in daily life and its impact on social movements. The contributors analyze “social media revolutions” such as the Arab Spring, the 15-M movement in Spain, the Occupy Nigeria movement, and the Occupy Gezi movement in Turkey. The contributors...
by Simona Mitroiu
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
This volume addresses the issues of remembering and performing the past in Eastern European ex-communist states in the context of multiplication of the voices of the past. The book analyzes the various ways in which memory and remembrance operate; it does so by using different methods of recollecting...
Annie Chartres Vivanti
Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book explores the work of a writer, Annie Chartres Vivanti (1866–1942), who
brought a transnational dimension to the marked provincialism of the Italian novel by
addressing issues of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality on personal and international
levels, and by creating work that distanced itself...
Pratiche filosofiche a scuola
La classe, l'ascolto, il racconto autobiografico, il pensare simbolico
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Un’insegnante della scuola superiore racconta la sua esperienza di praticante filosofa con gli studenti; la pratica filosofica è caratterizzata dalla dimensione comunitaria, e una classe di studenti con il loro insegnante è proprio una comunità contraddistinta dalla comunicazione, dal dialogo...
by Corriere della Sera, Mario Gerevini, Simona Ravizza
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 5, 2012
A un anno dall’esplosione della crisi del San Raffaele, i documenti in esclusiva di questo libro-inchiesta ci portano dentro l’ufficio del fondatore don Luigi Verzé, il prete-manager amico dei potenti. La storia dei successi scientifici e sanitari del San Raffaele si intreccia così con le relazioni...
WarTalk
Foreign Languages and the British War Effort in Europe, 1940-47
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Offering a new perspective on the British experience of the Second World War in Europe, this book provides a series of snapshots of the role which languages played in the key processes of British war-making, moving from frameworks of perception and intelligence gathering, through to liberation/occupation, and on to the aftermath of conflict.
Multidimensional Integral Representations
Problems of Analytic Continuation
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
The monograph is devoted to integral representations for holomorphic functions in several complex variables, such as Bochner-Martinelli, Cauchy-Fantappiè, Koppelman, multidimensional logarithmic residue etc., and their boundary properties. The applications considered are problems of analytic continuation...
The Political Economy of Italy in the Euro
Between Credibility and Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
This book proposes an alternative political economy framework in which to analyse the question of the credibility of international economic agreements, in general, and monetary arrangements in particular. The focus is on European monetary arrangements, from the establishment of the European Monetary...
Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Energy Management Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This SpringerBrief deals with the control and optimization problem in hybrid electric vehicles. Given that there are two (or more) energy sources (i.e., battery and fuel) in hybrid vehicles, it shows the reader how to implement an energy-management strategy that decides how much of the vehicle’s...
by Miro Haček, Marjan Brezovšek, Simona Kukovič
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
According to the Nations in transit and HDI measurements, Slovenia is
regarded as a democratic country yet with some measurements it can also
be found lower down the scale (problems with corruption). Although such
measurements are not completely accurate, most of them rank...
by Marjan Brezovšek, Miro Haček, Simona Kukovič
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Slovenia is regarded today as a free country and consolidated democracy, with some problems with corruption, independent media, and independent judiciary. Since its independence in 1991, Slovenia has put in place democratic institutions of state organization, undergone major capital rearrangements,...
Children with Gender Identity Disorder
A Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents? Psychiatric manuals include transgenderism among mental illnesses (Gender Identity Disorder). Such inclusion is relatively recent, and even the words transsexual and transgender were coined only a few decades...