Valentina: 381 books

The study of fossilised remains of herbivorous animals, particularly those rare findings with well-preserved gastrointestinal tracts filled with plant remains, is crucial to our understanding of the environment in which they lived. Summarising thirty years of research, Ukraintseva presents evidence...

This book discusses the issues relevant to the evaluation of the thermal energy balance of buildings in southern Europe and equips readers to carry out optimal building energy-performance assessments taking into account the peculiarities of the climatic context. Evaluation of building energy performance...

Alice Madison, fresh from police academy, tries to seem like she knows what she's doing when she's assigned to stand guard over a young woman on suicide watch who was found burying the body of a newborn baby in the woods. Over the course of four short afternoons, Madison learns a little bit more about Christy Rae Finch--enough to set her off on her own investigation . . .

Un animale non umano liberato da qualsiasi tipo di industria – che sia alimentare, del divertimento (zoo, circhi) o dell’abbigliamento (animali da pelliccia) – è un individuo che con molte probabilità non sarà in grado di reinserirsi, o essere reinserito, in natura. L’esigenza, dunque,...

Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return examines contemporary migration in the context of a Roman Catholic Church eager to both comprehend and act upon the movements of peoples. Combining extensive fieldwork with lay and religious Latin American migrants in Rome and analysis of the Catholic Church’s...

So where has he gone, the red nosed man? The one with the misty washed light blue eyes? That man with the guilty little boyish grin? Today he was very still Lying silently, motionless, in his coffin gray Gray as the day In the funeral parlor Where a few gathered to pay their last respects To Rudolph...

Elettras früheste Kindheitserinnerung ist der Duft von Anisbrötchen. Ihre Mutter war eine begnadete Bäckerin, deren Köstlichkeiten direkt den Weg zum Herzen der Menschen fanden. Doch seit sie schwer erkrankt ist, steuert die Bäckerei der Familie auf den Bankrott zu. Und Elettra ist ganz auf sich...

Smart and professional, Elaine has reached the prime of her life without having experienced a love affair — or sex with a partner. She didn't think it was any big deal. Until Jessie came along. Join these two vibrant women as they open each other's worlds to mind-blowing sex, joy and wonder!

Per gran parte dei concorsi pubblici, dall'accesso all'Università alla selezione per posti lavorativi i quiz di logica sono parte importante dei quesiti selettivi. Non richiedono una preparazione specifica o specialistica perché hanno la finalità di testare le capacità logiche del candidato, ovvero...

Soft Computing Based Medical Image Analysis presents the foremost techniques of soft computing in medical image analysis and processing. It includes image enhancement, segmentation, classification-based soft computing, and their application in diagnostic imaging, as well as an extensive background...

This book addresses synchronization in networks of coupled systems. It illustrates the main aspects of the phenomenon through concise theoretical results and code, allowing readers to reproduce them and encouraging readers to pursue their own experimentation. The book begins by introducing...

This book documents and analyzes how the contemporary Mediterranean city manages and negotiates its identity as a result of recent reconfigurations in its cultural, religious, and social landscape. The events of Sept. 11, 2001 have recast difference as a central trope of identification in urban borderland...

This book takes an in-depth look at the European Commission’s Erasmus programme. In its current Erasmus+ format, the programme supports international exchange visits among students, trainees, volunteers and academic members of staff with a view to enhancing employability and encouraging intercultural...

This volume fills a gap in the existing literature and proposes an interdisciplinary and multicultural comparative approach to the impact of Hallyu worldwide. The contributors analyze the spread of South Korean popular products from different perspectives (popular culture, sociology, anthropology,...