Carol Kidwell's lavishly illustrated book is the first full-length biography of Renaissance Cardinal Pietro Bembo. Her extensive use of translations from Bembo's 2,600 letters, including exchanges of love letters with Lucrezia Borgia, provides a picture of personal life in the brilliant, turbulent y[...]

The first biographies of Caravaggio: key documents of one of the greatest revolutions in the history of art. In the course of a short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisl da Caravaggio (1571-1610) revolutionized painting, producing a style of shockingly immediate realism that swept through Europe. [...]

Written by Professor Pietro Tundo, an internationally renowned researcher in the field of green and sustainable chemistry and a world-leading authority on the chemistry of dimethyl carbonate (DMC), this book focuses on the chemistry of DMC in a simple, easy, and accessible way suitable for students [...]

Pietro Monte's Collectanea is a wide-ranging treatise on the arts of knighthood, focusing on martial arts, athletics, arms and armour, and military practice, but touching on subjects as diverse as diet, zoology and the design of life preservers. Monte, a courtier, soldier and scholar who won the res[...]

The political diaspora played a major part in the history of the international anarchist movement: in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries hundreds of militants, escaping from domestic persecution and following their internationalist ideals, took the path of exile and established colon[...]

It is a commonly expressed view that the sickness of our society is unemployment. Less frequently argued is the fact that we are, at the same time, suffering from overwork. And less frequently still that in our capitalist market society that two sicknesses, unemployment and overwork, feed off one an[...]

This book focuses on the chloride and carbonation induced corrosion of steel in concrete, although other types of corrosion of steel and degradation of concrete are also treated. The main emphasis lies on design and execution aspects related to the durability of new and existing structures,while tra[...]

Plasma technology is a rapidly growing field of science and technology with a boom of industrial applications. Panel display technology, solar cell development as well as tissue engineering and prostheses are just a few examples of significance to physicists, chemists, biologists and engineers alike[...]