A novel of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, which embraces all aspects of human existence, and addresses the nature of twentieth-century 'Being'.[...]
This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of intriguing motives. Milan Kundera is author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting".[...]
In this portrait of the flamboyant Milanese courtier Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), Diana Robin reveals a fifteenth-century humanism different from the cool, elegant classicism of Medicean Florence and patrician Venice. Although Filelfo served such heads of state as Pope Pius II, Cosimo de' Medici, [...]
Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours [...]
Wallpaper* City Guides not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he/she has a week or 24 hours in the city. Featured are up and coming areas, landmark buildings in an 'Architour', design centres, and the best shops to buy [...]
Wallpaper* City Guides are a ruthlessly-researched, design-conscious guide, for the discerning traveller who wants to come away with a true taste of the best a city has to offer.[...]
Part of 'Wallpaper City Guide' series that suggests where to stay, eat, and drink, this guide to Milan features various areas and landmark buildings in an 'architour', as well as looking at the design centres and the popular shops to buy items unique to the Italian city.[...]
Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours o[...]
"DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Milan & the Lakes" will lead you straight to the best attractions this region in Italy has to offer. The guide includes unique illustrated cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of the city's stunning architecture, along with 3-D aerial views of the key districts to [...]
"It's like a cross between Jurassic Park and Game of Thrones." --George R. R. MartinA world made by the Eight Creators on which to play out their games of passion and power, Paradise is a sprawling, diverse, often brutal place. Men and women live on Paradise as do dogs, cats, ferrets, goats, and hor[...]
Mystagogy, or sustained reflection on baptism and the Eucharist, is the method of postbaptismal catechesis used in the R.C.I.A. In "Ambrose of Milan's Method of Mystagogical Preaching, " Craig Satterlee provides a method of mystagogical preaching for today's Church by looking at the sermons of Ambro[...]
Presenting results of original research as well reviewing and synthesizing existing studies, the publication provides an in-depth analysis of Sri Lanka's youth unemployment. The analysis follows the "4Es" conceptual framework by focusing on four key labor market aspects: employment creation, employa[...]
What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. Dictators face threats from the masses over which they rule - the problem of authoritarian control. Secondly from the elites with whom dictators rule - the problem of authorita[...]
Fast, accurate answers on SharePoint 2010 administration--in an instantIf you're a SharePoint administrator and are looking for fast, accurate, easy-to-understand answers and solutions, then this reference is for you. Thumb tabs, secondary and tertiary tables of contents, and special heading treatme[...]
Full-color throughoutFree full-color, foldout mapInsider advice on avoiding the crowds as you explore some of northern Italy's greatest gems, from Venice's canals to the fishing villages of the Cinque Terre. Plus tips for navigating the country's lovely but less-traveled corners, like the Dolomites.[...]
The brand new edition of IMAGE PROCESSING, ANALYSIS, AND MACHINE VISION is a robust text providing deep and wide coverage of the full range of topics encountered in the field of image processing and machine vision. As a result, it can serve undergraduates, graduates, researchers, and professionals l[...]
Provides coverage of the range of topics encountered in the field of image processing and machine vision. This book helps undergraduates, graduates, researchers, and professionals who are looking for a readable reference.[...]
With Miranda in Milan, debut author Katharine Duckett reimagines the consequences of Shakespeare's The Tempest, casting Miranda into a Milanese pit of vipers and building a queer love story that lifts off the page in whirlwinds of feeling.After the tempest, after the reunion, after her father drowne[...]
This is an e-guide to Bergamo Alta, the town near Milan with medieval historic monuments. There are extensive descriptions and photos of the attractions. It is ideal for use on your smart phone, it contains active links to the web sites of train companies, so you can with a click from the guide ch[...]