(Amadeus). An idealistic artist, a celebrated opera singer, and a corrupt police chief engage in a fierce battle of wills in this tempestuous tale of passion, intrigue, cruelty, and deception. Puccini's great melodrama may be set in 1800, amid the Napoleonic wars, but the conflicts between love and [...]

The slim volume of essays, presented here for the first time in English translation, is one of the significant documents of musical aesthetics of this century. If the book itself has remained the province of a mere handful of readers, its ideas, passed on through a variety of later musical and liter[...]

Robin Hood lives deep in the heart of Sherwood Forest.
Together with his band of merry men, he fights to protect the poor from the evil Sheriff of Nottingham who is on a rise to power.
If only this hero could win the heart of the beautiful Maid Marian along the way...
Carefully abridged [...]

Cataract Surgery in Complicated Cases by Lucio Buratto, Robert H. Osher, and Samuel Masket is a text that every cataract surgeon needs. It is widely known that cases of "normal" cataracts are decreasing, while incidences of "difficult" cases are increasing greatly. This trend negates the standard ap[...]

A charismatic warlord of the early fourteenth century, Castruccio Castracani came from humble beginnings as a foundling, and ended his life as ruler of Lucca, Pisa, Pistoia and Florence. In this Life, Machiavelli extols Castracani for his acute understanding of the politics of warfare and statecraft[...]

Un breve romanzo fantascientifico, originale nel tema e nella struttura, che miscela filosofia e fantascienza, sociologia e religione. Perfetto per chi cerca qualcosa di nuovo, sconsigliato ai puristi...Ambientato, come al solito per i lettori affezionati di Luigi Agostini, a Livorno.[...]

Until recently, systemic therapy has been identified with family therapy. This no longer applies; the systemic approach and its techniques can now be used - with profit - in therapy with individuals. This book introduces and describes the first adaptation of the systemic model to the individual cont[...]

Wenn Architekten, Stadtplaner und Investoren uber attraktive Wohnbauten in den Alpenregionen diskutieren, mussen sie zusatzliche Rahmenbedingungen wie die Topografie berucksichtigen. In dem Band werden intelligente Ideen und Konzepte ausgewahlter Wohnbauprojekte aus den europaischen Alpenstaaten vor[...]

Luigi L. Pasinetti (born 1930) is arguably the most influential of the second generation of the Cambridge Keynesian School of Economics, both because of his achievements and his early involvement with the direct pupils of John Maynard Keynes. This comprehensive intellectual biography traces his rese[...]