Elena: 1551 books

Cassandra Michaels lived in fear, ever since the night her mother asked the strange man for money. The man had walked over to examine her face and a chill had run down her spine. He said he would pay.  Years later, Cassandra fell in love and spent one glorious night with the love of her life....

Human Trafficking is a growing transnational criminal phenomenon_conservative estimates put the total number of persons trafficked annually at two million. In this first in-depth study of human trafficking in Russia and Ukraine, scholars from the European, Siberian, and far-eastern parts of Russia...

Fantascienza - racconto lungo (30 pagine) - Un genoma arrivato tramite un messaggio interstellare potrebbe rappresentare la salvezza della specie umana. O la sua fine Ottobre 2028. L’osservatore della FAO Nicola Cassarà partecipa alla Nīlēmārca, la Marcia Azzurra, attraverso l’Indostan...

Stefano ha 15 anni, ha problemi di peso e vive a Milano imprigionato in un appartamento dal quale non vuole mai uscire. Facebook, twitter e la Playstation sono gli unici contatti in grado di scuoterlo da un torpore che non è in grado di capire, ma un giorno tutto cambia. La sua vita subisce una radicale...

Do you have a "dead" laptop lying somewhere about the house gathering dust? When you turn it on the LEDs light up but there's no display. You took it to a computer repair shop to get it checked out by a professional. Their diagnosis is that the motherboard needs replacing, which...

The Creative Traveler’s Handbook provides the first-ever travel guide on creative travel worldwide. Chock full of inspirational stories, travel tips and advice, it offers everything you need for planning and managing your next creative escape, addressing beginners and experienced travelers alike. An indispensable guide to the art of life-seeing instead of sight-seeing.

This foundational text for understanding housing, housing design, homeownership, housing policy, special topics in housing, and housing in a global context has been comprehensively revised to reflect the changed housing situation in the United States during and after the Great Recession and its subsequent...

This interdisciplinary study explores Marian imagery and representations in world literature and art throughout the centuries. This book demonstrates the widespread deep veneration of the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary in various countries and different Christian traditions. Devotion to the Holy...

This textbook serves as an introduction to fault-tolerance, intended for upper-division undergraduate students, graduate-level students and practicing engineers in need of an overview of the field.  Readers will develop skills in modeling and evaluating fault-tolerant architectures in terms of reliability,...

El propósito de este libro es expresar a los lectores que, no sólo las mujeres son víctimas de los hombres. Debemos admitir que ellos, en ocasiones, son víctimas de algunas mujeres. Y fíjate que digo algunas. Quizás, usted no puede concebir la idea de que existan hombres sometidos a la violencia...

Technological and computational advances in the past decade have meant a vast increase in the study of crystalline matter in both organic, inorganic and organometallic molecules. These studies revealed information about the conformation of molecules and their coordination geometry as well as the role...

Ready For Desserts: 50 Delicious Nut-Mixed Sweets and Treats for You! Pistachios may often be a forgotten nut, but did you realize that there are tons of tasty treats that can be made with these nuts? Not only do pistachios make for a tasty dessert or main dish, but pistachios have tons of...

Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in...

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the core domains of child language acquisition research (phonology, word-learning, inflectional morphology, syntax...