Paola: 674 books

The Rhaeto-Romance languages have been known as such to the linguistic community since the pioneering studies of Ascoli and Gartner over a century ago. There has never been a community of RR speakers based on a common history or polity and the various dialects are mutually unintelligible, but a unity,...

Per la sua posizione nel Mediterraneo, l'Italia non è soltanto un passaggio obbligato per gli scambi nord-sud ed est-ovest, ma è da sempre un importante crocevia migratorio. La configurazione delle sue frontiere naturali e la sua posizione strategica nel contesto geografico europeo hanno reso costanti...

Ricca signora si suicida sparandosi un colpo alla tempia ma, per chi indaga, i conti non tornano.

Alle soglie delle seconde nozze il ricchissimo Wolfgang Von Silbergold muore stroncato da un infarto. Morte naturale, dunque. Però tra i doni di nozze c’è quella strana, misteriosa scatola vuota.

Il segreto delle rendite passive Questa guida, prima nella serie italiana dedicata ai manuali di Steve Pavlina per la crescita e lo sviluppo personale, raccoglie per la prima volta tutti quei consigli e quelle strategie che di solito mancano nei manuali sulle rendite passive. L’approccio di Steve...

This book explores risk culture in banks following the financial crisis. It analyses the role of national and institutional risk culture, market competitiveness, organisational systems and institutional practices that led to a weakening of risk culture in financial institutions leading up to the financial...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of foreign-owned banks for credit growth, financial stability and economic growth in the post-communist European countries. Using data covering 20 countries over the period from 1995 to 2015, the authors analyse the evolution of banking sectors in...

The fluidized-bed reactor is the centerpiece of industrial fluidization processes. This book focuses on the design and operation of fluidized beds in many different industrial processes, emphasizing the rationale for choosing fluidized beds for each particular process. The book starts with a brief...

The maturity structure of debt can have financial and real consequences. Short-term debt exposes borrowers to rollover risk (where the terms of financing are renegotiated to the detriment of the borrower) and is associated with financial crises. Moreover, debt maturity can have an impact on the ability...

La parola crowdfunding è entrata nell’uso insieme a tutto il vocabolario dei nuovi modi di lavorare e fare impresa che, all’insegna della collaborazione e condivisione, vanno sotto il nome di sharing economy. Il libro analizza l’innovativa modalità di raccolta fondi che si muove tra la folla...

This book describes the mathematical background behind discrete approaches to morphological analysis of scalar fields, with a focus on Morse theory and on the discrete theories due to Banchoff and Forman. The algorithms and data structures presented are used for terrain modeling and analysis, molecular...

The book aims to analyze the logics and instruments by which fashion companies create collections, taking into account the variety of companies' characteristics and business models. The collection development process is a critical activity for fashion, that must continuously renew its products, and...

Urban climate change is a crossroads in two very different senses. One is historical. With the world now more than half urban, and given the ecological consequences of the world's high-consumption urban centers, we are at an ecological crossroad. We either head off the worst of ecological collapse...

This book explains the potential value of using mobile phone data to monitor urban practices and identify rhythms of use in today’s cities. Drawing upon research conducted in the Italian region of Lombardy, the authors demonstrate how maps based on mobile phone data, which are better tailored to...