Salvadori: 29 books

“Aunt Jole’s attic is a magical, light, delicate, and profound tale. An emotional journey dedicated to art and beauty. This is a color novel in which each color represents a narrating voice and each narrating voice reflects a particular state of consciousness. Aunt Jole, Joseph, Jeremy, and Annie,...

Are you ready to embark on a mysterious and transparent journey in the company of enigmatic characters who will take you to a land that is unknown to most people, outside of measured time? Are you a soul traveler like Alexander, Aurora, Anita, Peter, Mr. J, and Mr. D? Have you ever felt the desire...

From addition and subtraction to plane and space geometry, simultaneous linear equations, and probability, this book explains middle school math with problems that kids want to solve: “Seventy-five employees of a company buy a lotto ticket together and win $22.5 million. How much does each employee...

Un fascinante relato de los desastres arquitectónicos e ingenieriles a lo largo de la historia. Empezando por las pirámides de Egipto, pasando por la basílica de Santa Sofía o el Campanile de san Marcos en Venecia, hasta el Empire State Building o las Torres Gemelas, los autores nos llevan a un...

The financial crisis and the economic crisis that followed triggered a crisis in the subject of economics, as it is typically being taught today especially in macroeconomics and related fields. A renewed interest in earlier authors, especially the classical economists from Adam Smith to David Ricardo...

The 'classical' approach to economic problems, which can be traced back to Adam Smith and David Ricardo, has seen a remarkable revival in recent years. The essays in this collection argue that this approach holds the key to an explanation of important present day economic phenomena. Focusing on the...

With fascinating experiments, models, and demonstrations, this scientific survey provides a vivid exploration of natural phenomena. Ideal for budding earth scientists, this in-depth resource demonstrates how to build a seismograph to record a simulated earthquake, compare pressure waves and shear...

“Introduces maturing minds to the principles that guide architects and engineers as they design and construct buildings and bridges.” —School Shop

This book introduces novel design techniques developed to increase the safety of aircraft engines. The authors demonstrate how the application of uncertainty methods can overcome problems in the accurate prediction of engine lift, caused by manufacturing error. This in turn ameliorates the difficulty...

"The topic of this second edition of the Gaetano Sal- vemini Colloquium is one of the most complex in Italian history. In just a few years, between July 1943 and April 1948, a rapid succession of events took place that are critical to understand the history of post-fascist Italy along with the political...

QUESTO LIBRO È A LAYOUT FISSO “Il mangiar bene è occupazione interessantissima, la quale importa che sia fatta bene, perché dalla buona digestione dipende in massima parte il ben essere, il buono stato corporale, e quindi anche mentale e morale dell’uomo”. Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Nel...

«Di Luigi Einaudi ce nè più duno. Alle personalità importanti per altezza di ingegno, fermezza di carattere, purezza di intenti, capita spesso. Si muove il mondo, si muovono perfino le piramidi dEgitto come esemplificava Montaigne e sarebbe dunque ben strano che uomini di talento non cogliessero...

Un piccolo breviario laico per gli umani del XXI secolo. Angelo d’Orsi, “La Stampa”Dall’esplosione dei conflitti imperialistici all’età della globalizzazione, i nodi problematici del secolo scorso con le sue ambiguità e con le alternative che ha aperto all’uomo.

Non esiste altro Stato in Europa occidentale la cui storia presenti l’anomalia del caso italiano: dall’unità d’Italia ai primi anni Novanta del XX secolo è mancata qualsiasi possibilità di un’alternativa di governo non provocata da un crollo di regime o da una crisi organica del sistema politico.