Tommaso: 211 books

Space Safety and Human Performance provides a comprehensive reference for engineers and technical managers within aerospace and high technology companies, space agencies, operators, and consulting firms. The book draws upon the expertise of the world’s leading experts in the field and focuses primarily...

Infrared thermography is a measurement technique that enables to obtain non intrusive measurements of surface temperatures. One of the interesting features of this technique is its ability to measure a full two dimensional map of the surface temperature and for this reason it has been widely used...

Vi sono più modi di intendere la modernità ed è già stato scritto come il “ripensare la modernità” abbia portato a sviluppare il concetto che nella cultura dominante nell’Occidente del XX secolo non ne esiste una unica. Già il Congresso del 2007 aveva fatto il punto sullo stato degli studi...

È la metà del sedicesimo secolo. Nella battaglia a campo aperto di Crotone Marco Berardi, il Re Marcone, scompare misteriosamente. Molti lo vogliono morto, appeso in una gabbia al campanile della chiesa di San Francesco d’Assisi di Cosenza. Se così fosse, il Principe di Cerchiara, Fabrizio Pignatelli,...

From the mid-1980s, an international collaboration of 600 physicists embarked on the investigation of subnuclear physics at the high-energy frontier. As well as discovering the top quark, the heaviest elementary particle ever observed, the physicists analyzed their data to seek signals of new physics...

This volume reflects on what happens when the idea and practice of universal human rights cross the cultural borders between different communities of knowledge. Although such rights are usually presumed to be founded on certain globally shared beliefs, the norms and values of many cultures are often...

This book examines the increased utilization of social media in daily life and its impact on social movements. The contributors analyze “social media revolutions” such as the Arab Spring, the 15-M movement in Spain, the Occupy Nigeria movement, and the Occupy Gezi movement in Turkey. The contributors...

Storie di un mondo in cui «il lavoro quello vero è diventato un bene di lusso».«A fine lettura Sono come tu mi vuoi si scopre manifesto. Il manifesto di una generazione incapace di manifesti, che non sa neanche alzare la voce perché teme il ridicolo, che già si aspetta i colpi dallinizio e si...

Endorsed by the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS) and drawing on the expertise of the world’s leading experts in the field, Safety Design for Space Operations provides the practical how-to guidance and knowledge base needed to facilitate effective launch-site...

Il sogno del settimo viaggio raccoglie i migliori reportage dall’Africa che Besozzi, uno dei più grandi giornalisti italiani del dopoguerra, autore su «L’Europeo» e «Il Giorno» di scoop clamorosi come quello sulla vera morte del bandito Giuliano, pubblicò durante gli anni Cinquanta. Protagonisti...

This issue of the Thoracic Surgery Clinics will cover the following topics: cervical videomediastinoscopy, parasternal mediastinotomy, awake videothoracoscopic surgery in anterior mediastinal masses, extended transcervical thymectomy, extended transsternal thymectomy, extended videothoracoscopic thymectomy,...

This book offers an image-based, comprehensive quick reference guide that will assist in the interpretation of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) examinations of the liver in daily practice. It describes and depicts typical and atypical behavior of both common and less frequently observed focal liver...

By concentrating on one of the key locations of global manufacturing, this volume offers a contribution to contemporary industry studies. The rates of growth that have characterized the southern Guangdong province in the last three decades are unique, even with respect to the more general and...

The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media: A Global Perspective provides a global analysis of the intersection of social inequalities, media, and communication. This volume contains chapters by an international array of scholars and provides case studies from various countries with critical empirical...