Le biblioteche non sono soltanto degli spazi in cui si conservano e custodiscono libri. Nel corso dei secoli, i progetti dei più grandi edifici destinati a questo scopo hanno voluto esaltare il momento della lettura e l'importanza dell'apprendimento. Indipendentemente dalla loro appartenenza a un singolo individuo, a un'istituzione o perfino a un'intera nazione, le biblioteche sono diventate simboli di cultura, luoghi di scambio e incontro, istituzioni che preservano e tramandano il sapere. Questo libro intende esporre la storia completa dell'evoluzione di tali edifici, dalle prime biblioteche dell'antica Mesopotamia alle biblioteche perdute delle civiltà classiche, dalle biblioteche monastiche del Medioevo a quelle sontuose in stile rococò, fino ad arrivare alle biblioteche monumentali del mondo moderno. Il volume, tra narrazione e ricerca fotografica, vuole sia chiarire in che modo lo sviluppo delle biblioteche illustri il mutevole rapporto del genere umano nei confronti della parola scritta, sia dimostrare che le biblioteche, in tutto il mondo e in ogni epoca storica, siano sempre state ben di più di meri depositi polverosi di documenti, divenendo piuttosto simboli attivi di cultura e civiltà.

With simple language, boxed definitions, summary charts, and bullet points, this introduction and guide will be accessible to youth workers, social workers, counselors, mental and physical healthcare professionals, and probation officers. The information given is applicable to teens with severe or milder problems or experimental use. After an overview of adolescence, the book offers a chapter reviewing various substances used by adolescents, providing info on routes of administration, drug effects, side effects, risks of use, and prevalence. Of special note is the inclusion of information on novel psychoactive substances, such as 'legal highs,' 'bath salts,' and Spice. Later chapters cover dangers and causes of abuse and prevention and treatment approaches, offering ideas for working with parents and developing substance use policies. Separate chapters are devoted to substance use and mental health, sexual health, cultural issues, and ethical issues. Chapters conclude with web resources and further reading. The book is distributed in the US by Martin P. Hill Consulting. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

This new survey covers all the intricate and beautiful art styles of the so-called “Viking Age.” It ranges in time from the first major Viking expeditions overseas around AD 800 to the establishment of Christianity in Scandinavia some three hundred years later.

An opening chapter gives the historical and geographic background. Thematic chapters then describe and discuss the six main Viking art styles, showing how they emerged from and interacted with one another. Delicate metalwork is contrasted with elaborate wood carvings and the famous Gotland “picture stones,” and we move up in scale from the Oseberg ship to decorated weapons and fine jewels. The book’s conclusion looks at the art in relation to Viking mythology and sagas as well as its legacy in later times.

The most significant resource for any researcher wishing to understand the finer details of Oscar Wilde’s remarkable career, the “Oscar Wilde and His Circle” archive at the University of California, Los Angeles houses the world’s largest collection of materials relating to the life and work of the gifted Irish writer. Wilde Discoveries brings together thirteen studies based on research done in this archive that span the course of Wilde’s work and shed light on previously neglected aspects of Wilde’s lively and varied professional and personal life.

This volume offers fresh approaches to well-known works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray while paying serious attention to his lesser known writings and activities, including his earliest attempts at emulating the English Romantics, his editing of Woman’s World, and his fascination with anarchism. A detailed introduction by the volume editor ties the essays together and illustrates the distinctive evolution of research on this great writer’s extraordinary career.

Breathtaking photography captures the soul and passion of this spectacular land of bagpipes, heather, thistle, and tartans. This enchanting collection of images celebrates Scotland’s world-famous vistas—the lofty highlands, placid lochs, and misty glens, the picturesque villages, the vibrant cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, the ancient castles, the breathtaking pastoral scenes, as well as the people who take pride in it all. An outstanding gift or souvenir, Spectacular Scotland brings the best of this wonderful country into sharp focus. This is a magnificent collection of 150 color photographs by some of Scotland’s best landscape photographers.

It's DDx To Go! The unique format of the Dermatology DDX Deck gives you a completely portable, uniquely convenient diagnostic tool to compare potential diagnoses visually, side by side, without the need to flip back and forth between different pages. Each laminated card includes full-color images and information about a particular diagnosis, as well as cross references (DDx-refs) to other potential diagnoses. Bound at one corner and small enough to fit in a pocket, this is the perfect reference for those on the front line of dermatological diagnosis!

• Gain reliable, practical, and efficient guidance regarding the diagnoses and treatment of 160 of the most common dermatologic disorders, along with clinical tips presented by the experts.
• Quickly access all the information you need to make the most accurate diagnoses, educate patients in the exam room, or prepare for the board review exam.

• Take an in-depth approach to patients with skin of color, and cover all the fundamentals of acne, eczema, and psoriasis.

Quick (organizational behavior, U. of Texas at Arlington) et al. offer psychologists who work with leaders and organizations, as well as organizational members, a framework called preventive stress management, which is rooted in public health, draws on positive psychology and strengths-based interventions, incorporates the concept of eustress, or good stress, and focuses on the way an individual's assumption of personal responsibility interacts with groups and organizations in the process of adapting to stress and stressful events. They detail the stress process, its organizational causes and origins, specific vulnerability and strength factors that can protect an individual, positive and negative individual and organizational consequences, measurement and assessment, the theory of preventive stress management, and types of interventions, including new ones such as an organizational health center. This edition updates material with current research, science, and theory; emphasizes the positive side of the stress message; and moves some elements, such as the index of assessment instruments and resources, to a website. It adds information on the tend-and-befriend response of women, bullying and incivility, and positive psychology, positive organizational behavior, and positive organizational scholarship. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

With contributions from colleagues, Graham-Campbell (Emeritus Professor, Medieval Archaeology, University College London) provides the first full study of the largest known Viking silver hoard from western Europe, discovered in Lancashire by workers in 1840. He also presents the first complete catalogue of all the Viking age gold and silver, now at the British Museum. Among the topics are the discovery and dispersal of the Cuerdale hoard, together with all the other hoards and single-finds of gold and silver artifacts of Viking character in the British Museum, found in Britain and Ireland up to the year 2000. There is also a chapter on the coins from Cuerdale with accompanying summary descriptions. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contains a guide to Spanish ingredients and recipes from Spain including, escalivada, canelones del mare, pulpo en vinegretta, and salmon picada.

Guide today's students as they learn not only the concepts and theories that enhance the management of human behavior at work but also how to practice these skills with Nelson/Quick's ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR. The latest edition of this leading text clearly demonstrates how organizational behavior theories and research apply to companies today with engaging cases, meaningful exercises, and examples that include six new focus companies students will instantly recognize. The authors present foundational organizational behavior topics, such as motivation, leadership, teamwork, and communication. Readers also examine emerging issues, such as the theme of change as well as globalization, diversity, and ethics. The authors anchor the book's multifaceted approach in both classic research and leading-edge scholarship. Timely examples from all types of organizations reflect today's most current trends. Self-assessments and other interactive learning opportunities encourage each reader to grow and develop--both as an individual and as an important contributor to an organization.

 

 

Skin Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment, 3rd Edition, by Drs. Thomas P. Habif, James L. Campbell, Jr., M. Shane Chapman, James G. H. Dinulos, and Kathryn A. Zug, is the quick and practical clinical reference you need to help you effectively diagnose and treat 250 common dermatologic diseases. You'll find succinct, user-friendly chapters arranged by disorder type, updated treatment plans, and hundreds of new images showing diseases in various stages of manifestation, including detailed information and illustrations on tropical dermatology. Perfect for any medical practitioner who'd rather treat than refer patients with skin disease, this full-color resource will also serve you well when prepping for the boards.

• Gain reliable, practical, and efficient guidance regarding the diagnoses and treatment of the most common 250 dermatologic disorders, along with clinical tips presented by the experts.
• Accurately identify skin conditions in children with discussions of how they manifest differently than in adults.
• Quickly access the answers you need with the dermatologic drug formulary, a 'differential diagnosis by anatomical region and lesion' guide, and the disorders index.

• Prescribe effective dermatologic treatment based on the practical diagnostic advice of Dr. Habif and fellow contributors who offer anterior and posterior diagrams of where diseases may be found on the body, classification of primary, secondary, and special lesions, pediatric considerations, clinical pearls to guide decision making, and more.
• Get and give the most up-to-date therapeutic advice available as every section in the book is revised with current treatment plans.
• Be prepared for travel-related skin diseases with new, richly illustrated coverage on tropical dermatology.
• See how skin disorders present at different stages with hundreds of new and often never-before-published images.

Diagnose and treat more of the dermatology disease you see every day and refer less with the expert guidance of Dr. Habif

Research on the topic of self has increased significantly in recent years across a number of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, psychopathology, and neuroscience. The Oxford Handbook of the Self is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that address questions in all of these areas. In philosophy and some areas of cognitive science, the emphasis on embodied cognition has fostered a renewed interest in rethinking personal identity, mind-body dualism, and overly Cartesian conceptions of self. Poststructuralist deconstructions of traditional metaphysical conceptions of subjectivity have led to debates about whether there are any grounds (moral if not metaphysical) for reconstructing the notion of self. Questions about whether selves actually exist or have an illusory status have been raised from perspectives as diverse as neuroscience, Buddhism, and narrative theory. With respect to self-agency, similar questions arise in experimental psychology. In addition, advances in developmental psychology have pushed to the forefront questions about the ontogenetic origin of self-experience, while studies of psychopathology suggest that concepts like self and agency are central to explaining important aspects of pathological experience. These and other issues motivate questions about how we understand, not only 'the self', but also how we understand ourselves in social and cultural contexts.

An utterly defeated Cassie must overcome the death of her father if she's gong to escape a run-in with the police, a host of vengeance-seeking enemies, and a whole bunch of new slashers! Will Vlad be enough back up, or will the slasher hunting duo need to turn to some unlikely allies? Collects issues #18-34 of the Hack/Slash ongoing series as well as the award-winning Entry Wound one-shot.

This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia -- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the authors examine 100,000 life histories in 100 rural communities in Western Europe and Asia to analyze the demographic response to social and economic pressures. In doing so they challenge the accepted Eurocentric Malthusian view of population processes and demonstrate that population behavior has not been as uniform as previously thought -- that it has often been determined by human agency, particularly social structure and cultural practice.The authors examine the complex relationship between human behavior and social and economic environment, analyzing age, gender, family, kinship, social class and social organization, climate, food prices, and real wages to compare mortality responses to adversity. Their research at the individual, household, and community levels challenges the previously accepted characterizations of social and economic behavior in Europe and Asia in the past. The originality of the analysis as well as the geographic breadth and historical depth of the data make Life Under Pressure a significant advance in the field of historical demography. Its findings will be of interest to scholars in economics, environmental studies, demography, history, and sociology as well as the general reader interested in these subjects.

A harrowing portrait of a largely forgotten campaign that pushed one battalion to the limits of human suffering.

Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's “Ghost Mountain Boys” were assigned the most grueling mission of the entire Pacific campaign in World War II: to march over the 10,000-foot Owen Stanley Mountains to protect the right flank of the Australian army during the battle for New Guinea. Reminiscent of the classics like Band of Brothers and The Things They Carried, The Ghost Mountain Boys is part war diary, part extreme-adventure tale, and—through letters, journals, and interviews—part biography of a group of men who fought to survive in an environment every bit as fierce as the enemy they faced. Theirs is one of the great untold stories of the war.

“Superb.”
—Chicago Sun-Times

“Campbell started out with history, but in the end he has written a tale of survival and courage of near-mythic proportions.”
—America in WWII magazine

“In this compelling and sprightly written account, Campbell shines a long-overdue light on the equally deserving heroes of the Red Arrow Division.”
—Military.com

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A SINGLE VOLUME–THE THREE THRILLING NOVELS INSPIRED BY THE BLOCKBUSTER FILMS

With bullwhip in hand, Indiana Jones has unearthed a wealth of ancient treasures. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the fearless archeologist journeys from Nepal to Cairo to the Mediterranean, dodging poisons, traps, and snakes, battling rivals old and new–all in pursuit of an ancient artifact that holds the key to dazzling, invincible power. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom finds our intrepid hero in a remote village in India, where a mysterious old shaman tells him that his arrival has been foreseen–and that he must retrieve a stolen mystical stone. And finally, Indy must face the most challenging and personal endeavor of his life: rescue his estranged father, the eminent professor Dr. Henry Jones, from a Nazi’s lair, and recover the legendary Holy Grail. Yet Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade doesn’t mean the adventure is over. . . .

Tells the story of the remarkable building and of those responsible for its construction, from the time of the Great Fire to the cathedral's final completion in 1708.

The danger isn't in the water.

Working as a lifeguard at a Florida resort, Ned Kelly meets a woman he is wild about, the woman of his dreams. It feels perfect in every way - except that she is used to caviar and Manolo Blahniks, and he is used to burgers and flip-flops. She is a guest at the luxurious hotel - he lives above a garage.

So when Ned's cousin offers to cut him in on a rich deal he's been commissioned to execute, Ned can't turn him down. The plan is simple, just a fast break-and-enter. The risk is high, and the reward is even greater--$5 million. But on the night of the heist, something goes devastatingly wrong. Who will save the lifeguard?

Ned walks away from his job, his town, and the woman he's fallen in love with. Runs away, actually, knowing that only velocity and secrecy can save his life. But who is pursuing him? The FBI? Whoever sabotaged the heist? Or is it all somehow tied into his new love - and his oldest enemies?

Solo Expressions for the Beginning Percussionist is a sequential introduction of skills, techniques and knowledge through the performance of 40 solos for the percussionist. It begins at a novice level and gradually progresses through each solo to develop individual and ensemble skills. The play-along CD includes all solos and an introduction track for each that allows the player to experience the meter, volume, tempo and style before they begin to play.