Dopo 'Potterologia', Marina Lenti, affiancata da Paolo Gulisano, propone una nuova antologia di saggi brevi su 'Lo Hobbit', il primo romanzo tolkieniano, tornato recentemente in auge con la trilogia diretta da Peter Jackson. Saggi agili ma approfonditi, scritti da un dream-team di esperti del genere Fantastico, l'analisi del romanzo d'esordio di Tolkien da dieci diverse angolazioni. Con saggi di Paola Cartoceti, Chiara Codecà, Silvana De Mari, Cristina Donati, Pia Ferrara, Martina Frammartino, Paolo Gulisano, Marina Lenti, Livia Rocchi, Chiara Segré.

"The enormous economic power of the People's Republic of China makes it one of the most important actors in the international system. Since China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, all fields of international economic law have been impacted by greater Chinese participation. Now, just over one decade later, the question remains as to whether China's unique characteristics make its engagement fundamentally different from that of other players. In this volume, well-known scholars from outside China consider the country's approach to international economic law. In addition to the usual foci of trade and investment, the authors also consider monetary law, finance, competition law, and intellectual property. What emerges is a rare portrait ofChina's strategy across the full spectrum of international economic activity. "--

WHO Classification of Tumours of the Lung, Pleura, Thymus and Heart is the seventh volume in the Fourth Edition of the WHO series on histological and genetic typing of human tumors.

This authoritative, concise reference book provides an international standard for oncologists and pathologists and will serve as an indispensable guide for use in the design of studies monitoring response to therapy and clinical outcome.

Età di lettura: da 6 anni.

The authors provide an introduction to CBASP for chronic depression and highlight the theoretical and practical approaches that make it unique.

È un testo per gli 'addetti ai lavori': psicologi e psichiatri che da anni lavorano psicoterapeuticamente con le coppie e sono interessati ad approfondire il tema della resistenza alla psicoterapia congiunta. Gli autori descrivono come e perché in alcuni di questi casi fortemente resistenti sia stato possibile sormontare questa difficoltà modificando il setting con la presenza dei figli della coppia. Gli autori si riferiscono alla teoria psicoanalitica delle relazioni oggettuali elaborata da J. Sandler.

A parent's cancer diagnosis can be extremely stressful for children, whether they're toddlers or teenagers, and this helpful, calming guide teaches parents how to talk to children and help allay their fears. With expert advice on the latest psychosocial approaches to helping children cope, this guide helps parents teach children about the diagosis, treatment, potential recurrences of the illness, and terminal illness. It offers a chapter on understanding psychosocial support services and how to use them. An illustrated activity section is also included and helps even the youngest children record their thoughts and feelings so they can learn how to navigate through this emotional time.

When an aunt drops five-year-old Heidi off to live with her grandfather in the Alps—the two of them alone in a small hut on a hill—she's initially very lonely. Soon, however, she comes to appreciate her new, simple life; she loves walking through the pastures with her friend Peter the goatherd and spending quiet time with her grandfather. Three years later, Heidi's aunt returns to take her to the town to become a companion for Clara, a sick little girl of a wealthy family. But even though Heidi bonds with Clara and brings new life to the household, she becomes more and more homesick and wants desperately to return to her grandfather.

Since its original publication in Switzerland in 1880, Johanna Spyri's classic story has delighted generations of children. The book has been translated into more than fifty languages and has sold over fifty million copies. Simple writing, a lovely, relatable plot, and a recognition of the importance of family and nature make Heidi a great book for families to read aloud. Now with charming full-color photographs of the scenery around which Heidi would have grown up, this is a fantastic gift for children at any time of year.

Hall s Critical Decisions in Periodontology and Dental Implantology, Fifth Edition, is designed to guide students and practitioners in applying their decision-making knowledge in a structured and logical manner using decision trees for diagnosis, treatment selections and options, procedures in various treatments, or evaluating outcomes. This text is organized by clinical problems and is designed to help the dental practitioner make on-target decisions for optimal outcomes. Formerly called Decision Making in Periodontology, this fifth edition text has been updated and expanded, providing a broad array of topics and new techniques in periodontal therapy and dental implantology. Over 100 contributing authors share their expertise and reasoning behind their decision making, representing both North American and international thinking.

As budgets for libraries continue to shrink, the key challenge facing the 21st century librarian is finding how to do more with less. This book features more than thirty essays that provide valuable tips for the professional who must cope with increasing demands upon their resources. Librarians will get tips on how to identify the most important tasks for the library; eliminate non-essential functions and processes; increase reliance on volunteers, interns, and students; optimize daily routines; and more.

Yellowstone National Park, established in 1872, was the first national park in the world. This volume of essays begins with a foreword by the famous naturalist E. O. Wilson and goes on to detail the challenges faced by the park and its wildlife today. Editor White is Chief of Wildlife and Aquatic Resources at Yellowstone, Plumb is a Chief Wildlife Biologist for the U.S Park service and Garrott is a professor of ecology. Most of the contributors have backgrounds in environmental science or ecology or are employed by the Park Service at Yellowstone. The book starts off with some background on the park and the evolution of the Park Service's management style from an early focus on the use of the Park's resources for agricultural purposes to today's view that the park should be preserved in as close to its natural state as possible. Following this is a section on population dynamics and inter-species interactions. The reintroduction of wolves to the park and its effects on park ecology is discussed here as is animal density and some of the indirect effects of predation in the park. A section on communities and landscape-scale processes goes into detail about the effects of natural processes such as fires, floods, mudslides, volcanism, and earthquakes on shaping the park as it is today. This is also where the reader will find information on changes in the park due to global warming as well the indirect effects of wolf restoration on the vegetation in the park. The final section covers the roles of invasive, non-native species in the park such as brucellosis in Bison and a number of invasive insects, weeds, fish, and plant diseases and the park management's responses to these threats. Many invasive species are also seen to be spreading due to climate change. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The proven four-step method for improving communicationand managing conflict in any healthcare setting

The Exchange Strategy for Managing Conflict in Health Care delivers a wealth of strategiesand techniques for structuring conversations about conflicts and issues in groups large and small.

"A fresh, clear-eyed view of how to approach conflict in the American healthcare system . . . shows how direct, immediate, tactful, and open communication will greatly improve any workplace setting." -- KATHLEEN SELLICK, President and CEO, Rady Children's Hospital

"Having worked in large hospital systems for many years, I wish I had known these skills and techniques when I supervised nurses and coordinated teams." -- KIM PHILLIPS, MSN, RN, CFCN, Nurse's Touch, Inc.

"During the past 12 months, over 450 managers and supervisors on my team at Sanford Health have gone through this training, and it works!" -- EVAN BURKETT, Chief Human Resources Officer, Sanford Health

"The strategy and skills laid out in this book . . . are truly effective. Ignore this at your peril." -- DR. SAMUEL B. HO, Chief, Gastroenterology Section, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego

The V&A has the greatest collection of maiolica, Italian tin-glazed pottery, in the world. This long-awaited study explores the significance of these fascinating objects in the art and social history of the Italian Renaissance, tracing their use from birth through courtship and marriage rituals to death, and offering insight into the life of noble families in this period. New photography shows the dazzling palette of colors used to decorate these objects, which have not faded over time, and emphasizes why the pieces were prized in the Renaissance and remain so popular with today's collectors.

Italian Renaissance Maiolica also includes illustrations from Piccolpasso's 16th-century manuscript Three Books of the Potter's Art, an incomparable source on maiolica, to illustrate how these highly valued objects were made.

Caveolae are 50-100 nm flask-shaped invaginations of the plasma membrane that are primarily composed of cholesterol and sphingolipids. Using modern electron microscopy techniques, caveolae can be observed as omega-shaped invaginations of the plasma membrane, fully-invaginated caveolae, grape-like clusters of interconnected caveolae (caveosome), or as transcellular channels as a consequence of the fusion of individual caveolae. The caveolin gene family consists of three distinct members, namely Cav-1, Cav-2 and Cav-3. Cav-1 and Cav-2 proteins are usually co-expressed and particularly abundant in epithelial, endothelial, and smooth muscle cells as well as adipocytes and fibroblasts. On the other hand, the Cav-3 protein appears to be muscle-specific and is therefore only expressed in smooth, skeletal and cardiac muscles. Caveolin proteins form high molecular weight homo- and/or hetero-oligomers and assume an unusual topology with both their N- and C-terminal domains facing the cytoplasm.

Caveolins are important structural proteins of Caveolae, small invaginations of the membrane. They have been shown to play an important role in the pathogenesis of multiple cancers. In this volume, we will mainly focus on the importance of Caveolin-1 in breast, prostate, lung, skin, colon, pancreatic and brain cancers with also a mention of the novel role of Caveolin-3 in breast cancer.

In 2005, famed civil rights leader and education activist Robert Moses invited one hundred prominent African American and Latino intellectuals and activists to meet to discuss a proposal for a campaign to guarantee a quality education for all children as a constitutional right—a movement that would “transform current approaches to educational inequity, all of which have failed miserably to yield results for our children.” The response was passionate, and the meeting launched a movement.
 
This book—emerging directly from that effort—reports on what has happened since and calls for a new scale of organizing, legal initiatives, and public definitions of what a quality education is. Essays include
 
·  Robert Moses's historically rooted call for citizens, especially young people, to make the demand for quality education
 
·  Ernesto Cortés's view from decades of work organizing Latino communities in Texas
 
·  Charles Payne's interview with students from the Baltimore Algebra Project, who organized to make historic demands on their district
 
·  Legal scholar Imani Perry's nuanced analysis of the prospects of making a case for quality education as a right guaranteed by the Constitution
 
·  Perspectives from scholars Lisa Delpit and Joan T. Wynne, and by teachers Alicia Caroll and Kim Parker, who provide examples of what quality education is, describing its goal, and how to guide practice in the meantime

L'acqua fredda del fiume sbatteva contro i tronchi che si ergevano dal fondo e produceva un rumore assordante nella sua corsa senza binari. Nel suo cuore un impeto scomposto simile all'acqua sulla quale posava lo sguardo cercando di ordinare le emozioni. Ma le emozioni erano violente e, sbattendo in lei, producevano un frastuono che la confondeva. Stefania è una scrittrice che si trova in Toscana per effettuare delle ricerche per il suo ultimo libro. Gli incontri con due persone, l'uno in Toscana, l'altro a Milano, rischiano di distogliere la sua totale attenzione dalle ricerche. La sua vita fino ad allora densa di esperienze, ma mai definitive, si trova di fronte a un bivio, così come quella delle persone a cui, a sua volta, ha sconvolto la vita. L'amore, il desiderio, la passione travolgono Stefania, la quale soltanto guardando dentro di sé potrà risolvere tutti i suoi dubbi.