Lo studio illustra la storia sociale del cristianesimo primitivo, cioè l'economia e la società del mondo mediterraneo del I secolo e del giudaismo in terra di Israele in epoca ellenistico-romana. In particolare, si sofferma sulle influenze che l'economia antica ha esercitato sulla vita degli uomini, nel quadro di un'analisi differenziata delle condizioni sociali e della stratificazione della società. Una speciale attenzione viene rivolta alla comparazione storico-sociale del movimento di Gesù con gli altri gruppi religiosi esistenti in terra di Israele, oltre che alla collocazione sociologica e al contesto sociale delle comunità cristiane nelle città dell'Impero romano. Si descrivono, inoltre, i conflitti delle comunità cristiane con l'ambiente pagano circostante e il giudaismo della diaspora. Il volume affronta infine anche il problema dei ruoli sociali e della condizione delle donne nel mondo mediterraneo in generale e nel giudaismo e cristianesimo primitivo in particolare.

Is it possible to have access to all stereoisomers if you begin your synthesis with only one single starting material?
This book shows ways and concepts how this can be achieved by using the right reagents, conditions or reaction sequences. Especially if the starting material is very cheap or readily available this approach has a very high value in academia and industry for example to build up a new compound library.
This unique textbook presents numerous examples of this so-called 'directed selectivity' which are often hidden in the original literature.
The text is highly useful for every organic chemistry student.

This book is the product of an eponymous workshop, which took place in Erfurt in May, 2012, and which has since then been supplemented with four further contributions. The topics focus on the potential mapping of perceived urban space and spatial hierarchies as a consequence of social usage (undertaken by a variety of active participants) together with spatio-temporal changes as a result of factors such as demographic urban growth and decline. Historians, cartographers and geographers are brought together to present and discuss different models, ideas and new methods of spatial analysis and modes of representing changes in perceptions. The two main subjects are: the epistemology of spatial change and the question of (historical) media and adequate presentation. This work represents a first step toward the development of a new model for mapping urban changes and spatial relations concerning the past, present and future.

This handbook with exercises reveals the mathematical beauty of formalisms hitherto mostly used for software and hardware design and verification.

Modeling of flow and transport in groundwater has become an important focus of scientific research in recent years. Most contributions to this subject deal with flow situations, where density and viscosity changes in the fluid are neglected. This restriction may not always be justified. The models presented in the book demonstrate immpressingly that the flow pattern may be completely different when density changes are taken into account. The main applications of the models are: thermal and saline convection, geothermal flow, saltwater intrusion, flow through salt formations etc. This book not only presents basic theory, but the reader can also test his knowledge by applying the included software and can set up own models.

The book has two aims: to introduce basic concepts of environmental modelling and to facilitate the application of the concepts using modern numerical tools such as MATLAB. It is targeted at all natural scientists dealing with the environment: process and chemical engineers, physicists, chemists, biologists, biochemists, hydrogeologists, geochemists and ecologists. MATLAB was chosen as the major computer tool for modeling, firstly because it is unique in it's capabilities, and secondly because it is available in most academic institutions, in all universities and in the research departments of many companies. In the 2nd edition many chapters will include updated and extended material. In addition the MATLAB command index will be updated and a new chapter on numerical methods will be added.For the second edition of 'Environmental Modeling' the first edition was completely revised. Text and figures were adapted to the recent MATLAB® version. Several chapters were extended. Correspondingly the index of MATLAB commands was extended considerably, which makes the book even more suitable to be used as a reference work by novices. Finally an introduction into numerical methods was added as a new chapter. <

Il presente volume è il risultato di ricerche interdisciplinari svolte dai membri dell'Istituto di Politologia della Religione di Duisburg. La prospettiva sviluppata è quella della riflessione sull'influenza reciproca di religione e politica all'interno del processo di secolarizzazione. I contributi sono preceduti da un saggio redatto dal fondatore dell'istituto, Claus-Ekkehard Bärsch, che ha riunito intorno a sé gli studiosi coinvolti a partire dal 1998.

This updated second edition of the 1994 original work on the rethinking of common beliefs about human error as a contributing factor to accidents and unplanned outcomes, provides engineers, designers and policy planners with a practical analysis of the complexities of process failures. The work is divided into sections covering problems with traditional notions of human error, complex systems failure, transforming knowledge into practical application, design induced error, and hindsight bias and productive reactions to failure. The work includes numerous tables and figures as well as case studies. The authors of this volume are academics in the fields of ergonomics, system safety, cognitive psychology and industrial engineering from universities in the US and Sweden. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

'E tuttavia sperare' è la traduzione di 'Trotzdem Hoffen', un libro pubblicato in Germania nel 1993, che riporta un'intervista fatta dai teologi Ekkehard Schuster e Reinhold Boschert Kimmig al teologo cattolico J.B. Metz e allo scrittore ebreo E. Wiesel. Il libro-intervista è costruito intorno alla peculiarità della storia umana ed intellettuale di Wiesel e di Metz, storia che trova nella Shoah il più importante motivo di confronto per entrambi, sebbene per motivi e accenti radicalmente differenti. Il libro contiene un saggio di Mariangela Caporale, curatrice di questo volume, dal titolo La ragione in dialogo: l'essenziale senza essenza.

This 2009 edition of International GAAP is the only globally focused work on IFRS giving an international consistency of approach unavailable elsewhere. International GAAP 2009 is fully revised and updated in order to:

• Deal with all new and amended authoritative pronouncements and exposure drafts, including the new revised standards on business combinations and consolidated financial statements
• Provide insight and guidance in greater detail than ever before on the interpretation and practical application of IFRS from a truly global perspective, based on the experience of the book's authors in dealing with recent day-to-day practical issues
• Update and expand extracts from the published accounts of real companies from around the world

The book will published in two volumes with over approximately 3,792 pages, comprising 43 Chapters, three indexes, and 90 pages of detailed contents.

IFRSs, the standards set by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), are complex and sometimes obscure. Understanding their implications and applying them appropriately requires something special....and that is why International GAAP 2009 is the essential tool for anyone applying, auditing, interpreting, regulating, studying and teaching international financial reporting. It provides expert interpretation and practical guidance for busy professionals, and includes, in every chapter, detailed analysis of how complex financial reporting problems can be resolved appropriately and effectively.

International GAAP 2009 is the only globally focused work on IFRSs. It is not constrained by any individual country's legislation or financial reporting regulations, and it ensures an international consistency of approach unavailable elsewhere. It shows how difficult practical issues should be approached in the new complex global world of international financial reporting, where IFRSs have become the accepted financial reporting system in more than 100 countries. This integrated approach provides a unique level of authoritative material for anyone involved in preparing, interpreting or auditing company accounts, for regulators, academic researchers and for all students of accountancy.

The International Financial Reporting Group of Ernst & Young includes financial reporting specialists from throughout the world. Complex technical accounting issues are explained clearly in a practical working context that enables immediate understanding of the point at issue.

International GAAP 2009 is accompanied by numerous worked examples, a comprehensive discussion of the practical issues of the day and the possible alternative solutions available, and hundreds of practical illustrations taken from the actual financial statements of companies that report under IFRSs.

Praise for the previous edition:

'an important part to play in the process of promoting consistent, comparable and high quality financial reporting under IFRSs … a book that not only provides an analysis of the requirements of the standards and the principles that they expound, but also presents a unique explanation of how the standards should be interpreted and applied in practice.'
–The (then) Chairman of Trustees of the IASC Foundation

Praise for previous editions in the International GAAP series:

'A standard reference work'
–Financial Times

'The definitive guide to financial reporting'
–The Times

Considerable debate surrounds the United Nations directive that officials of recognized national governments take responsibility to protect their subjects or citizens from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. Strauss, who seems to work for the United Nations Secretariat, sets out the arguments that the measure only duplicates others, that it only justifies rich countries further meddling in the affairs of the poor, and other views. He concludes by proposing elements for an immediate strategy by which the Secretary General, along with relevant United Nations department funds and agencies, can facilitate the responsibility to protect in practice in the immediate future. There is no index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Measure, Integral and Probability is a gentle introduction that makes measure and integration theory accessible to the average third-year undergraduate student. The ideas are developed at an easy pace in a form that is suitable for self-study, with an emphasis on clear explanations and concrete examples rather than abstract theory. For this second edition, the text has been thoroughly revised and expanded. New features include: · a substantial new chapter, featuring a constructive proof of the Radon-Nikodym theorem, an analysis of the structure of Lebesgue-Stieltjes measures, the Hahn-Jordan decomposition, and a brief introduction to martingales · key aspects of financial modelling, including the Black-Scholes formula, discussed briefly from a measure-theoretical perspective to help the reader understand the underlying mathematical framework. In addition, further exercises and examples are provided to encourage the reader to become directly involved with the material.

Il volume rappresenta una guida, chiara e pragmatica, al colloquio col paziente psichiatrico. Scomponendo il colloquio nelle sue varie fasi, gli autori illustrano le procedure utili a riconoscere, inquadrare e approfondire i criteri del DSM-IV-TR, aiutando in questo modo il lettore a sviluppare una piena comprensione dei diversi aspetti relativi all'intervista psichiatrica: il rapporto con il paziente, le tecniche per raccogliere le informazioni, la valutazione della stato mentale e il processo diagnostico. Il testo rappresenta una lettura fondamentale per psichiatri, psicologi clinici, operatori sociali, studenti di medicina e psichiatria e per tutti coloro che si occupano di salute mentale.

The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR®, Volume 2: The Difficult Patient applies the four-dimensional interviewing approach outlined it its companion volume ( The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR®, Volume 1: Fundamentals) to the difficult patient. It also enhances the interviewing process by employing specialized techniques that correspond with difficulties often encountered by clinicians.

Through numerous case examples, this book shows how integrating psychodynamic, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric approachesas well as the legal systems methods of cross-examination and voices stress analysiscan help elicit reliable information from tough patients and aid in solving their diagnostic puzzles.

Material has been added on: ? Pain in somatization disorder? Mental retardation? Oppositional behavior

Completely updated for DSM-IV-TR, this book strives to overcome generalization in interviewing by promoting a differential approach that individualizes and explores each disorder and all its contributing factors in depth, thus preparing the patient for optimal therapeutic intervention.

The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR®, Volume 2: The Difficult Patient applies the four-dimensional interviewing approach outlined it its companion volume ( The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR®, Volume 1: Fundamentals) to the difficult patient. It also enhances the interviewing process by employing specialized techniques that correspond with difficulties often encountered by clinicians.

Through numerous case examples, this book shows how integrating psychodynamic, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric approachesas well as the legal systems methods of cross-examination and voices stress analysiscan help elicit reliable information from tough patients and aid in solving their diagnostic puzzles.

Material has been added on: ? Pain in somatization disorder? Mental retardation? Oppositional behavior

Completely updated for DSM-IV-TR, this book strives to overcome generalization in interviewing by promoting a differential approach that individualizes and explores each disorder and all its contributing factors in depth, thus preparing the patient for optimal therapeutic intervention.

'James Herriot, veterinario generico dello Yorkshire, è forse la figura più famosa di un veterinario tuttologo, cioè di un professionista, sicuramente preparato nella pratica della professione 'in campo' anche se negli ultimi libri racconta di svolgere parte della sua attività sui piccoli animali in un ambulatorio allestito nel garage della sua abitazione. Il modo di descrivere la professione veterinaria di quei tempi, seppur molto romantico, da, con buona approssimazione quello che era anche in Italia il ruolo del veterinario condotto nello stesso periodo di questo secolo. Negli ultimi vent'anni, circa, la professione veterinaria si è fortemente specializzata differenziandosi in vari settori: gli animali da compagnia, i cavalli da corsa, l'alimentazione, gli animali da reddito ecc. e, non da ultimo, i dipendenti delle ASL. Anche in queste specializzazioni, o ottenute con scuole universitarie o maturate con anni di professione, la preparazione si è rivelata insufficiente all'esercizio della professione veterinaria con corretta professionalità e competenza. Si sono così, nell'ambito della stessa attività, andate formando, come in medicina umana, ulteriori specializzazioni e settori di studio molto specialistici riguardanti anche solo un apparato o un organo di una singola specie. In particolare al veterinario, con ambulatorio per animali da compagnia, sono richieste visite specialistiche che richiedono una conoscenza approfondita di un determinato settore. Questo ha sempre più richiesto che nello stesso ambulatorio prestino la loro attività più colleghi, soci o dipendenti, c