“stefano mazzoleni”

The Mediterranean region has been shaped by human activity and maintained by traditional practices of land use for centuries. This has affected the distribution of plants and the landscape, which can be considered as part of the European cultural landscape. This book details the rapid changes that h... More

Table of contents Preface 1. Distributed Databases: An Overview 2. Review of Databases and Computer Networks Part 1- Principles of Distributed Databases 3. Level of Distribution Transparency 4. Distributed Database Design 5. Translation of Global Queries to Fragment Queries 6. Optimizatio... More

Using an innovative history of the constitutional right to privacy, and inspired by Emersonian Justices like Brandeis and Douglas, this book rescues the meaning of privacy from prevalent liberal thinking by proposing a general theory of rights based on a spiritual-ecological jurisprudence tradition ... More

The rising power of emerging economies is analyzed in this volume which focuses on Brazil, Russia, India and China in order to understand market opportunites and issues relevant to doing business in these countries. After defining an emerging market, the author examines the operative environment of ... More

This is the first volume in a series of books on selected topics in Nanoscale Science and Technology based on lectures given at the well-known INFN schools of the same name. The aim of this collection is to provide a reference corpus of suitable, introductory material to relevant subfields, as they ... More

Re-creation of the most important moments of Mont Blanc's great peaks and majestic faces.... More