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The Transition in Europe between XVII and XVIII centuries.

Perspectives and case studies

by AA. VV. ...

The period of transition between seventeenth and eighteenth century (1680-1720), culminated in the Spanish Succession War, represents an age of great changes all over the Continent; in the Italian mainland, centuries-old Spanish government came to an end and a new era began. This book, that collects benefits of an international workshop hold at Università Cattolica in Milan in 2013, wants ... Read more

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The period of transition between seventeenth and eighteenth century (1680-1720), culminated in the Spanish Succession War, represents an age of great changes all over the Continent; in the Italian mainland, centuries-old Spanish government came to an end and a new era began. This book, that collects benefits of an international workshop hold at Università Cattolica in Milan in 2013, wants
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Future perspectives in broiler rearing

Incorporating the broiler point of view

by Dr Henry van den Brand, Dr Pascal Duenk, Dr Mario Calus, Dr Elijah Kiarie, Dr Emily Kim, Dr Aizwarya Thanabalan, Dr Munene Kithama, Dr Lisa Bean-Hodgins, Dr Claire Bonnefous, Dr Veronika Maurer0, Dr Elisabeth Duval1, Dr Anne Collin2, Dr Michael J. Wineland3, Dr Ollie van Hal4, Dr Ben van Selm5, Dr Asaah Ndambi6, Dr Simon Oosting7, Professor Itallo Conrado Sousa Araujo8, Dr Roos Molenaar9, Dr Aart Lammers0, Dr Jan Wijnen1, Dr C. W. van der Pol2, Professor Okanlawon M. Onagbesan3, Dr Victoria Anthony Uyanga4, Dr Semiu Folaniyi Bello5, Dr Folasade Olukemi Oke6, Dr Oyegunle Emmanuel Oke7, Professor Helen Louton8, Dr Jenny Wessel9, Dr Julia Mönch0, Dr Mona F. Giersberg1, Mrs Martina Bordini2, Dr Massimiliano Petracci3, Dr Francesca Soglia4, Professor Casey W. Ritz5, Dr Serdar Özlu6, Dr Wendy Muir7, Dr Peter J. Groves8, Dr Rodney L. Reece9, Professor Elena Catelli0, Dr Giulia Graziosi1, Dr Caterina Lupini2, Dr Mila Meijer3, Dr E. Roura4, Dr Malou van der Sluis5, Dr Hasitha Priyashantha6, Dr Maleeka Nambapana7, Dr Ashen Epa Arachchi8, Dr Shishanthi Jayarathna9, Dr Janak K. Vidanarachchi0, Dr Nelle Lauwers1, Dr Maarten Hertog2, Dr Matthias Corion3, Dr Leonie Jacobs4, Professor Edgar Oviedo-Rondón5, Dr Evelyne Delezie6, Dr M. Lourenço7, Dr Gerardo José Ginovart-Panisello8, Dr Silvia Riva9, Dr Tesa Panisello Monjo0, Dr Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès1, Dr Alessandra Piccirillo2, Dr Giacomo Berto3, Dr Davide Giovanardi4, Dr Luca Bano5, Dr Andrea Laconi6, Professor Nadia Everaert7 ...

Series Book 179 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
It’s been estimated that more than 70 billion broilers are slaughtered globally each year to meet the growing demand for poultry meat. To uphold its position as the second most consumed meat globally, broiler production must mitigate several challenges, including the need to balance production and economic priorities with issues such as ethics, animal welfare, environmental impact and ... Read more

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It’s been estimated that more than 70 billion broilers are slaughtered globally each year to meet the growing demand for poultry meat. To uphold its position as the second most consumed meat globally, broiler production must mitigate several challenges, including the need to balance production and economic priorities with issues such as ethics, animal welfare, environmental impact and
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When Nothing Is Impossible

Spanish surgeon Diego González Rivas' global crusade against cancer and pain

by Elena Pita ...

Impossible is nothing. With that as his motto, Spanish surgeon Diego González Rivas takes up his fight against cancer and pain. Using his revolutionary technique, Uniportal VATS, he can remove the most complicated tumors from the lungs through a single incision, sometimes with only local anesthetic, sending his patients home a mere 48 hours after surgery. Doctor González Rivas (A Coruña, 1974) ... Read more

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Impossible is nothing. With that as his motto, Spanish surgeon Diego González Rivas takes up his fight against cancer and pain. Using his revolutionary technique, Uniportal VATS, he can remove the most complicated tumors from the lungs through a single incision, sometimes with only local anesthetic, sending his patients home a mere 48 hours after surgery. Doctor González Rivas (A Coruña, 1974)
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Padre Pio

Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age

by Sergio Luzzatto ...

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Winner of the Cundill History PrizeThe first historical appraisal of the astonishing life and times of a controversial twentieth-century saint.Padre Pio is one of the world's most beloved holy figures, more popular in Italy than the Virgin Mary and even Jesus. His tomb is the most visited Catholic shrine anywhere, drawing more devotees than Lourdes. His miraculous feats included the ability to fly ... Read more

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Winner of the Cundill History PrizeThe first historical appraisal of the astonishing life and times of a controversial twentieth-century saint.Padre Pio is one of the world's most beloved holy figures, more popular in Italy than the Virgin Mary and even Jesus. His tomb is the most visited Catholic shrine anywhere, drawing more devotees than Lourdes. His miraculous feats included the ability to fly
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Twelve Patients

Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (The Inspiration for the NBC

by Eric Manheimer, MD ...

**In the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives, highlighting the complex mind-body connection."As intensely involving as any scripted for a television medical drama." —The New York Daily News**Twelve Patients shows the plights of twelve very different patients—from ... Read more

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**In the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives, highlighting the complex mind-body connection."As intensely involving as any scripted for a television medical drama." —The New York Daily News**Twelve Patients shows the plights of twelve very different patients—from
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The Italian Renaissance

Culture and Society in Italy

by Peter Burke ...

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Read more

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In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological
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Mountains Beyond Mountains

The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains] ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains]
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I Had to Survive

How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives

by Dr. Roberto Canessa, Pablo Vierci ...

Dr. Roberto Canessa recounts his side of the famous 1972 plane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andean Mountains and how, decades later, the harrowing journey to survive propelled him to become one of the world’s leading pediatric cardiologists, seeing in his patients the same fierce will to live he witnessed in the Andes.As he tended to his wounded Old Christians teammates amidst ... Read more

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Dr. Roberto Canessa recounts his side of the famous 1972 plane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andean Mountains and how, decades later, the harrowing journey to survive propelled him to become one of the world’s leading pediatric cardiologists, seeing in his patients the same fierce will to live he witnessed in the Andes.As he tended to his wounded Old Christians teammates amidst
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Growing Stronger

by Thalia ...

The intimate and revealing memoir of the multi-award-winning telenovela and music superstar.In Growing Stronger, international superstar Thalia opens up for the first time about her rewarding and sometimes devastating life experiences. She reveals her most personal struggles-the loss of her father when she was just five years old, the shocking kidnapping of her sister, and her battle with a life ... Read more

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The intimate and revealing memoir of the multi-award-winning telenovela and music superstar.In Growing Stronger, international superstar Thalia opens up for the first time about her rewarding and sometimes devastating life experiences. She reveals her most personal struggles-the loss of her father when she was just five years old, the shocking kidnapping of her sister, and her battle with a life
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The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence

by Brian Jeffrey Maxson ...

This book offers a major contribution for understanding the spread of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence. Investigating the connections between individuals who were part of the humanist movement, Maxson reconstructs the networks that bound them together. Overturning the problematic categorization of humanists as either professional or amateurs, a distinction based on economics and the ... Read more

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This book offers a major contribution for understanding the spread of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence. Investigating the connections between individuals who were part of the humanist movement, Maxson reconstructs the networks that bound them together. Overturning the problematic categorization of humanists as either professional or amateurs, a distinction based on economics and the
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Celebrate Rio

Sport, sand and samba: a guide to the Cidade Maravilhosa

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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherWhether you're travelling to Rio de Janeiro this summer to witness the Games, have a trip in the pipeline or are just plain curious, download our FREE guide to get a sample of everything the Cidade Maravilhosa has to offer. From rainforest hikes and beachfront bike rides to quintessentially Brazilian capoeira and beach soccer, this city is ... Read more

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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherWhether you're travelling to Rio de Janeiro this summer to witness the Games, have a trip in the pipeline or are just plain curious, download our FREE guide to get a sample of everything the Cidade Maravilhosa has to offer. From rainforest hikes and beachfront bike rides to quintessentially Brazilian capoeira and beach soccer, this city is
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Giuliano de' Medici

Machiavelli's Prince in Life and Art

by Josephine Jungic ...

Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or ability for politics. In the first sustained biography of this misrepresented figure, Josephine Jungic re-evaluates Giuliano’s life and shows that his infamous reputation was exaggerated by Medici ... Read more

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Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or ability for politics. In the first sustained biography of this misrepresented figure, Josephine Jungic re-evaluates Giuliano’s life and shows that his infamous reputation was exaggerated by Medici
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