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  • The Silent Period

    A Novel

    by Francesca Manfredi ...
    Translated by Ekin Oklap ...
    In a novel of bilious wit and unexpected tenderness, a jaded young woman ceases to speak.Cristina Martino is twenty-eight and adrift. Underemployed at a university library in Turin, Italy, she still lives at home with her parents, in the shadow of her successful, married elder sister, Elena. One night, listlessly scrolling through Instagram, Cristina decides to delete her social media profiles ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Empire of Dirt

    A Novel

    by Francesca Manfredi ...
    Translated by Ekin Oklap ...
    In this captivating English-language debut, three generations of women must face their secrets and regrets when an old family curse awakens.There has always been tension in "the blind house," where Valentina lives with her mother and grandmother in the Italian countryside. Valentina's pious grandmother often hints at a family curse, while Valentina's mother scoffs at superstition; it's one of the ... Read more

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    The Silent Period

    A Novel

    by Francesca Manfredi ...
    Narrated by Nicol Zanzarella ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 36 min

    In a novel of bilious wit and unexpected tenderness, a jaded young woman ceases to speak.Cristina Martino is twenty-eight and adrift. Underemployed at a university library in Turin, Italy, she still lives at home with her parents, in the shadow of her successful, married elder sister, Elena. One night, listlessly scrolling through Instagram, Cristina decides to delete her social media profiles ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Empire of Dirt

    A Novel

    by Francesca Manfredi ...
    Narrated by Carlotta Brentan ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 53 min

    In this captivating English-language debut, three generations of women must face their secrets and regrets when an old family curse awakens.There has always been tension in "the blind house," where Valentina lives with her mother and grandmother in the Italian countryside. Valentina's pious grandmother often hints at a family curse, while Valentina's mother scoffs at superstition; it's one of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Urban Services to Ecosystems

    Green Infrastructure Benefits from the Landscape to the Urban Scale

    Edited by Chiara Catalano, Maria Beatrice Andreucci, Riccardo Guarino, Francesca Bretzel, Manfredi Leone, Salvatore Pasta ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The aim of this book is to bring together multidisciplinary research in the field of green infrastructure design, construction and ecology. The main core of the volume is constituted by contributions dealing with green infrastructure, vegetation science, nature-based solutions and sustainable urban development.The green infrastructure and its ecosystem services, indeed, are gaining space in both ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

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  • Urban Ecology

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    by Richard T. T. Forman ...
    How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology - including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations - spatially entwined with this great human enterprise? And how can we improve urban areas for both nature and people? Urban Ecology: Science of Cities explores the entire urban area: from streets, lawns, and parks to riversides, ... Read more

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  • Restoration Ecology

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    Edited by Jelte van Andel, James Aronson ...
    Enlarged, enhanced and internationalized edition of the first restoration ecology textbook to be published, with foreword by Dr. Steven Whisnant of Texas A&M University and Chair of the Society of Ecological Restoration.Since 2006, when the first edition of this book appeared, major advances have taken place in restoration science and in the practice of ecological restoration. Both are now ... Read more

    $86.00 USD

  • Scientific Review of the Impact of Climate Change on Plant Pests: A Global Challenge to Prevent and Mitigate Plant-Pest Risks in Agriculture, Forestry and Ecosystems

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Climate change represents an unprecedented challenge to the world's biosphere and to the global community. It also represents a unique challenge for plant health. Human activities and increased market globalization, coupled with rising temperatures, has led to a situation that is favourable to pest movement and establishment. This scientific review assesses the potential effects of climate change ... Read more

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  • A Girl Returned

    by Donatella Di Pietrantonio ...
    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
    "One of the best Italian novels of the year" in a pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante's translator ( Huffington Post, Italy).Winner of the Campiello PrizeA 2019 Best Book of the Year ( The Washington Post Kirkus Reviews Dallas Morning News)Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy's most ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Urban Forestry

    Edited by Francesco Ferrini, Cecil C. Konijnendijk van den Bosch, Alessio Fini ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    More than half the world's population now lives in cities. Creating sustainable, healthy and aesthetic urban environments is therefore a major policy goal and research agenda. This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of the state of the art and science of urban forestry.It describes the multiple roles and benefits of urban green areas in general and the specific role of trees, ... Read more

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  • Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change

    Edited by Melissa R. Marselle, Jutta Stadler, Horst Korn, Katherine N. Irvine, Aletta Bonn ...
    This open access book identifies and discusses biodiversity’s contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing. Furthermore, the book identifies the implications of this relationship for nature conservation, public health, landscape architecture and urban planning – and considers the opportunities of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation.This transdisciplinary ... Read more

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