Authors:Carlo Cavallotti, Carlo Cavallotti, Luciano Cerulli,
Publisher: Humana Press
Keywords: aging, medicine, eye, human, changes, related
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 2008-04-07
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 193411555X
ISBN-13: 9781934115558

Aging research on the human eyes crosses all areas of ophthalmology and also relies upon biological, morphological, physiological, and biochemical tools for its study. In Age-Related Changes of the Human Eye, the authors review all aspects of human eye aging. In addition to descriptions of age-related changes in almost all the structures of the human eyes, the authors also include interesting accounts of personal experiments and data. The ease of use and versatility of this volume makes it an essential tool for students and graduate students as well as post-doctoral and/or professional ophthal

Authors:Luciano Segreto, Luciano Segreto, Carles Manera, Manf
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: tourism, mediterranean, mass, history, seaside, economic, europe
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-04-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1845453239
ISBN-13: 9781845453237

Mass tourism is one of the most striking developments in postwar western societies, involving economic, social, cultural, and anthropological factors. For many countries it has become a significant, if not the primary, source of income for the resident population. The Mediterranean basin, which has long been a very popular destination, is explored here in the first study to scrutinize the region as a whole and over a long period of time. In particular, it investigates the area s economic and social networks directly involved in tourism, which includes examining the most popular spots that attr

Author: Luciano Berio
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: norton, lectures, eliot, charles, future, remembering
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0674021541
ISBN-13: 9780674021549

In Remembering the Future Luciano Berio shares with us some musical experiences that "invite us to revise or suspend our relation with the past and to rediscover it as part of a future trajectory." His scintillating meditation on music and the ways of experiencing it reflects the composer’s profound understanding of the history and contemporary practice of his art. There is much in this short book that provides insight on Berio’s own compositions. Indeed, he comments that writing it "led me to formulate thoughts that might otherwise have remained concealed in the folds of my w

Author: Luciano Floridi
Publisher: An American Philological Association Book
Keywords: american, classical, studies, pyrrhonism, recovery, empiricus, transmission, sextus
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2002-03
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0195146719
ISBN-13: 9780195146714

The subject is Sextus Empiricus, one the chief sources of information on ancient philosophy and one of the most influential authors in the history of skepticism. Sextus’ works have had an extraordinary influence on western philosophy, and this book provides the first exhaustive and detailed study of their recovery, transmission, and intellectual influence through Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. This study deals with Sextus’ biography, as well as the history of the availability and reception of his works. It also contains an extensive bibliographical section, i

Author: Luciano Canfora
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: hellenistic, culture, society, world, ancient, library, wonder, vanished
Number of Pages: 205
Published: 1990-08-29
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0520072553
ISBN-13: 9780520072558

The Library of Alexandria . . . a Wonder of the Ancient World. What was it? Where was it? Did it exist at all? Contemporary descriptions are vague and contradictory, but Luciano Canfora resolves these puzzles in one of the most unusual books of classical history ever written.

Author: Luciano Gallino
Publisher: Siglo XXI
Keywords: spanish, sociologia, diccionario
Number of Pages: 1027
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $83.95
ISBN-10: 9682317428
ISBN-13: 9789682317422

Se trata del diccionario de sociologia de mayor actualidad y riqueza disponible en nuestra lengua. El profesor Gallino, catedratico de la Universidad de Turin, ha llevado a cabo, en mas de mil paginas, una obra admirable, verdadera summa conceptual de la sociologia de nuestro tiempo. Cada entrada esta dividida en cinco apartados: definicion del concepto, variantes historicas de su significado, componentes y modalidades, factores o causas que lo influyen o modifican, y efectos o influencias en otros fenomenos. En el texto de cada articulo van indicandose las referencias cruzadas pertinentes. Un

Author: Luciano Pietronero
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: physical, science, series, sciences, international, ettore, origin, properties, fractals, majorana
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1990-06-01
List price: $191.00
ISBN-10: 030643413X
ISBN-13: 9780306434136