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This volume highlights important aspects of the complex relationship between common language and legal practice. It hosts an interdisciplinary discussion between cognitive science, philosophy of language and philosophy of law, in which an international group of authors aims to promote, enrich and r... More

This volume is the second part of a project which hosts an interdisciplinary discussion about the relationship among law and language, legal practice and ordinary conversation, legal philosophy and the linguistics sciences. An international group of authors, from cognitive science, philosophy of la... More

Emma is just a girl who is unaware of her magnetic charm. An orphan since an early age, she lives with her best friend Serena, a sunny and sociable girl who supports and assists Emma through the hard times and the good ones. Nothing is as it seems and as the plot unravels Serena will reveal its tru... More

The book brings together the contributions of the 7th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (SLERD 2022), which aims at promoting reflection and discussion concerning R&D work, policies, case studies, and entrepreneur experiences with a special focus on under... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2016, held in Bologna, Italy, in November 2016. The 51 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 171 submissions. The papers cover all ... More

This book deals with integrated Web, mobile, and IoT technologies. Novel approaches and techniques, new tools and frameworks are needed to address the increasing complexity of the distributed computing paradigms that are coming and the applications therein.This volume contains selected and extended ... More

* Todos los aficionados a los trabajos con la madera, un material cálido y natural, encontrarán en este libro las indicaciones necesarias para conocer las características de las maderas más comunes. * En esta obra, el lector aprenderá todos aquellos conocimientos imprescindibles que necesita para r... More

* Realizar en casa algunas obras de albañilería puede resultar fácil y divertido pero también, a veces, necesario: basta con seguir las instrucciones que se facilitan en este libro para que no encuentre ninguna dificultad en cualquier intervención que tenga que realizar. * Aprenderá todo sobre herr... More

* Renovar uno mismo su propia casa no es una tarea imposible, si se siguen con atención las indicaciones de este libro. * Pintar las paredes, empapelar, efectuar revestimientos con madera, tapizar con moqueta, colocar el parqué, embaldosar y mil tareas más no tendrán secretos con las detalladas ex... More

* Los trabajos de construcción con madera presentan dificultades que suelen desanimar a los aficionados que se lanzan a este tipo de proyectos. Este libro representa un gran paso hacia la superación de esas dificultades. * En sus páginas se muestran cincuenta y seis proyectos en madera de muebles s... More

* ¿Cuántas veces ha estado esperando al electricista, al fontanero o al albañil, que tardaban en hacer una reparación, o ha palidecido al ver la factura astronómica que le presentaban? * Con esta obra aprenderá a realizar usted mismo pequeñas reparaciones en su casa: retocar muebles, cambiar manil... More

This is the first book on proportionality in Latin American constitutional law. Leading scholars in the region explore how proportionality analysis has become a key part of the constitutional law of a region where, almost paradoxically, constitutions with clear transformative intentions coexist with... More

Incisive contributions from leading and emerging scholars in the field of Peace Studies In the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace, a team of renowned scholars delivers an authoritative and interdisciplinary sourcebook that addresses the key concepts, history, theories, models, resource... More

La historia de un prisionero polaco y una judía que se enamoraron en el campo de exterminio. Un hecho real, inexplicable e injustamente olvidado, que la periodista Francesca Paci reconstruye por primera vez a través de fuentes extraídas de los archivos del Museo Estatal de Auschwitz, documentos... More

"Wampiry, czarownice, magia, to wszystko, co ożywiało jej fantazję stało się nieodwołalniejej rzeczywistością". Emma jest zwykłą dziewczyną, nieświadomą swej fascynującej urody i niezwykłego charyzmatu. Jej niepozorne, niemal niewidoczne życie, toczące się na pograniczu szarości, zostaje zaburzon... More

This book contains the best selected papers of two Satellite Events held at the 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2016, in November 2016 in Bologna, Italy: The Second International Workshop on Educational Knowledge Management, EKM 2016, and the Fir... More

¿Cómo se han conseguido los cambios constitucionales que México necesita durante la etapa de los gobiernos sin mayoría en el Congreso?Reformar sin mayorías es producto de una investigación colectiva auspiciada por el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD-México) que analiza los ca... More

Social Influence, Power, and Multimodal Communication reveals how democratic leaders and dictators exploit multimodal communication to convince or seduce their audiences, using words, voice, gesture, face, gaze, and posture to boast about their merits or insult and ridicule rivals. Poggi and D'E... More

This book explores the use of technology to detect, predict and understand social cues, in order to analyze and prevent conflict. Traditional human sciences approaches are enriched with the latest developments in Social Signal Processing aimed at an automatic understanding of conflict and negotiati... More

The Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History documents and interprets the development of economic history as a global discipline from the later nineteenth century to the present day. Exploring the normative and relativistic nature of different schools and traditions of thought, this handbook no... More

The new edition of a milestone work on the global history of technology.This milestone history of technology, first published in 1990 and now revised and expanded in light of recent research, broke new ground by taking a global view, avoiding the conventional Eurocentric perspective and placing the ... More

In this book Part I presents first an overview of the ECHORD++ project, with its mission and vision together with a detailed structure of its functionalities and instruments: Experiments, Robotic Innovation Facilities and Public end-user Driven Technology Innovation PDTI. Chapter 1 explains how th... More

Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories contributes to the study of conspiracy culture by analysing the religious and esoteric dimensions of conspiracy theories. The book examines both historical and contemporary examples to explore transnational and transhistorical continuities between religiou... More

The globalization of financial markets worldwide has progressively pushed toward simultaneous globalization of accounting information. Thus, during the last 50 years, categories of preparers, users, and regulators have devoted their efforts to support the global comparability of financial reporting ... More

This book includes the outcomes of the 11th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2020). The 11th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence is hosted by the University of L’Aquila and is going to be held in L’Aquila (Italy). Initially planned on the 17th to the 19th of June 20... More