In Sardegna, nella notte tra Ognissanti e il due novembre, le tavole vengono apparecchiate per accogliere i defunti. Per sa chena pro sos mortos si tirano fuori le migliori tovaglie ricamate, i piatti delle feste, l'aria si riempie di profumi di erbe e pane, in attesa che le anime tornino nelle case che hanno amato. Tutto questo Iride Dessì non lo ricorda più. Vive da anni lontano da Padria, il paese nel cuore aspro e luminoso del Meilogu, dove è cresciuta. È solo la morte del padre che l'ha riportata lì. Nella grande dimora dei Dessì, ricchi possidenti di Padria, tutto è rimasto com'era e nelle stanze cariche di memorie pare quasi di sentire gli avi sussurrare. È Tata, la donna che si è presa cura di lei quando era bambina, custode di saperi antichi e segreti mai rivelati, a guidare Iride tra le ombre che sembrano abitare ogni angolo. E che chiedono di essere ascoltate.

In un piccolo borgo sul lago di Varese, la dottoressa Teodolinda "Teo" Caretti, medico legale conosciuta come "la regina dei morti", si trova a indagare sulla morte misteriosa di una giovane donna, Marianna Frattini. Quando una seconda vittima, Sabrina Cerutti, viene ritrovata nelle stesse circostanze, diventa chiaro che un serial killer sta seminando terrore nella comunità. Insieme al commissario Arno Brandstätter, Teo si immerge in un'indagine intricata dove ogni indizio porta a nuovi misteri. I capelli rossi delle vittime, i fiori disposti artisticamente intorno ai corpi, e un dipinto preraffaellita di Ofelia sembrano essere collegati in un macabro disegno.

Il razzismo ha molte forme, e spesso le più subdole sono le meno eclatanti. Ogni volta che una persona bianca non riconosce il proprio privilegio per salvaguardare la sua posizione, è razzista (anche se non lo sa). Siamo sicuri di sapere esattamente che cos'è il razzismo? Di poterlo riconoscere quando lo vediamo, di riuscire a prenderne le distanze, di condannarlo, e soprattutto di non agirlo mai? In questo suo nuovo libro Marilena Umuhoza Delli ci porta alla scoperta di nuove e vecchie forme di razzismo: dal nanorazzismo al neorazzismo, dal razzismo daltonico al razzismo avversivo la discriminazione assume facce sempre diverse, apparentemente innocenti eppure violente e marginalizzanti. Un libro diretto a tutti, e in particolare a chi, incapace di riconoscere, e quindi di mettere in discussione, i privilegi che automaticamente il sistema gli riconosce, si mostra in realtà ben più fragile delle vittime che discrimina.

Aim of this book is to present to researchers and engineers a description of the present knowledge on the viscoplasticity of geomaterials, considering the experimental and theoretical aspects and the applications to relevant problems. First, the laboratory tests performed in order to quantitatively assess the theological properties of rocks are illustrated, describing the equipments used in modern rock mechanics laboratories and the proper testing procedures. Part of the presentation is devoted to the description of constitutive creep laws having different degrees of accuracy and complexity. The book covers also problems related to the application of numerical solution procedures to rock/soil mechanics situations in which the slow deformation of geomaterials is to be taken into account.

Cet ouvrage est le guide idéal pour redécouvrir le bonheur de confectionner vos propres conserves maison, vous permettant ainsi de maximiser le fruit de vos récoltes et de dire avec fierté « c’est moi qui les ai faites ! ».

One of the great twentieth-century achievements in the mechanics of fluids was the full elucidation of the physics of shock waves and the later comprehensive development of understanding of how shock waves propagate (i) through otherwise undisturbed fluid and (ii) in interaction either with solid bodies or with independently generated fluid flows. The interaction problems (ii) were soon found to raise some very special difficulties (beginning with the common formation of "Mach stems" in shock-wave reflection) yet they also turned out to possess enormous scientific interest as well as being highly important in practical applications. For all these reasons the appearance of this book on "Interaction of Shock Waves" by one of the world's major contributors to knowledge in that field is most particularly to be welcomed. It covers all those approaches to the subject which have been found fruitful, and most satisfactorily goes into comprehensive detail about each. At last the important achievements of the leading research workers, experimental as well as theoretical, on shockwave interaction problems are brought together in a single convenient and well written volume. I warmly congratulate the author and the publisher on having performed, for the benefit of everyone interested in the mechanics of fluids, this immensely valuable service.

The three volume set LNAI 10462, LNAI 10463, and LNAI 10464 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2017, held in Wuhan, China, in August 2017.
The 235 papers presented in the three volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 310 submissions. The papers in this first volume of the set are organized in topical sections on soft, micro-nano, bio-inspired robotics; human-machine interaction; swarm robotics; underwater robotics.

This book provides an in-depth review of non-pushing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). With abundant, clear figures, the chapters logically describe retrograde wiring techniques, including the stenting of bifurcation lesions, right coronary artery ostial lesions, and left main trunk (LMT) lesions, and then go on to illustrate Mitsudo’s non-pushing PCI techniques. Short columns between chapters offer tips and tricks to help readers gain a better understanding.
Given its scope, this book is not only a valuable resource for by coronary interventionalists dealing with PCI for complex lesions including chronic total occlusion (CTO), but also serves as a practical and informative for cardiologists.

The three volume set LNAI 10462, LNAI 10463, and LNAI 10464 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2017, held in Wuhan, China, in August 2017.
The 235 papers presented in the three volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 310 submissions. The papers in this first volume of the set are organized in topical sections on soft, micro-nano, bio-inspired robotics; human-machine interaction; swarm robotics; underwater robotics.

This book presents both updated and new measurements on water resources from selective pilot areas form the Middle East. Demand for water has become very crucial notably in arid and semiarid regions like in the Middle East. The changing climate and the increased population are the most striking challenges on water resources in this region where the largest part of its territory is dry lands and deserts with minimal precipitation and high evaporation rates, and thus, the average per capita of water does not exceed 25 m3/year. This resulted in developing many studies and researches in different Middle East countries to clearly identify and assess the hydrological characteristics of the available water resources and to explore new resources in order to secure balanced water supply/demand.

This book includes selected papers presented at International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Data Science and Cloud Computing (IEM-ICDC) 2020, organized by the Department of Information Technology, Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India, during 25–27 September 2020.
It presents substantial new research findings about AI and robotics, image processing and NLP, cloud computing and big data analytics as well as in cyber security, blockchain and IoT, and various allied fields. The book serves as a reference resource for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry.

The ten-volume set LNCS 12949 – 12958 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2021, which was held in Cagliari, Italy, during September 13 – 16, 2021. The event was organized in a hybrid mode due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Paris 1893. Ludmilla Golovnine, la célèbre meneuse de revues parisiennes, est retrouvée assassinée. L’enquête peine à élucider ce meurtre mystérieux. Amandine, la fidèle amie de la victime, désespère que justice soit faite, tandis que Flora, la demi-sœur de Ludmilla, s’en remet aux forces invisibles du spiritisme pour résoudre l’énigme de ses origines

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 6th International Conference on Wireless Technologies, Embedded and Intelligent Systems (WITS 2020), held at Fez, Morocco. It presents original research results, new ideas and practical lessons learnt that touch on all aspects of wireless technologies, embedded and intelligent systems.