This book provides a historical background of the monetary system of Bretton Woods, whose conference was held in 1944 in order to establish the rules of the commercial and...

Starting from a definition of e-learning and its historical overview, this book wants to answer two questions. Which criteria has to follow a project of online didactics? Which...

This book is a point of reference for all those who want to learn the cataloguing technique in a library. It is divided into three parts. In the first part, the concept and the...

Google is surely the most important search engine on the Web. But what isGoogle? How was it born? How does it work? This book wants to answer allthese questions through a detailed...

This book provides a general overview from the historical and technical point of view of the most known social networks of the Web: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn.

This book traces the origin of the evolution giving an overview of the precursors who inspired Darwin's work. It will be analyzed with all its scientific and philosophic...

This book wants to provide an overview of nanomedicine. The book particularly deals with the nanomedical applications (drug delivery, LOCs and bioMEMS) and the positive and...

By now, nanotechnologies belong to our daily life. They are used in sport, food, electronics, energy production, and so on. This book wants to describe the way how...

This book provides a historic overview of what is defined as "soft computing" with its techniques: neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms and cellular automata.

Dizionario fraseologico contenente più di 1000 espressioni idiomatiche usate nel linguaggio comune della lingua inglese.