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      • Martini Maria Cristina | MMC Edizioni

        MMC EDIZIONI is a publishing house based in Rome.Born in 2001 as a generalist, along the time it has specialized almost exclusively in non-fiction, dedicated in particular (but not only) to the city of Rome.The main series, called "A walk with history" offers an alternative vision of the city through the historical reconnaissance and analysis of some of its urban furnishings that are not taken into consideration such as small fountains, clocks, inscriptions, sacred shrines, plaques. This series stands out for a particular graphic style and for the abundance of photographs, specially made for these books.Other series on Rome are instead dedicated to in-depth studies on specific historical and customs themes, or on the mysterious aspects of the city that also reveal its dark side.In the MMC catalogue are other non-fiction books on topics such as Music, Interculture, Anthropology and a series of stories for children encouraging solidarity, non-violence and respect for the environment

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        Animal behaviour
        June 2014

        Livestock Handling and Transport

        by Edited by Temple Grandin

        Edited by world-renowned animal scientist Dr. Temple Grandin, this practical book integrates scientific research and industry literature on cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, goats, deer, and horses, in both the developed and developing world, to provide a practical guide to humane handling and minimizing animal stress. Reviewing the latest research on transport systems, restraint methods and facilities for farms and slaughterhouses, this fully updated fourth edition of Livestock Handling and Transport includes new coverage of animal handling in South America, and reviews extensive new research on pig transportation in North America.

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        Genocide & ethnic cleansing
        May 2017

        Destruction and human remains

        Disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence

        by Series edited by Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Élisabeth Anstett. Edited by Élisabeth Anstett, Jean-Marc Dreyfus

        Destruction and human remains investigates a crucial question frequently neglected in academic debate in the fields of mass violence and genocide studies: what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed? In the context of mass violence, death does not constitute the end of the executors' work. Their victims' remains are often treated and manipulated in very specific ways, amounting in some cases to true social engineering, often with remarkable ingenuity. To address these seldom-documented phenomena, this volume includes chapters based on extensive primary and archival research to explore why, how and by whom these acts have been committed through recent history. Interdisciplinary in scope, Destruction and human remains will appeal to readers interested in the history and implications of genocide and mass violence, including researchers in anthropology, sociology, history, politics and modern warfare.

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        Pharmaceutical industries
        November 2009

        Pesticide Manual, 15th edition

        A World Compendium

        by Edited by Clive D S Tomlin

        The fifteenth edition of The Pesticide Manual provides the most comprehensive information on active ingredients for the control of crop pests in the world. Completely revised and updated, with information supplied by manufacturing companies worldwide, the latest edition contains 30 new entries including more than 20 new synthetic molecules. It also features 1,436 profiles and lists over 2,600 products.

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        Biography & True Stories
        September 2024

        Bedsit land

        The strange worlds of Soft Cell

        by Patrick Clarke

        A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell. Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of their collaboration embraced a staggering array of sounds, influences and innovations that would change the face of music to come. In Bedsit land, Patrick Clarke plunges into the archives and interviews more than sixty contributors, including the band members themselves, to follow Soft Cell through the many strange and sprawling worlds that shaped their extraordinary career. They lead him from the faded camp glamour of the British seaside to the dizzying thrills of the New York club scene. From transgressive student performance art to the sleaze and squalor of pre-gentrified Soho. From the glitz of British showbiz to the drug-addled chaos of post-Franco Spain. He emerges on the other side with the most in-depth, innovative and entertaining account of the duo ever written.

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        Pharmaceutical industries
        November 2009

        Manual of Biocontrol Agents, 4th edition

        A World Compendium

        by Edited by Leonard G Copping

        Completely revised and updated, this edition of The Manual of Biocontrol Agents contains 452 detailed entries of biocontrol agents used in the production of 2,000 commercial products. It includes: 149 micro-organisms 89 natural products 140 macro-organisms 74 semiochemicals Although different in style, this publication is complementary to The Pesticide Manual now in its 15th edition and where appropriate entries are cross referenced. All those involved in the practice, administration, regulation of or educational fields in organic or conventional crop protection and environmental safety will find this a definitive source of global biocontrol information.

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        Sociology: death & dying
        May 2017

        Human remains and identification

        Mass violence, genocide, and the ‘forensic turn’

        by Series edited by Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Élisabeth Anstett. Edited by Élisabeth Anstett, Jean-Marc Dreyfus

        Human remains and identification presents a pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence. Previously absent from forensic debate, social scientists and historians here confront historical and contemporary exhumations with the application of social context to create an innovative and interdisciplinary dialogue, enlightening the political, social and legal aspects of mass crime and its aftermaths. Through a ground-breaking selection of international case studies, Human remains and identification argues that the emergence of new technologies to facilitate the identification of dead bodies has led to a "forensic turn", normalising exhumations as a method of dealing with human remains en masse. However, are these exhumations always made for legitimate reasons? Multidisciplinary in scope, this book will appeal to readers interested in understanding this crucial phase of mass violence's aftermath, including researchers in history, anthropology, sociology, forensic science, law, politics and modern warfare. The research program leading to this publication has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n° 283-617.

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        April 1980

        Wege zu sich selbst

        übertragen und mit einer Einführung von Willy Theiler

        by Marc Aurel

        Marc Aurel ist im Jahre 121 n.Chr. in Rom geboren und war von 161 bis zu seinem Tod 180 römischer Kaiser. Er ist in die Geschichte als »Philosoph auf dem Kaiserthron« eingegangen, als der letzte Stoiker der Alten Welt. Die längste Zeit seiner neunzehn Jahre währenden Herrschaft verbrachte er im Heerlager, um die Barbarenstürme abzuwehren, die das Römische Reich erschütterten. Dabei half ihm die Philosophie, Ruhe und inneren Frieden zu bewahren. Mit seinem Tod endete für das Römische Reich eine Zeit der weitgehenden Stabilität. Das Reiterstandbild auf dem Kapitol in Rom und die Markussäule auf der Piazza Colona erinnern bis heute an sein Wirken.

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        July 2012

        Hobalala

        Auf der Suche nach João Gilberto

        by Marc Fischer

        »Girl from Ipanema«, »Chega de Saudade«, »Desafinado« – diese Klassiker der Bossa nova sind täglich in den Cafés, Clubs und Radios dieser Welt zu hören. Sie sind berühmt, weil sie so sind, wie Musik sein sollte: ewig gültig und trotzdem immer wieder neu. Erfunden wurde ihr einzigartiger leiser Klang von einem Mann, dessen Gitarre und Gesang alle kennen, mit dem aber kaum jemand geredet hat, weil er sich seit dreißig Jahren in einem Apartment in Rio de Janeiro versteckt: João Gilberto. In »Hobalala« macht sich Marc Fischer auf die Suche nach der letzten großen Musiklegende unserer Zeit. Er trifft Freunde, Frauen, Weggefährten, um herauszufinden, wie das Herz der Bossa nova im Innersten tickt und was Lohn und Preis der Kunst sind. Eine literarische Detektivgeschichte über den großen, geheimnisvollen Mr. João Gilberto.

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        Biotechnology
        December 2003

        Intellectual Property Rights in Agricultural Biotechnology, 2nd Edition

        by Edited by Frederic H Erbisch, Karim M Maredia

        During the past twenty-five years, biotechnology has revolutionized agricultural research. The enormous potential, together with a landmark decision by the US Supreme Court to allow the patenting of genetically-engineered organisms has encouraged private sector companies to invest in agricultural biotechnology research programmes. This has contributed to a rapid growth in interest in intellectual property rights as applied to this subject.The first edition of this book was published in 1998. Now fully revised and updated it presents definitive information on intellectual property law in a simplified form (with a minimum of legal jargon). New chapters have been added which cover plant variety protection and farmers rights, and additional case studies.

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        Medicine
        September 2018

        Animal Welfare in a Changing World

        by Edited by Andrew Butterworth

        Contemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare for today's, and tomorrow's, world. The issues discussed range from the welfare of hunted animals, to debates around intensive farming versus sustainability, and the effects of climate and environmental change. The book explores the effects of fences on wild animals and human impacts on carrion animals; the impacts of tourism on animal welfare; philosophical questions about speciesism; and the quality and quantity of animal lives. The welfare impacts of human-animal interactions are explored, including human impacts on marine mammals, fish, wildlife, and companion and farm animals. Animal Welfare in a Changing World provides: Concise, opinion-based views on important issues in animal welfare by world experts and key opinion leaders. Pieces based on experience, which balance evidence-based approaches and the welfare impacts of direct engagement through training, campaigning and education. A wide-ranging collection of examples and descriptions of animal welfare topics which outline dilemmas in the real world, that are sometimes challenging, and not always comfortable reading. This is a 'must-read' book for animal and veterinary scientists, ethologists, policy and opinion leaders, NGOs, conservation biologists and anyone who feels passionately about the welfare of animals

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        Economics
        September 1997

        Common Agricultural Policy, 2nd Edition

        by Edited by Christopher Ritson, David R Harvey

        The first edition of this book, published in 1991 with the title The Common Agricultural Policy and the World Economy, was well received as a timely analysis of this fast-moving but important subject. However, several major developments, such as general CAP reform, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), expansion of the European Union, and relationships with eastern Europe, have justified the need for a new edition. As a result, the book has been thoroughly updated, with some completely new chapters added and others replaced. It has also be rewritten with a greater emphasis on the needs of students for a well-integrated, comprehensive textbook.

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        November 2016

        Fabeln

        by Jean La Fontaine, Marc Chagall

        Der legendäre Kunsthändler Ambroise Vollard beauftragte Marc Chagall 1926, die berühmten Fabeln Jean de La Fontaines zu illustrieren.1930 wurden die Bilder in namhaften Galerien in Paris, Brüssel und Berlin gezeigt und in Privatsammlungen auf der ganzen Welt verkauft. Erst in den neunziger Jahren versuchte man, die verstreuten Gemälde wieder als großen Werkzyklus im Pariser „Grand Palais“ zu versammeln und einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit vorzustellen. Die Insel-Bücherei macht alle Bilder dieser Ausstellung, 43 farbige Gouachen, zusammen mit den Fabeln erstmalig in einer deutschen Ausgabe zugänglich – ein fabelhaftes Vergnügen!

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        March 2000

        Mein Leben

        by Marc Chagall, Werner Schmidt

        Marc Chagall (1887-1985) ist im Viertel der armen Juden in Witebsk in Rußland aufgewachsen. 1941 kehrte er nach Aufenthalten in St. Petersburg, Paris und Berlin vorübergehend an den Ort seiner Kindheit und frühen Jugend zurück. Aus der freudigen Stimmung dieser Wiederbegegnung mit seiner Heimatstadt heraus entstand Anfang der 20er Jahre ein Radierzyklus mit Alltagsszenen und den Bezugspersonen seiner Kindheit. Liebevoll dargestellt sind die Eltern und die Großeltern, Chagalls Geburt, das Geburtshaus, der erste Kuß, die Hochzeit, Straßenszenen oder die wehmutsvolle Begegnung mit den Grabstätten der Eltern – es ist der Fundus von Chagalls malerischem und graphischem Werk.

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        May 2011

        Wege zu sich selbst

        by Marc Aurel, Otto Kiefer, Klaus Sallmann

        Schon Friedrich Nietzsche hat Marc Aurels "Wege zu sich selbst" als „Stärkungsmittel“ empfohlen. Auch heutigen Lesern kann dieses Buch des großen Stoikers ein wertvoller Begleiter durch den Alltag und Anleitung zur inneren Ruhe und Gelassenheit sein. Aurels meditative Gedanken und Aphorismen zeugen von großer Lebensweisheit und Liebe zu den Menschen. Das Glück im Inneren finden und sich nicht von den äußeren Stürmen mitreißen lassen – das ist die wertvolle Erkenntnis dieser unvergänglichen Sammlung von Leitsätzen.

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        December 2012

        Wege zu sich selbst

        by Otto Kiefer, Klaus Sallmann, Marc Aurel

        Schon Friedrich Nietzsche hat Marc Aurels "Wege zu sich selbst" als „Stärkungsmittel“ empfohlen. Auch heutigen Lesern kann dieses Buch des großen Stoikers ein wertvoller Begleiter durch den Alltag und Anleitung zur inneren Ruhe und Gelassenheit sein. Aurels meditative Gedanken und Aphorismen zeugen von großer Lebensweisheit und Liebe zu den Menschen. Das Glück im Inneren finden und sich nicht von den äußeren Stürmen mitreißen lassen – das ist die wertvolle Erkenntnis dieser unvergänglichen Sammlung von Leitsätzen.

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