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      • Medicine
        January 2012

        EGFR Inhibitors in Cancer Treatment

        by Fortunato Ciardiello

        Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a cell membrane receptor with tyrosine kinase activity that plays a crucial role in the control of key cellular transduction pathways in both normal and cancer cells. EGFR is over-expressed in a variety of human tumors, including head and neck, breast, lung and colorectal cancers – thus, it represents a relevant target for selective, molecularly targeted anticancer therapies. This book provide an overview of current knowledge on the use of EGFR inhibitors in cancer treatment, taking constant inspiration from the most recent advances reported in the scientific literature in order to define evidence-based guidelines for the oncology community.

      • Count to ten

        by Paolo Cammilli

        Fortunato, Diletta, Rosa, Nino, Pietro, Salvatore. Six children locked in a circle, as if to protect themselves. Seven years older, four and a half years younger. At that age, hide-and-seek is serious. Those who count are alone, but those who hide challengethe darkness. At that age, death does not exist and you do not find it even if you look for it, at most with death you play it. At that age, the sun shines without thinking about the night. Yet in the block number 4, a popular building of the Cielo Rosso area, south of Catania, two children disappear, a few months from each other. A nightmare that repeats itself. Already ten years before a little girl had disappeared, then found dying along the railway tracks that lap the buildings. Only one element, macabre and mocking, unites the three cases: the little ones are lost in the dark while they are playing hide and seek. No one has seen anything, no one knows anything. Or maybe too much. Hundreds of families, mired in misery, are and are frightening. The investigation, soggy and timid, takes blind alleys and rots like the railings of the balconies. Oscar Baldisserri, a forty-five-year-old man with no head or tail who is catapulted among those shabby concrete walls, is the only one asking questions. Because all that violence and resignation without a glimmer of hope for the future are incomprehensible to those who did not grow up in the Red Sky. In an unstoppable descent into the environmental, social, human degradation of the most ambiguous Italian province, thanks to the help of a taciturn child and Matilde, who will kindle in him a tender and ruthless passion, Oscar will cross the banks of his conscience in order to extract the truth from the silence.

      • Picture books, activity books & early learning material
        2020

        The Other Way Round

        by Silvia Borando

        If a chick runs into a worm it is lucky. If a worm runs into a chick it is unlucky. But what if the worm manages to run away from the chick? Who will be the lucky one? A call for playing with opposites without settling for just one version of the facts. Because things can always be... the other way round!

      • November 2019

        The Cats by Nicoletta Costa

        Cat City

        by Nicoletta Costa

        Series - On the outskirts of a city, in the old port district, at 3 Flounder Street, there’s a big, pink house. And in that big, pink house there live some rowdy but thoroughly lovable cats. Their lives have become intertwined with Filippo’s, the mouse who lives up in the tiny attic. And, over time, they’ve become great friends.

      • Children's & YA
        October 2020

        Wrong

        by Matilde Piran, Andrea Falcone

        Wrong is the story of a journey: Davide and Elisa, both 15, are on the run, looking for a place to be themselves. It’s also the story of a friendship and the search for a common language to express all those emotions that the two just can’t deal with.Davide is the invisible boy. He doesn’t like or dislike anything specific, girls and boys frighten him equally, he doesn’t fit in with any particular group, and he doesn’t know how to approach his own desires.Elisa’s family has just moved to the city from a small town so that her kid brother can get the therapy he needs. She doesn’t know anyone yet. What she knows is that her half-wit brother, will not help her make new friends.Through text and images, the story snowballs towards the meeting between Davide and Elisa, and between two different ways to go wrong and be wrong - and to do it together.

      • Children's & YA

        Heroes Atlas

        by Miralda Colombo

        One hundred and one inspiring stories of the notable men and women who shaped the world with their ideas, their genius, their creativity or courage. From super scientists to clued-up creatives, from writers to dreamers, these profiles explore the life of each personality in detail, with gorgeous illustrations. This educational book includes worldwide famous figures, as well as lesser-known personalities, but all very inspiring for children.

      • Fiction

        Like wild beast

        by Giuse Alemanno

        Oppido Messapico, a small town in deepest Puglia. Costantino Ro chira and his henchmen plan to wipe out the rival mob family, the Sarmenta. It’s all about money and the neighboring Calabrese mob, the ‘Ndrangheta. But the plan works only halfway: by sheer luck the Sarmentas’ only son, Massimo aka Mattanza (Slaughter), a troubled and cruel kid, cheats death, together with his uncles and his cousin Santo. They all leave town on an old Fiat Regata, after clearing the family money and staging their own disappearance. Their trip leads them in the far North of Italy, in Lombardy’s Val Camonica, where an old friend and compatriot, Giovanni Argento, gives them shelter. There, Santo and Mattanza plot their revenge… “Like Wild Beasts” is a tough novel with hard-core nuances, sparing nothing and no one: a Tarantino movie, as told by Giovanni Verga.

      • Biography & True Stories

        Padre Pio: The True Story, Revised and Expanded, 3rd Edition

        by C. Bernard Ruffin

        Before his death in 1968, Padre Pio was known throughout the world as a very holy man — many even called him a living saint. This humble Italian priest who bore the wounds of Christ received thousands of letters and visitors each year, seeking his spiritual counsel, healing, and prayer. Padre Pio’s intense spirituality and holiness remain legendary and life changing. This is the comprehensive life story of the priest who became world famous for his stigmata, miracles, and supernatural insights. Read in detail about the many miracles of Padre Pio, and discover how knowing this powerful saint can change your life, too. By far the best biography of Padre Pio ever written — newly updated with more details and 16 pages of photos!

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