Childhood friends Elia, Giorgio, Claudio, and Fabrizio had been meeting in their favorite café in the center of the ancient city of Arezzo in Tuscany for forty years. One day, they decided to go to Bucharest to visit their friend Angelo. They brought along Gert and Sebastian, more old acquaintances, to have a reunion. When they got there, Angelo had a surprise waiting for them. Little did they know that this visit would change their lives forever. Cracks began to appear in marriages as well as in the wonderful friendships they had enjoyed for the past forty years. It all began with this first trip. It wouldn’t be their last. This book was written in Tuscany, inspired by real events that took place years ago.

Childhood friends Elia, Giorgio, Claudio and Fabrizio had been meeting in their favorite café in the center of the ancient city of Arezzo in Tuscany for forty years. One day, they decided to go to Bucharest to visit their friend Angelo. They brought along Gert and Sebastian, more old acquaintances, to have a reunion. When they got there, Angelo had a surprise waiting for them.Little did they know that this visit would change their lives forever.Cracks began to appear in marriages, as well as in the wonderful friendships they had enjoyed for the past forty years.It all began with this first trip. It wouldn't be their last.This book was written in Tuscany, inspired by real events that took place years ago.

The impossible love story between an Israeli businessman and a married Muslim woman living in Cairo. The man gets into dangerous affairs that might put him in prison in Egypt for many years; he falls into the trap of his Italian acquaintance and begins to smuggle agricultural seeds into Egypt. His sense of adventure and his love for Loubna are the driving force that makes him return to Egypt again and again.

Architecturally, Romania was long regarded as one of the most interesting and beautiful countries In Europe. This book documents the systematic destruction of that heritage by the Ceausescu regime, a process of systematization intended to destroy the cultural indentity of a nation on a huge scale.

These proceedings include most of the available information on this major seismic event and its consequences. With an estimated moment magnitude of 7.7 and a heavy toll in terms of human and economic losses, it ranks as the largest intermediate-depth earthquake in Europe in the twentieth century. Nevertheless, because of the difficult conditions in the 1940s, the lessons learnt after the Vrancea earthquake were not extensively shared with the international scientific community and thus, this book fills a gap in the literature discussing the knowledge acquired after major disasters. Past experience together with current understanding of the 1940 Vrancea earthquake are presented along with the latest information on Romanian seismicity, seismic hazard and risk assessment, and seismic evaluation and rehabilitation of buildings and structures. Moreover, it includes excerpts from Romanian post-disaster reports and textbooks concerning the earthquake.

"Bold and Bitter Statements", is a book contained full of life experiences of the author. It's a book of bitter truths that people may find intensive bold words of the author. The bold words may motivate some people to go into the infinite hole of truth. And some people may think the words are excessively bitter to concede.

Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, defining the field and addressing the controversies and goals of urban design. Including over 50 updated international case studies, this new edition presents a three-dimensional model with which to categorize the processes and products involved: product type, paradigm type, and procedural type. The case studies not only illuminate the typology but provide information that designers can use as precedents in their own work. Uniquely, these case study projects are framed by the design paradigm employed, categorized by procedural type instead of instrumental or land use function. The categories used here are Total Urban Design, All-of-a-piece Urban Design, Plug-in Urban Design, and Piece-by-piece Urban Design. Written for both professionals and those encountering urban design in their day-to-day life, Urban Design is an essential introduction to the field and practice, considering the future direction of the field and what can be learned from the past.

A history of the Romanian people which seeks to make intelligible their aspirations, achievements and plight. The author, who died in 1988, had been for many years the Director of the Romanian Radio Service for Europe.