1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451129803321

Autore

Parker Simon

Titolo

New Italian Republic [[electronic resource] ] : From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to Berlusconi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 1995

ISBN

1-280-32085-0

0-203-43144-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GundleStephen

Disciplina

320.4509045

320.945

Soggetti

Democracy

Italy

Italy - Politics and government - 1994-

Judicial power

Political parties

Political Science

Democracy - Italy

Political parties - Italy

Judicial power - Italy

Government - Europe

Government - Non-U.S

Law, Politics & Government

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction: the new Italian Republic; Explaining Italy's crisis; Electoral reform and political change in Italy, 1991  1994; Political Catholicism and the strange death of the Christian Democrats; Italian Communism in the First Republic; The rise and fall of Craxi's Socialist Party; The fate of the secular Centre: the Liberals, Republicans and Social Democrats; The Northern League: from regional party to party of government; Forza Italia: the new politics and old values of a changing Italy



Towards a modern Right: Alleanza Nazionale and the 'Italian Revolution'The great failure? The Democratic Party of the Left in Italy's transition; The 'Left Opposition' and the crisis: Rifondazione Comunista and La Rete; A legal revolution? The judges and Tangentopoli; The mass media and the political crisis; The system of corrupt exchange in local government; The resistible rise of the new Neapolitan Camorra; The changing Mezzogiorno: between

Sommario/riassunto

The New Italian Republic charts the breakdown of the old party system and examines the changed political climate that has allowed Berlusconi to rise as Italy's new master and subsequently precipitated his rapid fall from power.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910446322703321

Autore

Watson R.R

Titolo

Botanical Medicine in Clinical Practice [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

CABI, 2008

ISBN

1-84593-730-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (937 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PreedyV.R

Disciplina

615.321

Soggetti

Botany, Medical

Herbs -- Therapeutic use

Phytotherapy

Plant preparations

Plants, Medicinal

Herbs - Therapeutic use

Materia medica, Vegetable

Biological Products

Plants

Complementary Therapies

Therapeutics

Eukaryota

Complex Mixtures

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment

Organisms

Chemicals and Drugs

Plant Preparations

Health & Biological Sciences

Pharmacy, Therapeutics, & Pharmacology



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Herbal Remedies with Geographic Historic Uses; 1. African Plants as Antipathogen Agents: Efficacy and Clinical Evidence; 2. African Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of HIV/AIDS; 3. African Plants and Herbs in Asthma Therapy; 4. Arab Herbal Medicine; 5. Bolivian Plant Extracts: Traditional Medicine; 6. Brazilian Medicinal Plants in Gastrointestinal Therapy; 7. Chinese Herbal Medicine in Asthma and Allergy Treatment; 8. Plant Drugs and Extracts in Human and Veterinary Health Promotion within Europe: Benefits and Risks

9. Himalayan Mayapple: Traditional Uses, Clinical Indications and Future Prospects10. Neem Leaves: Indian Herbal Medicine; 11. Japanese Botanical Medicines in Liver and Gastrointestinal Health: Risk and Benefits; 12. Japanese Herbal Medicine in Western-style Modern Medical System; 13. Korean Traditional Herbal Materials and Herbal Formulas in Health Promotion: Benefits and Safety; 14. South American Plants in Folk Medicine: Chilean and Patagonian Cases; 15. The Use of Herbal Medicines by Mexican Americans in the USA: Risk/Benefits?; II. Infectious Disease Treatment and Immunomodulation

16. Antibacterial Effects of Tannins in Children and Adults17. Antimicrobial Activity of Medicinal Plants from South America; 18. Plant Oils and Anti-pathogen Immune Stimulation; 19. Novel Anti-schistosomal Drugs from Medical Plants; 20. Caribbean Plant Therapies to Treat Diseases; 21. Essential Oils Inhibit Replication of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 and Type 2; 22. Japanese Vegetable Juice, Aojiru as Immunomodulators; 23. Micronutrients and Nutrient Synergy in Immunodeficiency and Infectious Disease; 24. Botanicals in Infectious Disease Treatment; 25. Herbs and Infectious Disease

26. Health Promotion in Relation to Respiratory Viral InfectionsIII. Treatment of Disorders; i. Cancer Prevention and Treatment; 27. Black Cohosh Extracts and Cancer; 28. Botanicals for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia; 29. Brazilian Anticancer Botanical Agents; 30. Cruciferous Vegetables and Bladder Cancer; 31. Mushrooms and the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer; 32. Mushroom Secondary Metabolites and Cancer; 33. Ginger and Curcumin in Cancer Prevention and Health Promotion; 34. Bioavailability and Cancer Preventive Activity of Green Tea Polyphenols

35. Herbal Ingredients for the Inhibition of Tumour-induced Angiogenesis36. Herbal Products in Dermatology: Implications for Photoaging, Skin Cancer Prevention and the Treatment of Cutaneous Disease; 37. Lichen Extracts and Cancer; 38. Magic Fusion: the Meaning of Integration in Medicine; 39. Dietary Phytochemicals in Prevention and Therapy of Cancer; 40. Phytochemicals and Anticancer Mechanisms; 41. Plant Extracts and Breast Cancer; 42. Plant Polyphenols and Phyto-oestrogens in Cancer Prevention; 43. Russian Medicinal Plants in Treatment of Cancer

44. Scutellaria: Potential Use in Cancer Prevention and Treatment

Sommario/riassunto

The potential benefits of plants and plant extracts in the treatment and possible prevention of many leading health concerns are becoming more widely recognised within the medicinal community. This major comprehensive reference work contains contributions from more than 80 clinical and academic experts in the field, covering a range of plant



products and their uses, divided into sections on topics such as treatments of cardiovascular diseases and cancer. The book covers the safety and efficacy of botanical treatments and there is also a chapter analysing the possible interactions of herbal rem