In her non-fictional novel "The Revolving Door" Anna Veneziano showed us, through the eyes of a child, the streets of Rome during the Second World War. Now in "Triad" she takes us on a twisting journey below the streets and into the catacombs of 26th Century Rome in search of missing children used for body parts in a bitter technological race by three tyrannical scientists as they vie to control the destiny of a dying Earth.

To provide valuable legal service to persons in today's Europe, practitioners must be conversant in both national and transnational law. At the European level, the Principles of European Contract Law (PECL) are an increasingly important element of contract law, together with national contract law, as contained in Civil Codes and various national statute. Accordingly, Kluwer Law International has initiated a series of volumes, under the direction of prof. Hondius of the University of Utrecht, comparing PECL with the most important European legal systems. This volume on Italian law is the...