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Straniero
L’invasore, l’esule, l’altro
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Straniero è una parola molto presente nella vita civile. Eppure, per piacere o per forza, le persone si sono sempre spostate da un campo all'altro del pianeta, incontrandosi e mescolandosi, e isolare contorni puri - nazionali, geografici, etnici - si è rivelata sempre una sospetta quanto vana attività. Vale la pena dunque interrogarsi sulla storia di una aggettivo così ambizioso.
Borbonia felix
Il Regno delle Due Sicilie alla vigilia del crollo
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Le polemiche che hanno caratterizzato la celebrazione dei centocinquanta anni dell’Unità d’Italia si sono spesso focalizzate sul crollo del Regno delle Due Sicilie e sulla fine dei Borboni. Un fronte antirisorgimentale giustizialista, alla ricerca di colpevoli e di complotti, ha oggi la presunzione...
Fare la pace
Vincitori e vinti in Europa
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Le paci, non le guerre: questo il rovesciamento di prospettiva che propone Sergio Valzania. Non si tratta di un percorso convenzionale. Al contrario: la fase della soluzione dei conflitti e della ricerca di nuovi assetti di convivenza viene di solito trascurata, ma la sua forza epica è solo in apparenza...
Fascismo
Condanne e revisioni
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Dal predominio del “paradigma antifascista” all’interpretazione del fascismo proposta da Renzo De Felice, Gustavo Corni ricostruisce l’evoluzione della storiografia contemporanea dal 1945 ad oggi. La sua analisi pone al centro dell’attenzione temi quali l’importanza della Resistenza, il...
Memoria presente. vol. 1
Storia per il primo biennio degli Istituti Tecnici
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Memoria presente – vol. 1, dalla Preistoria alla fine della repubblica romana – è un manuale agile, chiaro e completo, arricchito da un innovativo Atlante tematico per esplorare nello spazio e nel tempo l’economia, la tecnologia, gli scambi. Un modo nuovo per comprendere l’integrazione tra...
Beyond Monopoly
Globalization and Contemporary Italian Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
Current trends of globalization have influenced the social, economic, and political framework of national media worldwide. In recent years, the field of media studies has focused on globalization as a phenomenon that has greatly impacted the production and reception of media formats. By reshaping...
Jersey Blues
Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
Like a pilgrim, or a spiritual vagrant, crisscrossing the country—always rolling on the very fabric of the continent: westwards and eastwards, to the eternal oceans, and from the northern vast plains down through the Appalachian, to the deep recesses of the lowlands, to the swamps—infallibly enough...
Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology
The Evolvability of the Phenotype
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Compared to animals, plants have been largely neglected in evolutionary developmental biology. Mainstream research has focused on developmental genetics, while a rich body of knowledge in comparative morphology is still to be exploited. No integrated account is available. In this volume, Minelli fills...
New textile finds from Tomba dell’Aryballos sospeso, Tarquinia: Context, analysis and preliminary interpretation
Published in Origini n. XL/2017. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Published in Origini n. XL/2017. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations | An intact chamber tomb dated between the end of the Orientalising...
The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports
Socio-philosophical Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This monograph on indirect reports offers insights on the semantics/pragmatics interface and a refinement of the notion of explicature. The volume is written in an engaging style and guides the reader through the theoretical problems and their ramifications. The thorniest problem in the study of indirect...
by Huang Yukon; Magnoli Bocchi Alessandro
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Reshaping Economic Geography in East Asia, a companion volume to the World Development Report 2009, brings together noted scholars to address the spatial distribution of economic growth in Asia. It reveals how the new economic geography is reshaping development objectives: from initiatives to foster...
Pasolini’s Lasting Impressions
Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Noted as a ‘civil poet’ by Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini was a creative and philosophical genius whose works challenged generations of Western Europeans and Americans to reconsider not only issues regarding the self, but also various social concerns. Pasolini’s works touched and continues...
Hitler Strikes North
The Nazi Invasion of Norway and Denmark, 9 April 1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A detailed account of Germany’s groundbreaking Operation Weserübung, the first three dimensional—land, sea, air—strategic invasion in history.
The German invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 brought a sudden and shocking end to the “Phoney War” in the West. In a single day, multiple...
Machiavellian Encounters in Tudor and Stuart England
Literary and Political Influences from the Reformation to the Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Taking into consideration the political and literary issues hanging upon the circulation of Machiavelli's works in England, this volume highlights how topics and ideas stemming from Machiavelli's books - including but not limited to the Prince - strongly influenced the contemporary political debate....