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"This title focuses on an Italian architect and engraver of the 18th century - Piranesi. In this book it is argued that Piranesi grants a metaphorical meaning to the Carcesi - a set of etchings - in order to impriso those he saw as obstructing the arts and threatening his own freedom. In light...

The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society. Whereas women emancipated themselves from the yoke of male-masters, men in turn acquired polite manners and became civilized. Such a conception, however, presents problematic...

Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity’s first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the...

This volume explores questions which emerge from considering the relationship between nature and ethics through philosophical, theological, ethical and environmental lenses. It will examine the nature (understood as essence or character) of ethics itself and whether nature (understood as natural world)...

'Collaboration' is a complex cultural and political phenomenon: the combined practice of two or more artists, simultaneously or across time, or the willing (and therefore publicly reprehensible) collusion implied by the term's specifically historical meaning. These interdisciplinary essays propose...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: Gut, University of Graz, course: The Globalisation of English, Language Attitudes and Language Contact, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the...

This textbook presents a broad overview of topics concerning cellular electrophysiology – covering topics ranging from bioelectric phenomena recognized as far back as ancient Egypt to popular topics on the dangers of electrosmog. Without sacrificing scientific precision, this clear and concise work...

This book, focusing on the work of Jacques Lacan, examines psychosis in children, without ignoring the study of neurosis in childhood and concentrates on autism as produced by psychic disorders, by the symbolic failure that brings about the inclusion of the subject into the psychotic structure.

It is November of 1907 in Araguari, Brazil, a newborn lustily cries in her fathers arms. As Maria, called Mariazinha when she is a child, begins to grow up, she wants nothing more than to disappear from her small town and life of poverty to meet new people and see different things. At the age of twelve,...

This collection addresses key issues in the critique of Eurocentrism and racism regarding debates on the production of knowledge, historical narratives and memories in Europe and the Americas. Contributors explore the history of liberation politics as well as academic and political reaction through formulas of accommodation that re-centre the West.

La nuova edizione largamente rivista e ampliata di un questionario per i genitori di bambini fra 8 e 36 mesi, diffuso in Italia da molti anni. Il testo permette di definire indicatori di rischio affidabili e condivisi e di realizzare esperienze di prevenzione e screening. NOTA DELL'EDITORE: la versione...

L’higher education è un mondo in evoluzione che costantemente ci presenta nuovi e inaspettati scenari. Il testo si propone di offrirne un’indagine approfondita e aggiornata, indirizzandone i contenuti particolarmente agli studenti e alle loro famiglie nel momento in cui compiono importanti scelte...

Anche le Università italiane da oggi, con la pubblicazione dei dati della “Valutazione qualitativa della ricerca 2004-2010” elaborati dall’Anvur, hanno le loro pagelle. La ricerca diventa misurabile con criteri omogenei su tutto il territorio nazionale: si tratta del più importante sforzo...

A un anno dal terremoto in Emilia, un bilancio della ricostruzione con gli inviati del Corriere. La volontà di reagire, lo stato dei lavori, le emergenze che restano, la ripresa del tessuto economico (e la tenuta di quello sociale) attraverso riflessioni, dati e testimonianze. La solidarietà e lo...