Silvia: 1154 books
“Negros de la patria"
Los afrodescendientes en las luchas por la independencia en el antiguo Virreinato del Río de la Plata
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Los afrodescendientes, que vinieron esclavizados desde África, estuvieron presentes en nuestros territorios desde el inicio mismo de la conquista. Muchos pudieron ganar su libertad, otros permanecieron esclavizados. Ellos también fueron protagonistas de los diferentes procesos de Independencia que...
by Federico Zanettin, Silvia Bernardini, Dominic Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The use of language corpora as a resource in linguistics and language-related disciplines is now well-established. One of the many fields where the impact of corpora has been growing in recent years is translation, both at a descriptive and a practical level. The papers in this volume, which grew...
by Silvia Carbone, Michela Marrucci
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Due lutti a distanza di pochi giorni distruggono la vita di Josephine, giovane e attraente ufficiale dei Marines: la prematura perdita del padre, Colonnello dell'Aeronautica americana, e la morte di Travis, l'amore della sua vita, durante una missione in Afghanistan, la spingono a congedarsi prima...
by Silvia Nulle
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2005
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Paderborn, course: Lexical Semantics, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Everyday we are confronted with lexical hierarchies in our correspondences,...
Finding Silence – and Living from it
Hints and Prompts for Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This is no 'manual' but, by her inspiring reflections on the nature and quality of silence and on its transformational effect on those who experience it, as well by the down-to-earth advice she gives, Sylvia Osterag encourages her readers both to practise silent meditation and to seek silence in their...
Rent-Seeking in Private Pensions
Concentration, Pricing and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book argues that the implementation of compulsory, highly regulated, privately administered, defined contribution pensions facilitates rent-seeking behaviour on the part of the pension fund administrators and undermines the retirees’ income and well-being. While the book focuses primarily on...
The Death and Life of the Self
Post-Wittgensteinian Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
What is a self? What is the relation between phenomenal consciousness and the self? What are we talking about when we speak of conscious experience, the self, an inner mental world? In order to answer these questions the author reconsiders the «turn to the self» in contemporary philosophy of mind....
Citizens of Memory
Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Citizens of Memory explores efforts at recollection in post-dictatorship Argentina and the hoped-for futures they set in motion. The material, visual, narrative, and pedagogical interventions it analyzes address the dark years of state repression (1976-1983) while engaging ongoing debates about how...
by Silvia A. Brandán
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
A Structural and Vibrational Investigation into Chromyl Azide, Acetate, Perchlorate and Thiocyanate Compounds reviews the structural and vibrational properties of chromyl azide, acetate, perchlorate, and thiocyanate from a theoretical point of view by using Density Functional Theory (DFT) methods....
by Pietro Cornelio, Silvia Pedicelli
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Circa 2500 anni fa i maggiori pensatori greci cominciarono a chiedersi da che cosa è costituito il mondo. Esistono domande alle quali la scienza (e la filosofia) cercano da sempre di rispondere: com’è fatto l’universo? Quali sono le leggi che lo governano? Da cosa è composta la materia? Quali...
by Silvia Gelosi
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Le chiamano poesie, in realtà non si somigliano affatto, hanno soltanto lo stesso sangue.
Arab Regionalism
A Post-Structural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Arab regionalism details and examines the power relations involved in the making of an Arab region.
On an empirical level, this book concentrates on the drawing of topographic and ideational boundaries in the Arab region, on Arab regional organizations, on the functional cooperation among Arab...
by Silvia Camporesi, Mike McNamee
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Advances in genetics and related biotechnologies are having a profound effect on sport, raising important ethical questions about the limits and possibilities of the human body. Drawing on real case studies and grounded in rigorous scientific evidence, this book offers an ethical critique of current...
Cultures of War in Graphic Novels
Violence, Trauma, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Cultures of War in Graphic Novels examines the representation of small-scale and often less acknowledged conflicts from around the world and throughout history. The contributors look at an array of graphic novels about conflicts such as the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901), the Irish struggle for national...