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Dante

A Life

By: Alessandro Barbero

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Dante brings the legendary author—and the medieval Italy of his era— to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing. Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries. However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the context he wrote them in. In Dante, Barbero brings the legendary author’s Italy to life, describing the political intrigue, battles, city and society that shaped his life and work. The son of a shylock who dreams of belonging to the world of writers and nobles, we follow Dante into the dark corridors of politics where ideals are shattered by rampant corruption, and then into exile as he travels Italy and discovers the extraordinary color and variety of the countryside, the metropolises, and the knightly courts. This is a book by a serious scholar with real popular appeal, as evidenced by its bestseller ranking in Italy. It is a remarkable piece of forensic investigation into medieval Italian life.

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203

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Simon and Schuster

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1643139142

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9781643139142

The Sports Doping Market

Understanding Supply and Demand, and the Challenges of Their Control

By: Letizia Paoli,Alessandro Donati

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The Sports Doping Market

Understanding Supply and Demand, and the Challenges of Their Control

By: Letizia Paoli,Alessandro Donati

This book examines sports doping from production and distribution, detection and punishment. Detailing the daily operations of the trade and its gray area as a semi-legal market, the authors cover important issues ranging from athletes most at risk to the role of organized crime in sports doping, and whether sports governing bodies are enabling the trade. Challenges for law enforcement and legislation, and efforts to control PED use in the worldwide sports community and among aspiring athletes, are also discussed in depth. The book's extensive research:• Estimates the demand for performance-enhancing products. • Traces the route from legal substances to illegal uses. • Identifies classes of suppliers and their methods of operation. • Tracks typical distribution systems from suppliers to users. • Examines the economics of the market: prices, profits, revenue. • Assesses the state of anti-doping law enforcement efforts.Starting with an unprecedented case study in Italy, the intense scrutiny from one pivotal country yields a potential template for research and policy on a world scale. Doping and Sport makes solid contributions to the work of researchers in criminology and criminal justice, particularly with an interest in corruption, drug trafficking, and criminal networks; researchers in sports science and public health; and policymakers.

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303

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461482410

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9781461482413

Tutto o niente

By: Alessandro Pugliese

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Tutto o niente

By: Alessandro Pugliese

Una storia sull’intolleranza e sulla paura del diverso. È la prima volta che gli abitanti di un piccolo borgo abbarbicato su una collina del Meridione d’Italia entrano in contatto con gente diversa da loro. Una famiglia di cinesi arriva in paese e, tra lo stupore generale e l’invidia, vi si impianta velocemente con un ristorante. Il sequestro e l’uccisione di un ragazzo da parte di un mafioso locale, per impedire la nascita di un’area di sviluppo industriale, lo spirito di abnegazione dei cinesi, la loro disponibilità di quattrini e l’acquisizione di una vecchia e gloriosa villa ai margini della campagna, l’adulterio di una donna del Nord, si intrecciano insieme e scatenano la cruda intolleranza dell’intera comunità, la quale si macchierà di un crimine orrendo.

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182

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Gingko edizioni

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8895288114

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9788895288116

Perspectives in Receptor Research

By: Dario Giardina,Alessandro Piergentili,Maria Pigini

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Perspectives in Receptor Research

By: Dario Giardina,Alessandro Piergentili,Maria Pigini

Perspectives in Receptor Research

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Elsevier

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0080545017

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9780080545011

Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage

Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy

By: Alessandro Vettori

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Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage

Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy

By: Alessandro Vettori

In Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage Alessandro Vettori provides a comprehensive analysis of prayer in Dante’s Commedia. The underlying thesis considers prayer a metaphorical pilgrimage toward a sacred location and connects it with the pilgrim’s ascent to the vision of the Trinity. Prayer is movement in Purgatorio and also in Paradiso, while eternal stasis is the penalty of blasphemous souls in Inferno. In the fictional rendition of the poem, the pilgrim’s itinerary becomes a specular reflection of Dante’s own exilic experience. Prayer’s human-divine interaction affords the poet the necessary escape from the overwhelming sense of failure in politics and love. Whether it is petitional, liturgical, thankful, praiseful, or contemplative, prayer expresses the supplicant’s wish to transform reality and attain a superior spiritual status. See inside the book.

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273

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BRILL

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9004405259

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9789004405257

The Common Agricultural Policy after the Fischler Reform

National Implementations, Impact Assessment and the Agenda for Future Reforms

By: Alessandro Sorrentino,Roberto Henke

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The Common Agricultural Policy after the Fischler Reform

National Implementations, Impact Assessment and the Agenda for Future Reforms

By: Alessandro Sorrentino,Roberto Henke

Providing an updated state of the art report on the effects of the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform, this volume has a particular emphasis on the governance of institutional changes and national/regional implementation. Written from an agricultural economist's point of view and enriched by the contribution of political scientists and policy makers, this book offers: - an updated report of the European debate on agricultural and rural policies; -an in-depth analysis of the decoupling process of the agricultural financial support in Europe; - an analysis of the CAP implementation in the old and new Europe Member States ; - a discussion on the future scenarios for the European Agricultural Policies Based on a selection of papers from the 109th Seminar of the European Association of the Agricultural Economists (EAAE), this book, with a foreword by Franz Fischler, also includes four commissioned contributions from leaders in the field including Sofia Davidova, Roberto Esposti, Tassos Haniotis and Johan Swinnen.

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545

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Routledge

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1317037723

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9781317037729

Creative Actions and Organizations

Towards a Reflexive Sociology of Serendipity

By: Simone D'Alessandro

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Creative Actions and Organizations

Towards a Reflexive Sociology of Serendipity

By: Simone D'Alessandro

This book details a 15-year theoretical and practical research study that destroys the clichés of creative processes and inaugurates a reflective sociology on serendipity. In today’s highly innovative organizations, creative processes are proceduralized in the form of techniques and give rise to routine phenomena. This text hybridizes paradigms such as Donati’s relational sociology, the Luhmanian systemic approach, Von Foerster’s radical constructivism, Sennett’s ideas on the craftsman, the ideas of Wittgenstein and Searle on language, and the ideas of Dummett and Goedel on logic, as well as Hofstadter’s on artificial intelligence. Drawing on over 600 works, including essays and articles, the currents of thought of scholars who have dealt with the topic are identified here. The 200 techniques surveyed present common elements, such as common meta-rules of opposition, combination, and separation that determine creative behavior and are triggered by a recursive but paradoxical relationship between thought and language.

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165

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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152756343X

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9781527563438

Experiments with Body Agent Architecture

The 586-year-old Spiritello in Il Regno Digitale

By: Alessandro Ayuso

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Experiments with Body Agent Architecture

The 586-year-old Spiritello in Il Regno Digitale

By: Alessandro Ayuso

Experiments with Body Agent Architecture puts forward the notion of body agents: non-ideal, animate and highly specific figures integrated with design to enact particular notions of embodied subjectivity in architecture. Body agents present opportunities for architects to increase imaginative and empathic qualities in their designs, particularly amidst a posthuman condition. Beginning with narrative writing from the viewpoint of a body agent, an estranged ‘quattrocento spiritello’ who finds himself uncomfortably inhabiting a digital milieu (or, as the spiritello calls it, ‘Il Regno Digitale’), the book combines speculative historical fiction and original design experiments. It focuses on the process of creating the multi-media design experiments, moving from the design of the body itself as an original prosthetic to architectural proposals emanating from the body. A fragmented history of the figure in architecture is charted and woven into the designs, with chapters examining Michelangelo’s enigmatic figures in his drawings for the New Sacristy in the early sixteenth century, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s physically ephemeral ‘putti’ adorning chapels and churches in the seventeenth century, and Austrian artist-architect Walter Pichler’s personal and prescient figures of the twentieth century.

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262

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UCL Press

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1800081707

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9781800081703

Buildings

By: Alessandro Vignozzi

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Buildings

By: Alessandro Vignozzi

How homes, monuments, cathedrals, and skyscrapers are built.

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0760705941

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9780760705940

Small Farms

Persistence With Legitimation

By: Alessandro Bonanno

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Small Farms

Persistence With Legitimation

By: Alessandro Bonanno

Why do small farms continue to coexist with ever-larger farming operations in advanced Western societies? Through a thorough case study of Italy and a comparative analysis of small farms in the United States, Dr. Bonanno seeks to answer this question, exploring the complex relationships among farm family members’ ideology and behavior, the small farm economic sector, and the interaction of small farms within the relevant spheres of society. He finds that, at the structural level, a lack of occupational alternatives and contradictions within both labor and land markets often force farmers to retain marginal farms despite personal dissatisfaction. At the ideological level, many farm families display deep attachment to the agrarian way of life and cite this as a fundamental reason for not leaving the farm for other work. Dr. Bonanno also analyzes the role of small farms within the social system and concludes that they serve a legitimative function. This legitimative role fosters contradictions within the social and economic systems that the state is unable to resolve, thus contributing to the continuation of a dual structure in agricultural development-־large and very large farms at one end of the scale and marginal but persistent small farms at the other.

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176

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Routledge

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1000311619

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9781000311617

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Dante

Dante

The Sports Doping Market

The Sports Doping Market

Tutto o niente

Tutto o niente

Perspectives in Receptor Research

Perspectives in Receptor Research

Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage

Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage

The Common Agricultural Policy after the Fischler Reform

The Common Agricultural Policy after the Fischler Reform

Creative Actions and Organizations

Creative Actions and Organizations

Experiments with Body Agent Architecture

Experiments with Body Agent Architecture

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Small Farms

Small Farms

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