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Architectural Exaptation

When Function Follows Form

By: Alessandro Melis,Telmo Pievani,Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez

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Architectural Exaptation

When Function Follows Form

By: Alessandro Melis,Telmo Pievani,Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez

Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation. It presents exaptation as an opportunity to extend architectural design towards more sustainable approaches aimed at enforcing urban resilience. The use of exaptation’s definition in architecture supports the heuristic value of cross-disciplinary studies on biology and architecture, which seem even more relevant in times of global environmental crises. This book aims to make a critique of the pre-existing and extensive paternalistic literature. Exaptation will be described as a functional shift of a structure that already had a prior, but different, function. In architecture, a functional shift of a structure that already had a function may apply to forms of decorative elements embedded in architectural components, and to both change of function of tectonic elements and the change of use of an architectural space. The book is illustrated with examples from around the globe, including China, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, the USA and the UK, and looks at different civilizations and diverse historical periods, ranging from the urban to the architectural scale. Such examples highlight the potential and latent human creative capacity to change the use and functions, something that cities and buildings could consider when facing disturbances. Exaptation is shown as an alternative narrative to the simplifications of evolutionary puritanism. It also offers an innovative perspective and presents an opportunity to re-think the manner in which we design and redesign our cities. This book will be of interest to architecture, planning, urban design and biology researchers and students.

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How to Build Cities and Destroy Motorways

A radical perspective on environmental design

By: Alessandro Melis,Liam Donovan-Stumbles

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How to Build Cities and Destroy Motorways

A radical perspective on environmental design

By: Alessandro Melis,Liam Donovan-Stumbles

Over thousands of years, human beings have built habitats in response to their increasingly complex needs. The ultimate form of these habitats is the modern city: a feat in which the benefits are self-evident. However, the city has grown into a paradoxical phenomenon. Providing for the present compromises the ability to provide for the future. The unidirectional metabolism of the city is consuming the world’s resources and disrupting the climate system at a rate that is not sustainable. Cities need to undergo profound physical and systemic changes if they are to provide for the future needs of human beings. This book critically examines the implication of the environmental crisis on conventional methods of urban development and architectural thinking. In contention with conservative ‘green’ building schemes, this work undertakes a radical and systemic renegotiation of environmental, population, and life-quality issues in architecture and urban design.

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8894830179

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A Primer on Corporate Governance

Italy

By: Andrea Melis,Alessandro Zattoni

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A Primer on Corporate Governance

Italy

By: Andrea Melis,Alessandro Zattoni

This book provides an understanding of the characteristics of corporate governance in Italy, one of the most developed countries in the world, symbol of the family capitalism. The text presents the main peculiarities of the Italian corporate governance system, its impact on decision-making in corporate boardrooms, and the potential positive and negative consequences for the firm and its stakeholders. Several real-life case studies were included to help the reader grasp the subtleties of how power is exercised in Italian companies. The authors combine their knowledge of research with their professional experience. Such an approach helps the reader interpret the nuances of corporate governance practices in Italian companies as those practices are driven not only by the globalization of markets, but also by national economic, social, and political forces. The result is a unique corporate governance system, which deeply differs from the Anglo-American one. This book is, therefore, particularly relevant for a wide international audience (including investors, corporate directors, scholars, and practitioners) as it provides useful insights to interpret, evaluate and take sound decisions in Italian companies.

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Business Expert Press

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1606498851

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Gramsci and Languages

Unification, Diversity, Hegemony

By: Alessandro Carlucci

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Gramsci and Languages

Unification, Diversity, Hegemony

By: Alessandro Carlucci

Winner of the prestigious 'Giuseppe Sormani International Prize' for the best monograph on Antonio Gramsci (4th edition, 2012-2017). Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is one of the most translated Italian authors of all time. After the Second World War his thought became increasingly influential, and remained relevant throughout the second half of the century. Today, it is generally agreed that his Marxism has highly original and personal features, as confirmed by the fact that his international influence has continued to grow since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Gramsci and Languages offers an explanation of this originality and traces the origins of certain specific features of Gramsci’s political thought by looking at his lifelong interest in language, especially in questions of linguistic diversity and unification.

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BRILL

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9004256393

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Biography of an Industrial Town

Terni, Italy, 1831–2014

By: Alessandro Portelli

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Biography of an Industrial Town

Terni, Italy, 1831–2014

By: Alessandro Portelli

A pioneering work in oral history, this book tells the story of the rise and fall of the industrial revolution and the apogee and crisis of the labor movement through an oral history of Terni, a steel town in Central Italy and the seat of the first large industrial enterprise in Italy. This story is told through a combination of stories, songs, myths and memories from over 200 voices of five generations, woven with a wealth of archival material.

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3319508989

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Italy and Albania

Financial Relations in the Fascist Period

By: Alessandro Roselli

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Italy and Albania

Financial Relations in the Fascist Period

By: Alessandro Roselli

The first full and comprehensive examination of the turbulent financial and economic relationship between Italy and Albania in the twentieth century, which throws new light on Italian Fascist imperialism. "Italy and Albania" retraces the complicated foreign and economic strategy that led in 1939 to the "union of the two crowns" of Italy and Albania. Drawing on original research, Roselli shows how Italy's strategy towards Albania veered between the extremes of a minimum of economic penetration and a maximum of political interference. He shows how, from an Albanian perspective, King Zog's policy was an impossible balancing act between the conflicting interests of foreign powers. Often presented as a trophy of Fascist foreign policy, the Italian experience in Albania in the interwar period can be regarded as a major economic failure. The huge inflow of Italian capital to Albania - consisting almost entirely of government money - failed not only to set in motion a stable expansion of the Albanian economy but also to produce a return for Italy in terms of the exploitation of the country's natural resources or its trade with Albania. Contemporary observers were impressed by the strength of Albania's currency, its monetary regime based on the gold standard, and its strong balance of payments. But this was largely window dressing, behind which there was an extremely backward economy that siphoned resources out of Italy, without that country gaining any appreciable advantage. Seen in this light, the events of 1939 -the Italian occupation of Albania and the Union between the two countries - become the inevitable consequence of a state of economic affairs that was unacceptable to Fascist Italy. Italy's involvement in Albania did not end with the defeat of Fascism, as the long international controversy surrounding the gold of the Albanian Central Bank demonstrates. This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history of both countries and the make up of Europe today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857713906

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Analysis and Design of Energy Geostructures

Theoretical Essentials and Practical Application

By: Lyesse Laloui,Alessandro F. Rotta Loria

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Analysis and Design of Energy Geostructures

Theoretical Essentials and Practical Application

By: Lyesse Laloui,Alessandro F. Rotta Loria

Analysis and Design of Energy Geostructures gathers in a unified framework the theoretical and experimental competence available on energy geostructures: innovative multifunctional earth-contact structures that can provide renewable energy supply and structural support to any built environment. The book covers the broad, interdisciplinary and integrated knowledge required to address the analysis and design of energy geostructures from energy, geotechnical and structural perspectives. This knowledge includes (Part A) an introduction to the technology; (Part B) the fundamentals of heat and mass transfers as well as of the mechanics of geomaterials and structures required to address the unprecedented behavior of energy geostructures; (Part C) the experimental evidence characterizing the considered geostructures; (Part D) various analytical and numerical modeling approaches to analyze the response of energy geostructures; and (Part E) the performance-based design and detailing essentials of energy geostructures. - Proposes the theoretical and practical application essentials required to address the analysis and design of energy geostructures from energy, geotechnical and structural perspectives - Presents a substantial amount of resolved exercises on key aspects governing the behavior and performance of energy geostructures to be considered in analysis and design - Summarizes and discusses the most recent scientific and technical knowledge about energy geostructures, including energy piles, energy tunnels and energy walls

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Academic Press

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0128165987

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9780128165980

Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

By: Thomas Becher,Alessandro Broggio,Andrea Ferroglia

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Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

By: Thomas Becher,Alessandro Broggio,Andrea Ferroglia

Among resummation techniques for perturbative QCD in the context of collider and flavor physics, soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) has emerged as both a powerful and versatile tool, having been applied to a large variety of processes, from B-meson decays to jet production at the LHC. This book provides a concise, pedagogical introduction to this technique. It discusses the expansion of Feynman diagrams around the high-energy limit, followed by the explicit construction of the effective Lagrangian - first for a scalar theory, then for QCD. The underlying concepts are illustrated with the quark vector form factor at large momentum transfer, and the formalism is applied to compute soft-gluon resummation and to perform transverse-momentum resummation for the Drell-Yan process utilizing renormalization group evolution in SCET. Finally, the infrared structure of n-point gauge-theory amplitudes is analyzed by relating them to effective-theory operators. This text is suitable for graduate students and non-specialist researchers alike as it requires only basic knowledge of perturbative QCD.

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3319148486

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The Evolution of Corporate Disclosure

Insights on Traditional and Modern Corporate Communication

By: Alessandro Ghio,Roberto Verona

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The Evolution of Corporate Disclosure

Insights on Traditional and Modern Corporate Communication

By: Alessandro Ghio,Roberto Verona

This book provides a critical analysis of the evolution of corporate disclosure. Building upon prior academic literature, it assesses the most important changes in mandatory corporate disclosure, the growing relevance of social and environmental disclosure, and revolutionary new forms of corporate communication, in particular social media. It also includes empirical analyses that shed further light on the impact of voluntary communication, i.e. social and environmental reporting and corporate social media communication, on managerial and investment decisions. Lastly, it discusses new directions for accounting and corporate governance research on the theoretical and empirical challenges of corporate disclosure. Offering a wealth of relevant and timely advice, the book will help regulators design policies that allow businesses to overcome current and emerging economic, social, and technological challenges.

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Springer Nature

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3030422992

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Anatomy of the Red Brigades

The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists

By: Alessandro Orsini

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Anatomy of the Red Brigades

The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists

By: Alessandro Orsini

The Red Brigades were a far-left terrorist group in Italy formed in 1970 and active all through the 1980s. Infamous around the world for a campaign of assassinations, kidnappings, and bank robberies intended as a "concentrated strike against the heart of the State," the Red Brigades' most notorious crime was the kidnapping and murder of Italy's former prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978. In the late 1990s, a new group of violent anticapitalist terrorists revived the name Red Brigades and killed a number of professors and government officials. Like their German counterparts in the Baader-Meinhof Group and today's violent political and religious extremists, the Red Brigades and their actions raise a host of questions about the motivations, ideologies, and mind-sets of people who commit horrific acts of violence in the name of a utopia. In the first English edition of a book that has won critical acclaim and major prizes in Italy, Alessandro Orsini contends that the dominant logic of the Red Brigades was essentially eschatological, focused on purifying a corrupt world through violence. Only through revolutionary terror, Brigadists believed, could humanity be saved from the putrefying effects of capitalism and imperialism. Through a careful study of all existing documentation produced by the Red Brigades and of all existing scholarship on the Red Brigades, Orsini reconstructs a worldview that can be as seductive as it is horrifying. Orsini has devised a micro-sociological theory that allows him to reconstruct the group dynamics leading to political homicide in extreme-left and neonazi terrorist groups. This "subversive-revolutionary feedback theory" states that the willingness to mete out and suffer death depends, in the last analysis, on how far the terrorist has been incorporated into the revolutionary sect. Orsini makes clear that this political-religious concept of historical development is central to understanding all such self-styled "purifiers of the world." From Thomas Müntzer's theocratic dream to Pol Pot's Cambodian revolution, all the violent "purifiers" of the world have a clear goal: to build a perfect society in which there will no longer be any sin and unhappiness and in which no opposition can be allowed to upset the universal harmony. Orsini’s book reconstructs the origins and evolution of a revolutionary tradition brought into our own times by the Red Brigades.

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Cornell University Press

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0801461391

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9780801461392

Accounting Choices in Family Firms

An Analysis of Influences and Implications

By: Silvia Ferramosca,Alessandro Ghio

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Accounting Choices in Family Firms

An Analysis of Influences and Implications

By: Silvia Ferramosca,Alessandro Ghio

This book provides a critical analysis of the current state of knowledge on the relationship between family firms and a wide range of accounting choices, including earnings management, accounting conservatism, and financial and non-financial disclosure. In examining the choices made in family firms, the authors explore and elucidate the relevance of agency, socioemotional wealth, stewardship, and resource-based theories. Readers will also find close consideration of the impacts of a country’s culture and societal values on accounting choices. In particular, further evidence is provided on the impact of different cultures on accounting conservatism in family businesses. Finally, avenues for future accounting research on family firms are discussed, highlighting theoretical and empirical challenges. In addition to offering a revealing analysis of the influence of ownership types and cultures on accounting choices within family firms, the book identifies significant practical implications for the management of family firms and policy implications for regulators and standard setters.

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3319735888

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Vertebral Body Augmentation, Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty in Spine Surgery

By: Stefano Telera,Laura Raus,Valerio Pipola,Federico De Iure,Alessandro Gasbarrini

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Vertebral Body Augmentation, Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty in Spine Surgery

By: Stefano Telera,Laura Raus,Valerio Pipola,Federico De Iure,Alessandro Gasbarrini

This book offers an updated and comprehensive review of the role of vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty and augmentation techniques in all fields of orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, and interventional radiology. Addressing the latest advances in terms of the materials used and combined approaches with other mini-invasive techniques, it reveals how vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty and various augmentation techniques could become instrumental to helping patients with specific vertebral compression fractures or other diseases of the vertebral column. The book includes a detailed history of the techniques’ development, descriptions of the materials used in the last twenty years, and extensive information on the biomechanical basis, anatomy and current indications for vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty and augmentation. In addition, it highlights representative cases to enhance readers’ understanding of each topic, and particular attention is paid to the innovative evolution of the techniques and to their combination with other mini-invasive approaches, stents and brachytherapy. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable guide for all neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, and interventional radiologists whose work involves spine pathologies and their treatment.

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Architectural Exaptation

When Function Follows Form

By: Alessandro Melis,Telmo Pievani,Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez

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When Function Follows Form

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How to Build Cities and Destroy Motorways

A radical perspective on environmental design

By: Alessandro Melis,Liam Donovan-Stumbles

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How to Build Cities and Destroy Motorways

A radical perspective on environmental design

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A Primer on Corporate Governance

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By: Andrea Melis,Alessandro Zattoni

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Architectural Exaptation

Architectural Exaptation

How to Build Cities and Destroy Motorways

How to Build Cities and Destroy Motorways

A Primer on Corporate Governance

A Primer on Corporate Governance

Gramsci and Languages

Gramsci and Languages

Biography of an Industrial Town

Biography of an Industrial Town

Italy and Albania

Italy and Albania

Analysis and Design of Energy Geostructures

Analysis and Design of Energy Geostructures

Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

The Evolution of Corporate Disclosure

The Evolution of Corporate Disclosure

Anatomy of the Red Brigades

Anatomy of the Red Brigades

Accounting Choices in Family Firms

Accounting Choices in Family Firms

Vertebral Body Augmentation, Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty in Spine Surgery

Vertebral Body Augmentation, Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty in Spine Surgery

Architectural Exaptation

Architectural Exaptation

How to Build Cities and Destroy Motorways

How to Build Cities and Destroy Motorways

A Primer on Corporate Governance

A Primer on Corporate Governance

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