The book explores how architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) firms have been adapting and changing to effectively address key environmental challenges, focusing on Life Cycle Thinking and related methodologies (Life Cycle Assessments and Life Cycle Costing). Starting from current practice, the book outlines the necessary change management to turn into life cycle AE(C) practice, switching from a product-technology mindset to a life cycle thinking and holistic approach. Although the primary audience of the book are Architectural and Engineering firms, the broad range of topics encourages readers from different backgrounds to explore the latest advancements in construction sector. Service companies and software developers can find inspiration to develop innovative tools and solutions, clients can find ways to demand sustainability as key target for building design and universities can align academic programmes to address new industry challenges.
Dieser Band stellt die erste umfassende Untersuchung italienischer Architekturzeichnungen aus der Sammlung Cronstedt im Nationalmuseum Stockholm vor. Besprochen werden rund 180 Zeichnungen aus der Zeit zwischen 1570 und 1620. Darunter befinden sich Werke von Francesco da Capriani daVolterra, Carlo Maderno und anderen in Rom ansässigen Architekten, die für Kirchen, Kapellen, Paläste, Gärten und Brunnen angefertigt wurden – viele von ihnen stellen die wichtigsten und doch kaum bekannten Quellen für die Architektur des Spätmanierismus und Frühbarock dar. Ebenfalls enthalten sind Pläne und Detailzeichnungen französischer Künstler, die viele antike Monumente ebenso akribisch dokumentierten wie die Bauten der Renaissancebaumeister Bramante, Antonio da Sangallo, Michelangelo und Vignola. Italian Architectural Drawings kommt aufgrund aktueller Forschungsergebnisse zu ganz neuen Zuschreibungen, die auf einer genauen Analyse der Zeichnungen (Papier, Medium, Technik, Montage) beruhen. Ergänzende Vergleichsabbildungen und eine fotografische Bestandsaufnahme der Wasserzeichen runden diesen Band ab.
Barbro Santillo Frizell, Premessa; Marcello Barbanera, Agneta Freccero, Archeologia, architettura, restauro: lo studio di una collezione di antichit� come storia culturale; Marcello Barbanera, Agneta Freccero, Archeology, Architecture, Restoration: the Study of a Collection of Antiquities as Cultural History; Avvertenze e ringraziamenti; SAGGI: Daniela Candilio, Tutela e conservazione della collezione di antichit� di palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari; Patrizia Cavazzini, Il palazzo e la famiglia Lancellotti nel primo Seicento; Paolo Sanvito, Il ruolo dei cortili nelle collezioni di antiquitates come luogo di rappresentazione del patriziato. Il caso di palazzo Lancellotti; Anna Anguissola, La storia della collezione Lancellotti di antichit�; Paolo Liverani, Le antichit� Lancellotti nei Musei Vaticani; Agneta Freccero, Made for Collections. Three Consuls and Sempronia; Marina Prusac, The Ninth Mask from the Temple of Venus and Roma?; Alessandro Danesi, Silvia Gambardella, Il restauro come mezzo di ricerca storica. La conservazione delle sculture di palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari; Agneta Freccero, Changing Ideals in Conservation: CATALOGO: Antichit� nel Palazzo Lancellotti; Statue e teste ideali; Togati, busti e ritratti; Sarcofagi; Sculture e rilievi di carattere vario; Iscrizioni e altari funerari; Opere non antiche o di dubbia antichit�; Antichit� nei Musei Vaticani; Sculture; Sarcofagi; Dispersi e inaccessibili; Appendice; Bibliografia.
Chi governa il mio destino? Lord Steven Mesatrhim è convinto di conoscere la risposta a questo interrogativo e non ha mai avuto modo di mettere in discussione le proprie certezze. Il suo segreto è al sicuro e la sua vita scorre indisturbata sulla scia di un successo preannunciato. Anche Shrever, guerriero dalle misteriose origini, non ha alcun dubbio sul proprio futuro. E' sicuro di poter risvegliare Wyrm dal suo sonno millenario e di poter soggiogare una ad una tutte le razze che popolano l'isola di Orizzonte. Steven e Shrever saranno presto chiamati a giocare un preciso ruolo in uno scacchiere dove s'incroceranno le strade d'incredibili personaggi e dai cui intrecci prenderà vita un turbine di battaglie, incantesimi e duelli, amori e tradimenti. Un'avvincente storia che ci suggerisce che dove c'è luce non sempre si riflette un'essenza benefica e che dove domina la notte può sorgere una fiamma infinite volte più potente.
A comprehensive compilation of research techniques necessary for investigating the virology, immunology and molecular biology of HIV-1. Protocols are also provided which represent state of the art approaches to a wide spectrum of HIV related issues.
California Notebooks 02 is second volume of the bilingual collection of poetry (English and Italian) written on the road in California from 2013 to 2016. The poetic desert trip continues toward unusual places and new destinations. Blinding light, monumental spaces and the sky above. We read poetry to find out we are not alone. We write poetry to draw maps. Poetry is the magic bus that takes us to inside the invisible geography of the spirit. Here is a cartography for those who feel the movement inside. California Notebooks 02 (Quaderni Californiani 02) è la seconda raccolta di poesia bilingue in inglese e italiano, scritta on the road in California dal 2013 al 2016. Continua il viaggio poetico verso luoghi inusuali e nuove tappe. Il deserto e la rivelazione della bellezza, sensoriale, astratta, suggestiva. La luce abbagliante, lo spazio monumentale e il cielo che domina. Leggiamo poesia per scoprire che non siamo soli. Scriviamo poesia, per creare delle mappe. La poesia è l'omnibus che ci porta alla bellezza, all'invisibile, una geografia dello spirito. Ecco una cartografia per chi sente il movimento.
Nel lontano regno di Lusìa Rema vive la giovane Rooteeje, un'altezzosa principessa. Cresciuta nella sua sfarzosa corte, la ragazza è rimasta sola al mondo dopo la morte dei genitori e la partenza per una lontana stella della sorella Marycia, dalla quale, però, sparisce misteriosamente. Così la principessa decide di andare a cercarla, e parte per un lungo viaggio. Tra amore, amicizia e scoperte belle e brutte, la vita di Rooteeje cambierà per sempre...
Whilst corruption and organized crime have been widely researched, they have not yet been specifically linked to sport. Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer offers an original insight into this new research area. Adopting a psycho-social approach based mainly on Pierre Bourdieu's praxeology, the book demonstrates that corruption and the mafia presence in Italian soccer reflect the Italian socio-political and economic system itself. Supported by interviews with security agency officials, anticorruption organisations and antimafia organisations, and analysing empirical data obtained from a case study of 'Operation Dirty Soccer', this important study explains why mafia groups are involved in soccer, what the links are to political corruption and what might be done to control the problem. It also examines the mechanisms that make it possible for mafia groups and affiliates to enter the football industry and discusses how mafia groups exploit and corrupt Italian football. This is important reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and academics working in the areas of sociology, criminology, policing, anthropology, the sociology of sport, sport deviance, sport management and organised crime. It is also a valuable resource for practitioners in the football industry.
Exploring the performance by immigrants of domestic and care work in European households, this book places the employer centre-stage, examining the role of the employer and his or her agents in securing the balance between work, family and welfare needs, as well as investigating both who the employers are and the nature of their relationships with migrant workers. With attention to the dynamics of inequality, as class, ethnicity and gender become intertwined in a location that is at once home and workplace, this volume is organised into sections that deal with the subjectivities of employers and their relationships with their employees in the home; the re-organisation of welfare and care arrangements at state level; and the wider area of migrant domestic and care work, with the transformation of the au pair scheme. Bringing together the latest empirical work from across Europe, Employers, Agencies and Immigration will appeal to social scientists with interests in migration, ethnic and class relations, immigrant labour and domestic work and the sociology of the family.
This intensive foundation course in Italian is designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language. Accompanying audio material containing dialogues, listening exercises and pronunciation practice is available to purchase separately in CD format. These two audio CDs are designed to work alongside the accompanying book. Students using the Routledge Intensive Italian Course will practise the four key skills of language learning - reading, writing, speaking, and listening - and will acquire a thorough working knowledge of the structures of Italian. The Routledge Intensive Italian Course takes students from beginner to intermediate level in one year.
Themes, places, characters and voices of Elizabeth Jolley’s Mr Scobie’s Riddle are explored in detail in this monograph, which provides different narratological and translational analyses of the novel, as well as an academic translation into Italian. Considering the challenges and issues posited by a literary work’s translation helps to shed light on the original work itself. In this manner, the translation is to be seen as a further analytical instrument to gain insight into the original novel. The purpose of this work is to obtain a deeper understanding of the complicated microcosm created by Jolley in the nursing home of “St Christopher and St Jude”: the typically Australian themes of migration, isolation, place and displacement; the Australian culture-specific elements; the ensemble of curious characters and their entertaining voices. This book strives to preserve the above elements in translation as the expression of something Other, a different culture, and to take Italian readers on a journey to the Australia depicted in Mr Scobie’s Riddle so that Jolley’s characters’ voices can echo in the Italian language.
Ending Terrorism in Italy analyses processes of disengagement from terrorism, as well as the connected issues of reconciliation, truth and justice. It examines in a critical and original way how terrorism came to an end in Italy (Part I), and the legacy it has left behind (Part II). The book interrogates a wide array of published memoirs and a considerable number of new face-to-face interviews with both former terrorists and first and second generation victims In the last two decades, and especially in recent years, former extreme-right terrorists in Italy have started to talk about their past involvement in terrorist violence, including, for the first time, acts of violence which have for decades been considered taboo, that is to say, bomb attacks against innocent civilians. These narratives add to the perspectives offered by members of left-wing terrorist groups, such as the Red Brigades and Prima Linea. Surprisingly, these narratives have not been systematically examined, yet they form a unique and extremely rich source of first-hand testimony, providing invaluable insights into processes of youth radicalization and de-radicalization, the social re-integration of ex-terrorists, as well as personal and collective healing. Even less attention has been paid to the victims’ narratives or stories. Indeed, the views and activities of the victims and their associations have been seriously neglected in the scholarly literature on terrorism, not just in Italy, but elsewhere in Europe. The book therefore examines the perspectives of the victims and relatives of victims of terrorism, who over the years have formed dedicated associations and campaigned relentlessly to obtain justice through the courts, with little or no support from the state and, especially in the case of the bombing massacres, with increasing awareness that the state played a role in thwarting the course of justice. Ending Terrorism in Italy will be of interest to historians, social scientists and policy makers as well as students of political violence and post-conflict resolution. .
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