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Jewish Displaced Persons in Italy 1943–1951

Politics, Rehabilitation, Identity

By: Chiara Renzo

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Jewish Displaced Persons in Italy 1943–1951

Politics, Rehabilitation, Identity

By: Chiara Renzo

This book focuses on the experiences of thousands of Jewish displaced persons (DPs) who lived in refugee camps in Italy between the liberation of the southern regions in 1943 and the early 1950s, waiting for their resettlement outside of Europe. It explores the Jewish DPs’ daily life in the refugee camps and what this experience of displacement meant to them. This book sheds light on the dilemmas the Jewish DPs faced when reconstructing their lives in the refugee camps after the Holocaust and how this challenging process was deeply influenced by their interaction with the humanitarian and political actors involved in their rescue, rehabilitation, and resettlement. Relating to the peculiar context of post-fascist Italy and the broader picture of the postwar refugee crisis, this book reveals overlooked aspects that contributed to the making of an incredibly diverse and lively community in transit, able to elaborate new paradigms of home, belonging and family.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000922588

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9781000922585

Brittle Matrix Composites

The role of deicing salts on the non-linear moisture diffusion coeffcient of cementitious materials during drying

By: Chiara Villani,Robert Spragg,Mohammad Pour-Ghaz,W. Jason Weiss

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Brittle Matrix Composites

The role of deicing salts on the non-linear moisture diffusion coeffcient of cementitious materials during drying

By: Chiara Villani,Robert Spragg,Mohammad Pour-Ghaz,W. Jason Weiss

The drying of cementitious materials is of interest in volume change (i.e., shrinkage) research. However, the movement of water due to drying and wetting also plays a significant role in many durability related problems (e.g., corrosion, alkali silica reactivity, freezing and thawing). Many factors can influence the drying and wetting process in concrete including: pore structure, environmental conditions, and liquid properties. This paper describes the influence of the liquid properties on the drying process. Specifically, this work examines the non-linear moisture diffusion coefficient that is used in a differential equation that describes drying. This paper describes how the non-linear moisture diffusion coefficient is influenced by the presence of deicing salts solutions. The relationship between the equilibrium relative humidity and the solution properties is also discussed in this paper. A higher degree of saturation was observed for the samples containing deicing salt solutions, as compared to the plain samples at any given humidity. The presence of deicing salt causes a shift of the non-linear moisture diffusion coefficient as a function of relative humidity. The non-linear moisture diffusion coefficient curves have near zero rates of drying at low relative humidity with a rapid increase in drying rate as the relative humidity is increased (especially near the equilibrium relative humidity) followed by diffusion coefficient of 0 between RHeq and 100% RH.

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Elsevier Inc. Chapters

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0128090197

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9780128090190

A Day in a Medieval City

By: Chiara Frugoni

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A Day in a Medieval City

By: Chiara Frugoni

An opportunity to experience the daily hustle and bustle of life in the late Middle Ages, A Day in a Medieval City provides a captivating dawn-to-dark account of medieval life. A visual trek through the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries--with seasoned medieval historian Chiara Frugoni as guide--this book offers a vast array of images and vignettes that depict the everyday hardships and commonplace pleasures of people living in the Middle Ages. A Day in a Medieval City breathes life into the activities of city streets, homes, fields, schools, and places of worship. With entertaining anecdotes and gritty details, it engages the modern reader with its discoveries of the religious, economic, and institutional practices of the day. From urban planning and education to child care, hygiene, and the more leisurely pursuits of games, food, books, and superstitions, Frugoni unearths the daily routines of private and public life. Beginning in the countryside and moving to the city and inside private homes, stunning color images throughout offer a visual ramble through medieval Florence, Venice, and Rome. A Day in a Medieval City is a charming portal to the Middle Ages that you'll surely want with you on your travels to Europe--or in your armchair.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226266346

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9780226266343

Experiential Constructions in Latin

By: Chiara Fedriani

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Experiential Constructions in Latin

By: Chiara Fedriani

This volume is about the morphosyntactic encoding of feelings and emotions in Latin. It offers a corpus-based investigation of the Latin data, benefiting from insights of the functional and typological approach to language. Chiara Fedriani describes a patterned variation in Latin Experiential constructions, also revisiting the so-called impersonal constructions, and shows how and why such a variation is at the root of diachronic change. The data discussed in this book also show that Latin constitutes an interesting stage within a broader diachronic development, since it retains some ancient Indo-European features that gradually disappeared and went lost in the Romance languages.

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331

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BRILL

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9004257837

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9789004257832

Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples

Politics, Communication and Culture

By: Domenico Cecere,Chiara De Caprio,Lorenza Gianfrancesco,Pasquale Palmieri

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Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples

Politics, Communication and Culture

By: Domenico Cecere,Chiara De Caprio,Lorenza Gianfrancesco,Pasquale Palmieri

This volume deals with natural disasters in late medieval and early modern central and southern Italy. Contributions look at a range of catastrophic events such as eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, floods, earthquakes, and outbreaks of plague and epidemics. A major aim of this volume is to investigate the relationship between catastrophic events and different communication strategies that embraced politics, religion, propaganda, dissent, scholarship as well as collective responses from the lower segments of society. The contributors to this volume share a multidisciplinary approach to the study of natural disasters which draws on disciplines such as cultural and social history, anthropology, literary theory, and linguistics. Together with analyzing the prolific production of propagandistic material and literary sources issued in periods of acute crisis, the documentation on disasters studied in this volume also includes laws and emergency regulations, petitions and pleas to the authorities, scientific and medical treatises, manuscript and printed newsletters as well as diplomatic dispatches and correspondence.

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Viella Libreria Editrice

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8833139085

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9788833139081

Imagining Europe

Myth, Memory, and Identity

By: Chiara Bottici,Benoît Challand

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Imagining Europe

Myth, Memory, and Identity

By: Chiara Bottici,Benoît Challand

In Imagining Europe, Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand explore the formation of modern European identity. Europe has not always been there, although we have been imagining it for quite some time. Even after the birth of a polity called the European Union, the meaning of Europe remained a very much contested topic. What is Europe? What are its boundaries? Is there a specific European identity or is the EU just the name for a group of institutions? This book answers these questions, showing that in Europe's formation, myth and memory, although distinct, are often merged in a common attempt to construct an identity for its present and its future. In a time when Europe is facing an existential crisis, when its meaning is being questioned, Imagining Europe explores a vital and often unacknowledged aspect of the European project.

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221

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Cambridge University Press

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1107276527

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9781107276529

Selected Poetry and Prose

A Bilingual Edition

By: Chiara Matraini

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Selected Poetry and Prose

A Bilingual Edition

By: Chiara Matraini

Chiara Matraini (1515–1604?) was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch, cultivated later by the lyric poet Pietro Bembo, and supplanted by the epic poet Torquato Tasso. Though without formal training, Matraini excelled in a number of literary genres popular at the time—poetry, religious meditation, discourse, and dialogue. In her midlife, she published a collection of erotic love poetry, but later in life her work shifted toward a search for spiritual salvation. Near the end of her life, she published a new poetry retrospective. Mostly available in only a handful of rare book collections, her writings are now adeptly translated here for an English-speaking audience and situated historically in an introduction by noted Matraini expert Giovanna Rabitti. Selected Poetry and Prose allows the poet to finally take her place as one of the seminal authors of the Renaissance, next to her contemporaries Vittoria Colonna and Laura Battiferra, also published in the Other Voice series.

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308

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University of Chicago Press

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0226510867

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9780226510866

Visualizing cityscapes of Classical antiquity: from early modern reconstruction drawings to digital 3D models

With a case study from the ancient town of Koroneia in Boeotia, Greece

By: Chiara Piccoli

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Visualizing cityscapes of Classical antiquity: from early modern reconstruction drawings to digital 3D models

With a case study from the ancient town of Koroneia in Boeotia, Greece

By: Chiara Piccoli

The study presented here aims to make a practical contribution to a new understanding and use of digital 3D reconstructions in archaeology, namely as ‘laboratories’ to test hypotheses and visualize, evaluate and discuss multiple interpretations.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1784918903

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9781784918903

Italian graphic design

Culture and practice in Milan, 1930s-60s

By: Chiara Barbieri

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Italian graphic design

Culture and practice in Milan, 1930s-60s

By: Chiara Barbieri

Italian graphic design offers a new perspective on the subject by exploring the emergence and articulation of graphic design practice, from the interwar period through to the appearance of an international graphic design discourse in the 1960s. The book asks how graphic designers learned their trade and investigates the ways in which they organised and made their practice visible while negotiating their collective identity with neighbouring practices such as typography, advertising and industrial design. Attention is drawn to everyday design practice, educational issues, mediating channels, networks, design exchange, organisational strategies and discourses on modernism. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources and placing an emphasis on visual analysis, this book provides a model for a contextualised graphic design history as an integral part of the history of design and visual culture.

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Manchester University Press

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152615112X

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9781526151124

Architecture Form(s) Identity

Spaces for the Absence of Memory

By: Greta Allegretti,Carola D'Ambros,Chiara Lionello,Enrico Miglietta,Valerio Maria Sorgini,Greta Maria Taronna

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Architecture Form(s) Identity

Spaces for the Absence of Memory

By: Greta Allegretti,Carola D'Ambros,Chiara Lionello,Enrico Miglietta,Valerio Maria Sorgini,Greta Maria Taronna

Architecture form(s) identity. Spaces for the absence of memory is a collection of essays on the theme of memory, its possible loss, weakness, ability to build individual and collective identities, and on the way architecture inserts itself in this process, determining different spaces of reflection. These texts all arise from a common research ground, which saw the editors personally involved in an inter-doctoral Workshop (The Memory as Construction of the Subject. Designing for the Absence of Memory, 2018-19), with a collaboration between Politecnico di Milano (AUID) and the Universidad de Sevilla (HAC) Ph.D. schools, in which the theme of memory and the construction of a more holistic space that dialogues with it was at the center of the design reflection. These contributions, all built around that very rich relationship between memory and architecture, have led to a necessary desire to broaden the horizons and thematic limits reached by the workshop, considering them as a starting point for the collection of different perspectives able to investigate some issues in a more specific way.

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LetteraVentidue Edizioni

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8862427697

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9788862427692

General Principles of EU Law and the Protection of Fundamental Rights

By: Chiara Amalfitano

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General Principles of EU Law and the Protection of Fundamental Rights

By: Chiara Amalfitano

This insightful book analyses the role that EU general principles have taken in the protection of fundamental rights within the EU since the Lisbon Treaty. In particular, the author focuses on the relationship between written law (the Charter of Fundamental Rights) and unwritten law (the general principles) within the institutional framework of the EU. The book demonstrates that due to their complementary and autonomous function toward the protection of fundamental rights, the general principles still play a key role within the Union despite the binding force of the Charter.

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209

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1786439433

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9781786439437

Citizens’ Participation in Urban Transformations

By: Chiara Scanagatta

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Citizens’ Participation in Urban Transformations

By: Chiara Scanagatta

Humanity has always seen a close relationship between the place of living and the ways of life. Today, the quality of life certainly improves if places of living are attentive to the ever-changing needs of communities. The space of the city should not be static, but dynamic and flexible. The aim of this work is therefore to pay more and more attention to the in-depth studies, on which many architectural scholars are working today, necessary for the fabbricato to be more and more responsive to the population that uses it, both in the sense of the physical spaces and the materials that guarantee its quality and efficiency. It is a theme to which architects are paying plenty of attention because it is becoming increasingly urgent, also in view of the European Union’s expectations on the matter, to investigate the urban and building components and the effects they produce in terms of e.g., quality of materials, functionality of spaces, living habits of the population, proximity of services. This work arose from an experience of personal collaboration in a European project of innovative participatory design carried out in Verona Sud during the PhD period. Subsequently, it was analysed and examined in depth which theoretical and operational aspects actually make it possible to implement urban transformations that link the relations between the environment and quality of life. In this large field, it therefore becomes predominant to re-propose the centrality of attention to the community’s expectations, ways of living, decision-making systems, techniques used, knowledge and understanding of objective data on the environment, and thus to overcome common stereotypes on all these issues.

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Ronzani Editore

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ISBN 13

9791259601513

Book's by Chiara Villani

Jewish Displaced Persons in Italy 1943–1951

Jewish Displaced Persons in Italy 1943–1951

Brittle Matrix Composites

Brittle Matrix Composites

A Day in a Medieval City

A Day in a Medieval City

Experiential Constructions in Latin

Experiential Constructions in Latin

Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples

Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples

Imagining Europe

Imagining Europe

Selected Poetry and Prose

Selected Poetry and Prose

Visualizing cityscapes of Classical antiquity: from early modern reconstruction drawings to digital 3D models

Visualizing cityscapes of Classical antiquity: from early modern reconstruction drawings to digital 3D models

Italian graphic design

Italian graphic design

Architecture Form(s) Identity

Architecture Form(s) Identity

General Principles of EU Law and the Protection of Fundamental Rights

General Principles of EU Law and the Protection of Fundamental Rights

Citizens’ Participation in Urban Transformations

Citizens’ Participation in Urban Transformations

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