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Social Influence, Power, and Multimodal Communication

By: Isabella Poggi,Francesca D'Errico

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Social Influence, Power, and Multimodal Communication

By: Isabella Poggi,Francesca D'Errico

Social Influence, Power, and Multimodal Communication reveals how democratic leaders and dictators exploit multimodal communication to convince or seduce their audiences, using words, voice, gesture, face, gaze, and posture to boast about their merits or insult and ridicule rivals. Poggi and D'Errico explore questions such as what is charisma, and how do we perceive it in a leader? And how do politicians display their dominance over opponents, or discredit them in TV debates and social media? Starting from a sociocognitive model of social interaction, observational studies reveal the rhetoric of words, hands, and faces, explaining how to see beyond their literal meanings, while experimental studies test their uses and persuasive effects. The authors affirm that multimodality helps others to influence us through displays of dominance, and by undermining our power through comments, insults, irony, ridicule, and parody. The devices of social influence and its multimodal management are illuminated, giving readers insight into how people influence others’ lives by using body language and verbal communication, either explicitly or in subtle but inexorable ways. This fascinating text is a superb resource for students of psychology, communication, pragmatics, and political sciences, as well as for school teachers, politicians, spin doctors, active citizenship workers, and anyone seeking to understand how communicative power is managed, both in politics and everyday social contexts.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000787532

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9781000787535

Entrepreneurial Finance, Crowdfunding, and Language

From Social to Financial Support

By: Francesca Capo,Francesca Di Pietro

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Entrepreneurial Finance, Crowdfunding, and Language

From Social to Financial Support

By: Francesca Capo,Francesca Di Pietro

Considering language a relevant strategic instrument that entrepreneurs and managers can use to seek external resources, this book investigates and discusses whether and under which conditions language strategies can facilitate entrepreneurs’ social support and legitimation as well as access to external resources. This book systematically integrates language into the entrepreneurial finance literature and develops a new and more comprehensive framework that relates crowdfunding to language strategies. Therefore, readers will comprehend how language choices, frames and narratives influence companies’ ability to secure social and financial support, and therefore sustain the development of their venture. Overall, this book provides insights into how entrepreneurs can use language as a strategic tool for accessing resources and support from external stakeholders, thereby considering, alongside traditional economic approaches, institutional processes of meaning-making.

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118

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Taylor & Francis

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1000920909

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9781000920901

Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurs

Developing Strategic Advantage through Entrepreneurial Finance

By: Francesca Di Pietro

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Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurs

Developing Strategic Advantage through Entrepreneurial Finance

By: Francesca Di Pietro

This is the first book of its kind to systematically integrate crowdfunding in the entrepreneurial finance research field and extend the current debate to show how crowdfunding can be leveraged as a strategic tool to grow new ventures. Utilising original empirical evidence of companies that have raised funds via crowdfunding, it discusses the value-added services that the crowd provides to entrepreneurs, as well as how and under which conditions crowdfunding helps company development by facilitating subsequent access to critical financial and non-financial resources from external stakeholders. The first part introduces the most popular models and tactics for a successful crowdfunding campaign and illustrates the characteristics of the crowdfunding phenomenon and its evolution across the world during the last decade. The second part of the book, demonstrating how crowdfunding can be a starting point to seed financing, illustrates and discusses how entrepreneurs can use crowdfunding as a strategic tool for accessing subsequent resources from external stakeholders – showing the benefits, beyond capital, that entrepreneurs can gain from the crowd, as well as potential risks. Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurs is particularly useful for academics, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in entrepreneurship and innovation, entrepreneurial finance, strategic management, as well as professionals interested in how crowdfunding can be utilised as a strategic tool to create competitive advantage.

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Routledge

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1000033988

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9781000033984

Italian All-in-One For Dummies

By: Antonietta Di Pietro,Francesca Romana Onofri,Teresa L. Picarazzi,Karen Antje Möller,Daniela Gobetti,Beth Bartolini-Salimbeni

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Italian All-in-One For Dummies

By: Antonietta Di Pietro,Francesca Romana Onofri,Teresa L. Picarazzi,Karen Antje Möller,Daniela Gobetti,Beth Bartolini-Salimbeni

Learn to speak Italian like a native? Easy. Italian All-in-One For Dummies appeals to those readers looking for a comprehensive, all-encompassing guide to mastering the Italian language. It contains content from all For Dummies Italian language instruction titles, including Italian For Dummies, Intermediate Italian For Dummies, Italian Verbs For Dummies, Italian Phrases For Dummies, Italian Grammar For Dummies, and Italian For Dummies Audio Set. Offers readers interested in learning Italian a valuable reference to all aspects of this popular language The content appeals to students, travelers, and businesspeople who visit Italian-speaking countries An online companion site allows you to download audio tracks allows for more practice opportunities, as well as additional content empowering you to speak Italian like a native Whether you're a pure beginner or have some familiarity with the language, Italian All-in-One For Dummies, with downloadable audio practice online, is your ticket to speaking, and writing, Italian.

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685

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118510577

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9781118510575

Environmental Justice for Climate Refugees

By: Francesca Rosignoli

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Environmental Justice for Climate Refugees

By: Francesca Rosignoli

This book explores who climate refugees are and how environmental justice might be used to overcome legal obstacles preventing them from being recognized at an international level. Francesca Rosignoli begins by exploring the conceptual and complex issues that surround the very existence of climate refugees and investigates the magnitude of the phenomenon in its current and future estimates. Reframing the debate using an environment justice perspective, she examines who has the responsibility of assisting climate refugees (state vs non-state actors), the various legal solutions available and the political scenarios that should be advanced in order to govern this issue in the long term. Overall, Environmental Justice for Climate Refugees presents a critical interrogation of how this specific strand of forced migration is currently categorized by existing legal, ethical and political definitions, and highlights the importance of applying a justice perspective to this issue. Exploring the phenomenon of climate refugees through a multi-disciplinary lens, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental migration and displacement, environmental politics and governance, and refugee studies.

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135

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Routledge

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1000584747

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9781000584745

Fascist Modernism in Italy

Arts and Regimes

By: Francesca Billiani

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Fascist Modernism in Italy

Arts and Regimes

By: Francesca Billiani

Between 1917 to 1975 Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Soviet Union, and Spain shifted from liberal parliamentary democracies to authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships, seeking total control, mass consensus, and the constitution of a 'new man/woman' as the foundation of a modern collective social identity. As they did so these regimes uniformly adopted what we would call a modernist aesthetic – huge-scale experiments in modernism were funded and supported by fascist and totalitarian dictators. Famous examples include Mussolini's New Rome at EUR, or the Stalinist apartment blocks built in urban Russia. Focusing largely on Mussolini's Italy, Francesca Billiani argues that modernity was intertwined irrecoverably with fascism – that too often modernist buildings, art and writings are seen as a purely cultural output, when in fact the principles of modernist aesthetics constitute and are constituted by the principles of fascism. The obsession with the creation of the 'new man' in art and in reality shows this synergy at work. This book is a key contribution to the field of twentieth century history – particularly in the study of fascism, while also appealing to students of art history and philosophy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1788317580

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Due antiche diocesi dello stretto di Messina

Insediamento, manufatti, infrastrutture e produzione nell’eparchia delle Saline e nelle isole Eolie tra Tardoantico e alto Medioevo

By: Francesca Zagari

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Due antiche diocesi dello stretto di Messina

Insediamento, manufatti, infrastrutture e produzione nell’eparchia delle Saline e nelle isole Eolie tra Tardoantico e alto Medioevo

By: Francesca Zagari

This monograph is a comparative study of the Saline area and of the Aeolian Islands dioceses’ settlement in Late Antiquity and in the Early Middle ages.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1784915696

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9781784915698

The Shared Space of Play

Traditional Games as a tool of Intercultural Education

By: Francesca Berti

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The Shared Space of Play

Traditional Games as a tool of Intercultural Education

By: Francesca Berti

The similarities between traditional games in different regions of the world, from past to present, arouse both awe and curiosity. The playful - yet educational - discovery of these practices offers the opportunity to observe the experience of play as a space for similarities between cultures. When research on play conducted with children is enriched by the recollections of play from parents and grandparents, especially in the context of a multicultural classroom, a choral narrative emerges, laying down the basis for intercultural education. Children discover the 'shared space of play', where they can meet and relish, together with teachers, the richness of cultural diversity, and also learn more about prejudice and Othering processes.

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LIT Verlag

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3643962312

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9783643962317

Entrepreneurial Finance: A Definitive Guide

By: Francesca Tenca,Vincenzo Buttice,Massimo Gaetano Colombo,Annalisa Croce,Massimiliano Guerini,Giancarlo Giudici

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Entrepreneurial Finance: A Definitive Guide

By: Francesca Tenca,Vincenzo Buttice,Massimo Gaetano Colombo,Annalisa Croce,Massimiliano Guerini,Giancarlo Giudici

This book synthesises current knowledge on entrepreneurial finance. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the state-of-the-art in entrepreneurial finance, with a focus on its ecosystem and main players. It analyses different channels of funding for young and growing ventures, namely debt financing, venture capital, business angels, and new forms of alternative finance, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages from an entrepreneur's perspective. It further discusses the characteristics of financial markets in entrepreneurial finance, examining financial gaps and public policies.This book is ideal for students in entrepreneurship, innovation, finance and business at the graduate and post-graduate levels. Entrepreneurs and policymakers interested in financial issues related to start-ups and new ventures will also find this book interesting.

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165

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World Scientific

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9811221995

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9789811221996

Entrepreneurial Personality and Small Business Management

Is there a Narcissist in Every Successful Entrepreneur?

By: Simona Leonelli,Francesca Masciarelli

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Entrepreneurial Personality and Small Business Management

Is there a Narcissist in Every Successful Entrepreneur?

By: Simona Leonelli,Francesca Masciarelli

Entrepreneurial Personality and Small Business Management offers a comprehensive analysis with theoretical and empirical grounding for understanding how entrepreneurial personality shapes small business outcomes. It explores why entrepreneurs act differently when facing similar situations and why some are more successful than others. This book represents an important step towards the development of a more complete understanding of the entrepreneur’s role in a small firm.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1839108975

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9781839108976

Atlas of Genodermatoses

By: Gianluca Tadini,Michela Brena,Francesca Besagni,Lidia Pezzani

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Atlas of Genodermatoses

By: Gianluca Tadini,Michela Brena,Francesca Besagni,Lidia Pezzani

Genodermatoses are often considered rare diseases seldom seen by practicing clinicians, but as a result, professionals often have little experience or confidence with their diagnosis when they are called upon for a clinical case. This text presents a comprehensive illustrated overview of almost 200 inherited diseases of the skin, hair, and nails. Examples have been expanded, with new images added to provide clear examples, alongside coherent and comprehensive explanations to enable clinicians to easily identify and source relevant information. This resource encompasses a varied range of skin diseases, providing accessible and in-depth information to help familiarise clinicians. The entry for each disease provides background, followed by common characterisations, manifestations, laboratory findings, genetics, cutaneous and extracutaneous findings, differential diagnosis, an overview of complications and recommended follow-ups. Authored by dermatologists and geneticists, this is an atlas of scientific research which updates established information with current studies and references. In its third edition, this text becomes an invaluable resource for dermatologists and pediatricians.

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CRC Press

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1003820948

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9781003820949

The Familiarity of Strangers

The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period

By: Francesca Trivellato

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The Familiarity of Strangers

The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period

By: Francesca Trivellato

Taking a new approach to the study of cross-cultural trade, this book blends archival research with historical narrative and economic analysis to understand how the Sephardic Jews of Livorno, Tuscany, traded in regions near and far in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Francesca Trivellato tests assumptions about ethnic and religious trading diasporas and networks of exchange and trust. Her extensive research in international archives--including a vast cache of merchants' letters written between 1704 and 1746--reveals a more nuanced view of the business relations between Jews and non-Jews across the Mediterranean, Atlantic Europe, and the Indian Ocean than ever before. The book argues that cross-cultural trade was predicated on and generated familiarity among strangers, but could coexist easily with religious prejudice. It analyzes instances in which business cooperation among coreligionists and between strangers relied on language, customary norms, and social networks more than the progressive rise of state and legal institutions.

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Yale University Press

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0300156200

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9780300156201

Rome

By: Francesca Grazzi,Jack Altman

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Rome

By: Francesca Grazzi,Jack Altman

As sacred as St Peter's, as profane as the Via Veneto, the bustling capital of Italy has something for every taste and mood. The Colosseum sums up the Roman empire, the Sistine Chapel is better than ever, the Piazza Navona remains the ultimate outdoor cafe scene. This Way Rome is crammed with addresses -- churches, ancient monuments, parks, markets, restaurants, cafes -- priceless recommendations and practical hints, whether you're on a weekend or a fortnight's adventure.

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Hunter Publishing, Inc

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2884520759

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9782884520751

Leonardo Da Vinci

By: Francesca Romei

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Leonardo Da Vinci

By: Francesca Romei

Examines the life, career, and art of Leonardo da Vinci. Presents accomplishments in the fields of painting, sculpture, mathematics, engineering, and achitecture.

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The Oliver Press, Inc.

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1934545007

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9781934545003

1000 Years of World Architecture

An Illustrated Guide

By: Francesca Prina,Elena Demartini

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1000 Years of World Architecture

An Illustrated Guide

By: Francesca Prina,Elena Demartini

This volume is a guide to the main characteristics, movements and regional variants of a millennium of Western architecture, from the early Romanesque to the most recent contemporary trends.

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