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The Unforgotten Sisters

Female Astronomers and Scientists before Caroline Herschel

By: Gabriella Bernardi

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The Unforgotten Sisters

Female Astronomers and Scientists before Caroline Herschel

By: Gabriella Bernardi

Taking inspiration from Siv Cedering’s poem in the form of a fictional letter from Caroline Herschel that refers to “my long, lost sisters, forgotten in the books that record our science”, this book tells the lives of twenty-five female scientists, with specific attention to astronomers and mathematicians. Each of the presented biographies is organized as a kind of "personal file" which sets the biographee’s life in its historical context, documents her main works, highlights some curious facts, and records citations about her. The selected figures are among the most representative of this neglected world, including such luminaries as Hypatia of Alexandra, Hildegard of Bingen, Elisabetha Hevelius, and Maria Gaetana Agnesi. They span a period of about 4000 years, from En HeduAnna, the Akkadian princess, who was one of the first recognized female astronomers, to the dawn of the era of modern astronomy with Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville. The book will be of interest to all who wish to learn more about the women from antiquity to the nineteenth century who played such key roles in the history of astronomy and science despite living and working in largely male-dominated worlds.

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3319261274

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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

A Modern Astronomer in the 17th Century

By: Gabriella Bernardi

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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

A Modern Astronomer in the 17th Century

By: Gabriella Bernardi

This book offers a fascinating account of the life and scientific achievements of Giovanni Domenico Cassini, or Cassini I, the most famous astronomer of his time, who is remembered today especially for his observations of the rings and satellites of Saturn and his earlier construction of the great meridian line in the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna. The various stages of his life are recounted in an engaging style, from his early childhood in Perinaldo and his time at the famous Jesuit College in Genoa, to his later experiences in Bologna and Paris. The emphasis, however, is on the scientific side of his life. The book explores his impressive body of work in diverse fields while also drawing attention to the international character of his endeavors, the rigor of his research, and his outstanding management skills, which combined to make him an early embodiment of the “European scientist.” It was also these abilities that gained him the attention of the most powerful king in Europe, Louis XIV of France (the “Sun King”), under the auspices of whom he set up the Paris Observatory in 1671. He would go on to serve as Director of the Observatory, where he would make the majority of his scientific discoveries, for the rest of his life.

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186

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3319634682

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Understanding Gaia

A Mission to Map the Galaxy

By: Gabriella Bernardi,Alberto Vecchiato

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Understanding Gaia

A Mission to Map the Galaxy

By: Gabriella Bernardi,Alberto Vecchiato

This book is the first to provide a comprehensive, readily understandable report on the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission that will meet the needs of a general audience. It takes the reader on an exciting journey of discovery, explaining how such a scientific satellite is made, presenting the scientific results available from Gaia to date, and examining how the collected data will be used and their likely scientific consequences. The Gaia mission will provide a complete and high-precision map of the positions, distances, and motions of the stars in our galaxy. It will revolutionize our knowledge on the origin and evolution of the Milky Way, on the effects of mysterious dark matter, and on the birth and evolution of stars and extrasolar planets. The Gaia satellite was launched in December 2013 and has a foreseen operational lifetime of five to six years, culminating in a final stellar catalogue in the early 2020s. This book will appeal to all who have an interest in the mission and the profound impact that it will have on astronomy.

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159

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303011449X

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The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy

The Case of 'G'

By: Gabriella Romano

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The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy

The Case of 'G'

By: Gabriella Romano

This open access book investigates the pathologisation of homosexuality during the fascist regime in Italy through an analysis of the case of G., a man with "homosexual tendencies" interned in the Collegno mental health hospital in 1928. No systematic study exists on the possibility that Fascism used internment in an asylum as a tool of repression for LGBT people, as an alternative to confinement on an island, prison or home arrests. This research offers evidence that in some cases it did. The book highlights how the dictatorship operated in a low-key, shadowy and undetectable manner, bending pre-existing legislation. Its brutality was - and still is - difficult to prove. It also emphasises the ways in which existing stereotypes on homosexuality were reinforced by the regime propaganda in support of its so-called moralising campaign and how families, the police and the medical professionals joined forces in implementing this form of repression.

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116

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Springer

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3030009947

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Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art

A Communicative Strategy

By: Gabriella Mazzon

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Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art

A Communicative Strategy

By: Gabriella Mazzon

Pathos as Communicative Strategy in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art explores the strategies employed to trigger emotional responses in late-medieval dramatic texts from several Western European traditions, and juxtaposes these texts with artistic productions from the same areas, with an emphasis on Britain. The aim is to unravel the mechanisms through which pathos was produced and employed, mainly through the representation of pain and suffering, with mainly religious, but also political aims. The novelty of the book resides in its specific linguistic perspective, which highlights the recurrent use of words, structures and dialogic patterns in drama to reinforce messages on the salvific value of suffering, in synergy with visual messages produced in the same cultural milieu.

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326

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BRILL

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9004355588

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9789004355583

First Cut

Conversations with Film Editors

By: Gabriella Oldham

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First Cut

Conversations with Film Editors

By: Gabriella Oldham

First Cut offers an opportunity to learn what film editing really is, and to learn from the source. Gabriella Oldham's interviews with twenty-three award-winning film editors give a full picture of the complex art and craft of editing a film. Filled with animated anecdotes and detailed examples, and updated with a new preface, this book provides a comprehensive treatment of both documentary and feature film editing.

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438

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Univ of California Press

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0520274679

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Resilience of Luxury Companies in Times of Change

By: Gabriella Lojacono,Laura Ru Yun Pan

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Resilience of Luxury Companies in Times of Change

By: Gabriella Lojacono,Laura Ru Yun Pan

Resilience of Luxury Companies in Times of Change is a book for executives and Masters' level students taking courses in luxury management. It offers an insight into the current and emergent business models and strategies luxury companies apply to remain resilient in times of change. It explores a variety of business models answering the following key questions: What is each brand’s value proposition used to attract a consumer’s willingness to pay? What is each brand’s target audience? How do brands navigate and expand their markets? And how do luxury companies organize their resources to design and develop products and services to continually sell to their customers? The answers to these questions provide the foundation of a luxury company’s business strategy and, as a result, its brand architecture. The authors also explore the patterns that have emerged in the ownership, management and the manufacturing in luxury goods companies, where dominance is usually found in certain countries. This book focuses on six key industries in the luxury product sector: fashion, automotive, hospitality, furniture, cosmetics and jewellery. It provides an international perspective with examples drawn from Europe, USA, the Middle East, China and Japan. Through these examples and cases, the authors analyze how luxury companies are facing the challenges posed by external shocks and an extensive need for digitalization. Using concepts and theories from macroeconomics (such as globalisation) and corporate and business strategy, the book aims to connect the dots between theory and practice. Resilience of Luxury Companies in Times of Change provides perspectives of the past, present and future – how luxury companies have evolved over time and managed to stay resilient despite the challenges they have faced through the different eras.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110723514

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9783110723519

The Unforgotten Sisters

Female Astronomers and Scientists before Caroline Herschel

By: Gabriella Bernardi

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Female Astronomers and Scientists before Caroline Herschel

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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

A Modern Astronomer in the 17th Century

By: Gabriella Bernardi

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A Modern Astronomer in the 17th Century

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Understanding Gaia

A Mission to Map the Galaxy

By: Gabriella Bernardi,Alberto Vecchiato

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A Mission to Map the Galaxy

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Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art

Correspondence, 1920-1957

By: Gabriella Bernardi,Spyros Koulouris

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Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art

Correspondence, 1920-1957

By: Gabriella Bernardi,Spyros Koulouris

The American art historian Bernard Berenson, born in 1865, is famous for his pioneering studies of the Italian Renaissance, but his work on Byzantine art remains less well-known and less studied. Yet his passion for studies of Byzantium - dubbed the 'Byzantine infection' - played a major role throughout Berenson's life, and in the 1920s, he began work on a magnum opus on this topic that was sadly never completed. This volume aims to illuminate and revisit Berenson's approach to Byzantium and the art of the Christian East through an exploration and analysis of the correspondence, travel notes, and photo archive that Berenson built up over his lifetime, and that taken together, clearly points to an explicit recognition by Berenson of the importance of Byzantine art in the Latin Middle Ages. Drawing together Berenson's correspondence with art historians, collectors, and scholars from across Europe, the US, and the Near East, together with an overview of his numerous photography campaigns, the book is able to open a new window into Byzantine art historiography from the 1920s to the 1950s. In doing so, it sheds light onto a period in which important discoveries and extensive restoration campaigns were carried out, such as those of the mosaics of Hagia Sophia and Kariye Camii in Istanbul, as well as of the Basilica of San Marco in Venice and its decoration.

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Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art

Correspondence, 1920-1957

By: Gabriella Bernardi

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Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art

Correspondence, 1920-1957

By: Gabriella Bernardi

The American art historian Bernard Berenson, born in 1865, is famous for his pioneering studies of the Italian Renaissance, but his work on Byzantine art remains less well-known and less studied. Yet his passion for studies of Byzantium -- dubbed the 'Byzantine infection' -- played a major role throughout Berenson's life, and in the 1920s, he began work on a magnum opus on this topic that was sadly never completed. This volume aims to illuminate and revisit Berenson's approach to Byzantium and the art of the Christian East through an exploration and analysis of the correspondence, travel notes, and photo archive that Berenson built up over his lifetime, and that taken together, clearly points to an explicit recognition by Berenson of the importance of Byzantine art in the Latin Middle Ages. Drawing together Berenson's correspondence with art historians, collectors, and scholars from across Europe, the US, and the Near East, together with an overview of his numerous photography campaigns, the book is able to open a new window into Byzantine art historiography from the 1920s to the 1950s. In doing so, it sheds light onto a period in which important discoveries and extensive restoration campaigns were carried out, such as those of the mosaics of Hagia Sophia and Kariye Camii in Istanbul, as well as of the Basilica of San Marco in Venice and its decoration."--

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Book's by Gabriella Bernardi

The Unforgotten Sisters

The Unforgotten Sisters

Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Understanding Gaia

Understanding Gaia

The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy

The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy

Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art

Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art

First Cut

First Cut

Resilience of Luxury Companies in Times of Change

Resilience of Luxury Companies in Times of Change

The Unforgotten Sisters

The Unforgotten Sisters

Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Understanding Gaia

Understanding Gaia

Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art

Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art

Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art

Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art

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