Giovanna Franco's Books

Intercultural Competences for Vocational Education and Training

Experiential Learning and Social Contexts for Enhancing Professional Competences

By: Filippo Bignami,Maria Giovanna Onorata

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Intercultural Competences for Vocational Education and Training

Experiential Learning and Social Contexts for Enhancing Professional Competences

By: Filippo Bignami,Maria Giovanna Onorata

In a globalized world characterized by transnational migration flows as an inevitable consequence of the increased mobility of individuals, coping with differences and with cultural discontinuity has become the main challenge in the education and training sector at all levels. This book is addressed to professionals in vocational education and training in an attempt to provide suggestions on innovative methods and intercultural approaches for inclusive, continuous education. Starting from the achievements of the I-VET European project, led by an international consortium of Universities and training organizations, the book traces the broad, multi-disciplinary epistemological framework underlying the proposed innovative methodology, based on experiential learning and reflective practice and the didactic choices piloted with a group of VET teachers and trainers. The focus is intercultural competence achieved through a situated and contextualized exercise of awareness about the specific situations in which differences emerge, and mutual adjustment between different frameworks, in full accordance with the constructionist approach to social interaction at the basis of the whole study.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

EGEA spa

Published Date

ISBN 10

8823813654

ISBN 13

9788823813656

NATO's Peace Enforcement Tasks and Policy Communities

By: Giovanna Bono

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

NATO's Peace Enforcement Tasks and Policy Communities

By: Giovanna Bono

This book was published in 2003.How has NATO managed to survive and transform itself into a peace-enforcement organization? Challenging the dominant assumption that NATO intervened in the Balkans because of the threat that conflicts in the region posed to European security, this book develops a new set of research questions based on the hypothesis of the existence of "policy communities". The author demonstrates that there were shifting policy communities in operations that shaped the Alliance's transformation process, arguing that NATO would not have succeeded in assuming peace-enforcement tasks without other factors - ranging from organisational dynamics, domestic politics and the impact of ad hoc reactions to external events - coming into play. Highlighting the role of NATO as an actor in international security, this volume is aimed at academics and practitioners in the field of international relations

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

208

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351776495

ISBN 13

9781351776493

La Cucina Siciliana di Gangivecchio/Gangivecchio's Sicilian Kitchen

Recipes from Gangivecchio's Sicilian Kitchen

By: Wanda Tornabene,Giovanna Tornabene

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

La Cucina Siciliana di Gangivecchio/Gangivecchio's Sicilian Kitchen

Recipes from Gangivecchio's Sicilian Kitchen

By: Wanda Tornabene,Giovanna Tornabene

Tucked away on a remote Sicilian mountainside is Gangivecchio--once a Roman outpost, then a fourteenth-century Benedictine abbey, now a world-class restaurant and inn. Poached Lemon-flavored Ricotta Gnocchi with Sage Butter. Arancine (the sublime rice croquettes of Sicily) Stuffed with Bechamel, Ham, and Mozzarella. Veal and Pumpkin stew. Sofficini (elegant little pastries, filled with warm lemon cream, that defy description.) These are just a few of the spectacular dishes prepared at Gangivecchio for anyone lucky enough to dine at this magical spot, with its roaring fireplace, blossoming orchards, roaming animals, and acres of wild poppies. For anyone not able to make this incredible journey, Wanda and Giovanna now have prepared La Cucina Siciliana di Gangivecchio, the ultimate country cookbook, with recipes culled from generations, handed down as part of the extraordinary and charming history of the family, the town, and the island of Sicily itself.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

776

Publisher

Knopf

Published Date

ISBN 10

0307765210

ISBN 13

9780307765215

American Journalism and International Relations

Foreign Correspondence from the Early Republic to the Digital Era

By: Giovanna Dell'Orto

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

American Journalism and International Relations

Foreign Correspondence from the Early Republic to the Digital Era

By: Giovanna Dell'Orto

American Journalism and International Relations argues that the American press' disengagement from world affairs has critical repercussions for American foreign policy. Giovanna Dell'Orto shows that discourses created, circulated, and maintained through the media mold opinions about the world and shape foreign policy parameters. This book is a history of U.S. foreign correspondence from the 1840s to the present, relying on more than 2,000 news articles and twenty major world events, from the 1848 European revolutions to the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008. Americans' perceptions of other nations, combined with pervasive and enduring understandings of the United States' role in global politics, act as constraints on policies. Dell'Orto finds that reductive media discourse (as seen during the 1967 War in the Middle East or Afghanistan in the 1980s) has a negative effect on policy, whereas correspondence grounded in events (such as during the Japanese attack on Shanghai in the 1930s or the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991) fosters effective leadership and realistic assessments.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

297

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107031958

ISBN 13

9781107031951

Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema

Screening Hospitality

By: Giovanna Faleschini Lerner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema

Screening Hospitality

By: Giovanna Faleschini Lerner

Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Screening Hospitality puts gender at the centre of cinematic representations of contemporary transnational Italian identities. It offers an intersectional feminist analysis of the ways in which transnational migration has been represented, understood, and constructed in the contemporary cinema of Italy. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s notion of hospitality and in dialogue with postcolonial and decolonial theory, queer studies, and feminist critiques, the six chapters of the book focus on a series of exemplary fiction films from the last twenty years, which both reflect and shape the nation’s responses to the growing presence of transnational migrants in Italian society. The book shows how questions of gender, sexual difference, and reproductivity have been central to Italian filmmakers’ approaches to stories of mobility and displacement. Gender is also enmeshed in the rhetoric and poetic of hospitality that filmmakers propose as a critical framework to condemn Italian border policies and politics. Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Screening Hospitality traces an arc that moves from the embrace of a humanitarian rhetoric of infinite hospitality toward migrants, apparent in films produced in the early 2000s, to a more fluid understanding of Italian identities from a transnational perspective.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

216

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1802079025

ISBN 13

9781802079029

Italy's Lost Greece

Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology

By: Giovanna Ceserani

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Italy's Lost Greece

Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology

By: Giovanna Ceserani

Italy's Lost Greece is the untold story of the modern engagement with the ancient Greek settlements of South Italy--an area known since antiquity as Magna Graecia. This "Greater Greece," at once Greek and Italian, has continuously been perceived as a region in decline since its archaic golden age, and has long been relegated to the margins of classical studies. Giovanna Ceserani's evocative and nuanced analysis recovers its significance within the history of classical archaeology. It was here that the Renaissance first encountered an ancient Greek landscape, and during the "Hellenic turn" of eighteenth-century Europe the temples of Paestum and the painted vases of South Italy played major roles, but since then, Magna Graecia--lying outside the national boundaries of modern Greece, and sharing in the complicated regional dynamic of the Italian Mezzogiorno--has fitted awkwardly into the commonly accepted paradigms of Hellenism. The unfolding of this process provides a unique insight into three developments: the humanist investment in the ancient past, the evolution of modern Hellenism, and the making of classical archaeology. Drawing on antiquarian and archaeological writings, histories and travelogues about Magna Graecia, and recent rewritings of the history and imagining of the South, Italy's Lost Greece sheds new light on well known figures in the history of archaeology while recovering forgotten ones. This is an Italian story of European resonance, which transforms our understanding of the transition from antiquarianism to archaeology, of the relationship between nation-making and institution-building in the study of the ancient past, and of the reconstruction of classical Greece in the modern world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

348

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190453966

ISBN 13

9780190453961

New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman

By: Giovanna Summerfield,Lisa Downward

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman

By: Giovanna Summerfield,Lisa Downward

New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman reflects the change in direction of research on the Bildungsroman, focusing on more psychological, authorial and feminist contents.Departing from the father of the prototype of the genre, Goethe, the authors trace imperative pathways to its French, British, and Italian counterparts, examining spiritual and female Bildungsromane. A wide-ranging analysis provides fresh insights into the genre through comparative analyses of Bildungsromane both diatopically and diachronically, while critical analysis of novels such as Voltaire's Candide, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, Collodi's Pinocchio, Aleramo's Una donna present new readings of the characters, plots and purposes of the most famous European novels.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

209

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1441151184

ISBN 13

9781441151186

Translating and Adapting Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes in the United States

By: Giovanna Di Martino

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Translating and Adapting Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes in the United States

By: Giovanna Di Martino

After centuries of neglect, Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes has gained increasing prominence worldwide and in the United States in particular, where a hip-hop production caught the public imagination in the new millennium. This study analyses three translations of Aeschylus’ tragedy (by Helen H. Bacon and Anthony Hecht, 1973; Stephen Sandy, 1999; and Carl R. Mueller, 2002) and two adaptations (by Will Power, 2001-2008; and Ellen Stewart, 2001-2004). Beginning in the late 1960s, the Seven Against Thebes has received multiple new readings: at stake are Eteocles’ and Polynices’ relationships with the (past and present) Labdacid dynasty; the brothers’ claims to the Theban polis and to their inheritance; and the metatheatrical implications of their relationship to Oedipus’ legacy. This previously forgotten play provides a timely response to the power dynamics at work in the contemporary US, where the fight for ethnic, cultural, economic, and linguistic recognition is a daily reality and always involves dialogue with the individual’s own past and tradition.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

188

Publisher

Skenè. Texts and Studies

Published Date

ISBN 13

9791220061896

Between insecurity and hope

Reflections on youth work with young refugees

By: Maria Pisani,Tanya Basarab,Barbara Giovanna Bello,Sofia Laine

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Between insecurity and hope

Reflections on youth work with young refugees

By: Maria Pisani,Tanya Basarab,Barbara Giovanna Bello,Sofia Laine

Youth work can offer a space for young refugees to express themselves and participate in society. This Youth Knowledge book presents theoretical references and reflections on the experiences of young refugees and the way they reconcile personal hope with the tensions within their host societies. It also explores learning from practices and their theoretical underpinnings concerning the role of youth work in a cross-sectoral approach. This book aims to be a reference for policy makers, practitioners and researchers in the youth field and stakeholders from other sectors working on inclusion, access to rights and the participation of young refugees. All the contributors propose a very critical engagement with the reality of young refugees in today’s Europe, where tolerance levels for negative phenomena, such as human rights violations, hate speech and discrimination, are on the rise. However, there is also an underlying message of hope for those willing to engage in a human rights-based youth work practice that ensures safe spaces for being young, no matter who, no matter where. Practices and reflections deal with democracy, activism, participation, formal and non-formal education and learning, employment, trauma, “waitinghood” and negotiating identities. We hope this book as a whole, and each individual contribution, will inspire youth policy makers and practitioners to take on board the complex realities of unfinished transitions and borderland experiences and create a positive environment for an enriched and transformed youth work for the inclusion of young refugees in their host communities.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

218

Publisher

Council of Europe

Published Date

ISBN 10

9287189242

ISBN 13

9789287189240

Women and Men in Political and Business Elites

A Comparative Study in the Industrialized World

By: Mino Vianello,Giovanna Di Stefano

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Women and Men in Political and Business Elites

A Comparative Study in the Industrialized World

By: Mino Vianello,Giovanna Di Stefano

How do gender inequalities translate at the top of politics and business? Is the gender gap eliminated for the most influential players in industrial democratic society? Drawing on a sample from no less than 27 countries, a convincing and highly original picture is constructed that informs readers of career paths, values, social networks and gender battles for women elites. This informed and compelling analysis examines the demographic characteristics, family circumstances and career paths of a group of elite women. The book is noteworthy for being one of the first empirically based studies of women elites.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

228

Publisher

SAGE

Published Date

ISBN 10

1412902673

ISBN 13

9781412902670

William Merritt Chase

A Modern Master

By: Elsa Smithgall,Erica E. Hirshler,Katherine M. Bourguignon,Giovanna Ginex,John Davis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

William Merritt Chase

A Modern Master

By: Elsa Smithgall,Erica E. Hirshler,Katherine M. Bourguignon,Giovanna Ginex,John Davis

A landmark retrospective that examines William Merritt Chase and his lasting contribution to the history of modern art The history of modern art owes a great debt to William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), one of America's influential artists and educators. Chase was a leading member of the international artistic avant-garde and was best known for his mastery of a wide range of subjects in oil and pastel, including figures, landscapes, urban park scenes, interiors, and portraits. As a teacher and founder of the Shinnecock Summer School of Art and the New York School of Art, Chase mentored a new generation of modernists, including Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Joseph Stella. A century after his death, the breadth and richness of Chase's career are celebrated in this beautifully illustrated publication. Five essays by prominent scholars of American art offer new insights into Chase's multi-faceted artistic practice and his position in the international cultural climate at the turn of the 20th century.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

249

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0300206267

ISBN 13

9780300206265

The Incomplete Currency

The Future of the Euro and Solutions for the Eurozone

By: Marcello Minenna,Giovanna Maria Boi,Paolo Verzella

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Incomplete Currency

The Future of the Euro and Solutions for the Eurozone

By: Marcello Minenna,Giovanna Maria Boi,Paolo Verzella

A fact-based treatise on the Eurozone crisis, with analysis of possible solutions The Incomplete Currency is the only technical — yet accessible — analysis of the current Eurozone crisis from a global perspective. The discussion begins by explaining how the Euro's architecture, the relationship between finance and the real economy, and the functioning of the Eurosystem in general are all at the root of the current crisis, and then explores possible solutions rooted in fact, not theory. All topics are analysed and illustrated, making extensive use of examples, tables, and graphics, and the ideas presented are supported by data sets and their statistical elaborations throughout the book. An extensive digital component includes numerical simulations of public debt dynamics for different Eurozone countries, evaluations of the sustainability of programmes like the Fiscal Compact, and stress tests on the ability of institutions like the ESM to cope with major liquidity crises, and the spreadsheets used to calculate data in the book is provided for readers to access for themselves. The survival of the European monetary union has been questioned due to the accumulation of structural imbalances and the negative effects of the global financial crisis. This book lays out the full extent of the problem, explains what caused it, and provides possible solutions backed by extensive data. Dig down to the root of the Eurozone crisis Learn why austerity doesn't fix anything Understand how the Euro has changed economies Consider possible strategies for recovery In a macroeconomic context where the monetary policy is the prerogative of the European Central Bank and fiscal policy, hopeless austerity works against the economic recovery of the Eurozone countries. A positive attitude is difficult, but necessary. The Incomplete Currency is an insightful, important resource that guides readers toward real solutions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

832

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

1119019125

ISBN 13

9781119019121

Gale Researcher Guide for: Literature from the Discovery and Conquest of Florida

By: Giovanna Montenegro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Gale Researcher Guide for: Literature from the Discovery and Conquest of Florida

By: Giovanna Montenegro

Gale Researcher Guide for: Literature from the Discovery and Conquest of Florida is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Gale, Cengage Learning

ISBN 10

1535848170

ISBN 13

9781535848176

A Perfect Medium?

Oracular Divination in the Thought of Plutarch

By: Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Perfect Medium?

Oracular Divination in the Thought of Plutarch

By: Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

An in-depth analysis of oracular divination in Plutarch’s thought Oracular divination was of special concern for Plutarch of Chaeronea (45–120 AD), Platonic philosopher as well as priest at the oracle of Apollo in Delphi. The peculiar nature of Delphic divination as an (im)perfect intermediary between the material and the immaterial world is fathomed in a thorough study of Plutarch’s Delphic dialogues. This in-depth philosophical-conceptual analysis will disclose an original interpretation of oracular divination in Plutarch as interconnected with his psychological and cosmological conceptions. A Perfect Medium? reveals the Delphic temple as a crucial element in Plutarch’s philosophy, as a microcosm reflecting the cosmic dynamics, and as a symbol embodying the relationship between human thirst for knowledge and divine absolute wisdom.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Leuven University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

9462701113

ISBN 13

9789462701113

Feminism, Violence, and Representation in Modern Italy

"We are Witnesses, Not Victims"

By: Giovanna Parmigiani

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Feminism, Violence, and Representation in Modern Italy

"We are Witnesses, Not Victims"

By: Giovanna Parmigiani

Can the way a word is used give legitimacy to a political movement? Feminism, Violence, and Representation in Modern Italy traces the use of the word "femminicidio" (or "femicide") as a tool to mobilize Italian feminists, particularly the Union of Women in Italy (UDI). Based on nearly two years of fieldwork among feminist activists, Giovanna Parmigiani takes a broad look at the many ways in which violence inflects the lives of women in Italy. From unchallenged gendered grammar rules to the representation of women as victims, Parmigiani examines the devaluing of women's contribution to their communities through the words and experiences of the women she interviews. She describes the first uses of the word "femminicidio" as a political term used by and within feminist circles and traces its spread to ultimate legitimization and national relevance. The word redefined women as a political subject by building an imagined community of potentially violated women. In doing so, it challenged Italians to consider the status of women in Italian society, and to make this status a matter of public debate. It also problematized the connection between women and tropes of women as objects of suffering and victimhood. Parmigiani considers this exchange within the context of Italian Catholic heritage, a precarious economy, and long-held notions of honor and shame. Parmigiani provides a careful and searing consideration of the ways in which representations of violence and the politics of this representation are shaping the future of women in Italy and beyond.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

230

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0253043409

ISBN 13

9780253043405

Amalfi, Sorrento, Ravello, Positano

The Amalfi Coast ..., the Sorrento Coast ...

By: Barbara Conti,Giuliano Valdés,Giovanna Magi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Amalfi, Sorrento, Ravello, Positano

The Amalfi Coast ..., the Sorrento Coast ...

By: Barbara Conti,Giuliano Valdés,Giovanna Magi

With exhaustive information, superb full-colour photography, and detailed illustrations and accurate maps, the New Millennium Collection is perfect for those who want to know more about the history and art of the regions, cities, and monuments they visit

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

132

Publisher

Casa Editrice Bonechi

Published Date

ISBN 10

8847613876

ISBN 13

9788847613874

International Marketing Strategy

The Country of Origin Effect on Decision-Making in Practice

By: Giovanna Pegan,Donata Vianelli,Patrizia de Luca

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

International Marketing Strategy

The Country of Origin Effect on Decision-Making in Practice

By: Giovanna Pegan,Donata Vianelli,Patrizia de Luca

Consumers in most parts of the world now have global access to products beyond those offered in their countries and cultures. This new space for comparison defined by globalization can result in very different purchasing behaviors, including those influenced by the 'country of origin'. This book investigates this effect, one of the most controversial fields of consumer literature, from a company perspective. In particular, it demonstrates the strategic relevance of the country of origin in creating and making use of the value in foreign markets. It also addresses the challenges connected with utilizing the value of the country of origin by considering different entry modes and international marketing channels. Further, it considers the role of international importers and international retailers’ assortment strategies in terms of value creation in foreign markets. Combining theory and practice, the book features diverse company perspectives and interviews with importers and retailers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

195

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

3030335887

ISBN 13

9783030335885

Differential Heterogenesis

Mutant Forms, Sensitive Bodies

By: Alessandro Sarti,Giovanna Citti,David Piotrowski

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Differential Heterogenesis

Mutant Forms, Sensitive Bodies

By: Alessandro Sarti,Giovanna Citti,David Piotrowski

This book describes about unlike usual differential dynamics common in mathematical physics, heterogenesis is based on the assemblage of differential constraints that are different from point to point. The construction of differential assemblages will be introduced in the present study from the mathematical point of view, outlining the heterogeneity of the differential constraints and of the associated phase spaces, that are continuously changing in space and time. If homogeneous constraints well describe a form of swarm intelligence or crowd behaviour, it reduces dynamics to automatisms, by excluding any form of imaginative and creative aspect. With this study we aim to problematize the procedure of homogeneization that is dominant in life and social science and to outline the dynamical heterogeneity of life and its affective, semiotic, social, historical aspects. Particularly, the use of sub-Riemannian geometry instead of Riemannian one allows to introduce disjointed and autonomous areas in the virtual plane. Our purpose is to free up the dynamic becoming from any form of unitary and totalizing symmetry and to develop forms, action, thought by means of proliferation, juxtaposition, and disjunction devices. After stating the concept of differential heterogenesis with the language of contemporary mathematics, we will face the problem of the emergence of the semiotic function, recalling the limitation of classical approaches (Hjelmslev, Saussure, Husserl) and proposing a possible genesis of it from the heterogenetic flow previously defined. We consider the conditions under which this process can be polarized to constitute different planes of Content (C) and Expression (E), each one equipped with its own formed substances. A possible (but not unique) process of polarization is constructed by means of spectral analysis, that is introduced to individuate E/C planes and their evolution. The heterogenetic flow, solution of differential assemblages, gives rise to forms that are projected onto the planes, offering a first referring system for the flow, that constitutes a first degree of semiosis.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

222

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

3030977978

ISBN 13

9783030977979

Waterfront Design in Small Mediterranean Port Towns

By: Giovanna Piga

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Waterfront Design in Small Mediterranean Port Towns

By: Giovanna Piga

This book addresses issues that waterfronts face in small Mediterranean port towns due to increases in the tourism industry. Integrating theory and pragmatic approaches, Waterfront Design in Small Port Towns proposes a design matrix which can go on to be implemented in waterfronts globally. The demand for a sustainable regeneration of the urban waterfront is constantly growing and represents the ultimate challenge to preserve and value the uniqueness of the region and to activate an overall redevelopment of small port towns. To understand these issues, Waterfront Design in Small Port Towns contains an in-depth investigation of the cultural and environmental assets and spatial socio-economic factors of the urban waterfront. This is conducted through the author’s original methodological framework, the Waterfront Design Matrix, which responds to the specific scales and idiosyncrasies of the archetypical waterfront. The methodological and theoretical approach developed in the book can be applied to different geographical locations and countries, presenting comparable characteristics. This book is an ideal read for professionals and students alike with an interest in urban design and planning.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

186

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000545571

ISBN 13

9781000545579

Looking Through My Mother's Eyes

Life Stories of Nine Italian Immigrant Women in Canada

By: Giovanna Del Negro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Looking Through My Mother's Eyes

Life Stories of Nine Italian Immigrant Women in Canada

By: Giovanna Del Negro

This look at the traditional and subversive world of women's folklore examines the realm of women's talk, exploring the ways Italian immigrant women from Montreal use classic folk genres to stretch the boundaries of their culture. Through songs, lullabies, bawdy riddles, and trickster tales, these women subvert, redefine, and alter what it means to be Italian and female in North America. More than just a study of Italian Canadians, this essay delves into broader themes of gender, immigration, and ethnicity, showcasing voices that contradict homogenizing interpretations of traditional historical scholarship.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

160

Publisher

Guernica Editions

Published Date

ISBN 10

1550711741

ISBN 13

9781550711745

The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town

Folklore and Performance of Modernity

By: Giovanna P. Del Negro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town

Folklore and Performance of Modernity

By: Giovanna P. Del Negro

An in-depth study detailing how members of a small Italian community use both traditional practices and expressive forms taken from popular culture to grapple with the social changes brought about by modernity.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

202

Publisher

McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published Date

ISBN 10

0773527397

ISBN 13

9780773527393

A Comprehensive Physically Based Approach to Modeling in Bioengineering and Life Sciences

By: Riccardo Sacco,Giovanna Guidoboni,Aurelio Giancarlo Mauri

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Comprehensive Physically Based Approach to Modeling in Bioengineering and Life Sciences

By: Riccardo Sacco,Giovanna Guidoboni,Aurelio Giancarlo Mauri

A Comprehensive Physically Based Approach to Modeling in Bioengineering and Life Sciences provides a systematic methodology to the formulation of problems in biomedical engineering and the life sciences through the adoption of mathematical models based on physical principles, such as the conservation of mass, electric charge, momentum, and energy. It then teaches how to translate the mathematical formulation into a numerical algorithm that is implementable on a computer. The book employs computational models as synthesized tools for the investigation, quantification, verification, and comparison of different conjectures or scenarios of the behavior of a given compartment of the human body under physiological and pathological conditions. - Presents theoretical (modeling), biological (experimental), and computational (simulation) perspectives - Features examples, exercises, and MATLAB codes for further reader involvement - Covers basic and advanced functional and computational techniques throughout the book

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

856

Publisher

Academic Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0128125195

ISBN 13

9780128125199

Trends in Neuroimmunology

By: Maria Giovanna Marrosu,Carlo Cianchetti,Bruno Tavolato

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Trends in Neuroimmunology

By: Maria Giovanna Marrosu,Carlo Cianchetti,Bruno Tavolato

Immunology has developed quite impressively over the past decade and perhaps very few fields in medicine or biology have grown so explosively. Completely new fields have been elucidated in depth. We recall only the definition of the nature and function of RLA antigens at the molecular level. the chemical and functional identification of several cytokines. and the correlation to particular immunological functions of specific epitopes present on cellular mem branes. The extensive application of immunological techniques and concepts to the neurological sciences has led to the development of neuroimmunology. a disci pline in its infancy until few years ago. In these last years. neuroimmunology has developed researches in various fields. RLA antigens were studied at the cellular level in brain samples and in CSF cells in several diseases. Cytokines. such as interleukin 1 and 2. gamma- and alpha-interferons. and tumor necrosis factor alpha. were studied at the immunohistological level and with quantitative methods in serum and CSF. With these data. new relevant insights were obtained on the molecular mechanisms underlying CNS immunological diseases. Moreover. neuroimmunological researches were carried on through the development of new and more 'specific' technologies for the study of natural and experimental diseases. the most important of which seem to be. at present. the techniques of cell cultures for cell lines specific to the CNS (oligodendrocytes. astroglia. microglia. meningeal cells. brain capillary cells and tumor cells).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

235

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1461306078

ISBN 13

9781461306078

German Conquistadors in Venezuela

The Welsers' Colony, Racialized Capitalism, and Cultural Memory

By: Giovanna Montenegro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

German Conquistadors in Venezuela

The Welsers' Colony, Racialized Capitalism, and Cultural Memory

By: Giovanna Montenegro

This fascinating study traces sixteenth-century German colonialism in Venezuela through the lens of racialized capitalism and the subsequent memorialization of the period through to the twentieth century. Giovanna Montenegro investigates one of the strangest and often-ignored episodes in the conquest and colonization of the Americas––the governance of the Province of Venezuela by the Welsers, a German banking family from Augsburg, in the sixteenth century. Using a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book chronicles the Welsers’ business expansion beyond banking to colonization and the slave trade in the Spanish Indies and the eventual failure of the colony. Montenegro follows the money that financed the Habsburg empire, tackling a multifaceted, multilingual corpus of primary documents. She examines numerous legal documents, from contracts granting colonization and slave trade rights (capitulaciones, asientos) to complex financial transactions (interests, exchange rates). She also analyzes maps, literary texts, and various chronicles and poems of the period. The book examines a history of violence perpetrated upon enslaved Indigenous and African people, but it is also the story of how different generations across the Atlantic, up to Nazi Germany in the twentieth century, have remembered and recalled this Welser period of governance in Venezuela to serve other social and political purposes. Montenegro positions her research in relation to current critical discussion on inequality, slavery, White supremacy, and neoconservative nationalist movements in contemporary Latin America and Germany. German Conquistadors in Venezuela is a stimulating read. The book will appeal to Latin Americanists, Germanists, early modernists, and scholars and students interested in postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and memory studies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

475

Publisher

University of Notre Dame Pess

Published Date

ISBN 10

0268203202

ISBN 13

9780268203207

Marketing in Culturally Distant Countries

Managing the 4Ps in Cross-Cultural Contexts

By: Giovanna Magnani

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Marketing in Culturally Distant Countries

Managing the 4Ps in Cross-Cultural Contexts

By: Giovanna Magnani

The aim of this book is to offer up-to-date insights into the challenges for international firms represented by managing their marketing mix in “distant” countries, especially considering the role played by cultural distance. Building on the famous McCarthy’s “4Ps,” and on the concept of “cultural distance,” the book outlines some key challenges and opportunities for firms that manage international marketing policies about “product,” “price,” “place,” and “promotion” in culturally distant markets. At the same time, the book looks at extant conceptualizations and approaches considering the evolving environmental forces, which are contributing to further challenges for firms that are confronted with changing economic and social scenarios. Indeed, markets and societies are increasingly affected by multiculturalism, and new patterns in consumers’ behaviors have emerged due to the proliferation of digital technologies and, more recently, due to several market disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic. How do firms manage culturally distant and increasingly evolving cultural environments is a relevant topic worthy of discussion from both a theoretical perspective and a practice-based approach, through the analysis of real-world case studies. Researchers of cross-cultural marketing and practitioners intending to get acquainted with the latest research on the topic would particularly benefit from this book.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

195

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

3031048326

ISBN 13

9783031048326

From Grain to Pixel

The Archival Life of Film in Transition

By: Giovanna Fossati

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

From Grain to Pixel

The Archival Life of Film in Transition

By: Giovanna Fossati

From Grain to Pixel attempts to bridge the fields of film archiving and academic research, by addressing the discourse on film ontology and analysing how it affects the role of film archives. Fossati proposes a new theoretization of film archival practice as the starting point for a renewed dialogue between film scholars and film archivists." --Book Jacket.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

321

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

9089641394

ISBN 13

9789089641397

The Hidden Power of the American Dream

Why Europe's Shaken Confidence in the United States Threatens the Future of U.S. Influence

By: Giovanna Dell'Orto

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Hidden Power of the American Dream

Why Europe's Shaken Confidence in the United States Threatens the Future of U.S. Influence

By: Giovanna Dell'Orto

On the day after the tragic terrorist attacks of 9/11, newspapers across Europe proclaimed, We Are All Americans in many different languages, crystallizing the solidarity that so many people around the world felt at that time. But in the years since, that beautiful friendship between Americans and Europeans evaporated, leaving in its place a growing resentment so deep that Americans traveled overseas with Canadian flags stitched to their backpacks while Europeans held candlelight vigils for the removal of President George W. Bush. Dell'Orto argues persuasively that the answer to the question of where do we go from here lies in whether non-Americans keep believing in the American dream. Only if that dream continues to be the root of America's power—as this book shows it has been since the United States first stepped onto the international stage—can America not go the way of all other superpowers in history: down and out. Through analysis of thousands of Western European media articles and government publications about the United States, this book, for the first time, shows what the essence of America is to non-Americans and why that matters to Americans in a very practical way—because it sets limits to what the nation can accomplish. Dell'Orto argues persuasively that Europe's United States is the revered concept America—the exceptional dream that the land of (plenty of) opportunity can really exist, that the experiment in democracy can really work for all those who choose to become Americans. This is a great U.S. asset, since it makes America uniquely powerful in Europe's eyes, infinitely mightier than the march of Marines and McDonald's alone would warrant. Herein lie the uniqueness and the urgency of this book. European public opinion shape's Europe's reaction at least as much as U.S. actions do.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0313348197

ISBN 13

9780313348198

The American Philosopher

Conversations with Quine, Davidson, Putnam, Nozick, Danto, Rorty, Cavell, MacIntyre, Kuhn

By: Giovanna Borradori

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The American Philosopher

Conversations with Quine, Davidson, Putnam, Nozick, Danto, Rorty, Cavell, MacIntyre, Kuhn

By: Giovanna Borradori

In this lively look at current debates in American philosophy, leading philosophers talk candidly about the changing character of their discipline. In the spirit of Emerson's The American Scholar, this book explores the identity of the American philosopher. Through informal conversations, the participants discuss the rise of post-analytic philosophy in America and its relations to European thought and to the American pragmatist tradition. They comment on their own intellectual development as well as each others' work, charting the course of American philosophy over the past few decades. Giovanna Borradori, in her substantial introduction, explains the history of the analytic movement in America and the home-grown reaction against it. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American philosophy was a socially engaged interdisciplinary enterprise. In transcendentalism and pragmatism, then the dominant currents in American thought, philosophy was connected to history, psychology, and public issues. But in the 1930s, the imported European movement of logical positivism redefined philosophical discourse in terms of mathematical logic and theory of language. Under the influence of this analytic view, American philosophy became a professionalized discipline, divorced from public debate and intellectual history and antagonistic to the other, more humanistic tradition of continental thought. The American Philosopher explores the opposition between analytic and continental thought and shows how recent American work has begun to bridge the gap between the two traditions. Through a reexamination of pragmatism, and through an attempt to understand philosophy in a more hermeneutical way, the participants narrow the distance between America's distinctly scientific philosophy and Europe's more literary approach. Moving beyond classical analytic philosophy, the participants confront each other on a number of topics. The logico-linguistic orientations of Quine and Davidson come up against the more discursive, interdisciplinary agendas of Rorty, Putnam, and Cavell. Nozick's theory of pluralist anarchism goes face-to-face with the aesthetic neo-foundationalism of Danto. And Kuhn's hypothesis of paradigm shifts is measured against MacIntyre's ethics of "virtues." Borradori's conversations offer an unconventional portrait of the way philosophers think about their work; scholars and students will not be its only beneficiaries, so will everyone who wonders about the current state of American philosophy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

189

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226066495

ISBN 13

9780226066493

Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity

By: Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity

By: Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

The period from the Late Roman Republic to the end of antiquity was marked by a wide interest in divination, and more broadly by an intense belief in the possibility of establishing close and personal connections with the gods. Divinatory practices underwent profound changes, accompanied by new trends in religious belief and philosophical reflection. Different religious, ethnic and cultural groups resorted to prophecy to define their respective identities and traditions, to articulate their peaceful or polemical interactions, and more broadly to construct their own worldview, the effects of which are still visible today. This wide-ranging volume creates a holistic picture of divination in antiquity, with perspectives from scholars of different disciplinary backgrounds. They argue that a greater focus on transcendent knowledge of the divine and cosmos influenced theories of divination among pagans, Jews, and Christians during the later part of the period.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

238

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009328824

ISBN 13

9781009328821

Credere aude

Mystifying Enlightenment

By: Giovanna Summerfield

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Credere aude

Mystifying Enlightenment

By: Giovanna Summerfield

By analyzing the Kantian response to the query What is Enlightenment?, esotericism, and, more specifically, Freemasonry as a spiritual search, this study offers a re-interpretation of the eighteenth century, one in which Enlightenment, as the predominance of rationalism, and Illuminisme are viewed as complementary rather than antithetical. By focusing on the history and nature of continental Freemasonry and the Masonic affiliation of two French authors as expressed in their work--Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin and Dominique Vivant Denon--this study addresses issues of importance today. Links between material possessions, human self-realization, and regeneration, which were exploited by these writers, call for a new look at the esoteric origins of and component in psychoanalysis, spirituality, sexuality, and power, and, ultimately, cause us to view our modern society as, in part, the inheritor of a spiritual legacy from the eighteenth century

Average ratings

N/A