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Teaching Freedom

Stories of Anti-Fascist Teachers in Italy

By: Massimo Castoldi

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Teaching Freedom

Stories of Anti-Fascist Teachers in Italy

By: Massimo Castoldi

Starting in the early 1900s, male and female elementary schoolteachers in Italy gained increasing awareness of the role of social workers in the fight against illiteracy and in creating civic consciousness based on widespread, qualified education. In 1900, the Unione Magistrale (the Teachers Association) was founded; in 1919, the Sindacato Magistrale (the Italian Teachers Union, a member of the General Confederation of Labor) was created. Inevitably, some of these teachers, firmly convinced of their duty, opposed fascism which, from the moment it originated, aimed at creating obedient boys who were loyal to fascist doctrine and trained in warfare, and girls ready to become the mothers and wives of soldiers. These teachers resisted in the most diverse ways. Some were forced to abandon teaching, a number of them were killed by fascist violence, but others were able to navigate the restrictions imposed on them by the regime. In Teaching Freedom, the author reconstructs twelve biographies of these teachers, based on unpublished material and archive documents, in a form of research suspended between history and pedagogy. The chronological order of the stories retraces the way fascism progressively seized power, suffocating all forms of freedom of expression. Moreover, the study of newly-found documents and various testimonies show the teachers' ceaseless invention of alternative teaching strategies.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1683934210

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Towards a Knowledge Based Economy?

Knowledge and Learning in European Educational Research

By: Michael Kuhn,Massimo Tomassini,P. R. J. Simons

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Towards a Knowledge Based Economy?

Knowledge and Learning in European Educational Research

By: Michael Kuhn,Massimo Tomassini,P. R. J. Simons

Although educational research advocates the perspective of the learner, who or what is it advocating against? The governments of all European Union countries give learning the most prominent place on their policy agendas; the European Commission wants Europe to become a knowledge based society; companies across the European Union are no longer interested primarily in profit, but want to be learning organisations; social scientists detect the emergence of a learning society and economists advocate a learning economy. What does European educational research do, if nowadays everybody in the European Union wants nothing else but knowledgeable people?

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Peter Lang

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0820474703

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9780820474700

The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God

By: Massimo Mazzotti

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The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God

By: Massimo Mazzotti

She is best known for her curve, the witch of Agnesi, which appears in almost all high school and undergraduate math books. She was a child prodigy who frequented the salon circuit, discussing mathematics, philosophy, history, and music in multiple languages. She wrote one of the first vernacular textbooks on calculus and was appointed chair of mathematics at the university in Bologna. In later years, however, she became a prominent figure within the Catholic Enlightenment, gave up the academic world, and devoted herself to the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the homeless. Indeed, the life of Maria Agnesi reveals a complex and enigmatic figure—one of the most fascinating characters in the history of mathematics. Using newly discovered archival documents, Massimo Mazzotti reconstructs the wide spectrum of Agnesi's social experience and examines her relationships to various traditions—religious, political, social, and mathematical. This meticulous study shows how she and her fellow Enlightenment Catholics modified tradition in an effort to reconcile aspects of modern philosophy and science with traditional morality and theology. Mazzotti's original and provocative investigation is also the first targeted study of the Catholic Enlightenment and its influence on modern science. He argues that Agnesi's life is the perfect lens through which we can gain a greater understanding of mid-eighteenth-century cultural trends in continental Europe. -- Paula Findlen

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JHU Press

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0801887097

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9780801887093

Light in Art

By: Massimo Mariani

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Light in Art

By: Massimo Mariani

Brimming with illustrations, this stunningly original book presents the role of light in art throughout history. This richly illustrated book takes readers on a tour through the history of art to learn how artists have used light (and its lack of it as shadow) to make a statement about their subject matter or create a specific mood, with examples by masters such as Giotto, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Courbet, Turner, Klimt, and many more, as well as theoretical approaches starting with Plato and Aristotle, moving on to Descartes, Newton, Goethe and Chevreul. Throughout history, artists have played with light, approaching it as both a subject and tool to create the desired atmosphere, convey ideas, and inspire emotions in the viewer. In medieval frescoes, rays of light stood for the presence of the divine, while 17th-century Dutch painters used light to indicate depth and construct an impactful setting. The Impressionists wanted to depict light itself and the way it plays upon the surfaces of objects in the form of color. Photography and film have used light, both natural and artificial, to make things visible in the first place. This volume delves into these and many more topics and constitutes a perfect reference book for artists, students, scholars, and art lovers.

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Hoaki

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8417656677

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The world in a sea

Catholics and the Mediterranean during the Pontificate of Pius XII

By: Simone Azzopardi,Dominique Avon,Nicholas Joseph Doublet,Carlos Veci Lavín,Massimo de Leonardis,Roberto Regoli,Paolo Valvo

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The world in a sea

Catholics and the Mediterranean during the Pontificate of Pius XII

By: Simone Azzopardi,Dominique Avon,Nicholas Joseph Doublet,Carlos Veci Lavín,Massimo de Leonardis,Roberto Regoli,Paolo Valvo

The Mediterranean, both a sea and a theatre, has served throughout history as a fundamental crossroads for the political-religious dynamics and international tensions that characterize the various worlds, east and west, south and north, that meet in this basin. Starting from these premises, the present work examines - within a chronological span that goes from the conclusion of the Second World War to the end of Pius XII’s pontificate - the contribution offered by the Holy See and by Catholics from different national contexts in deciphering the role of the Mediterranean Sea within the wider global context. As such, it constitutes a reflection on this geographical space with its peculiar cultural, economic, political, and religious realities by highlighting the role played by the Mediterranean in the elaboration of visions and projects of civilization. This work is the fruit of a wider research programme called Occidentes - Horizons and projects of civilization in the Church of Pius XII. It brings together the work of seven historians from different European Universities.

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Edizioni Studium S.r.l.

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8838254265

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9788838254260

Sorting Out Catholicism

A Brief History of the New Ecclesial Movements

By: Massimo Faggioli

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Sorting Out Catholicism

A Brief History of the New Ecclesial Movements

By: Massimo Faggioli

In this expanded and thoroughly updated English edition of the Italian edition (2008), Massimo Faggioli offers us a history and broader context of the so-called ecclesial movements of which Focolare, Community of Sant'Egidio, Neocatechumenal Way, Legionaries of Christ, Communion and Liberation, and Opus Dei are only some of the most recognizable names. Their history goes back to the period following the First Vatican Council, crosses Vatican II, and develops throughout the twentieth century. It is a history that prepares the movements' rise in the last three decades, from John Paul II to Francis. These movements are a complex phenomenon that shapes the Church now more than before, and they play a key role for the future of Catholicism as a global community, in transition from a Eurocentric tradition to a world Church.

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Liturgical Press

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0814683053

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9780814683057

"My Muse Will Have a Story to Paint"

Selected Prose of Ludovico Ariosto

By: Lodovico Ariosto,Massimo Ciavolella

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"My Muse Will Have a Story to Paint"

Selected Prose of Ludovico Ariosto

By: Lodovico Ariosto,Massimo Ciavolella

Ariosto's correspondence paints a detailed portrait of the world he lived and wrote in. While some letters illuminate his day-to-day life, including his work as a provincial commissioner for the ruling Este family of Ferrara, others shed light on the composition and production of his poems and plays, allowing a glimpse of the man in his creative workshop. Herbal Doctor, a parody of humanism in general and neoplatonic philosophy in particular, may mark a defense of Ariosto's decision to turn away from the philological world of his contemporaries in order to pursue a different kind of learning.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442640871

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9781442640870

Death in the Duomo.A Renaissance Conspiracy

By: Massimo Gregori Grgič

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Death in the Duomo.A Renaissance Conspiracy

By: Massimo Gregori Grgič

Death in the Duomo" is a historical novel. Set in Renaissance Florence, the novel reconstructs the attack againt the Medici family on April 26th, 1478, known to history as the "Pazzi conspiracy", in which Giuliano de 'Medici, brother of Lorenzo the Magnificent, lost his life. The story starts on December 26th, 1476, date of another conspiracy, during which Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, was killed. The story then skips to Florence and follows the planning of the attack to the Medici, with Pope Sixtus IV as obscure principal, actually performed by Jacopo and Francesco de 'Pazzi and other conspirators. The story alternates between Palazzo Pazzi and Palazzo Medici, in the days before the attack, until the dramatic conclusion of the plot. Against the backdrop of historical events, the love story spreads between two fictional characters: Lapo Lanfredini and Fiammetta Tornaquinci. Lust for power, scandals, economic and political interests, mysteries and alchemy are the main ingredients of the novel, which offers an accurate and realistic trip thorough Medicean Florence, in which play Pico della Mirandola, Sandro Botticelli, Angelo Poliziano, Leonardo Da Vinci and many more contemporary artists. The descriptions are rich in historical details and costumes. The story is exciting and engaging, like a real blast from the past.

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il Ciliegio Edizioni

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8867713752

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Experimental Gravitation

By: Fulvio Ricci,Massimo Bassan

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Experimental Gravitation

By: Fulvio Ricci,Massimo Bassan

This book features a comprehensive review of experimental gravitation. It is a textbook based on the graduate courses on “Experimental Gravitation” given by the authors at their respective universities in Rome: Sapienza and Tor Vergata. A number of different research topics in the field are covered: from the torsion pendulum (still today the tool of choice for measuring small forces or torques) to the large interferometers developed to observe gravitational waves. Techniques that are still under development are also discussed, like the pulsar timing array and space-based detectors of the future. This book is written by experimentalists for experimentalists. While the background physics is summarized for less experienced readers, the emphasis is certainly on experimental verifications: the strategy, the apparatuses, the data analysis and the results of many cornerstone experiments are analyzed and discussed in depth. This textbook serves as a useful resource for both graduate students and professionals working in the increasingly vibrant field of experimental gravity.

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Springer Nature

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3030955966

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9783030955960

Cell Adhesion Molecules in Cancer and Inflammation

By: Agamemnon A. Epenetos,Massimo Pignatelii

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Cell Adhesion Molecules in Cancer and Inflammation

By: Agamemnon A. Epenetos,Massimo Pignatelii

Begins a series for clinicians, graduate students, and researchers in academia, regulatory agencies, or industry, offering monographs both on classes of adhesion molecules and on the function of such molecules in particular systems. Here the emphasis is on the clinical evaluation of these molecules, particularly as novel biochemical and genetic markers to define tumor differentiation based on functional and morphological assessment, and also their potential use as targets for biological therapy. Includes ten pages of color plates. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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CRC Press

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3718655160

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9783718655168

What Images Really Tell Us

The Adoption of Visual Rhetoric in Graphic Design and Advertising

By: Massimo Mariani

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What Images Really Tell Us

The Adoption of Visual Rhetoric in Graphic Design and Advertising

By: Massimo Mariani

The author delivers an account of how to use the images to deliver the intended meaning.

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Hoaki

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8417656049

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9788417656041

Artificial Adaptive Systems Using Auto Contractive Maps

Theory, Applications and Extensions

By: Paolo Massimo Buscema,Giulia Massini,Marco Breda,Weldon A. Lodwick,Francis Newman,Masoud Asadi-Zeydabadi

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Artificial Adaptive Systems Using Auto Contractive Maps

Theory, Applications and Extensions

By: Paolo Massimo Buscema,Giulia Massini,Marco Breda,Weldon A. Lodwick,Francis Newman,Masoud Asadi-Zeydabadi

This book offers an introduction to artificial adaptive systems and a general model of the relationships between the data and algorithms used to analyze them. It subsequently describes artificial neural networks as a subclass of artificial adaptive systems, and reports on the backpropagation algorithm, while also identifying an important connection between supervised and unsupervised artificial neural networks. The book’s primary focus is on the auto contractive map, an unsupervised artificial neural network employing a fixed point method versus traditional energy minimization. This is a powerful tool for understanding, associating and transforming data, as demonstrated in the numerous examples presented here. A supervised version of the auto contracting map is also introduced as an outstanding method for recognizing digits and defects. In closing, the book walks the readers through the theory and examples of how the auto contracting map can be used in conjunction with another artificial neural network, the “spin-net,” as a dynamic form of auto-associative memory.

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Springer

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3319750496

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9783319750491

Quantification of Contrast Kinetics in Clinical Imaging

By: Massimo Mischi,Simona Turco,Osama I. Soliman,Folkert J. ten Cate,Hessel Wijkstra,Ivo Schoots

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Quantification of Contrast Kinetics in Clinical Imaging

By: Massimo Mischi,Simona Turco,Osama I. Soliman,Folkert J. ten Cate,Hessel Wijkstra,Ivo Schoots

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the pharmacokinetic models used for the quantitative interpretation of contrast-enhanced imaging. It discusses all the available imaging technologies and the problems related to the calibration of the imaging system and accuracy of the estimated physiological parameters. Enhancing imaging modalities using contrast agents has opened up new opportunities for going beyond morphological information and enabling minimally invasive assessment of tissue and organ functionality down to the molecular level. In combination with mathematical modeling of the contrast agent kinetics, contrast- enhanced imaging has the potential to provide clinically valuable additional information by estimating quantitative physiological parameters. The book presents the broad spectrum of diagnostic possibilities provided by quantitative contrast-enhanced imaging, with a particular focus on cardiology and oncology, as well as novel developments in the area of quantitative molecular imaging along with their potential clinical applications. Given the variety of available techniques, the choice of the appropriate imaging modality and the most suitable pharmacokinetic model is often challenging. As such, the book provides a valuable technical guide for researchers, clinical scientists, and experts in the field who wish to better understand and properly apply tracer-kinetic modeling for quantitative contrast-enhanced imaging.

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3319646389

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Bootstrapping Information from Corpora in a Cross-linguistic Perspective

By: Massimo Moneglia

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Bootstrapping Information from Corpora in a Cross-linguistic Perspective

By: Massimo Moneglia

The achievements of Romance language corpus-driven studies deserve more attention from the scientific community at the world level for both their quantity and quality. This book contains papers given at the 3rd International LABLITA Workshop in Corpus Linguistics (Italian Department, University of Florence, June 4th-5th 2008), and it aims at integrating new ideas and results derived from Romance language corpora in the framework of the overall achievements of Corpus Linguistics. The volume contains the contribution of a leading scholar of Corpus Linguistics (Douglas Biber), and a set of articles presented to Biber by notable European researchers and those from other countries. Papers report on long-term studies ranging from Italian to Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese.

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Firenze University Press

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8884535182

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9788884535184

Garbin

By: Nando Pietro Tomassoni,Angela Oliva,Massimo Mariani,Daniela Cordelli,Eugenio Campana,Danilo Cagno

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Garbin

By: Nando Pietro Tomassoni,Angela Oliva,Massimo Mariani,Daniela Cordelli,Eugenio Campana,Danilo Cagno

Il titolo dell'opera, Garbin, implica un viatico romantico, simbolico ed evocativo: il nome di un vento che trasporti questi componimenti in fuga, verso altri territori, altre culture, lettori, autori. All'interno di Garbin (è il nome con cui viene chiamato in Dalmazia in vento di Libeccio, portatore del caldo torrido della stagione estiva) si susseguono, in ordine alfabetico: Danilo Cagno con Tempi Moderni, sguardi sul nuovo millennio; Eugenio Campana con Litio/Anfetamina; Daniela Cordelli con L'orizzonte; Massimo Mariani con Isole bianche; Angela Oliva con Versi in cammino; Nando Pietro Tomassoni con fai un lungo sospiro profondo." (tratto dalla prefazione Giuseppe Aletti)

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Aletti Editore

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8859126851

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Teaching Freedom

Teaching Freedom

Towards a Knowledge Based Economy?

Towards a Knowledge Based Economy?

The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God

The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God

Light in Art

Light in Art

The world in a sea

The world in a sea

Sorting Out Catholicism

Sorting Out Catholicism

"My Muse Will Have a Story to Paint"

"My Muse Will Have a Story to Paint"

Death in the Duomo.A Renaissance Conspiracy

Death in the Duomo.A Renaissance Conspiracy

Experimental Gravitation

Experimental Gravitation

Cell Adhesion Molecules in Cancer and Inflammation

Cell Adhesion Molecules in Cancer and Inflammation

What Images Really Tell Us

What Images Really Tell Us

Artificial Adaptive Systems Using Auto Contractive Maps

Artificial Adaptive Systems Using Auto Contractive Maps

Quantification of Contrast Kinetics in Clinical Imaging

Quantification of Contrast Kinetics in Clinical Imaging

Bootstrapping Information from Corpora in a Cross-linguistic Perspective

Bootstrapping Information from Corpora in a Cross-linguistic Perspective

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