Salim is the only son of a family of Moroccan immigrants living on the French island of Corsica. His desire to stand up and rebel against the poverty and ignorance of his peers leads him to strive for excellence in every aspect of his life. He lives in Casta, a small village in the north of the island where everybody’s life is constantly under scrutiny. His problems with the locals start during his school days when he has to defend himself against bullying and false accusations. It is also the time when he finds love for his best fan: Maria, the beautiful daughter of a supporter of the Corsican independence movement. When Bernard, Salim’s friend, mentor and employer, dies in a road incident - too easily dismissed as an accident by the racist Head of the local police - his life changes drastically. He doesn’t believe in the accidental death of his friend and starts his own personal investigation. When the feelings Bernard had for Salim are reflected in his will, he has to face not only prejudice, racism and envy but, most of all, a parallel world of crime, drugs and violence present on the island. His new status also makes him question the strength of his love for Maria, and to reconsider his feelings for Sylvie, Bernard’s lover. This is a story about intrigue, crime and passion set against the stunning background of the Island of Corsica.
La Confessione di fede del movimento valdese, pubblicata in italiano nel 1655 in consonanza con l'insegnamento della Riforma protestante, è qui presentata con esposizione e commento didattico del past. Paolo E. Castellina: un prezioso retaggio con la quale anche la nostra generazione di cristiani deve confrontarsi per continuare ad essere fedele alla divina Rivelazione. In comunione con la fede del popolo di Dio attraverso la storia, essa ci può aiutare a preservare le nostre chiese da ricorrenti errori e degenerazioni che pregiudicano la nostra testimonianza cristiana. La Confessione di fede del 1655 è pure presentata parallelamente alla precedente Confessione di fede dei valdesi del 1560 basata sulla Confessione gallicana.
The Renaissance was not just a rebirth of the mind. It was also a new dawn for the machine. When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, we instinctively refer, above all, to its artistic and literary masterpieces. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, however, the Italian peninsula was the stage of a no-less-impressive revival of technical knowledge and practice. In this rich and lavishly illustrated volume, Paolo Galluzzi guides readers through a singularly inventive period, capturing the fusion of artistry and engineering that spurred some of the Renaissance’s greatest technological breakthroughs. Galluzzi traces the emergence of a new and important historical figure: the artist-engineer. In the medieval world, innovators remained anonymous. By the height of the fifteenth century, artist-engineers like Leonardo da Vinci were sought after by powerful patrons, generously remunerated, and exhibited in royal and noble courts. In an age that witnessed continuous wars, the robust expansion of trade and industry, and intense urbanization, these practitioners—with their multiple skills refined in the laboratory that was the Renaissance workshop—became catalysts for change. Renaissance masters were not only astoundingly creative but also championed a new concept of learning, characterized by observation, technical know-how, growing mathematical competence, and prowess at the draftsman’s table. The Italian Renaissance of Machines enriches our appreciation for Taccola, Giovanni Fontana, and other masters of the quattrocento and reveals how da Vinci’s ambitious achievements paved the way for Galileo’s revolutionary mathematical science of mechanics.
With the aid of entertaining short stories, anecdotes, lucid explanations and straight-forward figures, this book challenges the perception that the world of physics is inaccessible to the non-expert. Beginning with Neanderthal man, it traces the evolution of human reason and understanding from paradoxes and optical illusions to gravitational waves, black holes and dark energy. On the way, it provides insights into the mind-boggling advances at the frontiers of physics and cosmology. Unsolved problems and contradictions are highlighted, and contentious issues in modern physics are discussed in a non-dogmatic way in a language comprehensible to the non-scientist. It has something for everyone.
For the Galvani Bicentenary Celebrations, the University of Bologna and its Academy of Sciences singled out subnuclear physics as the field of scientific research to be associated with this important event, as it would best illustrate, for the new generation of students, the challenge inherent in fundamental sciences. Subnuclear physics was born 50 years ago and has represented, ever since, the new frontiers of Galilean science. In his opening lecture delivered on the first day of the new academic year, Professor Antonino Zichichi analytically reviewed the basic conceptual developments and main discoveries achieved in subnuclear physics during the last 50 years. Given the importance of this field of fundamental research, Professor Zichichi was invited to expand the contents of his lecture into a book, and the outcome is this invaluable volume.
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