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Algebraic Geometry

A Volume in Memory of Paolo Francia

By: Paolo Francia

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Algebraic Geometry

A Volume in Memory of Paolo Francia

By: Paolo Francia

The papers in this volume cover a wide spectrum of algebraic geometry, from motives theory to numerical algebraic geometry and are mainly focused on higher dimensional varieties and Minimal Model Program and surfaces of general type.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110171805

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9783110171808

Weeds and the Carolingians

By: Paolo Squatriti

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Weeds and the Carolingians

By: Paolo Squatriti

In early medieval Europe, unwanted plants that persistently appeared among crops created extra work, reduced productivity, and challenged theologians who believed God had made all vegetation good. This book presents a dynamic picture of early medieval people struggling to control their ecosystems, and their relationship with their environments.

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Cambridge University Press

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131651286X

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Episodes in Early Modern and Modern Christian-Jewish Relations

Diasporas, Dogmas, Differences

By: Anita Virga

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Episodes in Early Modern and Modern Christian-Jewish Relations

Diasporas, Dogmas, Differences

By: Anita Virga

The history of the Christian-Jewish relations is full of curious, intense, and occasionally tragic episodes. In the dialectical development of the Western monotheistic religions, Judaism plays the role of the “thesis”, of the origins and background for the rise of Christianity and Islam. With the rise of Christianity, Judaism was progressively marginalized, since it was denied the same essence and validity of Christianity, which grew immensely in terms of spiritual and secular power. Christian scholars since the Middle Ages looked at Judaism as at the “broken staff” in the evolutionist line of religion, to quote the insightful work of the late Frank E. Manuel. At the same time, while re-discovering Judaism, Christian scholars redefined themselves, and Christianity as well. However, while Christianity encompassed many sects and many nations, the relatively weak diversity within Judaism, the religion of a single nation, seemed to hinder its evolution and development. While the intellectual battle was fought in a scholarly way, the emergence of the Christian State condemned the Jews to perpetual discrimination and occasional toleration, until a lay State, Nazi Germany, threatened the survival of the Jewish people. Neutral controversial works became powerful extermination tools when used in the political arena. This volume casts light on some crucial episodes in the long dialectics within the same intellectual and religious framework, touching upon themes such as the conception of time future in the age of Spinoza, the early encounters of Judaism and Christianity in eighteenth-century England, the memory of the Shoah, and the political revolution present in the system of the Jewish Commonwealth. From early to late Modernity, there is a history of friendship and diffidence, mutual understanding and dramatic disagreements, which, even today, largely conditions the Western intellectual world.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443812846

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9781443812849

The Arsenal of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry

The Laboratories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)

By: Marco Beretta,Paolo Brenni

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The Arsenal of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry

The Laboratories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)

By: Marco Beretta,Paolo Brenni

The first complete and detailed catalogue of Lavoisier’s collection of instruments preserved at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris. The story of the collection is carefully reconstructed and its instruments (all illustrated) are described in detail.

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BRILL

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9004511210

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9789004511217

Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy, AD 400-1000

By: Paolo Squatriti

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Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy, AD 400-1000

By: Paolo Squatriti

A discussion of the relationship between people and water in medieval Italy, first published in 1998.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521522064

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9780521522069

Restructuring the European State

European Integration and State Reform

By: Paolo Dardanelli

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Restructuring the European State

European Integration and State Reform

By: Paolo Dardanelli

Since 1950, devolution reforms have been widespread across Western Europe, leading to constitutional transformation in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom, as well as the potential for state breakup, as witnessed by independence referendums in Scotland and Catalonia. Over the same period, European integration has transferred power upwards to what is now the European Union. The simultaneous occurrence of these seemingly contradictory trends raises fundamental questions. Is state restructuring a uniform process? Has it been fuelled by European integration and, if so, how? Restructuring the European State uses a comparative analysis to present a systematic investigation of the connections between European integration and state restructuring. Paolo Dardanelli argues that there are two distinct dynamics of state restructuring: “bottom up,” where one or more regions demand self-government; and “top down,” where the central government decides to devolve power. Through quantitative analyses of thirteen key phases of state restructuring in Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom he shows that European integration has a powerful influence only in bottom up cases. Dardanelli points to a striking paradox of integration, whereby an ethos of Europe growing ever closer to union has become associated with fragmentation, divergence, and increased complexity, rather than a seamless system of multilevel governance. Innovative and rigorously researched, Restructuring the European State marks a major advance in our understanding of contemporary European politics.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773552537

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9780773552531

The History of Italian Marxism

From its Origins to the Great War

By: Paolo Favilli

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The History of Italian Marxism

From its Origins to the Great War

By: Paolo Favilli

In The History of Italian Marxism, Paolo Favilli offers an articulated analysis of the different levels at which Marx's ideas - and 'Marxism' as a doctrinal 'system' - were received in Italy from the time of the First International up till the eve of the First World War. Rejecting any linear understanding of the relation between Marx's texts and the assumption of Marxism as the ideology of the burgeoning workers' movement, Favilli explores the growth of different forms of Marxist culture through the period of the Paris Commune, the late-nineteenth-century debate on 'revisionism', and the rise of revolutionary syndicalism. Asking in each case whether 'Marxism' meant a science, an ideology, a way of doing politics, a utopia, a myth or a religion, Favilli goes on to assess which of these 'Marxisms' died with, and which have survived, the 'crisis' at the end of the twentieth century. With a new preface to the English edition. First published in Italian as Storia del marxismo italiano: dalle origini alla grande guerra, FrancoAngeli s.r.l. Milan, 1996.

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BRILL

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9004325433

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9789004325432

Comparing Media Systems

Three Models of Media and Politics

By: Daniel C. Hallin,Paolo Mancini

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Comparing Media Systems

Three Models of Media and Politics

By: Daniel C. Hallin,Paolo Mancini

Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables which have shaped their evolution. They go on to identify three major models of media system development (the Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist and Liberal models) to explain why the media have played a different role in politics in each of these systems, and to explore the forces of change that are currently transforming them. It provides a key theoretical statement about the relation between media and political systems, a key statement about the methodology of comparative analysis in political communication and a clear overview of the variety of media institutions that have developed in the West, understood within their political and historical context.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139454285

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9781139454285

Neuromania

On the Limits of Brain Science

By: Paolo Legrenzi,Carlo Umilta

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Neuromania

On the Limits of Brain Science

By: Paolo Legrenzi,Carlo Umilta

Neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, neuroaesthetics, and neurotheology are just a few of the novel disciplines that have been inspired by a combination of ancient knowledge along with recent discoveries about how the human brain works.This fascinating and thought provoking new book critically questions our love affair with brain imaging.

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Oxford University Press

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0199591342

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Along the Hudson and Mohawk

The 1790 Journey of Count Paolo Andreani

By: Paolo Andreani

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Along the Hudson and Mohawk

The 1790 Journey of Count Paolo Andreani

By: Paolo Andreani

In the summer of 1790 the Italian explorer Count Paolo Andreani traveled along the Hudson and Mohawk rivers, keeping a meticulous record of his observations and experiences in the New World. Published for the first time and translated into English, the diary is of major importance to those interested in life after the American Revolution, political affairs in the New Republic, and Native American peoples. Andreani provides detailed observations of the landscape and natural history of his route. He also documents the manners and customs of the Iroquois, Shakers, and German, Dutch, and Anglo New Yorkers. Andreani was particularly interested in the Oneida and Onondaga Indians he visited, and his description of an Oneida lacrosse match accompanies the earliest known depiction of a lacrosse stick. Andreani's American letters, included here, relate his sometimes difficult but always revealing personal relationships with Washington, Jefferson, and Adams. Prefaced by an illuminating historical and biographical introduction, Along the Hudson and Mohawk is a fascinating look at the New Republic as seen through the eyes of an observant and curious explorer.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812239148

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9780812239140

Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy

Chestnuts, Economy, and Culture

By: Paolo Squatriti

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Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy

Chestnuts, Economy, and Culture

By: Paolo Squatriti

An innovative environmental history of the chestnut tree and what it can tell us about the medieval history of Italy.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107034485

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The Culture of Love in China and Europe

By: Paolo Santangelo,Gábor Boros

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The Culture of Love in China and Europe

By: Paolo Santangelo,Gábor Boros

In The Culture of Love in China and Europe Paolo Santangelo and Gábor Boros offer a survey of the cults of love developed in the history of ideas and literary production in China and Europe between the 12th and early 19th century. They describe parallel evolutions within the two cultures, and how innovatively these independent civilisations developed their own categories and myths to explain, exalt but also control the emotions of love and their behavioural expressions. The analyses contain rich materials for comparison, point out the universal and specific elements in each culture, and hint at differences and resemblances, without ignoring the peculiar beauty and attractive force of the texts cultivating love.

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9004397833

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9789004397835

Italian Literary Icons

By: Gian-Paolo Biasin

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Italian Literary Icons

By: Gian-Paolo Biasin

Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature, Gian-Paolo Biasin explores a series of challenges posited for literary criticism by the success of semiotics, testing theoretical concepts not so much on theoretical grounds as in their practical application to literary texts from the high Romantic lyric of Ugo Foscolo to the postmodern, cosmicomic tales of Italo Calvino. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400854849

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The Economy of Renaissance Italy

By: Paolo Malanima

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The Economy of Renaissance Italy

By: Paolo Malanima

Drawing on a wide range of literature and adopting a macroeconomic approach, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the Italian economy during the Renaissance, focusing on the period between 1348, the year of the Black Death, and 1630. The Italian Renaissance played a crucial role in the formation of the modern world, with developments in culture, art, politics, philosophy, and science sitting alongside, and overlapping with, significant changes in production, forms of organization, trades, finance, agriculture, and population. Yet, it is usually argued that splendour in culture coexisted with economic depression and that the modernity of Renaissance culture coincided with an epoch of epidemics, famines, economic crisis, poverty, and destitution. This book examines both faces of the Italian economy during the Renaissance, showing that capital per worker was plentiful and productive capacity and incomes were relatively high. The endemic presence of the plague, curbing population growth, played an important role in this. It is also shown that the organization of production in industry and finance, consumerism, human capital, and mercantile rationality were the forerunners of modern-day capitalism. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of the Renaissance and Italian economic history.

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Routledge

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1000585271

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The Early Period of the Calculus of Variations

By: Paolo Freguglia,Mariano Giaquinta

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The Early Period of the Calculus of Variations

By: Paolo Freguglia,Mariano Giaquinta

This monograph explores the early development of the calculus of variations in continental Europe during the Eighteenth Century by illustrating the mathematics of its founders. Closely following the original papers and correspondences of Euler, Lagrange, the Bernoullis, and others, the reader is immersed in the challenge of theory building. We see what the founders were doing, the difficulties they faced, the mistakes they made, and their triumphs. The authors guide the reader through these works with instructive commentaries and complements to the original proofs, as well as offering a modern perspective where useful. The authors begin in 1697 with Johann Bernoulli’s work on the brachystochrone problem and the events leading up to it, marking the dawn of the calculus of variations. From there, they cover key advances in the theory up to the development of Lagrange’s δ-calculus, including: • The isoperimetrical problems • Shortest lines and geodesics • Euler’s Methodus Inveniendi and the two Additamenta Finally, the authors give the readers a sense of how vast the calculus of variations has become in centuries hence, providing some idea of what lies outside the scope of the book as well as the current state of affairs in the field. This book will be of interest to anyone studying the calculus of variations who wants a deeper intuition for the techniques and ideas that are used, as well as historians of science and mathematics interested in the development and evolution of modern calculus and analysis.

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Birkhäuser

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3319389459

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9783319389455

Jet Grouting

Technology, Design and Control

By: Paolo Croce,Alessandro Flora,Giuseppe Modoni

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Jet Grouting

Technology, Design and Control

By: Paolo Croce,Alessandro Flora,Giuseppe Modoni

Unlike similar titles providing general information on ground improvement, Jet Grouting: Technology, Design and Control is entirely devoted to the role of jet grouting - its methods and equipment, as well as its applications. It discusses the possible effects of jet grouting on different soils and examines common drawbacks, failures and disadvantag

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CRC Press

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1482247186

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9781482247183

The Borghese Gallery

By: Paolo Moreno,Chiara Stefani

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The Borghese Gallery

By: Paolo Moreno,Chiara Stefani

Rome's Galleria Borghese, home of the Borghese family, influential in the 17th and 19th centuries, now contains some of the greatest pieces of Western art. The home and museum features work by masters such as Raphael, Coanova, Bernini, and Caravaggio. This guidebook leads the reader room by room, describing each work of art along with its symbolism and cultural references. Also included are hundreds of color reproductions and commentary on each piece.

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Touring Editore

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8836519466

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9788836519460

Dalla Lucania per la gloria

By: paolo carraro

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Dalla Lucania per la gloria

By: paolo carraro

Regno delle Due Sicilie, anno 1855. In questo romanzo di storia alternativa, Ferdinando II invia un suo agente in Tunisia per ottenerne il protettorato dopo che l'Impero Ottomano si è dissolto a seguito della sconfitta nella guerra con la Russia. L'Italia è unita in una confederazione di stati che lottano con le potenze europee per il controllo del Mediterraneo.

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Lulu.com

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1291967516

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9781291967517

A History of Italian Wine

Culture, Economics, and Environment in the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries

By: Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro,Paolo Tedeschi,Luciano Maffi

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A History of Italian Wine

Culture, Economics, and Environment in the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries

By: Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro,Paolo Tedeschi,Luciano Maffi

This book analyzes the evolution of Italian viticulture and winemaking from the 1860s to the new Millennium. During this period the Italian wine sector experienced a profound modernization, renovating itself and adapting its products to international trends, progressively building the current excellent reputation of Italian wine in the world market. Using unpublished sources and a vast bibliography, authors highlight the main factors favoring this evolution: public institutional support to viticulture; the birth and the growth of Italian wine entrepreneurship; the improvement in quality of the winemaking processes; the increasing relevance of viticulture and winemaking in Italian agricultural production and export; and the emergence of wine as a cultural product.

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Springer Nature

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3031060970

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9783031060977

Fifty Early Medieval Things

Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

By: Deborah Deliyannis,Hendrik Dey,Paolo Squatriti

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Fifty Early Medieval Things

Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

By: Deborah Deliyannis,Hendrik Dey,Paolo Squatriti

This important book [...] is a helpful guide to thinking with things and teaching with things. Each entry challenges the reader to approach objects as historical actors that can speak to the changes and continuities of life in the late antique and early medieval world.― Early Medieval Europe Lavishly illustrated and engagingly written, Fifty Early Medieval Things demonstrates how to read objects in ways that make the distant past understandable and approachable. Fifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and western Asia. Ranging from Iran to Ireland and from Sweden to Tunisia, Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, and Paolo Squatriti present fifty objects—artifacts, structures, and archaeological features—created between the fourth and eleventh centuries, an ostensibly "Dark Age" whose cultural richness and complexity is often underappreciated. Each thing introduces important themes in the social, political, cultural, religious, and economic history of the postclassical era. Some of the things, like a simple ard (plow) unearthed in Germany, illustrate changing cultural and technological horizons in the immediate aftermath of Rome's collapse; others, like the Arabic coin found in a Viking burial mound, indicate the interconnectedness of cultures in this period. Objects such as the Book of Kells and the palace-city of Anjar in present-day Jordan represent significant artistic and cultural achievements; more quotidian items (a bone comb, an oil lamp, a handful of chestnuts) belong to the material culture of everyday life. In their thing-by-thing descriptions, the authors connect each object to both specific local conditions and to the broader influences that shaped the first millennium AD, and also explore their use in modern scholarly interpretations, with suggestions for further reading.

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Cornell University Press

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1501730290

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9781501730290

The Franciscan custody of the holy land in Cyprus

Its educational, pastoral and charitable work and support for the Maronite community

By: Paolo Pieraccini

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The Franciscan custody of the holy land in Cyprus

Its educational, pastoral and charitable work and support for the Maronite community

By: Paolo Pieraccini

In his latest book Dr. Pieraccini makes a major contribution not only to the annals of the Franciscan Order but also to the history of Cyprus, a Greek-speaking island off the coast of Turkey that had long provided port facilities for trade with the East and that was an important staging post on the sea route for pilgrims to the Holy Land. After the waning of the Crusades at the end of the 13th century it became “the most important Christian outpost in the Mediterranean”. Even so, Catholics – whether Latins or Maronites – never made up more than 1% of the overall population of the island. In essence this is a tale of survival against the odds over the centuries, thanks to the stubborn resilience of the Franciscan friars and the Catholic faithful, especially the Maronites, in the face of great human and natural adversity. Among the perennial challenges the Order faced were those of a shortage of water, barren soil, “bad air” – malaria – a poor climate, and the hostility of the majority population of Greeks and Muslims.

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Edizioni Terra Santa

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8862402686

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9788862402682

Money and Promises

Seven Deals That Changed the World

By: Paolo Zannoni

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Money and Promises

Seven Deals That Changed the World

By: Paolo Zannoni

Where did modern banking come from—and how does this history help us understand financial crises? In the twelfth century, Pisa was a thriving metropolis, a powerhouse of global trade, and a city that stood at the center of medieval Europe. But Pisa had a problem: Money came in the form of coins, and they were becoming scarce. In the face of this financial and monetary crisis, the foundations of modern banking were laid. In Money and Promises, the distinguished banker, executive, and historian Paolo Zannoni examines the complex relationship between states and banks that has changed the world. Drawing on in-depth archival research, he explores seven case studies: the republic of Pisa, seventeenth-century Venice, the early years of the Bank of England, imperial Spain, the Kingdom of Naples, the nascent United States during the American Revolution, and Bolshevik Russia in 1917 through 1923. Zannoni also tells the story of how the Continental Congress established the first public bank in North America, exploring the roles of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton. Spanning many countries, political systems, and historical eras, this book shows that at the heart of these institutions is an intricate exchange of debts and promises that shaped the modern world as we know it.

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Columbia University Press

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023156158X

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The Flavors of Modernity

Food and the Novel

By: Gian-Paolo Biasin

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The Flavors of Modernity

Food and the Novel

By: Gian-Paolo Biasin

From Rabelais's celebration of wine to Proust's madeleine and Virginia Woolf's boeuf en daube in To the Lighthouse, food has figured prominently in world literature. But perhaps nowhere has it played such a vital role as in the Italian novel. In a book flowing with descriptions of recipes, ingredients, fragrances, country gardens, kitchens, dinner etiquette, and even hunger, Gian-Paolo Biasin examines food images in the modern Italian novel so as to unravel their function and meaning. As a sign for cultural values and social and economic relationships, food becomes a key to appreciating the textual richness of works such as Lampedusa's The Leopard, Manzoni's The Betrothed, Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz, and Calvino's Under the Jaguar Sun. The importance of the culinary sign in fiction, argues Biasin, is that it embodies the oral relationship between food and language while creating a sense of materiality. Food contributes powerfully to the reality of a text by making a fictional setting seem credible and coherent: a Lombard peasant eats polenta in The Betrothed, whereas a Sicilian prince offers a monumental macaroni timbale at a dinner in The Leopard. Similarly, Biasin shows how food is used by writers to connote the psychological traits of a character, to construct a story by making the protagonists meet during a meal, and even to call attention to the fictionality of the story with a metanarrative description. Drawing from anthropology, psychoanalysis, sociology, science, and philosophy, the author gives special attention to the metaphoric and symbolic meanings of food. Throughout he blends material culture with observations on thematics and narrativity to enlighten the reader who enjoys the pleasures of the text as much as those of the palate. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400887224

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Un amore complicato

By: Paolo D'Arcangelo

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Un amore complicato

By: Paolo D'Arcangelo

Gianluca e Jaqueline sono due anime in cerca di significato. Lui trentacinquenne milanese insoddisfatto della sua vita frivola, lei giovane madre parigina, combattiva e dedita al lavoro. Incontratisi per caso durante una convention vengono catturati da una inaspettata attrazione reciproca. Un amore complicato è una storia d'amore itinerante, intensa e struggente, che catturerà il cuore del lettore fino all'ultima pagina, portandolo a riflettere sull'importanza delle scelte, sulla crescita personale e sulla forza dell'amore nel superare le sfide che la vita ci pone davanti.

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Historia Langobardorum

By: Paolo Diacono – Paulus Diaconus

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Historia Langobardorum

By: Paolo Diacono – Paulus Diaconus

The Latin version of the history of the Lombards, to be translated is only the preface and the other parts in Italian it is very short and if you have already done the history of the Lombards by Paolo Diacono you have already practically finished the job. From sales, they often go in pairs, those who buy the Latin version also take the other. Others take only the fully translated one.

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5042382186

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Publishing for the Popes

The Roman Curia and the Use of Printing (1527–1555)

By: Paolo Sachet

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Publishing for the Popes

The Roman Curia and the Use of Printing (1527–1555)

By: Paolo Sachet

In Publishing for the Popes, Paolo Sachet provides a detailed account of the attempts made by the Roman Curia to exploit printing in the mid-sixteenth century, after the Reformation but before the implementation of the ecclesiastical censorship.

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9004348654

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The Times of Time

A Perspective on Time in Systemic Therapy and Consultation

By: Luigi Boscolo,Paolo Bertrando

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The Times of Time

A Perspective on Time in Systemic Therapy and Consultation

By: Luigi Boscolo,Paolo Bertrando

This is the most comprehensive study of the role of time in psychotherapy. It illustrates how time is experienced in different ways – individual time, family time, and social time – and how time can act as an invaluable metaphor in shaping clinical practice within a systemic approach, while maintaining connections with other approaches, such as psychoanalysis and cognitive therapies. A seminal volume on this topic, the book looks at issues such as the duration of therapy; the relevance of past, present, and future in therapy; and the balance of memory and oblivion. It also includes a discussion of how time is framed in other disciplines, including sociology, history, and psychopathology, whilst exploring the concept in practical terms through case vignettes and complete case histories, including the transcripts of actual sessions. The reader is thus given a set of guidelines for dealing with time issues in therapy from a systemic perspective. Originally published in 1993, the book has been updated to create a dialogue with contemporary theoretical debates, as well as social and technological changes. It will fascinate all psychotherapists, particularly those interested in a systemic practice.

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Routledge

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1000022390

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Uncommon Pancreatic Neoplasms

By: Paolo Pederzoli,Claudio Bassi

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Uncommon Pancreatic Neoplasms

By: Paolo Pederzoli,Claudio Bassi

Uncommon tumors of the pancreas are of increasing interest for clinicians: cross imaging techniques development makes it possible to detect small lesions in the pancreatic gland of asymptomatic patients, and in the last decades a more detailed and specific pathological classification definitivelyopened an unexpected world of more or less rare pancreatic tumors. As a matter of fact, nowadays most surgical procedures deal with these so called uncommon pancreatic tumors such as cystic, endocrine and others unfrequent histotypes, and many patientsexperiencing an accidental discovery of this type of tumor need therefore a specialistic evaluation. The concept behind this volume is the need to give the correct clinical relevance to these “uncommon” tumors, that are ranked at the first place among pancreatic tumors, and that are definitively curable with a multimodal approach. Aim of the book is therefore to get clinicians closer to these pathologies, describing their complexity and the current state of the art in diagnostic, therapeutic and pathological classification strategy, thus providing them with the tools for a modern and updated clinical management of these patients.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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8847026733

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Topics in Mathematical Analysis

By: Paolo Ciatti

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Topics in Mathematical Analysis

By: Paolo Ciatti

This volume consists of a series of lecture notes on mathematical analysis. The contributors have been selected on the basis of both their outstanding scientific level and their clarity of exposition. Thus, the present collection is particularly suited to young researchers and graduate students. Through this volume, the editors intend to provide the reader with material otherwise difficult to find and written in a manner which is also accessible to nonexperts."--BOOK JACKET.

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World Scientific

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9812811052

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