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Logic and the Art of Memory

The Quest for a Universal Language

By: Paolo Rossi

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Logic and the Art of Memory

The Quest for a Universal Language

By: Paolo Rossi

A brilliant translation of this classic account of the art of memory and the logic of linkage and combination, the two traditions deriving from the Classical world and the late medieval period, and becoming intertwined in the 16th Century. From this intertwining emerged a new tradition, a grandiose project for an 'alphabet of the world' or 'Clavis Universalis'. Translated with an Introduction by Stephen Clucas.

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A&C Black

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1847144616

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Polymers in Medicine

Biomedical and Pharmacological Applications

By: Emo Chiellini,Paolo Giusti

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Polymers in Medicine

Biomedical and Pharmacological Applications

By: Emo Chiellini,Paolo Giusti

This book contains the collected papers presented at the Inter national Symposium on Polymers in Medicine, Biomedical and Pharma cological Applications, which was held at Porto Cervo, Italy, May 24-28, 1982. To the best of our knowledge, this symposium was the first to be organized in Italy entirely devoted to the several aspects of the use of synthetic and semisynthetic macromolecular materials in the field of biomedical and pharmacological applications. The inten~ tion of the Organizing Committee of the symposium was the promotion of a scientific and cultural initiative to gain the attention of various experts in line research of the potential of suitably de signed "man-made" polymeric materials in biomedical applications. With highly qualified and worldwide attendance, the above goal was fully satisfied. Indeed the opportunity of meeting to gether in a well conceived and discreet corner of the world, scien tists with different cultural backgrounds and objectives helped ex tend the meaning of the symposium far beyond the Italian borders and the perspectives of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) , the major sponsor of the meeting.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461576431

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9781461576433

Geomorphological Mapping

Methods and Applications

By: Mike J. Smith,Dr. Mike J. Smith,Paolo Paron,James S. Griffiths

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Geomorphological Mapping

Methods and Applications

By: Mike J. Smith,Dr. Mike J. Smith,Paolo Paron,James S. Griffiths

Section 1. Geomorphological mapping -- section 2. Techniques in applied geomorphological mapping -- section 3. Case studies.

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0444534466

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The Italian Renaissance of Machines

By: Paolo Galluzzi

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The Italian Renaissance of Machines

By: Paolo Galluzzi

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.

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Harvard University Press

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0674984390

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Metal Ions and Neurodegenerative Disorders

By: Paolo Zatta

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Metal Ions and Neurodegenerative Disorders

By: Paolo Zatta

Numerous studies have established a clear connection between neuronal oxidative stress and several neurodegenerative diseases, with consequential damages to lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, etc. In addition, several modifications indicative of oxidative stress have been described in association with neurons, neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques in Alzheimer's disease, including advanced glycation end products and free carbonyl oxidation.Oxidative damage and antioxidant responses are now well characterized, but sources of damaging free radicals are yet to be fully understood. Evidences of alteration in metal ions metabolism have been reported in various diseases like Alzheimer's, Wilson, Menkes, Prion, Pick, Huntington disease, epilepsy and other pathological events. Thus, metal ions play a pivotal role in neurodegenerative phenomena.Chelation therapy is still in the early days of its development, but research in this area could lead to new products that could revolutionize treatment. Two international conferences on ?Metals and the Brain: From Neurochemistry to Neurodegeneration? (Padova, Italy, 2000 and Fez, Morocco, 2002) were recently held to discuss the role of metal ions in neurophysiopathology. A third will be held in 2005 in Johannesburg, South Africa.This book follows the same train of thought as those conferences, in order to highlight the unquestionable importance of metal ions in the research on the neurophysiopathology of neurodegenerative diseases. The excellent reputation of the scientists who have contributed to this project ensures the quality of the chapters presented here, and hopefully this will help spur new research initiatives in the field, which is still in its infancy.

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World Scientific

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9812383980

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The armored units of the Royal Army and the Armistice – Vol. 2

By: Paolo Crippa

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The armored units of the Royal Army and the Armistice – Vol. 2

By: Paolo Crippa

The Armistice of 8 September 1943 caught the Italian armored units, both Tank units and Cavalry, scattered not only on the national territory, but also abroad. Similar to what had happened to all the Armed Forces, not even they were immune to the storm that had been unleashed and even from these units the reactions to Badoglio’s tragic announcement were the most disparate. Through an accurate analysis, in the pages of this book we will analyze how the armored units behaved in those tragic moments, in a synthesis that until now has never been proposed. The units that opposed the attacks brought by the Germans, although in need of armaments, fought for reasons of desperation, in a war that was now lost, and for a touch of military pride. For this reason it is necessary to retrace the events of those days, in order to pay homage to the fallen and to all those who did their duty to the end. The second volume recounts the events that took place in Rome, after the cessation of hostilities, the heroic episodes of Resistance which occurred in Piombino, Parma, Piacenza and Sardinia, without forgetting what happened to the armored units outside the national borders. The text concludes with the discussion of the (failed) attempts to reconstitute armored units with the co-belligerant Royal Army and the contribution made by the Tankers to the liberation struggle.

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8893277573

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Subnuclear Physics

The First 50 Years : Highlights from Erice to ELN

By: Antonino Zichichi,Ottavio Barnabei,Paolo Pupillo,Fabio A. Roversi Monaco

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Subnuclear Physics

The First 50 Years : Highlights from Erice to ELN

By: Antonino Zichichi,Ottavio Barnabei,Paolo Pupillo,Fabio A. Roversi Monaco

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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9810241232

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The Queens of Europe: The History of the greatest European Football Clubs

Part 1: Real Madrid CF, AC Milan, FC Bayern Munich, FC Liverpool, FC Barcelona, AFC Ajax

By: Paolo Maresca

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The Queens of Europe: The History of the greatest European Football Clubs

Part 1: Real Madrid CF, AC Milan, FC Bayern Munich, FC Liverpool, FC Barcelona, AFC Ajax

By: Paolo Maresca

The Queens of Europe is a series of books that tells the history of the greatest European Football Clubs. A collection of images, logos, data, uniforms, records, statistics, unobtainable photos and never written statistics will tell you the story of the greatest clubs in Europe. The history of UEFA club competitions, the champions of the continent and the finalist teams, the historical logos of the clubs, the historical kits, the appearances records and the goalscorers who made the history of the clubs, the coaches, the tactics, the palmarés and the cups won by the great teams, the individual trophies won by the players, the attendance records, the greatest victories, the historic stadiums and much more. The Part 1 will tell you the legend of Real Madrid, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Barcelona and Ajax. The Queens of Europe è una collana di libri che racconta la storia dei più grandi club di calcio europei. Una raccolta di immagini, loghi, dati, divise, record, statistiche, foto introvabili e statistiche mai scritte vi racconteranno la storia dei più grandi club d'Europa. La storia delle competizioni UEFA per club, i campioni del continente e le squadre finaliste, i loghi storici dei club, le divise storiche, i record di presenze e i marcatori che hanno fatto la storia dei club, gli allenatori, le tattiche, i palmarés e le coppe vinte dalle grandi squadre, i trofei individuali vinti dai giocatori, i record di spettatori, le vittorie più importanti, gli stadi storici e tanto altro. La prima parte ti racconterà la leggenda di Real Madrid, Milan, Bayern Monaco, Liverpool, Barcellona e Ajax. The Queens of Europe es una serie de libros que cuenta la historia de los grandes clubes de fútbol europeos. Una colección de imágenes, logos, datos, uniformes, récords, estadísticas, fotos inalcanzables y estadísticas nunca escritas te contarán la historia de los mejores clubes de Europa. La historia de las competiciones de clubes de la UEFA, los campeones del continente y los equipos finalistas, los logos históricos de los clubes, las equipaciones históricas, los récords de presencias y los goleadores que hicieron la historia de los clubes, los entrenadores, la táctica, el palmarés y las copas ganadas por los grandes equipos, los trofeos individuales ganados por los jugadores, los récords de asistencia, las mayores victorias, los estadios históricos y mucho más. La primera parte te contará la leyenda del Real Madrid, AC Milan, Bayern de Múnich, Liverpool, Barcelona y Ajax. The Queens of Europe ist eine Buchreihe, die die Geschichte der größten europäischen Fußballvereine erzählt. Eine Sammlung von Bildern, Logos, Daten, Uniformen, Aufzeichnungen, Statistiken, nicht erhältlichen Fotos und nie geschriebenen Statistiken erzählt Ihnen die Geschichte der größten Vereine Europas. Die Geschichte der UEFA-Klubwettbewerbe, die Meister des Kontinents und die Finalistenmannschaften, die historischen Logos der Vereine, die historischen Trikots, die Einsätze rekorde und die Torschützen, die die Geschichte der Vereine geschrieben haben, die Trainer, die Taktiken, die Palmarés und die Pokale der großen Mannschaften, die einzelnen Trophäen der Spieler, die Zuschauerrekorde, die größten Siege, die historischen Stadien und vieles mehr. Im ersten Teil erfahren Sie mehr über die Legenden von Real Madrid, AC Mailand, Bayern München, Liverpool, Barcelona und Ajax.

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Paolo Maresca

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Chemical Carcinogenesis

Models and Mechanisms

By: Francisco Feo,Paolo Pani

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Chemical Carcinogenesis

Models and Mechanisms

By: Francisco Feo,Paolo Pani

About two centuries after the communication by Sir Percival Pott that the "chimney sweeper disease" was a cancer and its suggestion that active compounds of soot were the causative agents, and about one century after the description of urinary bladder cancer in dye workers, an enormous number of substances have been synthesized and have probably come into contact with man. Research in cancer prevention is of primary importance, and may receive continuous support from new discoveries on cancer etiology and pathogenesis. If one accepts the multistage model of chemical carcinogenesis, one has also to accept that many events occur between the contact of carcino genic compounds and their specific targets and the development of a clinically recognizable neoplasm. Thus, animal studies become essential to elucidate the different steps by which chemical carcinogens induce neoplasia. The analysis of these steps and the comparative evaluation of experimental models is essential to an understanding of pathogenesis.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475796404

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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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9004325433

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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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1443812846

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The Internet and the Madonna

Religious Visionary Experience on the Web

By: Paolo Apolito,Antony Shugaar

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The Internet and the Madonna

Religious Visionary Experience on the Web

By: Paolo Apolito,Antony Shugaar

In 1994, a devout Catholic woman from Vermont began having religious visions and hearing the voice of the Virgin Mary. To spread word about her mystical experiences, she turned to the Internet. As Paolo Apolito records here, she is only one of many people who use the Web as a tool of religious devotion. Every day, thousands of Catholics - from I...

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1459605764

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Strategic Culture and Italy's Military Behavior

Between Pacifism and Realpolitik

By: Paolo Rosa

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Strategic Culture and Italy's Military Behavior

Between Pacifism and Realpolitik

By: Paolo Rosa

Italy, although it considers itself to be a middle-sized power on par with France, the United Kingdom, and Germany, has been incapable of playing an international role comparable to theirs, instead keeping a low-profile foreign policy. This has not been due to any material constraints—Italy’s profile has remained consistently low, through economic times both good and bad—but rather to the country’s strategic culture, a mixture of realpolitik and pacifist tendencies. This book sets out to analyze the influence of Italy’s strategic culture on its foreign policy. It conducts an exploratory case-study to show if hypotheses generated by the strategic culture approach can shed some light on the puzzling Italian behavior in the international arena (puzzling because Italy shows a less assertive foreign policy vis-à-vis other middle powers in the same rank). The first chapter considers the main interpretations of Italian foreign policy and their limitations. The second and third chapters review the literature on strategic culture, stressing its utility for the Italian case. The fourth chapter describes the country’s strategic culture through the Liberal, Fascist, and Republican periods, and the fifth chapter analyzes the influence of ideational factors on Italy’s behavior abroad. Conclusions sum up the various emerging evidences. Scholars of political science, international relations, strategic studies, and comparative politics will find this work to be of interest.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498522823

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The Lynx and the Telescope

The Parallel Worlds of Cesi and Galileo

By: Paolo Galluzzi

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The Lynx and the Telescope

The Parallel Worlds of Cesi and Galileo

By: Paolo Galluzzi

The Lynx and the Telescope challenges the traditional interpretation of a programmatic convergence between the visions of Galileo and Cesi’s Academy, while offering a new interpretation of the dynamics that led to the condemnation of Galileo in 1633.

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900434232X

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Underwater Acoustic Networking Techniques

By: Roald Otnes,Alfred Asterjadhi,Paolo Casari,Michael Goetz,Thor Husøy,Ivor Nissen,Knut Rimstad,Paul van Walree,Michele Zorzi

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Underwater Acoustic Networking Techniques

By: Roald Otnes,Alfred Asterjadhi,Paolo Casari,Michael Goetz,Thor Husøy,Ivor Nissen,Knut Rimstad,Paul van Walree,Michele Zorzi

This literature study presents an overview of underwater acoustic networking. It provides a background and describes the state of the art of all networking facets that are relevant for underwater applications. This report serves both as an introduction to the subject and as a summary of existing protocols, providing support and inspiration for the development of network architectures.

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3642252249

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Mussolini, Architect

Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist Italy

By: Paolo Nicoloso

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Mussolini, Architect

Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist Italy

By: Paolo Nicoloso

During the fascist years in Italy, architecture and politics enjoyed a close alliance. Benito Mussolini used architecture to educate the masses, exploiting its symbolic prowess as a powerful tool for achieving political consensus. Mussolini, Architect examines Mussolini in Italy from 1922 to 1943 and expands the traditional interpretations of fascism, advancing the claim that Mussolini devised and implemented architecture as a tool capable of determining public behaviour and influencing opinion. Paolo Nicoloso challenges the assertion that Mussolini was of minimal influence on Italian architecture and argues that in fact the fascist leader played a strong role in encouraging civic architectural development in order to reflect the totalitarian values of the period. Drawing on archival documents, Nicoloso lists the architects who gave Mussolini ideas and describes the times when the dictator himself sometimes picked up a pencil and suggested changes. Examining the political, social, and architectural history of the fascist period, Mussolini, Architect gives careful attention to the final years of fascist rule in order to demonstrate the extent to which Mussolini was intent on shaping Italy and its citizens through architectural projects.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442631007

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The Balkans 1940–41 (1)

Mussolini's Fatal Blunder in the Greco-Italian War

By: Pier Paolo Battistelli

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The Balkans 1940–41 (1)

Mussolini's Fatal Blunder in the Greco-Italian War

By: Pier Paolo Battistelli

The first of two volumes on the Axis campaigns in the Balkans, exploring Mussolini's fateful decision to move against Greece in October 1940. The Greek President Metaxas rejected the Italian ultimatum with a famous 'Oxi' ('No'), and what followed was Italy's first debacle in World War II. In the wake of Italy's rapid annexation of Albania in April 1940, Mussolini's decision to attack Greece in October that year is widely acknowledged as a fatal mistake, leading to a domestic crisis and to the collapse of Italy's reputation as a military power (re-emphasized by the Italian defeat in North Africa in December 1940). The Italian assault on Greece came to a stalemate in less than a fortnight, and was followed a week later by a Greek counter-offensive that broke through the Italian defences before advancing into Albania, forcing the Italian forces to withdraw north before grinding to a half in January 1941 due to logistical issues. Eventually, the Italians took advantage of this brief hiatus to reorganize and prepare a counteroffensive, the failure of which marked the end of the first stage of the Axis Balkan campaign. The first of two volumes examining the Axis campaigns in the Balkans, this book offers a detailed overview of the Italian and Greek armies, their fighting power, and the terrain in which they fought. Complimented by rarely seen images and full colour illustrations, it shows how expectations of an easy Italian victory quickly turned into one of Mussolini's greatest blunders.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472842588

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LOGIDATA+: Deductive Databases with Complex Objects

By: Paolo Atzeni

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LOGIDATA+: Deductive Databases with Complex Objects

By: Paolo Atzeni

This book presents a collection of coordinated scientific papers describing the work conducted and the results achieved within the LOGIDATA+ project, a research action funded by the Italian national research council CNR. Theaim of the LOGIDATA+ project is the definition of advanced database systems which significantly extend the functionalities of the current systems, with specific reference to the application areas for which relational systemsare not considered satisfactory. These new systems will allow the definitionof data with complex structures, the representation of semantic relationships between objects, and the use of powerful query and update languages. They will be based on a combination of techniques originatingfrom relational databases and logic programming, with contributions from object-oriented programming. The goal of the LOGIDATA+ project is the design, definition, and prototype implementation of a database management system with complex structures and a class hierarchy, to be accessed through a rule-based language. This book presents an integrated view of the project at the end of the first phase. The second phase will be mainly concerned with the implementation of prototypes.

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354056974X

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Linguistic Bodies

The Continuity between Life and Language

By: Ezequiel A. Di Paolo,Elena Clare Cuffari,Hanne De Jaegher

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Linguistic Bodies

The Continuity between Life and Language

By: Ezequiel A. Di Paolo,Elena Clare Cuffari,Hanne De Jaegher

A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and language. Linguistic Bodies offers a fully embodied and fully social treatment of human language without positing mental representations. The authors present the first coherent, overarching theory that connects dynamical explanations of action and perception with language. Arguing from the assumption of a deep continuity between life and mind, they show that this continuity extends to language. Expanding and deepening enactive theory, they offer a constitutive account of language and the co-emergent phenomena of personhood, reflexivity, social normativity, and ideality. Language, they argue, is not something we add to a range of existing cognitive capacities but a new way of being embodied. Each of us is a linguistic body in a community of other linguistic bodies. The book describes three distinct yet entangled kinds of human embodiment, organic, sensorimotor, and intersubjective; it traces the emergence of linguistic sensitivities and introduces the novel concept of linguistic bodies; and it explores the implications of living as linguistic bodies in perpetual becoming, applying the concept of linguistic bodies to questions of language acquisition, parenting, autism, grammar, symbol, narrative, and gesture, and to such ethical concerns as microaggression, institutional speech, and pedagogy.

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0262547864

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Levelling carbon pricing. A proposal for an inclusive, sustainable, modern energy and climate roadmap

By: Maria Lidia Romero Meira,Michele Masulli,Paolo Iorio,Rebecca Gironi,Valeria Termini

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Levelling carbon pricing. A proposal for an inclusive, sustainable, modern energy and climate roadmap

By: Maria Lidia Romero Meira,Michele Masulli,Paolo Iorio,Rebecca Gironi,Valeria Termini

La lotta al cambiamento climatico è un bene pubblico globale e la COP 26 è un appuntamento chiave per affrontarlo. Tuttavia, mentre l'accordo sul clima che sarà negoziato nella COP 26 dovrà essere globale, la sua attuazione dovrà essere locale poiché sarà guidata da ogni singolo Stato firmatario. In questo contesto, un Global Carbon Price (GCP) ha le qualità di una soluzione win-win. All'interno del Technical WG dell'UN High Level Dialogue on Energy 2021, questo paper, dopo aver esaminato lo stato dell'arte della letteratura e valutato i risultati della ricerca empirica, analizza la relazione tra carbon pricing, sussidi e decarbonizzazione. Porta alla luce la proposta di un GCP che includa diversi strumenti economici -ETS, carbon tax, accise- alimentando un Fair Transition Fund per lo sviluppo inclusivo, come meccanismo flessibile, efficace e sostenibile per ridurre le emissioni globali di CO2.

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Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery

Faces, Men, and Pain

By: Paolo Savoia

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Faces, Men, and Pain

By: Paolo Savoia

This book uses the work of Bolognese physician and anatomist Gaspare Tagliacozzi to explore the social and cultural history of early modern surgery. It discusses how Italian and European surgeons' attitudes to health and beauty – and how patients' gender – shaped views on the public appearance of the human body. In 1597, Gaspare Tagliacozzi published a two-volume book on reconstructive surgery of the mutilated parts of the face. Studying Tagliacozzi’s surgery in context corrects widespread views about the birth of plastic surgery. Through a combination of cultural history, microhistory, historical epistemology, and gender history, this book describes the practice and practitioners considered to be at the periphery of the "Scientific Revolution." Historical themes covered include the writing of individual cases, hegemonic and subaltern forms of masculinity, concepts of the natural and the artificial, emotional communities and moral economies of pain, and the historical anthropology of the culture of beauty and the face and its disfigurements. The book is essential reading for upper-level students, postgraduates, and scholars working on the history of medicine and surgery, the history of the body, and gender and cultural history. It will also appeal to those interested in the history of beauty, urban studies and the Renaissance period more generally.

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Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Paolo Balboni,Kate Francis

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Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Paolo Balboni,Kate Francis

This progressive book critically analyses the current state of data protection enforcement and proposes a new auditable framework of practical guidelines to contribute to a more sustainable data-driven future. In outlining the debates relating to current data protection structures, Paolo Balboni and Kate Elizabeth Francis argue that legislation alone cannot sufficiently protect individuals’ fundamental rights and freedoms, and instead consider the pressing need for a more ethical approach to data protection.

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Sales Management

A multinational perspective

By: Paolo Guenzi,Susi Geiger

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Sales Management

A multinational perspective

By: Paolo Guenzi,Susi Geiger

Sales Management offers a global perspective on the opportunities and issues facing today's sales managers. Current textbooks have failed to move beyond the US context; Sales Management provides unique access to European and international experts, with globally relevant case studies.

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Singularly Perturbed Boundary Value Problems

A Functional Analytic Approach

By: Matteo Dalla Riva,Massimo Lanza de Cristoforis,Paolo Musolino

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Singularly Perturbed Boundary Value Problems

A Functional Analytic Approach

By: Matteo Dalla Riva,Massimo Lanza de Cristoforis,Paolo Musolino

This book is devoted to the analysis of the basic boundary value problems for the Laplace equation in singularly perturbed domains. The main purpose is to illustrate a method called Functional Analytic Approach, to describe the dependence of the solutions upon a singular perturbation parameter in terms of analytic functions. Here the focus is on domains with small holes and the perturbation parameter is the size of the holes. The book is the first introduction to the topic and covers the theoretical material and its applications to a series of problems that range from simple illustrative examples to more involved research results. The Functional Analytic Approach makes constant use of the integral representation method for the solutions of boundary value problems, of Potential Theory, of the Theory of Analytic Functions both in finite and infinite dimension, and of Nonlinear Functional Analysis. Designed to serve various purposes and readerships, the extensive introductory part spanning Chapters 1–7 can be used as a reference textbook for graduate courses on classical Potential Theory and its applications to boundary value problems. The early chapters also contain results that are rarely presented in the literature and may also, therefore, attract the interest of more expert readers. The exposition moves on to introduce the Functional Analytic Approach. A reader looking for a quick introduction to the method can find simple illustrative examples specifically designed for this purpose. More expert readers will find a comprehensive presentation of the Functional Analytic Approach, which allows a comparison between the approach of the book and the more classical expansion methods of Asymptotic Analysis and offers insights on the specific features of the approach and its applications to linear and nonlinear boundary value problems.

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Ultrasound of Congenital Fetal Anomalies

Differential Diagnosis and Prognostic Indicators, Second Edition

By: Dario Paladini,Paolo Volpe

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Ultrasound of Congenital Fetal Anomalies

Differential Diagnosis and Prognostic Indicators, Second Edition

By: Dario Paladini,Paolo Volpe

The most frequently asked questions that confront the fetal medicine trainee/expert on a daily basis are “Is the finding real or merely an artifact?” and “Is the diagnosis correct?”. However, to be able to find the description of an abnormal ultrasound finding in a textbook, one generally has to search by the definite diagnosis, which has not been done as yet. This uneasy feeling was the first factor that directed the layout of Ultrasound of Congenital Fetal Anomalies: Differential Diagnosis and Prognostic Indicators, Second Edition. Copiously illustrated, the book displays fetal anomalies by scanning view and descriptions of all major ultrasound planes, detailing what can be considered a normal view and what cannot. See What’s New in the Second Edition: Early detection of fetal anomalies (1214 weeks) Ultrasound in fetal infections and in twins The nuchal translucency issue, the newest intracranial translucency as well as the range of congenital anomalies detectable at this gestational age Expanded coverage of heart anomalies, including arrhythmias and early fetal echocardiography The author’s mission continues to be to provide guidance on how to quickly recognize and diagnose congenital fetal anomalies, beginning at the beginning with ultrasound sigh all the way through to final diagnosis.

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Building Transatlantic Italy

Architectural Dialogues with Postwar America

By: Paolo Scrivano

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Building Transatlantic Italy

Architectural Dialogues with Postwar America

By: Paolo Scrivano

At the end of the Second World War, America’s newly acquired status of hegemonic power- together with the launch of ambitious international programs such as the Marshall Plan- significantly altered existing transatlantic relations. In this context, Italian and American architectural cultures developed a fragile dialogue characterized by successful exchanges and forms of collaboration but also by reciprocal wariness. The dissemination of models and ideas concerning architecture generated complex effects and frequently led to surprising misinterpretations, obstinate forms of resistance and long negotiations between the involved parties. Issues of continuity and discontinuity dominated Italian culture and society at the time since at stake was the possible balance between allegedly long-established traditions and the prospect of a radical rupture with recent history. Architectural culture often contributed to reach a compromise between very diverging attitudes. Situated in the larger realm of studies on Americanization, this book questions current interpretations of transatlantic relations in architecture. By reconsidering the means and effects of the dialogue that unfolded between the two sides of the Atlantic during the postwar years, the volume analyzes how cultural and formal models were developed in one context and then modified when transferred to a new one as well as the fortune of this cultural exchange in terms of circulation, amplification, and simplification.

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The Griffith Project, Volume 8

Films Produced in 1914-15

By: Paolo Cherchi Usai

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The Griffith Project, Volume 8

Films Produced in 1914-15

By: Paolo Cherchi Usai

No other silent film director has been as extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films has been the subject of a systematic analysis, and the vast majority of his other works still await proper examination. For the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from 'Professional Jealousy '(1907) to 'The' 'Struggle '(1931) - will be explored in this multivolume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field. Created as a companion to the ongoing retrospective held by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, the Griffith Project is an indispensable guide to the work of a crucial figure in the arts of the nineteenth century. The latest volume assesses Griffith's work in 1914-15. It includes an extensive, multi-authored evaluation of 'The Birth of' 'a Nation.

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Marxism and Historiography

Contesting Theory and Remaking History in Twentieth-Century Italy

By: Paolo Favilli

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Marxism and Historiography

Contesting Theory and Remaking History in Twentieth-Century Italy

By: Paolo Favilli

Eminent Italian historian Giovanni Levi once notably remarked that “no one is a Marxist anymore,” pointing to a paradox in Italian cultural history. While what is called "Marxism" was supposedly hegemonic over Italian culture, and especially history writing, for decades in the postwar period, it then seems to have suddenly disappeared. This study questions such a vision of a monolithic and hegemonic Marxism. It starts from the most effective anecdote to all ideologising narratives—that is, research into the texts themselves. It sees the Marxist historiography of the post-1945 period as a "history in the making," in which references to Marxian theory were a fundamental factor driving historiographical innovation. This allows the book to bring to light a highly original experience in the development of historiography, based on the long Italian tradition of reflection on historical knowledge.

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Proceedings of the 6th Italian Conference

Sensors and Microsystems : Pisa, Italy, 5-7 February 2001

By: Corrado Di Natale,Arnaldo D'Amico,Paolo Dario

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Proceedings of the 6th Italian Conference

Sensors and Microsystems : Pisa, Italy, 5-7 February 2001

By: Corrado Di Natale,Arnaldo D'Amico,Paolo Dario

Presents current research and development in the fields of sensors and microsystems.

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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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8847026733

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Coordination Languages and Models

Third International Conference, COORDINATION'99, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 26-28, 1999, Proceedings

By: Paolo Ciancarini

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Coordination Languages and Models

Third International Conference, COORDINATION'99, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 26-28, 1999, Proceedings

By: Paolo Ciancarini

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION '99, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 1999. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 67 submissions. The book is devoted to the recently established class of models and languages variously termed coordination languages, configuration languages, architectural description languages, or agent-oriented programming languages. These formalisms provide a clean separation between individual software components and their interaction within the overall software organization and thus make complex applications more tractable, support global analysis, and enhance the reuse of software components.

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Cosmology in the Early Modern Age: A Web of Ideas

By: Paolo Bussotti,Brunello Lotti

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Cosmology in the Early Modern Age: A Web of Ideas

By: Paolo Bussotti,Brunello Lotti

This volume addresses the history and epistemology of early modern cosmology. The authors reconstruct the development of cosmological ideas in the age of ‘scientific revolution’ from Copernicus to Leibniz, taking into account the growth of a unified celestial-and-terrestrial mechanics. The volume investigates how, in the rise of the new science, cosmology displayed deep and multifaceted interrelations between scientific notions (stemming from mechanics, mathematics, geometry, astronomy) and philosophical concepts. These were employed to frame a general picture of the universe, as well as to criticize and interpret scientific notions and observational data. This interdisciplinary work reconstructs a conceptual web pervaded by various intellectual attitudes and drives. It presents an historical–epistemological unified itinerary which includes Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Leibniz. For each of the scientists and philosophers, a presentation and commentary is made of their cosmological views, and where relevant, outlines of their most relevant physical concepts are given. Furthermore, the authors highlight the philosophical and epistemological implications of their scientific works. This work is helpful both as a synthetic overview of early modern cosmology, and an analytical exposition of the elements that were intertwined in early-modern cosmology. This book addresses historians, philosophers, and scientists and can also be used as a research source book by post-graduate students in epistemology, history of science and history of philosophy.

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Periodico di Mineralogia Vol. 86, 1 aprile 2017

By: Paolo Ballirano

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Periodico di Mineralogia Vol. 86, 1 aprile 2017

By: Paolo Ballirano

Monika Huraiová, Patrik Konečný, Ivan Holický, Stanislava Milovská,Ondrej Nemec, Vratislav Hurai - Mineralogy and origin of peralkaline granite-syenite nodules ejected in Pleistocenebasalt from Bulhary, southern Slovakia Laura Medeghini and Lorenzo Nigro - Khirbet al-Batrawy ceramics: a systematic mineralogical and petrographic study for investigating the material culture Liam A. Bullock, Ralf Gertisser, Brian O’Driscoll - Spherulite formation in obsidian lavas in the Aeolian Islands, Italy Simone Pollastri, Natale Perchiazzi, Lara Gigli, Paolo Ferretti, Alessandro Cavallo, Nicola Bursi Gandolfi, Kilian Pollok, Alessandro F. Gualtieri - The crystal structure of mineral fibes. 2. Amosite and fibous anthophyllite Nima Nezafati and Morteza Hessari - Tappeh Shoghali; A signifiant early silver production site in North Central Iran Shanke Liu, Jiaju Li, Jianming Liu -An updated model of Rietveld structure refinement of Na/-feldspar

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Periodico di Mineralogia Vol. 86, 2 settembre 2017

By: Paolo Ballirano

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Periodico di Mineralogia Vol. 86, 2 settembre 2017

By: Paolo Ballirano

Contents Simone Pollastri, Lara Gigli, Paolo Ferretti, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Nicola Bursi Gandolfi, Kilian Pollok , Alessandro F. Gualtieri -The crystal structure of mineral fibes. 3. Actinolite asbestos Dmitry A. Chebotarev, Anna G. Doroshkevich, Reiner Klemd, Nikolay S. Karmanov - Evolution of Nb-mineralization in the Chuktukon carbonatite massif, Chadobets upland (Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia) Nicola Mondillo, Giuseppina Balassone, Maria Boni, Antonio Marino, Giuseppe Arfè - Evaluation of the amount of rare earth elements -REE in the Silius fluorie vein system (SE Sardinia, Italy). Fuat Yavuz and Zeynep Döner - WinAmptb: A Windows program for calcic amphibole thermobarometry Marcella Di Bella, Francesco Italiano, Davide Romano, Alessandro Tripodo, Giuseppe Sabatino - Geochemistry and tectonic setting of triassic magmatism from the Lercara Basin (Sicily, Italy) Silvio Mollo, Francesco Vetere, Harald Beherens, Vanni Tecchiato, Antonio Langone, Piergiorgio Scarlato, Diego Perugini - The effect of degassing and volatile exsolution on the composition of a trachybasaltic melt decompressed at slow and fast rates

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