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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

This innovative environmental history of the long-lived European chestnut tree and its woods offers valuable perspectives on the human transition from the Roman to the medieval world in Italy. Integrating evidence from botanical and literary sources, individual charters and case studies of specific communities, the book traces fluctuations in the size and location of Italian chestnut woods to expose how early medieval societies changed their land use between the fourth and eleventh centuries, and in the process changed themselves. As the chestnut tree gained popularity in late antiquity and became a valuable commodity by the end of the first millennium, this study brings to life the economic and cultural transition from a Roman Italy of cities, agricultural surpluses and markets to a medieval Italy of villages and subsistence farming.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107245109

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The Griffith Project, Volume 11

Selected Writings by D.W. Griffith; Indexes and Corrections to Volumes 1-10

By: Paolo Cherchi Usai

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The Griffith Project, Volume 11

Selected Writings by D.W. Griffith; Indexes and Corrections to Volumes 1-10

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.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1839020024

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Multicriteria Analysis and LCA Techniques

With Applications to Agro-Engineering Problems

By: Lucia Recchia,Paolo Boncinelli,Enrico Cini,Marco Vieri,Francesco Garbati Pegna,Daniele Sarri

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Multicriteria Analysis and LCA Techniques

With Applications to Agro-Engineering Problems

By: Lucia Recchia,Paolo Boncinelli,Enrico Cini,Marco Vieri,Francesco Garbati Pegna,Daniele Sarri

Multicriteria Analysis and LCA Techniques introduces the reader to the basic principles of multicriteria analysis (MCA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques. The use of these tools is rapidly becoming essential in any feasibility study for comparing different solutions, selecting the most suitable ones, and for analyzing the interface of economy and environment. The main feature of Multicriteria Analysis and LCA Techniques is the application of a new approach to the analysis of energy balance and environmental impact of agro-industrial production chains. It gives detailed descriptions of a number of food and non-food agro-industrial applications of MCA and LCA, thereby providing the reader with practical examples of the implementation of these tools in the field of agro-industry. Multicriteria Analysis and LCA Techniques represents a subsidiary reference book for both undergraduate and graduate students, and can also be used for basic or applied academic research.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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085729704X

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Geotechnics of Venice and Its Lagoon

By: Paolo Simonini

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Geotechnics of Venice and Its Lagoon

By: Paolo Simonini

Without any protective intervention, the historic city of Venice and its surrounding islands would suffer rapid deterioration due to the increased frequency of tidal flooding, as the gap between land surface and sea levels has reduced due to a coupled effect of climate change-induced sea-level rise and natural and anthropic subsidence. Geotechnics of Venice and Its Lagoon provides a clear and comprehensive illustration of the extensive geotechnical aspects of not only the various environmental problems such as land subsidence and wetland surface reduction, but also solutions such as the design of the tilting gate foundations against high tides and the restoration and improvement of the drainage system of the renowned Piazza San Marco, which have been necessary for the preservation of the extraordinary cultural heritage of Venice. Readers will gain a better understanding of the complex phenomena occurring in the sensitive Venice silts, whose hydro-mechanical behavior has required comprehensive laboratory and site investigations and modeling. The book provides: An authoritative analysis of one of the largest and most important geotechnical issues in the world A description of a detailed case study of an ongoing engineering solution The book will be useful for engineers worldwide, and is also an excellent reference for students.

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CRC Press

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1000897273

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Kuna Art and Shamanism

An Ethnographic Approach

By: Paolo Fortis

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Kuna Art and Shamanism

An Ethnographic Approach

By: Paolo Fortis

Known for their beautiful textile art, the Kuna of Panama have been scrutinized by anthropologists for decades. Perhaps surprisingly, this scrutiny has overlooked the magnificent Kuna craft of nuchukana—wooden anthropomorphic carvings—which play vital roles in curing and other Kuna rituals. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, Paolo Fortis at last brings to light this crucial cultural facet, illuminating not only Kuna aesthetics and art production but also their relation to wider social and cosmological concerns. Exploring an art form that informs birth and death, personhood, the dream world, the natural world, religion, gender roles, and ecology, Kuna Art and Shamanism provides a rich understanding of this society’s visual system, and the ways in which these groundbreaking ethnographic findings can enhance Amerindian scholarship overall. Fortis also explores the fact that to ask what it means for the Kuna people to carve the figure of a person is to pose a riddle about the culture’s complete concept of knowing. Also incorporating notions of landscape (islands, gardens, and ancient trees) as well as cycles of life, including the influence of illness, Fortis places the statues at the center of a network of social relationships that entangle people with nonhuman entities. As an activity carried out by skilled elderly men, who possess embodied knowledge of lifelong transformations, the carving process is one that mediates mortal worlds with those of immortal primordial spirits. Kuna Art and Shamanism immerses readers in this sense of unity and opposition between soul and body, internal forms and external appearances, and image and design.

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University of Texas Press

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0292743556

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Ishia and His Teacher

The Third Book of the Judas Trilogy

By: Vincent L. Di Paolo

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Ishia and His Teacher

The Third Book of the Judas Trilogy

By: Vincent L. Di Paolo

Ishia and His Teacher is the continuation to Children of Yahweh and the third and final volume of the Judas Trilogy. It was written during the Covid-19 Pandemic, which definitely influenced its final chapter. This third volume is clearly the most inspirational of the trilogy as the reader is transported to Ishia’s conception, birth and childhood. The reader will feel the joy and happiness of Ishia’s development and the anguish and pain of His mother, Miryam, and of His teacher, Judas, for they know His predestined self sacrifice. You, the reader, will experience Ishia’s adventurous travels, which take him to Rome, Athens, Cappadocia, Babylon and Thibet. Finally, by reading this final book of the Judas Trilogy, you will surely be deeply inspired to follow His loving teachings in this most difficult period of our lives on this beautiful living planet.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664194797

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The Fault Line

Traveling the Other Europe, from Finland to Ukraine

By: Paolo Rumiz

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The Fault Line

Traveling the Other Europe, from Finland to Ukraine

By: Paolo Rumiz

An award-winning writer travels the eastern front of Europe, where the push/pull between old empires and new possibilities has never been more evident. Paolo Rumiz traces the path that has twice cut Europe in two—first by the Iron Curtain and then by the artificial scaffolding of the EU—moving through vibrant cities and abandoned villages, some places still gloomy under the ghost of these imposing borders, some that have sought to erase all memory of it and jump with both feet into the West (if only the West would have them). In The Fault Line, he is a sublime and lively guide through these unfamiliar landscapes, piecing together an atlas that has been erased by modern states, delighting in the discovery of communities that were once engulfed by geopolitics then all but forgotten, until now.The farther south he goes, the more he feels he is traveling not along some abandoned Eastern frontier, but right in the middle of things: Mitteleuropa wasn’t to be found in Viennese cafés but much farther east, beyond even Budapest and Warsaw. As in Ukraine, these remain places in flux, where the political and cultural values of the East and West have stared each other down for centuries. Rumiz gives a human face not just to what the Cold War left behind but to the ancient ties of empire and ethnicity that are still at the root of modern politics in flash-point areas such as this.

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Rizzoli Publications

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0847845451

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9780847845453

Global Financial Crisis

Global Impact and Solutions

By: Paolo Savona,Chiara Oldani

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Global Financial Crisis

Global Impact and Solutions

By: Paolo Savona,Chiara Oldani

Out of the debate over the effectiveness of the policy responses to the 2008 global financial crisis as well as over the innovativeness of global governance comes this collection by leading academics and practitioners who explore the dynamics of economic crisis and impact. Edited by Paolo Savona, John J. Kirton, and Chiara Oldani Global Financial Crisis: Global Impact and Solutions examines the nature of the recent crisis, its consequences in major regions and countries, the innovations in the ideas, instruments and institutions that constitute national and regional policy responses, building on the G8's response at its L'Aquila Summit. Experts from Africa, North America, Asia and Europe examine the implications of those responses for international cooperation, coordination and institutional change in global economic governance, and identify ways to reform and even replace the architecture created in the mid 20th century in order to meet the global challenges of the 21st.

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Routledge

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1317127803

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The Incomplete Currency

The Future of the Euro and Solutions for the Eurozone

By: Marcello Minenna,Giovanna Maria Boi,Paolo Verzella

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The Incomplete Currency

The Future of the Euro and Solutions for the Eurozone

By: Marcello Minenna,Giovanna Maria Boi,Paolo Verzella

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

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119019117

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9781119019114

The Griffith Project, Volume 9

Films Produced in 1916-18

By: Paolo Cherchi Usai

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The Griffith Project, Volume 9

Films Produced in 1916-18

By: Paolo Cherchi Usai

No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than 500 films has been the subject of a systematic analysis and the vast majority of his other works stills 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 multi-volume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1839020172

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The Griffith Project, Volume 12

Essays on D.W. Griffith

By: Paolo Cherchi Usai

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The Griffith Project, Volume 12

Essays on D.W. Griffith

By: Paolo Cherchi Usai

THE GRIFFITH PROJECT Paolo Cherchi Usai, General Editor Volume 12: Essays on D.W. Griffith Edited by Paolo Cherchi Usai and Cynthia Rowell With contributions by William M. Drew, Helmut Färber, André Gaudreault, Philippe Gauthier, Lea Jacobs, Joyce Jesionowski, Charlie Keil, Richard Koszarski, Arthur Lennig, Pat Loughney, David Mayer, Russell Merritt, Jan Olsson, Paul Spehr, Yuri Tsivian, Linda Williams In early 1996, an international group of 35 specialists in silent cinema volunteered to write commentaries on more than six hundred films directed, written, produced and supervised by D.W. Griffith – or featuring him as a performer – for the eleven-volume series The Griffith Project, the largest monograph ever assembled on an individual film director, in conjunction with the massive retrospective held at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival from 1996 to 2008. All authors involved in The Griffith Project were bound to strict editorial rules, most notably the fact that all titles in the series would be assigned to them in pre-determined groups rather than as a result of their own individual preference for this or that specific entry. The patience and commitment demonstrated by all scholars in this endeavor requires at least a symbolic recognition. We therefore invited the members of the project team to write an essay on a (D.W. Griffith-related) topic of their own choice. The papers included in this volume constitute the response to our carte blanche invitation. Our offer was also extended to other experts on D.W. Griffith who, for various reasons, were unable to participate in The Griffith Project but consistently supported it with their generous advice and insight. This volume brings The Griffith Project to completion, as 2008 sees the last installment of the D.W. Griffith program at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival with the screening of his films produced between 1925 and 1931. Not surprisingly, twelve years of research on D.W. Griffith have unearthed an impressive wealth of knowledge but also an equally amazing array of new questions, certainly enough of them to fill several more volumes. Some of them (including the increasingly complex issue of D.W. Griffith's role as production supervisor) are only introduced or barely mentioned here, but we are confident that what we have called the 'Griffith Project' will continue – at the Giornate and elsewhere – with more research and newly found or preserved prints. PAOLO CHERCHI USAI is Director of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. He is co-founder of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival and of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at George Eastman House (Rochester, New York). He directed the experimental feature film Passio (2007). His latest book is David Wark Griffith (Editrice Il Castoro, 2008).

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1839020040

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9781839020049

The Griffith Project, Volume 6

Films Produced in 1912

By: Paolo Cherchi Usai

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The Griffith Project, Volume 6

Films Produced in 1912

By: Paolo Cherchi Usai

1912 is the first 'golden year' in the career of D.W. Griffith. There is still a wealth of treasures waiting to be uncovered in this year. Their reappraisal is one of the aims of this sixth installment in the multi-year research project commissioned by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Sacile.

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183902013X

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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

In the twelfth-century, Pisa was a powerhouse of global trade, a city that stood at the centre of Medieval Europe. But Pisa had a problem. It was running out of coins. In the face of a looming financial crisis, the city's rulers and its moneylenders forged a deal that laid the foundations of the modern state and of present-day banking. In Money and Promises, the distinguished banker and scholar Paolo Zannoni examines the extraordinary relationship between states and banks. He draws upon seven case studies: the republic of twelfth-century Pisa, seventeenth-century Venice, the early years of the Bank of England, Imperial Spain, the Kingdom of Naples, the nascent USA during the American Revolution, and Bolshevik Russia in 1917–21. Spanning a multitude of countries, political systems and historical eras, Zannoni shows that at the heart of our institutions lies an intricate exchange of debt and promises that has shaped the modern world. Featuring pioneering research and original insights, this authoritative yet accessible book explores the vital relationship upon which our financial and political systems still depend.

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1804542784

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The Griffith Project, Volume 1

Films Produced in 1907-1908

By: Paolo Cherchi Usai

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The Griffith Project, Volume 1

Films Produced in 1907-1908

By: Paolo Cherchi Usai

No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than 500 films has been the subject of a systematic analysis and the vast majority of his other works still awaits 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 multi-volume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field.

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1838718974

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Governing Global Finance

New Challenges, G7 and IMF Contributions

By: Michele Fratianni,Paolo Savona

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Governing Global Finance

New Challenges, G7 and IMF Contributions

By: Michele Fratianni,Paolo Savona

This title was first published in 2002: As the twenty-first century began, it was easy to assume that the reforms to the international financial system undertaken in the last half of the 1990s were adequate to the core tasks of ensuring stability, sustained growth and broadly shared benefits in the world economy. That comfortable consensus has now been shattered. This volume critically assesses fundamental issues including: -the elements and adequacy of recent G7-led efforts at international financial reform -current causes of and prospects for growth in the new global economy -the challenges of crisis prevention -private sector participation and IFI responsibilities -the world’s monetary supply and sovereignty in the face of market forces. These key topics are examined by leading economists and scholars of political economy from both academic and policy communities in G7 countries, making it an essential addition to the collections of all those concerned with the challenges facing the world economy in the coming years.

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Taylor & Francis

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104028115X

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9781040281154

The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 2

By: Stephen King,Charles De Lint,Jane Yolen,Paolo Bacigalupi

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The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 2

By: Stephen King,Charles De Lint,Jane Yolen,Paolo Bacigalupi

A mutant baby goes on a rampage through Central Park. An immigrant reveals secrets in the folds of a perfect gift. Lucky Cats extend their virtual paws to salute a generous revolution. The Internet invades a third-world village. The premier speculative-fiction magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction continues to discover and showcase many of the most inventive authors writing in any genre. Now drawing even more deeply upon F&SF’s impressive history, this extraordinary companion anthology expands upon sixty-five years’ worth of top-notch storytelling. The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume Two is a star-studded tribute to the continuing vision of F&SF.

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Tachyon Publications

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1616961864

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9781616961862

Sovereign Europe

An Agenda for Europe in a Fragmented Global Economy

By: Paolo Guerrieri,Pier Carlo Padoan

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Sovereign Europe

An Agenda for Europe in a Fragmented Global Economy

By: Paolo Guerrieri,Pier Carlo Padoan

This insightful book investigates the evolution of the European and global economy from the 1950s to present day, focusing in particular on the role of the EU in the new global environment where economy and security intersect.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1035341247

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Sustaining Global Growth and Development

G7 and IMF Governance

By: Michele Fratianni,Paolo Savona

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Sustaining Global Growth and Development

G7 and IMF Governance

By: Michele Fratianni,Paolo Savona

Sustaining Global Growth and Development focuses on the new challenges for sustaining growth in the twenty-first century and the role of the G7 and IMF in meeting these challenges amidst the new processes of regionalism now emerging. The volume has three central purposes: · to assess how and how well the G7 has addressed its core 2002 agenda of sustaining global growth, reducing poverty in Africa, and combating terrorism and its financing · to examine how the IMF has approached these issues, and related work of the G7 · to explore how the G7, IMF and other international institutions are addressing global growth and development challenges in the context of the new processes of regionalism. Pressures such as currency consolidation in Asia and economic union in Africa are studied. This book builds on previous volumes in the series with a heavy focus on the World Bank, the regional development banks and the many other international institutions that work in the field of development.

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Routledge

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1317047532

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9781317047537

Sword in the Darkness

By: Paolo Bicchieri

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Sword in the Darkness

By: Paolo Bicchieri

Sword in the Darkness is a West Coast misadventure. Three teens find themselves thrust into a mythological power struggle spanning countries and cultures. Through no mere coincidence, all three are drawn to Brewer's Yawn, a recently and bizarrely formed cave in the Deschutes Forest of Central Oregon. There they meet Archibald and Shanna, owners and operators of "The Ore-gone-ian" cafe, who guide them along the way. They discover a sword hidden in the cave that is powerful enough to shape reality. But other forces want the magical artifact, too. The travelers will have to realize their power to stop the malevolent King Karrabad and escape his lair, with the help of some Klamath Native legends. Along the way, they see that they may have had the power to shape their worlds before they ever stumbled into Brewer's Yawn. Fans of The Vicious Deep, The Lightning Thief, Brooklyn Brujas, Godless, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian will enjoy.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725251639

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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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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1839020164

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Natures Past

The Environment and Human History

By: Paolo Squatriti

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Natures Past

The Environment and Human History

By: Paolo Squatriti

A global examination of how human communities have interacted with different kinds of natural environments through their cultural, social and economic activities

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University of Michigan Press

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0472069608

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The Beatles and the Beatlesque: A Crossdisciplinary Analysis of Sound Production and Stylistic Impact

By: Dario Martinelli,Paolo Bucciarelli

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The Beatles and the Beatlesque: A Crossdisciplinary Analysis of Sound Production and Stylistic Impact

By: Dario Martinelli,Paolo Bucciarelli

The Beatles and the Beatlesque address a paradox emanating from The Beatles’ music through a cross-disciplinary hybrid of reflections, drawing from both, musical practice itself and academic research. Indeed, despite their extreme stylistic variety, The Beatles’ songs seem to always bear a distinctive identity that emerges even more in similar works by other artists, whether they are merely inspired, derivative or explicitly paying homage. The authors, a musicologist and music producer, emphasize the importance of record production in The Beatles' music in a way that does justice not only to the final artifacts (the released songs) but also to the creative process itself (i.e., the songs "in the making"). Through an investigation into the work of George Martin and his team, as well as The Beatles themselves, this text sheds light on the role of the studio in shaping the group's eclectic but unique sound. The chapters address what makes a song “Beatlesque”, to what extent production choices are responsible for developing a style, production being understood not as a mere set of technicalities, but also in a more conceptual way, as well as the aesthetics, semiotics and philosophy that animated studio activity. The outcome is a book that will appeal to both students and researchers, as well as, of course, musicophiles of all kinds.

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Springer Nature

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3031338049

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9783031338045

Coatings from A - Z

2nd Revised Edition

By: Paolo Nanetti

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Coatings from A - Z

2nd Revised Edition

By: Paolo Nanetti

Need to look up special terms and keywords in the field of coatings technology? Now in its 2nd edition, " Coatings from A– Z" is your clear, compact, and easy-to-use technical lexicon, providing a comprehensive selection of coatings-related keywords. Enriched with many practical examples, it serves as an efficient aidto both newcomers to the industry and readers with a technical background.

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European Coatings

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3866306385

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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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Recycling of PVC and Mixed Plastic Waste

By: Francesco Paolo La Mantia

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Recycling of PVC and Mixed Plastic Waste

By: Francesco Paolo La Mantia

This book, on recycling of PVC and mixed plastic wastes, has been compiled from contributions from an array of scientists from several countries who are playing a leading role in plastic recycling. They offer practical solutions to many difficult problems in this field. Anyone involved in production of materials from virgin polymers who is concerned with their recyclability should read this book. The ideas and data presented will help the process of planning future recycling efforts and help to bring the recycling process from a costly nuisance to a profitable industry.

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1895198119

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The Eight Mountains

A Novel

By: Paolo Cognetti

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The Eight Mountains

A Novel

By: Paolo Cognetti

*The book that inspired the film The Eight Mountains* For fans of Elena Ferrante and Paulo Coelho comes a moving and elegant novel about the friendship between two young Italian boys from different backgrounds and how their connection evolves and challenges them throughout their lives. “Few books have so accurately described the way stony heights can define one's sense of joy and rightness...an exquisite unfolding of the deep way humans may love one another” (Annie Proulx). Pietro is a lonely boy living in Milan. With his parents becoming more distant each day, the only thing the family shares is their love for the mountains that surround Italy. While on vacation at the foot of the Aosta Valley, Pietro meets Bruno, an adventurous, spirited local boy. Together they spend many summers exploring the mountains’ meadows and peaks and discover the similarities and differences in their lives, their backgrounds, and their futures. The two boys come to find the true meaning of friendship and camaraderie, even as their divergent paths in life—Bruno’s in the mountains, Pietro’s across the world—test the strength and meaning of their connection. “A slim novel of startling expansion that subtly echoes its setting” (Vogue), The Eight Mountains is a lyrical coming-of-age story about the power of male friendships and the enduring bond between fathers and sons. “There are no more universal themes than those of the landscape, friendship, and becoming adults, and Cognetti’s writing becomes classical (and elegant) to best tell this story…a true novel by a great writer” (Rolling Stone Italia).

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Simon and Schuster

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1501169904

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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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Pre-Modern European Economy

One Thousand Years (10th-19th Centuries)

By: Paolo Malanima

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Pre-Modern European Economy

One Thousand Years (10th-19th Centuries)

By: Paolo Malanima

The book deals with the characters and evolution of the European economy from the high Middle Ages until the start of modern growth in the 19th century. Europe is always set in a global context and the European specific features are analysed on the background of the world economy. The main aim of the book is to present a clear picture of the structure and organisation of the European pre-modern economy, specifying its features, institutions, constraints and differences with other traditional coeval economies. The path followed starts from the demographic characters, the techniques, the sectors (agriculture, trade, industry), the output, and continues with the demand side (consumption, investment, public expense). The last chapter recalls the main features of the pre-modern economy in a more formal way. The book is the only available work dealing with the formation of the European economy and its features over the long term, that is from the 10th until the 19th century.

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BRILL

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9047440579

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Zibuyu, “What The Master Would Not Discuss”, according to Yuan Mei (1716 - 1798): A Collection of Supernatural Stories (2 vols)

By: Paolo Santangelo

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Zibuyu, “What The Master Would Not Discuss”, according to Yuan Mei (1716 - 1798): A Collection of Supernatural Stories (2 vols)

By: Paolo Santangelo

Although the preface says that the tales in this collection of supernatural stories should not be taken seriously and just aim to dispel boredom, Zibuyu is a work with different reading levels, which allows to uncover several deep trends, taboos and fantasies of late imperial intellectual circles. Disgust, surprise and laughter are constantly evoked, by continually attracting and repulsing the reader. Yuan Mei’s approach guides the reader to an adventure in the dangerous recesses of the self. It is a sort of allegoric fantastic reflection on the relative and polyphonic essence of human beings, the multiplicity of selves from psychological perception, and a challenge to the traditional biographical and historical perspective for the unreliability of destiny. Dreams, madness, delusions and other extreme cognitive and affective conditions, abnormal events, gods and spirits, and the dark world of death lead to a reversal of perspective and destroy the Apollonian vision of the social-centered Confucian orthodoxy. With introduction, translation and comments.

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9004216286

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Financial Markets and European Monetary Cooperation

The Lessons of the 1992-93 Exchange Rate Mechanism Crisis

By: Willem H. Buiter,Giancarlo Corsetti,Paolo A. Pesenti

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Financial Markets and European Monetary Cooperation

The Lessons of the 1992-93 Exchange Rate Mechanism Crisis

By: Willem H. Buiter,Giancarlo Corsetti,Paolo A. Pesenti

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the causes and implications of the 1992-3 crisis of the exchange rate mechanism.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521794404

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9780521794404

Landscapes of the Psyche Sandplay in Jungian Analysis

By: Paolo Aite

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Landscapes of the Psyche Sandplay in Jungian Analysis

By: Paolo Aite

This book is the result of research carried out by Paolo Aite, who for over thirty years has introduced sandplay in adult analysis into Italy. This method is becoming more and more popular among Jungian analysts, both in Italy and abroad, in private as well as in public practice. But just what is sandplay in analysis? It is not another kind of therapy. It is preverbal communication through images that goes hand in hand with communication through words. By means of the physical experience of playing with sand and using objects, a symbolization of deep emotions is set into motion which speech, more closely linked to the defences, can only partly express. This is a perspective which brings out the close relationship between words and images and makes it possible to study the transforming moment when emotions take on a visual representation, changing the feeling tone of the analytical relationship. Contained in the spatiotemporal organization of the play scene is a precise interpretation through images of the intrapyshic and interpersonal experience shared by the patient and the therapist in the analytical relationship. The purpose of analysis is to succeed in expressing in words the whole transforming potential of the symbolic image which has inspired the play scene and the emotions shared in the analytical relationship. This research, which springs from the theoretical hypotheses of Carl Gustav Jung, addresses central issues of his thinking which have yet to be thoroughly explored, full as they are of potential development, both theoretical and clinical.

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Ipoc Press

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8895145135

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9788895145136

The Griffith Project, Volume 4

Films Produced in 1910

By: Paolo Cherchi Usai

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The Griffith Project, Volume 4

Films Produced in 1910

By: Paolo Cherchi Usai

The fourth volume of 'The Griffith Project' looks at the films produced by D.W.Griffith at the Biograph Company in 1910. There were 86 films in all and they represent a period of creativity for the director, and they have been systematically analyzed in this volume.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1839020105

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Rules of Engagement

Trademark Strategies, Protection and Enforcement in China

By: Paolo Beconcini

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Rules of Engagement

Trademark Strategies, Protection and Enforcement in China

By: Paolo Beconcini

China now leads the world in number of registered trademarks. In recent years, however, higher volumes of enforcement have not brought about the end of trademark theft and counterfeiting. Consequently, most Westerners doing business in China (or preparing to do so) have negative views of the country’s system of intellectual property rights. This powerful book, by the world’s most experienced authority on how law and business interact in China’s trademark context, provides deeply informed and positive guidance for foreign brand owners seeking strategies that realistically engage with the Chinese legal and business landscape, thus showing how to reduce risk and benefit from the actually existing system. The author sets forth "rules of engagement" - strategic rules of conduct that provide guidance as to how to learn, understand, and approach trademark challenges in China in an objective manner. Issues and topics covered include the following: • acquisition of trademark rights in China; • infringement of trademark rights and claim basis; • preparatory investigation and case build-up; • available enforcement tools and procedures; • remedial strategies responding to trademark theft; • evidentiary burdens in proving infringement; • geographic location and specific characteristics of counterfeiting hubs; • privileged relations between investigative companies and enforcing authorities; and • increasing presence of online professional trademark thieves. Detailed discussion of a number of cases (in fields including automotive, clothing, wine, pharmaceuticals, electronic devices, and sports apparel) isolate certain common patterns and prove that, aside from certain malfunctions of the trademark system, a substantial amount of responsibility for failure can be laid with the brands and not with China’s enforcement authorities. With its comprehensive strategic approaches to dealing with trademark protection and enforcement in China, and its challenges to common legal thinking in the field, this book proposes and delivers new creative strategic solutions to unresolved problems related to trademarks in China. Interested lawyers and business persons can use the revelations about how anti-counterfeiting really works in China to help China bring about a change in the way state bodies enforce trademark rights. With the use of this book, lawyers counseling and advising clients on their China trademark portfolios and trademark protection strategies will bring great advantage to the brands they serve.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9041182802

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9789041182807

Health Without Borders

Epidemics in the Era of Globalization

By: Paolo Vineis

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Health Without Borders

Epidemics in the Era of Globalization

By: Paolo Vineis

This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health. The population of the world grew from 1 billion in 1800 to 7 billion in 2012, and over the past 50 years the mean temperature has risen faster than ever before. Both factors continue to rise, as well as health inequalities. Our environment is changing rapidly, with tremendous consequences for our health. These changes produce complex and constantly varying interactions between the biosphere, economy, climate and human health, forcing us to approach future global health trends from a new perspective. Preventive actions to improve health, especially in low-income countries, are essential if our future is going to be a sustainable one. After a period of undeniable improvement in the health of the world’s population, this improvement is likely to slow down and we will experience– at least locally – crises of the same magnitude as have been observed in financial markets since 2009. There is instability in health systems, which will worsen if preventive and buffering mechanisms do not take on a central role. We cannot exclude the possibility that the allied forces of poverty, social inequalities, climate change, industrial food and lack of governance will lead to a deterioration in the health of large sectors of the population. In low-income countries, while many of the traditional causes of death (infectious diseases) are still highly prevalent, other threats typical of affluent societies (obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases) are increasing. Africa is not only affected by malaria, TB and HIV, but also by skyrocketing rates of cancer. The book argues that the current situation requires effective and coordinated multinational interventions guided by the principle of health as a common good. An entirely competition-driven economy cannot – by its very nature – address global challenges that require full international cooperation. A communal global leadership is called for. Paolo Vineis is Chair of Environmental Epidemiology at Imperial College. His current research activities focus on examining biomarkers of disease risk as well as studying the effects of climate change on non-communicable diseases. “From morality to molecules, environment to equity, climate change to cancer, and politics to pathology, this is a wonderful tour of global health – consistently presented in a clear, readable format. Really, an important contribution.” Professor Sir Michael Marmot Director, Institute of Health Equity University College London Author of “The Health Gap” “This book is a salutary and soundly argued reminder that the ‘common good’ is not simply what remains after individuals and groups have appropriated the majority of societal resources: it is in fact the foundation on which any society rests and without which it collapses.” Rodolfo Saracci, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

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Springer

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3319524461

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9783319524467

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