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The Awakening of the Stars, a novel in the mystical fiction category & Aerial Roots a drama and comedy about the author grandmother.
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March 2007Lustrum Band 49 - 2007
Petronius 1975–2005: bilancio critico e nuove proposte
by Vannini, Giulio
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January 1995Giulio Romano: Die Steinigung des heiligen Stephanus
Ein Spätwerk Raffaels von der Hand seines Schülers
by Fritz, Michael P
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November 2013Konsum-Botschaften
Was Forschende für die gesellschaftliche Gestaltung nachhaltigen Konsums empfehlen
by Syntheseteam des Themenschwerpunkts "Vom Wissen zum Handeln - Neue Wege zum nachhaltigen Konsum" / Vorwort von Blättel-Mink, Birgit; Vorwort von Brohmann, Bettina; Vorwort von Defila, Rico; Vorwort von Di Giulio, Antonietta; Vorwort von Fischer, Daniel; Vorwort von Fuchs, Doris; Vorwort von Gölz, Sebastian; Vorwort von Götz, Konrad; Vorwort von Homburg, Andreas; Vorwort von Kaufmann-Hayoz, Ruth; Vorwort von Matthies, Ellen; Vorwort von Michelsen, Gerd; Vorwort von Schäfer, Martina; Vorwort von Tews, Kerstin; Vorwort von Wassermann, Sandra; Vorwort von Zundel, Stefan
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Geography & the EnvironmentJuly 2018Invasive Species and Human Health
by Giuseppe Mazza, Elena Tricarico, Pedro M. Anastácio, Leonardo Ancillotto, Sylvie Augustin, Daniela Boccolini, Giuseppe Brundu, Dario Capizzi, Lucilla Carnevali, Marco Di Luca, Franz Essl, Bella Galil, Piero Genovesi, Giulio Grandi, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Antonella Lugliè, Angeliki F. Martinou, Jolyon M. Medlock, Mattia Menchetti, Andrea Monaco, Emiliano Mori, Wolfgang Nentwig, Nikola Pantchev, Bachisio Mario Padedda, Olivier S.G. Pauwels, Cristina Preda, Petr Pyšek, Wolfgang Rabitsch, Julian Reynolds, Roberto Romi, Alain Roques, Helen E. Roy, Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg, Riccardo Scalera, Francis Schaffner, Stefan Schindler, Francesco Severini, Sauro Simoni, Catherine Souty-Grosset, Paolo Sposimo, Diederik Strubbe, Luciano Toma
Invasive alien plants and animals are known for their disruption of ecosystems and threat to biodiversity. This book highlights their major impact on human health. This includes not only direct effects through contact with the species via bites, wounds and disease, but also indirect effects caused by changes induced in ecosystems by invasive species, such as more water hyacinth increasing mosquito levels and thereby the potential for malaria. Covering a wide range of case studies from different taxa (animals and plants), and giving an overview of the diverse impacts of invasive species on health in developed and developing countries, the book is a significant contribution that will help in prioritizing approaches to controlling invasive species and mitigating their health effects. It covers invasive plants, marine species, spiders and other arachnids, ticks and dust mites, insects, mosquitos and other diptera, freshwater species (invertebrates and fishes), amphibians and reptiles, birds and mammals. Key Features Collects together the major health impacts for the first time Covers animal and plant invasive species Examines issues in developed and developing countries The broad spectrum of the analyzed case studies will ensure the appeal of the book to a wide public, including researchers of biological invasions, doctors, policy-makers and managers, and students of invasive species in ecology, animal and plant biology and public health medicine.
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Praticare e raccontare i santi segni
by Franco Giulio, Brambilla
In 1927 Romano Guardini wrote a precious little book on The Holy Signs, with pages of incomparable depth. Franco Giulio Brambilla, a well-known theologian and pastor, takes up and revisits the theme in a current and captivating language. The liturgical signs are here characterized by their prevailing trait: bodily signs (standing, kneeling, beating one’s chest, raising and imposing hands), creatural signs (water, light/fire, oil, bread and wine) and ritual signs (candle, ash, incense, robes, bells). The result is a surprising journey that renews these symbols to hand over the fire of existence to the new generations.
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HistoryApril 2016The Calling
Stories of Jesuits in the 16th and 17th Centuries
by Adriano Prosperi
This book explains not who the Jesuits were, but how their awareness of having become Jesuits was constructed. It does so on the basis of a collection of documents which have often been referred to as ‘autobiographies’, in fact individual members’ accounts of how they received their calling. Each Jesuit had to describe in writing how the divine call had come to him, what signs had preceded it and how he had broken away from his ‘fleshly’ family to become a member of the Company. Their acute awareness of the definitive nature of the close pact they had established with God by becoming members of the army of the Lord, made the Jesuits new, unusual figures, unprecedented in the history of Christian religious orders: men trained to carry out arduous missions into the most distant countries of the world, in contact with unknown cultures, without any weakening of their ties with the Company; a classic case is Matteo Ricci. Accepting their calling meant adopting a special life, characterized by a modern form of asceticism: a total break with the past and their families, a readiness to go wherever they were sent, as new apostles.
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HistoryJanuary 2017Pontius Pilate
Deciphering a Memory
by Aldo Schiavone
The biography of Pontius Pilate is the crucial dramatic point of intersection between Christian memory as preserved in the Gospels, Jewish history and Roman imperial history. It includes an episode of unparalleled importance in the history of the West – the death of Jesus. Pilate is the only historical figure whom Christian tradition records as having had a long dialogue with Jesus. He appears to have uttered and listened to words, made and witnessed gestures, that have accompanied us for two thousand years. Who was he really? A despot? An accomplice? A bungler? Why do the Gospels flood his figure in a light that blurs its outlines, making all his features ambiguous and elusive? What are they trying to hide? The book approaches the theme as if for the first time. It does not ignore the huge mass of previous studies, but filters and reworks them in a reconstruction that sets out simply to describe and explain what might have happened. In so doing, however, it offers a surprising solution to an enigma.
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HistoryJuly 2020The End of the Past
Ancient Rome and the Modern West
by Aldo Schiavone
This searching interpretation of past and present addresses fundamental questions about the fall of the Roman Empire. Why did ancient culture, once so strong and rich, come to an end? Was it destroyed by weaknesses inherent in its nature? Or were mistakes made that could have been avoided—was there a point at which Greco-Roman society took a wrong turn? And in what ways is modern society different? Western history is split into two discontinuous eras, Aldo Schiavone tells us: the ancient world was fundamentally different from the modern one. He locates the essential difference in a series of economic factors: a slave-based economy, relative lack of mechanization and technology, the dominance of agriculture over urban industry. Also crucial are aspects of the ancient mentality: disdain for manual work, a preference for transcending (rather than transforming) nature, a basic belief in the permanence of limits. Schiavone’s lively and provocative examination of the ancient world, “the eternal theater of history and power,” offers a stimulating opportunity to view modern society in light of the experience of antiquity.
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Politics & governmentMarch 2017From Rights to Duties to Justice
by Gustavo Zagrebelsky
Human rights have not benefited everyone in the same way; on the contrary, they have benefited some, the few, at the expense of others, the many. They have not given us a world that even the majority of human beings, can recognize as better. When ‘governments and great experts and smiling politicians and millionaire foundations’ discuss hunger and its causes, they always concentrate on objective factors, beyond the reach of any structural political intervention. Few mention financial speculation which raises the prices of food and medicines, causing famines and epidemics; neo-colonial policies for the control of sources of energy; the unlimited exploitation of natural resources; the colossal mass of investments that are diverted from purposes of general interest to research into and production of arms. The extent of this failure of humanity is documented by facts, records, numbers. We inhabitants of the privileged part of the world live fairly contentedly, every day, with the occasional journalistic report and the occasional documentary: media which tend to enhance indifference, by isolating the dramas in the vast and harmless field of literature and film, rather than shaking the conscience of the world, which contents itself with contemplating its rights, indeed its ‘culture of rights’. Literature nourishes intellects, but practice, and, above all, rulers who exercise power, have little time for literature.
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HistoryMay 2019A Scattered Crowd
Doctors and Peasants in Nineteenth-Century Italy
by Adriano Prosperi
With the rise of statistics, many modern states made it a tool of government and a link between the authorities and their subjects (or citizens). The case of Italy was that of a composite world where the early emergence of statistical science (with Melchiorre Gioia) was accompanied by many studies on the reality of the populations. Naples under the Bourbons and under the reign of Gioacchino Murat, and central-northern Italy under Napoleon, were the fields of application of studies which covered everything from folklore to material conditions. The growth of a high-level modern medical science, in contact with the scientific cultures of Germany, France and Britain, provided the new Italian nation with a means of analysing the social and sanitary problems of the country. A rich documentation of all this survives in the studies of the socio-sanitary conditions of the inhabitants of Italian towns and communes which began in the early nineteenth century and continued for nearly a century. The statistical study of sanitary and hygienic problems, commissioned by Italian governments and carried out by the corporation of local doctors highlighted the abject conditions in which most of the Italian population lived from many points of view: malnutrition, disease, alchoholism, illiteracy, high infant mortality, short average lifespan, devastating death rate from malaria, cholera, pellagra, etc. But the economic policy of the ruling classes – big landowners in the south and the entrepreneurial middle classes in the north – chose to turn Italy into an economic and military power, leaving the agricultural world to fend for itself. And medical science was split between those who, like Camillo Golgi, dedicated their lives to solving the problem of malaria, and those who, like Paolo Mantegazza, offered the culture of a rising middle class intriguing opportunities to explore the mysteries of pleasure and sexual hygiene.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2013Crime and Forgiveness
The Death Penalty in the Mental Horizon of Christian Europe (14th–18th Century)
by Adriano Prosperi
During the centuries of the ‘long Middle Ages’, a great public spectacle gradually acquired a structure: death by justice. In the night between the 1st and 2nd May 2011, the President of the United States Barack Obama made a special appearance on television and announced to the nation and the world the death of Osama bin Laden. His first words were: ‘Justice has been done’ – ‘justice’, which in Italian has the same etymological root as the verb ‘giustiziare’, to execute. This single sentence brings out the fundamental question underlying the function of justice: is it a physical elimination of the criminal or a punishment which enables that person to repent and achieve moral regeneration? Is it an act of revenge or forgiveness? In the light of this history, Adriano Prosperi investigates the complex links with condemned people which our culture gradually established, until it eventually arrived at a Christianization of death as punishment: a public spectacle where the Christian cross occupies a central place in a great, cruel festival, and where the offering up of the criminal’s life was celebrated on the scaffold as a way of expiating the individual’s sins and purifying the community from evil.
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Society & culture: generalApril 2017The New Populism
Democracy Stares into the Abyss
by Marco Revelli
A crisp and trenchant dissection of populism today. The word “populism” has come to cover all manner of sins. Yet despite the prevalence of its use, it is often difficult to understand what connects its various supposed expressions. From Syriza to Trump and from Podemos to Brexit, the electoral earthquakes of recent years have often been grouped under this term. But what actually defines “populism”? Is it an ideology, a form of organisation, or a mentality? Marco Revelli seeks to answer this question by getting to grips with the historical dynamics of so-called “populist” movements. While in the early days of democracy, populism sought to represent classes and social layers that asserted their political roles for the first time, in today’s post-democratic climate, it instead expresses the grievances of those who had until recently felt that they were included. Having lost their power, the disinherited embrace not a political alternative to –isms like liberalism or socialism, but a populist mood of discontent. The new populism is the “formless form” that protest and grievance assume in the era of financialisation, in the era where the atomised masses lack voice or organisation. For Revelli, this new populism is the child of an age in which the Left has been hollowed out and lost its capacity to offer an alternative. (From the Verso Books presentation)
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The City of the Living
by Nicola Lagioia
A novel that has all the impact of actual fact, a piece of investigative journalism that hovers between In Cold Blood and True Detective, in twenty-first century Rome. From the murder case that has most profoundly roiled the consciences of Italy in recent years comes a riveting, powerful novel that perfectly recounts our time and the darkest abysses of the human soul. A book you won’t be able to put down until the very last page. A book that’s hard to forget.
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Borgo Sud
by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
Some families shatter like waves on the shoreline: a sudden crash, followed by a long wake of foam. Other families are as large as an entire neighborhood; at first, they make you feel at home but their embrace can become too confining.Donatella Di Pietrantonio has a unique ability to recount the light and the shadows of our closest ties. The return of the unforgettable characters of Arminuta, the novel which conquered 300,000 readers, won the 2017 Premio Campiello, and has been translated in over 25 countries.
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I am the Punishment
by Giancarlo De Cataldo
Manrico Spinori della Rocca, Public Prosecutor in Rome. He has a very special, personal method for solving cases: he searches for a corresponding opera. Because there is no human experience – including crime – which hasn’t already been recounted in an opera.
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Society & culture: generalThe Plan
by Marco Belpoliti
The plan is a journey like those of the travelling salesmen who used to follow the country roads. The geographical space across which the book moves is the Po plain; the cities it describes are Milan, Modena, Mantua, Reggio Emilia, Ravenna, Bologna, and others. In each of these fascinating urban worlds history has created unique characteristics. Cultural signals evoke today and yesterday. Figures of artists, actors, directors, novelists, poets, strange and bizarre individuals parade in front of the reader’s eyes like characters out of a Fellini film. Some are still alive, many are dead, but all belong to an artistic and intellectual world with clearly recognizable features. Each character has a story set on the banks of the Po, or under the arcades of the cities scattered across its plain. They are stories of encounters, for the material from which the author draws inspiration comes from his friendships, associations and collaborations. So Pianura is an account of an age of art and creativity from the 1970s to the present day. Like Claudio Magris’s Danubio, it is a journey through cultural memory which conjures up a surprising portrait of those regions which have known the ideals of secular emancipation and communist utopia, and today are experiencing a regression into political localism. A portrait of agricultural countryside inhabited by characters who people an extraordinary narrative, a sentimental journey, an assemblage of fragments of memory which together form one of the most original cultural novels of recent years.
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FictionSeptember 2020La foresta fossile
by Cristina Converso
La scoperta della foresta fossile lungo la Stura di Lanzo è l’inizio di un eco thriller ad altissima tensione.Il prof. Ernesto Meina, lo scopritore, scompare nel nulla, i suoi assistenti, il dottore forestale Giulio Nervi e la geologa Martina Globo, si gettano per strade diverse alla ricerca, svelando così un complesso scenario di crimini ambientali.Nella vicenda si intrecciano storie di padri e di figli, di rancori mai spenti, di passioni e di libri, sullo sfondo di una natura bella e crudele, di un ambiente prezioso che è patrimonio di tutti e deve essere tutelato. Con il patrocinio e la prefazione della Città metropolitana di Torino e i contributi giuridici e scientifici del Prof. Alessandro Crosetti e del Prof. Edoardo Martinetto
