Humanities & Social Sciences
December 2020
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December 2016Reading the Way to the Netherworld
Education and the Representations of the Beyond in Later Antiquity
by Herausgegeben von Tanaseanu-Döbler, Ilinca; Herausgegeben von Ryser, Gabriela; Herausgegeben von Lefteratou, Anna; Herausgegeben von Stamatopoulos, Konstantinos; Beiträge von Nesselrath, Heinz-Günther; Beiträge von Oikonomopoulou, Katerina; Beiträge von Dowden, Ken; Beiträge von Maciver, Calum A.; Beiträge von Otlewska-Jung, Marta; Beiträge von Lefteratou, Anna; Beiträge von Rebello, Merryl; Beiträge von Egelhaaf-Gaiser, Ulrike; Beiträge von Panayotakis, Stelios; Beiträge von Stamatopoulos, Konstantinos; Beiträge von Ryser, Gabriela; Beiträge von Korte, Petra; Beiträge von Moreschini, Chiara O. Tommasi; Beiträge von Villani, Andrea; Beiträge von Ramelli, Ilaria; Beiträge von Bumazhnov, Dmitrij F.; Beiträge von Naiweld, Ron; Beiträge von Abate, Elisabetta; Beiträge von Tanaseanu-Döbler, Ilinca; Beiträge von Auffarth, Christoph; Beiträge von Döbler, Marvin
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Etica dell'acquario
by Ilaria Gaspari
Gaia is beautiful, self-centred and unhappy. One day in November she returns to the city where she studied, after an absence of ten years. Nothing seems to have changed in Pisa, but everything has. Gaia meets up again with her old friends and the love of her university days, but now they are divided by the years they spent apart and the loss of a fellow student, Virginia, who died in obscure circumstances. The investigation into the mysterious suicide winds its way through the streets of the city and the colleges of the Scuola Normale, amidst buried memories and obsessions that come to light.
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THE SECRET JOURNEY OF VIRUSES
to the discovery of the smallest and most surprising creatures of the world
by ILARIA CAPUA
“Why a book on viruses dedicated to middle grade school? Because we must all be united in the response to the pandemic emergency, and health begins with the youngest. Especially by the youngest” – ILARIA CAPUA“ I spent a lot of hours of my life in theld, in the lab, chasing viruses. And today it’s important that kids understand what’s at the root of viral diseases: there is not just coronavirus and inuenze, but also diseases of plansh and insects. And everything can lead to consequences that aect man and the entire planet. -What is a virus and how it works? -How it counters when our body reacts? -What happened in the past and how can science and research do in prevention? Ilaria Capua signs a text of popular science in which the protagonist is not only the coronavirus, but the entire invisible world of microorganisms that have always coexisted with man.One of the greatest Italian scientists oers an important tool for the youngest in which the thorny themes of contagion and pandemic lose the frightening aura of unknown threat and become for thst time an exciting subject of discovery of the natural world. Ten chapters each dedicated terent phenomenal virus, and introduced by a small virology bigino within reach of teen. With simple examples and the right target language, Ilaria Capua also raises the reader’s awareness of the key principles in future societies: preventing pollution, combating the uncontrolled development of human activity in the environment and human interference in natural ecosysteme book deals with burning current issue, for which the author is appreciated, such as the phenomenon of displacement, inequality and exploitation of work, closely related to the health crisis that involved us in 2020.
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FictionLast of all, the sky
by Michele Cecchini
Emilio Cacini, known to everyone as ‘Soldo di cacio’ (Shorty) on account of hisdiminutive stature, teaches art at a secondary school. Fat and clumsy, Cacio has a secretinvolving a woman, Ilaria, with whom he had a relationship during the period in whichshe was a member of the Red Brigades. He’d like to confide in someone but in ArdenzaMare - the neighbourhood on the outskirts of Livorno where he lives – no one asks toomany overly personal questions. The fact is that it’s something of an anomalous place,largely because of the magical, enchanted atmosphere in which it’s immersed. From hercage in the middle of the neighbourhood park, the majestic tigress Mirtilla(Blackcurrant) has always been a reassuring presence for the locals.Cacio has a son called Pitore (Pet Chicken), a child who suffers from a developmentalspeech disorder. In practice, Pitore speaks a language all of his own made up of newwords such as folmedína (sea). This would appear to be no big deal for Cacio, who goesout of his way to find alternative forms of communication to words in an attempt toforge an increasingly close relationship with the child, who he’s bringing up by himself.Albeit disoriented, Cacio has a whole world inside himself and goes his own way. He isgentle but, at the same time, strong, capable of passing through solitude and creatingharmony from the disharmony he feels around him. In search of authenticcommunication that goes beyond words, Cacio seems to be saying that the world canexist in many different ways, provided we know how to invent it.Michele Cecchini possesses a unique imagination, a virtue few writers can boast of. Hisis a magical realism marked by a special form of delicacy and wonder. A cross betweenFellini and Soriano, he uses a special lens to look at and speak about the world, which flies lightly by, as if it were enclosed in a soap bubble.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2019The black book of communism in Brazil
by Gustavo Marques
Inspired by 'The Black Book of Communism', published by Stéphane Courtois in France in 1997, this book written by the diplomat Gustavo Henrique Marques Bezerra, deals with the history of the communist movement and its influence on political and cultural life Brazilian since the advent anarchism and Marxism, in the late nineteenth century until the early 1990s, with the collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe. The book, which has monumental characteristics - it is the result of over 10 years of intense historical extensive and thorough research on more than 400 titles from primary sources (interviews, memoirs, interviews, documents) and secondary, domestic and foreign. It is divided into six chapters with almost 900 pages and thousands of notes - places emphasis on generally omitted facts and / or little explored by Brazilian historiography, mostly on the left, revealing the "dark side" of the Communists and their allies in Brazil over the twentieth century.
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Children's & YABenni, Celestina e 3 piani in ascensore
by Patrizia Fortunati, Roberta Procacci
The story of a great friendship between different generations. The last bell of the year rings and Benni is finally free from the school! Will she be able to relax? Of course not! She will have to get to work immediately to save the old De Profundis from a sad destiny: the retirement home. With her, the inseparable parrot Celestina, a group of old friends and a Chinese maid with a Sicilian accent. Amidst twists and small lies, the brigade will devise the most adventurous plans to save De Profundis... Will they be able to save their old friends? They certainly will not give up easily!
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2020MONTESSORI’S EDUCATIONAL ALBUM FOR TEACHERS
Activities for the development of fine motor skills - The teacher’s guide
by Andrea Lupi
Created with the scientific supervision of the Montessori Italy Foundation, this volume offers activities for the development of fine motor skills, specifically manual coordination, psycho-motor refinement, and the manipulation of objects, in children aged 3 to 6. The Montessori’s Educational Albums for Teachers provide teachers with a comprehensive operational guide on how to use the Montessori method in the classroom. The second volume in the series, Montessori’s educational album for Teachers – Activities for the development of fine motor skills, explains in detail how to accompany children in the acquisition of fine motor skills, such as: Opening and closing; Screwing and unscrewing; Expressiveness; Putting on and taking off; Putting in and taking out. The activities listed in each of these categories improve the child’s fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. The watchful observation of the adult will allow the offered activities to be continuously increased and varied, always keeping it appropriate for the interest and skills achieved by individual children. Recommended for The album is intended not only for those who have already adopted the Montessori method but also for all teachers who want to start applying it in their classes, as well as for parents interested in getting to know it better.
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Children's & YAOctober 2020Wrong
by Matilde Piran, Andrea Falcone
Wrong is the story of a journey: Davide and Elisa, both 15, are on the run, looking for a place to be themselves. It’s also the story of a friendship and the search for a common language to express all those emotions that the two just can’t deal with.Davide is the invisible boy. He doesn’t like or dislike anything specific, girls and boys frighten him equally, he doesn’t fit in with any particular group, and he doesn’t know how to approach his own desires.Elisa’s family has just moved to the city from a small town so that her kid brother can get the therapy he needs. She doesn’t know anyone yet. What she knows is that her half-wit brother, will not help her make new friends.Through text and images, the story snowballs towards the meeting between Davide and Elisa, and between two different ways to go wrong and be wrong - and to do it together.
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January 2019La città post-secolare
Il nuovo dibattito sulla secolarizzazione
by Paolo Costa
The secularization debate went through a big change during the last fifty years. Could this change be described as a paradigm shift? The volume, after an introduction that deeply analyses the “secularization” concept, picks up and discusses in eight chapters several exemplary figures in the recent debate (H. Blumenberg, D. Martin, C. Taylor, H. Joas, T. Asad, M. Gauchet, J. Habermas, G. Vattimo).Thus, the Author gives for the very first time, a systematic reconstruction of the changes and developments in this debate, ending in a real paradigm shift. The conclusion is however hesitant. It is unclear, Costa claims, whether this concept is still helpful to understand what is going on around us now and is in store for us in the near future. Winner of the Book Prize of the European Society for Catholic Theology (category: senior scholar)
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Biography & True StoriesBORIS PAHOR - THAT'S HOW I LIVED
STOLETJE BORISA PAHORJA
by TATJANA ROJC
The life story of BORIS PAHOR (1913), a Slovene writer and centenarian, is at the same time a story about one of the most turbulent centuries in human history. With his clear standpoints and engagement, the author has always challenged current authorities and found himself in some of the most difficult situations of the 20th century. That’s How I Lived is also a story about Trieste and the lives of the people who moved there from rural areas, about the sad fates of Pahor’s patriotic friends and, of course, about his own Calvary through the Third Reich’s concentration camps. It offers an insight into Pahor’s private life, his first experiences of love and the first meetings with people with similar intellectual views and allies. The reader follows Pahor through his much-noticed conflicts with Slovene politicians and his activities on the international stage in favour of the rights of minority cultures. The narrative is supplemented with documents and photographs.
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March 2023The Princess of Buchenwald
Mafalda of Savoy's Forgotten Story
by Ana Andreu Baquero
An Italian princess who went from spending her life in the most lavish palaces to being interned in a Nazi concentration camp, and was almost written out of the history books: Mafalda of Savoy. Weimar, 1945. Just after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, seven men from the Italian Royal Navy enter the cemetery of the German city and head to a grim section covered with numbered stakes. Once there, they seek out the stake that has demanded hard work and good luck, in equal measure, to locate: number 262 where, according to the register, lie the remains of an unbekannte Frau (‘unknown woman’). When they pull out the stake, they see a previously hidden name that confirms the great significance of their mission. They substitute the simple stake with a stone and wooden cross made of beech obtained through bartering during those early days of peace. The tomb is now complete, and that somber number has been converted into a name of noble lineage and carved with care: Mafalda of Savoy.
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Zoology & animal sciencesDecember 2021Nanotechnology in Plant Pathology
by N.G. Ravichandra
The book Nanotechnology in Plant Pathology is to provide its readers latest developments and updated comprehensive information on various aspects of nanomaterials, nanomolecules and nanosensors in relation to plant diseases. This book fulfils the need for a comprehensive book on the significance of nanotechnology in plant pathology, which furnishes the latest information on this fast developing topic.The book Nanotechnology in Plant Pathology explicates essential aspects and is conveniently divided into nine unique chapters, covering the latest information and developments in nanotechnology with respect to plant diseases. The chapters include Introduction to nanotechnology, Categories and characterization of nanoparticles, Nanotechnology in plant disease diagnosis, Nanoparticles in plant disease management, Nanotechnology and pesticides, Nanotechnology in pesticides delivery, Regulations and risks in nanotechnology, Nanotoxicity and Nanosafety. Quality diagrams at appropriate places, convincing tables and suitable graphs / illustrations have been furnished for an impressive reading. Under each chapter, a bibliography providing the list of references cited has also been included for additional reading. The contents of this book, reflecting an extensive literature search, will be useful particularly for teachers, researchers and students in Plant Pathology, the State Departments of Horticulture & Agriculture, Commercial protection centers, Administrators, Policy planners and all those who are interested and concerned with the use and application of nanoparticles in plant pathology.
