Francesca: 997 books
The Gothic Novel and the Stage
Romantic Appropriations
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre provided inspiration to novelists.
Personal Effects
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
An abandoned wife travels into the heart of the Eastern bloc in search of an elusive writer and her own identity in this wry and captivating satire
Valentina has spent the last decade as a most dutiful wife: cooking meals, cleaning house, and translating dry liturgical writings for her husband,...
by Francesca Giovannini, William Keller, Tanya Ogilvie-White
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)—including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons—rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however,...
by Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad, Jean-Marc Akakpo, Zeynep Arkan
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral hazards from this record of nearly seven decades of regional inter-governmental institutions has kept the...
Illuminating Faith
An Invitation to Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
This textbook will give students a clear understanding of the connection between faith and reason. Illuminating Faith gives students a clear and accessible introduction to some of the major ways faith and the relationship between faith and reason have been understood within Western Christianity. In...
Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education
Successes and Challenges within Local and International Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education addresses the growing concern that few practicing teachers in the United States are prepared to handle the demands of educating students for our changing global context. This book advocates for preparing teacher candidates to develop...
by Francesca Biagioli
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
This book offers a reconstruction of the debate on non-Euclidean geometry in neo-Kantianism between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. Kant famously characterized space and time as a priori forms of intuitions, which lie at the foundation of mathematical...
Generative Systems Art
The Work of Ernest Edmonds
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In this unique book the author explores the history of pioneering computer art and its contribution to art history by way of examining Ernest Edmonds’ art from the late 1960s to the present day. Edmonds’ inventions of new concepts, tools and forms of art, along with his close involvement with...
I Bisogni Educativi Speciali
Diagnosi, prevenzione e intervento
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Il testo propone una panoramica delle difficoltà e dei disturbi che s’incontrano con maggiore frequenza nella scuola, facendo riferimento all’ICD10 e al DSM-5, ma con uno sguardo ampio, il più possibile attento alle differenze. Uno sguardo che tiene conto dei vissuti con gli occhi degli alunni,...
Pensare col corpo
Lavoro, spazi, tempi, relazioni, abbigliamento, linguaggio, cibo, sessualità: ogni nostra scelta di vita ci cambia anche a livello fisico
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Sempre di più va facendosi strada l’idea che così come la mente e la sua struttura emotiva determinano la forma e la salute del nostro corpo, analogamente la nostra organizzazione fisica determina i nostri pensieri e le nostre emozioni. Al proposito già Einstein sosteneva che «abbiamo bisogno di...
by Esterino Adami, Francesca Bellino, Alessandro Mengozzi
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The papers collected in this volume deal with the explorations of Science Fiction, Fantasy and, more generally, the representation of otherness through the narrative construction of fantastic, imaginary, appalling or attractive places, stories and figures. Contributions are arranged in four main sections....
Fun with the Family New Jersey
Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips with the Kids
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
A first edition! This opinionated, personal, and easy-to-use guide has hundreds of ideas to keep the kids entertained for an hour, a day, or a weekend! Fun with the Family New Jersey leads the way to historical attractions, children's museums, wildlife habitats, festivals, parks, and much more. Geared...
European Sexual Citizenship
Human Rights, Bodies and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book is an innovative and critical contribution to the study of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people in the context of Europe. Combining legal and Foucauldian approaches, it investigates the ways in which current discourses about LGBTIQ rights...
Le storie di Maui
111 gradini verso la felicità
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Eroe archetipico della mitologia polinesiana, venerato dai maori neozelandesi, Maui è un semidio molto umano, burlone e scavezzacollo, a volte imbroglione, protagonista di avventure che trasmettono un senso di felicità contagioso. Alcune storie contenute in questo volume sono tipicamente hawaiane,...