Vv Aa : 1959 books
by Aa. Vv.
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Five of the six papers below were presented at a symposium in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in San Diego on November 21, 2014. The AAR meeting has for long been an annual feature, where scholars of religion gather from around the world to discuss various...
by Aa. Vv.
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Time without becoming is the text of a lecture Quentin Meillassoux gave at the Middlesex University in May 2008. He makes a summary of the arguments he employed in After Finitude to overcome correlationism from the inside and to dismiss philosophies of becoming, such as absolute idealism and vitalism....
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
After Gödel’s results the limitations of the three principal “foundational schools” became more and more evident, while the “working scientists” continued their activity caring more for the acquisition of “results” than for logical rigor. This “pragmatic turn” was perceivable also...
Kazakhstan Central Concert Hall
Kazakhstan Central Concert Hall / Центральный концертный зал Казахстана
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Il progetto rappresenta ciò di cui il luogo manca, un suo possibile completamento. Andando ad Astana e sorvolando la steppa russa, i suoi laghi di sale, la sua terra piatta e deserta, le carcasse pietrificate di alberi contorti, abbiamo sentito la mancanza di un fiore che si apra nel cuore di questa...
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
It is somewhat curious that among the great number of books on occult science and all forms of divination which have been published in the English language there should be none dealing exclusively with the Tea-cup Reading and the Art of Telling Fortunes by the Tea-leaves: notwithstanding that it is...
Laws against strikes. The South African Experience in an international and Comparative Perspective
The South African Experience in an international and Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Laws against Strikes, comprising contributions from South African, Italian and British legal scholars, examines the right to strike in periods of socio-economic crisis. The book aims to contribute to the debates on this issue, by comparing, where appropriate, the operation of the right to strike in South Africa with its operation in the European Union countries.
Limits of Knowledge
The Nineteenth-Century Epistemological Debate and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Ignorabimus! We will never know! With this statement and his talk on the limits of natural knowledge in 1872, Emil du Bois-Reymond stirred up a controversy (the Ignorabimus-Streit), which spread widely beyond German-speaking countries. It concerned the very possibility to set boundaries to knowledge,...
Portrait of a Lady
Women in Science: Participation Issues and Perspectives in a Globalized Research System
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Which factors prevent a larger female participation in the scientific and research careers? This book analyzes recent data and figures about women researchers in R&D and Higher Education institutions, their motivations, the reasons and causes determining the still persisting gender gap. The various...
The Italian Debate 1940s-1950s
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
The book unfolds the lessons of four masters of Italian Modern Architecture – Franco Albini, Ignazio Gardella, Luigi Moretti and Ernesto Nathan Rogers – through their own words or those of preeminent scholars who have investigated their theoretical and professional work, with the aim to offer...
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
There are various risks tied to the Web. Toxic evils like cybercrimes, cyberbullying, on-line harassment, aggressive online comments, defamation, hateful speech, plagiarism, etc. are growing among young people. The search of antidotes to fight the above issues is becoming a common concern for governments,...
Cinéma&Cie. International Film Studies Journal
Neurofilmology
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Over the last two decades, discoveries made in the field of cognitive neuroscience have begun to permeate humanities and social sciences. This special issue of Cinéma & Cie focuses on major conceptual and epistemological arguments arising from the dialogue between audiovisual studies and neurosciences....
Charting the Wellness Society in Europe
Social transformations in sport, health and consumption
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Today sport and physical activity are considered cultural tools able to understand the evolution of contemporary symbolic practices, always looking for wellness. The book examines in specific the wellness dimension, going beyond the concept of active lifestyle, investigating the importance of physical...
by AA.VV.
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
This book deals with some tenets of the application of the Regulations Rome I and Rome II. Bearing in mind that both Regulations in question, as the cornerstone of the new European Private International Law, have a wide scope covering most types of cases, the contributions included in this book focus...
Digitalization and Cultural Heritage in Italy
Innovative and Cutting-Edge Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Cultural heritage, in Italy, is a limitless source of innovation where traditions meet cutting-edge technology, mainly from the ongoing 4.0 digital revolution. Digital heritage is becoming an interesting dimension: the contemporary audience expects both stability and flexibility from museums, which should have attractivity without losing credibility.