Chiara: 410 books

Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized...

The Syrian refugee crisis, which began in 2011, is one of the most pressing disasters in the world today, with its effects reverberating around the globe. By the end of 2015, more than 7.6 million of the country’s people had been internally displaced and 4.3 million were registered refugees. The number...

Nihilism and/or community. The European Question. The gift of the in-common. Touching on different themes and authors, the papers presented here probe the prolificness that the terms sacred and community could have – if subtracted from the game of reactive nihilism – in checking the violence of...

Do the news media have any role in the transformation of war and warfare? Focusing on television, this book argues that the news media alters the cognitive and strategic environment of the actors of war and politics and therefore changes the way these interact with one another.

Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms, sexual behaviours of different classes and transnational encounters.

This book is a survey of the theory of formal deformation quantization of Poisson manifolds, in the formalism developed by Kontsevich. It is intended as an educational introduction for mathematical physicists who are dealing with the subject for the first time. The main topics covered are the theory...

La rivista si è sempre posta sul mercato come un osservatorio sullo sviluppo delle Arti Terapie, sulle loro applicazioni in vari contesti socio-sanitario e di formazione, e come punto d’incontro fra professionisti che operano nel settore e nei settori alle stesse correlati nonché fra esperiti...

L’agata mi dà coraggio. L’acquamarina mi regala felicità. Ho imparato ad ascoltare le pietre. Solo loro conoscono il mio destino. «Segui le pietre, solo loro regalano la felicità.» Luna è una bambina quando il nonno le dice queste parole speciali insegnandole che l’agata...

Ilaria, scienziata internazionale, era una “capra” in matematica. Sandra, avvocata e manager sognava di fare la veterinaria. E ancora, Marina ingegnera, Elena startupper, Debora giornalista, Paola ricercatrice. Cento donne che si sono confrontate con “il pallino per la matematica”, tutte sfatano...

Amperometric sensors, biosensors included, particularly rely on suitable electrode materials. Progress in material science has led to a wide variety of options that are available today. For the first time, these novel functional electrode coating materials are reviewed in this monograph, written by...

L'Opera è aggiornata con: il D.D.L. approvato dal Senato il 18 marzo 2015, in materia di divorzio breve; il D.P.R. 30 gennaio 2015, n. 26, nuove regole sullo stato civile dei figli naturali; la L. 10 novembre 2014, n. 162, riforma della giustizia civile, che ha introdotto le nuove regole sulla negoziazione assistita in materia di separazione e di divorzio.

The current state of knowledge on this increasingly important subject is beautifully described in this, the first truly comprehensive text of allergic diseases affecting the major veterinary species. It will be an invaluable guide to students, clinicians and researchers alike. From the Foreword by...

An examination of how female same-sex desires were represented in a wide range of Italian and British medical writings, 1870-1920. It shows how the psychiatric category of sexual inversion was positioned alongside other medical ideas of same-sex desires, such as the virago, tribade-prostitute, fiamma and gynaecological explanations.

Progress in Brain Research is a well-established international series examining major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields. This volume, concentrates on state-of-the-art of dopamine research: from basic science to clinical applications....