Sergio: 1038 books

Scientists have always attempted to explain the world in terms of a few unifying principles. In the fifth century B.C. Democritus boldly claimed that reality is simply a collection of indivisible and eternal parts or atoms. Over the centuries his doctrine has remained a landmark, and much progress...

The role that neutrinos have played in the evolution of the Universe is the focus of one of the most fascinating research areas that has stemmed from the interplay between cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics. In this self-contained book, the authors bring together all aspects of the role...

This book explores what we mean when we use the term "perversion." Are we dealing with a sexological classification, a mental disturbance, an ethical deviation, a hedonistic style, or an historical-cultural artifact? The book retraces some of the fundamental stages in the field of psychoanalytic...

Computer games are big business - tens of billions of dollars are spent annually by the worldwide video games market. The cost of producing video games has ballooned to beyond $20 million dollars in many cases, and team sizes are quickly growing past 100 team members. At the center of this storm is...

Le elezioni del 24 e 25 febbraio 2013 hanno rivoluzionato il quadro politico e portato alla ribalta il MoVimento 5 Stelle, primo partito alla Camera e secondo al Senato con oltre 160 eletti, tutti neofiti, in buona parte donne e giovani. In queste pagine si analizzano le ragioni dell'esplosione di...

Nella società contemporanea la mitezza è spesso assimilata alla passività, alla debolezza, alla mancanza di coraggio. L’essere miti appare un comportamento assolutamente inadeguato ad affrontare le durezze della realtà. Un grande merito di questo volume è quello di riscoprire, in controtendenza...

Gladiatori e maiali, pubbliche casse scambiate per bancomat personali, versamenti di fondi su conti privati, le tante leggende nate intorno alla figura di “Er Batman” e molto altro ancora. Ovvero, quando la realtà supera la più fervida immaginazione. Tutto questo in un libro che racconta fatti, numeri e retroscena dello scandalo che ha travolto la Regione Lazio.

Anche le Università italiane da oggi, con la pubblicazione dei dati della “Valutazione qualitativa della ricerca 2004-2010” elaborati dall’Anvur, hanno le loro pagelle. La ricerca diventa misurabile con criteri omogenei su tutto il territorio nazionale: si tratta del più importante sforzo...

Most research on intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews focuses on the United States. This volume takes a path-breaking approach, examining countries with smaller Jewish populations so as to better understand countries with larger Jewish populations. It focuses on intermarriage in Great Britain,...

Tying together almost four decades of neo-Piagetian research, Cognitive Development provides a unique critical analysis and a comparison of concepts across neo-Piagetian theories. Like Piaget, neo-Piagetian theorists take a constructivist approach to cognitive development, are broad in scope, and...

This book posits that a singular paradigm in social theory can be discovered by reconstructing the conceptual grammar of Gabriel Tarde’s micro-sociology and by understanding the ways in which Gilles Deleuze’s micro-politics and Michel Foucault’s micro-physics have engaged with it. This is articulated...

The European Union - a supranational system with its own institutional characteristics and autonomy - has a structure and functional logic which are more similar to those of the US than those of European nation states. Yet, by and large, the EU and the US tend to be analyzed more as potential geopolitical...

Dalla radio al libro. Luciano Canfora spiega l'origine della Grande Guerra come primo atto della guerra civile europea e baratro in cui precipita la centralità dell'Europa.

Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance that capoeira leaders (mestres) have in the social configuration of a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil. He analyzes how individual power is essential for an understanding...