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Alive on the Andrea Doria!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

Alive on the Andrea Doria!

One half-century later, the catastrophic ramming of the MS Stockholm into the Italian luxury liner the SS Andrea Doria in 1956 is relived in this candid, heartrending account. Author Pierette Domenica Simpson, who, with her grandparents, survived the tragedy off the shoals of Nantucket, shares the human and technical aspects of what has become known as the greatest sea rescue in history. As only an eyewitness can do, the author presents survivors' recollections in dramatic vignettes that meticulously re-create a horrific event-one that could have been another Titanic. Both poor immigrants and wealthy travelers give their accounts of ultimate despair and infinite elation after staring at their own reflections in the black ocean that night and seeing death stare back. Equally dramatic are the revelations of new facts exposed by nautical experts from two continents facts that solve the "mystery" of who was to blame for this most improbable collision between two ships on the open seas.

J-Reading n. 1-2013
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

J-Reading n. 1-2013

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J-Reading 1-2016
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 126

J-Reading 1-2016

Silvia Aru, Fabio Parascandolo, Marcello Tanca, Luca Vargiu ForewordFabio Parascandolo Crisis of landscapes, landscapes of the crisis: notes for a socio-ecological approachAnna Maria Colavitti The crisis of the landscape, the crisis of the norms for the landscape, the planning of the landscape between uncertainty and second thoughts. A few basic issuesBenedetta Castiglioni “Institutional” vs “everyday” landscape as conflicting concepts in opinions and practices. Reflections and perspectives from a case study in Northeastern ItalyPaolo D’Angelo Agriculture and landscape. From cultivated fields to the wilderness, and backSilvia Aru The smart city: urban landscapes in the current crisisFederica Pau Sardinian rebirth landscapes. An aesthetician’s outlookMarcello Tanca Cagliari’s urban landscape: a commons?Serge Latouche Degrowth as a territorial-landscape project

The Cultures of Italian Migration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

The Cultures of Italian Migration

The Cultures of Italian Migration allows the adjective "Italian" to qualify people's movements along diverse trajectories and temporal dimensions. Discussions on migrations to and from Italy meet in that discursive space where critical concepts like"home," "identity," "subjectivity," and "otherness" eschew stereotyping. This volume demonstrates that interpretations of old migrations are necessary in order to talk about contemporary Italy. New migrations trace new non linear paths in the definitionof a multicultural Italy whose roots are unmistakably present throughout the centuries. Some of these essays concentrate on topics that are historically long-term, such as emigration from Italy to the Americas and southern Pacific Ocean. Others focus on the more contemporary phenomena of immigration to Italy from other parts of the world, including Africa. This collection ultimately offers an invitation to seek out new and different modes of analyzing the migratory act.

Rivista J-Reading n. 2-2014
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 114

Rivista J-Reading n. 2-2014

Gino De Vecchis The fight for geography in the italian schools (2010-2014): an updating Cristiano Pesaresi, Mara Lombardi GIS4RISKS project. Synergic use of GIS applications for analysing volcanic and seismic risks in the pre and post event Roberto Scandone, Lisetta Giacomelli Vesuvius, Pompei, Herculaneum: a lesson in natural history Matteo Puttilli Towards a multimedia approach in geographical research and education. Reflections from the web-research “Al centro di Tunisi – Au centre de Tunis” Simone Betti, Alessandro Ceccarelli Is family farming educational? The Australian experience THE LANGUAGE OF IMAGES (Edited by Elisa Bignante and Marco Maggioli) Rickie Sanders, Bogdan Jankowski Exploring Urban Geography in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities MAPPING SOCIETIES (Edited by Edoardo Boria) Russell Foster “Now we need to make Italians”. Semiotics and Semantics in Teaching Cartography GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND (PRACTICAL) CONSIDERATIONS Maria Paradiso Between Krakow 2014 and Moscow 2015 TEACHINGS FROM THE PAST Halford Mackinder Geography as a Pivotal Subject in Education with comments by Davide Papotti Re-reading Geography as a Pivotal Subject in Education by H. Mackinder

A Geographical Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

A Geographical Century

This volume of specially commissioned interpretative essays marks the centenary of the establishment of the International Geographical Union in 1922. Written by leading human and physical geographers from all parts of the world, A Geographical Century considers the history and present condition of geography as an international science. Based on the latest research, A Geographical Century provides new and critical analyses of the different forms of geographical internationalism that emerged during the 20th century; the changing relations between geography and cognate disciplines in the natural and social sciences; the geopolitics of international geographical collaboration; and the prospects of geography as a 21st century international science.

Marco Polo Was in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 676

Marco Polo Was in China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-11-21
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In Marco Polo was in China Hans Ulrich Vogel undertakes a thorough study of Yuan currencies, salts and revenues, by comparing Marco Polo manuscripts with Chinese sources and thus offering new evidence for the Venetian’s stay in Khubilai Khan’s empire.

Changes of Geographical Environment and Those of the Socio-economic Phenomena
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Changes of Geographical Environment and Those of the Socio-economic Phenomena

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

The "numbers" of Molise mountain municipalities (Italy)

This research focusses attention on the social-demographic, agricultural and tourist aspects of the 29 municipalities of the Molise Region, in order to provide new elements and details in a distributive and diachronic analysis and underline the link between new data and old problems which require collective actions to reach common purposes and to enhance the local resources according to the different vocations. After the examination of numerous statistical data which are also represented through GIS elaborations, quality of products and processes, multi-functional and inter-sectorial relationships, fast and slow scenarios, new or renewed forms of tourism accommodation, internet and tourist s...

Sistema Terra
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 86

Sistema Terra

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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