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Past forward
This book is born from the will to undertake a joint research path on the general theme of transformation and renewal of urban contexts, deepening the case of historical Chinese and Italian cities. The research collected case studies and theoretical elaborations, focusing on the Chinese city of Shanghai and Chongqing and other Italian urban realities, filtering contents around thematic nodes such as memory, narration and reflection on new urban models. In particular, the initial idea emerged from shared reflections between Chinese and Italian scientific professors responsible for international agreements established between the Department of Architecture and the Design of Sapienza University...
The Sicilian Mafia
This book offers a completely new approach to the complex social phenomenon of the Mafia: In addition to the origins, organization and actions of the Mafia, the author Anita Bestler examines above all the close connection between organized crime and politics. In the process, readers [also] gain an interesting insight into the complicated political development of Italy from the founding of the state to the present, as well as an answer as to why Italians have a different political mindset.
Italica
"La letteratura è un documento. Questo libro ricapitola gli ultimi cent'anni attraverso le voci e gli sguardi degli scrittori e delle scrittrici che erano vivi mentre quei fatti accadevano." Si apre così questa vertiginosa raccolta in cui Giacomo Papi intreccia trenta magnifici racconti italiani con una sua personale lettura del Novecento, fatta anche di statistiche, relazioni parlamentari, articoli di giornale. Leggeremo capolavori di Natalia Ginzburg, Primo Levi, Elsa Morante, Malaparte, Fenoglio o Ortese, e intanto scopriremo quanto costava un chilo di pane nel 1958 o quanto erano alti i soldati di leva nel 1940, quante case si costruirono negli anni Cinquanta e quante donne si laurearo...
Plants Matter
Plants Matter explores how plants and people live together. This is not only a book about the importance of plants and how people use them, but it argues also that knowing the world is achieved-with plants. In addition to populating the landscape, plants alter human physiology in multiple material ways, through gatherings or through sensorial conversations using the chemistry of taste, perfume, colour, sound and textures. The chapters gathered in this volume offer a range of interdisciplinary perspectives that use ethnographic and ethnobotanical information to explore how the behaviours and capacities of certain plants around the world have enticed, excited and even seduced people to pay attention.
Translation as Criticism
Themes, places, characters and voices of Elizabeth Jolley’s Mr Scobie’s Riddle are explored in detail in this monograph, which provides different narratological and translational analyses of the novel, as well as an academic translation into Italian. Considering the challenges and issues posited by a literary work’s translation helps to shed light on the original work itself. In this manner, the translation is to be seen as a further analytical instrument to gain insight into the original novel. The purpose of this work is to obtain a deeper understanding of the complicated microcosm created by Jolley in the nursing home of “St Christopher and St Jude”: the typically Australian themes of migration, isolation, place and displacement; the Australian culture-specific elements; the ensemble of curious characters and their entertaining voices. This book strives to preserve the above elements in translation as the expression of something Other, a different culture, and to take Italian readers on a journey to the Australia depicted in Mr Scobie’s Riddle so that Jolley’s characters’ voices can echo in the Italian language.
Fashioning Submission
The behind-the-scene history of the fashion magazine Bellezza, the Italian Vogue founded in 1941, has never been submitted to scholarly attention. Its utopian function in defining a new culture of fashion and code of glamour contributed to the totalitarian project of building a 'new Italian woman'. The current volume fills this gap, using the case
The Art of Remembering
Focusing on the non-Western context and case studies, this book explores theories of interdisciplinary architectural thinking and the construction of urban memory in Chinese cities, with an emphasis on contemporary architecture and the diversity of agencies. China has undergone one of the fastest urbanisation and urban renewal processes in human history, but discussions of urban memory in China have tended to be practice-oriented and lack theoretical reflection. This book brings together interdisciplinary architectural scholarship to interrogate the production of urban memory and examine experiences in China. The 14 chapters explore different processes, projects, materials, architecture and ...
Il problema del tempo
Sono discussi significato e natura del tempo dalla filosofia greca alla scienza e all'epistemologia moderne. Dopo la domanda di apertura, ineluttabile, "Che cos'è il tempo?", quattro capitoli - rispettivamente "Dal tempo ciclico al tempo lineare", "Dal tempo religioso al tempo laico", "Dal tempo assoluto al tempo relativo", "Dal tempo filosofico al tempo naturalistico e scientifico" - ripercorrono lo sviluppo storico e l'evoluzione del concetto di tempo dall'antica Grecia al '900, mentre i successivi due capitoli, "Esperienza comune e freccia del tempo" e "Realtà e irrealtà del tempo", riportano il dibattito attuale sulla esistenza e sulla natura del tempo, a cavallo tra scienza e filosofia della scienza. Può essere letto anche come seguito dell'ebook "Il problema della longitudine".
