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Urban and Transit Planning
This book represents a compilation of research in sustainable architecture and planning. Its main focus is offering strategies and solutions that help reducing of the negative impacts of buildings on the environment and emphasizing the suitable management of available resources. By tackling the topic of sustainability from a historical perspective and also as a vision for the future, the book in hands provides new horizons for engineers, urban planners and environmentalists interested in the optimization of resources, space development, and the ecosystem as a whole to address the complex unresolved problems our cities are facing. This book is a culmination of selected research papers from IEREK’s sixth edition of the International Conference on Urban Planning & Architectural Design for Sustainable Development (UPADSD) held online in collaboration with the University of Florence, Italy (2021) and the first edition of the International Conference on Circular Economy for Sustainable Development (CESD) held online in collaboration with the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (2021).
The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment
The articles in this volume of ARCHIMEDES examine particular cases of `reception' in ways that emphasize pressing historiographical and methodological issues. Such issues arise in any consideration of the transmission and appropriation of scientific concepts and practices that originated in the several `centers' of European learning, subsequently to appear (often in considerably altered guise) in regions at the European periphery. They discuss the transfer of new scientific ideas, the mechanisms of their introduction, and the processes of their appropriation at the periphery. The themes that frame the discussions of the complex relationship between the origination of ideas and their reception include the ways in which the ideas of the Scientific Revolution were introduced, the particularities of their expression in each place, the specific forms of resistance encountered by these new ideas, the extent to which such expression and resistance displays national characteristics, the procedures through which new ways of dealing with nature were made legitimate, and the commonalities and differences between the methods developed by scholars for handling scientific issues.
Abruzzo
A complete guide in text and images to discovering Abruzzo. English coordinated by Angela Arnone.
The Life and Writings of Julio C. Tello
The father of Peruvian archaeology, Julio Tello was the most distinguished Native American scholar ever to focus on archaeology. A Quechua speaker born in a small highland village in 1880, Tello did the impossible: he received a medical degree and convinced the Peruvian government to send him to Harvard and European universities to master archaeology and anthropology. He then returned home to shape modern Peruvian archaeology and the institutions through which it was carried out. Tello’s vision remains unique, and his work has taken on additional interest as contemporary scholars have turned their attention to the relationship among nationalism, ethnicity, and archaeology. Unfortunately, m...
Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages
The monastery of Monte Cassino, founded by St. Benedict in the sixth century, was the cradle of Western monasticism. It became one of the vital centers of culture and learning in Europe. At the height of its influence, in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, two of its abbots (including Desiderius) and one of its monks became popes, and it controlled a vast network of dependencies--churches, monasteries, villages, and farms--especially in central and southern Italy. Herbert Bloch's study, the product of forty years of research, takes as its starting point the twelfth-century bronze doors of the basilica of the abbey, the most significant relic of the medieval structure. The panels of th...
Ficção Completa
Num volume apenas a prosa ficcional de uma das mentes mais brilhantes da Humanidade. Voltaire, figura de proa do Iluminismo francês, foi um dos escritores mais prolixos do seu tempo: para além das mais de 20.000 cartas, é autor de mais de 2.000 publicações que vão da História à Filosofia, do Teatro à Poesia, do Pensamento político à polémica de qualquer ordem. mas voltaire foi igualmente autor de romances curtos, noverlas e contos e foi inovador em muitos deles. Com o célebre «Cândido» cria um romance filosófico inspirado pelo terramoto de Lisboa, em 1755. Em «Micromégas» mostra-se pioneiro da ficção-científica. Em «A princesa da Babilónia» ou em «Zadig» toma por ...
Pano, pau e pão
A escravidão de africanos na colônia portuguesa da América foi a mais volumosa e duradoura do Ocidente. Ao partir da tríade pano, pau e pão, imortalizada pelo inaciano setecentista Andreoni (Antonil), a historiadora Ana Carolina de Carvalho Viotti descortina alguns dos consensos fundamentais estabelecidos à época sobre o trato dos escravos. A escravidão parece, quando vista dos séculos XX, XXI, tão bárbara, tão brutal e cruel que custa-nos crer que se tratava, para a sociedade que se consolidou na América Portuguesa ao longo dos séculos XVI, XVII e XVIII, de uma prática familiar, estável e, sobretudo, bastante regulada. É isto que vem nos lembrar este instigante Pano, Pau e Pão: Escravos no Brasil Colônia. A escravidão, ao contrário do que frequentemente a indignação e um certo anacronismo nos levam a pensar, não é o reino do arbítrio, do imprevisível e do capricho do senhor; na verdade, a escravidão tinha regras estáveis. Este livro é uma porta de entrada para esse universo de regras e prescrições que tornou tão previsível, natural e prosaica uma forma de vida que, aos olhos contemporâneos, parece irracional, instável e quase inumana.
