In the 1970s, the city of Genoa in northern Italy was suffering the economic decline and the despondency common to industrial centers of the Western world at that time. Deindustrialization made Genoa a bleak, dangerous, angry city, where the unemployment rate rose alongside increasing political violence and crime and led to a massive population loss as residents fled to find jobs and a safer life elsewhere. But by the 1990s a revitalization was under way. Many Genoese came to believe their city was poised for a renaissance as a cultural tourism destination and again began to appreciate the sensory, aesthetic, and cultural facets of Genoa, refining practices of a cultured urbanity that had long been missing. Some of those people—educated, middle class—seeking to escape intellectual unemployment, transformed urbanity into a source of income, becoming purveyors of symbolic goods and cultural services, as walking tour guides, street antiques dealers, artisans, festival organizers, small business owners, and more, thereby burnishing Genoa's image as a city of culture and contributing to its continued revival. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, Creative Urbanity argues for an understanding of contemporary cities through an analysis of urban life that refuses the prevailing scholarly condemnation of urban lifestyles and consumption, even as it casts a fresh light on a social group often neglected by anthropologists. The creative urbanites profiled by Emanuela Guano are members of a struggling middle class who, unwilling or unable to leave Genoa, are attempting to come to terms with the loss of stable white-collar jobs that accompanied the economic and demographic crisis that began in the 1970s by finding creative ways to make do with whatever they have.
Описание: Aonia edizioni. Questo volume contiene una sintesi dell'incontro promosso dall'Universit di Sassari sulle ricerche portate avanti dai giovani ricercatori: un'occasione straordinaria di conoscenza, un bilancio e insieme una prospettiva verso il futuro. La Giornata di presentazione dei risultati della ricerca dei Giovani Ricercatori, che si svolta il 16 dicembre 2011 presso l'Aula Magna dell'Universit degli Studi di Sassari, stata a buon diritto inserita fra i principali eventi promossi in coincidenza con le celebrazioni del 450 anno dalla nascita del Collegio Gesuitico, alle origini dell'Ateneo turritano. Nel corso di due sessioni, sono state esposte le ricerche co-finanziate con fondi del POR Sardegna del Fondo Sociale Europeo 2007-2013 e sulla legge regionale n. 7 del 2007 per la promozione della ricerca scientifica e dell'innovazione tecnologica in Sardegna.
Автор: Emanuela Arezzo Название: Biotechnology and Software Patent Law ISBN: 1849800405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849800402 Издательство: Edward Elgar Publishers Цена: 26611.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The new millennium has carried several challenges for patent law. This up-to-date book provides readers with an important overview of the most critical issues patent law is still facing today at the beginning of the twenty first century, on both sides of the Atlantic.
The first English-language study of Aristotle’s natural philosophy from a continental perspective, the Feminine Symptom takes as its starting point the problem of female offspring. If form is transmitted by the male and the female provides only matter, how is a female child produced? Aristotle answers that there must be some fault or misstep in the process. This inexplicable but necessary coincidence—sumptoma in Greek—defines the feminine symptom. Departing from the standard associations of male-activity-form and female-passivity-matter, Bianchi traces the operation of chance and spontaneity throughout Aristotle’s biology, physics, cosmology, and metaphysics and argues that it is not passive but aleatory matter— unpredictable, ungovernable, and acting against nature and teleology—that he continually allies with the feminine. Aristotle’s pervasive disparagement of the female as a mild form of monstrosity thus works to shore up his polemic against the aleatory and to consolidate patriarchal teleology in the face of atomism and Empedocleanism. Bianchi concludes by connecting her analysis to recent biological and materialist political thinking, and makes the case for a new, antiessentialist politics of aleatory feminism.
Автор: Michela, Emanuela and Romina Chiappa Название: Simply Italian ISBN: 0718177053 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780718177058 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 3300.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From snacks, soups and salads, to mains, side dishes and desserts, this book brings you good, simple, fresh Italian food.
Автор: Di Gropello Emanuela, Tandon Prateek, Yusuf Shahid Название: Putting Higher Education to Work ISBN: 0821384902 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821384909 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5511.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: East Asian countries need to make the leap from middle-income to high-income countries, and higher education will be key. This report explores higher education in East Asia and the changes needed to make this happen. It focuses on how to make higher education: more responsive to the needs of the labour market; contribute to improving the innovation agenda; and more inclusive.
Автор: Emanuela, Victoria Название: My Body, My Home ISBN: 1984824678 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781984824677 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1378.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the founders of a teaching collective focused on embodiment, mental health, and healing comes an inclusive, interactive guided meditation and workbook for reclaiming and appreciating your body's resilience.My Body, My Home is an embodied, interactive guide to belonging. It is a path to self-acceptance, resilience, and healing the disconnect between body and mind. This book is for those of us who have left our bodies--those who needed to escape from our physical form in one way or another. It is a gentle reminder that you belong and a guide to connecting to yourself. With a variety of soothing meditations and prompts for reflection, this workbook focuses on the relationship between you and your body. How have you left yourself? What does it mean to feel grounded and safe? To whom, what, and where do you belong? As you reflect on your answers to these questions, write in the margins, draw what you feel, and engage with your inner child, your lineage, and your shadow self. The authors use each page to encourage self-expression with a variety of prompted exercises, from body maps and drawings to lists and Venn diagrams. Challenge the negative stories you tell yourself. Embrace the ways in which you belong. Practice patience with yourself as you grow, hurt, love, and find your home. My Body, My Home is at once a celebration and a tender reclamation of the miracle that is your body.
Описание: This book addresses a broad range of issues concerning microplastic pollution, including microplastic pollution in various environments (freshwater, marine, air and soil); impacts of microplastics on marine life; microplastics: from marine pollution to the human food chain;
Автор: Soroldon, Enrica Pagliardi, Emanuela Название: Lift the Flap: Human Body ISBN: 8854416606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788854416604 Издательство: ACC-distribution titles Рейтинг: Цена: 1843.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A voyage in discovery of the wonders of the human body, to reveal in front of the eyes of the little readers how our body moves, eats, sees, and hears. A new way of learning while having fun even thanking the scientific yet easy to understand and funny texts.
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