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Chapter Coastal Landscape and “Disappearing” Territories
(2024)
The relationship between climate and tourism is very close, and this connection is even more evident for tourism in coastal areas. The various impacts of climate change have long been obvious in many destinations. In ...
Seneca, la diatriba e la ricerca di una morale austera
(2015)
Within Seneca’s prose, using a long-codified terminology, it is possible to identify a substratum which can be defined as diatribe. This volume aims at making up for the lack of a modern ensemble work on the cynical-stoic ...
Jacqueline Risset. Scritture dell’istante
(2021)
“Born on 25th May 1936. Two specific desires: not to become an adult, and to write”. Jacqueline Risset (1936-2014) was a translator from French (Ponge, Sollers, the Tel Quel poets) and Italian (Dante, Machiavelli, Balestrini), ...
Dal Caucaso al Mar d’Azov
(2018)
This essay is republished ten years later because, on the one hand, the current geopolitical situation has radically changed compared to then. The Caucasus represents a decisive political and social link between Western ...
Chapter «L’eterno femminino che ci attira in alto accanto a sé»: celebri Veneri tra Roma e Firenze
(2024)
Rome and Florence in modern centuries competed as Italian capitals of art, and two of the most appreciated ancient sculptures cannot be excluded from this rivalry: the Venus de’ Medici, exhibited since the 17th century in ...
Chapter Il valore politico del lavoro
(2024)
This essay aims to address a topic that nowadays has fallen into disuse, following the decline of the working class: the political value of work. It shows the problems and the tendencies that might constitute elements of ...
Club drugs
(2008)
Club drugs is aimed not only at sector specialists but also at a broader public. It addresses the highly topical issue of the drugs and substances of abuse commonly used in social venues and clubs for recreational or ...
Chapter Network Analysis of Marine Litter Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems
(2024)
There is an increase in reporting of marine litter in coastal ecosystems globally, especially in recent years. A literature review was carried out to identify the primary impacts and effects its presence may have on coastal ...
Kant e l'ortodossia russa
(2017)
The diffusion of Kantian philosophy in the Russian culture was a singularly early event: even the Orthodox ecclesiastical Academies were involved in this process, despite the control exercised by the censorship in defense ...
L'Italia alla fine del Medioevo I
(2006)
This is the first of two volumes examining some “original features” of late medieval Italy compared to the European reality of the time (the second volume of this collection is curated by Federica Cengarle). On this subject, ...
Chapter Da una rivoluzione si può tornare indietro? Congedi parentali e indipendenza economica
(2024)
The paper draws on Riccardo Del Punta's paper on parental leave, published entry into force of the reform, to examine its subsequent evolution, questioning the relationship between the distribution of care responsibilities ...
Hot Topics in Pneumologia Interventistica - Volume 3
(2019)
The Master in Interventional Pulmonology aims at training a versatile pulmonologist, with professional skills in diagnostic and operative bronchoscopy, thoracoscopy and artificial respiratory tracts management with the ...
Hypothèses céliniennes
(2024)
The title of this book is not dictated by false modesty: in fact, the author aims to offer simple philological, linguistic and hermeneutical hypotheses. The subjects of these hypotheses are quite varied. They range from ...
La riforma dell'amministrazione e il sistema universitario tra semplificazione e trasparenza
(2012)
In the reform process that has characterised public administrations for years, simplification and transparency represent two innovative and important aspects for the organisational model of universities. A complex issue ...
Papiri
(2009)
The word “papyrus” indicates both the plant and the resulting material used in ancient times for writing. The volume broadly traces the botanical and ecological characteristics of the plant, with notes on its technological ...
Chapter Una rete di integrazione: il matrimonio
(2024)
The author addresses the theme of the integration of foreigners starting from marriage as a mediation tool (so far not investigated in this way) and comparing two cities that experienced intense immigration phenomena, ...
Quale federalismo per l’Italia di oggi?
(2013)
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Italian National Unity, the Faculty of Political Science “Cesare Alfieri” promoted a series of lessons on an interdisciplinary system on crucial issues of Italy’s unitary ...
Rifugiati
(2017)
The book brings to light a little-known story: the arrival in Italy of thousands of Moriscos exiles, descendants of Arab-Muslim origin, settled for centuries in the Iberian peninsula, baptized following the Christian ...
Catalogue of books printed before 1801 in the legal historical section of the Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze
(2014)
The present catalogue is the first of three volumes which record the books printed before 1801 currently held by the legal historical section of the Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali of the Università degli Studi di Firenze. ...
Teoria e ricerca sull’apprendimento del tedesco L2
(2017)
Teoria e ricerca sull’apprendimento del tedesco L2 (Theory and research on learning German L2) is a technical-scientific manual designed for German language teaching courses in the context of training courses for future ...
Reading Descartes
(2023)
This volume takes cue from the idea that the thought of no philosopher can be understood without considering it as the result of a lively dialogue with other thinkers. On this ground, it addresses the ways in which René ...
Functional validation of genetic variants identified by next generation sequencing in malformations of cortical development
(2021)
Malformations of cortical development (MCDs) result from a disruption in the process of the human brain cortex formation: currently, there are no pharmacological treatments for diffuse MCDs. Next-generation sequencing has ...
Chapter Architetture olivettiane: un itinerario da sud a nord
(2024)
Adriano‘s interest and passion for architecture and urban planning they manifest themselves both for industrial architecture, but also in the creation of residential neighborhoods for the employers of the Olivetti. The ...
Chapter The “arenas of struggle” of peasant agency in early medieval times: a theoretical and archaeological approach
(2024)
The main aim of this paper is to explore the possibilities and limits of the application of the concept of agency to tackle early medieval peasant-based societies. While this concept has achieved great success in archaeology ...
Chapter Il lavoro in momenti e figure del cristianesimo sociale della metà del XX secolo: bilancio e prospettive
(2024)
Around the middle of the twentieth century, social Christianity expresses in italian contest radical analyses of work condition, which match a trade union action, namely that of Cisl organization, that considers work as a ...
Chapter The Historic Lighthouses of the Italian Coasts
(2024)
The tall tower building with an intense light source on the top, visible far away, called a lighthouse in English, takes its name in the Romance languages of faro. The fuels used to produce lighting have progressively ...
Frammenti di massificazione: le neoavanguardie anglo-germanofone, il cut-up di Burroughs e la pop art negli anni Sessanta e Settanta
(2020)
Frammenti di massificazione: le neoavanguardie anglo-germanofone, il cut-up di Burroughs e la pop art negli anni Sessanta e Settanta analyses the influence of William Seward Burroughs’ cut-up method on British and ...
La coscienza di luogo nel recente pensiero di Giacomo Becattini
(2017)
This book was born as a “work in in progress” and collects many of the public presentations of Giacomo Becattini’s book “La cosicenza dei luoghi. Il territorio come soggetto corale” (“The Conscience of Places. The territory ...
Chapter Madre, matrigna, ‘matrona’: la Natura di Ennod. 245 V. (= carm. 1, 1 H.)
(2024)
In this paper, we intend to analyse one of the odeporic works from the corpus of Ennodius of Pavia (Ennod. 245 V. = carm. 1.1 H.) through the combined interaction of interpretative perspectives and visualisation tools. The ...
DIVERSE eppur VICINE
(2013)
In the broader scenario of social communication, the volume deals with the issue of the communication of social responsibilities: a field which, in recent years, has been offering interesting examples of how it is possible ...
Il '68 dei professori: l'Associazione nazionale docenti universitari, Giorgio Spini e la riforma dell'Università
(2018)
The archive of the Italian National Association of University Teachers sheds light on the little-known contribution a vanguard of university teachers gave to the reform process of Italian Universities, which started in ...
Traduttori e mercanti
(2025)
The cultural origins of the British Empire can be traced back to Spain’s earlier experience, which, by the second half of the 16th century, had already established a vast and structured empire in the Americas. Translations ...
Chapter The Carolingian south-eastern frontier
(2024)
Carolingian influences on the east of Istria and Carniola can be traced since the beginning of the wars against the Avars and the conflict with Byzantium. Papal undertakings in Dalmatia, regarding the revival of ecclesiastical ...
Chapter Do user comments belong to journalistic articles? A brief visual history of user interaction on selected German and American news websites 1996–2024
(2024)
The chapter reconstructs a brief history of online commenting, based on the position comments have to journalistic articles on news websites. Its key assumption is derived from paratext theory: Changes in spatial and ...
Los Auditoria de Adriano y el Athenaeum de Roma
(2015)
In 2007, during the archaeological excavations for the construction of a metro station in Piazza Venezia in Rome, two auditoriums dating back to the first half of the 2nd century AD appeared; various archaeologists identified ...
Chapter Albrecht von Haller’s Self-Reviews and Style of Reasoning
(2025)
Despite the review ethos introduced by the physician Albrecht von Haller when he took over the Göttingische gelehrte Nachrichten as chief editor in 1747, he wrote many self-reviews. This article examines von Haller’s ...
Felicità e benessere
(2015)
This volume sets the start for the Quaderni “Cesare Alfieri”, commissioned by the Council of the School of Political Sciences of the University of Florence as a scientific and editorial project aimed at involving all the ...
Chapter Lucrezio e la fisica del lavoro
(2024)
Through the analysis of book 5 of the De rerum natura, the paper reconstructs Lucretius’ explanation of the genealogy of work or labor, which is contained in his more general exposition of the history of technological ...
Voci dal mondo per Primo Levi
(2007)
Twenty years ago a unique figure in the history of our country returned dramatically to the world of the "drowned", one of the spectral "saved" who had found the strength to testify the dramas of the twentieth century: ...
Paesaggi Protetti
(2012)
The urgency for policies to plan and manage the European Mediterranean coastal landscape is now evident: along the Latin Arch exceptional landscape values are accompanied by a growing anthropic pressure that is speeding ...
Chapter Visibility analysis in wetland protection processes
(2024)
The environmental and ecosystem values of wetland are maintained through standardized methods, monitoring ecological ed ecosystems aspects like quality of water bodies, the presence or abundance of species and so on. ...
Paolo Benvenuti
(2025)
The essay analyzes Paolo Benvenuti’s cinema, revealing his poetics suspended between history, painting, and epic theater. Through in-depth interviews, unpublished and archival materials, it reconstructs the originality of ...
Chapter Educazione linguistica, potere e consapevolezza di genere
(2024)
The contribution addresses the topic of language education and the relationship with gender- appropriate representation. After an introduction on culture and language, it focuses on the necessary awareness of the speakers ...
Raccontare la guerra
(2017)
War is an event, theme, topos that induces fiction more than any other – stimulating, one might say, superego-like instances of historical fidelity – to press on its own boundaries, inhibit the space of the invention and ...
Using the Patch-Clamp technique to shed light on ion channels structure, function and pharmacology
(2013)
Ion channels are membrane proteins that selectively allow ions to flow down their electrochemical gradient across the cellular membrane. They localize in both plasma and intracellular membranes and regulate a variety of ...
Il lavoro 4.0
(2018)
The research in this volume is based on the link between the Fourth Industrial Revolution and work. On this level, there are several questions. What is the nature of work 4.0? What is the relationship between the technological ...
L'età berlusconiana
(2015)
This work reconstructs the main national events in the time span between Silvio Berlusconi's arrival on the political scene in 1994 and the start of his second government in 2001. The aim of the volume is to answer some ...
Chapter L'attività pastorale di Atto, monaco vallombrosano e vescovo di Pistoia
(2024)
The paper traces a biographical profile of Atto, a monk, major Vallombrosan abbot and bishop of Pistoia who lived during the first half of the twelfth century. On the basis of the Vitae derived from an initial narrative ...
Responsabilità penale e rischio nelle attività mediche e d'impresa (un dialogo con la giurisprudenza)
(2010)
This book presents the proceedings of the conference held in Florence on 7 and 8 May 2009 upon the conclusion of a MUIR study. The inspiration behind it can be summarised in two keywords. The first is "modernity", because ...
Chapter L’art. 2103 c.c. dopo il Jobs Act e la latitudine dell’obbligo datoriale di repêchage
(2024)
The essay analyzes the impact of the reform of art. 2103 c.c., which linked the employer’s ius variandi to the collective bargaining’s classifications, on the obligation to employ the worker in different tasks to avoid ...
Public History of Education: riflessioni, testimonianze, esperienze
(2019)
This volume represents the founding act of a proposal for training, didactic, study and research work which aims at enhancing historical knowledge in the field of education and educational professionalism. The contributions ...
Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts. EVA 2019 Florence
(2019)
The Publication is following the yearly Editions of EVA FLORENCE. The State of Art is presented regarding the Application of Technologies (in particular of digital type) to Cultural Heritage. The more recent results of the ...
Chapter The European Charter for Sustainable Tourism (ECST) as a model of best practices and participatory governance. The case study of the Asinara National Park
(2024)
The European Charter for Sustainable Tourism (ECST) represents a voluntary management tool for protected areas that promotes the implementation of sustainable tourism for both the environment and local communities, as well ...
Chapter Le relazioni di lavoro nel settore non profit: un “non-sistema”? Qualche riflessione a partire da R. Del Punta, “Diritto del lavoro e Terzo settore”. RIDL 1 (2001): 329 sgg.
(2024)
This paper aims to engage in a dialogue with R. Del Punta's essay titled 'Labour Law and the Third Sector,' published in the Italian Journal of Labour Law in 2001. Its primary objective is to verify the central thesis of ...
Il puzzle dei ceti medi
(2014)
The issue of the middle class has seen a recovery of interest in public opinion in the last decade, especially in light of the problems connected with the transition to flexible capitalism and the advent of the economic ...
Non dimenticarsi di Proust
(2014)
On the one hand le côté de Guermantes and on the other that of chez Swann... Few places like Illiers-Combray offer the tangible measure of a myth that has involved not only readers and writers, but also those who have ...
Chapter Enhancing Biodiversity Monitoring in Mediterranean MPAs: eDNA and Strategic Solutions
(2024)
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are essential for conserving marine biodiversity and ensuring the sustainability of marine ecosystems. This study examines the current management and monitoring practices within the Mediterranean ...
European-Russian Energy Relations: from Dependence to Interdependence
(2021)
Due to the exploitation of international reservoirs, natural energy sources have become rare, disputed among States and therefore strategic. The reliance on these resources is linked to energy security and dependence in ...
Realtà e memoria di una disfatta
(2010)
Realtà e memoria di una disfatta does not address either the causes of the Six Day War or the consequences that the military conflict had for Israelis and Palestinians, about which much has been written. It focuses instead ...
Paesaggi periurbani
(2012)
The clear and complete relationship that historically linked city and countryside has gradually faded more and more, up to the configuration of the current situation of urban sprawl by several parties considered unsustainable ...