Publications
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L’Europa fascista
(2022)
The European Axis policy remains largely unwritten. Little is known about the factors that united or divided the Fascist regime and the Nazi Reich regarding the post-war order. Furthermore, even less is known about the ...
Il commercio librario a Bologna tra XV e XVI secolo
(2021)
Fifteenth-century Bologna is one of the major Italian cities, home to a prestigious university and thriving industrial and economic center; in these conditions, ideal for the development of the early typographic art, the ...
Corte costituzionale e “materia penale”
(2022)
The progressive affirmation of the European criminal law and the increasingly activity of the European Courts in criminal field have profoundly affected the corollaries of the principle of criminal legality, enshrined in ...
LGBTQ Tourism in Thailand in the Light of Glocalization
(2021)
For many decades, Thailand has been described as a “gay paradise” by various travel magazines and Bangkok is often referred to as the “gay capital of Asia”. However, local LGBTQ people are still facing discrimination in ...
Il futuro della scuola
(2023)
This volume presents an internship path implemented at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, as a part of the Hons. Bachelor of Science in Primary Education. The project is the result of an experiential journey closely ...
Il mondo in forma di racconto
(2025)
The volume offers a critical exploration of the potential and challenges associated with the use of narratives in geographic research, highlighting the need for a reflective and responsible approach in mediating between ...
Comunicare i fondi europei per promuovere lo sviluppo del territorio
(2021)
The volume is the result of a one-year project of research and fieldwork. It is the outcome of the “European funds – a Sustainable Future for Umbria" (ESFU) project, co-financed by the European Commission with the "Support ...
Scriver dei figli
(2021)
Starting from the end of the Middle Ages and throughout the early modern era, there was a vast diffusion of the letter form, developed in the chancelleries of European courts and among elites according to canons that blended ...
Making in the making
(2021)
During the last two decades, we have witnessed the spreading of shared spaces of work and production in different urban contexts, attracting attention from both policymakers and scholars in economic geography and urban ...
Uno sguardo sulla scuola
(2019)
The second edition of the Seminar "INVALSI data: a tool for research" was held in Florence on 17 and 18 November 2017. The event was an opportunity to meeting and networking among researchers, teachers, school managers ...
Esperienze di industrializzazione in Italia
(2025)
Small postal offices, built between the Seventies and Eighties of the twentieth century in Italian urban centres that were not provincial capitals and with a population of less than 1500 inhabitants, were the result of an ...
Designing Knit Designers
(2019)
"Traditionally associated with craftmanship and manual work, knitwear seems a quite unusual subject of investigation for scientific research. This book places it as an integrative part of the industrial design culture where ...
Engaging Spaces
(2022)
The book presents different perspectives of analysis and new models of experience, reconfirming the importance assigned to the wellbeing and human-centered approach in the contemporary spatial design disciplinary debate. ...
INVALSI data: methodologies and results
(2021)
Over the years, interest in data has always grown and, aware of their centrality, many institutions, both public and private, share their data to facilitate the work of all those who wish to use them to interpret phenomena. ...
La lunga guerra
(2020)
Historiography traditionally accepts periodization which considered the First World War as an absolute watershed in the European history as a whole. This text, through a collection of essays by Italian and foreign specialists, ...
Misurare la fragilità negli anziani
(2025)
The steady ageing of the population poses growing challenges for welfare systems, given the rising number of older individuals living with compromised health. In this context, the concept of “frailty” plays a crucial role: ...
Genere, disabilità, linguaggio
(2021)
The book illustrates and analyzes separately the relationships between language and gender and language and disability. By interlacing legal and linguistic approaches, the book aims at unraveling challenges and criticisms ...
Vita di un monumento
(2023)
"Vita di un monumento" traces the processes of transformation that engaged the so-called Nymphaeum of Egeria in the Caffarella Valley in Rome. The volume begins with the analysis of the historical, geographical, and ...
Food Security, Right to Food, Ethics of Sustainability
(2023)
Food security, understood in its broadest sense as the ‘right to food’, is a fundamental right preordained to respect for life itself. No human being can be guaranteed the right to life if, at the same time, the need for ...
La colpa e il perdono
(2024)
The book presents the results of a socio-legal research, in historical perspective, concerning the exercise of the pardon power by the Italian President of Republic. Focusing on archival records, using both quantitative ...
Truthfulness or trib-truthfulness of financial reporting? A Historical Analysis
(2025)
The book aims to analyze the issue of fiscal interference. This first volume examines the Italian situation from the 1860s to the 1960s. The analysis is carried out by comparing the articles of the Commercial Code first, ...
Idee geografiche per educare al mondo
(2020)
This book aims to contribute to the renewal of geographic education and the teaching of geography. Traditional methods of teaching geography are becoming increasingly obsolete. Hence the need to take new paths in search ...
Sanità e assistenza pubblica alla prova della pandemia
(2023)
The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of the Italian healthcare system. The pandemic not only caused the enactment of extraordinary tools that severely restricted people's freedoms to counteract ...
Tecniche per la lettura ad alta voce
(2021)
This book presents 27 operational techniques useful for making the practice of reading aloud as effective as possible in the educational structures dealing with children up to 6 years of age, by following a bottom-up ...
Digitally enhanced design
(2021)
The book explores evolving perspectives on furniture, interior, spatial and architectural design, providing a multifaceted view of how the design discipline and practice deal with the complex and ever-evolving interplay ...
Sociologia dei quartieri urbani
(2021)
The pandemic crisis has made increasingly relevant and urgent to reflect on the way our cities are organised, on an intra-urban scale. The book aims to bring to the reader's attention the theme of urban neighbourhoods, ...
Disabilità e società
(2021)
The book focuses on a well-established stream of research on disability which, both internationally and nationally, has proved fruitful in theoretical and analytical aspect, and was certainly fundamental in the process ...
Educazione e natura
(2022)
Starting from the binomial education/nature, the book explores issues relating to the broad field of outdoor education, in a choral analysis that aims to restore the plurality of approaches, choices and possible nuances. ...
La convivialità urbana nei quartieri di Milano, Bologna e Roma
(2022)
Two processes have affected cities in the last twenty years: an increase of the 'mobile' population and the digital explosion, with particular attention to digital social networks. The debate, both academic and public has ...
Cambiamento climatico e rischio
(2020)
This edited book aims to address the issues of risk and climate change in geographical education at different school levels, offering both theoretical thoughts and the proposal of teaching activities. The discussed issues ...
Alessandro Manzoni: Le sue opere nel mondo
(2025)
In The Betrothed, the great Goethe immediately recognized an example of the Weltliteratur he hoped for. Two hundred years after the conclusion of the first draft of the novel, one hundred and fifty years after the death ...
Fenomenologia del concetto di élite e network analysis come metodo di information retrieval
(2022)
According to Sartori, “Language is the sine-qua-non instrument of knowing”. Nevertheless, social sciences often adopt terms lacking clear and precise definitions. Adopting the method proposed in Sartori (1984), the present ...
Digital scholarship tra ricerca e didattica
(2019)
This volume collects the contributions presented at the conference "Digital scholarship between research and teaching. Studies, research, experiences "(Florence, 5 October 2017), which involved national and international ...
Il linguaggio dell'odio
(2021)
The book illustrates, between past and present, the impact of hate speech on actions, investigating, more precisely, the different languages that have conveyed, witnessed or sanctioned forms of hate. The book offers a ...
L’azoto, il fosforo e la chimica nuova
(2023)
This essay focuses on light and theories of combustion in the late 18th century. But it does so “on the nitrogen side”: that is, on the side of those inert three-quarters of air that do not contribute to respiration and, ...
Circular Economy in the Agrifood Sector
(2022)
The circular economy is recognised as a new economic paradigm as opposed to the traditional linear open-ended economy model based on endless exploitation of resources and prioritising profit over sustainability. Aligning ...
Rigenerazione e politiche giovanili: quale collegamento per rispondere alle attuali sfide sociali?
(2022)
The book presents a study about synergies between urban regeneration and welfare policies, created in an important municipality of Trentino (Italy), to answer the social challenges of the territory. The text reviews the ...
Dalla società plurale allo Stato delle masse
(2022)
This book represents the first monograph on the philosopher, economist and sociologist Emil Lederer (1882-1939). Director of the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik from 1922 to 1933, he was then forced to move ...
La Ricerca-Formazione
(2025)
This volume presents the work of a research group based at the Centre for Educational Research on Teacher Professional Development (CRESPI) in Italy. The research objective was to produce a model for defining indicators ...
Il dono di sé, dono per gli altri
(2024)
Blood is not trivial; it questions the most intimate representations of human nature and is at the center of our imagination as human beings. Blood donation calls into question the body's status very concretely; It is the ...
Sustainability Plan and Future Prospects of City Ports of Brindisi and Igoumenitsa
(2025)
DOCK-BI “Development Of Connections between the Key ports of Brindisi and Igoumenitsa” is an infrastructural project financed by Interreg V-A Greece-Italy Programme 2014/2020 aimed at upgrading port areas and cross-border ...
Il Rinascimento della novella
(2025)
The twenty essays collected in this volume set to explore the multifarious nature of the fifteenth and sixteenth century Italian novella from different angles. Novella texts are approached with respect to their being either ...
Identità instabili
(2019)
Rapid changes are transforming the world and some of these represent the guiding thread of this volume. Unpredictable, dramatic consequences may occur if effective measures are not put in place. Measures that can reverse ...
Vagueness Markers in Italian
(2022)
Moving from a broad socio-pragmatic perspective, this study analyses how speakers of different ages use a class of items and constructions that codify intentional vagueness in Italian.
Items as un po’ ‘a bit’, tipo ‘kind’, ...
Immaginare l’altrove nell’epoca dell’Antropocene
(2023)
This book explores the processes through which particular places take shape in the imaginaries, perceptions and narratives of people who do not inhabit them, or who have inhabited them only recently. The ways in which we ...
Informal Learning of English at University
(2025)
With English increasingly moving out of the classroom and into informal settings, studies on informal second language learning (ISLL) have supplied evidence on how prolonged exposure to informal L2 input can enhance advanced ...
INVALSI data: methodologies and results
(2020)
Over the years, interest in data has always grown and, aware of their centrality, many institutions, both public and private, share their data to facilitate the work of all those who wish to use them to interpret phenomena. ...
Il futuro della lettura ad alta voce
(2022)
This book originated from the need to review the results and methods of empirical research on reading aloud, and it proposes the translation into Italian of five studies conducted in different parts of the world. The studies ...
Città sospese fra capi e fiumare
(2023)
Every representation of the world, every drawing, every critical reflection ultimately describes ourselves; it defines us as people and as researchers. The text Cities suspended between capes and rivers collects the results ...
L'eredità di Bramante
(2021)
Bramante’s skill in controlling the creation of a seamlessly conceived space shows how architecture can exploit its representative capacity of internal perspectives, considered architecture integration. The key adopted to ...
Trame sottili
(2021)
Things – and even more so clothes and fabrics – possess a further way of being, a sort of cavity in which traces and footprints remain of those who use them, have used them or created them, have desired or chosen them. In ...
Ventisettesimo Rapporto sulle migrazioni 2021
(2022)
The ISMU annual Report on migration enters its 27th edition in 2022. Over time, the Report has become a useful reference for people working on migration, both within and outside Italy. This edition analyzes both the impact ...
Ventiseiesimo Rapporto sulle migrazioni 2020
(2021)
The 26th Report on migrations by ISMU Foundation situates migration phenomena in Italy within the broader framework of the sudden outbreak and spread of COVID-19. The report analyzes the enduring impact of the pandemic on ...
La formazione degli insegnanti della secondaria in Italia e in Germania
(2021)
From an educational-historical point of view this book analyses the cultural models that underlie the conception and organisation of secondary teacher education and the professionalisation of future secondary school teachers ...
Gli strumenti per leggere il mondo
(2020)
This book is a tool for geographic education and the teaching of geography aimed at supporting the teacher's classroom work and intended for school teachers of all levels. The training course is designed to share geography ...
Genere e spazio urbano
(2023)
This book explores the link between gender and urban space, attempting to incorporate a joyful activism into geographical research and embracing forms of ""self-awareness and self-ignorance"" (Harding 1992) to reconsider ...
Interior Design as a tool for dementia care
(2021)
This book investigates the role of interior design in the enhancement of the effectiveness of Non-Pharmacological therapies for Alzheimer’s disease care. The author presents the conceptual model for an environmental system ...
La musica classica va a scuola
(2025)
This book is the result of a research project funded by the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano and entitled Classical Music in Music Education.
It is aimed primarily at scholars of music pedagogy, primary school teachers, ...
Formazione, lavoro e tecnologia
(2021)
Technology has radically changed the way we learn and work, and this fact opens new paths to explore and investigate. Some questions that guide us in this search are: What is the relationship between training, new technologies ...
The Provide training course
(2020)
This volume describes the ideational effort required to design and implement a training-course model for "Experts in proximity violence". The Pilot project design has envisaged a framework where the concepts referring to ...
Time-Based Design Paradigms
(2022)
Associate Professor in Interior and Spatial Design at Politecnico di Milano. She has been visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing (China); Kookmin University, Seoul (South Korea); Hosei University, Tokyo (Japan) ...
L'industria culturale e creativa
(2022)
Cultural and creative industries play an important role in the processes of cultural, social and economic development of Italy. In particular, in South Italy, Campania region is characterized by a considerable creative ...
Stili alimentari e cibo biologico nelle scuole primarie
(2023)
This book brings together the results of a research focused on the quality and satisfaction on primary school canteens and, above all, on the impact they have on the eating habits of the children in Rimini and also their ...
Design Research in the Digital Era
(2020)
This book proposes an overview of the researches initiated in 2015 in the Design PhD programme of Politecnico di Milano. All of them explore the implications of the ongoing digital transformations, from the specific ...
Il De modo audiendi confessiones di Heinrich Lur e la penitenza sacramentale nel basso medioevo
(2022)
Since the central centuries of the Middle Ages the sacrament of penance became one of the central aspects of religious life and Christian practice. To help the clergy tasked with pastoral care in listening penitents’ ...
Il saccheggio nazista dell'arte europea
(2022)
Throughout World War II, it is estimated that up to 20% of all of Europe’s art became the object of numerous forms of looting by the Nazi regime. Despite the Allies’ significant efforts to recover and return such artworks, ...
Proximity Violence in Migration Times
(2019)
"This volume, edited by Ignazia Bartholini, principal investigator of the PROVIDE - Proximity on Violence: Defence and Equity project (Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme - 2014-2020) funded by the EU, shifted the ...
Professione insegnante
(2019)
Nowadays, what's the idea of professionalism for the teacher? And how is it possible to promote the professional development of teachers in the changing school? This volume offers a significant cross-section with the ...
Green Infrastructure and Regional Planning: An Operational Framework
(2022)
Identifying and planning green infrastructures at the regional scale can be considered an intentional way of spreading the positive impacts of environmental conservation policies across spatial contexts much more complex ...
“Appena vinco smetto!”
(2025)
Women’s gambling remains largely under the radar and often escapes research findings. It shows characteristics that do not fully overlap with the trajectories of male gamblers. Beyond the biomedical approach, which generally ...