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“Ognuno ricorda le cose alla sua maniera, ognuno un po’ se la racconta. Le biografie sono tutte false. Io sono stato franco. Con questo libro di dichiarazioni forse si capirà di più la mia versione. La versione di Vasco.” V.R.

This book describes the inventions and designs of ancient engineers who are the precursors of the present. The period ranges mainly from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with several exceptions. Many of the oldest inventions are documented by archaeological finds, often very little known, mainly from Pompeii,...

Reconfiguring Slavery focuses on the range of trajectories followed by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the nineteenth century. It also considers the continuing and multi-faceted strategies that descendants of both owners and slaves have developed to make what use they can...

This paper analyzes the Mahdist Revolution in the Sudan from 1881 to 1885. Mohammed Ahmed bin Abdallah proclaimed himself the Mahdi (the expected one or the deliverer in the Islamic faith) and fought the colonial Egyptian government of the Sudan and the British. Britain was drawn into the conflict...

She shouldn't have gone alone.  She thought she could handle New York. She was dead wrong.

This book presents an overview of new approaches to the study of social movements emerging out of Latin America, based on original and innovative analyses of the recent changes in collective action across the region. Over the past decade, new repertoires of contention have emerged in parallel to changes...

Quale migliore alleato delle fiabe per coinvolgere i bambini? E se poi i protagonisti sono i loro amici animali… il gioco è fatto! Questo libro propone una ricchissima serie di giochi ispirati agli animali. Da fare facilmente anche a casa o a scuola e non solo pensati per divertire, ma anche utili...

1632: i censori del Sant'Uffizio concedono l'imprimatur e passa alle stampe a Firenze la sistematica, minuziosa, implacabile distruzione della tradizionale visione del cosmo. Non è infatti solo una raccolta di teorie quel Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo. C'è chi dice, in quegli anni,...

English insurance came into being almost entirely during the Elizabethan period. However, the Great Fire of 1666 consumed most of London's mercantile document, and therefore little is known about early English insurance. Using new archival material, this study provides the first in-depth analysis...

La rivista si è sempre posta sul mercato come un osservatorio sullo sviluppo delle Arti Terapie, sulle loro applicazioni in vari contesti socio-sanitario e di formazione, e come punto d’incontro fra professionisti che operano nel settore e nei settori alle stesse correlati nonché fra esperiti...

In recent years historical studies on adoption and fosterage have greatly advanced, very likely due to the importance that such practices have acquired in our own societies. Also in the past – not only during Roman or Late Antique periods, but throughout the Middle Ages and the Modern Era as well...

Siamo nel 3000, in un modo sconvolto, dove per riuscire a gestire le popolazioni e le nascite, e vietato fare l'amore in modo tradizionale. Solo la sodomia è autorizzata ma anche questo rapporto è gestito dal potere. Un potere tiranno che usa la religione per soggiogare le persone. Aaron, il protagonista...

The most accurate and comprehensive picture of homelessness to date, this study offers a powerful explanation of its causes, proposes short- and long-term solutions, and documents the striking contrasts between the homeless of the 1950s and 1960s and the contemporary homeless population, which is younger and contains more women, children, and blacks.

This book is a fascinating case study that illustrates the use of multiple levels of consciousness and meaning to access and therapeutically reframe traumatic memories that were the source of very severe phobias and depression. A rare record of Erickson's pioneering genius in facilitating the evolution of new patterns of consciousness and identity in a patient.