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  • Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design

    Approaches to Time-People-Place Responsive Urban Spaces

    Edited by Kevin Thwaites, Sergio Porta, Ombretta Romice, Mark Greaves ...
    What can architects, landscape architects and urban designers do to make urban open spaces, streets and squares, more responsive, lively and safe?Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design answers this question by providing the analytical tools and practical methodologies that can be employed for sustainable solutions to the design and management of urban environments. The book calls into ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • COVID-19 in Clinical Practice

    Lessons Learned and Future Perspectives

    Edited by Flavio Tangianu, Ombretta Para, Fabio Capello ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book assesses the main features of COVID-19 from a clinical point of view, based on observations made during the disease epidemic in Northern Italy, one of the most affected areas in the world (the region has been the epicenter of the global pandemic for more than a month), and the first region outside China facing overwhelming numbers of cases. With no practical guidelines in place, Italian ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Urban Resilience for Risk and Adaptation Governance

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Grazia Brunetta, Ombretta Caldarice, Nicola Tollin, Marti Rosas-Casals, Jordi Morató ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book brings together a series of theory and practice essays on risk management and adaptation in urban contexts within a resilient and multidimensional perspective. The book proposes a transversal approach with regard to the role of spatial planning in promoting and fostering risk management as well as institutions’ challenges for governing risk, particularly in relation to new forms of multi ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD

  • Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good

    Third International Conference, GOODTECHS 2017, Pisa, Italy, November 29-30, 2017, Proceedings

    Edited by Barbara Guidi, Laura Ricci, Carlos Calafate, Ombretta Gaggi, Johann Marquez-Barja ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, GOODTECHS 2017, held in Pisa, Italy, November 29-30, 2017.The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers reflect the design, implementation, deployment, operation and evaluation of smart objects and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good

    Second International Conference, GOODTECHS 2016, Venice, Italy, November 30 – December 1, 2016, Proceedings

    Edited by Ombretta Gaggi, Pietro Manzoni, Claudio Palazzi, Armir Bujari, Johann M. Marquez-Barja ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second EAI international Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, GOODTECHS 2016, held in Venice, Italy, November 30 – December 1, 2016.The 38 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers reflect the design, implementation, deployment, operation and evaluation of smart objects and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Grazia Deledda's Painterly Aesthetic

    by Angela Guiso, Virginia A. Picchietti, Giuliana Altea, Clara Incani Carta, Marella Feltrin-Morris, Ombretta Frau, Stefania Lucamante, Dino Manca, Tania Manca0, Igino Panzino1, Maria Novella Mercuri2 ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
    Central to Grazia Deledda's narrative worlds are the relationships between her characters and the vast landscapes in which they move and act. The writer translates and represents her characters, her characters' emotions, and her natural and urban landscapes with a vocabulary that is often related to the visual arts. However, although her descriptions contain the gradations of Modernist painting, ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Masterplanning for Change

    Designing the Resilient City

    by Ombretta Romice, Sergio Porta, Alessandra Feliciotti ...
    Cities are under increased pressure to be resilient and resistant to the effects of climate change and rapid urbanisation. However, this idea has still not been fully integrated in to practice. This book presents a practical approach to masterplanning the city and its areas (existing and new) as urban environments for the 21st century, addressing the design of cities as complex adaptive systems. ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Reconsidering Welfare Policies in Times of Crisis

    Perspectives for European Cities

    by Ombretta Caldarice ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers a European perspective on spatial planning and welfare policies in relation to the new conditions derived from the current urban crisis. The book deals with research and policy issues stemming from the fact that in the last ten years European cities have been affected by a structural crisis, not only financial but also a social, environmental and spatial, leading to an economic ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Gender and Organized Crime in Italy

    Women's Agency in Italian Mafias

    by Ombretta Ingrascì ...
    In this comprehensive study of the role of women in the Italian mafia, Ombretta Ingrasci assesses the roles and spaces of women within traditionally male, patriarchal organized crime units. The study draws on an extensive range of research, legal reports and interviews with women involved with the mafia, public officials and police. Placed within a framework of political, social, cultural and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Annie Chartres Vivanti

    Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture

    by Sabrina Cavallucci, Sara Ceroni, Chiara Chini, Ombretta Frau, Cristina Gragnani, Filippo Fonio, Ursula Fanning, Marianna Deganutti, Julie Dashwood, Noemi Crain-Merz, Stephen Gundle, Mariarosa Mettifogo, Enrico Minardi, Giulia Pezzuolo, Lisa Sarti, Simona Storchi, Anne Urbancic ...
    This book explores the work of a writer, Annie Chartres Vivanti (1866–1942), whobrought a transnational dimension to the marked provincialism of the Italian novel byaddressing issues of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality on personal and internationallevels, and by creating work that distanced itself from much of the female-penned literature ofthe day, scorning both decorum and social respectability. ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • The Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750–1890

    Readers and Spectators of Italian Culture

    by Roberto Risso, Cristina Gragnani, Katharine Mitchell, Fabio Camilletti, Adriana Chemello, Maria Grazia Lolla, Federico Casari, Martina Piperno, Giacomo Mannironi, Fabio Finotti, Giulia Brian, Ombretta Frau, Paola Giuli, Olivia Santovetti ...
    Series series
    The late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries witness significant advancement in the production and, crucially, the consumption of culture in Italy. During the long process towards and beyond Italy becoming a nation-state in 1861, new modes of writing and performing – the novel, the self-help manual, theatrical improvisation – develop in response to new practices and technologies of production ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

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  • History of the Mafia

    by Salvatore Lupo ...
    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones-iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence. Yet these sensational depictions take us only so far. The true story of the Mafia reveals both an organization and mindset dedicated to the preservation of tradition. It is no accident that the rise of the Mafia coincided with ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD