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  • Multidisciplinary Aspects of Design

    Objects, Processes, Experiences and Narratives

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book gathers the contributions from the Design! OPEN International Conference, held in Parma, Italy in May 2022. The conference explored the multidisciplinary aspects of design starting from its dimensions: objects (design as focused on the object, on its functional and symbolic dimension, and at the same time on the object as a tool for representing cultures), processes (the ... Read more

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  • Italy–Portugal on the Margins: Intersections of Architecture, Urban Design, and Art

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume gathers different disciplinary, methodological and thematic perspectives on architecture understood as a cultural, critical and design practice. Through an articulated dialogue between history and contemporaneity, theory and practice, design and teaching, the essays collected here explore the role of architecture as an instrument for interpreting reality and as a device capable of ... Read more

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  • Demand the Impossible

    Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination

    Series Book 14 - Ralahine Utopian Studies
    Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970s. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R. Delany as indicative texts in the intertext of utopian science fiction, Tom Moylan originated the concept of the «critical utopia» as both a periodizing and conceptual tool for capturing the creative ... Read more

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  • Making Democracy Work

    Civic Traditions in Modern Italy

    Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for ... Read more

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  • Advances in Neural Data Science

    Data Research Camp 2022, Venice, Italy, July 12–15

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This proceeding volume will contain a collection of peer-reviewed articles arising from the Data Research Camp 2022. The workshop took place on July 12–15, 2022, at the Venice International University, in the venetian island of San Servolo. The Data Research Camp has been a stimulating experience bringing together 28 early-career researchers in statistics and seven international professors with ... Read more

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  • Raffaella Carrà and the Media

    Stardom, Performance, and Gender in Post-1968 Italy and Beyond

    Series series Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies
    Raffaella Carrà and the Media offers a comprehensive critical study of “the queen of Italian television,” whose five-decade career transformed Italian popular culture and resonated internationally.Drawing on cultural studies, gender studies, and television studies, the book situates Carrà’s stardom as a challenge to traditional Catholic-influenced social norms. It demonstrates how her originality ... Read more

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  • From a Distance

    A Novel

    In April 1946 Michael returns from war and finds he cannot face the life that awaits him at home. Impulsively he leaps on a train to the western tip of Cornwall, and in doing so changes his destiny. He finds himself in a bohemian colony of artists gathered on the Cornish coast, and his fate is shaped by his heart, his new environment, and the fragmented Britain to which he has returned.More than ... Read more

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  • Leaving Traces

    Passing on gestures and words has something magical about it. Leaving a trace of love of your passage manifests the desire to be there forever in the life of those you love.A story of feelings and abandonment that leave indelible marks, the story of that healing energy that arises from within the darkness to reveal the light."Traces of passage" is the growth journey of those who explore the dark ... Read more

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  • Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

    Myths and Realities

    Virtual and Augmented Reality have existed for a long time but were stuck to the research world or to some large manufacturing companies. With the appearance of low-cost devices, it is expected a number of new applications, including for the general audience. This book aims at making a statement about those novelties as well as distinguishing them from the complexes challenges they raise by ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Cultivation

    Recovering the Roots of Landscape Architecture

    By seeking to rediscover the profession's agricultural roots, this volume proposes a 21st-century shift in thinking about landscape architecture that is no longer driven by binary oppositions, such as urban and rural; past and present; aesthetics and ecology; beautiful and productive, but rather prioritizes a holistic and cross-disciplinary framing.The illustrated collection of essays written by ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Research on Trends and Issues in Crime Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Victim Support

    A complex and vulnerable contemporary society continually poses new challenges in terms of social conflict, and as crime advances, so must strategies for prevention and rehabilitation. Many facets of crime prevention and rehabilitation of offenders are public activities closely linked to other aspects of the political and social life of a region. The Handbook of Research on Trends and Issues in ... Read more

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  • Foreign Trends in American Gardens

    A History of Exchange, Adaptation, and Reception

    Foreign Trends in American Gardens addresses the influence of foreign, designed landscapes on the development of their American counterparts. Including essays from an array of significant scholars in landscape studies, this collection examines topics ranging from the importation of Western and Eastern styles of design and theoretical literature to the adaptation of specific plant types. As the ... Read more

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