Provided with a remarkable collection, Mercure de France follows an exacting editorial policy: French and foreign literature, poetry, history, anthologies... Awarded many times, the publishing house is associated with prestigious names: Romain Gary, Colette, Ionesco , André Gide, André du Bouchet, Henri Michaux, Adonis, Yves Bonnefoy, Andréï Makine, Gilles Leroy, Anne Serre, Gwenaëlle Aubry, Julian Barnes...
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mikrotext is a publisher for texts with attitude and for new narratives, founded in 2013 in Berlin by Nikola Richter The independent publishing house focusses on new literary texts that comment on contemporary questions and allow insights into tomorrow. The texts are inspired by discussions on social media platformes and reflect today’s global debates. All titles are published digital first. A selection is available in English. In 2020 and 2019, mikrotext was awarded the German Publisher Award by the Federal Ministry of Culture and Media.
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Local-level pilgrimages, when based on strong expressions of faith, can have a much wider local, regional and international appeal. It has been estimated that pilgrims and religious tourists number around 330 million per year, meaning development of these faith identities can help drive destination visitation and regional development. This book explores the central role of ordinary people in the popularisation of faith-based practices, thus illustrating religious tourism as an expression of cultural identity. Focusing on the interrelationship of cultural groups and the overall formation of culture and society, this book: - Uses a range of multidisciplinary, sociological and ethnographic studies to illustrate the evolution of pilgrimage sites and saints. - Includes practical case studies and illustrations of religious tourism and pilgrimage development from a variety of international perspectives. - Provides a selection of discussion questions for each chapter, encouraging readers to engage with further study and investigation of these important issues. An invaluable review of cultural identity and faith, this book delivers to scholars, students and local policy makers a collection of current perspectives on the growth, development and evolution of faith practices surrounding contemporary and historical sites and saints.
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The European or Mediterranean cultivated olive (Olea europaea L., subsp. europaea, var. europaea) is one of the most ancient cultivated fruit tree crops. Today, hundreds of olive varieties are grown to produce high-quality fruit for oil and for table olives consumption. The olive industry has undergone profound innovations in the past 30 years, due to scientific and technical advances, particularly in genomics, breeding, orchard management, mechanization and agro-ecology, although not all these developments are yet available to smaller producers. Olive cultivation has also spread to many countries outside the Mediterranean Basin, where it ihas been traditionally present for over 6,000 years. These new olive-growing countries are experiencing further expansion of the industry, due to increased awareness of the nutritional and health properties of extra virgin olive oil. This book is a much-needed update on olive biology and cultivation, with contributions from leading international experts, and includes: Biology Genetics and breeding Olive propagation and nursery Planting new olive orchards Horticultural management of olive orchards Plant protection Olive by-products (wood, leaves) Multifunctionality of olive groves and ecosystem services The Olive: Botany and Production is invaluable for researchers and students in horticulture and agriculture, as well as producers involved in olive orchard management.
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Invasive alien plants and animals are known for their disruption of ecosystems and threat to biodiversity. This book highlights their major impact on human health. This includes not only direct effects through contact with the species via bites, wounds and disease, but also indirect effects caused by changes induced in ecosystems by invasive species, such as more water hyacinth increasing mosquito levels and thereby the potential for malaria. Covering a wide range of case studies from different taxa (animals and plants), and giving an overview of the diverse impacts of invasive species on health in developed and developing countries, the book is a significant contribution that will help in prioritizing approaches to controlling invasive species and mitigating their health effects. It covers invasive plants, marine species, spiders and other arachnids, ticks and dust mites, insects, mosquitos and other diptera, freshwater species (invertebrates and fishes), amphibians and reptiles, birds and mammals. Key Features Collects together the major health impacts for the first time Covers animal and plant invasive species Examines issues in developed and developing countries The broad spectrum of the analyzed case studies will ensure the appeal of the book to a wide public, including researchers of biological invasions, doctors, policy-makers and managers, and students of invasive species in ecology, animal and plant biology and public health medicine.
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The theme of diversity and acceptance in the metaphor of love between a mother and her cumbersome child.When he was born he was small like everyone else. Then he grew up and became a colossus. A colossus is a problem and nobody wants to have any problems. An album to tell how to be too big, or just different, can be a problem, and nobodywants problems. But for mothers, no child is a problem and perhaps there is a placewhere they aren’t giants. An album about the acceptance and love of mothers, and countries that know how to open their doors.
Thoughtful, provocative, and important. Go East, Young Man is definitely a valuable contribution to scholarship on the American West, as well as to the fields of historical geography and popular culture. It has the potential to become a very important book. —David M. Wrobel, author of Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of theAmerican West Transference of Oriental images and identities to the American landscape and its inhabitants, especially in the West—in other words, portrayal of the West as the "Orient"—has been a common aspect of American cultural history. Place names offer notable examples—think of the Jordan River or Pyramid Lake—but the imagery and its varied meanings are more widespread and significant. Understanding that range and significance, especially to the western part of the continent, means coming to terms with the complicated, nuanced ideas of the Orient and of the North American continent that European Americans brought to the West. Such complexity is what historical geographer Richard Francaviglia unravels in this book.Since the publication of Edward Said's book Orientalism, the term has come to signify something one-dimensionally negative. In essence, the Orientalist vision was an ethnocentric characterization of the peoples of Asia (and Africa and the "Near East") as exotic, primitive "others" subject to conquest by the nations of Europe. That now well-established point, which expresses a postcolonial perspective, is critical, but Francaviglia suggests that it overlooks much variation and complexity in the views of historical actors and writers, many of whom thought of western places in terms of an idealized and romanticized Orient. It neglects positive images and interpretations to focus on those of a decadent and ostensibly inferior East.We cannot understand well or fully what the pervasive Orientalism found in western cultural history meant, Francaviglia contends, if we focus only on its role as an intellectual engine for European imperialism. It did play that role as well in the American West. One only need think about characterizations of American Indians as Bedouins of the Plains destined for displacement by a settled frontier. Other roles for Orientalism, though, from romantic to commercial ones, were also widely in play. In Go East, Young Man, Francaviglia explores a broad range of Orientalist images deployed in the context of European settlement of the American West, and he unfolds their multiple significances.
“I go so hard uphill to shorten my agony”. This is how Marco Pantani tried to explain the meaning of what he did: the vertigo of the climb. When the Pirata sprinted, Italy stopped. His sprints had become a sort of mass orgiastic ritual. The bandana was off, the head down, the hands on the handlebars in the sprint position, the grimace of pain that looked like a bitter smile. In the climb, ever since cycling was born - in this extraordinarily close to mountaineering - there is the highest moment of a sport that speaks with sweat, muscles and heart as well as wheels and pedals. An absurd claim to try to conquer the climbs. A challenge to one's own limits and to fatigue, which for a strange alchemy, physical but also inner, is transformed into elation and intimate joy only on arrival. At the top. Where the infinitely small becomes everything.
This volume provides the first extensive assessment of the impact of Aristotelianism on the history of philosophy from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century. The contributors have considered Aristotelian issues in late scholastic, Renaissance, and early modern philosophers such as Vernia, Nifo, Barbaro, Cajetan, Piccolomini, Patrizzi, Zabarella, Campanella, Galileo, Sémery, Leibniz, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Gadamer. Specific attention is given to the role of the five intellectual virtues set forth by Aristotle in book VI of the Nicomachean Ethics, namely art, prudence, science, wisdom, and intellect.
THE LOOK OF LOVE The personal journey of a man in search of his identity and his memory, lost due to a car accident. At the same time a search for universal love in a world that seems to have lost sight of it, but which still exists despite everything
The Illustrators Survival Guide is back in an extended version with a new chapter dedicated to editorial illustration and an expansion on the theme of the portfolio, and tries to give an answer to the many "How do you do that?" in creative, design and market management. How to make a cover, how to contact an art director, how to use social media for self-promotion. With texts by Ivan Canu (director Mimaster Illustrazione) and Giacomo Benelli (educational coordinator Mimaster Illustrazione) and tips from internationally renowned art directors, publishers and illustrators such as Matt Dorfman, Emiliano Ponzi, Riccardo Vecchio, Noma Bar, Katsumi Komagata, Beatrice Alemagna, The Illustrators Survival Guide is the first in a series of books dedicated to the publishing professions, in collaboration with Fondazione Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori.
With approximately 5.4 million deaths annually, tobacco smoking is the leading noninfectious cause of premature mortality in the world. This book of 20 chapters from international experts comprehensively explores smoking-related health issues. The editors have paid special attention to the structure and content of Advances in Smoking Cessation so that only truly ground-breaking yet practical aspects of the topic would be dissected out to offer the reader a terrific learning experience.
The story of the mountaineering association Ragni di Lecco (the “spiders” of Lecco) from the Forties to our present day, with documents and eyewitness accounts on their accomplishments all around the world, from America to Patagonia. “Ragni di Lecco” is the oldest and most prestigious rock-climbing group in Italy. Its famed red jersey with its badge featuring a six-legged spider is linked to the most challenging ascents in the world – from Alpine peaks to the wuthering heights of Patagonia to the mindboggling altitudes of the Himalaya. Its famed bearers include Riccardo Cassin, Carlo Mauri, Casimiro Ferrari, along with many others who have left an indelible mark on the history of mountain climbing and daring deeds. This illustrated volume recounts the intertwined stories of brotherhood, love for the mountains and historical exploits, beginning with the first generation of “spiders”, who in 1946 sought to take back the youth they had been denied by the horrors of the World War, and following their footsteps from the local peaks of Grigna to the historical ascent of the Western face of Cerro Torre in 1974. And the tale continues today, with the adventures of a new generation of top climbers, like Matteo Della Bordella, adding their own chapters to the history of the association and keeping alive a love of adventure with a dash of romanticism.
Asthma is a common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways that has received significant attention in recent years and around which there has developed a substantial literature. This fifteen-chapter book represents a significant enhancement to that knowledge base. The Editors have brought together international experts to create a well rounded collection of articles addressing the main issues relating to the disease, its management and the current guidelines available. Moreover, they have ensured that the key practical aspects of the topic are dissected out in order to provide a great learning experience for the reader. As such, this work constitutes a highly educational volume that resonates with the future directions for asthma management.
PROVIDENCE - NEONOMICON Alan Moore’s revolutionary view takes the concept of super-heroes and comic-books to a whole new level, to the universal language of Art. Two chilling tales of Lovecraftian horror with beautiful art by Jacen Burrows. PROVIDENCE, 3 volumes NEONOMICON 1 volume PANINI COMICS ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVELS A line of cutting-edge original titles from acclaimed Italian and international artists. Explore a universe of thrilling stories and amazing art that will leave you breathless. LOON by Giulia Zucca (1 volume) BOB 84 by Vincenzo Filosa, Paolo Bacilieri (1 volume) DHAKAJAAR by Matteo Casali, Federica Croci (3 volumes) SAETTA ROSSA (THE BOLT) by Marco B. Bucci, Riccardo Atzeni (1 volume) BOBBY SOMBRERO by Gianni Barbieri, Cristian “Cinci” Canfailla (1 volume) PETER’S SHOP by Bruno Enna, Maria Claudia Di Genova, Andrea Greppi (1 volume) GLI UOMINI DELLA SETTIMANA (Men Of The Week) by Alessandro Bilotta, Sergio Ponchione (3 volumes) Il Grosso by Daniele Daccò, Veronica Ciancarini (1 volume) MERCY by Mirka Andolfo (3 volumes) UNNATURAL by Mirka Andolfo (vol. 1-3), Mirka Andolfo and Ivan Bigarella (vol. 4-5) NOMEN OMEN/ARCADIA by Marco B. Bucci, Jacopo Camagni (2 seasons, 3 volumes each) F***ING SAKURA by Giulio Macaione (2 volumes) L’UOMO DELLE VALIGIE (Man of the Suitcases) by Marco Nucci, Lorenzo Zaghi (1 volume) SPACE OPERA by Jacopo Paliaga, Eleonora Bruni (4 volumes) CINQUE ALLEGRI RAGAZZI MORTI (Five Merry Dead Boys) by Davide Toffolo (3 volumes) CTRL-Z by Alessandra ‘Alyah’ Patanè (4 volumes) DJUNGLE by Tommaso Vitiello, Marco Itri (1 volume) LIFE ZERO by Stefano Vietti, Marco Checchetto (1 volume) SOMNIA by Liza E. Anzen, Federica Di Meo (2 series of 4 volumes each) UN’ESTATE ITALIANA (An Italian Summer) by Enrico Brizzi, Denis Medri (1 volume) GURT by Isaak Friedl, Oscarito (3 volumes) LILLI LA BIMBA UNICORNO (Lilli, the Unicorn Girl) by Alice Del Giudice (1 volume)
At the center of the story is the Marina, the epicenter of the divers’ explorations and the family that founded it. Ettore is the youngest in the family. His dream of becoming a diver, like his father and grandfather, is cruelly destroyed by Amedeo Limonta, an unscrupulous businessman, who builds a fashionable seaside resort right next to the Marina, sending it bankrupt. Ettore’s family is forced to move to the city, far from the sea. But what Amedeo Limonta really wants to do is to capture the Pearl, the soul of the sea, and then sell it for a fortune. Ettore is the one who finds it, though, on his eighth birthday. But the Pearl belongs to the sea, which is where it must return. So begins Ettore’s mission to put all the elements back into their natural order. Illustrated by Iacopo Bruno
