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This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and
applications in the field of sustainable and smart agriculture, as
presented by leading researchers at the XI Farm Machinery and
Processes Management in Sustainable Agriculture (FMPMSA), held in
Bari, Italy on June 13-15, 2022. The volume covers highly diverse
topics, including: management of field and livestock production
machinery; management of biomass and agroenergy production; plant
protection, soil management and agrochemicals application; smart
farming and sustainability; ergonomic, labour organization,
pandemic impact; sustainable agriculture in the European Union and
other countries. The papers, which are published after a rigorous
international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting
ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster
multidisciplinary collaboration among different specialists.
In the last few years, the boom in biobanking has prompted a lively
debate on a host of interrelated legal issues, such as the Gordian
knot of the ownership of biological materials, as well as privacy
concerns. The latter are due to the difficulty of accepting that
biological samples must be completely anonymous without making it
practically impossible to exploit their information potential. The
issues also include the delicate role and the changing content of
the donor's "informed consent" as the main legal tool that may
serve to link the privacy and property interests of donors with the
research interests and the set of principles that should be at the
core of the biobanking practice. Lastly, the IP issues and the
patentability of biological samples as well as the protection of
databases storing genetic information obtained from the samples are
covered. Collecting eighteen essays written by eminent scholars
from Italy, the US, the UK and Canada, this book provides new
solutions to these problems. From a comparative viewpoint, it
explores the extent to which digital technology may assist in
tackling the numerous regulatory issues raised by the practice of
biobanking for research purposes. These issues may be considered
and analyzed under the traditional paradigms of Property, Privacy,
Informed Consent and Intellectual Property.
In this stirring memoir by a member of the first generation of
LGBTQ+ activists in Italy, Porpora Marcasciano tells her story and
shares the struggles and accomplishments of her fellow activists
who achieved so much in the 1970s yet suffered devastating losses
during the AIDS epidemic of the
1980s. AntoloGaia offers an insider’s look at the
beginnings of the gay liberation movement in Italy and reveals how
it was intimately intertwined with other forms of left-wing
activism. At the same time, it powerfully conveys the queer joy of
a young person from a small village first encountering the vibrant
sexual minority communities of Naples, Bologna, and Rome. As
Marcasciano starts to embrace her trans identity, she meets the
famous anthropologist Pino Simonelli, who introduces her to
Naples’s unique femminielli subculture and gives her
the name Porporino, which she later shortens to Porpora. In keeping
with this story of gender, sexual, and political
discovery, AntoloGaia is the first piece of Italian
life-writing to use gender-neutral and mixed-gender language.
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Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema explores different representations of
dreams, visions, hallucinations, and hypnagogic states in Italian
film culture, covering the works of some of the most significant
auteurs in the history of Italian cinema (Fellini, Pasolini,
Moretti, Bellocchio, among others). Dreams are discussed both in a
filmic context, considering the diegetic and formal techniques
employed to construct and represent them, and as allegories or
metaphors in a broader cultural, political, and social sense (the
film industry itself as the proverbial dream factory, and dreams as
hopes, aspirations or altogether parallel universes, for example).
The book covers works released over different decades and spanning
multiple genres (drama, gothic film, horror, comedy), and it is
intended to shed light on a topic that is as suggestive as it is
insufficiently studied.
This collection of fifty-one fascinating and engaging activities
opens up the gateway to outer space for stargazers young and old.
Emphasizing group and family interaction, authors Philip Harrington
and Edward Pascuzzi provide innovative activities that will help
children identify, understand, and appreciate the objects in the
Milky Way and galaxies beyond. With this book, you will become
familiar with the constellations, planets, and phases of the moon.
You will learn how sundials and telescopes work and even how to
build your own. You'll also discover what causes shooting starts,
auroras, nebulae, and other galactic phenomena. Charts of
lunar-eclipse and meteor-shower dates will help you plan your
viewing schedules. Clear, helpful diagrams, star charts, and
photographs will guide you through the world of astronomy and make
this book a delight to use. (8 1/2 x 11, 224 pages, b&w photos,
illustrations, diagrams, charts)
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1-2 Thessalonians (Hardcover)
Florence Morgan Gillman, Mary Ann Beavis, Hyeran Kim-Cragg; Edited by Barbara E Reid; Volume editing by Mary Ann Beavis, …
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When Paul wrote First Thessalonians shortly after the recipients
had accepted the Gospel, many significant issues had already arisen
among them. Of great concern was the social complexity, and even
persecution, they encountered because they had "turned to God from
idols" (1:9). The countercultural stance of those earliest
believers, and especially the impact that may have had for women,
is addressed throughout this commentary. While Paul directs no
remarks only to women in this letter, the ramifications of his
preaching on their daily lives emerge vibrantly from the
application of a feminist hermeneutics of suspicion to the text.
While Second Thessalonians is a shorter letter, it has been
disproportionately influential on Christian thought, especially
apocalyptic doctrine and the "Protestant work ethic." From a
feminist perspective, it is androcentric, rhetorically
manipulative, and even violent. In this commentary, Mary Ann Beavis
and HyeRan Kim-Cragg explore this text from many angles to expose
both constructive and destructive implications in the text.
Notably, they suggest a perspective on the "afflictions" endured by
the Thessalonian church that neither glorifies suffering nor wishes
for revenge but rather sees the divine presence in women's acts of
compassion and care in circumstances of extreme duress and
inhumanity. From the Wisdom Commentary series Feminist biblical
interpretation has reached a level of maturity that now makes
possible a commentary series on every book of the Bible. It is our
hope that Wisdom Commentary, by making the best of current feminist
biblical scholarship available in an accessible format to
ministers, preachers, teachers, scholars, and students, will aid
all readers in their advancement toward God's vision of dignity,
equality, and justice for all. The aim of this commentary is to
provide feminist interpretation of Scripture in serious, scholarly
engagement with the whole text, not only those texts that
explicitly mention women. A central concern is the world in front
of the text, that is, how the text is heard and appropriated by
women. At the same time, this commentary aims to be faithful to the
ancient text, to explicate the world behind the text, where
appropriate, and not impose contemporary questions onto the ancient
texts. The commentary addresses not only issues of gender (which
are primary in this project) but also those of power, authority,
ethnicity, racism, and classism, which all intersect. Each volume
incorporates diverse voices and differing interpretations from
different parts of the world, showing the importance of social
location in the process of interpretation and that there is no
single definitive feminist interpretation of a text.
Michelangelo's genius is revealed as never before by the man who
became Michelangelo's last apprentice- an American artist and art
historian whose family helped carve Mount Rushmore. Many believe
Michelangelo's talent was miraculous and untrained, the product of
"divine" genius-a myth that Michelangelo himself promoted by way of
cementing his legacy. But the young Michelangelo studied his craft
like any Renaissance apprentice, learning from a master, copying,
and experimenting with materials and styles. In this extraordinary
book, Alan Pascuzzi recounts the young Michelangelo's journey from
student to master, using the artist's drawings to chart his
progress and offering unique insight into the true nature of his
mastery. Pascuzzi himself is a practicing artist in Florence,
Michelangelo's city. When he was a grad student in art history, he
won a Fulbright to "apprentice" himself to Michelangelo: to study
his extant drawings and copy them to discern his progression in
technique, composition, and mastery of anatomy. Pascuzzi also
relied on the Renaissance treatise that "Il Divino" himself would
have been familiar with, Cennino Cennini's The Craftsman's Handbook
(1399), which was available to apprentices as a kind of textbook of
the period. Pascuzzi's narrative traces Michelangelo's development
as an artist during the period from roughly 1485, the start of his
apprenticeship, to his completion of the Sistine Chapel ceiling in
1512. Analyzing Michelangelo's burgeoning abilities through copies
he himself executed in museums and galleries in Florence and
elsewhere around the world, Pascuzzi unlocks the transformation
that made Michelangelo great. At the same time, he narrates his own
transformation from student to artist as Michelangelo's last
apprentice.
In this stirring memoir by a member of the first generation of
LGBTQ+ activists in Italy, Porpora Marcasciano tells her story and
shares the struggles and accomplishments of her fellow activists
who achieved so much in the 1970s yet suffered devastating losses
during the AIDS epidemic of the
1980s. AntoloGaia offers an insider’s look at the
beginnings of the gay liberation movement in Italy and reveals how
it was intimately intertwined with other forms of left-wing
activism. At the same time, it powerfully conveys the queer joy of
a young person from a small village first encountering the vibrant
sexual minority communities of Naples, Bologna, and Rome. As
Marcasciano starts to embrace her trans identity, she meets the
famous anthropologist Pino Simonelli, who introduces her to
Naples’s unique femminielli subculture and gives her
the name Porporino, which she later shortens to Porpora. In keeping
with this story of gender, sexual, and political
discovery, AntoloGaia is the first piece of Italian
life-writing to use gender-neutral and mixed-gender language.
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Produced status profiles of the Army1s medium and heavy TWV fleets
to show how many vehicles of each type the Army has and the years
of useful life remaining for each group.
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