Download or read book Homo Sapiens e altre catastrofi Per una archeologia della globalizzazione written by Telmo Pievani and published by Linee. This book was released on 2018 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homo sapiens e altre catastrofi Per una archeologia della globalizzazione written by Telmo Pievani and published by Meltemi Editore srl. This book was released on 2006 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homo sapiens e altre catastrofi written by Telmo Pievani and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homo sapiens e altre catastrofi written by Telmo Pievani and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2018-04-20T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questo è il romanzo avventuroso dell’evoluzione umana. Una storia che nessuno scrittore avrebbe immaginato così sorprendente. Le ultime scoperte scientifiche hanno infatti rivoluzionato le nostre idee sulla storia naturale di Homo sapiens. Facendo dialogare biologia evoluzionistica, paleoantropologia, genetica ed ecologia in una sorta di avvincente biografia familiare, Telmo Pievani va alla scoperta della molteplicità delle specie umane vissute negli ultimi sei milioni di anni e della complessità del popolamento sulla Terra, nella convinzione che non si possa comprendere a pieno il significato dei processi di globalizzazione contemporanei senza una loro collocazione nel tempo profondo della planetarizzazione della nostra specie. Per capire da dove veniamo e, forse, dove andiamo, in un libro in cui scienza e scrittura letteraria si mescolano fin dalla prima pagina.
Download or read book The Theory of Evolution and Its Impact written by Aldo Fasolo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Year 2009 was the triumph of Darwin as a global superstar, spinning from the pop icon to the actual understanding to what make him a great innovator, able to give a turn to whole modern culture. Does all this activity mean evolution has lost its ability to excite fear and opposition? After such a deluge of books, conferences, reviews, gadgets, what is today our vision on theory of Evolution and its Impact? These are the questions asked at an inter-academy conference held in Torino (May 27-29, 2010) among the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. The present book collects the contributions from the meeting, mixing styles, arguments, topics, history and philosophy of science, modern biology and epistemology . This kind of inter-disciplinary approach may appear erratic, but it conveys flashes of lights on the changing scene where the theory of evolution plays. This is in line with the idea to reopen the file of the Two Cultures, looking at shared problems, which are not yet really the Third Culture invoked by Charles Percy Snow half a century ago, but they can foster it, at least in such a pivotal domain as evolution. According to the philosopher Michael Ruse, the conclusion is “that in fifty years or a hundred years we will still have the theory of the Origin around. Great, precisely because it does not stand still, but remakes itself and grows and changes by virtue of the fact that it gives such a terrific foundation. Is Darwinism past its sell-by date? Not by a long chalk yet!”
Download or read book European Glocalization in Global Context written by R. Robertson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of a collection of essays that deal with glocalization in Europe, including the idea of Europeanization as glocalization. The contributors deal with a range of topics including migration, media, football, beauty, Christianity, democracy and the European Union.
Download or read book Informality through Sustainability written by Antonino Di Raimo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informality through Sustainability explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle links between informal settlements and sustainability. Penetrating its global profile and considering urban informality through an understanding of local implications, the authors collectively reveal specific correlations between sites and their local inhabitants. The book opposes simplistic calls to legalise informal settlements or to view them as ‘problems’ to be solved. It comes at a time when common notions of ‘informality’ are being increasingly challenged. In 25 chapters, the book presents contributions from well-known scholars and practitioners whose theoretical or practical work addresses informality and sustainability at various levels, from city planning and urban design to public space and architectural education. Whilst previous studies on informal settlements have mainly focused on cases in developing countries, approaching the topic through social, cultural and material dimensions, the book explores the concept across a range of contexts, including former Communist countries and those in the so-called Global North. Contributions also explore understandings of informality at various scalar levels – region, precinct, neighbourhood and individual building. Thus, this work helps reposition informality as a relational concept at various scales of urbanisation. This book will be of great benefit to planners, architects, researchers and policymakers interested in the interplay between informality and sustainability.
Download or read book What Is Progress written by Aldo Schiavone and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Historian Schiavone mixes philosophy, politics, and anthropology in this stimulating inquiry into the ‘paradigm of progress.’” —Publishers Weekly Today, many believe that progress is a word to be avoided, a relic from a past, the dangerous product of an era of intellectual naivety that would be best forgotten. Yet, the idea of progress is rooted in a human impulse that is both profound and essential, a way of interpreting history without which our ability to plan the future—and our very identity—would be at stake. Written just before the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic—which is now putting its argument to the hardest of tests—this lucid essay explores how science and technology have been, and can still be, a powerful engine for human advancement.
Download or read book Women in Biotechnology written by Francesca Molfino and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannes Klumpers Biotechnologies, such as genetic engineering, cloning and biodiversity, raise many legal and ethical concerns, so it is important that people understand these issues and feel able to express their opinions. This is why the European Commission has been, for a number of years, supporting actions to improve communication among scientists in these diverse areas. The project ‘Women in Biotechnology’ (WONBIT), financed under the 6th Framework programme of the European Commission, is an excellent example of what can be done to target opinion-formers such as scientists, economists and lawyers in bottom-up activities, and to encourage a debate on gender issues triggered by developments in the life sciences. WONBIT gave rise to a successful international conference highlighting the importance of adopting good practices and ethical considerations in parallel with the rapid pace of progress in biotechnology – from a woman’s point of view. In particular, the conference addressed women in decision-making positions in b- technology with specific reference to scientific excellence, social competencies and management qualities as well as issues relating to environment, society and the younger generation. But it did not stop there: a key part of the conference was dedicated to stimulating public debate among non-specialists, which has led to a number of recommen- tions to policy-makers on better communication in biotechnology, on taking better account of the gender aspects of research, and on involving more women in the decision-making process that surrounds developments in biotechnology.
Download or read book Report for Fiscal Years written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traditions of Theology written by Dorothea Frede and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles in this volume, orginally presented at the 1998 Symposium Hellenisticum in Lille, discuss theological questions that were central to the doctrines of the dominant schools in the Hellenistic age, such as the existence of the gods, their nature, and their concern for humankind.
Download or read book Rome the Cosmopolis written by Catharine Edwards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays exploring key aspects of the relationship between Rome and its empire.
Download or read book Homo Aestheticus written by Ellen Dissanayake and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: �Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being. In her view, art is intimately linked to the origins of religious practices and to ceremonies of birth, death, transition, and transcendence. Drawing on her years in Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Papua New Guinea, she gives examples of painting, song, dance, and drama as behaviors that enable participants to grasp and reinforce what is important to their cognitive world.��Publishers Weekly�Homo Aestheticus offers a wealth of original and critical thinking. It will inform and irritate specialist, student, and lay reader alike.��American AnthropologistA thoughtful, elegant, and provocative analysis of aesthetic behavior in the development of our species�one that acknowledges its roots in the work of prior thinkers while opening new vistas for those yet to come. If you�re reading just one book on art anthropology this year, make it hers.��Anthropology and Humanism
Download or read book The Art of Emotional Intelligence written by IntroBooks Team and published by IntroBooks. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fact that a successful professional life and a stable and healthy personal life is not only dependent on intelligence is well established. While there are many contributing factors, Emotional Intelligence plays a major role. People with high Emotional Quotient can understand and manage others’ and their emotions better. They are more adaptable and empathetic. Emotionally intelligent smart leaders interact better with their subordinates and are better decision-makers. Mindfulness and focus can take one’s career to a different level. Daniel Goleman, who popularized the concept of EI has rightly said, “ As much as 80% of adult “success” comes from EQ.”EI affects the health of people. Even doctors agree on the healing powers of the human mind. EI is not something that is woven in the genes but can be improved by practice. Introducing children to emotional learning helps them in their studies and in developing a positive outlook.
Download or read book Governing Disasters written by S. Revet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive ethnographic and historical research conducted in diverse field locations, this volume offers an acute analysis of how actors at local, national, and international levels govern disasters; it examines the political issues at stake that often go unaddressed and demonstrates that victims of disaster do not remain passive.
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Download or read book The Science of Human Origins written by Claudio Tuniz and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding of human origins has been revolutionized by new discoveries in the past two decades. In this book, three leading paleoanthropologists and physical scientists illuminate, in friendly, accessible language, the amazing findings behind the latest theories. They describe new scientific and technical tools for dating, DNA analysis, remote survey, and paleoenvironmental assessment that enabled recent breakthroughs in research. They also explain the early development of the modern human cortex, the evolution of symbolic language and complex tools, and our strange cousins from Flores and Denisova.
