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Zygmunt Bauman, maestro del pensiero contemporaneo, teorico della "modernità liquida", incontra Stanislaw Obirek, teologo, storico, antropologo, ex gesuita. Due grandi intellettuali si confrontano per la prima volta sui temi del rapporto tra Dio e l'uomo, sull' esperienza religiosa nel mondoo di oggi, sulla tolleranza nella ricerca della verità, su cosa significa credere in Dio. sul ruolo del caso nella vita, sulla ricerca personale, sulla spe...

The book covers the fatigue testing of specimens, curve fitting of equations to the test data, and the use of such equations in life prediction. Earlier chapters are background in the nature of rubber, history of its usage, brief mention of types of rubber and manufacturing methods. Stress-strain testing and behavior will be covered to the extent relevant to fatigue analysis. Also the text will cover the application of finite element analysis ...

Un mese dopo gli attentati alla redazione di "Charlie Hebdo", Zygmunt Bauman, tra i più autorevoli sociologi contemporanei, tiene una lezione pubblica all'Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio sui temi dell'integrazione e del multiculturalismo. Da quella conferenza nasce questo piccolo libro, che concentra nello spazio di poche pagine alcuni motivi imprescindibili per qualsiasi riflessione sulla più recente e sconcertante attualità. In che co...

Viviamo in mare aperto, sotto l'onda continua, senza un punto fermo e uno strumento che misuri il peso e la distanza delle cose. Nulla sembra stare più al suo posto, molto sembra non avere più un suo posto. Non vediamo la direzione di marcia, così solchiamo un territorio sconosciuto, in ordine sparso. I principi che hanno sostanziato l'ethos repubblicano, quel sistema di regole che ha orientato i rapporti di autorità e le modalità della loro l...

This groundbreaking volume introduces readers to the key concepts and debates in deaf studies, offering perspectives on the relevance and richness of deaf ways of being in the world. In Open Your Eyes, leading and emerging scholars, the majority of whom are deaf, consider physical and cultural boundaries of deaf places and probe the complex intersections of deaf identities with gender, sexuality, disability, family, and race. Together, they ex...

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Drawing on his work in Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, North America, Ghana, and Fiji, linguistic anthropologist and folklorist Richard Bauman presents a series of ethnographic case studies that offer a sparkling look at intertextuality as communicative practice. A fascinating perspective on intertextuality: the idea that written and spoken texts speak to one another, e.g. through genre or allusions. Presents a series of ethnographic case studies ...

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A wake up call to eating consciously! Eating for Health demystifies emerging information in the field of holistic nutrition and provides each of us with an understanding of our unique nutritional needs. Dr. Ed Bauman, holistic health and nutrition guiding light for the past 35 years, has written this new, comprehensive guide on how to incorporate the Eating for Health¿ approach into your daily life. The guide introduces you to the unique aspec...

The uncanny frailty of human bonds, the feeling of insecurity that frailty inspires, and the conflicting desires to tighten the bonds yet keep them loose, are the principal themes of this work by Zygmunt Bauman.

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togethern...

Society is under siege - under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow to take shape, and from the fluid, undefined domain of life politics. The space between these two fronts, until recently ruled by the sovereign nation-state and identified by social scientists as 'society' is ever more difficult to conceive of as a self-enclosed entity. And this confronts the estab...

This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing - the fashions we follow, the events that intermittently catch our attention, the things we dream of and things we fear.

The novel uses the empty storefronts and windy beaches of autumn to explore loss, confusion and love." -The New York Times Book Review. It's off-season at the Jersey shore. The boardwalk belongs to the locals-including Rosie and Skate, sisters who are a year apart in age but couldn't be more different. Rosie's fifteen, shy, and waiting for her life to begin. Skate, sixteen, is tougher and knows what she wants. Readers will be totally caught ...

This text presents a compilation of the best of ideas from a group of library science graduate students, providing creative and engaging programs geared especially for children ages 0-12.

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This is the first collection of essays to explore the wide dimensions and influence of eighteenth-century opera. In a series of fresh articles by leading scholars in the field, new perspectives are offered on the important figures of the day, including Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, Rameau, and Mozart, and on the fundamental problems of creation, revision, borrowing, influence, and intertextuality. Other essays reinterpret librettos of serious opera ...

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