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An exploration of luck in modernity, modern imagination, and modern stories. Beliefs, superstitions, and tales about luck are present across all human cultures. Humans are perennially fascinated by luck and by its association with happiness and danger, uncertainty and aspiration. Yet it remains an elusive, ungraspable idea, one that slips and slides over time: all cultures reimagine what luck is and how to tame it at different stages in their ...

An exploration of luck in modernity, modern imagination, and modern stories. Beliefs, superstitions, and tales about luck are present across all human cultures. Humans are perennially fascinated by luck and by its association with happiness and danger, uncertainty and aspiration. Yet it remains an elusive, ungraspable idea, one that slips and slides over time: all cultures reimagine what luck is and how to tame it at different stages in their ...

This book explores the extraordinary depth of Levi the ethical writer across his entire oeuvre, by way of thirteen so-called "ordinary virtues"--the ways and means Levi forges for practically and compassionately engaging with the world. It draws on a wide range of recent thinking about Holocaust literature and the general relationship between literature and ethics.

L'opera di Primo Levi presenta un caso straordinariamente ricco e articolato di intertestualità. Lettore curioso, onnivoro, asistematico, Levi esplorò molteplici campi del sapere - letterari, scientifici, storici, ecc. - navigando tra libri e riviste specializzate e di divulgazione, per motivi di ricerca o di puro divertimento, spesso accostandosi alle culture straniere in lingua originale, mosso da una curiosità eclettica e dal desiderio inte...

Spinal manipulation under anesthesia (MUA) is a procedure intended for patients who suffer from musculoskeletal disorders in conjunction with biomechanical dysfunction. MUA is performed using monitored anesthesia care. Manipulation Under Anesthesia is the first book to present the procedure from a historical perspective to present day use. It is a compilation of information that is used as both a reference and as an educational aid for doctors...

Con il saggio del critico inglese Robert Gordon prendono il via le "Lezioni Primo Levi", ideate dal Centro Internazionale di studi che si propone di promuovere la conoscenza del grande scrittore italiano nel mondo. In questa prima lezione Gordon rilegge l'opera di Primo Levi e altre storie della Shoah alla luce di rappresentazioni letterarie della Fortuna e di aspetti del moderno metodo scientifico, scoprendo nuove immagini della fortuna e del...

Siamo capaci, noi italiani, di elaborare, metabolizzare e comprendere l'Olocausto che ci ha colpiti? Siamo in grado di tramandarne la memoria? Che uso abbiamo fatto, noi, pubblicamente, nella nostra dimensione culturale condivisa, dell'immane sterminio che ha coinvolto gli ebrei e i non ebrei del nostro paese, non certo meno che altrove? Quali ricadute nelle nostre vite, quali insegnamenti, quali comportamenti ci deve imporre la storia di quel...

Experts agree that the earth will eventually run out of certain low-cost, nonrenewable resources, possibly as early as a century from now. Will the transition to reliance on other, more abundant resources be smooth or discontinuous? Might industrial societies experience a marked decline in living standards--a radically different kind of society from the one we now know? Geologists maintain that once inexpensive high-grade resources are exhaust...

This volume is to bring together noted scientists who study presbycusis from the perspective of complementary disciplines, for a review of the current state of knowledge on the aging auditory system. Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is one of the top three most common chronic health conditions affecting individuals aged 65 years and older. The high prevalence of age-related hearing loss compels audiologists, otolaryngologists, and auditory neur...

Primo Levi (1919–, 1987) was the author of a rich body of work, including memoirs and reflections on Auschwitz, poetry, science fiction, historical fiction and essays. In particular, his lucid and direct accounts of his time at Auschwitz, begun immediately after liberation in 1945 and sustained until weeks before his suicide in 1987, has made him one of the most admired of all Holocaust writer-survivors and one of the best guides we have ...

Primo Levi (1919–1987) was the author of a rich body of work, including memoirs and reflections on Auschwitz, poetry, science fiction, historical fiction and essays. In particular, his lucid and direct accounts of his time at Auschwitz, begun immediately after liberation in 1945 and sustained until weeks before his suicide in 1987, has made him one of the most admired of all Holocaust writer-survivors and one of the best guides we have for the...

Normalerweise soll der Hochzeitstag DER Freudentag des Lebens sein. Ein einziges Fest der Liebe, bei dem sich zwei Menschen aneinander binden, bis dass der Tod sie scheidet. Doch ab und an kommen Tod und Verderben viel schneller als gedacht - auch unmittelbar bei einer Hochzeit! Das müssen zwei befreundete Paare am eigenen Leib erfahren: Eigentlich wollten sie nichts weiter als zusammen einen unvergesslichen Hochzeitstag erleben. Doch die Tra...

Normalerweise soll der Hochzeitstag DER Freudentag des Lebens sein. Ein einziges Fest der Liebe, bei dem sich zwei Menschen aneinander binden, bis dass der Tod sie scheidet. Doch ab und an kommen Tod und Verderben viel schneller als gedacht - auch unmittelbar bei einer Hochzeit! Das müssen zwei befreundete Paare am eigenen Leib erfahren: Eigentlich wollten sie nichts weiter als zusammen einen unvergesslichen Hochzeitstag erleben. Doch die Tra...

From the time of John Milton to that of William Blake, the literature of Britain absorbed the impact of two major military developments.

Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette, 1948) is unarguably one of the most important films in the history of cinema. It is also one of the most beguiling, moving and (apparently) simple pieces of narrative ever made. The film tells the story of one man and his son, as they search fruitlessly through the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle, the bicycle which had offered the possibility of escape from the poverty and humiliation of long-term u...

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