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  • Perspectives in Primary Education

    by L. Borghi ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Primary education in Europe, as in the United States and other conti nents, is passing through a period of profound change, affecting some of the fundamental educational aims at primary school level and teaching structure, content and methods. The purpose of this study is to sketch a broad picture of the Euro pean educational scene which may be brought about by the impact of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Ruins of Capitalism and Possibilism

    Beyond Homo Faber

    by Vando Borghi ...
    Series series Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism
    This book explores two themes in connection with contemporary capitalism: infrastructural capitalism as the most advanced phase of a modernity, of which the “workman” or homo faber is the embodiment, who exists within an infrastructure whose logic of connectivity is aimed at value extraction; and a landscape of ruins – in the form of symbolic misery, the Anthropocene and a process of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Copyright and Mass Digitization

    by Maurizio Borghi, Stavroula Karapapa ...
    Mass digitization of texts, images, and other creative works promises to unprecedentedly enhance access to culture and knowledge. With the electronic 'library of Alexandria' having started to materialize, a number of legal and policy issues have emerged. The book develops an extended conceptual account of the ways in which mass digital projects challenge the established copyright norms through the ... Read more

    $160.19 USD

  • Living with Multiple Sclerosis

    A Group-Based Psychological Support Intervention for Newly Diagnosed People with MS (LiMS)

    by Silvia Bonino, Martina Borghi, Emanuela Calandri, Federica Graziano ...
    Connecting theory, research and intervention, Living with Multiple Sclerosis offers an effective, innovative and comprehensive group-based psychological support intervention specifically aimed at people newly diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (LiMS).The book explains the theoretical foundations of the intervention, based on developmental psychology in the life cycle, and considering the illness as ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Freedom of Words

    Abstractness and the Power of Language

    by Anna M. Borghi ...
    The Freedom of Words is for anyone interested in understanding the role of body and language in cognition and how humans developed the sophisticated ability to use abstract concepts like 'freedom' and 'thinking'. This volume adopts a transdisciplinary perspective, including philosophy, semiotics, psychology, and neuroscience, to show how language, as a tool, shapes our minds and influences our ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Turbulent Multiphase Flows with Heat and Mass Transfer

    by Roland Borghi, Fabien Anselmet ...
    Numerous industrial systems or natural environments involve multiphase flows with heat and mass transfer. The authors of this book present the physical modeling of these flows, in a unified way, which can include various physical aspects and several levels of complexity.Thermal engineering and nuclear reactors; the extraction and transport of petroleum products; diesel and rocket engines; chemical ... Read more

    $168.00 USD

  • Reflected In Blood

    by Andrés Borghi ...
    A man wakes up in the dead of night and with his touch he reveals something odd: there is a new hallway in the middle of his apartment that leads to the unknown.A girl with a grotesque tattoo on her leg suffers from its curse, attracting dark forces that threaten her life and the ones of those who surround her.From the worst monstrous apparitions to the depth of psychological horror, the ten ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound of Liver Diseases

    by M. Tonolini, L. Solbiati, A. Martegani, L. Aiani, E. Leen, A. Bauer, A. Bellobuono, J.M. Correas, C. Borghi, P.N. Burns, D. Becker, L. Cova, O. Helenon, V. Kirn, V. Osti ...
    In the last few years, the development of sonographic contrast agents - or "microbubbles" - has stimulated increasingly intensive studies on the rela tionships between ultrasound and contrast media. As a result, "contrast -spe cific" hardware and software systems have been introduced by different ultra sound manufacturers with impressive speed. This has finally led to the birth of a very new ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • African Landings

    Egypt and Sinai as Seen by Medieval European and Arab Travellers (4th–15th Centuries)

    by Beatrice Borghi ...
    This book seeks to break free from Eurocentric historical perspectives of medieval-era travel through Egypt and Sinai by focusing on the testimonies of 4th to 15th-century travellers from the African continent, especially pilgrim diaries from the Arab Muslim Egyptian world.Humanity's past is the story of movements by peoples who reshaped and redefined their identity and reported their impressions ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts

    by Anna M. Borghi, Ferdinand Binkofski ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    How are abstract concepts and words represented in the brain? That is the central question addressed by the authors of “Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts”. First, they focus on the difficulties in defining what abstract concepts and words are, and what they mean in psycholinguistic research. Then the authors go on to describe and critically discuss the main theories on ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Workers and the Global Informal Economy

    Interdisciplinary perspectives

    Edited by Supriya Routh, Vando Borghi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Labour Economics
    The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries between formal and informal work. This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of informal work in today’s global economy, presenting economic, legal, sociological, historical, anthropological, political and cultural perspectives on the topic.Workers and the Global ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society

    Informational Rights and Informational Wrongs

    Edited by Maurizio Borghi, Roger Brownsword ...
    This edited collection seeks to map the landscape of contemporary informational interests, to evaluate a range of recognised and putative rights and wrongs associated with modern information societies, and to consider how law, regulation, and governance should be deployed in response.New technologies and new applications constantly disrupt our values, our framing of our world, and our sense of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD