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Armies of the Ottoman Empire 1775-1820 | David Nicolle usato Storia Moderna

Armies of the Ottoman Empire 1775-1820 | David Nicolle usato Storia Moderna

At the close of the 18th century the Ottoman Empire still had huge military potential. It was a complex structure of military provinces, autonomous regions and virtually independent 'regencies'. The Ottoman Empire had a larger population than its land could actually support which resulted in bloated cities, migration to under-populated mountainous areas, widespread banditry and piracy. It also meant that Ottoman armies had a ready pool of military manpower. With numerous illustrations, including eight full page colour artworkss by Angus Mcbride, this fascinating text by David Nicolle explores the armies of the Ottoman empire from 1775 until 1820.

EUR 15.00
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Generazione in ecstasy - Droghe, miti e musica della generazione techno | Fabrizia Bagozzi usato Scienze umane Sociologia

Generazione in ecstasy - Droghe, miti e musica della generazione techno | Fabrizia Bagozzi usato Scienze umane Sociologia

Un viaggio in più direzioni. Innanzi tutto un viaggio per capire chi sono, cosa pensano, come si divertono gli under 25 degli anni '90: una generazione invisibile se non per l'uso di ecstasy e per gli incidenti spettacolari all'uscita delle mega discoteche. E poi un viaggio dentro l'ecstasy, la loro droga preferita: quante varietà ne esistono, i nomi di strada con cui viene riconosciuta e richiesta, come si consuma, quali sono i suoi effetti fisici e neurologici. E ancora, un viaggio sulle rotte illegali dell'ecstasy, il nuovo business della droga degli anni '90. Ultima tappa: quel che c'è in materia di prevenzione e gli interventi concreti. (Editore).

EUR 23.00
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Africa under the prism - Contemporary African Photography from LagosPhoto Festival | Azu Nwagbogu usato Fotografici Fotografia

Africa under the prism - Contemporary African Photography from LagosPhoto Festival | Azu Nwagbogu usato Fotografici Fotografia

With a population of nearly seventeen million, Lagos, the former capital of Nigeria, is not only the largest city in Africa but also one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Full of contrasts and contradictions: the enormous increase in population leads to challenges in infrastructure and yet rapid advancements in creative industries. A silent social reawakening is emerging with photography, technology, and new media playing significant roles. The first and, to date, only international art festival of photography in Nigeria, LagosPhoto Festival was initiated in 2010 in this richly vibrant center. A platform on which the development of contemporary photography from Africa and a wider community is established and fostered. As testified to by the images, their African stories are bubbling over with vitality, a zest for life, and the dynamics that deny those proponents of Afropessimism, clearly underscoring a sense for the continent's progress. Festival: LagosPhoto Festival, Lagos 17.10.-21.11.2015 (Quelle: www.hatjecantz.de).

EUR 25.00
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Under the Eaves of Architecture. The Aga Khan: builder and patron | Philip Jodidio usato Arte Architettura

Under the Eaves of Architecture. The Aga Khan: builder and patron | Philip Jodidio usato Arte Architettura

The Aga Khan is one of the most ardent patrons of architecture and historic preservation in the world. Since inheriting his title as spiritual leader of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, usually known as Ismailis, fifty years ago, he has fostered and commissioned numerous structures and restored a multitude of buildings from North America to East Africa. The prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture, first given in 1980, recognizes projects that benefit the Muslim world for their excellence in contemporary design, community improvement and development, restoration, re-use, and area conservation. For the first time, this book presents projects from universities and historic restoration programs that bear the Aga Khan's name to religious centers, museums, and development efforts in more than twenty countries. Through the Aga Khan Development Network, the Aga Khan occupies a unique place in the world of architecture and this book reveals the range and breadth of his activities. 230 colour and 70 b/w illustrations.

EUR 20.00
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L'uomo che fermò Hitler - La storia di Dimităr Pes̆ev che salvò gli ebrei di una nazione intera | Gabriele Nissim usato Storia Guerre mondiali

L'uomo che fermò Hitler - La storia di Dimităr Pes̆ev che salvò gli ebrei di una nazione intera | Gabriele Nissim usato Storia Guerre mondiali

A biography of the Bulgarian lawyer (1894-1973). Pt. 1 (pp. 17-170), "Il fascismo", discusses Peshev's political career and vacillating attitudes under the authoritarian rule of King Boris. Peshev (from 1938 a member of the governing majority and deputy head of parliament) agreed to the alliance of Bulgaria with Nazi Germany, and accepted silently the enactment of the Racial Laws (1941). But in March 1943 Jewish friends warned him about the imminent deportation of thousands of Bulgarian Jews by the Commissariat for Jewish Affairs - a branch of the executive, which had already arranged the deportation of Jews from Thrace and Macedonia. He presented to the executive a letter of protest, signed by 42 other parliamentarians. His initiative gained the broad support of public opinion, the media, and the Orthodox Church, causing King Boris to cancel the deportations. Nevertheless, 7,000 Jews from Macedonia and 4,000 from Thrace were deported before Peshev's initiative could take effect.

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Freud's Moses: Judaisam Terminable and Interminable | Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi usato Scienze umane Psicologia

Freud's Moses: Judaisam Terminable and Interminable | Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi usato Scienze umane Psicologia

Moses and Monotheism, Freud's last major book and the only one specifically devoted to a Jewish theme, has proved to be one of the most controversial and enigmatic works in the Freudian canon. Among other things, Freud claims in the book that Moses was an Egyptian, that he derived the notion of monotheism from Egyptian concepts, and that after he introduced monotheism to the Jews he was killed by them. Since these historical and ethnographic assumptions have been generally rejected by biblical scholars, anthropologists, and historians of religion, the book has increasingly been approached psychoanalytically, as a psychological document of Freud's inner life--of his allegedly unresolved Oedipal complex and ambivalence over his Jewish identity. In Freud's Moses a distinguished historian of the Jews brings a new perspective to this puzzling work. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi argues that while attempts to psychoanalyze Freud's text may be potentially fruitful, they must be preceded by a genuine effort to understand what Freud consciously wanted to convey to his readers. Using both historical and philological analysis, Yerushalmi offers new insights into Freud's intentions in writing Moses and Monotheism. He presents the work as Freud's psychoanalytic history of the Jews, Judaism, and the Jewish psyche--his attempt, under the shadow of Nazism, to discover what has made the Jews what they are. In the process Yerushalmi's eloquent and sensitive exploration of Freud's last work provides a reappraisal of Freud's feelings toward anti-Semitism and the gentile world, his ambivalence about psychoanalysis as a "Jewish" science, his relationship to his father, and above all a new appreciation of the depth and intensity of Freud's identity as a "godless Jew."

EUR 15.00
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Ontogeny and phylogeny | Stephen Jay Gould usato Scienze Biologia

Ontogeny and phylogeny | Stephen Jay Gould usato Scienze Biologia

“Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” was Haeckel's answer—the wrong one—to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen Jay Gould documents the history of the idea of recapitulation from its first appearance among the pre-Socratics to its fall in the early twentieth century. Mr. Gould explores recapitulation as an idea that intrigued politicians and theologians as well as scientists. He shows that Haeckel's hypothesis—that human fetuses with gill slits are, literally, tiny fish, exact replicas of their water-breathing ancestors—had an influence that extended beyond biology into education, criminology, psychoanalysis (Freud and Jung were devout recapitulationists), and racism. The theory of recapitulation, Gould argues, finally collapsed not from the weight of contrary data, but because the rise of Mendelian genetics rendered it untenable. Turning to modern concepts, Gould demonstrates that, even though the whole subject of parallels between ontogeny and phylogeny fell into disrepute, it is still one of the great themes of evolutionary biology. Heterochrony—changes in developmental timing, producing parallels between ontogeny and phylogeny—is shown to be crucial to an understanding of gene regulation, the key to any rapprochement between molecular and evolutionary biology. Gould argues that the primary evolutionary value of heterochrony may lie in immediate ecological advantages for slow or rapid maturation, rather than in long-term changes of form, as all previous theories proclaimed. Neoteny—the opposite of recapitulation—is shown to be the most important determinant of human evolution. We have evolved by retaining the juvenile characters of our ancestors and have achieved both behavioral flexibility and our characteristic morphology thereby (large brains by prolonged retention of rapid fetal growth rates, for example). Gould concludes that “there may be nothing new under the sun, but permutation of the old within complex systems can do wonders. As biologists, we deal directly with the kind of material complexity that confers an unbounded potential upon simple, continuous changes in underlying processes. This is the chief joy of our science.”

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Secrets of Saffron - The vagabond life of the world's most seductive spice | Pat Willard usato Manualistica Piante Animali

Secrets of Saffron - The vagabond life of the world's most seductive spice | Pat Willard usato Manualistica Piante Animali

There are few words as evocative as saffron. Over thousands of years it has perfumed the halls of Crete's palaces, made Cleopatra more alluring, and driven crusaders and German peasants to their deaths. While spices that drove adventurers to the ends of the earth, such as cinnamon, mace, and ginger, have become commonplace, saffron remains tantalizingly exotic. Nothing more than the dried stamens of the autumn-flowering purple crocus, it might as well be fairy dust. Resistant to modern horticultural technology, the fragile blossoms must still be gathered by hand from the ancient fields of Iran, Greece, Italy, southern France, and Spain. Secrets of Saffron is the story of this extravagant rover. Guided with wit and assurance by acclaimed food writer Pat Willard, we roam the rich landscapes of history and personal memory. We dine in the heavenly gardens of Persia; bathe with Alexander the Great; are served golden swans at the medieval court of France. With Willard's help, we also discover the quiet comforts of saffron, from soups that have eased illness to pies that defy death, until we arrive at last in the present day at a small garden in Brooklyn. Told in sumptuous prose, complete with fabulous ancient and modern recipes—including a Moorish wedding feast, a luscious creme brulee, and a balm for an aching heart—Secrets of Saffron will awaken in you a voracious desire for the private pleasures of this most precious spice. "I am impressed by Pat Willard's singleminded devotion to one of my favorite subjects. I have been under saffron's spell for some time and it is an integral ingredient in my cooking. I love the romance of its noble and complicated history, as well as the painstaking process of cultivation." —Todd English, author of The Olives Dessert Table "Saffron, the haughtiest, most expensive, and most mysterious of spices, has found its rightful biographer in Pat Willard, who plumbs its historical, mythological, and psychological depths with illuminating insight and a richly evocative (and surprisingly personal) prose. For saffron lovers, this book is a necessary read; for those like myself who have previously equated that spice with such culinary esoterica as gold leaf flakes or wild fennel pollen, Secrets of Saffron is a revelation—and a highly enjoyable page-turner, as well." —John Thorne, author of Outlaw Cook and Pot on the Fire "An admiring account of an exotic spice with a long and varied history, by a food writer whose imagination keeps the story light and lively... a charming little gift for an inquisitive cook."—Kirkus Reviews

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