This book analyzes how major events such as the recent pandemic crisis, wars around the world and climate change, have affected agricultural production and the direct food supply. In this sense, human nutrition will never be off the agenda. The book provides information and guidelines for both practitioners and decision-makers about important developments in the use of agriculture, soil and water resources for agricultural purposes, including the effective and efficient use of soil and water resources where agricultural production, increasing water productivity, the use of modern technology and digitalization for this purpose. Accordingly, a number of chapters have been prepared by experts in the field, covering a variety of the above-mentioned objectives.

UN GUIDE conçu pour tous ceux qui souhaitent découvrir l'italien de manière naturelle et progressive. Cet ouvrage convivial vous accompagne pas à pas, comme un véritable compagnon de route, en vous aidant à explorer non seulement les mots, mais aussi la culture et les expressions authentiques. Un itinéraire ludique et progressif, pensé pour rendre l'apprentissage agréable et naturel, tel un voyage riche en découvertes.

This edited volume draws from health communication scholars and offers a depthful examination of the roles vaccination have played and continue to play in contributing to human, community, and transnational protection against infectious diseases. The problems associated with vaccination against infection diseases was made abundantly clear during the current pandemic of COVID-19. Vaccines were traced back to Dr. Edward Jenner in the 18th century as a tool to control smallpox in England. Today we have six different categories of vaccines (three seem most controversial today): inactivated, live-attenuated, and messenger RNA (mRNA). We examine the reasons for public reluctance and outright resistance to vaccines examining cognitive biases, communication campaign failures, politicization, misinformation, partisanship, and greed. The healthcare industry has not treated all infected people equally, especially the poor and people of color. This is true in the USA as well as abroad. In the future, we can expect more exotic infections to increase due to globalization, development, and transportation. As climate changes, humans will contact more species carrying many different bacteria and viruses. Advances in medical research have led to increases in the number of vaccinations available to control infection and outbreaks. However, the rates of vaccination have fluctuated over time. A vaccine that is not used is meaningless. To increase vaccination rates, we must learn why the public shies away from vaccinations and under what circumstances. This information will enable us to design more effective messaging and communication campaigns to maximize general resilience. An interactive partnership between providers of healthcare and their patients is a prerequisite to productive and effective vaccination campaigns.

The ambition of the book is to give a contemporary insight in the state of the art when it comes to designing our cities and landscapes for dry conditions. Water, or the absence thereof, is an important issue to consider. Many cities around the world are increasingly suffering heat, droughts and occasional severe flooding and rainfall. This asks for new approaches, and methodologies to (re)design the urban and rural condition to stay livable.

Frans Hals is hailed as one of the three greatest painters of the Dutch seventeenth century along with Rembrandt and Vermeer. Of all seventeenth-century Dutch painters, Frans Hals is also the most controversial in as far as the exact scope of his oeuvre is concerned. Hals’s popularity, the lack of technical reference material as well as the differing views among experts as to the exact scope of his oeuvre make works in his style prone to doubts and misattributions. It has led to fierce debates and legal battles about the attribution of paintings done in his style.

The book addresses the contribution of Intangible Cultural Heritage to the sustainable management of historic cities and towns. Through the unique, diverse, and dynamic illustrations from Asia, it provides insights into the interrelationships of intangible and tangible cultural attributes and their significance on the sustainability of these areas. Historic cities and towns, large and small, along with their natural and man-made environments have a distinct identity and embody the values of traditional urban cultures. Evolved by tangible built forms and intangible elements, as cultural practices and expressions- meanings and values attributed to them, they are in a state of continuous change. The built environment acts as a ‘place’ or a ‘site’ where most of these expressions are shaped. These areas are significant for their social cohesion and economic stronghold that dates back over generations and centuries. Over the years, there have been many theoretical discussions about the interrelationships of tangible and intangible but is challenging to manage in practice, especially in historic urban areas. There is a lack of understanding of the complexity and pervasiveness of intangible values and their direct relationship with the physical structure of the town/city. This book strives to address the various challenges, emphasising the intricate relationships between the tangible and intangible aspects of historic cities in the Asian context.

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È il 1937 quando il giovane Armandino - quattordici anni, di Reggio Emilia - entra a lavorare nella grande fabbrica che produce locomotive e macchinari (e presto anche aerei da guerra) per tutto il Paese. Contro il volere del padre, operaio anche lui alle Reggiane e di idee organiche al regime fascista, Armandino comincia a frequentare il forte movimento antifascista interno alla fabbrica. Dopo l'8 settembre '43, la scelta di Armando a favore della Resistenza è netta. E quando i partigiani organizzano un clamoroso sabotaggio alla fabbrica, lui, non ancora diciottenne, fa di tutto per partecipare all'azione. Finita la guerra, Armando rientra alle Reggiane.

Ira ha un destino scritto nel nome. È nel fiore dei vent'anni, è brillante, ma le ossessioni la divorano, la consumano, mettono in pericolo lei e gli altri. Clarissa è una psicologa affermata, famosa in tutta la Finlandia, una star dei talk show dove compare in tailleur griffato e tacco dodici perché vuole rispondere a un cliché. È a lei che Ira si rivolge per chiedere aiuto. Anche se certo non l'aiuto che Clarissa immagina. Ira infatti ha soprattutto bisogno di un alibi. Perché è un'assassina seriale, una spietata killer di uomini. D'altra parte nemmeno Ira immagina cosa si nasconde dietro l'aspetto impeccabile di Clarissa, quali rischi stanno correndo la sua brillante carriera e la sua vita.

La questione del metodo insieme a quella dell'efficacia rimane centrale, oggi come in passato, per chi si occupa di educazione e intervento sociale. Attraverso cinque capitoli, ognuno dedicato a epoche diverse dall'Unità ai giorni nostri, Fofi ricostruisce le vite di chi ha riflettuto e si è occupato di progetti educativi e di sviluppo di comunità. Tra i protagonisti di questa controstoria Sibilla Aleramo, Aldo Capitini, Danilo Dolci, Adriano Olivetti, Don Zeno Saltini, Umberto Zanotti Bianco, Margherita Zoebeli e molti altri. Prefazione di Giuseppe De Rita.

Jay Gardiner si è lanciato in un'impresa folle: trovare i resti del padre defunto sul fondo dell'Oceano Pacifico, al largo di Monastery Beach. Jay sa bene che è una missione impossibile, ma sente che è l'unico modo per liberarsi dal senso di colpa, quello che si porta dietro da quando suo padre è morto suicida l'anno precedente. L'immersione comincia con il piede giusto, ma l'improvvisa comparsa di un calamaro gigante mette Jay in serio pericolo: l'arrivo di un capodoglio affamato, poi, peggiora infinitamente la situazione. Jay si ritrova impigliato fra i tentacoli del calamaro che lo trascinano dentro la bocca della balena, e da lì finisce risucchiato nel primo dei suoi quattro stomaci. Capisce subito che gli resta solo un'ora prima di esaurire l'ossigeno: un'ora per sconfiggere i suoi demoni e fuggire dalla pancia della balena.