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Summary: Survol de l'évolution d'un petit pays depuis ses origines juaqu'à nos jours

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Summary: Storia e documenti del movimento cattolico antiautoritario in Italia e nel mondo

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Summary: 1. Il 1919
2. L'insurrezione rossa e la vittoria dei fasci
3. La marcia su Roma

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Summary: Impôt - Propriété

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Summary: Over the last several decades, the United States has undergone one of the most radical social and economic transformations in its history: Finance has become America's dominant industry, while manufacturing has nearly disappeared. The financial sector has become increasingly criminalized, with widespread fraud going completely unpunished. Federal tax collections are at their lowest level in sixty years, with the wealthy enjoying the greatest tax reductions. Most shockingly, the United States, so long the beacon of opportunity for the ambitious poor, has become one of the world's most unequal societies. If you're smart and a hard worker, but your parents aren't rich, you're now better off being born in Munich or Singapore than in Cleveland or New York. This radical shift did not happen by accident. Author Ferguson shows how, since the Reagan administration, both major political parties have become captives of the moneyed elite. The Clinton administration dismantled the regulatory controls that protected the average citizen from avaricious financiers. The Bush team destroyed the federal revenue base with its tax cuts for the rich. And the Obama White House has allowed financial criminals to continue to operate unchecked, even after supposed "reforms" installed after the collapse of 2008.--From publisher description.

Summary: Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler : the strange partnership that revolutionised science

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Summary: Cultural Writing. Education. Anarchism. Elizabeth Byrne Ferm (1857-1944) was principal of the Modern School at Stelton, a utopian-anarchist colony in New Jersey. Stating that "Education, free from outer interference, would flow as normally through human life as the sun, moon and stars move on their way and so fulfill their use and destiny," Ferm proposes an educative practice distinct from pedagogy, one where the task of the educator is to get out of the way of the self-directed child. If at first this book seems addressed only to young teachers or parents, consider the first sentence: "If human life had been left free to reveal itself, there would be no need to consider the question of education."

Summary: 'A Time of Gifts' sees Patrick Leigh Fermor setting out in 1933, at the age of 18, on his epic journey across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This first volume takes the reader as far as Hungary.

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Summary: Deve ella abolirsi, mantenersi o riformarsi?

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Summary: Dalla sociologia come tecnica del conformismo alla sociologia critica

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Summary: Anyone who expects an academic, theory building and hence myopic interpretation of history, especially in the context of scientific discovery and the nature of scientific fact and laws, would be well-advised to look elsewhere.
This book is a humorous, multi-sided and relentless attack on accepted notions and interpretations of consistency and progress, achieved through a single method (such as rationality or logic), in the area of human knowledge. Feyerabend denies method supremacy over contextual and meaning rich subjective thinking, and marshals the facts of history to establish the lack of any single method or well-defined body (such as science) in the growth of human knowledge.
What Howard Zinn did to conventional history with "A People's History of the United States", Feyerabend here accomplishes with regards to the history of science and rationalism. In doing so, he opens the door not for sloppy thinking, but for colorful and context rich thought and expression.

Summary: This is basically transcripts of a series of lectures given by Feynman. As such they are informal in style, but also relaxed on things such as sentence structure an punctuation. I'm not just being picky because this led to me having trouble reading some of the passages, they're not impenetrable, just not to his usual high standard.
The content however is good. I have read a few of his books and I wouldn't rate this amongst his best work. Usually he puts a new slant on ideas, presenting them in a way which gives fresh insights, but that isn't so evident here. He did introduce a couple of new concepts to me, like the equivalence of the symmetries and conservation laws, and how orbits can be described by conservation. These were entirely new though, so it wasn't like the new understanding of general relativity I gained from 'Six Not-so-Easy Pieces'. The final chapter on 'Seeking New Laws' fails to strike the right note for me, falling short of it's aims to explain where innovation comes from.
This is a book which doesn't deal directly with the laws of physics, there's plenty of those around already, some from the same author. It deals instead with the general structure of these laws, and how it is possible to have these laws in the first place. As such it is an interesting read, and should be considered if you have tired of books on relativity and quantum mechanics.

Summary: "The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist" collects three previously unpublished lectures by Richard Feynman, probably the greatest popularizer of physics in this century. There's plenty of scientific illumination here for the general reader, and more remarkably, some fantastic ruminations on the relationships between science, religion, politics and everyday life. Feynman is especially sensitive to the relationships between scientific scepticism, faithful doubt and ideological flexibility. These lectures have been transcribed verbatim, so they sometimes ramble and repeat themselves. But this slim volume has wisdom and wit on every page: it's a truly erudite and edifying meditation on Dostoevsky's observation that "There lies more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds." -- "Michael Joseph Gross"

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Summary: A study of poverty and taxation

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Summary: Massime, pensieri, aforismi, paradossi ditutti i tempi e di tutti i paesi

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Summary: Reflection on the exploitation of Jewish suffering

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Summary: This is an excellent book for historians. Fisher carefully critiques typical fallacies that appear in historical works, ranging from simple fallacies of composition to the more formal post hoc ergo propter hoc and ad hominem fallacies. In a time when so many historical accounts are basically partisan polemics, Fisher brings badly needed light to a serious problem.

Summary: This book is fantastic!....I was unable to put it down right from the start.
It tracks our human behaviour back to life in the caves, and covers subjects such as why we marry... and divorce, how we flirt, and the evolutionary reasons behind flirting. I found the bit about different tones of voice and postures involved in flirting particularly interesting.
It also outlines the differences between men and women's brains, and how we communicate and think at different levels- this book will iron out ANY differences in your current relationship, as I discovered!
Anybody who read and enjoyed 'Why men don't listen and women can't read maps' will love this.
As a psychologist, I found it hugely entertaining and a great read. I would recommend it to anyone.

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Summary: This book gave me a great introduction to communication studies. It was not only helpful and easy to read but it was also suprisingly interesting. This book is a must if you are studying communication studies, advertising or marketing.

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Summary: Le vide de la pensée progressiste auquel nous sommes confrontés correspond à une période de transition entre deux conceptions de l'être humain et de la société. La pensée occidentale se fonde depuis des siècles sur la conviction que l'individu précède la société et que celle-ci se développe avec l'économie - une conception incarnée par la figure de Robinson Crusoé. Or, les connaissances dont nous disposons aujourd'hui convergent vers la conclusion inverse : la vie sociale est à la base du processus d'humanisation, elle précède l'émergence de l'individu, elle est notre milieu naturel. Une véritable révolution des idées ! Qui conduit à penser autrement la place de l'économie dans la société. Il est temps de comprendre le renversement qui s'opère en silence mais qui n'en aura pas moins des répercussions sur la pensée politique.

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Summary: "Flombo, sceglie col suo pennarello, di rendere visibili quelli che non lo sono; così riesce con sarcasmo e ironia ad acquisire il loro punto di vista e a riproporcelo senza mediazioni od orpelli retorici, in modo crudo come cruda è la realtà di fame, guerra, malattie che persone della periferia vivono quotidianamente". Vauro 75 vignette in bianco e nero per sghignazzare e riflettere su pregiudizi e piccole inettitudini quotidiane dell'abitante del Nord del Mondo divise in 4 temi: Guerra e pace, Furbi et orbi, Mal d'Africa, Bianco sporco-sporco bianco.

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Summary: 2013 Reprint of 1940 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) was an American social worker, management consultant and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior. She also authored a number of books and numerous essays, articles and speeches on democracy, human relations, political philosophy, psychology, organizational behavior and conflict resolution. Along with Lillian Gilbreth, Mary Parker Follett was one of two great women management gurus in the early days of classical management theory. She admonished over-managing employees, a process now known as micromanaging, as "bossism" and she is regarded by some writers as the "mother" of Scientific Management.

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Summary: Introduction à la pensée de H.-L. Follin

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Summary: What we have here is not so much a comprehensive dictionary of symbols but rather an overview of symbols from a clear Jungian stance. Topics covered include: 'Cultural Perspectives', 'The power of Symbols', 'Symbols in Art', 'Shapes and Colours' et cetera... Fontana describes his aim with this book: 'to respond to and stimulate this interest and, drawing upon psychology, Eastern and Western spirituality, anthropology and history, to provide easy access into the symbolic world.' and, given the restraints of 192 pages (inc index) succeeds well, though the overwhelming feeling one has is of synopsis and summary. I wanted depth, I wanted more, but sadly, had to pursue my investigations with less 'user-friendly' texts. Never-the-less, the content is beautifully illustrated and if one is looking for a starting point into the world of symbols, this is the place to start.

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Summary: Una storia della tecnica: dall'ascia al reattore

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Summary: 1. Il ritratto
2. Il ritratto 1905-1945
3. Il ritratto 1945-1983

Summary: Britain in the 1880s in words and photographs

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