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The Colonisation of Time

The Colonisation of Time

Giordano Nanni

All those intrigued by the concept of time will find this book of interest, for it illustrates how western-European time's rise to a position of global dominance—from the clock to the seven-day week—is one of the most pervasive, ...
Mistress of Everything: Queen Victoria in Indigenous Worlds

Mistress of Everything: Queen Victoria in Indigenous Worlds

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... 43.1–43.16; Giordano Nanni and Andrea James, Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2013), pp. 20–32. Sukanya Banerjee, Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late‐Victorian Empire ( Durham, ...
The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in ...

The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in ...

Giordano Nanni

All those intrigued by the concept of time will find this book of interest, for it illustrates how western-European time's rise to a position of global dominance - from the clock to the seven-day week - is one of the most pervasive, ...
Settler Colonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Victoria:

Settler Colonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Victoria:

Leigh Boucher

Contestations over space amplified tensions both between Aboriginal people and their managers, and between settlers themselves. Giordano Nanni has observed that the control of Aboriginal people was paramount to the government and ...
Time for Peace: The Essential Role of Time in Conflict and ...

Time for Peace: The Essential Role of Time in Conflict and ...

Luc Reychler

Giordano Nanni (2012) illustrated the linkage of power and time through examining British rituals and concepts of time imposed on other cultures as fundamental components of colonisation during the nineteenth century. Today, time is still an ...
LA STELLA GARIBALDI

LA STELLA GARIBALDI

SERGEJ SOROKIN

Si chiamava Giordano Nanni. Al nostro arrivo aveva già sterilizzato gli strumenti e preparato il tavolo operatorio. Quando diede un'occhiata alle mie gambe martoriate, si fece addirittura il segno della croce. «Qual è la cosa più importante ?
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance

Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance

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CHAPTER FOURTEEN Meanings of ' contractio' in Giordano Bruno's Sigillus sigillorum* Leo Catana In the Sigillus sigillorum (The Seal of Seals), Bruno develops two parallel lines of thought, one on ontology and one on epistemology.
Radiology for PET/CT Reporting

Radiology for PET/CT Reporting

Cristina Nanni

The concluding section of the book is devoted to the principal MRI findings in diseases which cannot be evaluated using PETs/CTs. ​
Understanding Eating Disorders: Conceptual and Ethical ...

Understanding Eating Disorders: Conceptual and Ethical ...

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Giordano presents the first full philosophical study of ethical issues in the treatment of anorexia and bulimia nervosa.
PET Imaging in the Management of Neuroendocrine Tumors, An ...

PET Imaging in the Management of Neuroendocrine Tumors, An ...

Stefano Fanti

Stefano Fanti, Cristina Nanni, Richard P. Baum. overexpress somatostatin receptors (SSTRs), which enable the diagnosis using radiolabeled somatostatin analogues. Internalization and retention within the tumor cell are important for peptide ...
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher / Heretic

Giordano Bruno: Philosopher / Heretic

Ingrid D. Rowland

. This is intellectual biography at its best.”—Peter N. Miller, New Republic “An excellent starting point for anyone who wants to rediscover the historical figure concealed beneath the cowl on Campo de’ Fiori.”—Paula Findlen, ...
Advances in Biometrics: Third International Conferences, ICB ...

Advances in Biometrics: Third International Conferences, ICB ...

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16. 17. Faundez-Zanuy, M.: On-line signature recognition based on vq-dtw. Pattern Recognition 40(3), 981–992 (2007) 4. Fiérrez-Aguilar, J., Nanni, L., Lopez-Pe ̃nalba, J., Ortega-Garcia, J., Maltoni, D.: An on-line signature verification system ...
PET-CT: Rare Findings and Diseases

PET-CT: Rare Findings and Diseases

Cristina Nanni

PET-CT is increasingly being employed in the diagnosis of both oncological and non-oncological patients, yet nuclear medicine physicians may have only limited practical experience of rare diseases and may experience difficulty in ...
Autobiografia e filosofia: l'esperienza di Giordano Bruno : ...

Autobiografia e filosofia: l'esperienza di Giordano Bruno : ...

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Michele Stanco PER UN'AUTOBIOGRAFIA INTELLETTUALE IN FORMA DI SONETTO: ON HIS BLINDNESS DI JOHN MILTON* Why was my breeding orderd and prescrib'd As of a person separate to God, Design'd for great exploits; if I must ...
The Solitude of Prime Numbers

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Paolo Giordano

The Solitude of Prime Numbers is a stunning meditation on loneliness, love, and the weight of childhood experience.
On Cloning

On Cloning

John Harris

Those who have worked on cloning, both separately and with me, and who have been a constant source of advice include Margot Brazier, Rebecca Bennett, Charles Erin, Katrien Devolder, John Robertson, Søren Holm, Simona Giordano,  ...
Genetic Technology and Sport: Ethical Questions

Genetic Technology and Sport: Ethical Questions

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accepted for publication Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics. 7 J.J. Rousseau, Du Contract social, ou Principes du droit politique. (Amsterdam: Chez Rey MM, 1972). Translated by Simona Giordano. Dworkin, op.cit., pp. 227ff. 5 6 8 9 10 ...
The Children's Bill of Emotional Rights: A Guide to the ...

The Children's Bill of Emotional Rights: A Guide to the ...

Eileen Johnson

Two attorneys with everything to lose fight for justice in THE PROSECUTOR by USA TODAY bestselling author Adrienne Giordano Chicago assistant state's attorney Zac Hennings just got handed a political hot potato: keeping the convicted ...
The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy

The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy

Leo Catana

Catana argues that this work may have prepared for Ficino’s translation of Plotinus, and that in some instances it provided a common source to Renaissance philosophers, Bruno and Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) being conspicuous examples ...
Arguments and Analysis in Bioethics

Arguments and Analysis in Bioethics

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Simona Giordano and John Harris, “Bioetica e tecnologia medica. Clonazione, ricerca sulle cellule staminali, statuto morale degli embrioni,” Bioetica, rivista interdisciplinare, 11:3 (September 2003), pp. 427–441. 5. European Parliament ...
Fundamentals of Management: Asia Pacific Edition PDF

Fundamentals of Management: Asia Pacific Edition PDF

Richard L. Daft

Richard L. Daft, Danny Samson ... were trimming their sails and seeking conservative positions and strategies following the turmoil of the 2001 terrorist attacks in the US, Peter Lau and his staff at Giordano were doing virtually the opposite.
Geology, Hydrogeology, and Environmental Remediation: Idaho ...

Geology, Hydrogeology, and Environmental Remediation: Idaho ...

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... provided assistance in instrumental neutron activation analysis analyses. Chris Martin was instrumental in our work on ANL-1 core. This paper was reviewed by Richard P. Smith, Robert W. Smith, Thomas H. Giordano, and LeRoy L. Knobel.
James Joyce: Interviews and Recollections

James Joyce: Interviews and Recollections

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See Francini Bruni Bruno, Giordano, 170sn) Budgen, Frank, 69–78, 93 Burton, Robert, 104 Butcher, Fanny, 96-7 Butts, Mary, 147, 148(n) Byrne, John Francis, xvi, xviii(n), 2, 5, 6, 78(n) Cadic, Edouard, ll Café des Lilas, 82 Callaghan, Morley,  ...
Exercise and Eating Disorders: An Ethical and Legal Analysis

Exercise and Eating Disorders: An Ethical and Legal Analysis

Simona Giordano

... weight and shape concerns characteristic of bulimia nervosa', Psychological Medicine 28, 4,1998:761–77; ColinA.Ross, 'Overestimates ofthegenetic contribution toeating disorders', Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry 8,2, 2006: ...
From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana

From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana

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Writings in Italian Americana Anthony Julian Tamburri, Paolo Giordano, Fred L. Gardaphe. Select Critical Bibliography In our first edition of From the Margin, we included works of narrative, poetry, and criticism that appeared up and through ...
An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish ...

An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish ...

Paul Moses

... Families,” in McGoldrick, Giordano, and Garcia-Preto, Ethnicity and Family Therapy, 600–601; Jennifer Nugent Duffy, Who's Your Paddy? Racial Expectations and the Struggle for Irish American Identity (New York: New York University Press ...

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