This open access book is based on the conference organised by Accademia dei Lincei and the US National Academy of Sciences and supported by the Italian Ministero degli Affari Esteri. It was attended by about 60 scientists and researchers from 13 countries, including, besides Europe, Iran, Israel, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Japan, Russian Federation and the USA. In an international scenario shaken b…
This open access book employs Paul Ricoeur's methodologies to identify, challenge, and replace with responsible language the many continuing abuses of power, including in the university curriculum and in the international discourse of right-wing populism. Using Ricoeur’s philosophy, the book provides a meta-frame for current debates about the university and a pragmatic micro-frame for support…
Our offering includes memoirs, or collections of memories that individuals have written about moments or events, both public or private, that took place in their lives. While the assertions made in these works are generally taken to be factual, the biases or perspectives of the authors are often present. Historically, memoirs have been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobiography, how…
The sixteen essays of the collection cover a wide range. The first eleven consists of personal memories (and portraits) of family and friends. Indeed, apart from his exuberant and very candid letters, Memories and Portraits is the nearest thing to an autobiography published by Stevenson. The very first essay is about his memories as a Scot of his first contacts with England (“The Foreigner…
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A Co-operative Proposal {1875) ; Rescue Work in Relation to Prostitution and Disease (1881) ; Christian Socialism (1882) ; Wrong and Right Methods (1883) ; Criticism of Gronlund's Co-operative Commonwealth of Women (1887) ; Neo-Malthusianism (1888) ; Prevention of Rabies (1891) ; Medical Responsibility (1897) ; The Present Position of the State Regulation of Vice in British India. See also Medi…
Venice has long borne in the imagination of the world a distinctive position, something of the character of a great enchantress, a magician of the seas. Her growth between the water and the sky; her great palaces, solid and splendid, built, so to speak, on nothing; the wonderful glory of light and reflection about her; the glimmer of incessant brightness and movement; the absence of all those h…
1. ADAIR, General John. Governor of Kentucky. Served in the Revolutionary War, under St. Clair and Wilkinson against the Indians and defeated by the Miamis. Aid to Shelby at the Battle of the Thames 1813. Fine War A. L. S. to Governor Isaac Shelby. "Altho I have been necessarily absent for some time from the State 1 have lost none of the feeling of a Kentuckian, every disaster our brave men …