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If I Had Been in Your Place
Reasonable Doubt and Mathematical Resolutions
editore: Raffaello Cortina Editore
pagine: 280
How can we tell if someone is innocent or guilty of a crime?
Call Me Adult
How To Be in Relationship with Teenagers
editore: Raffaello Cortina Editore
pagine: 224
A new book about teenagers in search of identity.
To Fly Beyond The Sky
The Secrets of Space Exploration
editore: Raffaello Cortina Editore
pagine: 272
The complex and fascinating world of space ventures.
The Void
Anorexia, Addictions, Psychosis: A Clinical Perspective
editore: Raffaello Cortina Editore
pagine: 272
A great psychoanalyst's reflection on anorexia, pathological addictions and psychosis.
The First Day of A New World
The Book of Jubilee
editore: Raffaello Cortina Editore
pagine: 188
A reflection on the meaning of "pilgrim" by one of the most influential voices in the Catholic world.
The Lexicon of The Greeks
A Civilization in 30 Words
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Few words to tell the story of a culture.
Once A Blasphemer and A Persecutor And A Violent Man
Biography of Paul
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pagine: 200
From persecutor to Apostle of Christ. The personal and ideal world of Christianity's "enfant terrible".
All Possible Worlds
An Adventure in the Great Library of Evolution
editore: Raffaello Cortina Editore
pagine: 200
What kind of world would we have if evolution had taken different paths? And why, instead, did things turned out this way?In his outstanding short story "The Library of Babel", Jorge Luis Borges imagines a seemingly endless place where all the books of the world are collected; those already written and those existing only potentially. Just as a writer can imagine books that have never been written, a scientist in the laboratory can create enzymes that evolution has never created, which are extremely powerful and can do wonderful things.
Proteins, DNA, genomes are also some kind of books: they are sequences formed by codes and therefore, in some way, alphabets. Here a literary idea becomes a scientific metaphor. Telmo Pievani teases our imagination, always assisted by scientific evidence, sharing with the reader hypotheses of historical crossroads, parallel universes, potential lives.
Something Is Rotten in the States of the West
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pagine: 200
A confession of the sins that weigh on the conscience of a white western man
Italy of Miracles
Stories of Saints, Magic and Mysteries
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"San Gennaro is the true God of Naples", wrote Alexandre Dumas. He wasn't overinflating: this ancient martyr is the absolute lord of Neapolitan devotion, and his acrobatic liquefaction of blood is the most famous miracle in the world. Southern European catholic countries, and Italy in particular, have a special relationship with religion and sacred rites - a cult that may appear freakish and absurd to the eyes of large northern cities such as Paris or London.It is crucial to remember, however, that all Catholic rituals were borrowed from the pivotal rites of the Roman Empire - ancestral rites that have their roots in the mists of time and have dominated the social order and the life of many civilizations, even those that now seem to have disengaged from these folk habits.With great evocative effectiveness, the author retraces these stories that have endured through the centuries to us, capturing in depth the power of myths and rituals that have always invested the traditions of peoples.
What Does It Mean to Be Human?
How Our Body and Mind Live in the Present
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The discovery of mirror neurons was a huge revolution not only for the neurological and biological studies, but also for humanities. Anthropological and sociological research is highlighting the paradox of considering ourselves as expressions of the relationships and contexts in which we live.Science, in fact, shows us that intersubjectivity sets its roots in the prenatal stage, throughout the relationship between the fetus and the mother, within wich multisensory connections are developed and are destinated to leave a trace in postnatal memory.Two distinguished scholars of our time draw attention to the importance of recognizing ourselves as sharers, rather than individuals, in order to understand what it means to be human nowadays through an interdisciplinary essay that starts with a scientific discovery and comes to embrace all that underlies the world and the life of our species.
To Be or Not To Be Human
Rethinking Human Beings between Science and other Ways of Knowing
editore: Raffaello Cortina Editore
Is a science of the human being at all possible? And if it is, what is it for?
