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Another Sicily, tuna-fishing structures and landscape: a diachronic and contemporary photographic journey along the Sicilian western coast
The research investigates the Sicilian western coast contemporary landscapes starting with an historical study about tonnare, architectural heritage and physical expression of the tuna-fishing’s tradition. The aim is to demonstrate that the Sicilian…
Fighting Nature
Fighting Nature is an insightful analysis of the historical legacy of 19th century colonialism, war, animal acquisition and transportation. This legacy of entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit other animal species is yet to be defeated.…
Animal Umwelten in a Changing world: Zoosemiotic Perspectives
The book raises semiotic questions of human–animal relations: what is the semiotic character of different species, how humans endow animals with meaning, and how animal sign exchange and communication has coped with environmental change. The book…
Family Business and Regional Development
This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a…
Women in Business
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Measuring difference, numbering normal
Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period
Measuring difference, numbering normal provides a detailed study of the technological construction of disability by examining how the audiometer and spirometer were used to create numerical proxies for invisible and inarticulable experiences.…
EIB Financial Report 2019
In 2019, the Bank’s lending signatures amounted to EUR 63.3 billion. This report includes the 2019 financial statements and audit report both for the EIB and the EIB Group
Aging Well
Solutions to the Most Pressing Global Challenges of Aging
This open access book outlines the challenges of supporting the health and wellbeing of older adults around the world and offers examples of solutions designed by stakeholders, healthcare providers, and public, private and nonprofit organizations in…
Bearing Witness
This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern…
Just a Dog
Psychiatrists define cruelty to animals as a psychological problem or personality disorder. Legally, animal cruelty is described by a list of behaviors. In Just a Dog, Arnold Arluke argues that our current constructs of animal cruelty are…