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Este libro reúne los trabajos en los que el autor ha plasmado sus reflexiones sobre el modo en que se escribe la historia del derecho, y sobre las razones, fines e intenciones que mueven a quienes cultivan esa especialidad de la historia. La historiografía se contempla teniendo en cuenta sus resultados, no su metodología teórica, y atendiendo tanto a sus condicionamientos de presente como a sus potencialidades de futuro. Se abordan en estas páginas aspectos tales como la reconstrucción políticamente interesada de escuelas histórico-jurídicas a partir de los años cuarenta del último siglo, la renovación y apertura de perspectivas historiográficas en torno a los años ochenta, o la posible incidencia de la normalidad constitucional en la reconstrucción y exposición de los órdenes jurídicos y constitucionales del pasado.

The volume collects the proceedings of the international conference Music for the Environment (Naples, November 13 and 14, 2024), an important awareness-raising initiative aimed at strengthening civic sense with regard to the environmental problem. In recent years, the issue of anthropogenic pollution and its impact on nature has become increasingly important, stimulating profound changes in everyday life. Sustainability now guides every sector of social life, and even the academic world is engaged in various areas of research to propose and test solutions that can contribute to a ‘green shift’. Among the various sources of environmental pollution, as demonstrated by some of the contributions in the volume, music holds a considerable specific weight. This is mainly due to the organization of live events, the consumption of streaming music, and the production of records and instruments. However, as other contributions highlight, music can also be a virtuous example of sustainability, effectively limiting its environmental impact, and it can represent a powerful means of change in contributing to the construction of more environmentally responsible communities.

The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to accommodate, seemingly without friction, the notion that cancer was a disease with humoral origins alongside the conviction that the malady was in some sense ontologically independent. Discussions of why cancer spread rapidly through the body, and was difficult, if not impossible, to cure, prompted various medical explanations at the same time that physicians and surgeons joined with non-medical authors in describing the disease as acting in a way that was ‘malignant’ in the fullest sense, purposely ‘fierce’, ‘rebellious’ and intractable.3 Theories seeking to explain why cancer appeared most often in the female breast similarly joined culturally mediated anatomical and humoral theory with recognition of the peculiarities of women’s social, domestic and emotional life-cycles. Moreover, as a morbid disease, cancer generated eclectic and sometimes extreme medical responses, the mixed results of which would prompt many questions over the proper extent of pharmaceutical or surgical intervention.

Le présent volume prend place dans la série Histoire de la littérature française précédemment éditée chez Nathan. Publié pour la première fois en 1989, il a été profondément remanié à la lumière des recherches les plus récentes. Il présente et analyse les principales œuvres du xviie siècle dans leur originalité singulière, tout en les replaçant dans leur contexte littéraire et socio-culturel, pour expliquer l’évolution des genres, des thèmes, des structures et des styles par la transformation des publics, des auteurs, de leurs protecteurs, de la fonction même de la littérature et de ses conditions de production et de réception. Il distingue les différentes périodes du siècle et en définit les caractères, replaçant les œuvres à la fois dans une continuité diachronique et dans leur fonction synchronique. Il montre, pour chaque époque, les tendances communes et la différenciation des genres et des visions. Il favorise ainsi l’inscription des connaissances dans une réflexion historique. Destiné aux étudiants de Lettres de tous niveaux (classes préparatoires, premier et second cycles des universités), cet ouvrage sera aussi très utile pour la préparation des concours.

En instituant des systèmes de régulation propres aux populations définitivement condamnées aux formes d'activités précaires les plus éloignées de la logique salariale, les politiques d'emploi ont rendu quasi « naturelle » l'idée qu'il existait des « inemployables » irrémédiablement condamnées à des formes d'activités marginales, voire à une marginalisation définitive loin du marché du travail.

Axel Honneth a élaboré une critique de la société moderne au prisme du concept de reconnaissance. Jacques Rancière a construit une théorie de la politique moderne à partir du concept de mésentente. Ils s’attachent tous deux à analyser les logiques d’exclusion et de domination qui structurent les sociétés contemporaines. Dans un précieux dialogue, les deux philosophes explorent les affinités et les tensions entre leurs approches respectives. Ils contribuent ainsi à renouveler le cadre d’une théorie critique et à repenser les conditions du changement social et politique. La discussion est enrichie par des textes des deux penseurs, et elle est précédée d’une présentation substantielle qui remet en perspective ce dialogue critique.

This book provides a systematic and updated scientific perspective on the physiology of circadian rhythms, the molecular mechanisms of circadian entrainment, the pharmacological features derived from these signalling pathways, and their clinical outcomes. It offers a comprehensive perspective on the chronobiological impact on normal developmental processes, disruptive events that modulate the occurrence of diverse imbalances that sometimes imply disease, and the increasing importance of circadian rhythms in drug delivery.

Giacomo Verde (Cimitile 1956-Lucca 2020), video artist and techno performer, has dedicated his entire life to the creation of a social and participatory art that directly engages the audience in the creative process, with the use of analogue, digital and web technologies. Verde was a tireless experimenter with new technologies, favouring the use of a poor technology, reinvented in relation to changing expressive needs. The present book follows, just over a year later, the previous text entitled Giacomo Verde. Attraversamenti tra teatro e video (1986-1992), also published by Milano University Press. The research is continued in this volume, which aims to show the artist's work in the period 1993-2003 through preparatory materials for interactive performances and installations that highlight the importance of drawing as a substantial medium in Verde's technological creative process.

Climate change and deoxygenation are among the most urgent threats to our planet’s oceans, rivers, and lakes, and the animals that inhabit them. The impact of warming waters and declining oxygen levels includes shifts in individual growth and reproduction, as well as changes in population dynamics and species distribution. These developments demand action, but to act effectively it is important to understand the general mechanisms that drive these trends. This book presents a theoretical framework for explaining how warming waters and deoxygenation affect the growth and reproduction of fish and other water-breathing animals. Despite their diversity, these organisms share fundamental life-history traits shaped by common physiological mechanisms and constraints. We address these mechanisms within the Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT), which explains growth and reproduction in terms of oxygen uptake capacity. Building on decades of research, this book outlines the principles of GOLT and explores its wide-ranging applications in ecology, physiology, and reproductive biology. By presenting this unifying framework, the book provides a foundation for more effective responses to the current crisis in our planet's waters.

The study examines the environmental impact in the Jequetepeque district, with the aim of understanding the problem and proposing sustainable solutions. The methodology used was the ethnographic method because a problem was understood and described in depth through the perception of its members. It consisted of applying 24 interviews to various local actors, carried out by students from the professional school of social work of the National University of Trujillo, occurred in four phases: group formation, question formulation, interviews and writing of results. The results reveal a worrying situation due to environmental degradation, lack of management of natural resources and violation of human rights. Problems were identified such as lack of drinking water and drainage, inadequate solid waste management and lack of health services. Proposed strategies include awareness raising, community collaboration, environmental education, and seeking financial and government support. The study concludes that addressing environmental impact requires a comprehensive approach that engages the community, promotes environmental awareness, and seeks sustainable solutions for a healthier future in Jequetepeque.

This Element tries to discern the known unknowns in the field of Pragmatics, the 'Dark Matter' of the title. It thus offers a brief review of some central areas of pragmatics, and a survey of targets for future research. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

The first interdisciplinary comparative examination of populism in the cases of Donald Trump and Marine Le PenOffers an original interdisciplinary perspective on politics that introduces concepts, methods and tools drawn from theatre and performance studies to the literature in political scienceProvides theoretical innovations in the study of populism as a performative and stylistic phenomenonIntroduces an original methodological tool: the political performance analysis questionnaire (PPAQ) which synthesises inputs from theatre studies and sociology, while providing a transferable tool for scholars interested in examining political performancesDevelops a detailed comparative case study through an analysis of a corpus of diversified political performances (including rally speeches, presidential debates, and political advertisements)Offers the first book-length comparative analysis of Marine Le Pen and her use of populism in the English language, along with a comparison with Donald TrumpThrough a comparative case study analysing the 2016 and 2017 presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, The Populist Style examines the links between far-right ideology and populism. Adopting an interdisciplinary framework combining political science and performance studies, this book develops a critical definition of populism as a style, that is, as a repertoire of political performances that shapes and is given shape by ideological content.The book argues that the populist style relies on three clusters of performances: performances of identity, performances of transgression and performances of crisis. Through an analysis of a corpus including presidential debates, speeches during rallies and political advertisements drawn from the campaigns of Trump and Le Pen, this book shows the adaptability of the populist style and its relevance as discursive-performative strategy across two different national contexts as it was used by far-right political actors to make their reactionary agenda and exclusionary nationalism more appealing.

This Edited Volume Current and Emerging Challenges in the Diseases of Trees is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of Life Sciences. The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert active in the Agricultural and Biological Sciences research area. All chapters are complete in themselves but united under a common research study topic. This publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on Agricultural and Biological Sciences and open new possible research paths for further novel developments.

Optimisation is one of the unavoidable key subjects in engineering and other real-world problems, which attracts researchers’ and practitioners’ attention for decades. On the other hand, computational algorithms nowadays play a definitive role in most real-life applications, from mobile phones to supercomputers, Internet servers, manufacturing, etc. An intelligent method for the enumeration of feasible solutions may lead to efficient computational algorithms. Swarm intelligence emerges as a rather new and novel of field computational intelligence that turned into a hot spot in optimization studies last two decades. This book brings together a number of research articles within the intersection of these two prominent subjects, which introduces techniques and approaches in detail and demonstrates how optimisation problems can be solved with heuristic and swarm intelligence approaches. It contains a few contributions on Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) area, which is one of renown swarm optimisation approaches that will shed light to issues around optimisation with swarm intelligence to guide junior researchers with implementation details provided.