Dalla memoria sembra riaffacciarsi una vicenda reale vissuta nel mondo giovanile a cavallo fra anni '70 e '80. Il protagonista autocentrato rivive gli anni in cui insoddisfazione e antagonismo lo avevano temporaneamente incanalato nell'impegno politico e nelle strade della liberazione sessuale.

L'antologia di scritti di Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910) ricorda, nel centenario della morte, il titolare della prima cattedra europea di Antropologia. Di formazione medica, Mantegazza praticò un'antropologia a tutto campo, intesa come 'storia naturale dell'uomo', e intervenne nel dibattito scientifico e culturale dell'epoca a molti livelli. La pubblicazione ne rende conto riproponendo integralmente saggi, relazioni di viaggio, lezioni, recensioni, bilanci e progetti.

How deep we can see inside Nature's smallest secrets? Will it be possible some day in the near future to investigate living structures at atomic level? This area of study is very interdisciplinary, since it applies the principles and the techniques of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, and engineering to elucidate the structures of biological macromolecules, of supramolecular structures, organelles, and cells. This book offers updated information on how much information we are able to obtain in the exploration of the inner details of biological specimens in their native structure and composition.The book deals with the implementation of laser beam and stage scanning systems incorporating confocal optics or multiphoton microscopy; the advent of new electro-optical detectors with great sensitivity, linearity, and dynamic range; the possibility of 2D fast image enhancement, reconstruction, restoration, analysis and 3D display, and the application of luminescence techniques (FLIMT, FRET combined with the use of quantum dots), which gives the possibility to investigate the chemical and molecular spatio-temporal organization of life processes; Electron Microscopy and Scanning Force Microscopy (SFM), are also presented, which has opened completely new perspectives for analyzing the surface topography of biological matter in its aqueous environment at a resolution comparable to that achieved by EM.