Il volume, arricchito da una postfazione inedita e aggiornata dell'autrice, offre in traduzione italiana un lavoro ormai classico di Sophie Moirand dedicato al trattamento mediatico degli eventi scientifici e tecnologici a carattere politico, come la crisi della mucca pazza o le polemiche sugli OGM, che restano al centro di un dibattito sulla sicurezza alimentare ancora attuale. Muovendosi all'interno dei quadri teorici dell'analisi del discorso francese (ADF), l'autrice approfondisce in maniera originale la nozione di dialogismo, mutuata dal circolo di Bachtin, per descrivere la formazione delle memorie collettive. Se la mediatizzazione dei fatti scientifici porta in primo piano discussioni e conflitti di una democrazia avanzata, l'indagine risulta centrata sul confronto tra i punti di vista delle diverse comunità linguistiche coinvolte e sullo scontro tra le narrazioni antagoniste veicolate dalla stampa quotidiana. Introduzione di Lorella Martinelli.

The award-winning Rough Guide to Japan makes the ideal travel companion to one of the world's most unique and dynamic countries.

In full color throughout, this opinionated guide is packed with essential information on the latest and best places to sleep, eat, party and shop and includes pointers on etiquette and other cultural niceties. Maps of all the main tourist destinations and easy-to-read color transportation maps of the Tokyo and Osaka train and subway systems help you navigate the major cities.

From neon-soaked Tokyo to temple-studded Kyoto and snow-topped Mount Fuji, all of the major travel hotspots are covered in full, and The Rough Guide to Japan also points the way to off-the-beaten-track gems: Soak in a live-volcano hot spring on Kyushu island, go diving in tropical Okinawa, or wind your way through mountain traverses in the Japan Alps.

You'll also find a richer understanding of the country through chapters on Japan's history, religions, arts, movies, music, and pressing environmental issues.

Make the Most of Your Time on Earth with The Rough Guide to Japan.

About Rough Guides: For thirty years, adventurous travelers have turned to Rough Guides for up-to-date and intuitive information from expert authors. With opinionated and lively writing, honest reviews, and a strong cultural background, Rough Guides travel books bring more than two hundred destinations to life.

Memory and meaning are at the heart of this oversized, content-rich picture book celebrating the life of Marcel, a soulful elephant. From the towering buildings outside his window and his recollected world travels, to the friends, flora, and fauna that flourish around him, Marcel finds significance in his surroundings and, most importantly, in life's abundant details. Marcel is writing an encyclopedia, after all, and his entries are featured in full-page spreads packed with facts, elegantly situated alongside the story of his day and his life. Part story and part miscellany, this unforgettable book with dream-like illustrations will transfix both parents and children.

Gérard Encausse (1865-1916), che già da quando era molto giovane conobbe la notorietà con il nome di Papus, fissò, con la sua vasta impresa di sintesi e di volgarizzazione, un'immagine dell'occultismo che ha ancora corso oggi. Le sue principali opere sono sempre disponibili in libreria ed è necessario, per comprendere meglio la loro importanza storica, rimetterle nel contesto storico della loro epoca. La vita agitata di Papus, la cui conoscenza permette di comprendere meglio la sua opera, è testimone di un momento in cui alla laicizzazione dello Stato si rispose con l'emergere di correnti spirituali in margine alle religioni ufficiali: colui che la stampa dell'epoca chiamava "il mago Papus" tentò di federare queste correnti in nome di un sincretismo religioso segnato da messianismo. Questa biografia, che è al contempo uno studio delle ambizioni politiche e dei turbinii religiosi che segnarono la Belle Époque attraverso le sue "società segrete", rivela un'infinità di personaggi che sognavano tutti, all'alba del XX secolo, una trasfigurazione del mondo. Esisteva già un profilo biografico di Papus, quello scritto da suo figlio Philippe Encausse, ma quest'ultimo sembra aver fatto una cernita tra ciò che giudicava "divulgabile" e quello che non lo sarebbe stato: così, questi diede come lascito una parte degli archivi di Papus alla Biblioteca di Lione e ne conservò il resto. Alla sua morte, il contenuto della sua cantina fu scaricato davanti al suo domicilio, destinato ad essere distrutto, ma, per un caso straordinario, uno degli autori della presente opera, Marie-Sophie André, i

Che cosa ci sarebbe di più facile che ricambiare l'amore quando hai nelle vene il sangue felino dell'antica stirpe e se a stringerti tra le braccia è un uomo solitario e selvaggio dagli irresistibili occhi d'ambra? Non vi sarebbero freni alla passione di Leila Anwari irriducibile e ribelle se non fosse per la violenza inferta alla sua stessa famiglia dalla tirannide e se il richiamo della vendetta non fosse alimentato da un'inestinguibile sete di sangue. Una ragazza, sola tra odio e amore, in guerra per il riscatto dell'intera Germania dalla dittatura feroce di Assim e degli Arcieri.

Plants and microbes interact in a complex relationship that can have both harmful and beneficial impacts on both plant and microbial communities. Effectors, secreted microbial molecules that alter plant processes and facilitate colonization, are central to understanding the complicated interplay between plants and microbes.  Effectors in Plant-Microbe Interactions unlocks the molecular basis of this important class of microbial molecules and describes their diverse and complex interactions with host plants.

Effectors in Plant Microbe Interactions is divided into five sections that take stock of the current knowledge on effectors of plant-associated organisms. Coverage ranges from the impact of bacterial, fungal and oomycete effectors on plant immunity and high-throughput genomic analysis of effectors to the function and trafficking of these microbial molecules. The final section looks at effectors secreted by other eukaryotic microbes that are the focus of current and future research efforts.

Written by leading international experts in plant-microbe interactions, Effectors in Plant Microbe Interactions, will be an essential volume for plant biologists, microbiologists, pathologists, and geneticists.

At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an urban-centered, industrial-based culture--an entirely new social reality based on science and technology. The authors show that this invention of modernity was brought about through the efforts of urban elites--businessmen, industrialists, and officials--to establish new science- and technology-related institutions. International expositions, museums, and other such institutions and projects helped stem the economic and social instability fueled by industrialization, projecting the past and the future as part of a steady continuum of scientific and technical progress. The authors examine the dynamic connecting urban planning, museums, educational institutions, and expositions in Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo from 1870 to 1930. In Third Republic Paris, politicians, administrators, social scientists, architects, and engineers implemented the future city through a series of commissions, agencies, and organizations; in rapidly expanding London, cultures of science and technology were both rooted in and constitutive of urban culture; in Chicago after the Great Fire, Commercial Club members pursued civic ideals through scientific and technological change; in Berlin, industry, scientific institutes, and the popularization of science helped create a modern metropolis; and in Meiji-era Tokyo (Edo), modernization and Westernization went hand in hand.

When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sending shockwaves through the world of Barsetshire. The Crawley family desperately try to remain dignified while they are shunned by society, but the scandal threatens to tear them, and the community, apart.
Drawing on his own childhood experience of genteel poverty, Trollope gives a painstakingly realistic depiction of the trials of a family striving to maintain its standards at all costs. With its sensitive portrayal of the proud and self-destructive figure of Crawley, this final volume in the Barsetshire series is the darkest and most complex of all.