I giuristi hanno tradizionalmente adottato un approccio limitato all'esegesi delle fonti sulla produzione, limitazione necessaria quando si tratti di stabilire se una norma è valida oppure no. Ma quando s'intende elaborare una teoria della legislazione (e dunque un suo modello descrittivo) questo metodo lascia in ombra i processi decisionali e relazionali, le strategie e le dinamiche degli attori, i rapporti e le interazioni con il contesto, e molti altri fattori che incidono significativamente sull'attività legislativa e sul suo risultato. Analizzando l'isolamento della scienza giuridica dalle altre scienze sociali (e l'equivoco positivista che ha contribuito ad alimentarlo), e attraverso un percorso che va da Weber a Lyotard, da Filangieri a Simon, da Luhmann a Parsons e a Weick, l'autore compie il tentativo di integrare il metodo giuridico con i paradigmi descrittivi delle altre scienze, esaminando in particolare tre caratteri della legislazione normalmente trascurati dagli studi formalisti: la razionalità, la diffusività e la precarietà. II risultato è un'introduzione a una teoria realista della legislazione, che si propone di descrivere l'attività legislativa per come effettivamente si svolge, teoria della quale sono anche considerate le possibili implicazioni (fra cui la sua valenza come presupposto per la valorizzazione del principio di rappresentanza).

Myriam percorre un viaggio appassionante che la porta alla scoperta di una nuova vita. La giovane abbandona l'Italia e le persone a lei care per andare a studiare e poi a lavorare a Londra. La sua vita londinese le apre molte porte e le fa conoscere persone che resteranno sempre nel suo cuore. Ma il viaggio più importante viene effettuato dentro di sé: un percorso lento e faticoso aiutato anche da una spiritualità ritrovata in India e che condurrà Myriam alla scoperta di se stessa. Complici del coinvolgimento di questo romanzo sono senza dubbio l'arancione, il turchese, il rosso, il bianco, il verde e il nero del Ladakh, una terra esotica che la giovane porterà sempre dentro di sé.

This volume is based on the premise that the specificities of urban locality play a determinative role in migration experiences. Editors Schiller (social anthropology, U. of Manchester, UK) and Çaglar (sociology and social anthropology, Central European U., Hungary) note, for example, that it should be obvious that 'migrant settlement and transnational connection in denigrated provincial cities would differ from that in urban centers with worldwide reputation as desirable places to live.' In order to address this neglected aspect of migration research they bring together scholars of urban sociospatiality and the neoliberal restructuring of cities with ethnographers focused on migrants' settlement and transnationality in order to examine case studies of cities in the United States, Europe, and Africa that address how migrants' transnationalism is shaped by the global contexts of particular cities and particular places and institutions within those cities. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Czech Reader brings together more than 150 primary texts and illustrations to convey the dramatic history of the Czechs, from the emergence of the Czech state in the tenth century, through the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 and the Czech Republic in 1993, into the twenty-first century. The Czechs have preserved their language, traditions, and customs, despite their incorporation into the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Third Reich, and the Eastern Bloc. Organized chronologically, the selections in The Czech Reader include the letter to the Czech people written by the religious reformer and national hero Jan Hus in 1415, and Charter 77, the fundamental document of an influential anticommunist initiative launched in 1977 in reaction to the arrest of the Plastic People of the Universe, an underground rock band. There is a speech given in 1941 by Reinhard Heydrich, a senior Nazi official and Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, as well as one written by Vaclav Havel in 1984 for an occasion abroad, but read by the Czech-born British dramatist Tom Stoppard, since Havel, the dissident playwright and future national leader, was not allowed to leave Czechoslovakia. Among the songs, poems, folklore, fiction, plays, paintings, and photographs of monuments and architectural landmarks are 'Let Us Rejoice,' the most famous chorus from Bedfich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride; a letter the composer Antonin Dvorak sent from New York, where he directed the National Conservatory of Music in the 189os; a story by Franz Kafka; and an excerpt from Milan Kundera's The Joke. Intended for travelers, students, and scholars alike, The Czech Reader is a rich introduction to the turbulent history and resilient culture of the Czech people.

Jan BaPant is a senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy in Prague. He was previously director of the Institute for Classical Studies.

Nina BaPantovß is an art historian and former curator of historical textiles at the Museum of Applied Arts in Prague.

Frances Starn is a writer living in Berkeley, California.

Explores the flourishing, passionate forms of leadership emerging from women on behalf of the earth and community

• Contains more than 30 essays from successful women leaders, including writers Alice Walker and Eve Ensler, psychiatrist Jean Shinoda Bolen, holistic doctor Rachel Naomi Remen, hip-hop performer Rha Goddess, and famous tree-sitter Julia Butterfly Hill

• From Bioneers president and cofounder Nina Simons

Many today find themselves being called toward greater leadership on behalf of the Earth, toward leadership sourced from their inner authority and inspired by what they love and are dedicated to protect, transform, and strengthen. Those successfully heeding this call have embraced the qualities previously relegated to the “feminine”--inner awareness, collaboration, relational intelligence, respect for the sacred and generosity--and married them to the best of their “masculine” attributes to create a new form of leadership more inspiring, inviting, and effective for transforming how we live on Earth and with each other.

This anthology presents more than 30 essays from eminent women trailblazers--such as author Alice Walker, psychiatrist Jean Shinoda Bolen, playwright Eve Ensler, holistic doctor Rachel Naomi Remen, biologist Janine Benyus, hip-hop performer Rha Goddess, and famous tree-sitter Julia Butterfly Hill--as well as lesser-known but equally influential leaders--such as social entrepreneur Judy Wicks, philanthropic activist Kathy LeMay, food justice advocate LaDonna Redmond, and media educator Sofia Quintero. Their narratives explore how they cultivated their leadership impulses and their “feminine” strengths, reinventing leadership to prioritize community, collaboration, the environment, and the common good. Illuminating a path to progressive environmental and social change, their passionate stories of joyful, creative, collaborative, and sacred leadership ignite within each reader the power to help cocreate a healthy, peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

In the wildly popular The Little Black Book of Style, fashion authority Nina Garcia showed women how to think about personal style in an entirely new way. Encouraging readers to creatively assert their style identities, Nina showed women of all ages how to hone and self-edit a distinct fashion voice.

With her style philosophy firmly out in the world, Nina decided to address the most popular question readers consistently ask her: Exactly what are fashion's timeless pieces?

The One Hundred answers this question and provides women with a tangible style map to follow when planning a shopping trip and stocking one's closet. With illustrations from world-renowned fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo, The One Hundred contains the 100 items that Nina believes will never go out of style and that have become absolutely indispensable for any woman attaining her own eternal fashion look.

Every time you dress, you assert your identity. With style, you tell the world your story. In that way, style affords you opportunities to think about your appearance as a quality of your creative character. The Little Black Book of Style helps you to explore your own fashion voice?the piece of you that joyously revels in the glamorous experience of creating your best self.

From cultivating good taste to guarding against definite fashion faux pas, Nina Garcia offers readers the ultimate guide to follow when it comes to dressing their best. Including advice on how best to wear an outfit and when occasion wear is appropriate, tips on combining color and texture, and the inspiration to achieve your own signature look, this book will show you how to experiment, storyboard, archive, and play. Timeless and universal, this book reminds us that eternal style is internal style, and that women everywhere have what it takes to discover themselves through the colorful palette that is fashion.

From much-loved fashion maven and New York Times bestselling author Nina Garcia comes her most indispensable style primer yet—this one focused on looking timelessly chic, all while saving money!

Armed with Nina's no-fail The Style Strategy, fashionistas will not only discover a myriad of shopping alternatives sure to help them attain high-end looks at lower prices but will also learn how to maximize what they already have through maintenance, ingenuity, and creative style choices. Step-by-step, Nina helps readers honestly answer three key questions—What do I have? What do I need? What do I want?—before making purchases, so they can effectively eliminate any unnecessary spending.

This book also celebrates some of history's most extraordinary women who remained admiringly fashion-forward during their own era's economic hardships.

For Years, the librarians at the New-York Historical Society have kept a record of the questions posed to them by curious New Yorkers and visitors to the city. Who was the first woman to run for mayor of New York? Why are beavers featured on the city's official seal? Is it true that a nineteenth-century New Yorker built a house out of spite? These questions involve people, places, buildings, monuments, rumors, and urban myths. They concern sports, food, transportation, the arts, politics, nature, and Central Park, among many other subjects. Taken together, they attest to the infinite stories hidden within the most intriguing metropolis in the world.

In When Did the Statue of Liberty Turn Green? The staff of the New-York Historical Society Library answer more than a hundred of the most popular and compelling queries. The endlessly entertaining entries in this book feature hard-to-find data and unforgettable profiles, sharing snapshots of New York's secret history for all to enjoy. Drawing on the library's extensive collections, the staff reveal when the first book was printed in New York, whether the story of Harlem residents presenting rats to government officials is true, who exactly were the Collyer brothers and why were they famous, and why premature babies were once displayed in Coney Island. For readers who love trivia, urban history, strange tales, and, of course, New York City, this book will delight with its rich, informative, and surprising stories. The New-York Historical Society, a preeminent educational and research institution, is home to both New York City's oldest museum and one of the nation's most distinguished independent research libraries. Each year, the library staff assists more than 5000 researchers on-site and another 5000 remotely.

From the fashion director of Marie Claire and star judge on Project Runway, comes an accessible and classy illustrated guide to what to wear on any occasion. By the author of The Style Strategy

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Izzy the ice-cream truck is doing everything he can think of to make himself dizzy, but nothing seems to be working as well as he'd like. Among other attempts, Izzy goes through the car wash, gets covered in suds, and spins himself in circles. In all his efforts, he gets in a tizzy, feels whizzy and fizzy…but is Izzy ever dizzy?

Young readers will love this tongue-twisting, rhyming text—and many of the words in the book can be found on road signs, making it easy and fun for kids to apply their knowledge!

First published in 1792 in response to Talleyrand's report to the French National Assembly recommending that women only be given education in domestic matters, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a foundational text of European bourgeois feminism (although the term 'feminism' had of course yet to be invented). This volume reproduces Wollstonecraft's pamphlet with some minor changes modernizing punctuation and spelling. It is introduced by socialist feminist Rowbotham (U. of Manchester, UK), who places the work and its author in historical and biographical context and traces the evolution of Wollstonecraft's reputation through history. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where “regenerative” commercial buildings – ones that create more energy than they use – are being designed. A world in which environmentally sound products and processes would be more cost-effective than wasteful ones. A world in which corporations such as Costco, Nike, BP, and countless others are forming partnerships with environmental and social justice organizations to ensure better stewardship of the earth and better livelihoods in the developing world. Now, stop imagining – that world is already emerging.

A revolution is underway in today's organizations. As Peter Senge and his co-authors reveal in The Necessary Revolution, companies around the world are boldly leading the change from dead-end “business as usual” tactics to transformative strategies that are essential for creating a flourishing, sustainable world. There is a long way to go, but the era of denial has ended. Today's most innovative leaders are recognizing that for the sake of our companies and our world, we must implement revolutionary—not just incremental—changes in the way we live and work.

Brimming with inspiring stories from individuals and organizations tackling social and environmental problems around the globe, THE NECESSARY REVOLUTION reveals how ordinary people at every level are transforming their businesses and communities. By working collaboratively across boundaries, they are exploring and putting into place unprecedented solutions that move beyond just being “less bad” to creating pathways that will enable us to flourish in an increasingly interdependent world. Among the stories in these pages are the evolution of Sweden's “Green Zone,” Alcoa's water use reduction goals, GE's ecoimagination initiative, and Seventh Generation's decision to shift some of their advertising to youth-led social change programs.

At its heart, THE NECESSARY REVOLUTION contains a wealth of strategies that individuals and organizations can use — specific tools and ways of thinking — to help us build the confidence and competence to respond effectively to the greatest challenge of our time. It is an essential guidebook for all of us who recognize the need to act and work together—now—to create a sustainable world, both for ourselves and for the generations to follow.

The residential construction market may have its ups and downs, but the need to keep your construction knowledge current never lets up.

Now, with the latest edition of Architectural Graphic Standards for Residential Construction, you can keep your practice at the ready. This edition was expertly redesigned to include all-new material on current technology specific to residential projects for anyone designing, constructing, or modifying a residence. With additional, new content covering sustainable and green designs, sample residential drawings, residential construction code requirements, and contemporary issues in residential construction, it's a must-have resource. And now it's easier to get the information you need when you need it with references to the relevant building codes built right into the details and illustrations. These new 'smart' details go beyond dimensions with references to the International Residential Building Code—presenting all the information you need right at your fingertips. New features and highlights include:

• Loads of previously unpublished content—over 80% is either new or entirely revised
• Sustainable/ green design information in every chapter—a must today's practicing building and construction professionals
• Coverage of contemporary issues in residential construction—aging in place, new urbanism, vacation and small homes, historic residences…it's all here.
• Coverage of single- and multi-family dwellings—complete coverage of houses, row homes and quadraplexes as dictated by the International Residential Building Codes.

Over the past two decades there have been significant advances in the field of optimization. In particular, convex optimization has emerged as a powerful signal processing tool, and the variety of applications continues to grow rapidly. This book, written by a team of leading experts, sets out the theoretical underpinnings of the subject and provides tutorials on a wide range of convex optimization applications. Emphasis throughout is on cutting-edge research and on formulating problems in convex form, making this an ideal textbook for advanced graduate courses and a useful self-study guide. Topics covered range from automatic code generation, graphical models, and gradient-based algorithms for signal recovery, to semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation and radar waveform design via SDP. It also includes blind source separation for image processing, robust broadband beamforming, distributed multi-agent optimization for networked systems, cognitive radio systems via game theory, and the variational inequality approach for Nash equilibrium solutions.

This brand new edition, four color, complete with interactive CD, Medical Assisting book is all about Connections: Medical Assistant's connections with patients, physicians, offices and jobs. Pearson's Comprehensive Medical Assisting, 1e, is the first book to help students succeed in both the classroom and in their careers.  It helps students take information from 'what you need to do' to  'how to do it'.  Strong integration of tips, hints and guidelines help students avoid common performance mishaps while peforming clinical skills and the softer skills (e.g. timeliness, presentation, interpersonal relations). Some brand new features of this edition are:

• 51 new procedures (See the list of procedures with highlighting)
• Charting Examples at the end of every appropriate procedure
• Certification Link—chart of topics covered in the chapter that will be found on the CMA and RMA examinations
• New Case Studies at the beginning of each chapter.
• Professionalism: The Workplace—provides short tips for the workplace
• Judgment Call—presents an ethical issue or dilemma and one critical thinking question

This is a perfect resource for Medical Assisting students or medical assistants practicing within the field.

Questo libro analizza la produzione lirica intorno al tema dell'esilio composta durante ma anche dopo il periodo storico-letterario della Exilliteratur in senso stretto, concentrandosi sull'area culturale austriaca. I nomi di autori austriaci dell'esilio più ricordati sono generalmente quelli di prosatori e romanzieri (St. Zweig, J. Roth, R. Musil, H. Broch, F. Werfel, E. Canetti). Meno presenti e soprattutto meno inseriti nel contesto della letteratura dell'esilio sono i poeti, forse perché più atipici rispetto all'immagine consueta e più proiettati in avanti con la loro produzione. Paul Celan, Rose Ausländer, Erich Fried, Theodor Kramer, Berthold Viertel, Ernst Waldinger, Paula Ludwig, Alfred Gong, Hugo Huppert, Felix Pollack e a suo modo Ingeborg Bachmann sono alcuni dei poeti di origine austriaca che hanno vissuto e scritto in e di un esilio andato ben oltre i limiti temporali dell'immediato dopoguerra, continuando spesso a muoversi senza sosta tra due o più paesi, tra due o più lingue.

Il grido di Ivan Karamazov: 'Posto che tutti si debba soffrire, per comperare a prezzo di sofferenza la futura armonia, che c'entrano i bambini?', oggi più che mai, è rivelazione dello strazio che lacera il mondo, viola la dignità umana, oscura la luce del Bene. Che cosa è Dio se i bambini sono violati? Dove è Dio se la loro luce è rivestita di tenebre? Chi è Dio se la loro anima è lacerata? Da Povera Gente a I Fratelli Karamazov, attraverso Netocka Nezvanova, Umiliati e offesi, Delitto e castigo, I demoni, L'adolescente, appare evidente la dimensione teologica della questione, che costituisce, se non 'il problema', un nodo essenziale e oscuro della poetica dostoevskiana: angeli sigillati abitano le sue pagine, angeli cui è stato impedito il volo, cui è stata negata l'infanzia, la gioia dei primi anni, lo sguardo di meraviglia di fronte alla vita; angeli che vivono in tuguri fatiscenti, agli angoli delle strade, in famiglie disperate e sottoposti a soprusi e vessazioni di ogni tipo: una processione di vite bambine spezzate nel loro principio e profanate nella loro innocenza. Attraverso le vite di Varen'ka, Nelly, Netocka, Matrësa, Arkadij, fino alla tragica storia di Il'jusa Snegirèv, questo saggio conduce una scrupolosa analisi sui bambini e la sofferenza nell'opera di F.M. Dostoevskij.

Questo libro intende raccontare tutti i passi che separano una giovane promessa della musica leggera italiana, Malika Ayane, dalla sua prima partecipazione al Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo, nella categoria Nuove Proposte, nel febbraio del 2009, a quella tra i Big del 2010. Dai provini della canzone con cui parteciperà al suo esordio sanremese, scritta per lei da Giuliano Sangiorgi dei Negramaro, all'incontro con Gino Paoli, che vestirà i panni del suo 'padrino' durante i giorni della kermesse sanremese, le pagine seguono passo passo ogni singola mossa della giovane cantante di origini marocchine (ma milanese a tutti gli effetti): il giro per Show Rooms in compagnia della sua stylist di fiducia, le sessioni di studio, l'attesa per la risposta della commissione, i preparativi, le interviste e i servizi fotografici, via via fino alla partecipazione a quella prima edizione, la vittoria sfiorata e il successo incredibile che seguirà. Malika Ayane, giovane ragazza ch'armante dall'indubbio talento, parte alla volta del Festival con tutte le speranze che una voce incredibile come la sua può giustificare. E una volta arrivata nella Città dei fiori, di colpo si trova proiettata nel grande circo, paparazzata mentre va al supermercato e lusingata dai grandi nomi del panorama italiano.