Product Description: This volume directs a transdisciplinary gaze on the field of Renaissance Studies as currently practised in Europe, North America and beyond. The concept of the Renaissance as applied to a particular time and place is still regarded as being of central importance to the history of thought and culture...read more

Product Description: Modern communications allow the instant dissemination of information and images, creating a sensation of virtual presence at events that occur far away. This sensation gives meaning to the notions of 'real time' and of a 'present' that is shared within and among societies”in other words, a sensation of contemporaneity...read more

Product Description: English summary: She was the daughter of a Genoese mattress maker, he a prince belonging to the Medici dynasty and the natural son of Cosimo I. While opposed by his family, the relationship between Livia Vernazza and Don Giovanni de'Medici was consecrated after eleven years by marriage in 1619...read more

Product Description: How will humanity continue to meet its energy needs without destroying the conditions necessary to sustain human life on earth? The search for an answer to this question depends as much on the past as on the present; and as much on the physical sciences as on the social sciences...read more

Product Description: One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome. The city's most notorious astrologer--Orazio Morandi, abbot of the monastery of Santa Prassede--was brought before the governor's court on charges of possessing prohibited books, fortune telling, and political chicanery...read more

Product Description: In this book, Brendan Dooley examines Italian scientific communications in early modern history. He demonstrates that Italian science between the age of Galileo and the age of Galvani and Volta underwent two revolutions. While the methodological innovations of the time have received copious attention, Dooley is concerned with the revolution in published communicatons, which has hardly been studied at all...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Surgery, Ethics and the Law discusses the main ethical and legal problems that confront surgeons in their practices. Medical litigation, risk management, informed consent, research (animal welfare in research), professional obligations and standards, impaired surgeon, and organ donation are the issues that form the basis of the book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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