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An exclusive essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo and an excerpt
No full textAn exclusive essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo and an excerpt written by him from the new book, A Healing Touch: True Stories of Life, Death, and Hospice. Five other Maine authors contributed to the book, which will benefit the Hospice Volunteers of the Waterville Area
The Area of the Strait Reading Theories and Strategies for a Metropolitan Dimension
No full textAbstractExtending across a peninsular strip going from Gioia Tauro to Melito Porto Salvo on the Calabrian side, and from Milazzo to Giardini Naxos on the Sicilian side, the Strait of Sicily sees theAspromonte massif and the Peloritani mountain range as two facing stage sets of land sketching in the gulf a water piazza of a landscaping room. Described in the proposal by Giuseppe and Alberto Samonà, Ludovico Quaroni, Antonio Quistelli, Sergio Musmeci, Paolo D’Orsi Villani and Leonardo Urbani, it outlines, in the county seats of Reggio Calabria and Messina, the prevalence of a Euclidean space, identifiable in the exact metrics given by the recurrence of the measuring step of the blocks drawn in the reconstruction plans. The geographical dimension and the human nature of the district identify into the longitudinal extension the characterizing element of a territory and with it the main issue of its own logistics coverage. In this scenario the water piazza of the Strait is cut through on a daily basis by the network linking the two sides, like strings of commuter traffic between two strips of land whose distance has always been too small to make out their separate destinies yet too broad to facilitate their joining. It follows the need to reflect upon the infrastructure of the entire surrounding area which, while proposing a study on the themes of accessibility and crossing, also outlines a strategy running on harbours and airports as gateways to the entire area to scale with nature and the size of its traffic
Cover Story piece profiling Richard Russo of Camden, author of Empire Falls,
No full textCover Story piece profiling Richard Russo of Camden, author of Empire Falls, his fifth novel, which was published in May by Knopf. Russo, a native of New York, is also the author of The Risk Pool, Nobody\u27s Fool and Straight Man
Interview in question-and-answer format with Maine writer Richard Russo, author
No full textInterview in question-and-answer format with Maine writer Richard Russo, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Empire Falls. On May 28, HBO will air a two-part miniseries based on the novel. The miniseries stars Ed Harris, Paul Newman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Helen Hunt. Newman also starred in the film adaptation of Russo\u27s Nobody\u27s Fool
Notes on the Critique of Revisionism: Lenin, Mao and Us
No full textRevisionism has been a major internal obstacle to the
subjective body of the communism of the Twentieth century in at least
two turning points, the October Revolution and the Cultural Revolution.
The author examines the common points and the singularities of
these two moments and discusses the contemporary pertinence of the
concep
On the periphery of the Russo-Japanese war part II
No full textSteeds: David Davies, a young member of a prominent Welsh commercial/industrial family, spent the period between October 1904 and January 1905 in Japan, Korea and North China. His diary of the journey presents interesting background on conditions in Japan during what were crucial months in the Russo-Japanese war. Nish: SUEMATSU Kencho, a senior Japanese politician, was sent to Europe at the start of the Russo-Japanese war in order to improve the image of Japan in European countries and dispel the idea of the Yellow Peril. He became the main publicist for the Japanese war effort, lecturing, writing articles and publishing books. He stayed on after the Portsmouth Peace Treaty, returning to Japan in February 1906
Industrial districts in a globalizing world: A model to change or a model of change?
No full textIndustrial districts – and especially industrial districts in Italy – have been put forth as a model of economic development premised on the deep rooting of firms in a local socio-economic system that is both rich in skills and tied into international flows of goods and knowledge. But there is also a sense today that those districts are in transformation, that globalization has put them “on the move.” This has led some to question whether a model that is becoming many models can still in fact be a model. In this paper, we use a study of the Modenese mechanical district – an archetypical industrial district – to examine this “movement.” We argue that when properly understood the Italian districts do still offer lessons that are generalizable to other regional economies. We show that the district in question is changing, and show in particular that there has been a rise to prominence in the district of relatively small multinational firms. These are changes that are not atypical of industrial districts in Italy. We argue that a deeper look at just how the districts are changing makes clear that this rise to prominence has not severed these firms’ ties to smaller firms in the district. Rather, they have drawn upon those relations for essential support both on production and innovation. We also show also that there is a cognizance of this fact in the district, evidenced in efforts to recreate private regional institutions consistent with a district structure “on the move.” Drawing on our these findings, and on a theoretical approach that holds that productive systems in industrial districts are constituted by the multiplicity of interactions between firms, we conclude that changes in the district in question require also changes in the institutions that sustain those interactions, including especially the emergence of “new public spaces” and new “scaffolding structures.” Using the concrete example of a company created to foster collaborative technology transfer among its owner-members, we discuss the nature of the public spaces and scaffolding structures attuned to the needs of a more vertical and fragmented open district structure. We finally consider implications for public policies supporting innovation.Innovation policy; local development policies; regional development policies; evaluation management
"Einfühlung" et "Introjektion". A propos d'Avenarius comme source possible du problème de l'expérience d'autrui chez Lipps
No full textThis paper defends the idea that Richard Avenarius is one of the main sources of Theodor Lipps regarding the problem of the attribution of experiences of consciousness to other men
The album of Mattia De Rossi’s drawings. Projects for the Galleria Colonna ai Santi Apostoli
No full textThe study proposed here on Mattia De Rossi, a pupil of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his most trusted collaborator, is part of an investigation that the author is doing on the figure of the architect, making use of an obvious investigative tool: his drawings.
In particular, the exceptional discovery of a bound volume of about 200 drawings of Mattia is a resource of great effectiveness for the study of his professional figure. Among the sheets of the collection, those relating to the construction site of the Galleria Colonna in the eponymous palace in Piazza SS. Apostoli in Rome, are presented.
These drawings explain the important contribution of Mattia and the creative process that led him to the definitive version of the central hall of the gallery. The drawings are also the only graphic documents related to the project of the Galleria Colonna, now only partially known through hypothetical reconstructions.
The case of the Palazzo Colonna is similar to other projects included in the volume, which enlighten us on De Rossi's career, and which explain his position in several important Roman buildings of the second half of seventeenth centur
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