Greci e Troiani, Afgani e Occidentali, Elena e Menelao, Gabriele e Karim: cosa accomuna tutti costoro? Un'unica semplice parola: guerra. O forse meglio definirla contesa, una lunga contesa tra l'essere umano e la sua essenza, la ricerca di quel punto di contatto che troppo spesso culture diverse, visioni egocentriche, pensieri parziali non possono trovare. In una contesa c' sempre un oggetto da difendere o da pretendere. E tale tensione slancia l'umano in una dimensione arealistica, in un viaggio che trova fine solo nel confronto tra il s e l'altro diverso da s .
Provate a immaginare il piccolo Isacco, fra le braccia della madre Sara, mentre osserva il padre e pensa al momento in cui, lo stesso uomo, lo ha stretto fra le gambe e, con in pugno il coltello, ha alzato il braccio per colpirlo, per ucciderlo. E provate ad immedesimarvi nello stato d'animo del vecchio Abramo mentre osserva il figlio e tenta di trovare delle parole adeguate per spiegargli il perche della sua incredibile azione! Il terrore e lo sgomento saranno rimasti per tanto tempo stagnanti nei loro cuori e nella loro memoria, com'e rimasta, per una eternita, quella scintilla di sole sulla lama del coltello alzato: un riflesso di Dio sugli occhi di Abramo, pieni di lacrime!
Abramo Lincoln Dall'incipit del libro: Scoccano certe ore, nella giornata dei popoli, che sono come il riassunto dei tempi che le precedettero; che sembrano essere il punto culminante d'un periodo ed al momento stesso il primo istante di un' ra nuova. Sono ore crepuscolari di angoscia e di gioia; tramonto ed alba ad un tempo. in quelle epoche che si svolgono i grandi fatti della storia; i popoli sono allora ad un bivio della loro via di fatti nei secoli. Sembra, allora, che un'opera di riconquista e di risarcimento, una grande opera di giustizia si compia; sopratutto di giustizia. Sono lunghi antichi anni di martirio che vengono ad esigere la loro glorificazione; sono ombre di dimenticati - sovente di vilipese vittime - che tornano a chiedere il posto che loro spetta nel mondo; sono, sopratutto, fatti nuovi che cancellano vecchie forme, che infirmano leggi adusate, che distruggono male acquisiti diritti; sono vie nuove che si aprono al progresso di uno o di tutti i popoli; passi avanti, rapidi qualche volta, faticosi sempre, ma sempre egualmente gloriosi, verso una meta di eterna giustizia che non appare chiara a tutti gli uomini, ma verso la quale, inconsci, i popoli procedono infaticabilmente, dal giorno che pi famiglie si unirono per la caccia, per la difesa, per la offesa; dai primordi della umanit .
Abramo's Gift is a family saga and love story that takes place in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1920. A disheartened, young, Italian widower, an immigrant named Abramo Cardone, arrives in Youngstown to work in one of the steel mills. At the time, the small city seethed with ethnic strife between Italian and Irish immigrants because they were forced to underbid each other for low-paying jobs in the mills. Amid this turmoil, Abramo saves the life of an Irish girl who has been raped by two members of a vicious local Irish gang called the Hannons. Abramo is also injured in the rescue, and his life is saved, in turn, by a little orphaned street urchin who hides him from the same gang. All the people in Abramo's life interact in this story to unite him, the Irish girl, and the little girl who saved his life. It is a multifaceted love story.
(...) an Islamic-Christian dialogue must really and fundamentally have taken place in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 9th century. between a monk, let's call him Abraham of Tiberias, and a high Muslim personality, who could be 'Abd al-Rahman ibn' Adb al-Malik al-Hashimi. But the editor of the text of our dialogue has "arranged" a little freely the fundamental event, wrapped it in a sort of literary genre almost indispensable in the apologetic style of the time. from Marcuzzo, Le dialogue (1986), p. 101. Text of an apologetic dialogue widely widespread during the medieval period. Arabic text from the edition by Giacinto Boulos Marcuzzo (1986) fully vocalized and newly divised and indexed with front italian annotated translation.
Il nostro viaggio storico-letterario tralascia i percorsi di insediamento nelle aree geografiche delle diverse trib semitiche e concentra la sua attenzione sulla famiglia di Abramo per recuperare le origini seguendo la linea ascendente e giungere al capostipite cio ad Arpacsad figlio primogenito di Sem.
Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi's operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer's career. The first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi's operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857 - from Nabucco and Macbeth to Il trovatore, La traviata, and Aroldo. But while Basevi's work is still widely cited and discussed - and nowhere more so than in the English-speaking world - no translation of the entire volume has previously been available. The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi fills this gap, at the same time providing an invaluable critical apparatus and commentary on Basevi's book. As a contemporary of Verdi and a trained musician, erudite scholar, and critic conversant with current and past operatic repertories, Basevi presented pointed discussion of the operas and their historical context, offering today's readers a unique window into many aspects of operatic culture, and culture in general, in Verdi's Italy. He wrote with precision on formal aspects, use of melody and orchestration, and other compositional features, which made his study an acknowledged model for the growing field of music criticism. Carefully annotated and with an engaging introduction and detailed glossary by editor Stefano Castelvecchi, this translation illuminates Basevi's musical and historical references as well as aspects of his language that remain difficult to grasp even for Italian readers. Making Basevi's important contribution to our understanding of Verdi and his operas available to a broad audience for the first time, The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi will delight scholars and opera enthusiasts alike.
Rapidly evolving technologies, global business interdependencies, and changes to project management (PM) processes and tools demand that new PM competencies be continuously developed and adequately applied to achieve successful results. Despite the many advances in the PM discipline, significant competency gaps exist within even the most successful companies. This book provides the proven strategic approaches needed to grow and evolve your project managers' competency over time, in step with the needs of your business, and supplies practical examples of competency models and how to deploy them.
Paula Abramo's Fiat Lux evokes the poet's ancestors who were political refugees from Italy and Eastern Europe to Brazil and then from Brazil to Bolivia and finally Mexico. At the same time, it is a meditation on the act of writing poetry and bringing characters to life with fidelity and imagination. The hinge connecting the two themes is the recurring image of striking a match. (Abramo's grandmother worked in a match factory in Brazil producing the brand called Fiat Lux, Latin for "let there be light.") Abramo lives and works in Mexico City. When Words Without Borders asked local writer Lucia Duero, "what writers from here should we read?" she selected a single book by a living author: "Fiat Lux by Paula Abramo, a great story about the human journey and courage, marvelously captured in the poetics of everyday life." The language of the poems is whimsical, committed, sometimes fierce, sometimes political, and always concerned with words, language, and languages. Each vignette evokes a moment. Together, they are nearly a novel.
Diverse social programmes - including conditional cash transfer programmes, labour and production inclusion programmes and social pensions - are being implemented in Latin American and Caribbean countries with the aim of ending poverty and reducing inequalities throughout the life cycle. This book offers an up-to-date analysis of these programmes and the way they relate to labour inclusion, and analyses ongoing debates regarding the possible incentives and disincentives they create in terms of the labour supply, formalisation and child labour among the target population. Considering that poverty is a structural problem of highly unequal societies, the thesis that poverty is due to a lack of effort on the part of the poor is argued to be an expression of the strong prejudice against those living in poverty, the great majority of whom work or are actively seeking employment, but are hampered by the large decent work deficits existing in the region. From an integrated and rights-based perspective, public policies should simultaneously address the twofold challenge of social and labour inclusion in order to achieve basic thresholds of well-being by ensuring income, universal access to good-quality social services and opportunities for decent work.
This book brings together the chief results of the research work carried out by the author on the second law of thermodynamics and the theory of special relativity since 2008. The first six chapters are devoted to the research on the epistemological status of the second law of thermodynamics and the connection between thermionic/photoelectric phenomena and the second law: evidence is provided that thermionic emission could, in principle, violate the second law. More precisely, the photoelectric emission induced by the high-frequency tail of black-body radiation at room temperature (heat) can be harnessed to charge a capacitor and provide readily usable energy from a single heat reservoir. Chapter 7 contains some reflections on special relativity. It is the most speculative part of the book and it has not been published elsewhere. Two thought experiments on time dilation in the framework of special relativity are presented. The main contention in this part of the book is that if both postulates of special relativity are assumed to hold concurrently, then the prediction of asymmetric ageing made by Einstein in his 1905 relativity paper appears to be in fact incompatible with them and the fact that time dilation (which is intimately related to "asymmetric ageing") seems to have been experimentally confirmed provides, paradoxically, a refutation rather than a confirmation of the theory of special relativity, at least as interpreted today. A critical assessment of Purcell's basic explanation of magnetic forces, which basically relies on special relativity, is also given at the end of the book.
