1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000097100403321

Titolo

Chiesa cattolica e guerra civile in Spagna nel 1936 / a cura di Mario Tedeschi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli : Guida, 1989

ISBN

88-7042-996-2

Descrizione fisica

265 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

Acta Neapolitana ; 13

Disciplina

946.081

322.446

322.10946081

Locazione

FSPBC

FAGBC

FGBC

FLFBC

DCEC

FINBC

Collocazione

COLLEZ. 962 (13)

60 946.081 TEDM 1989

COLLEZ. 380 (13)

322.1 CONV NAPOLI/MONTECASSINO 1987

II QQ 5

13 L 42 27

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Atti del Convegno tenuto a Napoli-Montecassino, 5-6 giugno 1987



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910817660903321

Autore

Lischer Sarah Kenyon <1970->

Titolo

Dangerous sanctuaries : refugee camps, civil war, and the dilemmas of humanitarian aid / / Sarah Kenyon Lischer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2005

ISBN

1-5017-0039-1

1-5017-0040-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Cornell studies in security affairs

Disciplina

362.87/8

Soggetti

Refugees - Services for

Humanitarian assistance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Refugee crises as catalysts of conflict -- Political incentives for the spread of civil war -- Afghan refugees : catalysts of conflict for three decades -- From refugees to regional war in central Africa -- Demilitarizing a refugee army : Bosnian Muslim renegade refugees -- Collateral damage : the risks of humanitarian responses to militarized refugee crises.

Sommario/riassunto

Since the early 1990's, refugee crises in the Balkans, Central Africa, the Middle East, and West Africa have led to the international spread of civil war. In Central Africa alone, more than three million people have died in wars fueled, at least in part, by internationally supported refugee populations. The recurring pattern of violent refugee crises prompts the following questions: Under what conditions do refugee crises lead to the spread of civil war across borders? How can refugee relief organizations respond when militants use humanitarian assistance as a tool of war? What government actions can prevent or reduce conflict? To understand the role of refugees in the spread of conflict, Sarah Kenyon Lischer systematically compares violent and nonviolent crises involving Afghan, Bosnian, and Rwandan refugees. Lischer argues against the conventional socioeconomic explanations for refugee-related violence-abysmal living conditions, proximity to the homeland, and the presence of large numbers of bored young men. Lischer instead focuses on the often-ignored political context of the refugee



crisis. She suggests that three factors are crucial: the level of the refugees' political cohesion before exile, the ability and willingness of the host state to prevent military activity, and the contribution, by aid agencies and outside parties, of resources that exacerbate conflict. Lischer's political explanation leads to policy prescriptions that are sure to be controversial: using private security forces in refugee camps or closing certain camps altogether. With no end in sight to the brutal wars that create refugee crises, Dangerous Sanctuaries is vital reading for anyone concerned with how refugee flows affect the dynamics of conflicts around the world.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910337881503321

Autore

Broderick Damien

Titolo

The Time Machine Hypothesis : Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction / / by Damien Broderick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-16178-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 pages)

Collana

Science and Fiction, , 2197-1188

Disciplina

530.11

Soggetti

Physics

Mathematical physics

Literature

Fiction

Popular Science in Physics

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Popular Science in Literature

History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

PART ONE: Spacetime Time -- Time Travel Unraveled -- The Scientific Basis for Time Machines -- Closed Timelike Loops -- Don’t Change the Past -- PART TWO: Time Machine Time -- The First Half Century (and a



bit) -- Empires of Time -- Behold the Time Machine -- Time’s Up -- Highways to the End of Time -- Windows Into the Past -- From Dinosaurs to Elsewhen -- Looping Time -- PART THREE: A Thought Experiment is Not a Theory -- In Search of Lost Time Machines -- Appendix: “The Dry Sauvages”. .

Sommario/riassunto

Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter and virtual-reality entertainment so brilliant that the division between real and simulated is hard to discern. But one new idea from the 19th century has failed, so far, to enter reality—time travel, using machines to turn the time dimension into a two-way highway. Will it come true, as foreseen in science fiction? Might we expect visits to and from the future, sooner than from space? That is the Time Machine Hypothesis, examined here by futurist Damien Broderick, an award-winning writer and theorist of the genre of the future. Broderick homes in on the topic through the lens of science as well as fiction, exploring some fifty different time-travel scenarios and conundrums found in the science fiction literature and film.