Galileo : watcher of the skies / / David Wootton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464379203321
• Autore: Wootton David <1952->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , 2013; ©2010
• ISBN: 0-300-17006-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Disciplina: 520.92
• Soggetti: Astronomers - Italy; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Conjectural history -- 1. His father's son -- 2. Florence -- 3. Galileo's lamp -- 4. Eureka! -- 5. Seeing is believing -- 6. A friend in need -- 7. Juvenilia -- 8. The Leaning Tower -- 9. Inertia -- 10. Nudism -- 11. Copernicanism -- 12. Money -- 13. Fields of fire -- 14. The experimental method -- 15. The telescope -- 16. Mother -- 17. The Starry Messenger -- 18. Florence and buoyancy -- 19. Jesuits and the new astronomy -- 20. Sunspots -- 21. The Catholic scientist -- 22. Copernicus condemned -- 23. Comets -- 24. The death of Gianfrancesco Sagredo -- 25. Urban VIII -- 26. Family ties -- 27. Permission to publish -- 28. Alessandra Buonamici -- 29. A river floods -- 30. Publication -- 31. The Dialogue -- 32. Maria Celeste and Arcetri -- 33. Trial -- 34. The Two New Sciences -- 35. Vincenzo, son of Galileo -- 36. Galileo's (un)belief -- 37. The cosmography of the self -- Coda: Galileo, history and the historians -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet forced to concede the importance of faith, and a brilliant analyst of the elegantly mathematical workings of nature yet bungling and insensitive with his own family.Tackling ; Galileo as astronomer, engineer, and author, David Wootton places him at the center of Renaissance culture. He traces Galileo through his early rebellious years; the beginnings of his scientific career constructing a "new physics"; his move to Florence seeking money, status, and greater freedom to attack intellectual orthodoxies; his trial for heresy and narrow escape from torture; and his house arrest and physical (though not intellectual) decline. Wootton reveals much that is new-from Galileo's premature Copernicanism to a previously unrecognized illegitimate daughter-and, controversially, rejects the long-established orthodoxy which holds that Galileo was a good Catholic. Absolutely central to Galileo's significance-and to science more broadly-is the telescope, the potential of which Galileo was the first to grasp. Wootton makes clear that it totally revolutionized and galvanized scientific endeavor to discover new and previously unimagined facts. Drawing extensively on Galileo's voluminous letters, many of which were self-censored and sly, this is an original, arresting, and highly readable biography of a difficult, remarkable Renaissance genius.

Casi di diritto dell'ambiente / a cura di Rosario Ferrara, Francesco Fonderico, Alberta Milone

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910420358303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Torino, : Giappichelli, 2019
• ISBN: 978-88-921-3096-8
• Descrizione fisica: VIII, 222 p. ; 24 cm
• Locazione: FGBC
• Collocazione: VI L 166
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Austerity and the labor movement / / Michael Schiavone

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910151753203321
• Autore: Schiavone Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: State University of New York Press, 2016; Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , [2017]; ©[2017]
• ISBN: 9781438462950; 1438462956
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 pages)
• Collana: SUNY Press Open Access
• Disciplina: 331.88
• Soggetti: Neoliberalism; Labor movement; Economic stabilization; Economic policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Austerity and the labor movement -- Austerity in modern day Europe -- Austerity and the labor movement in the UK -- Austerity and the labor movement in the United States -- Social movements, political parties, and social movement unionism: hope for the future?
• Sommario/riassunto: "Austerity policies have become the new norm throughout both the developed and developing world. Indeed, austerity has become the new buzz word in the lexicon of politicians from across the political spectrum. At the same time austerity measures have been met with mass protest, the most famous example of which is the Occupy Movement. In the not-too-distant past it would have been the labor movement at the forefront resisting policies that arguably disproportionally target working people and their families. Throughout the twentieth century it was the labor movement that fought for all working people. However, there is an increasing assumption that the labor movement is unable to adequately defend workers from the onslaught of austerity measures. Austerity and the Labor Movement analyzes whether this assumption is indeed true. Examining the labor movements in the US, UK, Greece, Ireland, and Spain, Michael Schiavone ; provides a systematic explanation of the appeal of austerity policies in certain circles and why the labor movement in each of these countries has been largely unsuccessful in overturning such policies. He argues that the labor movement needs to make major changes and embrace social movement unionism if it has any hope to stop its decline and have any chance to successfully fight against austerity and neoliberalism more generally"--