LEADER 01634nam 22004333 450 001 9910157786803321 005 20250731080249.0 010 $a1-925341-67-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000001009628 035 $a(BIP)054399891 035 $a(BIP)054271219 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32231312 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32231312 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001009628 100 $a20250731d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMy Life As a Foreigner in The 1950s 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aFremantle :$cVivid Publishing,$d2015. 210 4$d©2015. 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) $cill 311 08$a1-925341-60-7 330 8 $aAs a young man in Italy's Southern Calabria, Bruno Vartuli dreamed of starting a new life in a new land. On his arrival in Australia in the 1950s Bruno struggled to understand the language and culture, but with tremendous strength and perseverance he overcame each adversity and achieved amazing results. This personal story of assimilation and integration highlights the importance of equality in society and inspires us to embrace the differences between people with dignity and compassion. 610 $aImmigrants 610 $aAustralia 610 $aSocial Science 610 $aBiography & Autobiography 700 $aVartuli$b Bruno$01435468 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910157786803321 996 $aMy Life As a Foreigner in the 1950s$93593021 997 $aUNINA LEADER 03363nam 22005175 450 001 9911034569803321 005 20251001130745.0 010 $a3-032-05644-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-05644-3 035 $a(CKB)41537405300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-05644-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)9941537405300041 100 $a20251001d2026 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 13$aAn Evolutionary Story of Agency $eHow Life Evolved to Act on its Own /$fby Álvaro Moreno, Juli Peretó 205 $a1st ed. 2026. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2026. 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 108 p. 14 illus., 11 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aFoundations for Interdisciplinarity in the Life Sciences: Concise Monographs,$x3005-124X 311 08$a3-032-05643-8 327 $a1 Introduction -- 2 Minimal Agents and the Emergence of Life -- 3 A Big Bang of Agency: The Prokaryotic Way of Life -- 4 Eukaryotic Agency: Looking for the Path of Agency Complexification -- 5 Multicellular Agents: the Challenge of Combining Body Organization and Behavior -- 6 Metazoans: An Explosion of Agency -- 7 Epilogue. 330 $aThis open access book exposes the role of "agency" in the history of life. Agency is understood as the capacity of an organism to act, make decisions, and exercise control over its actions in order to achieve goals or to navigate and interact with its environment. The question of agency has become a hot and controversial topic in Biology and Philosophy of the Natural Sciences. This volume studies said topic through its historical expressions, investigating how and why it has appeared, and what was its selective advantage in the past, assuming a continuity in how it has evolved in different life forms. By also explaining how and why agency has evolved and become more complex in some branches of the tree of life, the authors show how life has made its way on our planet with forms of agency as diverse as those shown by bacteria, plants or animals, which are the most sophisticated and complex agents. The book is of great interest to a broad audience, whether philosophically or biologically inclined, interested in understanding fundamental aspects of how life works and in seeking explanations for why life has been so successful on planet Earth. 410 0$aFoundations for Interdisciplinarity in the Life Sciences: Concise Monographs,$x3005-124X 606 $aBiology$xPhilosophy 606 $aEvolutionary developmental biology 606 $aScience$xPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophy of Biology 606 $aEvolutionary Developmental Biology 606 $aPhilosophy of Science 615 0$aBiology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEvolutionary developmental biology. 615 0$aScience$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aPhilosophy of Biology. 615 24$aEvolutionary Developmental Biology. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Science. 676 $a570.1 700 $aMoreno$b Álvaro$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01226047 702 $aPeretó$b Juli$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911034569803321 996 $aAn Evolutionary Story of Agency$94450796 997 $aUNINA