Focusing on the anthropological consequences of the disappearing of materiality and sensory embodiment, On Insignificance highlights some of the most perturbing patterns of insignificance that have seeped into our everyday lives. Seeking to explain the semiotic causes of feelings of meaninglessness, Leone posits that caring for the singularities of the world is the most viable way to resist the alienating effects of the digital bureaucratization of meaning. The book will be of int...

The way in which people change and represent their spiritual evolution is often determined by recurrent language structures. Through the analysis of ancient and modern stories and their words and images, this book describes the nature of conversion through explorations of the encounter with the religious message, the discomfort of spiritual uncertainty, the loss of personal and social identity, the anxiety of destabilization, the reconstitution of the self and the discovery of a new langua...

Massimo Leone has published articles on the semiotics of religion since 2004, writing in both Italian and English. Topics encompass conversion, identity, agency, communication, revelation, subjectivity, fundamentalism, culture, amazement, ignorance, law, mediation and typology. Recent work includes a two-volume work, titled Grammars of Infinity. A forthcoming collaboration is titled Mediation and Immediacy: The Semiotic Turn in the Study of Religion (Semiotics of Religion Series, Berlin: W...

Nel cuore della rivoluzione digitale, mentre algoritmi decidono, creano, ottimizzano, è emerso un paradosso: più le macchine si fanno perfette, più l’essenza umana diventa insostituibile.Era, ora è un libro per chi vive il lavoro come luogo di senso, non solo di performance. Guarda oltre efficienza, tecnologia e mito del progresso automatico. Perché il futuro non è scritto nel codice, ma nei legami che costruiamo, nella bellezza che riconosciamo, nella passi...

Espacios y emociones constituyen, hoy más que nunca, conceptos clave para la reflexión en humanidades y ciencias sociales. En la estela amplia del "giro espacial", la geocrítica estudia la interacción entre los espacios ficcionales y los reales, entendiendo el espacio humano como emergente constante, sometido a un movimiento perpetuo de reterritorialización. Por otra parte, el llamado "giro afectivo" pone el foco en las emociones, la corporalidad y sus repercusiones conscientes e inconscie...

Fuel cells are widely regarded as the future of the power and transportation industries. Intensive research in this area now requires new methods of fuel cell operation modeling and cell design. Typical mathematical models are based on the physical process description of fuel cells and require a detailed knowledge of the microscopic properties that govern both chemical and electrochemical reactions. Advanced Methods of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Modeling proposes the alternative method...

Ho toccato l'Universo e l'Universo ha toccato me! Non ti devi preoccupare, noi siamo qui per realizzare i tuoi Sogni...così mi parla una Fata Magica! Massimuccio sei proprio un serpentuccio, il mio cappuccio, beats alle orecchie, andiamo...è proprio un libro intrigante, appassionante, tratto da una favola vera, qui sul nostro Pianeta Terra, dove il regno di Dio, trova dopo lungo tempo un ragazzo semplice e lo fa Profeta, Principe sui demoni ma soprattutto sul Popolo d'Israele, non poteva f...

Focusing on masks and faces as figures and objects that carry ethical and political meanings, this volume examines the scientific, cultural, visual, and philosophical histories and traditions in which they are imbricated and which allow them to gather force and to become central to how human relationships are made.Offering interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives on masks and faces, the book studies the prominent role they play in shaping ideals and norms of political p...

Uno dei massimi scrittori del Novecento italiano, a torto ritenuto complesso e ostico, autore di La cognizione del dolore e Quer pasticciaccio brutto di Via Merulana, nell’analisi di una sua componente letteraria fondamentale: il cibo.Con tutte le ricette originali della cucina milanese e romana.

In this volume of 'Frontiers in Diabetes' dealing with the molecular basis of monogenic disease of beta-cell insulin regulation, world-renowned experts provide in-depth descriptions of the many recent advances in genetic defects that cause hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia. These disorders comprise the most important form of hypoglycemia in infants and children and are associated with a high risk of morbidity, including seizures and severe brain injury. The discovery of eight different genetic...

This book provides essential insights into the current state of knowledge regarding the main aspects of cluster headache and trigeminal autonomic cephalgias. The first chapters focus on classification and clinical features, together with familial and genetic aspects. Relevant animal models and the putative role of key nervous structures as the hypothalamus, brainstem, diencephalon and sphenopalatine ganglion are reviewed. Evidence gained from key molecules such as CGRP in animals and human...

This book offers a critical exploration of how digital technologies are reshaping religious belief, ethical frameworks, and social cohesion. As faith and ideology increasingly migrate to online platforms, the book examines how algorithm-driven content, echo chambers, and decentralized authority structures influence discourse and deepen societal divides. Drawing from interdisciplinary perspectives in religious studies, sociology, philosophy, and digital humanities, this volume interrogates ...