ghet-to n. (Merriam-Webster dictionary) Italian, from Venetian dialect ghèto island where Jews were forced to live; literally, foundry (located on the island), from ghetàr,to cast; from Latin jactare to throw1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live2: a quarter of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pre...

Dr Golly's Guide to Family Illness is a comprehensive, accessible and reassuring guide to general children’s health and daycare illnesses: from common colds to ear infections.Dr Daniel Golshevsky – also known as Dr Golly – is a paediatrician and father of three who knows first-hand how exhausting and overwhelming all the rashes, coughs and sniffles of childhood can be. He’s here to help you learn when to be worried, how to recognise sympto...

Los modos singulares en que se anudan los dispositivos institucionales de gestión, las prácticas militantes y los saberes que participan en la hechura de las políticas y lugares de la memoria dan la tonalidad a la traza del libro. Atentos a la lógica de investigación del caso por caso, los escritos aquí reunidos indagan los diversos modos en que los estilos de gestión, las memorias militantes y los saberes –tanto expertos como no expertos– se traman en un trabajo político que interviene en...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

La prospettiva da cui muovono questi saggi non coincide esattamente con quella più diffusa tra gli storici dell’arte tardo antica e gli studiosi di archeologia cristiana. Se in quell’ambito, infatti, sotto l’influenza più o meno diretta della tradizione estetologica, si è usi guardare ai primi manufatti figurativi riconducibili alla fede cristiana perlopiù come a una sorta di apprendistato artistico, che vedrà compiuta realizzazione del proprio Kunstwollen solo nei primi decenni del V, cio...

More than a century has passed since the arrival of British, French, and Italian forces in Istanbul in 1918, marking the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. The almost five-year-long occupation of the city that followed remains largely ignored in history writing in the former occupying powers, and is often marginalised in Anatolia-centric narratives of the Turkish War of Independence. The book brings together many of the scholars working to redress this neglect in recent y...

Afinal, o que significa ser vulnerável no direito brasileiro? O objetivo deste livro é tentar apresentar ao leitor diferentes respostas à pergunta acima formulada, já que a compreensão acerca do tratamento jurídico conferido a situações de vulnerabilidade apresentou significativa evolução nas últimas décadas, especialmente após o advento da Constituição Federal de 1988. É a partir do texto constitucional que se rompe com o paradigma liberal que orientava a disciplina das relações privadas,...