Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto
Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto

Author: Gianni Rodari

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2011-12-06

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1612190049

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A fable for children and adults: a story of life, death, and terrorism—in the grand tradition of Exupéry’s The Little Prince When we first meet 93-year-old millionaire Baron Lamberto, he has been diagnosed with 24 life-threatening ailments—one for each of the 24 banks he owns. But when he takes the advice of an Egyptian mystic and hires servants to chant his name over and over again, he seems to not only get better, but younger. Except then a terrorist group lays siege to his island villa, his team of bank managers has to be bussed in to help with the ransom negotiations, and a media spectacle breaks out . . . A hilarious and strangely moving tale that seems ripped from the headlines—although actually written during the time the Red Brigades were terrorizing Italy—Gianni Rodari’s Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto has become one of Italy’s most beloved fables. Never before translated into English, the novel is a reminder, as Rodari writes, that “there are things that only happen in fairytales.”

The Grammar of Fantasy
The Grammar of Fantasy

Author: Gianni Rodari

Publisher: Enchanted Lion

Published: 2024-05-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781592703050

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A collection of essays from the visionary storyteller Gianni Rodari about fairy tales and folk tales and their great advantages in teaching creative storytelling. "Rodari grasped children's need to play with life's rules by using the grammar of their own imaginations. They must be encouraged to question, challenge, destroy, mock, eliminate, generate, and reproduce their own language and meanings through stories that will enable them to narrate their own lives." --Jack Zipes "I hope this small book," writes renowned children's author Gianni Rodari, "can be useful for all those people who believe it is necessary for the imagination to have a place in education; for all those who trust in the creativity of children; and for all those who know the liberating value of the word." Full of ideas, glosses on fairytales, stories, and wide-ranging activities, including the fantastic binomial, this book changed how creative arts were taught in Italian schools. Translated into English by acclaimed children's historian Jack Zipes and illustrated for the first time ever by Matthew Forsythe, this edition of The Grammar of Fantasy is one to live with and return to for its humor, intelligence, and truly deep understanding of children. A groundbreaking pedagogical work that is also a handbook for writers of all ages and kinds, The Grammar of Fantasy gives each of us a playful, practical path to finding our own voice through the power of storytelling. Gianni Rodari (1920-1980) grew up in Northern Italy and wrote hundreds of stories, poems, and songs for children. In 1960, he collaborated with the Education Cooperation Movement to develop exercises to encourage children's creative and critical thinking abilities. Jack Zipes is a renowned children's historian and folklorist who has written, translated, and edited dozens of books on fairytales. He is a professor at the University of Minnesota. Matthew Forsythe lives in Montreal where he draws and paints for picture books, comics, and animations.

Mapping Urban Spaces
Mapping Urban Spaces

Author: Lamberto Amistadi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-21

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1000425894

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Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesthetic points of view. The chapters illustrate how the characteristics that make life in medium-sized European cities pleasant and sustainable – accessibility, ease of travel, urban sustainability, social inclusiveness – can be traced back to the nature of that space. The chapters develop from a phenomenological study of space to contributions on places and landscapes in the city. Centralities and their meaning are studied, as well as the social space and its complexity. The contributions focus on history and theory as well as concrete research and mapping approaches and the resulting design applications. The case studies come from countries around Europe including Poland, Italy, Greece, Germany, and France, among others. The book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture.

One and Seven
One and Seven

Author: Gianni Rodari

Publisher: Mariuccia Iaconi Imports, Incorporated

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780962872068

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One child is portrayed as seven children from all parts of the world. Although each child is different they all laugh in the same language. The story unifies all the children in the end into one man and because of that they can no longer declare war against one another. Essentially, a story of peace.

1000 Books Reading Challenge
1000 Books Reading Challenge

Author: Josia Lamberto-Egan

Publisher: Badge Book

Published: 2021-09

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9781735562445

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Reading aloud to children boosts their vocabulary, grades, social skills, and well-being. Now, families worldwide have joined the movement to read 1000 books in the years before school. This reading log, created by the former head of K-12 Education at Google and her husband--Washington DC's Teacher of the Year--comes with everything you need to make reading aloud an easy part of your daily routine: 100+ kid-friendly stickers for tracking progress Free app that saves a visual library of all the books you read together Guided activities like "Cooking with Storybooks" and "How to Host a Reading Party" Genre and Game suggestions from "Real-Life Heroes" to "Role-Playing with Characters" A full list of 1000 quality titles, sorted by age and interest Whether you read 200 or 2000 books, your child will treasure those minutes together. Cuddling close while reading aloud builds a powerful emotional bond, all while inspiring imagination and creative thinking. Plant a love of reading and watch it bloom! Reading is to the brain as exercise is to the body--and independent reading volume is the #1 predictor of reading achievement in elementary students. Badge Books motivate kids and families to read for fun, and reward their progress. An in-hand companion to the Beanstack mobile app used by 2 million readers, each title is a reading log and sticker book, plus themed challenges, activities, and recommended titles. Badge Books have helped more than 100,000 families build a lifetime love of reading. Each Badge Book connects kids to a set of realistic reading goals, then rewards their efforts with over 100 themed stickers and digital badges. The books work hand-in-hand with the free Beanstack Mobile App available on Android and iOS. Simply swipe your phone over any book cover to the book and get credit for every minute your child reads. How It Works: Fun activity pages get kids to dive deeper into favorite reads Easy guides on where to place badges and mark progress Spiral binding allows the book to lay flat As kids hit their reading goals, they get rewarded with stickers and activities in the Badge Book Use the app in conjunction with the books for easy tracking - switch between all your kids with a tap or log for multiple kids at once Cover art, titles, and authors load automatically when you scan books with the app New reading challenges and learning activities added to the app regularly With theme kids love--from science, space, music, mystery, heroes, and more--there's a Badge Book for every interest.

Reductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality
Reductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality

Author: Sergio Chibbaro

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-05-13

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 3319063618

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Scientists have always attempted to explain the world in terms of a few unifying principles. In the fifth century B.C. Democritus boldly claimed that reality is simply a collection of indivisible and eternal parts or atoms. Over the centuries his doctrine has remained a landmark, and much progress in physics is due to its distinction between subjective perception and objective reality. This book discusses theory reduction in physics, which states that the whole is nothing more than the sum of its parts: the properties of things are directly determined by their constituent parts. Reductionism deals with the relation between different theories that address different levels of reality, and uses extrapolations to apply that relation in different sciences. Reality shows a complex structure of connections, and the dream of a unified interpretation of all phenomena in several simple laws continues to attract anyone with genuine philosophical and scientific interests. If the most radical reductionist point of view is correct, the relationship between disciplines is strictly inclusive: chemistry becomes physics, biology becomes chemistry, and so on. Eventually, only one science, indeed just a single theory, would survive, with all others merging in the Theory of Everything. Is the current coexistence of different sciences a mere historical venture which will end when the Theory of Everything has been established? Can there be a unified description of nature? Rather than an analysis of full reductionism, this book focuses on aspects of theory reduction in physics and stimulates reflection on related questions: is there any evidence of actual reduction? Are the examples used in the philosophy of science too simplistic? What has been endangered by the search for (the) ultimate truth? Has the dream of reductionist reason created any monsters? Is big science one such monster? What is the point of embedding science Y within science X, if predictions cannot be made on that basis?

Optimization—Theory and Applications
Optimization—Theory and Applications

Author: L. Cesari

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 1461381657

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This book has grown out of lectures and courses in calculus of variations and optimization taught for many years at the University of Michigan to graduate students at various stages of their careers, and always to a mixed audience of students in mathematics and engineering. It attempts to present a balanced view of the subject, giving some emphasis to its connections with the classical theory and to a number of those problems of economics and engineering which have motivated so many of the present developments, as well as presenting aspects of the current theory, particularly value theory and existence theorems. However, the presentation ofthe theory is connected to and accompanied by many concrete problems of optimization, classical and modern, some more technical and some less so, some discussed in detail and some only sketched or proposed as exercises. No single part of the subject (such as the existence theorems, or the more traditional approach based on necessary conditions and on sufficient conditions, or the more recent one based on value function theory) can give a sufficient representation of the whole subject. This holds particularly for the existence theorems, some of which have been conceived to apply to certain large classes of problems of optimization. For all these reasons it is essential to present many examples (Chapters 3 and 6) before the existence theorems (Chapters 9 and 11-16), and to investigate these examples by means of the usual necessary conditions, sufficient conditions, and value function theory.