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365 Exact Days: A True Story of Love and LightCan a single year hold the meaning of an entire lifetime?In an age dominated by cynicism and haste, Pasquale Kovacic opens the doors of his home to tell us the story of Zia Cettina, a woman born in Catania in 1924 who journeyed through a century giving love as if it were the only currency that mattered.This book is not just the diary of a farewell, but the chronicle of 365 extraordinary days: from Christmas 2019 to Christmas 2020.A perfect circle of care, daily sacrifices, and small miracles, where the strength of spirit of a 96-year-old woman defies medical logic for one last, great wish: to witness the birth of the fourth generation of her family.Between these pages, you will discover:- An unbreakable bond: The profound relationship between a nephew and an aunt who was "more than a mother."- Everyday Angels: The figures who, with humility and humor, bring light even to the days of illness.- A lesson for life: The proof that time is not something to be possessed, but to be given.365 Exact Days is a hymn to the "smallness" that becomes immensity. A true, authentic, and moving story that will remind you that love is the only force capable of overcoming time and death.

A Piadas Para Crianças segue firme como compromisso de levar diversão saudável para toda a família! Aqui, o humor é atualizado, consciente e cheio de boas gargalhadas! Nosso objetivo é continuar send

Uma prescrição inteligente, eficaz e persuasiva, Mais Platão, menos Prozac é leitura essencial para quem busca cura através do pensamento crítico, com diálogo, e não diagnóstico. Todo mundo tem uma f

Na sequência do best-seller Lições sobre afogamentos, Effy e Preston retornam ao campus — e ao caos. As consequências das revelações e dos perigos que enfrentaram os perseguem na vida real e também n

Eleito o livro do ano pelo Sunday Times e pelo Daily Mail, o aclamado Os nomes, de Florence Knapp, é a história de três nomes, de três versões de uma vida e das infinitas possibilidades que uma única

Em edição traduzida a partir do original russo, Ressurreição é o último romance de Lev Tolstói, publicado em 1899, que explora temas de redenção, moralidade e injustiça social na Rússia tsarista.Nest

Livro de estreia de Cecília Malan, Eu e elas: histórias maternas reúne relatos de 21 mulheres entrevistadas pela jornalista. Com escuta atenta e olhar sensível, Cecília constrói um mosaico de vivênci

This book reflects my experience as a translation scholar, and a translation teacher, and a translator from Russian. The knowledge of the Russian language allowed me to read (and translate into Italian) crucial authors like Popovi?, Lyudskanov, Torop, Revzin and Rozentsveyg. Since not many Western translation scholars know them, we get as a consequence a translation theory which is split between West and East according to a sort of cultural Berlin wall.In this book I tried to synthesize both Western and Eastern point of views about the translation process.The terms that are used belong to both worlds.For an explanation of a more professional character, you can use my other book, "Handbook of Translation Studies", available both in paper and in ebook form.I have been teaching translation at the Civica Scuola Interpreti e Traduttori Altiero Spinelli in Milan, Italy, for 30 years, and translation theory for 20 years. My students made an important contribution to this book, through their feedback during lectures and exams. Year after year I had the opportunity to edit my text accordingly.For an explanation of the terms used in this book, I refer students to my Dictionary of Translation Studies.Bruno OsimoMilano, 7 July 2019

In our society people deal with translation quality in various contexts, which seldom share information. The first context one comes into contact with it is university: in bachelors and masters degree translation courses teachers do not evaluate translations by testing linguistic abilities anymore. Translations are now considered as texts in themselves that can be more or less independent from their source texts. Marks, whether expressed out of thirty, twenty and so on assign a quantitative value to the result of a translation process.When a newly graduated translator enter the market, whether she chooses to work as a literary translator or she prefers other kinds of translations (business, advertising or technical-scientific), she must translate an essay. Whether the translator will be hired or not depends on how the employer evaluates the translation. In this case, too, a person evaluates the result of a translation process. What kind of criteria does the evaluator use? Are they the same that went for university?If a translation is published, sometimes it happens that reviews on the target text appear on newspapers or specialized magazines, where one may also find a quick comment on the translators job. In this case, her job is often judged only depending on the result, without having had a look at the source text.Last but not least, researchers in the field of translation science (like us now) deal (also) with translation quality, argue about its being either descriptive or evaluative. Here is another context where translations are evaluated, or at least where one thinks about how they should be evaluated and so on and so forth. In a book I wrote about translation quality (2004) I took into account these issues and tried to arouse the interest of those who work in these different social contexts of translation evaluation. I cannot go back over all the milestones of my reasoning here, as I would like to focus on examples of differences and shifts between source and target text. Should you be interested in it, you may read my book. I will go through different examples from the table about consequences on reception of shifts onwards.

Roman Jakobson has had a strange fate. Everybody knows his name and are willing to recognise him as an important character of the global cultural scene. Few, however, have read what he wrote beyond those four or five famous quotes. Quotes that, taken out of context, might not be understood completely and correctly. The selected works by Jakobson are in eight large volumes. Taking into account that he wrote on various other topics, from Russian literature, to Slavic philology, to phonology, to neurology, the pages devoted to themes that are relevant to translation semiotics are "only" a thousand. It is evident that Jakobson has so many things to tell us about translation and that so far we were quite reluctant to read him.Jakobsons approach to translation is a semiotic one. Someone might wonder what relationship there is between semiotics and translation. What does it matter to a translator the theory of the sign of Saussure or Peirce, since she faces practical texts, not theories? To this I reply with two points:1) all translators, even the most refractory to the theory, follow principles. The reason why it does not make sense "not to be interested in the theory" if you translate is that all translators, perhaps unwittingly, have a theory. We have a theory on how to peel an apple or how to dress pants even if nobody has taught us. We all have a mind whose operation can be parsed, and yet there are people who "are not interested" in psychology. Translation is an activity that inevitably forces its practitioners to think about their target reader, and to formulate a message that takes account of the recipient, and then to draw up a communication strategy. And each translator will read the original document, will process it using her innner mental nonverbal language, and will put out the translated text projecting it onto the receiving culture. Then the difference is between those who knowingly use the theory, and those who use it unconsciously.2) Any conception of translation is like an application program based on an operating system, and in this case the operating system is the theory of the sign. In other words, if you think that between the word dog and the animal in question there is an equivalence relation, you get a given theory of translation; but if you think that between the word "dog," and the animal in question there is a series of creative and non-reciprocal links, then you get a completely different theory of translation.This book comes from my reflection activities connected to my teaching work at Milans Civica Scuola Interpreti e Traduttori Altiero Spinelli and, in turn, will provide study materials for students in the coming years and at the same time, I hope, inspiration for new ideas in the minds of readers.For criticism, comments, messages you can write me at the address b.osimo@fondazionemilano.eu.Milan, July 17, 2016

Em um reino mágico e repleto de cores, quatro jovens heróis descobrem que suas diferenças não são obstáculos, mas sim superpoderes únicos que os tornam extraordinários. Unidos pelo destino, eles se t

Nas ruínas de um matrimônio de treze anos, Briana descobre que a perfeição cultivada era apenas um espelho fragmentado de ilusões. A traição, revelada em uma noite que deveria celebrar a constância,

Educar com fé, amar com propósito é um convite à reflexão sobre o papel transformador da educação, o valor inegociável da família e a força que a fé imprime em cada jornada. Com uma linguagem sensível

Onze anos após os assassinatos que chocaram a cidade, Sunnybrook tenta seguir em frente. Os Tigers, o time de futebol do colégio, são o novo orgulho local – heróis que brilham onde antes só havia esc

Sequel di Il Bosco Fatato: La Chiave per lIsola. Sono quasi passati 2000 anni dalla separazione dei Mondi e sul Bosco Fatato incombe unoscura minaccia che ne minaccia lEquilibrio. Per cercare di risolvere la situazione, i sette coraggiosi folletti Miko, Bea, Niki, Eli, Vento, Victor e Yumi partono alla ricerca delle Pietre dellArcobaleno, che 2000 anni prima si sono disperse ognuna in un luogo legato al proprio elemento. Una storia per tutte le eta.Valeria Vanzani, nata nel 1994 e affetta da sindrome fibromialgica, e appassionata di scrittura, giornalismo e divulgazione scientifica. Per Agenda17 ha scritto di migrazioni, parita di genere, crisi climatica e pace. Gestisce i siti Un passo oltre il cono luce e Archeoastronomia in Italia.

During the Second World War, the German military communicated via a supposedly unbreakable cryptographic device: the Enigma machine. Looking like an oversized typewriter, it scrambled plain text into gibberish using a series of rotating electromechanical wheels. Because the rotors moved after every single keystroke, the machine could generate nearly 159 quintillion possible settings.The German high command believed that this astronomical number made brute-force decryption physically impossible. They were correct. However, they underestimated the brilliant mathematical minds at Britains Bletchley Park, led by Alan Turing. Instead of guessing every combination, the codebreakers identified human behavioral flawslike operators repeatedly using the same predictable phrases or failing to randomize their starting positionsto dramatically narrow down the mathematical possibilities.This book breaks down the sheer mechanical genius of both the encryption and the decryption. You will explore the wiring of the Enigma rotors, the invention of the "Bombe" machines that automated the codebreaking process, and the birth of modern computer science.Decode the greatest intellectual triumph of the twentieth century. Learn how logic, mathematics, and early electromechanical engineering defeated the ultimate Nazi cryptographic weapon.

Before the internet became a ubiquitous global marketplace, it was a lawless frontier of extreme isolation and niche communities. In 1997, the Heavens Gate cult captured global headlines when 39 members committed mass suicide in a California mansion, believing their souls would board an extraterrestrial spacecraft trailing the Hale-Bopp comet. The most shocking element was not just their theology, but how they funded and insulated their reality.Operating a highly successful web design firm called "Higher Source," the group used the emerging architecture of the early internet to completely isolate themselves from dissenting physical realities. They lived in total physical seclusion while building digital gateways for corporate clients. The web allowed them to broadcast their bizarre doctrines globally without ever exposing their fragile belief system to face-to-face academic or social scrutiny.This book investigates the terrifying intersection of early cyberculture and cult psychology. You will explore the sociological vacuum of the 1990s web, the manipulative theology of their charismatic leaders, and the precise digital mechanisms used to enforce absolute ideological conformity.Venture into the darkest corners of the early internet. Understand how the promise of global connectivity paradoxically enabled one of the most closed, fatal psychological echo chambers in modern history.

This indepth ebook draws on more than a decade of handson experience transforming internal audit functions into truly datadriven, AIaugmented assurance capabilities. It goes far beyond theorywalking readers through the full analytics and AI lifecycle in audit, from data sourcing and feature engineering to model deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.Using concrete examples of algorithms and analytics techniquessuch as anomaly detection for transaction testing, outlier analysis for issue identification, process mining for endtoend control assurance, sentiment analysis for audit culture assessment, and predictive models to anticipate emerging risksthe book demonstrates how audit can evolve from retrospective checking to forwardlooking, realtime risk intelligence.At its core, the ebook explores the human side of transformation: how auditors roles, skills, judgement, and credibility evolve when working alongside AI. It shows how internal audit can shift from manual assurance activities to continuous, insightdriven assurance, enhancing relevance, influence, and strategic value across the organisationwhile remaining grounded in governance, ethics, and professional standards.Throughout the book, conceptual frameworks are tightly connected to realworld application. Readers learn not only what AIaugmented auditing looks like, but how to implement it in practiceacross the audit lifecycle, from risk assessment and planning to fieldwork, reporting, and followup.The result is a practical, experiencebased guide for audit leaders, professionals, and transformation teams who want to futureproof internal audit, proactively anticipate risk, build analytics capability, and position audit as a trusted, forwardlooking partner in an increasingly complex and dataintensive business landscape.

The Concorde was the ultimate symbol of aerodynamic luxury, capable of crossing the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound. For decades, it defied the grueling physics of supersonic flight, ferrying elite passengers in unparalleled style. But the end of this engineering marvel was not dictated by a massive engine failure at Mach 2; it was triggered by a stray, sixteen-inch strip of titanium dropped by another aircraft on a Paris runway.In July 2000, Air France Flight 4590 hit that debris during its takeoff roll. The physics of the ensuing disaster were as precise as they were horrific. The metal shredded a high-pressure tire, sending a massive chunk of heavy rubber slamming upward into the underside of the left wing. The shockwave of the impact ruptured the fuel tank from the inside out, igniting a massive, uncontainable fireball that brought the aircraft crashing into a hotel mere minutes later.This book investigates the fragile vulnerabilities hidden within cutting-edge aerospace design. You will explore the brutal economics of maintaining supersonic fleets, the physics of tire blowouts at extreme velocities, and the tragic conclusion of the commercial supersonic dream.Look back at the fiery end of an aviation icon. Understand how a tiny piece of stray metal grounded the fastest passenger jet ever built and altered global aerospace ambition forever.

The most ubiquitous cooking appliance in the modern kitchen was not invented by a chef or a food scientist, but by a self-taught engineer working on military radar systems. In 1945, Percy Spencer was testing a massive, high-powered vacuum tube called a magnetron. While standing near the active device, he noticed that a peanut cluster chocolate bar in his pocket had completely melted into a gooey mess.Spencer realized that the invisible electromagnetic waves were agitating the water and fat molecules inside the chocolate, generating intense friction and heat. By trapping these microwaves inside a safe, enclosed metal box, he created a high-density electromagnetic field that could cook food from the inside out in a fraction of the traditional time.This fascinating book explores the accidental birth of the microwave oven. You will learn the complex physics of magnetrons, the early, refrigerator-sized commercial prototypes that terrified consumers, and the massive post-war manufacturing push that brought military technology into the domestic home.Discover the atomic-age science sitting on your kitchen counter. Learn how a melted candy bar and military radar technology revolutionized the speed and convenience of modern culinary culture.