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With the theory of secularization increasingly contested as a plausible development at a global scale, this book focuses on the changing significance of the religious element within a context of complex diversity. This concept reflects the rationale behind the deep transformations that have taken place in the dynamics of social change, giving way to a recombination of social, political and cultural cleavages that overlap and compete for legitimacy at a national and supranational level. Far from disappearing with modernization, new forms of religious diversity have emerged that continue to...

This is a sweet and magical story about a little boy and his pet cloud named Harold. We have all seen shapes in the sky, but this young boy looks up and finds a special cloud that becomes his friend for life. The two play and share adventures, and the cloud is a reassuring presence. The boy learns that he can count on Harold for support, and that even though he may go away for a little while, as people in our lives sometimes do, their connection assures that Harold will always come back to him. This book speaks to a child's sense of wonder, imagination, friendship, and the ability to...

The sense of touch is fundamental during the interaction between humans and their environment; in virtual reality, objects are created by computer simulations and they can be experienced through haptic devices. In this context haptic textures are fundamental for a realistic haptic perception of virtual objects.

This book formalizes the specific artefacts corrupting the rendering of virtual haptic textures and offers a set of simple conditions to guide haptic researchers towards artefact-free textures. The conditions identified are also extremely valuable when designing psychophysical...

Calabria, 1927. Un territorio, un paese, una famiglia, isolati tra le montagne della Sila Grande, vivono oppressi dalla tirannia di un violento Barone che vuole sottomettere i fratelli Ferruccio e Pietro. Il Barone rifi utato, attenta alla vita del fi glio di Ferruccio, Nicola di 2 anni e, a distanza di tempo, dopo una strage, adotta con prepotenza Carmen di 4 anni, nipote acquisita di Pietro, rimasta orfana. L'astuto Pietro, detto Zione, si schiera con l'arrogante Barone. Obbedisce, sopporta, gli sta vicino aspettando il momento propizio per eliminarlo. Passano gli anni. Ferruccio ritorna...