Gangemi Editore eBooks

2012. Manuale contro la fine del mondo. E-book. Formato EPUB Alessandro Cecchi Paone   -  Gangemi Editore, 2016  - 

Temete che il mondo stia per finire? Avete dato credito a libri, film e trasmissioni televisive che seminano ansia e insicurezza? Niente paura! Con questo manuale Alessandro Cecchi Paone vi aiuta a difendervi dai profeti di sventura, demolendo uno per uno, con le armi della scienza, della storia, dell'archeologia, della religione e del buon senso, i falsi miti dell’apocalisse prossima ventura. Ritroverete così il diritto/dovere dell’ottimismo, il piacere di progettare il futuro, il gusto di ridicolizzare gli uccellacci del malaugurio. Con un vocabolario che svela il significato di tutte le parole sulla fine del mondo.

Portrait of a Lady: Women in Science: Participation Issues and Perspectives in a Globalized Research System. E-book. Formato EPUB Aa. Vv.   -  Gangemi Editore, 2015  - 

Which factors prevent a larger female participation in the scientific and research careers? This book analyzes recent data and figures about women researchers in R&D and Higher Education institutions, their motivations, the reasons and causes determining the still persisting gender gap. The various scholars suggest possible strategies for obtaining a better gender balance in the scientific systems, and highlight policy measures for institutions to ease the participation of women in science, research and technology studies and careers. The final aim is to contribute to change the scientific gender bias paradigm into cooperation between genders in science and to involve in reflection and subsequent actions not only women but the scientific community at large, institutions, national and European political bodies concerned in research and science policy. Sveva Avveduto, is research director at the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies of the Italian National Research Council. Her main research interests concern science and education policy, and science and society issues. She is the leader of CNR-IRPPS research activities in SMART, RESPECT and EVIDENCE Projects financed by the European Commission. Lucio Pisacane, sociologist, is researcher at the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies of the Italian National Research Council. From 2007 he has been working for CNR focusing on social policy research programmes and on studies on higher education. The book contains contribution by: Supakwadee Amatayakul, Maria Cristina Antonucci, Sveva Avveduto, Marco Chioatto, Fabienne Crettaz von Roten, Cristina Mangia, Aurelija Novelskaite, Nico Pitrelli, Lucio Pisacane, Kate Purcell, Ulf Sandstrom, Nikolina Sretenova, Christian Suter, Catherine Vidal, Alison E. Woodward.