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Flightwise Volume 2 - Aircraft stability and control | Chris Carpenter usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

Flightwise Volume 2 - Aircraft stability and control | Chris Carpenter usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

Covering the concepts and definitions of stability, longitudinal static and dynamic stability, and lateral/directional static and dynamic stability, this is the second volume of a work offering straightforward accounts of the science behind aircraft flight and control. An overview of flight control is followed by explanations of horizontal turns, vertical turns, pilot interface, manoeuvrability, the control configured vehicle, and forward-swept-wing aircraft.

EUR 25.00
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Economic Laws and Economic History | Charles P. Kindleberger usato Politica e società Economia

Economic Laws and Economic History | Charles P. Kindleberger usato Politica e società Economia

This book is essentially an exercise in methodology, addressed to economists and economic historians alike. Too many economists discover a relationship or a uniformity in economic behavior, develop a model, and use it to explain more than it is capable of, including on occasion all economic behavior. In Economic Laws and Economic History Charles Kindleberger makes a powerful case against the idea that any one model or law could be used to unlock the basic secrets of economic history.

EUR 21.00
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The development of swedish and keynesian macroeconomic theory and its impact on economic policy | Erik Filip Lundberg usato Politica e società

The development of swedish and keynesian macroeconomic theory and its impact on economic policy | Erik Filip Lundberg usato Politica e società

In The Development of Swedish and Keynesian Macroeconomic Theory and Its General Impact on Economic Policy, Erik F. Lundberg, who was the last active member of the Stockholm School of Economics, gives a full account of the development of the theories of that famous school, particularly in comparison with the keynesian theories. In addition, he describes the economic policy implications of the 'Swedish Model' and appraises, in many instances critically, the policy experiments which were undertaken in Sweden in the last decades. A Discussion with Professor Lundberg's Comments concludes the volume, which also includes a biography and a bibliography of Erik Lundberg.

EUR 13.00
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Italian Carousel - Scenes of Internal | Andrei Navrozov usato Fotografici Fotografia

Italian Carousel - Scenes of Internal | Andrei Navrozov usato Fotografici Fotografia

Andrei Navrozov has described himself as a political refugee from Russia, a cultural refugee from America, and a gastronomic refugee from Britain. Yet the theme of his new book is altogether less flippant: where in the homogenizing and modernizing Europe would the hardened individualist find a last refuge? The answer to that question takes the reader on an uncompromising, occasionally eccentric but deeply personal and always entertaining travelogue with the author on his first day in Rome to his last night at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, and through a number of Italian cities, with sidelong glances at 70s Moscow, 80s New York, and 90s London. All of which leads him to "home" and the end of his flight from social progress: Palermo. Italy. Accompanying him to each of these destinations is the author's Phiz, the Russian photographer Gusov. His forty-eight arresting images serve to give another dimension to Navrozov's ideas, arguments, and impressions.

EUR 23.00
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White flight a Milano. La segregazione sociale ed etnica nelle scuole dell'obbligo | Carolina Pacchi, Costanzo Ranci usato Scienze umane Sociologia

White flight a Milano. La segregazione sociale ed etnica nelle scuole dell'obbligo | Carolina Pacchi, Costanzo Ranci usato Scienze umane Sociologia

Milano è ormai una città multietnica a tutti gli effetti: quasi un quarto dei bambini residenti proviene da un paese a forte pressione demografica. Nella scuola dell'obbligo questi futuri cittadini trovano l'opportunità per integrarsi e sviluppare le loro capacità. Questo volume segnala che tutto ciò avviene solo parzialmente. A frenare il processo è la forte segregazione scolastica di cui sono vittime i bambini stranieri, al pari di quelli residenti nelle periferie. Invece di ridurre le disuguaglianze sociali e le differenze etniche, la scuola dell'obbligo finisce per ampliarle e radicalizzarle. Fondato su dati originali, il volume dimostra che la segregazione è l'esito di una "fuga degli italiani" verso le scuole private e quelle a forte dominanza di italiani. L'esito è una netta separazione tra gli alunni italiani di classe sociale elevata, e quelli stranieri o svantaggiati socialmente. Il volume consegna questi risultati ai genitori, agli insegnanti e alle istituzioni, allo scopo di alimentare un dibattito pubblico informato e consapevole.

EUR 23.00
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Cellular Automata an Complexity | Stephen Wolfram usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

Cellular Automata an Complexity | Stephen Wolfram usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

Are mathematical equations the best way to model nature? For many years it had been assumed that they were. But in the early 1980s, Stephen Wolfram made the radical proposal that one should instead build models that are based directly on simple computer programs. Wolfram made a detailed study of a class of such models known as cellular automata, and discovered a remarkable fact: that even when the underlying rules are very simple, the behavior they produce can be highly complex, and can mimic many features of what we see in nature. And based on this result, Wolfram began a program of research to develop what he called “A Science of Complexity.”The results of Wolfram's work found many applications, from the so-called Wolfram Classification central to fields such as artificial life, to new ideas about cryptography and fluid dynamics. This book is a collection of Wolfram's original papers on cellular automata and complexity. Some of these papers are widely known in the scientific community; others have never been published before. Together, the papers provide a highly readable account of what has become a major new field of science, with important implications for physics, biology, economics, computer science and many other areas.

EUR 23.00
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Tel Aviv - Mythography of a City | Maoz Azaryahu usato Storia Biografie Diari e Memorie

Tel Aviv - Mythography of a City | Maoz Azaryahu usato Storia Biografie Diari e Memorie

Founded in 1909 as a "garden suburb" of the Mediterranean port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv soon became a model of Jewish self-rule and was celebrated as a jewel in the crown of Hebrew revival. Over time the city has transformed into a lively metropolis, renowned for its architecture and culture, openness and vitality. A young city, Tel Aviv continues to represent a fundamental idea that transcends the physical texture of the city and the everyday experiences of its residents. Combining historical research and cultural analysis, Maoz Azaryahu explores the different myths that have been part of the vernacular and perception of the city. He relates Tel Aviv's mythology to its physicality through buildings, streets, personal experiences, and municipal policies. With critical insight, he evaluates specific myths and their propagation in the spheres of both official and popular culture. Azaryahu explores three distinct stages in the history of the mythic Tel Aviv: "The First Hebrew City" assesses Tel Aviv as Zionist vision and seed of the actual city; "Non-Stop City" depicts trendy, global post-Zionist Tel Aviv; and "The White City" describes Tel Aviv's architectural landscape, created in the 1930s and imbued with nostalgia and local prestige. Tel Aviv: Mythography of a City will appeal to urban geographers, cultural historians, scholars of myth, and students of Israeli society and culture.

EUR 15.00
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Before sexuality - The construction of erotic experience in the ancient greek world | David M. Halperin, John J. Winkler, Froma I. Zeitlin usato

Before sexuality - The construction of erotic experience in the ancient greek world | David M. Halperin, John J. Winkler, Froma I. Zeitlin usato

A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the dreamer's sexual psychology. Evidence of such shifts in perspective is leading scholars to reconsider in a variety of creative ways the history of sexuality. In these fifteen original essays, eminent cultural historians and classicists not only discuss sex, but demonstrate how norms, practices, and even the very definitions of what counts as sexual activity have varied significantly over time. Ancient Greece offers abundant evidence for a radically different set of sexual standards and behaviors from ours. Sex in ancient Hellenic culture assumed a variety of social and political meanings, whereas the modern development of a sex-centered model of personality now leads us to view sex as the key to understanding the individual. Drawing on both the Anglo-American tradition of cultural anthropology and the French tradition of les sciences humaines, these essays explore the iconography, politics, ethics, poetry, and medical practices that made sex in ancient Greece not a paradise of liberation but an exotic locale hardly recognizable to visitors from the modern world. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Peter Brown, Anne Carson, Franoise Frontisi-Ducroux, Maud W. Gleason, Ann Ellis Hanson, Franois Lissarrague, Nicole Loraux, Maurice Olender, S.R.F. Price, James Redfield, Giulia Sissa, and Jean-Pierre Vernant.

EUR 30.00
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Brains, Machines, and Mathematics | Michael A. Arbib usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

Brains, Machines, and Mathematics | Michael A. Arbib usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

This is a book whose time has come-again. The first edition (published by McGraw-Hill in 1964) was written in 1962, and it celebrated a number of approaches to developing an automata theory that could provide insights into the processing of information in brainlike machines, making it accessible to readers with no more than a college freshman's knowledge of mathematics. The book introduced many readers to aspects of cybernetics-the study of computation and control in animal and machine. But by the mid-1960s, many workers abandoned the integrated study of brains and machines to pursue artificial intelligence (AI) as an end in itself-the programming of computers to exhibit some aspects of human intelligence, but with the emphasis on achieving some benchmark of performance rather than on capturing the mechanisms by which humans were themselves intelligent. Some workers tried to use concepts from AI to model human cognition using computer programs, but were so dominated by the metaphor "the mind is a computer" that many argued that the mind must share with the computers of the 1960s the property of being serial, of executing a series of operations one at a time. As the 1960s became the 1970s, this trend continued. Meanwhile, experi mental neuroscience saw an exploration of new data on the anatomy and physiology of neural circuitry, but little of this research placed these circuits in the context of overall behavior, and little was informed by theoretical con cepts beyond feedback mechanisms and feature detectors.

EUR 14.00
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Caravaggio, Andrew Graham-Dixon , usato, A life sacred and profane, Storia, Biografie Diari e Memorie, dimanoinmano.it

Caravaggio, Andrew Graham-Dixon , usato, A life sacred and profane, Storia, Biografie Diari e Memorie, dimanoinmano.it

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon describes brilliantly in this book, are those of cardinals and whores, prayer and violence. The patrons of the church competed to have the leading artists of the day in their households, and the artists jostled for their favour. On the streets surrounding the churches and palaces, brawls and swordfights were regular occurrences. In one such fight Caravaggio, a particularly violent man, killed Ranuccio Tomassoni, a pimp, and fled afterwards to Naples and then Malta, home to the Knights of St John, where he escaped from prison following his conviction for another vicious assault. Fleeing once more he fell victim himself to a crippling vendetta attack. Shortly afterwards, he died while returning to Rome to seek a papal pardon for his crimes. He was thirty-eight years old. In the course of this desperate life Caravaggio created the most dramatic paintings of his age, using ordinary men and women - often prostitutes and the very poor - to model for his depictions of classic religious scenes. Andrew Graham-Dixon's exceptionally illuminating readings of Caravaggio'spictures, which are the heart of the book, show very clearly how he created their drama, immediacy and humanity, and how completely he departed from the conventions of his time. A note from the Editor- This is one of the most compelling biographies of any kind I have ever been involved with. The writing grabs you by the throat - as the endorsement by double Man Booker prize-winner Peter Carey, which we print on the back of the book, attests. But more than that, Andrew Graham-Dixon is able to link Caravaggio's life and work more convincingly, I think, than any previous writer. You see how the pictures came out of his extraordinary, dark and dangerous life, and out of Italy at the height of the Counter-Reformation. And, amazingly, exactly four hundred years after Caravaggio's death, he has some important discoveries to report, which I believe finally solve two of the greatest mysteries hitherto about Caravaggio. Andrew has been working on the book for ten years but it has certainly been worth waiting for.

EUR 15.00
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