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A Practical Guide to Quantum Machine Learning and Quantum Optimization

Hands-on Approach to Modern Quantum Algorithms

By: Elias F. Combarro,Samuel Gonzalez-Castillo,Alberto Di Meglio

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A Practical Guide to Quantum Machine Learning and Quantum Optimization

Hands-on Approach to Modern Quantum Algorithms

By: Elias F. Combarro,Samuel Gonzalez-Castillo,Alberto Di Meglio

Work with fully explained algorithms and ready-to-use examples that can be run on quantum simulators and actual quantum computers with this comprehensive guide Key FeaturesGet a solid grasp of the principles behind quantum algorithms and optimization with minimal mathematical prerequisitesLearn the process of implementing the algorithms on simulators and actual quantum computersSolve real-world problems using practical examples of methodsBook Description This book provides deep coverage of modern quantum algorithms that can be used to solve real-world problems. You'll be introduced to quantum computing using a hands-on approach with minimal prerequisites. You'll discover many algorithms, tools, and methods to model optimization problems with the QUBO and Ising formalisms, and you will find out how to solve optimization problems with quantum annealing, QAOA, Grover Adaptive Search (GAS), and VQE. This book also shows you how to train quantum machine learning models, such as quantum support vector machines, quantum neural networks, and quantum generative adversarial networks. The book takes a straightforward path to help you learn about quantum algorithms, illustrating them with code that's ready to be run on quantum simulators and actual quantum computers. You'll also learn how to utilize programming frameworks such as IBM's Qiskit, Xanadu's PennyLane, and D-Wave's Leap. Through reading this book, you will not only build a solid foundation of the fundamentals of quantum computing, but you will also become familiar with a wide variety of modern quantum algorithms. Moreover, this book will give you the programming skills that will enable you to start applying quantum methods to solve practical problems right away. What you will learnReview the basics of quantum computingGain a solid understanding of modern quantum algorithmsUnderstand how to formulate optimization problems with QUBOSolve optimization problems with quantum annealing, QAOA, GAS, and VQEFind out how to create quantum machine learning modelsExplore how quantum support vector machines and quantum neural networks work using Qiskit and PennyLaneDiscover how to implement hybrid architectures using Qiskit and PennyLane and its PyTorch interfaceWho this book is for This book is for professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds, including computer scientists and programmers, engineers, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians. Basic knowledge of linear algebra and some programming skills (for instance, in Python) are assumed, although all mathematical prerequisites will be covered in the appendices.

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1804618306

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Engine Design Concepts for World Championship Grand Prix Motorcycles

By: Alberto Boretti

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Engine Design Concepts for World Championship Grand Prix Motorcycles

By: Alberto Boretti

The World Championship Grand Prix (WCGP) is the premier championship event of motorcycle road racing. The WCGP was established in 1949 by the sport's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM), and is the oldest world championship event in the motorsports arena. This book, developed especially for racing enthusiasts by motorsports engineering expert Dr. Alberto Boretti, provides a broad view of WCGP motorcycle racing and vehicles, but is primarily focused on the design of four-stroke engines for the MotoGP class. The book opens with general background on MotoGP governing bodies and a history of the event’s classes since the competition began in 1949. It then presents some of the key engines that have been developed and used for the competition through the years. Technologies that are used in today’s MotoGP engines are discussed. A sidebar discussion on calculating brake, indicated, and friction performance parameters provides mathematical information for readers who like such technical details. Future developments of MotoGP engines, including the use of biofuels and recovery of thermal and braking energy, are presented. The introduction concludes with a chart that details the winners of the various classes of WCGP motorcycle racing since the competition began in 1949. The bulk of the book consists of four previously published SAE technical papers that were expressly chosen by Dr. Boretti to provide greater insight to the relationships between engine parameters and performance, namely the influence on friction and mean effective pressure of traditional spark ignited four stroke engines tuned for a narrow high power output. The first paper provides the reader with a quick way to estimate the friction loss and engine output. The second paper discusses output and fuel consumption of multi-valve motorcycle engines. The third paper, published in 2002, compares WCGP engines developed to comply with the then-new FIM regulations that allowed four-stroke engines in the competition. The fourth paper examines specific power densities and therefore the level of sophistication and costs of MotoGP 800 cm3 engines. This paper shows the performance of these as well as the 1000cc SuperBike engines. The fifth paper presents four engine concepts including one for a MotoGP/Superbike with 2 and 3 cylinders. The sixth paper compares 3 and 4 in-line, V4, V5, and V6 layouts through 1-D engine simulations. The seventh paper considers the actual operation of 800cc MotoGP engines on the race track, where the percentage of the duration in fully open throttle is less than 20% of the race, but the partial throttle is used for as much as 80% of the race. The final paper in the compendium reports on the Honda oval piston engine concept.

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SAE International

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0768078083

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Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina

By: Paulina Alberto,Eduardo Elena

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Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina

By: Paulina Alberto,Eduardo Elena

This book reconsiders the relationship between race and nation in Argentina during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and places Argentina firmly in dialog with the literature on race and nation in Latin America, from where it has long been excluded or marginalized for being a white, European exception in a mixed-race region. The contributors, based both in North America and Argentina, hail from the fields of history, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. Their essays collectively destabilize widespread certainties about Argentina, showing that whiteness in that country has more in common with practices and ideologies of Mestizaje and 'racial democracy' elsewhere in the region than has typically been acknowledged. The essays also situate Argentina within the well-established literature on race, nation, and whiteness in world regions beyond Latin America (particularly, other European 'settler societies'). The collection thus contributes to rethinking race for other global contexts as well.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107107636

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Erba di Roma

By: Alberto Bosis,Paolo Bisetti

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Erba di Roma

By: Alberto Bosis,Paolo Bisetti

Ricordi di luoghi, persone o momenti vissuti con intensità, minuscoli monelli in fuga dai cassettini della memoria. Righe di emozioni si fanno solidarietà” dalla prefazione di Andrea Vitali. Raccolta di racconti in romano, italiano e inglese, tra passato e presente, tra Roma e Erba (Co). Due autori, un’illustratrice, un gruppo di studenti, l’attenzione di istituzioni e privati… insieme per un gesto di solidarietà. Il ricavato dalla vendita del libro viene destinato, dagli autori, all’Associazione Genitin (Genitori Terapia Intensiva Neonatale) Onlus – Policlinico A. Gemelli Roma Collegandosi al sito www.genitin.org è possibile ascoltare la lettura dei racconti in italiano e romano.

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editrice velar

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886670136X

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L'idea costruita

By: Alberto Campo Baeza

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L'idea costruita

By: Alberto Campo Baeza

L'idea costruita è il manifesto teorico di Alberto Campo Baeza; una raccolta di testi di varia provenienza che manifesta la chiarezza del suo pensiero e la straordinaria coerenza della sua opera. Concentrandosi sui fondamenti della disciplina (la luce, il confronto con la gravità, il valore delle idee, il flusso incessante della storia) l'autore redige un testo colto ma volontariamente antiaccademico, aperto alle suggestioni delle altre discipline artistiche ma con una evidente passione didattica. I testi sui grandi maestri dell'architettura spagnola (Fisac, De la Sota, Sáenz de Oíza, Coderch, Carvajal), mondiale (Mies van der Rohe, Utzon), o sui colleghi della scena internazionale (Ando, Chipperfield, llinás, Vicens e Ramos) mettono in luce il suo percorso culturale e la sua idea di architettura, basata sul suo rigoroso «más con menos». «La storia dell'architettura, lungi dall'essere solo una storia delle forme, è fondamentalmente una storia delle idee costruite. Le forme si disgregano col tempo ma le idee rimangono, sono eterne». «Un'architettura che ha nell'idea la sua origine, nella luce il suo primo materiale, nello spazio essenziale la volontà di ottenere il più con meno».

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LetteraVentidue Edizioni

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8862421257

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Breve matrimonio di benito, e morte

By: Alberto Camì

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Breve matrimonio di benito, e morte

By: Alberto Camì

Il fatto accadde in una classe femminile. Benito stava celiando, come spesso usava durante le lezioni, sui diversi atteggiamenti dei due sessi. Più volte aveva ripetuto “noi-maschi-noi-maschi”, quando un’alunna ironicamente insinuò: - Noi maschi? Con la naturalezza che lo distingueva, Benito si sbottonò i pantaloni, e rimase così, accanto alla cattedra, con quel bel faccione ridente come un girasole, né più né meno che si trattasse di una regola di francese scritta alla lavagna. Il romanzo racconta la storia di Benito, un uomo di mezza età sul quale pesa l’insopprimibile marchio della diversità. Il suo matrimonio tardivo è l’inutile e goffo tentativo di accedere a quella normalità dalla quale è rimasto sempre escluso. L’immagine di uomo ridicolo continuerà ad accompagnarlo fin nella tomba, nel grottesco epilogo che lo vede ancora protagonista a dispetto del suo tragico destino. La vicenda di Benito diventa per l’io-narrante l’occasione di un disincatato viaggio nella memoria. In un registro variegato e vivace, oscillante tra ironia e riferimenti letterari, l’autore ci restituisce la nitida immagine della Sicilia degli anni ’70, una società chiusa nella quale le leggi più ferree sono quelle del conformismo.

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OMBand D.E.

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8890826991

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Orson Welles in Italy

By: Alberto Anile

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Orson Welles in Italy

By: Alberto Anile

Fleeing a Hollywood that spurned him, Orson Welles arrived in Italy in 1947 to begin his career anew. Far from being welcomed as the celebrity who directed and starred in Citizen Kane, his six-year exile in Italy was riddled with controversy, financial struggles, disastrous love affairs, and failed projects. Alberto Anile's book depicts the artist's life and work in Italy, including his reception by the Italian press, his contentious interactions with key political figures, and his artistic output, which culminated in the filming of Othello. Drawing on revelatory new material on the artist's personal and professional life abroad, Orson Welles in Italy also chronicles Italian cinema's transition from the social concerns of neorealism to the alienated characters in films such as Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, amid the cultural politics of postwar Europe and the beginnings of the cold war.

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Indiana University Press

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0253010411

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9780253010414

Guilds, Markets and Work Regulations in Italy, 16th–19th Centuries

By: Alberto Guenzi

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Guilds, Markets and Work Regulations in Italy, 16th–19th Centuries

By: Alberto Guenzi

The purpose of this volume is to provide a conspectus of current research on the history of guilds and corporations in Italy in the period from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. Particular aims are to examine the relationship between guilds, manufacturing, entrepreneurship, and economic development, and their impact on urban society and social welfare. The work derives from a major project set up in 1994; the results were discussed at a conference in Rome in September 1997, and formed the basis for a further presentation by Professor Carlo Poni at the 12th International Economic History Conference in Seville. The papers are grouped into three sections, dealing with the guild system in urban areas, case studies of individual guilds and conflicts, and their role in mutual aid and assistance. Specially translated for this volume, they trace for the English-speaking world a rich picture of the history of the Italian guild system in the modern era, and its movement from magnificence to decline.

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Routledge

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1351931962

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BENGALA

By: ALBERTO OLIVIERI

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BENGALA

By: ALBERTO OLIVIERI

Fluido corrosivo, prosa germogliante che si espande a raggiera e si incunea sottopelle. Capitoli densi portati fino alle estreme conseguenze, lungo un percorso che dai sensi giunge al centro delle cose umane, scartando l'etica e la morale. Roba fresca. Un onesto tentativo di scoperchiare l'inconscio, di svolgere l'intricato reticolo che racchiude la poesia del cosmo. Sardegna come un'infuocata Copacabana, come i sobborghi più infimi dell'Havana, dove i personaggi si compenetrano fino a rimanere quell'essenza luminosa e baluginante che è la mutevole luce dello spirito. Opera conturbante, velenosa, negra. Una storia imprevedibile.

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1291281975

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Black Legend

The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina

By: Paulina L. Alberto

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Black Legend

The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina

By: Paulina L. Alberto

Celebrities live their lives in constant dialogue with stories about them. But when these stories are shaped by durable racist myths, they wield undue power to ruin lives and obliterate communities. Black Legend is the haunting story of an Afro-Argentine, Raúl Grigera ('el negro Raúl'), who in the early 1900s audaciously fashioned himself into an alluring Black icon of Buenos Aires' bohemian nightlife, only to have defamatory storytellers unmake him. In this gripping history, Paulina Alberto exposes the destructive power of racial storytelling and narrates a new history of Black Argentina and Argentine Blackness across two centuries. With the extraordinary Raúl Grigera at its center, Black Legend opens new windows into lived experiences of Blackness in a 'white' nation, and illuminates how Raúl's experience of celebrity was not far removed from more ordinary experiences of racial stories in the flesh.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108988512

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Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe

By: Alberto Cevolini

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Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe

By: Alberto Cevolini

We are so accustomed to use digital memories as data storage devices, that we are oblivious to the improbability of such a practice. Habit hides what we habitually use. To understand the worldwide success of archives and card indexing systems that allow to remember more because they allow to forget more than before, the evolution of scholarly practices and the transformation of cognitive habits in the early modern age must be investigated. This volume contains contributions by nearly every distinguished scholar in the field of early modern knowledge management and filing systems, and offers a remarkable synthesis of the present state of scholarship. A final section explores some current issues in record-keeping and note-taking systems, and provides valuable cues for future research.

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BRILL

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9004325255

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9789004325258

Laughter from Realism to Modernism

Misfits and Humorists in Pirandello, Svevo, Palazzeschi, and Gadda

By: Alberto Godioli

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Laughter from Realism to Modernism

Misfits and Humorists in Pirandello, Svevo, Palazzeschi, and Gadda

By: Alberto Godioli

As best exemplified by the works of Pirandello, Svevo, Palazzeschi, and Gadda, Italian modernist fiction is particularly rich in bizarre and ludicrous characters, whose originality is often derided by a uniform society. On the other hand, laughter can also be used by the author (or by the misfits themselves) as a reaction to the levelling pressure of social life - Pirandello's umorismo, Svevo's irony, Palazzeschi's controdolore, and Gadda's satire are all good cases in point. Looked at from this perspective, early 20th-century Italian fiction can set the basis for an innovative reflection on broader comparative themes. What is the role of laughter and individual diversity in international Modernism? How is modernist eccentricity related to the representations of originality in the 18th and 19th centuries, from Sterne to Balzac and Dostoevsky? And what does it tell us about the fear of homogenisation as a crucial aspect of the modern social imaginary? Building on the analysis of a large corpus of short stories and other major works by the Italian authors at issue, as well as on a series of previously undetected intertextual links with the classics of European Realism, this book is the first systematic attempt at answering such questions. Alberto Godioli is Teaching Fellow in Italian at the University of Edinburgh.

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Routledge

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1351191012

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Italian Cuisine

A Cultural History

By: Alberto Capatti,Massimo Montanari

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Italian Cuisine

A Cultural History

By: Alberto Capatti,Massimo Montanari

Italy, the country with a hundred cities and a thousand bell towers, is also the country with a hundred cuisines and a thousand recipes. Its great variety of culinary practices reflects a history long dominated by regionalism and political division, and has led to the common conception of Italian food as a mosaic of regional customs rather than a single tradition. Nonetheless, this magnificent new book demonstrates the development of a distinctive, unified culinary tradition throughout the Italian peninsula. Alberto Capatti and Massimo Montanari uncover a network of culinary customs, food lore, and cooking practices, dating back as far as the Middle Ages, that are identifiably Italian: o Italians used forks 300 years before other Europeans, possibly because they were needed to handle pasta, which is slippery and dangerously hot. o Italians invented the practice of chilling drinks and may have invented ice cream. o Italian culinary practice influenced the rest of Europe to place more emphasis on vegetables and less on meat. o Salad was a distinctive aspect of the Italian meal as early as the sixteenth century. The authors focus on culinary developments in the late medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras, aided by a wealth of cookbooks produced throughout the early modern period. They show how Italy's culinary identities emerged over the course of the centuries through an exchange of information and techniques among geographical regions and social classes. Though temporally, spatially, and socially diverse, these cuisines refer to a common experience that can be described as Italian. Thematically organized around key issues in culinary history and beautifully illustrated, Italian Cuisine is a rich history of the ingredients, dishes, techniques, and social customs behind the Italian food we know and love today.

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Columbia University Press

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0231509049

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9780231509046

Epileptic Syndromes in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence - 6th edition

By: Michelle Bureau,Pierre Genton,Charlotte Dravet,Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta,Renzo Guerrini,Carlo Alberto Tassinari,Pierre Thomas,Peter Wolf

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Epileptic Syndromes in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence - 6th edition

By: Michelle Bureau,Pierre Genton,Charlotte Dravet,Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta,Renzo Guerrini,Carlo Alberto Tassinari,Pierre Thomas,Peter Wolf

Since 1984, the year of the publication of its first edition, the famous “Blue Guide” has been the international reference for paediatricians and neuropaediatricians with regard to epileptic syndromes in infants, children and adolescents. This 6th edition reviews some of the most noteworthy developments in the field, particularly in epileptic syndromes, but also focuses on the genetic aspects of the syndromes and their development. Progress brought about by advances in neuroimaging is also discussed in addition to specific etiologies such as parasitic diseases and immune and autoimmune diseases. The different backgrounds of the contributors - coordinators and authors – ensure that the book’s longstanding reputation for objectivity and seriousness, built over almost 35 years, remain well-deserved. This book written by the current leading specialists is recognized worldwide as the international reference in epilepsy.

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John Libbey Eurotext

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2742016090

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9782742016099

When Flags Collide

By: Alberto Moretti

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When Flags Collide

By: Alberto Moretti

ENGLISH - ITALIAN TEXT Amalia is a heroin, a mother and a wife: she retraces the events of her family through three generations. She welcomes their inheritance in a hard struggle to survive between a Country's rural age at its sunset and a working-class Milan in which the war is perceived by apocalyptic aerial bombardments and alarm sirens. Of the war she talks about the anxiety and the horror: she faces losses and mourning with an aching and courageous heart, with the determination to build a future for her and her little daughter and with the certainty of the return of her never forgotten hero, Commander Guido. He, in the meanwhile, is engaged with his patrol in an epic crossing of the Sahara desert through Libya, Tunisia and Algeria, trying to bring his men to safety.

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1387670077

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Chora, Volume Six

Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

By: Alberto Pérez-Gómez,Stephen Parcell

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Chora, Volume Six

Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

By: Alberto Pérez-Gómez,Stephen Parcell

Different concepts of the machine are pursued in essays on Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Alfred Jarry's pataphysical machines, and cosmological and political orders in sixteenth-century utopias. Cross-cultural tensions are examined in essays on the Christian appropriation of Aztec symbolism, and on Jesuit perspectives in an imperial Chinese garden in Beijing. Architectural origins and education are revisited in essays on fire and language in Vitruvius, on storytelling by Spanish theorist Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz, and on the role of history in the design of the Prato della Valle, a public square in Padua. Phenomenal experience is the focus of essays on light and stone in the Gothic church of Saint-Denis, and on bodily movement through the ancient Palace of Minos at Knossos in Crete. Tensions in architectural representation are investigated in essays on the influence of Villard de Honnecourt on drawings by William Burges in Victorian England, and on Stendhal's curious narrative drawings in his book Vie de Henry Brulard. Contemporary beliefs are scrutinized in an essay that uses psychoanalytic theory to examine the modern concept of sustainability.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773585699

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9780773585690

Trivia Thief

Selected Poems, 1969-2009

By: Alberto Nessi

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Trivia Thief

Selected Poems, 1969-2009

By: Alberto Nessi

Nessi's ... strength as a poet rests with his own distinctive and daring language - a spirit level that enables him always to align himself with the subject of his verse. And, if his work is the product of a rational and realistic pessimism - occasionally softened by irony, it is also true that Nessi's emotional and ethical empathy deepens his analysis and heightens his response. - Marco Sonzogni

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Guernica Editions

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1550713515

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A Champion Cyclist Against the Nazis

The Incredible Life of Gino Bartali

By: Alberto Toscano

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A Champion Cyclist Against the Nazis

The Incredible Life of Gino Bartali

By: Alberto Toscano

The true story of the Tour de France winner who cycled all over Mussolini’s Italy in a secret quest to rescue hundreds of Jewish lives. Cyclist Gino Bartali won the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) three times and the Tour de France twice. But these weren’t his only achievements. Deeply religious, Bartali quietly agreed during the dark years of fascist rule to work with the Resistance and pass messages and papers from one end of the country to the other. Despite the dangers, Bartali used his training as a pretext to criss-cross Italy, hiding documents in the handlebars and saddle of his bicycle, hoping each time he was searched that they wouldn’t think to disassemble his machine. As a result of his bravery, eight hundred Jews—including numerous children—were saved from deportation. In this book, Alberto Toscano shares the incredible story of this great sportsman, recognized as one of the “Righteous Among the Nations” by Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Memorial after his death in Florence in 2000, and recounts a story of humble heroism, real-life suspense, and twentieth-century European history. “An informative testament to the kinds of risks and sacrifices [of] the anti-Nazis in Mussolini’s Italy during World War II . . . an extraordinary story of an extraordinary man in extraordinary times.” —Midwest Book Review

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Pen and Sword Military

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1526753405

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I primi passi su GDI

By: Matteo Rastelli,Alberto Stocchi

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I primi passi su GDI

By: Matteo Rastelli,Alberto Stocchi

Una pratica e utile guida per tutti coloro che desiderano intraprendere un nuovo business online e hanno bisogno di semplici consigli per riuscire al meglio. Analizzeremo e scopriremo insieme il mondo del web hosting attraverso le nostre esperienze aziendali con GDI.

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1471736830

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Music in the Castle

Troubadours, Books, and Orators in Italian Courts of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries

By: F. Alberto Gallo

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Music in the Castle

Troubadours, Books, and Orators in Italian Courts of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries

By: F. Alberto Gallo

Writing for general readers and specialists alike, Gallo illuminates the artistic, cultural, social, and political dimensions of secular music, vocal and instrumental. His account also sheds new light on the potent influence of French culture in Italian courtly life.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226279685

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Chora 5

Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

By: Alberto Pérez-Gomez,Stephen Parcell

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Chora 5

Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

By: Alberto Pérez-Gomez,Stephen Parcell

Provocative views on why architecture matters offer vital information for developing a richer architecture.

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0773577408

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The Nation of the Risorgimento

Kinship, Sanctity, and Honour in the Origins of Unified Italy

By: Alberto Banti

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The Nation of the Risorgimento

Kinship, Sanctity, and Honour in the Origins of Unified Italy

By: Alberto Banti

This book is a translation of La Nazione del Risorgimento, one of the most important and influential works on modern Italian history published in recent years. It analyses the aspects of the ideas of nationhood and patriotism that impassioned and energized the Italian Risorgimento movement during the first half of the nineteenth century. Employing an innovative interdisciplinary approach that examines the cultural production and consumption of the period, the author has challenged the orthodoxies of post-1945 Italian historiography. He explores the developing themes that gave strength to the idea of the Italian ‘nation’, and in the process persuasively explains why so many young men and women were willing to lay down their lives for the ‘patria’ and its independence.

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171

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Routledge

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ISBN 10

1000057453

ISBN 13

9781000057454

Book's by Alberto Di Meglio

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