Andrea Bevilacqua's Books

Doubly Stochastic Models for Volcanic Hazard Assessment at Campi Flegrei Caldera

By: Andrea Bevilacqua

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Doubly Stochastic Models for Volcanic Hazard Assessment at Campi Flegrei Caldera

By: Andrea Bevilacqua

This study provides innovative mathematical models for assessing the eruption probability and associated volcanic hazards, and applies them to the Campi Flegrei caldera in Italy. Throughout the book, significant attention is devoted to quantifying the sources of uncertainty affecting the forecast estimates. The Campi Flegrei caldera is certainly one of the world’s highest-risk volcanoes, with more than 70 eruptions over the last 15,000 years, prevalently explosive ones of varying magnitude, intensity and vent location. In the second half of the twentieth century the volcano apparently once again entered a phase of unrest that continues to the present. Hundreds of thousands of people live inside the caldera and over a million more in the nearby city of Naples, making a future eruption of Campi Flegrei an event with potentially catastrophic consequences at the national and European levels.

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8876425772

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The I Have A Life Bride's Guide

Plan The Wedding You've Always Wanted--without Losing Your Mind

By: Andrea Mattei

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The I Have A Life Bride's Guide

Plan The Wedding You've Always Wanted--without Losing Your Mind

By: Andrea Mattei

So you want to plan an unforgettable wedding, but you don't want to get swallowed up in a whole lot of craziness? True enough, some women have the time and inclination to eat, sleep, and breathe every last detail of planning their weddings, but that's not you. You need a practical, true-to-life guide that boils your wedding planning details down to the nitty-gritty basics. If you're pressed for time - and patience - and want to avoid all the excess fluff and fuss, The "I Have a Life" Bride's Guide is the book for you. This no-nonsense guide shows you how to: De-stress and stay cool at all times Balance your wedding plans with your hectic schedule Steer clear of unnecessary expenses Cut to the chase when deciding on where to have your ceremony and reception Avoid time drains and pitfalls when choosing a caterer, a band, or a florist Don't bother snagging separate books on wedding budgets, wedding etiquette, and wedding photography - The "I Have a Life" Bride's Guide is the only book you need to save your sanity and enjoy your wedding day!

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Simon and Schuster

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1440518823

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Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories

By: Andrea Camilleri

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Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories

By: Andrea Camilleri

“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit, as fresh and clean as Mediterranean seafood — altogether transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.” A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Twenty-one short stories spanning the beloved Inspector Montalbano's career Inspector Montalbano has charmed readers in nineteen popular novels, and now in Montalbano’s First Case and Other Stories, Andrea Camilleri has selected twenty-one short stories, written with his trademark wit and humor, that follow Italy’s famous detective through highlight cases of his career. From the title story, featuring a young deputy Montalbano newly assigned to Vigàta, to “Montalbano Says No,” in which the inspector makes a late-night call to Camilleri himself to refuse an outlandish case, this collection is an essential addition to any Inspector Montalbano fan’s bookshelf and a wonderful way to introduce readers to the internationally bestselling series.

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1101992166

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Civetta, Taylor, & Kirby's Critical Care Medicine

By: A. Joseph Layon,Andrea Gabrielli,Mihae Yu,Kenneth E. Wood

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Civetta, Taylor, & Kirby's Critical Care Medicine

By: A. Joseph Layon,Andrea Gabrielli,Mihae Yu,Kenneth E. Wood

Covering every problem encountered in today’s intensive care unit, this leading critical care textbook presents the knowledge and expertise of more than 350 global experts in this fast-changing field. Beginning with the social aspects of medicine, it then discusses monitoring and organ system pathobiology followed by specific diseases states/syndromes. Each chapter begins with immediate concerns and proceeds to broader-based discussions of relevant pathophysiologic and clinical issues.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469889854

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9781469889856

Digital Music Learning Resources

From Research to Educational Practice

By: Marcella Mandanici,Simone Spagnol,Luca Andrea Ludovico,Adriano Baratè,Federico Avanzini

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Digital Music Learning Resources

From Research to Educational Practice

By: Marcella Mandanici,Simone Spagnol,Luca Andrea Ludovico,Adriano Baratè,Federico Avanzini

This book offers an overview of the complex world of digital materials for music education and of their possible use in the everyday practice of music teachers. It presents a multidimensional taxonomy of digital materials for music education. Through the taxonomy it is possible to derive a clear framework of the whole field and to perform analysis of the state of art. The book shows the use of this flexible and powerful knowledge tool for reviewing the digital materials in the various domains and dimentions. The book provides researchers and designers with an overview of what has already been designed, proposed and tested in the field. It also offers music teachers a wider perspective of the possibilities connected to current technologies in the field of music education, and it suggests possible interrelationships between research and music education practices.

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Springer Nature

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9819942063

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The Political Body

Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America

By: Andrea Giunta

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The Political Body

Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America

By: Andrea Giunta

This book discusses how some works of art produced in Latin America in the sixties, seventies, and eighties forged a different understanding of the female body, understood as space for the expression of a dissident subjectivity in relation to socially normalized places. Representations of art and of feminist activism interrogated the disciplining of the female body that entails as well the disciplining of the male body. Before a history of highly regulated artistic representations-regardless of the occasional exceptions a historian might point out-images erupted that questioned the social and institutional naturalization of the feminine and the masculine"--

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Univ of California Press

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0520344324

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9780520344327

Chemometrics in Food Chemistry

Chapter 5. Classification and Class-Modelling

By: Marta Bevilacqua,Remo Bucci,Andrea D. Magrì,Antonio L. Magrì,Riccardo Nescatelli,Federico Marini

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Chemometrics in Food Chemistry

Chapter 5. Classification and Class-Modelling

By: Marta Bevilacqua,Remo Bucci,Andrea D. Magrì,Antonio L. Magrì,Riccardo Nescatelli,Federico Marini

This chapter describes the basic theory about classification, starting from a general description of the different approaches to classification and then illustrating in detail the principal methods which are used in the framework of assessment of food quality. Examples of application of the methods to different data sets are also provided.

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0128083263

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International Standardization and the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade

By: Andrea Barrios Villarreal

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International Standardization and the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade

By: Andrea Barrios Villarreal

This work examines the international standardization system generally, with a specific focus on some of the bodies within this system. It also questions the lack of definition regarding several features related to the system, notably an international standardizing body and international standards in the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108474365

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Hormone Replacement Therapy and Cancer

The Current Status of Research and Practice

By: Andrea R. Genazzani

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Hormone Replacement Therapy and Cancer

The Current Status of Research and Practice

By: Andrea R. Genazzani

The clinical benefits of hormone replacement therapy in women have to be carefully balanced against the possible risks, and a particular theoretical concern relates to risks associated with various forms of female oncology. Because of conflicting reports, gynecologists and oncologists especially need a single, authoritative resource of up-to-date information. Hormone Replacement Therapy and Cancer, published in association with the International Menopause Society, provides the very consensus statement that clinicians need in this difficult and complex area. Many of the world's leading specialists have contributed important chapters that provide state-of-the-art knowledge about the effects of hormones on women and possible cancer risks. The introductory section deals with carcinogenesis, and the other main sections cover HRT and breast cancer, endometrial cancer, colon cancer, melanoma and epithelial ovarian cancer. The concluding chapters discuss the benefits and risks of sp ecific therapies. An authoritative clinical reference with extensive bibliographic references and index, Hormone Replacement Therapy and Cancer covers all aspects of HRT and cancer based on the research available up to June 2001.

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CRC Press

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1000144496

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The Political Economy of Italy's Decline

By: Andrea Lorenzo Capussela

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The Political Economy of Italy's Decline

By: Andrea Lorenzo Capussela

Italy is a country of recent decline and long-standing idiosyncratic traits. A rich society served by an advanced manufacturing economy, where the rule of law is weak and political accountability low, it has long been in downward spiral alimented by corruption and clientelism. From this spiral has emerged an equilibrium as consistent as it is inefficient, that raises serious obstacles to economic and democratic development. The Political Economy of Italy's Decline explains the causes of Italy's downward trajectory, and explains how the country can shift to a fairer and more efficient system. Analysing both political economic literature and the history of Italy from 1861 onwards, The Political Economy of Italy's Decline argues that the deeper roots of the decline lie in the political economy of growth. It places emphasis on the country's convergence to the productivity frontier and the evolution of its social order and institutions to illuminate the origins and evolution of the current constraints to growth, using institutional economics and Schumpeterian growth theory to support its findings. It analyses two alternative reactions to the insufficient provision of public goods: an opportunistic one – employing tax evasion, corruption, or clientelism as means to appropriate private goods –- and one based on enforcing political accountability. From the perspective of ordinary citizens and firms such social dilemmas can typically be modelled as coordination games, which have multiple equilibria. Self-interested rationality can thus lead to a spiral, in which several mutually reinforcing vicious circles lead society onto an inefficient equilibrium characterized by low political accountability and weak rule of law. The Political Economy of Italy's Decline follows the gradual setting in of this spiral as it identifys the deeper causes of Italy's decline.

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Oxford University Press

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019251735X

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Metti a Emiliano

By: Roberto Lorusso,Pietro Andrea Annicelli

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Metti a Emiliano

By: Roberto Lorusso,Pietro Andrea Annicelli

Michele Emiliano protagonista, a Bari e in Puglia, d'una esperienza politica e amministrativa particolarmente interessante e innovativa nella realt politica italiana. Ecco i come e i perch raccontati da osservatori e protagonisti: Ludovico Abaticchio, Dino Amenduni, Nino Anaclerio, Pierluigi Balducci, Lino Banfi, Rosina Basso Lobello, Paolo Bevilacqua, Tobia Binetti, Nicola Bonerba, Dino Borri, Marco Brando, Carlo Bruni, Danilo Calabrese, Giovanni Campobasso, Antonio Cantoro, Cinzia Capano, Michele Capriati, Donato Carrisi, Franco Cassano, Domenico Castellaneta, Angelo Cera, Franco Chiarello, Graziano Conversano, Raimondo Cucciola, Nicola De Bartolomeo, Antonio De Caro, Fortunata Dell'Orzo, Cinzia De Marzo, Fabio Di Fonte, Antonio Di Matteo, Gemma Dipoppa, Simonetta Emiliano, Francesco Ferrante, Francesco Fistetti, Enrico Fornaro, Costantino Foschini, Dario Ginefra, Mario Gismondi, Giuseppe Goffredo, Gero Grassi, Eugenio Iorio, Marco Lacarra, Vito Leccese, Francesco Lenoci, Adriana Logroscino, Fabrizio Lombardo Pijola, Antonio Madaro, Enzo Magist, Alfredo Mantovano, Biagio Marzo, Augusto Masiello, Maria Maugeri, Michele Mazzarano, Susi Mazzei, Domenico Mennitti, Nichi Muciaccia, Gennaro Nunziante, Rocco Palese, Carlo Paolini, Vittorio Parisi, Federico Pirro, Adriana Poli Bortone Massimo Posca, Franco Punzi, Enzo Purgatorio, Luigi Quaranta, Antonella Rinella, Elio Sannicandro, Maria Santacroce, Alba Sasso, Giovanni Sasso, Leonardo Scorza, Vittorio Sgarbi, Ippazio Stef no, Salvatore Tatarella, Leonardo Tomasicchio, Andrea Troisi, Walter Veltroni, Nichi Vendola, Marcello Vernola, Cesare Veronico, Fabrizio Versienti, Gianfranco Viesti, Luciano Violante, Pierfelice Zazzera.Michele Emiliano is the protagonist, in Bari and in Puglia, of a political and administrative experience particularly interesting and innovative in the reality of Italian politics.

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Di Marsico Libri

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8889979364

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The Etruscans

9th–2nd Centuries BC

By: Raffaele D’Amato,Andrea Salimbeti

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The Etruscans

9th–2nd Centuries BC

By: Raffaele D’Amato,Andrea Salimbeti

Ancient Rome had deep roots in the 'Villanovan' culture that we call today the Etruscans. Their long-lived civilization can be traced to 900–750 BC in north-west Italy. They were a sea-faring people trading with and competing against Greek and Phoenician peoples, including the Carthaginians. They were also a great land-based power, especially in the 'Classical' period, where they expanded their power north into the Po Valley and south to Latium. In the 6th century BC an Etruscan dynasty ruled Rome, and their power extended southwards to the Amalfi coast. In 509 BC the Romans rose up to expel their kings, which began the long 'Etruscan twilight' when their power was squeezed by the Samnites and, most especially, the Romans. Drawing on archaeological evidence including warrior tombs, paintings, sculptures, and fully illustrated throughout, this study examines one of the early rivals to Ancient Rome.

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1472828321

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The Patience of the Spider

By: Andrea Camilleri

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The Patience of the Spider

By: Andrea Camilleri

“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit, as fresh and clean as Mediterranean seafood — altogether transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.” A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Winning fans in Europe and America for their dark sophistication and dry humor, Andrea Camilleri's crime novels are classics of the genre. Set once again in Sicily, The Patience of the Spider pits Inspector Montalbano against his greatest foe yet: the weight of his own years. Still recovering from the gunshot wound he suffered in Rounding the Mark, he must overcome self-imposed seclusion and waxing self-doubt to penetrate a web of hatred and secrets in pursuit of the strangest culprit he's ever hunted. A mystery unlike any other, this emotionally taut story brings the Montalbano saga to a captivating crossroads.

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0143112031

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Lives of Tintoretto

By: Giorgio Vasari,Pietro Aretino,Andrea Calmo,Veronica Franco,Carlo Ridolfi

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Lives of Tintoretto

By: Giorgio Vasari,Pietro Aretino,Andrea Calmo,Veronica Franco,Carlo Ridolfi

Born Jacopo Comin, Tintoretto (ca. 1519–1594) was one of the great painters of the late Renaissance. This book presents the first biographies of Tintoretto, by Giorgio Vasari and Carlo Ridolfi, as well as accounts from individuals who knew the artist personally. This volume also includes a translation of the marginal notes El Greco wrote in his copy of Vasari’s Life of Tintoretto, which have never before been published. Richly illustrated, with an introduction by the scholar Carlo Corsato that reconstructs Tintoretto’s career and contextualizes the contemporary sources, Lives of Tintoretto enhances our understanding of this influential Renaissance artist, who helped establish the Mannerist style.

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Getty Publications

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1606066005

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Nonlinear Optics of Photonic Crystals and Meta-Materials

An Introduction

By: Andrea Banfi

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Nonlinear Optics of Photonic Crystals and Meta-Materials

An Introduction

By: Andrea Banfi

Jet physics is an incredibly rich subject detailing the narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon in a particle physics or heavy ion experiment. This book is a general overview of jet physics for scientists not directly involved in the field. It presents the basic experimental and theoretical problems arising when dealing with jets, and describing the solutions proposed in recent years.

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Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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1681741377

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Figurative Language in Biblical Prose Narrative

Metaphor in the Book of Samuel

By: Andrea Weiss

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Figurative Language in Biblical Prose Narrative

Metaphor in the Book of Samuel

By: Andrea Weiss

This study applies several linguistic approaches to the book of Samuel in order to investigate the defining features of metaphor and the way metaphor and other forms of figurative language operate in biblical narrative. The book begins with an exploration of how to identify and interpret the metaphors in 1 Samuel 25. Next, the metaphors in 2 Samuel 16:16-17:14 are compared with other tropes, primarily metonymy and simile. Then the notion of “dead” metaphors is challenged while examining the figurative language in 1 Samuel 24. An in-depth analysis of the figurative language in these texts results in a better understanding of the mechanics of metaphor, and a richer, more nuanced reading of these stories, their characters, and language.

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BRILL

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9047408586

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The Mediterranean as a Source of Cultural Criticism

Myth, Literature, Anthropology

By: Andrea Benedetti,Ulrich van Loyen

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The Mediterranean as a Source of Cultural Criticism

Myth, Literature, Anthropology

By: Andrea Benedetti,Ulrich van Loyen

The essays contained in this volume explore the historical trajectories along which the Mediterranean has been conceptualized as a cultural, religious and economical resource and how these various aspects are intertwined. While staying clear of a merely “imagological” or “representational” point of view, the authors consider the interplay between culturally shaped attributions (for example the longstanding desire for a Mediterranean “Otherness” as expressed in German literature), their testing in empirical encounters, and the effect these encounters produce on both sides. Although focused particularly on 19th and 20th century culture, this volume offers a timely contribution to conceptualising the challenges of the 21st century. The conjunction of both provinciality and universality, the connectivity and fragmentation of the Mediterranean continues to be at the basis of the European matrix of all possible (hi)stories.

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Mimesis

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8869772896

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The Autobiography of a Language

Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing

By: Andrea Ciribuco

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The Autobiography of a Language

Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing

By: Andrea Ciribuco

The Autobiography of a Language is an exploration of the deep and powerful ties between language and identity, focusing on an Italian American author and addressing global themes of modern writing. This is the first extensive, book-length work on Emanuel Carnevali (1897–1942), the first Italian American to attain literary recognition. It is a study on how an Italian immigrant to New York became an author and a key figure in transnational modernism. Most importantly, though, it's a study of contacts between American and Italian literatures in the modernist era, and an exploration of the challenges of writing in a second language. Carnevali's works are almost exclusively in English, even though he spent only eight years in the United States before returning to Italy. Combining literary analysis with some of the latest findings in applied linguistics and the study of bilingualism, this book contributes to a very active debate in the fields of comparative literature and translation studies: the implications of translingual writing. Andrea Ciribuco considers both the linguistic and cultural aspects of writing in a second language, examining its potential and pitfalls, and bringing Carnevali's works in touch with the sociocultural context of the great wave of Italian emigration.

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State University of New York Press

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1438475268

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A Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues

By: Andrea Cucchiarelli

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A Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues

By: Andrea Cucchiarelli

Virgil's Eclogues are a fundamental text of Western literature that served as a model for the nascent poetry of the Augustan and later of the Imperial Age. Inspired by the bucolic poetry of Theocritus, the work uses the apparent simplicity of rural settings to explore complex elements of poetic, literary, philosophical, and even figurative culture, and to express the drama of civil war and expropriations. In this commentary, accompanied by a detailed introduction, Andrea Cucchiarelli analyses the Eclogues in depth, establishing comparisons with both Greek and Roman poetic models, with philosophical texts, and with significant later texts from the Roman poetic tradition. The commentary is the first to offer a systematic account of the poem in its historical context, between the end of the Republic and the Age of Augustus: particular attention is also paid to the language of the figurative arts, which for Roman readers constituted an important complement to literary knowledge of myths and stories. The volume offers the reader a reliable and concise interpretation of the text, which is systematically lemmatized and annotated throughout; each eclogue is additionally accompanied by an introductory overview and a detailed bibliography to direct further reading.

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Oxford University Press

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0192888773

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Guida alle streghe in Italia

By: Andrea Romanazzi

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Guida alle streghe in Italia

By: Andrea Romanazzi

Un viaggio tra i borghi, le valli e le foreste incantate che hanno ospitato i raduni delle streghe. Questi vengono rievocati insieme alla caccia alle streghe, che fece dell'herbara un'entità malefica legata al demonio, e all'eredità pagana, i cui simboli resistettero all'avvento del cristianesimo e ai tentativi dell'Inquisizione di cancellarli. Regione per regione, l'autore narra le leggende e le tradizioni che fecero di queste zone la dimora preferita di maghe e fattucchiere e offre al lettore, grazie a mappe, indirizzi e consigli pratici, gli strumenti per organizzare veri e propri itinerari magici tra i sentieri di campagna e gli anfratti nascosti del territorio italiano, in cui guaritrici e sciamane raccoglievano le erbe medicamentose e officiavano i sacri riti in onore dei loro dèi.

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Venexia Editrice

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8897688691

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L2 Spanish and Italian intonation

Accounting for the different patterns displayed by L1 Czech and German learners

By: Andrea Pešková

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L2 Spanish and Italian intonation

Accounting for the different patterns displayed by L1 Czech and German learners

By: Andrea Pešková

The main aim of this book is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second language intonation, by comparing Czech learners of Spanish with German learners of Spanish and Czech learners of Italian. By means of a large production database, the study seeks to uncover how L1-to-L2 intonational transfer works and what role prosodic (dis)similarities between languages play. Contrary to most previous research, the work presents an original multidirectional cross-linguistic comparison and examines different types of sentence, such as neutral and non-neutral statements, yes/no questions, wh-questions, exclamatives and vocatives. The findings reveal positive and negative transfer from L1 to L2, and the formation of mixed patterns as well as native-like patterns, which are mainly constrained by linguistic factors such as the type of sentence and the position of the tonal event in the utterance. The results are discussed within Mennen’s (2015) L2 Intonation Learning theory and lead to the formulation of a Developmental L2 Intonation Hypothesis that makes several generalizations to characterize interlanguage intonation. This volume not only represents a step forward in the study of the acquisition of L2 intonation in general but also offers valuable findings that can be directly or indirectly applied in the classroom and will hopefully inspire further research.

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Language Science Press

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3961104182

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The Carthaginians 6th–2nd Century BC

By: Andrea Salimbeti,Raffaele D’Amato

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The Carthaginians 6th–2nd Century BC

By: Andrea Salimbeti,Raffaele D’Amato

Carthage, the port-city in Tunisia first settled by Phoenicians from Tyre, grew to extend a competitive maritime trading empire all over the Western Mediterranean and beyond, increasingly defended by the best navy of the period. In the 6th century BC this came into confrontation with Greek colonists in Sicily, starting major wars that lasted through the 5th and 4th centuries, and involved much interaction with different Greek forces. During the 3rd century Carthage first clashed with Roman armies, and in the course of three wars that raged over Spain, Sicily and Italy the Romans suffered the greatest defeats in their early history at the hands of Hamilcar, Hannibal and Hasdrubal Barca, leading multinational armies of North Africans and Europeans.

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1782007784

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Broadband Reflectometry for Enhanced Diagnostics and Monitoring Applications

By: Andrea Cataldo,Egidio De Benedetto,Giuseppe Cannazza

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Broadband Reflectometry for Enhanced Diagnostics and Monitoring Applications

By: Andrea Cataldo,Egidio De Benedetto,Giuseppe Cannazza

This book is dedicated to the adoption of broadband microwave reflectometry (BMR)-based methods for diagnostics and monitoring applications. This electromagnetic technique has established as a powerful tool for monitoring purposes; in fact, it can balance several contrasting requirements, such as the versatility of the system, low implementation cost, real-time response, possibility of remote control, reliability, and adequate measurement accuracy. Starting from an extensive survey of the state of the art and from a clear and concise overview of the theoretical background, throughout the book, the different approaches of BMR are considered (i.e., time domain reflectometry - TDR, frequency domain reflectometry - FDR, and the TDR/FDR combined approach) and several applications are thoroughly investigated. The applications considered herein are very diverse from each other and cover different fields. In all the described procedures and methods, the ultimate goal is to endow them with a significant performance enhancement in terms of measurement accuracy, low cost, versatility, and practical implementation possibility, so as to unlock the strong potential of BMR.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642202330

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Books of the Body

Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning

By: Andrea Carlino

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Books of the Body

Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning

By: Andrea Carlino

We usually see the Renaissance as a marked departure from older traditions, but Renaissance scholars often continued to cling to the teachings of the past. For instance, despite the evidence of their own dissections, which contradicted ancient and medieval texts, Renaissance anatomists continued to teach those outdated views for nearly two centuries. In Books of the Body, Andrea Carlino explores the nature and causes of this intellectual inertia. On the one hand, anatomical practice was constrained by a reverence for classical texts and the belief that the study of anatomy was more properly part of natural philosophy than of medicine. On the other hand, cultural resistance to dissection and dismemberment of the human body, as well as moral and social norms that governed access to cadavers and the ritual of their public display in the anatomy theater, also delayed anatomy's development. A fascinating history of both Renaissance anatomists and the bodies they dissected, this book will interest anyone studying Renaissance science, medicine, art, religion, and society.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226092879

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Palladio's Venice : Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic

By: Tracy Elizabeth Cooper,Andrea Palladio

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Palladio's Venice : Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic

By: Tracy Elizabeth Cooper,Andrea Palladio

A glamorous and unprecedented exploration of Palladio's work in one of the most beautiful of all cities

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Yale University Press

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0300105827

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The Emerging Science of Homeopathy

Complexity, Biodynamics, and Nanopharmacology

By: Paolo Bellavite,Andrea Signorini

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The Emerging Science of Homeopathy

Complexity, Biodynamics, and Nanopharmacology

By: Paolo Bellavite,Andrea Signorini

In this updated reissue of their classic Homeopathy: A Frontier in Medical Science, Italian physicians Paolo Bellavite and Andrea Signorini thoroughly examine previous and current literature on the science of homeopathy in order to discover answers to the elemental questions about homeopathy. Bellavite and Signorini engage in a fascinating discussion of the biophysics of water, biological effects of electomagnetic fields, chaos theory, and fractals.

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North Atlantic Books

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1556433840

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9781556433849

ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing

By: Doug Elliott,Leanne Aitken,Wendy Chaboyer,Andrea Marshall

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ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing

By: Doug Elliott,Leanne Aitken,Wendy Chaboyer,Andrea Marshall

A revised new edition of this comprehensive critical care nursing text, developed with the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN). This second edition of ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing has been fully revised and updated for critical care nurses and students in Australia and New Zealand. As well as featuring the most recent critical care research data, current clinical practice, policies, procedures and guidelines specific to Australia and New Zealand, this new edition offers new and expanded chapters and case studies. The ultimate guide for critical care nurses and nursing students alike, ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing 2e has been developed in conjunction with the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN). As with the first edition, the text in ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing 2e reflects the expertise of ACCCN's highly-qualified team of local and international critical care nursing academics and clinicians. This authoritative nursing resource takes a patient-centred approach, encouraging practising critical care nurses and students to develop effective, high-quality critical care nursing practice. ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing 2e outlines the scope of critical care nursing, before detailing the core components and specialty aspects of critical care nursing, such as intensive care, emergency nursing, cardiac nursing, neuroscience nursing and acute care. Specific clinical conditions such as emergency presentations, trauma, resuscitation, and organ donation are featured to explore some of the more complex or unique aspects of specialty critical care nursing practice.

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Elsevier Australia

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0729540685

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Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology E-Book

Principles and Practice

By: Kenneth F. Swaiman,Stephen Ashwal,Donna M Ferriero,Nina F Schor,Richard S. Finkel,Andrea L. Gropman,Phillip L Pearl

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Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology E-Book

Principles and Practice

By: Kenneth F. Swaiman,Stephen Ashwal,Donna M Ferriero,Nina F Schor,Richard S. Finkel,Andrea L. Gropman,Phillip L Pearl

Since 1975, Dr. Kenneth Swaiman's classic text has been the reference of choice for authoritative guidance in pediatric neurology, and the 6th Edition continues this tradition of excellence with thorough revisions that bring you fully up to date with all that's new in the field. Five new sections, 62 new chapters, 4 new editors, and a reconfigured format make this a comprehensive and clearly-written resource for the experienced clinician as well as the physician-in-training. - Nearly 3,000 line drawings, photographs, tables, and boxes highlight the text, clarify key concepts, and make it easy to find information quickly.

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0323374816

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9780323374811

The Four Books on Architecture

By: Andrea Palladio

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The Four Books on Architecture

By: Andrea Palladio

The Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential figures that the field of architecture has ever produced. For classical architects, the term Palladian stands for a vocabulary of architectural forms embodying perfection and beauty. Of even greater significance than Palladio's buildings is his treatise I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books On Architecture), the most successful architectural treatise of the Renaissance and one of the two or three most important books in the literature of architecture. First published in Italian in 1570, it has been translated into every major Western language. This is the first English translation of Palladio in over 250 years, making it the only translation available in modern English. Until now, English-language readers have had to rely mostly on a facsimile of Isaac Ware's 1738 translation and the eighteenth-century engravings prepared for that text. This new translation by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield contains Palladio's original woodcuts, reproduced in facsimile and positioned correctly, adjacent to the text. The book also contains a glossary that explains technical terms in their original context, a bibliography of recent Palladio research, and an introduction to Palladio and his times. The First Book discusses building materials and techniques, as well as the five orders of architecture: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. Palladio describes the characteristics of each order and illustrates them. The Second Book discusses private town houses and country estates, almost all designed by Palladio. The Third Book discusses streets, bridges, piazzas, and basilicas, most of ancient Roman origin. The Fourth Book discusses ancient Roman temples, including the Pantheon.

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MIT Press

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0262661330

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