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A Short History of the Etruscans

By: Corinna Riva

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A Short History of the Etruscans

By: Corinna Riva

Of all civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, it is perhaps the Etruscans who hold the greatest allure. This is fundamentally because, unlike their Greek and Latin neighbours, the Etruscans left no textual sources to posterity. The only direct evidence for studying them and for understanding their culture is the archaeological, and to a much lesser extent, epigraphic record. The Etruscans must therefore be approached as if they were a prehistoric people; and the enormous wealth of Etruscan visual and material culture must speak for them. Yet they offer glimpses, in the record left by Greek and Roman authors, that they were literate and far from primordial: indeed, that their written histories were greatly admired by the Romans themselves. Applying fresh archaeological discoveries and new insights, A Short History of the Etruscans engagingly conducts the reader through the birth, growth and demise of this fascinating and enigmatic ancient people, whose nemesis was the growing power of Rome. Exploring the 'discovery' of the Etruscans from the Renaissance onwards, Corinna Riva discusses the mysterious Etruscan language, which long remained wholly indecipherable; the Etruscan landscape; the 6th-century growth of Etruscan cities and Mediterranean trade. Close attention is also paid to religion and ritual; sanctuaries and monumental grave sites; and the fatal incorporation of Etruria into Rome's political orbit.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350182052

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9781350182059

Ink Under the Fingernails

Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

By: Corinna Zeltsman

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Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

By: Corinna Zeltsman

Introduction -- The politics of loyalty -- Negotiating freedom -- Responsibility on trial -- Selling scandal : The Mysteries of the Inquisition -- The business of nation building -- Workers of thought -- Criminalizing the printing press -- Conclusion.

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349

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Univ of California Press

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0520344340

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9780520344341

The Font Engineering Platform

Collabarative Font Creation in a Self-supporting Programming Environment

By: Taeumel, Marcel,Beckmann, Tom,Fister, Lasse,Hildebrand, Justus,Hirschfeld, Robert,Jaschek, Corinna,Krebs, Eva,Löser, Alexander,Pape, Tobias

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The Font Engineering Platform

Collabarative Font Creation in a Self-supporting Programming Environment

By: Taeumel, Marcel,Beckmann, Tom,Fister, Lasse,Hildebrand, Justus,Hirschfeld, Robert,Jaschek, Corinna,Krebs, Eva,Löser, Alexander,Pape, Tobias

Creating fonts is a complex task that requires expert knowledge in a variety of domains. Often, this knowledge is not held by a single person, but spread across a number of domain experts. A central concept needed for designing fonts is the glyph, an elemental symbol representing a readable character. Required domains include designing glyph shapes, engineering rules to combine glyphs for complex scripts and checking legibility. This process is most often iterative and requires communication in all directions. This report outlines a platform that aims to enhance the means of communication, describes our prototyping process, discusses complex font rendering and editing in a live environment and an approach to generate code based on a user’s live-edits. Die Erstellung von Schriften ist eine komplexe Aufgabe, die Expertenwissen aus einer Vielzahl von Bereichen erfordert. Oftmals liegt dieses Wissen nicht bei einer einzigen Person, sondern bei einer Reihe von Fachleuten. Ein zentrales Konzept für die Gestaltung von Schriften ist der Glyph, ein elementares Symbol, das ein einzelnes lesbares Zeichen darstellt. Zu den erforderlichen Domänen gehören das Entwerfen der Glyphenformen, technische Regeln zur Kombination von Glyphen für komplexe Skripte und das Prüfen der Lesbarkeit. Dieser Prozess ist meist iterativ und erfordert ständige Kommunikation zwischen den Experten. Dieser Bericht skizziert eine Plattform, die darauf abzielt, die Kommunikationswege zu verbessern, beschreibt unseren Prototyping-Prozess, diskutiert komplexe Schriftrendering und -bearbeitung in einer Echtzeitumgebung und einen Ansatz zur Generierung von Code basierend auf direkter Manipulation eines Nutzers.

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130

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Universitätsverlag Potsdam

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3869564644

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9783869564647

MIAW 2022

Re-inventing schools

By: Corinna Del Bianco,Camillo Magni,Giulia Setti

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Re-inventing schools

By: Corinna Del Bianco,Camillo Magni,Giulia Setti

The MIAW-Milan International Architecture Workshop is the international intensive programme at the Politecnico di Milano, School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering, that provides an international design forum for schools, teachers and students, but it is also an informal platform to discuss issues and share ambitions that education implies. Its aim is to stimulate cross-over thinking between researches and practitioners in the design field, involving different scales and encouraging an interdisciplinary approach towards design problems. Each class has an international guest professor of high profile whose activity and interests are related to the different study courses and disciplinary areas characterising our School.

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LetteraVentidue Edizioni

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8862428308

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9788862428309

A Short History of the Etruscans

By: Corinna Riva

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1350182060

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A Short History of the Etruscans

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The Font Engineering Platform

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MIAW 2022

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A Short History of the Etruscans

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