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The Bottom of Your Heart

Inferno for Commissario Ricciardi

By: Maurizio de Giovanni

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The Bottom of Your Heart

Inferno for Commissario Ricciardi

By: Maurizio de Giovanni

The seventh Commissario Ricciardi historical mystery is “an intricately layered whodunit set in Fascist Naples . . . A richly textured story” (Kirkus Reviews). In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window of his office. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione it is the beginning of an investigation that will bring them into contact with the most torrid, conflicting, and enduring of human passions. In the world Ricciardi and Maione are about to enter, infidelity appears inextricable from the most joyful expressions of love, and, this interdependence sows doubt and uncertainty in both men, compromising their own attempts at love. Ricciardi is one of the most intriguing and unique figures to appear in crime fiction in recent years. He possesses the dubious gift of being able to see and hear the last seconds in the lives of those who have suffered a violent death. This ability makes him an unusually effective investigator but plagues him and renders human relationships almost impossible. He is a classic noir hero and the cursed son of a city that, for all its Mediterranean splendor, is a perfect noir city. In this new installment in the Commissario Ricciardi series, Maurizio de Giovanni creates a large cast of unforgettable characters and a compelling, suspenseful plot that demonstrates once more why he is considered one of the best crime writers working today. “Complex, lyrical . . . A searing look at the tortured soul of the lead makes this entry especially memorable.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Europa Editions

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1609453026

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Geometric And Algebraic Topological Methods In Quantum Mechanics

By: Luigi Mangiarotti,Gennadi A Sardanashvily,Giovanni Giachetta

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Geometric And Algebraic Topological Methods In Quantum Mechanics

By: Luigi Mangiarotti,Gennadi A Sardanashvily,Giovanni Giachetta

In the last decade, the development of new ideas in quantum theory, including geometric and deformation quantization, the non-Abelian Berry's geometric factor, super- and BRST symmetries, non-commutativity, has called into play the geometric techniques based on the deep interplay between algebra, differential geometry and topology. The book aims at being a guide to advanced differential geometric and topological methods in quantum mechanics. Their main peculiarity lies in the fact that geometry in quantum theory speaks mainly the algebraic language of rings, modules, sheaves and categories. Geometry is by no means the primary scope of the book, but it underlies many ideas in modern quantum physics and provides the most advanced schemes of quantization.

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World Scientific

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9814481149

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9789814481144

Photovoltaic Sources Modeling

By: Giovanni Petrone,Carlos Andres Ramos-Paja,Giovanni Spagnuolo

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Photovoltaic Sources Modeling

By: Giovanni Petrone,Carlos Andres Ramos-Paja,Giovanni Spagnuolo

A practical reference to support choosing, customising and handling the best PV simulation solution This comprehensive guide surveys all available models for simulating a photovoltaic (PV) generator at different levels of granularity, from cell to system level, in uniform as well as in mismatched conditions. Providing a thorough comparison among the models, engineers have all the elements needed to choose the right PV array model for specific applications or environmental conditions matched with the model of the electronic circuit used to maximize the PV power production. Key features: Multiple mathematical models are given for different application requirements. The shading effect is taken into account to improve the model accuracy. Procedures for parameter identification of the PV model are analysed and compared. Mathematical manipulations are introduced to some models to reduce their calculation time. The electronic interface effect on the power chain is analysed. Analytical expressions are used to design and control the power converter driving the PV field. The book is an essential reference for R&D in the PV industry; designers of power converters for PV; PV systems designers; and practicing engineers.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118756495

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Racial Cities

Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe

By: Giovanni Picker

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Racial Cities

Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe

By: Giovanni Picker

Going beyond race-blind approaches to spatial segregation in Europe, Racial Cities argues that race is the logic through which stigmatized and segregated "Gypsy urban areas" have emerged and persisted after World War II. Building on nearly a decade of ethnographic and historical research in Romania, Italy, France and the UK, Giovanni Picker casts a series of case studies into the historical framework of circulations and borrowings between colony and metropole since the late nineteenth century. By focusing on socio-economic transformations and social dynamics in contemporary Cluj-Napoca, Pescara, Montreuil, Florence and Salford, Picker detects four local segregating mechanisms, and comparatively investigates resemblances between each of them and segregation in French Rabat, Italian Addis Ababa, and British New Delhi. These multiple global associations across space and time serve as an empirical basis for establishing a solid bridge between race critical theories and urban studies. Racial Cities is the first comprehensive analysis of the segregation of Romani people in Europe, providing a fine-tuned and in-depth explanation of this phenomenon. While inequalities increase globally and poverty is ever more concentrated, this book is a key contribution to debates and actions addressing social marginality, inequalities, racist exclusions, and governance. Thanks to its dense yet thoroughly accessible narration, the book will appeal to scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and equally to activists and policy makers, who are interested in areas including: Race and Racism, Urban Studies, Governance, Inequalities, Colonialism and Postcolonialism, and European Studies.

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Routledge

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1317612221

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The Networked Citizen

Power, Politics, and Resistance in the Internet Age

By: Giovanni Navarria

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The Networked Citizen

Power, Politics, and Resistance in the Internet Age

By: Giovanni Navarria

This book investigates the changing meanings of power and politics in the Internet age and questions whether the political category of the citizen still has a meaningful role to play in the highly-mediated dynamics of an increasingly networked world. To answer such questions, the book analyses and compares the impact of the Internet on the relationship between state, citizens, and politics in three countries: the USA, Italy, and China. The book’s journey starts in the mid-90s and ends in 2016. It pays particular attention to Obama 2008 and Trump 2016 presidential campaigns, the ascendance to power in Italy of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, and to the enduring Chinese government’s struggle to control the Internet public opinion. The book challenges the traditional understanding of power through which the strong typically prevails over the weak. This leads to a clearer understanding of the wider role citizens can play (and must play) in a networked political sphere, while it also warns the reader on the many risks citizens face in a post-truth world. The book challenges the traditional understanding of power through which the strong typically prevails over the weak. This leads to a clearer understanding of the wider role citizens can play (and must play) in a networked political sphere.

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Springer Nature

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9811332932

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A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945

Sicily and Italy to the Fall of Rome 14 May, 1943–5 June, 1944

By: Christopher Shores,Giovanni Massimello,Russell Guest,Frank Olynyk,Winfried Bock,Andy Thomas

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A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945

Sicily and Italy to the Fall of Rome 14 May, 1943–5 June, 1944

By: Christopher Shores,Giovanni Massimello,Russell Guest,Frank Olynyk,Winfried Bock,Andy Thomas

This fourth volume in the comprehensive series “fills a gap in the existing narrative” of WWII’s Mediterranean air war (Journal of Military History). The fourth volume in this momentous series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria, which led to its surrender and occupation achieved almost by air attack alone. The account continues with the ultimately successful, but at times very hard fought, invasions of Sicily and southern Italy as burgeoning Allied air power, now with full US involvement, increasingly dominated the skies overhead. The successive occupations of Sardinia and Corsica are also covered in detail. This is essentially the story of the tactical air forces up to the point when Rome was occupied, just at the same time as the Normandy landings were occurring in northwest France. With regards to the long-range tactical role of the Allied heavy bombers, only the period from May to October is examined, while they remained based in North Africa, with the narrative continuing in a future volume. This volume also delves into the story of “the soldiers’ air force.” Frequently overshadowed by more immediate newsworthy events elsewhere, the soldiers’ struggle was often of an equally Homeric nature. “No future publication on the Mediterranean air war will be credible without use of this series.” —Air Power History

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Casemate Publishers

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1911621785

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9781911621782

Speculative Taxidermy

Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene

By: Giovanni Aloi

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Speculative Taxidermy

Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene

By: Giovanni Aloi

Taxidermy, once the province of natural history and dedicated to the pursuit of lifelike realism, has recently resurfaced in the world of contemporary art, culture, and interior design. In Speculative Taxidermy, Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive mapping of the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Drawing on the speculative turn in philosophy and recovering past alternative histories of art and materiality from a biopolitical perspective, Aloi theorizes speculative taxidermy: a powerful interface that unlocks new ethical and political opportunities in human-animal relationships and speaks to how animal representation conveys the urgency of addressing climate change, capitalist exploitation, and mass extinction. A resolutely nonanthropocentric take on the materiality of one of the most controversial mediums in art, this approach relentlessly questions past and present ideas of human separation from the animal kingdom. It situates taxidermy as a powerful interface between humans and animals, rooted in a shared ontological and physical vulnerability. Carefully considering a select number of key examples including the work of Nandipha Mntambo, Maria Papadimitriou, Mark Dion, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Roni Horn, Oleg Kulik, Steve Bishop, Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, and Cole Swanson, Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence of animal skin in the gallery space as a productive opportunity to rethink ethical and political stances in human-animal relationships.

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Columbia University Press

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0231543212

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9780231543217

Scala Christus est

Reassessing the Historical Context of Martin Luther's Theology of the Cross

By: Giovanni Tortoriello

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Scala Christus est

Reassessing the Historical Context of Martin Luther's Theology of the Cross

By: Giovanni Tortoriello

Since the nineteenth century, scholars have debated the controversial relationships between humanism, the Renaissance and the Reformation. Challenging the dominant narrative on the subject, Giovanni Tortoriello reconstructs the debates that characterized the early Reformation movements. He shows that Martin Luther's theology of the cross developed in reaction to the irenic tendencies of the Renaissance. With the spread of Platonism, Hermeticism, and Kabbalah in the fifteenth century, the identity of Christianity shifted and the boundaries between the different religions thinned. In response to this attempt to minimize the differences among the various religions, Luther reiterated the centrality and uniqueness of the salvific event of the cross. Confessional biases and theological prejudices have obliterated the role that Platonism, Hermeticism, and Christian Kabbalah played in the early Reformation debates. The author reconstructs these controversies and situates Luther's theology of the cross in this historical context.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161614720

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9783161614729

Ruskin and Modernism

By: Giovanni Cianci,Peter Nicholls

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Ruskin and Modernism

By: Giovanni Cianci,Peter Nicholls

The extent of John Ruskin's influence has long been acknowledged, though his impact on the development of Anglo-American modernism has received little systematic attention. In this volume, published to mark the centenary of Ruskin's death, a group of international scholars consider what is often an awkward and conflicted relation. Ruskin's voluminous writings are seen to shelter an incipient modernism whose antipathy to a degraded modernity, powerfully predicts a major current within the work of the new century.

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Springer

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1403913609

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9781403913609

Art and Culture of the Medieval World

By: Matilde Bardi,Giovanni Di Pasquale,Steven S. Delaware

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Art and Culture of the Medieval World

By: Matilde Bardi,Giovanni Di Pasquale,Steven S. Delaware

Introduces medieval civilization, focusing on how society, religion, and advances in technology affected art and architecture in Europe during this time period.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1435835921

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9781435835924

Giovanni's Ring

My Life Inside the Real Sopranos

By: Giovanni Rocco,Douglas Schofield

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Giovanni's Ring

My Life Inside the Real Sopranos

By: Giovanni Rocco,Douglas Schofield

The story of a former FBI undercover task force officer who spent years penetrating New Jersey's DeCavalcante crime family, the criminal organization known to law enforcement as "the real Sopranos" Giovanni's Ring is the story of "Giovanni Rocco," a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as "Giovanni Gatto," who was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately brought down ten members and associates of New Jersey's DeCavalcante Mafia family, the criminal organization known as "the real Sopranos." Giovanni spent nearly three years working his way into the DeCavalcante hierarchy. That lethal assignment brought the undercover operation to an end in March 2015, and the resulting string of high-profile arrests eviscerated the criminal organization. ?Giovanni's Ring is not simply a chronicle of Giovanni Rocco's adventures in the murky and dangerous Mafia world he inhabited, but also a fascinating window into the psychological struggles that such a life inevitably entails.

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Chicago Review Press

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1641603534

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9781641603539

Domenico Tiepolo, Master Draftsman

By: Adelheid M. Gealt,Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo,Giovanni Battista Tiepolo,George Knox

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Domenico Tiepolo, Master Draftsman

By: Adelheid M. Gealt,Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo,Giovanni Battista Tiepolo,George Knox

Spotlights the graphic abilities of Giambattista Tiepolo's most famous son and closest collaborator. The catalogue accompanied an exhibition arranged in collaboration with the Indiana University Art Museum. Four essays pertaining to the artist and his work are followed by color and bandw reproductions and commentary. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Indiana University Press

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0253211298

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9780253211293

Algorithms for Communications Systems and their Applications

By: Nevio Benvenuto,Giovanni Cherubini,Stefano Tomasin

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Algorithms for Communications Systems and their Applications

By: Nevio Benvenuto,Giovanni Cherubini,Stefano Tomasin

The definitive guide to problem-solving in the design of communications systems In Algorithms for Communications Systems and their Applications, 2nd Edition, authors Benvenuto, Cherubini, and Tomasin have delivered the ultimate and practical guide to applying algorithms in communications systems. Written for researchers and professionals in the areas of digital communications, signal processing, and computer engineering, Algorithms for Communications Systems presents algorithmic and computational procedures within communications systems that overcome a wide range of problems facing system designers. New material in this fully updated edition includes: MIMO systems (Space-time block coding/Spatial multiplexing /Beamforming and interference management/Channel Estimation) OFDM and SC-FDMA (Synchronization/Resource allocation (bit and power loading)/Filtered OFDM) Improved radio channel model (Doppler and shadowing/mmWave) Polar codes (including practical decoding methods) 5G systems (New Radio architecture/initial access for mmWave/physical channels) The book retains the essential coding and signal processing theoretical and operative elements expected from a classic text, further adopting the new radio of 5G systems as a case study to create the definitive guide to modern communications systems.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119567963

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9781119567967

Emotions and Personhood

Exploring Fragility - Making Sense of Vulnerability

By: Giovanni Stanghellini,René Rosfort

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Emotions and Personhood

Exploring Fragility - Making Sense of Vulnerability

By: Giovanni Stanghellini,René Rosfort

Emotions and personhood are important notions within the field of mental health care. How they are related is less evident. This book provides a framework for understanding the important and complex relationship between our emotional wellbeing and our sense of self, drawing on psychopathology, philosophy, and phenomenology.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199660573

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9780199660575

Creditless Recoveries

By: Mr.Abdul Abiad,Mr.Giovanni Dell'Ariccia,Ms.Bin Li

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Creditless Recoveries

By: Mr.Abdul Abiad,Mr.Giovanni Dell'Ariccia,Ms.Bin Li

Recoveries that occur in the absence of credit growth are often dubbed miracles and named after mythical creatures. Yet these are not rare animals, and are not always miracles. About one out of five recoveries is "creditless", and average growth during these episodes is about a third lower than during "normal" recoveries. Aggregate and sectoral data suggest that impaired financial intermediation is the culprit. Creditless recoveries are more common after banking crises and credit booms. Furthermore, sectors more dependent on external finance grow relatively less and more financially dependent activities (such as investment) are curtailed more during creditless recoveries.

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International Monetary Fund

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1455221023

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9781455221028

Measuring Wellbeing

A History of Italian Living Standards

By: Giovanni Vecchi

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Measuring Wellbeing

A History of Italian Living Standards

By: Giovanni Vecchi

Nutrition -- Height -- Health -- Child labour -- Education -- Migration -- Income -- Inequality -- Poverty -- Wealth -- Vulnerability -- Human development -- Household budgets -- Cost of living

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Oxford University Press

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0199944598

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9780199944590

Prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life

By: Giovanni Occhipinti

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Prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life

By: Giovanni Occhipinti

Born from twenty-five years of experimental research and a decade of bibliographic studies, this publication delves into the fascinating theory of life's abiotic origins. It begins with simple amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, revealing how these compounds, present from the prebiotic era and discovered in ancient meteorites, may have been pivotal in life's evolutionary journey. Focusing particularly on amino acids' chirality—that is, their existence in mirror-image right and left forms—the author probes the critical enigma of their separation and why the left (L) form dominates in all known living beings. The book sparks a compelling discussion about how this bifurcation might have occurred at life's very inception and the ultimate fate of the right form. The text further extends its reach, proposing theories on the genetic code's origins, the selection of the 20 natural amino acids from many known, and a physical theory of consciousness in bacteria. "Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of Life" is more than a trek through the complexities of chemistry and molecular biology; it's an enthralling journey into some of life's most profound existential questions.

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