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Thermodynamics of Complex Systems

An Introduction to Ecophysics

By: Luigi Sertorio

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Thermodynamics of Complex Systems

An Introduction to Ecophysics

By: Luigi Sertorio

This book aims at guiding the reader with continuity from the elements of classical equilibrium thermodynamics to the formal problems of global non equilibrium thermodynamics necessary to describe an ?active system? such is a thermodynamic ecosystem. To this purpose, the brief review of equilibrium thermodynamics emphasizes the concepts of disequilibrium, Carnot cycles and less efficient cycles, and Gibbs availability as the distance from equilibrium. In this way the reader is taken by hand to accept the concept of Gibbs efficiency of the ecosystem Earth as a property given to us by the cosmological evolution. The final chapters are devoted to the optimal control theory of global non-equilibrium systems. An elementary theory of zero energy thermodynamic automata is presented. A thermodynamic automation with four temperatures and three controls is discussed in detail.

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9971509784

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Thermodynamics of Complex Systems

An Introduction to Ecophysics

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An Introduction to Ecophysics

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Shoot! (Esprios Classics)

By: Luigi Pirandello

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Shoot! (Esprios Classics)

By: Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello (28 June 1867 - 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. In 1893, he wrote his first important work Marta Ajala, which was published in 1901 with the title L'Esclusa. In 1894, he published his first collection of short stories, Amori Senza Amore.

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1034549057

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9781034549055

Right You Are, If You Think You Are

By: Luigi Pirandello

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Right You Are, If You Think You Are

By: Luigi Pirandello

This famous drama, an expressionistic parable by the Nobel Prize–winning playwright, explores such themes as the relativity of truth, the vanity and necessity of illusion, and the instability of human personalities.

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Courier Dover Publications

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0486159191

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9780486159195

Naked Masks

Five Plays

By: Luigi Pirandello

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Naked Masks

Five Plays

By: Luigi Pirandello

This special one-volume edition features five great plays by one of the most celebrated and fascinating dramatists of the twentieth century. Pirandello, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934, was the playwright par excellence of the conflict between illusion and reality. His modern and sensationally original plays dramatize with force and eloquence the isolation of the individual from society and from himself. The editor, Eric Bentley, is an international theater authority. In addition to the Introduction and the biographical and bibliographical material in the Appendices, Mr. Bentley has prepared for this volume the first English translations of the play Liolà and Pirandello’s important “Preface” to Six Characters in Search of an Author. Included Plays: Liolà It Is So! (If You Think So) Henry IV Six Characters in Search of an Author Each in His Own Way

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Penguin

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0452010829

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9780452010826

The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio

Shoot!

By: Luigi Pirandello

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The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio

Shoot!

By: Luigi Pirandello

Serafino is a typical Pirandellian anti-hero, a spectator rather than a participant in the tragi-comedy of human existence. Indeed he has the perfect job for it, that of a film cameraman. Serafino is an observer, an impersonal tool of a new industry based on make-believe. All he has to do is turn the handle of his camera and watch. He has no part in what is going on and is so removed from life that the mauling of an actor by a tiger cannot deflect him from filming the action. The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio is set in Rome circa 1915, partly on a film set, partly in the city. ‘Pirandello's critique of industrial-technological advance and the human toll such work takes was not entirely novel, even in his time, but is still powerful and well-presented. As far as his analysis of the film-industry goes, it's remarkable for its times -- and not without relevance even today. The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio is a slightly strangely-woven story, meandering in its reflection and action at times, but all the more striking in those blows it does deliver -- against dehumanizing industrial advances, and the loss of the human element. It has one hell of a conclusion, too. All in all, it's still well worth reading.' M.A. Orthofer in The Complete Review ‘Though Pirandello first published this book on the heels of the Edwardian era, it remains curiously relevant to the modern-day reader – who, like Gubbio, will likely be familiar with the numbness of discerning the world through a lens or a screen.’ Naomi Griffiths in Buzz Magazine

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SCB Distributors

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1912868598

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9781912868599

Plays

By: Luigi Pirandello

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Plays

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Luigi Pirandello is best known for his ability to create farcical tragedies that pit reality against appearance in such a way that objective truth is never revealed. Time magazine called Pirandello's work a fascinating precursor of the entire theater of the absurd -- the anguish over existence in Sartre and Camus, the guerilla warfare against ossified language and the mass mind in Ionesco, the bleak, alienated vision of Beckett, the sense of man eternally acting a role in Genet, and the use of the stage as a self-contained universe in Pinter. In new translations by acclaimed playwright and translator Eric Bentley, these versions of four of Pirandello's most celebrated plays -- Six Characters in Search of an Author, Emperor Henry, The Man with the Flower in His Mouth, and Right You Are -- are considered to be the standards for American productions. They capture the playwright's unique voice with remarkable precision, while at the same time attending to the rigors of the American stage.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810116529

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9780810116528

Three Plays

Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants

By: Luigi Pirandello

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Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants

By: Luigi Pirandello

SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he broke decisively with the conventions of realist theatre to foreground the tensions between art and reality. In his best known play, six characters, imagined but then abandoned by their author, intrude on the rehearsals of a provincial theatre company in an attempt to play out their family drama. In the brilliant Henry IV, a young man believes himself to be the Holy Roman Emperor; attempts to cure him of his delusion have disastrous consequences. The Mountain Giants is Pirandello's last, unfinished masterpiece, in which he moves towards the mythical, and make-believe and real life once more become entangled. The play reflects its author's growing anxiety about the function of art under a fascist regime. This new edition includes Pirandello's important Preface to Six Characters, an essential critical document for understanding the play that made him famous. Anthony Mortimer's lively and performable translations remain scrupulously faithful to the letter and spirit of the originals.

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OUP Oxford

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0191507822

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9780191507823

One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

By: Luigi Pirandello

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One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

By: Luigi Pirandello

Written by Nobel Laureate Luigi Pirandello over the course of 15 years, One, None, and One Hundred Thousand was a groundbreaking look at the nature of identity and the self.

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Quick Time Press

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1946774774

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Luigi Pirandello

By: Luigi Pirandello

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Luigi Pirandello

By: Luigi Pirandello

The first collection of selected poems by Luigi Pirandello translated into English. This dual-language edition includes works from his first-published volumes to his scattered later works, which appeared in various literary journals. With an introduction, select bibliography, notes, two appendices, chronology and index of first lines"--

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1599103214

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Six Characters in Search of an Author: by Luigi Pirandello Book Other Plays

By: Luigi Pirandello

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Six Characters in Search of an Author: by Luigi Pirandello Book Other Plays

By: Luigi Pirandello

Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italian: Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore is an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, written and first performed in 1921. An absurdist metatheatrical play about the relationship among authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners, it premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome to a mixed reception, with shouts from the audience of "Manicomio!" ("Madhouse!") and "Incommensurabile!" ("Incommensurable!"), a reaction to the play's illogical progression. Reception improved at subsequent performances, especially after Pirandello provided for the play's third edition, published in 1925, a foreword clarifying its structure and ideas.

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Book's by Luigi Sertorio

Thermodynamics of Complex Systems

Thermodynamics of Complex Systems

Thermodynamics of Complex Systems

Thermodynamics of Complex Systems

Shoot! (Esprios Classics)

Shoot! (Esprios Classics)

Right You Are, If You Think You Are

Right You Are, If You Think You Are

Naked Masks

Naked Masks

The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio

The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio

Plays

Plays

Three Plays

Three Plays

One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Six Characters in Search of an Author: by Luigi Pirandello Book Other Plays

Six Characters in Search of an Author: by Luigi Pirandello Book Other Plays

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