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Lectures on Optimal Transport

By: Luigi Ambrosio,Elia Brué,Daniele Semola

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Lectures on Optimal Transport

By: Luigi Ambrosio,Elia Brué,Daniele Semola

This textbook is addressed to PhD or senior undergraduate students in mathematics, with interests in analysis, calculus of variations, probability and optimal transport. It originated from the teaching experience of the first author in the Scuola Normale Superiore, where a course on optimal transport and its applications has been given many times during the last 20 years. The topics and the tools were chosen at a sufficiently general and advanced level so that the student or scholar interested in a more specific theme would gain from the book the necessary background to explore it. After a large and detailed introduction to classical theory, more specific attention is devoted to applications to geometric and functional inequalities and to partial differential equations.

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Springer Nature

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3030721620

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9783030721626

Cataract Surgery in Complicated Cases

By: Lucio Buratto,Stephen Brint,Luigi Caretti

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Cataract Surgery in Complicated Cases

By: Lucio Buratto,Stephen Brint,Luigi Caretti

Cataract Surgery in Complicated Cases offer the latest techniques in treating complicated cases as faced by today’s surgeons performing cataract surgery. Dr. Lucio Buratto; Dr. Stephen Brint; and Dr. Luigi Caretti provide step-by-step approach to facilitate how to assess the patient, perform the technique, and manager the most challenging cataract surgery complicated cases facing both beginning and experienced surgeons. Cataract Surgery in Complicated Cases covers a wide variety of topics including cataract in high myopia, floppy iris syndrome, traumatic cataract, phacoemulsification with a small pupil, and IOL explanation and replacement. Supplemented by more than 250 color illustrations, diagrams, a glossary, and references, all surgeons, from beginner to expert will want this unique resource by their side.

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CRC Press

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1040136931

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Merchant Writers

Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance

By: Vittore Branca,Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini

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Merchant Writers

Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance

By: Vittore Branca,Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini

The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and commercial centre of continental Europe. The city’s middle-class merchants, though lacking the literary virtuosity of its most famous sons, were no less prolific as writers of account books, memoirs, and diaries. Written by ordinary men, these first-hand accounts of commercial life recorded the everyday realities of their businesses, families, and personal lives alongside the high drama of shipwrecks, plagues, and political conspiracies. Published in Italian in 1986, Vittore Branca’s collection of these accounts established the importance of the genre to the study of Italian society and culture. This new English translation of Merchant Writers includes all the texts from the original Italian edition in their entirety. Moreover, it offers a gripping personal introduction to the mercantile world of medieval and Renaissance Florence.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442624841

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Manfred. Or, The Battle of Benevento

By: Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi,Luigi Monti

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Manfred. Or, The Battle of Benevento

By: Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi,Luigi Monti

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385368480

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Justice as Equality and Neutrality

By: Alberto De Luigi

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Justice as Equality and Neutrality

By: Alberto De Luigi

The ideal of liberal neutrality and the ideal of equality are often seen as a trade-off. If the State has to be neutral between the interests of the rich and the poor, it is supposed to not intervene redistributing resources between them. Neutrality is thus associated to the ideal of a laissez-faire free market system, while equality is generally seen as an ideal requiring State policies aiming at equal opportunity. In this book neutrality and equality are presented as compatible and complementary ideals, rather than antagonist. First, it is shown that the moral justification of neutrality ultimately relies on a particular ideal of equality called “equal respect”. Second, there are principles of justice and State policies aimed at improving equality of opportunity that can be neutrally justifiable. It is also provided a neutral justification of Rawls’ difference principle, showing even how libertarian thinkers may agree on it.

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Alberto De Luigi

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1508995230

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Italians

By: Luigi Barzini

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Italians

By: Luigi Barzini

Examines the character and history of the Italian people.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684825007

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Optimal Transportation and Applications

Lectures Given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School Held in Martina Franca, Italy, September 2-8, 2001

By: Luigi Ambrosio

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Optimal Transportation and Applications

Lectures Given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School Held in Martina Franca, Italy, September 2-8, 2001

By: Luigi Ambrosio

Leading researchers in the field of Optimal Transportation, with different views and perspectives, contribute to this Summer School volume: Monge-Ampère and Monge-Kantorovich theory, shape optimization and mass transportation are linked, among others, to applications in fluid mechanics granular material physics and statistical mechanics, emphasizing the attractiveness of the subject from both a theoretical and applied point of view. The volume is designed to become a guide to researchers willing to enter into this challenging and useful theory.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354040192X

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Why the Church?

By: Luigi Giussani

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Why the Church?

By: Luigi Giussani

Giussani begins by focusing on the Church as a community composed of people who are aware of themselves as defined by the gift of the Spirit, from which they derive a new conception of existence, the fruit of conversion. He then describes the Church's developing self-awareness of its dual elements of the human and divine. Concerned with verifying the Church's claim to embody Christ, Giussani situates the locus of verification in human experience, arguing that a different type of life is born in those who try to live the life of the Church. Why the Church? is a seminal study that will engage both the scholar and the general reader.

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0773581499

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On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities, 1588

By: Giovanni Botero,Massimo Ciavolella,Luigi Ballerini

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On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities, 1588

By: Giovanni Botero,Massimo Ciavolella,Luigi Ballerini

The first treatise ever written on the sociology of cities, On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities (1588) marked a radical departure from previous literature on urban centres. It provided a revolutionary analysis of how cities function, and of the political, economic, demographic and geographic factors that cause their growth and decline. Noteworthy too is Botero's strikingly original use of sources in his analysis: moving beyond familiar classical and biblical references, he drew groundbreaking insights from reports by travelers and missionaries about cities in the non-European world, especially in China. Though seminally important to the history of urban studies, On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities has not been available in a modern translation until now. This edition of the treatise which includes an introduction by Geoffrey W. Symcox on the intellectual context within which it was conceived is a must-read for anyone interested in the life of cities both historical and contemporary.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442645075

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The ‘Other’, Identity, and Memory in Early Medieval Italy

By: Luigi Andrea Berto

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The ‘Other’, Identity, and Memory in Early Medieval Italy

By: Luigi Andrea Berto

The political fragmentation of Italy—created by Charlemagne’s conquest of a part of the Lombard Kingdom in 774 and the weakening of the Byzantine Empire in the eighth and ninth centuries—, the conquest of Sicily by the Muslims in the ninth century, and the Norman ‘conquest’ of southern Italy in the second half of the eleventh century favored the creation of areas inhabited by persons with different ethnic, religious, and cultural background. Moreover, this period witnessed the increase in production of historical writing in different parts of Italy. Taking advantage of these features, this volume presents some case studies about the manner in which ‘others’ were perceived, what was known about them, the role of identity, and the use of the past in early medieval Italy (ninth–eleventh centuries) focusing in particular on how early medieval Italian authors portrayed that period and were, sometimes, influenced by their own ‘present’ in their reconstruction of the past. The book will appeal to scholars and students of otherness, identity, and memory in early medieval Italy, as well as all those interested in medieval Europe.

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1000514536

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Modelling and Optimisation of Flows on Networks

Cetraro, Italy 2009, Editors: Benedetto Piccoli, Michel Rascle

By: Luigi Ambrosio,Alberto Bressan,Dirk Helbing,Axel Klar,Enrique Zuazua

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Modelling and Optimisation of Flows on Networks

Cetraro, Italy 2009, Editors: Benedetto Piccoli, Michel Rascle

By: Luigi Ambrosio,Alberto Bressan,Dirk Helbing,Axel Klar,Enrique Zuazua

In recent years flows in networks have attracted the interest of many researchers from different areas, e.g. applied mathematicians, engineers, physicists, economists. The main reason for this ubiquity is the wide and diverse range of applications, such as vehicular traffic, supply chains, blood flow, irrigation channels, data networks and others. This book presents an extensive set of notes by world leaders on the main mathematical techniques used to address such problems, together with investigations into specific applications. The main focus is on partial differential equations in networks, but ordinary differential equations and optimal transport are also included. Moreover, the modeling is completed by analysis, numerics, control and optimization of flows in networks. The book will be a valuable resource for every researcher or student interested in the subject.

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3642321607

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Gradient Flows

In Metric Spaces and in the Space of Probability Measures

By: Luigi Ambrosio,Nicola Gigli,Giuseppe Savare

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Gradient Flows

In Metric Spaces and in the Space of Probability Measures

By: Luigi Ambrosio,Nicola Gigli,Giuseppe Savare

The book is devoted to the theory of gradient flows in the general framework of metric spaces, and in the more specific setting of the space of probability measures, which provide a surprising link between optimal transportation theory and many evolutionary PDE's related to (non)linear diffusion. Particular emphasis is given to the convergence of the implicit time discretization method and to the error estimates for this discretization, extending the well established theory in Hilbert spaces. The book is split in two main parts that can be read independently of each other.

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376438722X

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Eleven Short Stories

A Dual-Language Book

By: Luigi Pirandello

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Eleven Short Stories

A Dual-Language Book

By: Luigi Pirandello

DIVMasterly stories include "Little Hut," "With Other Eyes," "A Voice," "Citrons from Sicily," "A Character’s Tragedy," six more. English translations. /div

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0486120333

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Restless Cities on the Edge

Collective Actions, Immigration and Populism

By: Antimo Luigi Farro,Simone Maddanu

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Restless Cities on the Edge

Collective Actions, Immigration and Populism

By: Antimo Luigi Farro,Simone Maddanu

This book is a sociological description and analysis of urban collective actions, protests, resistance, and riots that started in the 1990s and continue in different forms to this date in Rome, Italy. Through participant observation, ethnographic study, and in-depth qualitative interviews—often occurring during times of protest or even violent action—this book studies a variety of urban realities: grassroots movements, anti-migrant district riots, and the daily lives of the fluid and fluctuating multi-ethnic groups in the city. Ultimately, this book gives voice to some of the protagonists involved, proposing interpretations to each reality described, but also making cross-connections with politics and migration when pertinent. It offers a new understanding of urban collective actions cognizant of the 'common goods', but also of the emergence of new right-wing populism.

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3030913236

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Nonlinear Diffusion Equations and Curvature Conditions in Metric Measure Spaces

By: Luigi Ambrosio,Andrea Mondino,Giuseppe Savaré

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Nonlinear Diffusion Equations and Curvature Conditions in Metric Measure Spaces

By: Luigi Ambrosio,Andrea Mondino,Giuseppe Savaré

The aim of this paper is to provide new characterizations of the curvature dimension condition in the context of metric measure spaces (X,d,m). On the geometric side, the authors' new approach takes into account suitable weighted action functionals which provide the natural modulus of K-convexity when one investigates the convexity properties of N-dimensional entropies. On the side of diffusion semigroups and evolution variational inequalities, the authors' new approach uses the nonlinear diffusion semigroup induced by the N-dimensional entropy, in place of the heat flow. Under suitable assumptions (most notably the quadraticity of Cheeger's energy relative to the metric measure structure) both approaches are shown to be equivalent to the strong CD∗(K,N) condition of Bacher-Sturm.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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1470439131

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Kant's Political Legacy

Human Rights, Peace, Progress

By: Luigi Caranti

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Kant's Political Legacy

Human Rights, Peace, Progress

By: Luigi Caranti

This book focuses on Kant’s analysis of three issues crucial for contemporary politics. Starting from a new reading of Kant’s account of our innate right to freedom, it highlights how a Kantian foundation of human rights, properly understood and modified where necessary, appears more promising than the foundational arguments currently offered by philosophers. It then compares Kant’s model for peace with the apparently similar model of democratic peace to show that the two are profoundly different in content and in quality. The book concludes in analysis of Kant’s controversial view of history to rescue it from the idea that his belief in progress is at best over-optimistic and at worst dogmatic. Congratulations to Professor Luigi Caranti and his book 'Kant's Political Legacy' which has been given a 'honorable mention' by the North American Kant Society in the competition for the best 2018 book on Kant!! http://northamericankantsociety.onefireplace.org/Announcements/6660588

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University of Wales Press

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1783169818

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Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Lectures Given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School Held in Cetraro, Italy, June 27 - July 2, 2005

By: Luigi Ambrosio,E. Mascolo

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Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Lectures Given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School Held in Cetraro, Italy, June 27 - July 2, 2005

By: Luigi Ambrosio,E. Mascolo

With a historical overview by Elvira Mascolo

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3540759131

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The Emergence of Life

From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology

By: Pier Luigi Luisi

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The Emergence of Life

From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology

By: Pier Luigi Luisi

Addressing the emergence of life from a systems biology perspective, this new edition has undergone extensive revision, reflecting changes in scientific understanding and evolution of thought on the question 'what is life?'. With an emphasis on the philosophical aspects of science, including the epistemic features of modern synthetic biology, and also providing an updated view of the autopoiesis/cognition theory, the book gives an exhaustive treatment of the biophysical properties of vesicles, seen as the beginning of the 'road map' to the minimal cell - a road map which will develop into the question of whether and to what extent synthetic biology will be capable of making minimal life in the laboratory. Fully illustrated, accessibly written, directly challenging the reader with provocative questions, offering suggestions for research proposals, and including dialogues with contemporary authors such as Humberto Maturana, Albert Eschenmoser and Harold Morowitz, this is an ideal resource for researchers and students across fields including bioengineering, evolutionary biology, molecular biology, chemistry and chemical engineering.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316571661

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Multidimensional Chromatography

By: Luigi Mondello,Alastair C. Lewis,Keith D. Bartle

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Multidimensional Chromatography

By: Luigi Mondello,Alastair C. Lewis,Keith D. Bartle

Mehrdimensionale Chromatographie im analytischen Labor: Dieses Buch bespricht erstmals alle gängigen Verfahren sowie Anwendungen auf verschiedensten Gebieten, von der Pharmazie, Biologie und Chemie bis hin zur Umwelttechnik und erdölverarbeitender Industrie. Die Autoren sind selbst aktiv in der einschlägigen Forschung tätig.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471988693

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Transport Equations and Multi-D Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

By: Luigi Ambrosio,Gianluca Crippa,Camillo De Lellis,Felix Otto,Michael Westdickenberg

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Transport Equations and Multi-D Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

By: Luigi Ambrosio,Gianluca Crippa,Camillo De Lellis,Felix Otto,Michael Westdickenberg

The theory of nonlinear hyperbolic equations in several space dimensions has recently obtained remarkable achievements. This volume provides an up-to-date overview of the status and perspectives of two areas of research in PDEs, related to hyperbolic conservation laws. The captivating volume contains surveys of recent deep results and provides an overview of further developments and related open problems. Readers should have basic knowledge of PDE and measure theory.

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3540767819

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Soft Sensors for Monitoring and Control of Industrial Processes

By: Luigi Fortuna,Salvatore Graziani,Alessandro Rizzo,Maria Gabriella Xibilia

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Soft Sensors for Monitoring and Control of Industrial Processes

By: Luigi Fortuna,Salvatore Graziani,Alessandro Rizzo,Maria Gabriella Xibilia

This book reviews current design paths for soft sensors, and guides readers in evaluating different choices. The book presents case studies resulting from collaborations between the authors and industrial partners. The solutions presented, some of which are implemented on-line in industrial plants, are designed to cope with a wide range of applications from measuring system backup and what-if analysis through real-time prediction for plant control to sensor diagnosis and validation.

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1846284805

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A Feast of Weeds

A Literary Guide to Foraging and Cooking Wild Edible Plants

By: Luigi Ballerini

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A Feast of Weeds

A Literary Guide to Foraging and Cooking Wild Edible Plants

By: Luigi Ballerini

A dazzling display of humanistic erudition, wit, and practical culinary advice. Ballerini's living herbarium reinitiates modern readers living in the concrete manswarm into the joys of foraging, gathering, and savoring herbs, flowers, and berries. Its wide-ranging historical context, a veritable documentary of poets and chroniclers of past and present, is a learned celebration of nature's bounty. Practical and flavorful recipes for each plant transport the 'weeds' from the field to the palate and enhance a narrative enriched by splendid complementary footnotes."—Albert Sonnenfeld, Series Director, Arts of the Table "Weeds indeed. A guide as witty as he is erudite, Luigi Ballerini has given us a remarkable compendium of the wild greens, along with their flowers and fruits, that people have foraged and eaten for millennia. Once the food of the poor, such ingredients are now in high demand. Gathering greens both familiar—such as mint or borage—and obscure—milk thistle and wallrocket—Ballerini draws upon a diverse cast of authors to attest or dispute their real or alleged medicinal powers. Just as important, he never neglects to suggest how they taste or to present fine recipes so that we can savor them for ourselves."—Carol Field, author of The Italian Baker "The scholar and poet Luigi Ballerini has given us a mouthwatering treasure of inventive Italian recipes for foraged wild plants adapted for the American locavore kitchen (including ten for borage alone, as well as nettle and purslane frittatas, and prickly pear risotto). This elegantly illustrated volume is peppered with humor and tastefully seasoned with a wealth of cultural, historical, and scientific sources and information. A Feast of Weeds is food for both the palate and the mind."—Jean-Claude Carron, University of California, Los Angeles

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0520270347

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Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy

Perceptions, Encounters, and Clashes

By: Luigi Andrea Berto

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Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy

Perceptions, Encounters, and Clashes

By: Luigi Andrea Berto

In the early Middle Ages, Italy became the target of Muslim expansionist campaigns. The Muslims conquered Sicily, ruling there for more than two centuries, and conducted many raids against the Italian Peninsula. During this period, however, Christians and Muslims were not always at war – trade flourished, and travel to the territories of the ‘other’ was not uncommon. By examining how Muslims and Christians perceived each other and how they communicated, this book brings the relationship between Muslims and Christians in early medieval Italy into clearer focus, showing that the followers of the Cross and those of the Crescent were in reality not as ignorant of one another as is commonly believed.

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Routledge

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1000767337

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The Temple of Peace in Rome

By: Pier Luigi Tucci

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The Temple of Peace in Rome

By: Pier Luigi Tucci

In this magisterial two-volume book, Pier Luigi Tucci offers a comprehensive examination of one of the key complexes of Ancient Rome, the Temple of Peace. Based on archival research and an architectural survey, his research sheds new light on the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque transformations of the basilica, and the later restorations of the complex. Volume 1 focuses on the foundation of the complex under Vespasian until its restoration under Septimius Severus and challenges the accepted views about the ancient building. Volume 2 begins with the remodelling of the library hall and the construction of the rotunda complex, and examines the dedication of the Christian Basilica of SS Cosmas and Damian. Of interest to scholars in a range of topics, The Temple of Peace in Rome crosses the boundaries between classics, archaeology, history of architecture, and art history, through Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the early modern period.

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1108548814

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The Vincentians: A General History of the Congregation of the Mission

Volume 1 - From the Foundation to the End of the Seventeenth Century (1625-1697)

By: Luigi Mezzadri, CM,José Maria Román, CM

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The Vincentians: A General History of the Congregation of the Mission

Volume 1 - From the Foundation to the End of the Seventeenth Century (1625-1697)

By: Luigi Mezzadri, CM,José Maria Román, CM

Their mission was humble and simple: to reach the poor country people, who suffered from ignorance of their faith, a debased clergy, and poverty. In response, Vincent De Paul defined the vocation of his “Little Company” as preaching local missions for free, educating the clergy, and working to relieve the people’s poverty. Soon, however, this vocation was complicated by commands to minister to royal families, including Louis xiv of France and the kings and queens of Poland, which would embroil the Vincentians in international and ecclesiastical politics. In addition, they would begin dangerous foreign missions, such as ministering to the Christian captives of the Barbary pirates, the debased colonists and rebellious natives of Madagascar, and the vendetta-prone Corsicans. For the first time, modern readers have a thoroughly researched history based on original documents and the studies of numerous scholars, past and present. It portrays the Vincentians’ daily lives and describes their failings as well as their exalted acts of heroism. It also details the social and political milieus that conditioned their lives and work. It is an important, down-to-earth side of history not often told.

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New City Press

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1565483219

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Trajectory Planning for Automatic Machines and Robots

By: Luigi Biagiotti,Claudio Melchiorri

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Trajectory Planning for Automatic Machines and Robots

By: Luigi Biagiotti,Claudio Melchiorri

This book deals with the problems related to planning motion laws and t- jectories for the actuation system of automatic machines, in particular for those based on electric drives, and robots. The problem of planning suitable trajectories is relevant not only for the proper use of these machines, in order to avoid undesired e?ects such as vibrations or even damages on the mech- ical structure, but also in some phases of their design and in the choice and sizing of the actuators. This is particularly true now that the concept of “el- tronic cams” has replaced, in the design of automatic machines, the classical approach based on “mechanical cams”. The choice of a particular trajectory has direct and relevant implications on several aspects of the design and use of an automatic machine, like the dimensioning of the actuators and of the reduction gears, the vibrations and e?orts generated on the machine and on the load, the tracking errors during the motion execution. For these reasons, in order to understand and appreciate the peculiarities of the di?erent techniques available for trajectory planning, besides the ma- ematical aspects of their implementation also a detailed analysis in the time and frequency domains, a comparison of their main properties under di?erent points of view, and general considerations related to their practical use are reported.

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3540856293

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Robotics

Modelling, Planning and Control

By: Bruno Siciliano,Lorenzo Sciavicco,Luigi Villani,Giuseppe Oriolo

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Robotics

Modelling, Planning and Control

By: Bruno Siciliano,Lorenzo Sciavicco,Luigi Villani,Giuseppe Oriolo

Based on the successful Modelling and Control of Robot Manipulators by Sciavicco and Siciliano (Springer, 2000), Robotics provides the basic know-how on the foundations of robotics: modelling, planning and control. It has been expanded to include coverage of mobile robots, visual control and motion planning. A variety of problems is raised throughout, and the proper tools to find engineering-oriented solutions are introduced and explained. The text includes coverage of fundamental topics like kinematics, and trajectory planning and related technological aspects including actuators and sensors. To impart practical skill, examples and case studies are carefully worked out and interwoven through the text, with frequent resort to simulation. In addition, end-of-chapter exercises are proposed, and the book is accompanied by an electronic solutions manual containing the MATLAB® code for computer problems; this is available free of charge to those adopting this volume as a textbook for courses.

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1846286417

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9781846286414

Book's by Luigi Villani

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