In the engine development process, simulation and predictive programs have continuously gained in reliance. Due to the complexity of future internal combustion engines the application of simulation programs towards a reliable “virtual engine development” is a need that represents one of the greatest challenges. Marco Chiodi presents an innovative 3D-CFD-tool, exclusively dedicated and optimized for the simulation of internal combustion engines. Thanks to improved or newly developed 3D-CFD-models for the description of engine processes, this tool ensures an efficient and reliable calculation also by using coarse 3D-CFD-meshes. Based on this approach the CPU-time can be reduced up to a factor 100 in comparison to traditional 3D-CFD-simulations. In addition an integrated and automatic “evaluation tool” establishes a comprehensive analysis of the relevant engine parameters. Due to the capability of a reliable “virtual development” of full-engines, this fast response 3D-CFD-tool makes a major contribution to the engine development process. Südwestmetall-Förderpreis 2010
How different was the practice of magic in the Latin West from that of the eastern Mediterranean basin? Was it just derivative from Greek practice, or did it have its own originality? The recent discovery of important new curse-tablets in Mainz and in the Fountain of Anna Perenna at Rome has made the question newly topical. This volume contains the first commented editions in English of most of these new texts as well as major surveys of new prayers for justice. Other sections are devoted to the discourse of magic in the West, to the linguistics and aims of cursing, and to the major field of protective and eudaemonic magic up to and including the Visigothic slates and the Celtic loricae. The essays are by well-known scholars in the field as well as by established and younger Spanish scholars.
The Venetian adventurer Marco Polo traveled from Europe to Asia in the late thirteenth century, as immortalised in his seminal work of travel literature. It describes Polo’s assorted travels throughout Asia and his experiences in the sumptuous court of Kublai Khan. Composed at a time when very little was known about the Far East, Polo’s account opened new vistas to the European mind, allowing Western horizons to expand. His description of Japan set a definite goal for Christopher Columbus in his journey of 1492, while Polo’s detailed discoveries of spices encouraged Western merchants to seek new sources and break trading monopolies. The wealth of geographic information recorded by Polo was widely used in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, fuelling an era of great European discoveries. Delphi’s Medieval Library provides eReaders with rare and precious works of the Middle Ages, with noted English translations and the original texts. This eBook presents Marco Polo’s complete text, with illustrations, an informative introduction and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Polo's life and adventures * Features the complete extant works of Marco Polo, in both English translation and Giovanni Battista Ramusio’s original Italian text * The complete Yule-Cordier 1903 translation, with hundreds of illustrations and footnotes * Concise introduction to the text * Superior formatting * Easily locate the sections you want to read with individual contents tables * Features four bonus biographies — discover Polo's medieval world CONTENTS: The Translation Brief Introduction to Marco Polo The Travels of Marco Polo (c. 1300) The Original Text The Italian Text The Biographies Marco Polo (1832) by James Augustus St. John Sir Marco Polo, the Venetian, and His Travels in Asia (1893) by W. H. Davenport Adams Marco Polo (1904) by John H. Haaren Marco Polo (1911) by Henry Yule and Charles Raymond Beazley
In un futuro vagamente ucronico - dal sapore anni settanta - David ha perso la memoria e per lui la realtà si è ridotta ad un incubo di frammenti spezzati. E' davvero pazzo come dicono o è ... qualcos'altro? Qualcuno lo sta aiutando ad uscire dal labirinto, per portarlo verso un altro livello di realtà, ma la scoperta non sarà piacevole ... Amandla! è un romanzo a cavallo tra SF e narrativa di anticipazione, che si muove tra l'Africa e le suggestioni virtuali di P.K. Dick e di Matrix, tra i Beatles e Nelson Mandela. Il primo capitolo di Amandla! è apparso sulla rivista on-line Inciquid n. 7/2005
This book explores the relationship between the sciences of representation and the strategy of landscape valorisation. The topic is connected to the theme of the image of the city, which is extended to the territory scale and applied to case studies in Italy’s Umbria region, where the goal is to strike a dynamic balance between cultural heritage and nature. The studies demonstrate how landscape represents an interpretive process of finding meaning, a product of the relationships between mankind and the places in which it lives. The work proceeds from the assumption that it is possible to describe these connections between environment, territory and landscape by applying the Vitruvian triad, composed of Firmitas (solidity), Utilitas (utility) and Venustas(beauty). The environment, the sum of the conditions that influence all life, represents the place’s solidity, because it guarantees its survival. In turn, territory is connected to utility, and through its etymological meaning is linked to possession, to a domain; while landscape, as an “area perceived by people”, expresses the search for beauty in a given place, the process of critically interpreting a vision.
Nel 1938, un ragazzino, Luca, conosce Alex, di due anni più grande. A volte insieme, a volte separati, affronteranno i primi anni della guerra mondiale in maniera diversa. Si innamoreranno entrambi della stessa ragazza, ma per uno dei due la vità non è che sofferenza e morte, perché nel suo sangue, come nel sangue di suo padre, scorre la follia. Sia Luca che Alex possiedono un passato famigliare travagliato, e la guerra farà perdere loro ogni convinzione e ogni speranza, portandoli all'annichilimento totale, all'impossibilità di un riscatto. Tra le macerie delle città devastate dalle bombe, le vite dei due ragazzi e di altre persone toccate dalla tragedia umana che è la guerra finiranno per convergere in un'unica silenziosa richiesta. La pace.
ANGELO CARD. SCOLA, Stanislao Grygiel. “Un pensatore” / Stanislao Grygiel. “A Thinker” PIERANGELO SEQUERI, La semantica teologica del sacro / The theological semantics of the Sacred MARCO GALLO, Liturgia e sacro: trasformazioni. Presiedere un rito alla prova dell’epoca democratica e della crisi degli abusi / Liturgy and the sacred: transformations. Presiding rite on the trial of the democratic era and the abuse crisis GUILLAME LE BLANC, La rivoluzione del “prendersi cura”: verso un’etica per ogni vita / The “caring” revolution: towards an ethics for every life JUAN JOSÉ PEREZ-SOBA, La integración eclesial ante el desafío de los excluidos. Una reflexión a los cincuenta años de A Theory of Justice de John Rawls / Ecclesial integration in the face of the challenge of the excluded. A reflection fifty years after John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice STEPHAN KAMPWOSKI, The contribution of Pope Francis’ Magisterium to the Theology of Marriage and Family / Il contributo del magistero di- Papa Francesco alla teologia del matrimonio e della famiglia ORIETTA RACHELE GRAZIOLI, Il Responsum del Dicastero per la Dottrina della Fede sulla benedizione delle coppie omosessuali / Responsum of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on blessing same-sex couples
Cosa accadrebbe se si potesse tornare indietro, al momento in cui avete commesso un errore che ha modificato profondamente la vostra vita? Forse tutto cambierebbe. Egon ha quasi quarantanni ha smesso da tempo con i sogni e le aspettative, perche' nella sua esistenza ha lasciato che gli sbagli commessi condizionassero troppo la strada che ognuno di noi in fondo cerca di percorrere. Ma ha sempre saputo cosa sarebbe potuto succedere se avesse avuto una seconda occasione. E un giorno, uno qualunque apparentemente, per un disegno del destino ha avuto la possibilita' di tornare indietro e ricominciare proprio da dove era rimasto. Stravolgendo irrimediabilmente la sua vita.
Questo libro ( disponbile anche in ebook ) è una gradevole "passeggiata" tra le foto artistiche tratte dal vasto repertorio di Marco Michelini, Un fotografo di notevole talento, espresso nei vari settori dell' arte fotografica, un libro tutto da guardare con oltre 70 emozionanti fotografie. Marco ha la capacità di coglierle, con efficacia, dalla vita di ogni giorno, quella vita comune, di tutti noi
Milan, since the period after World War II, has developed its own specific interpretation of modern architecture: a Milanese path to architectural Modernity. In model suburban developments like QT8 (a proving ground for the best solutions formulated by international architectural culture in the 1920s and 1930s), but also in original buildings in the center, like the Torre Velasca and the Pirelli skyscraper, Milan has become a true outdoor museum of modern architecture. The names of the leading figures of this period are Gio Ponti, Piero Bottoni, Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Lodovico Belgiojoso, Ignazio Gardella, Luigi Moretti, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Vico Magistretti; as well as Vittorio Gregotti, Aldo Rossi, Guido Canella, Carlo Aymonino, Gino Valle, Gabetti & Isola: architects that over a few decades gave Milan its building-symbols, providing structures suitable for a city aspiring to a role as a leading player on the European stage. The works of these architects have been joined, in the late 20th century and the initial years of the new millennium, in a period of renewed construction activity, by projects bearing the world-famous signatures of Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Arata Isozaki, Peter Eisenman and Rem Koolhaas, along with those of Italian talents like - among others - Renzo Piano, Cino Zucchi and Stefano Boeri. A significant contribution that has given Milan an important position on the international architecture scene, destined to be reinforced by EXPO 2015. This book takes a critical look at the various aspects of development of Milanese architecture, and in 100 profiles illustrated with photographs made for the occasion it presents the city's most outstanding buildings erected over the course of the last seventy years.
Se l’Informe è un carattere della nostra epoca, è indispensabile ripensare gli strumenti con cui descriviamo e trasformiamo la realtà. Come potrebbero mutare i nostri paradigmi se assumessimo l’Informe come strumento critico? Il ruolo operativo dell’Informe, proposto da Georges Bataille, permette di dare senso a molte pratiche di trasformazione del mondo. “Assemblaggi” è costruito come un montaggio di testi su autori di diverse epoche. La descrizione e il commento delineano un percorso che indaga la potenza plastica e critica dell’Informe come apertura all’indeterminato. L’idea di un’Architettura geologica interroga le pieghe della Terra e dispiega una pratica del “maifinito” come nodo di congiunzione tra tempi e mondi diversi. Mettere in forma la tensione tra le cose costituisce il compito di un’Architettura terrestre per immaginare nuove alleanze capaci di generare futuri.
This book explores the communicative practices of the Italian radical group Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse, or BR), the relationship the group established with the Italian press, and the specific social historical context in which the BR developed both its own self-understanding and its complex dialectical connection with the society at large. The BR’s worldview and the dominant ideology(ies) mediated by the press are treated as competing responses to structural issues of Italian history: the structural weakness of the nation state, the contradictions of an uneven economic development, and the consequent struggle of the bourgeois class to achieve hegemonic rule.
In the engine development process, simulation and predictive programs have continuously gained in reliance. Due to the complexity of future internal combustion engines the application of simulation programs towards a reliable “virtual engine development” is a need that represents one of the greatest challenges. Marco Chiodi presents an innovative 3D-CFD-tool, exclusively dedicated and optimized for the simulation of internal combustion engines. Thanks to improved or newly developed 3D-CFD-models for the description of engine processes, this tool ensures an efficient and reliable calculation also by using coarse 3D-CFD-meshes. Based on this approach the CPU-time can be reduced up to a factor 100 in comparison to traditional 3D-CFD-simulations. In addition an integrated and automatic “evaluation tool” establishes a comprehensive analysis of the relevant engine parameters. Due to the capability of a reliable “virtual development” of full-engines, this fast response 3D-CFD-tool makes a major contribution to the engine development process. Südwestmetall-Förderpreis 2010
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