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Book A New History of the Humanities

Download or read book A New History of the Humanities written by Rens Bod and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present.

Book The System Of The World

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  • Author : Neal Stephenson
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2012-06-30
  • ISBN : 1446440443
  • Pages : 917 pages

Download or read book The System Of The World written by Neal Stephenson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neal Stephenson follows his highly-praised historical novels, Quicksilver and The Confusion, with the extraordinary third and final volume of the Baroque Cycle. The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with 'Infernal Devices' - time bombs. As Daniel and Newton conspire, an increasingly vicious struggle is waged for England's Crown: who will take control when the ailing queen dies? Tories and Whigs clash as one faction jockeys to replace Queen Anne with 'The Pretender' James Stuart, and the other promotes the Hanoverian dynasty of Princess Caroline. Meanwhile, a long-simmering dispute between Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz comes to a head, with potentially cataclysmic consequences. Wildly inventive, brilliantly conceived, The System of the World is the final volume in Neal Stephenson's hugely ambitious and compelling saga. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters in a time of genius, discovery and change, the Baroque Cycle is a magnificent and unique achievement.

Book Retrotopia

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  • Author : Zygmunt Bauman
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2017-03-06
  • ISBN : 1509515356
  • Pages : 133 pages

Download or read book Retrotopia written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state—a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and benevolent ruler. But while we have lost our faith in utopias of all hues, the human aspiration that made this vision so compelling has not died. Instead it is re-emerging today as a vision focused not on the future but on the past, not on a future-to-be-created but on an abandoned and undead past that we could call retrotopia. The emergence of retrotopia is interwoven with the deepening gulf between power and politics that is a defining feature of our contemporary liquid-modern world—the gulf between the ability to get things done and the capability of deciding what things need to be done, a capability once vested with the territorially sovereign state. This deepening gulf has rendered nation-states unable to deliver on their promises, giving rise to a widespread disenchantment with the idea that the future will improve the human condition and a mistrust in the ability of nation-states to make this happen. True to the utopian spirit, retrotopia derives its stimulus from the urge to rectify the failings of the present human condition—though now by resurrecting the failed and forgotten potentials of the past. Imagined aspects of the past, genuine or putative, serve as the main landmarks today in drawing the road-map to a better world. Having lost all faith in the idea of building an alternative society of the future, many turn instead to the grand ideas of the past, buried but not yet dead. Such is retrotopia, the contours of which are examined by Zygmunt Bauman in this sharp dissection of our contemporary romance with the past.

Book The First Three Sections of Newton s Principia

Download or read book The First Three Sections of Newton s Principia written by Isaac Newton and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sissy Jupe

Download or read book Sissy Jupe written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduction to the Analysis of the Literary Text

Download or read book Introduction to the Analysis of the Literary Text written by Cesare Segre and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Francesco Petrarch Rime Disperse

Download or read book Francesco Petrarch Rime Disperse written by Joseph A. Barber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1991. It was the lyric poetry of Petrarch that popularized the sonnet in European literature, that set the standard for love poetry for centuries to follow. Compared to the large volume of prose, poetry and notes in Latin, the corpus of Petrarch’s Italian writings is small: the 366 poems that make up the Canzoniere, the 2000 or so verses of the Trionfi, and an undetermined number of poems, drafts and fragments that comprise what we call the Rime disperse. This collection includes indexes of first lines in both Italian and English.

Book Streets

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  • Author : Zeynep Çelik
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780520205284
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Streets written by Zeynep Çelik and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twenty-one essays, written by colleagues and former students of the architectural historian Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), presents case studies on Kostof's model of urban forms and fabrics. The essays are remarkably diverse: the range includes pre-Columbian Inca settlements, fourteenth-century Cairo, nineteenth-century New Orleans, and twentieth-century Tokyo ... The theme of the volume is that the street presents itself as the basic structuring device of a city's form and also as the locus of its civilization. Each essay is a detailed investigation of a single urban street with unique historical conditions. The authors' shared concern regarding anthropological, political, and technical aspects of street making coalesce into a critical discourse on urban space.

Book The Stone Woman

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  • Author : Tariq Ali
  • Publisher : Verso
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9781859843642
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Stone Woman written by Tariq Ali and published by Verso. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ali spins a web of tales that is as inventive and fantastical as the Arabian nights.'âe"The Times.

Book Along the Bosphorus

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  • Author : Orhan Pamuk
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2016-01-26
  • ISBN : 1101972599
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Along the Bosphorus written by Orhan Pamuk and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vintage Shorts Travel Selection The Nobel Prize–winning novelist Orhan Pamuk reminisces on growing up on the banks of the mysterious Bosphorus in Istanbul. From the ghostly yalis, splendid waterside mansions built by the great Ottoman families during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the crowds of vessels—Russian frigates, rickety fishing boats, and ferries—that plied its waters, Pamuk takes readers on a tour of the great river. A selection from the shimmering and evocative Istanbul: Memories and the City, “Along the Bosphorus” is the essential guide to the city’s watery way. An eBook short.

Book Esercizi e Temi d Esame di Meccanica Razionale

Download or read book Esercizi e Temi d Esame di Meccanica Razionale written by Augusto Muracchini and published by Società Editrice Esculapio. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questo volume raccoglie esercizi e temi d’esame di Meccanica Razionale ed è destinato agli allievi dei corsi di laurea in Ingegneria. Esso costituisce una completa revisione di un precedente testo. È strutturato in due parti: ad una prima parte, in cui vengono completamente risolti esercizi relativi ai vari capitoli che costituiscono la struttura di un corso di Meccanica Razionale, segue una seconda parte dedicata allo svolgimento di numerose prove scritte assegnate in varie sessioni d’esame nei Corsi di Laurea della Scuola di Ingegneria ove operano gli Autori. La loro soluzione è completamente e dettagliatamente svolta ma, procedendo, diventa via via più schematica accompagnando ed assecondando quella che, si auspica, sia la parallela maturazione culturale dell’allievo. Il volume è completato da tavole di momenti d’inerzia e da un’ampia appendice in cui sono riportate le principali relazioni della trigonometria piana che costituisce uno strumento indispensabile nella risoluzione degli esercizi.

Book Esercizi e Temi d   Esame di Meccanica Razionale

Download or read book Esercizi e Temi d Esame di Meccanica Razionale written by Augusto Muracchini and published by Società Editrice Esculapio. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questo volume raccoglie esercizi e temi d’esame di Meccanica Razionale ed è destinato agli allievi dei corsi di laurea in Ingegneria. È strutturato in due parti: ad una prima parte, in cui vengono completamente risolti esercizi relativi ai vari capitoli che costituiscono la struttura di un corso di Meccanica Razionale, segue una seconda parte dedicata allo svolgimento di numerose prove scritte assegnate in varie sessioni d’esame nei Corsi di Laurea ove operano gli Autori. Lo svolgimento dei temi è dapprima completamente e dettagliatamente sviluppato ma diventa, procedendo, più schematico accompagnando ed assecondando quella che gli Autori auspicano sia la progressiva acquisizione di autonomia del lettore. Il volume è completato da tavole di momenti d’inerzia e da un’ampia appendice in cui sono riportate le principali relazioni della trigonometria piana che costituisce uno strumento indispensabile nella risoluzione degli esercizi.

Book Esercizi Risolti di Meccanica Razionale

Download or read book Esercizi Risolti di Meccanica Razionale written by Michele Barsanti and published by Società Editrice Esculapio. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il volume presenta alcune delle prove di esame di Meccanica Razionale per il corso di laurea triennale in Ingegneria Meccanica presso la Facoltà di Ingegneria dell’Università di Pisa, con l’aggiunta di un congruo numero di esercizi propedeutici. Gli argomenti scelti rappresentano il minimo indispensabile delle nozioni di Meccanica Razionale di cui deve essere in possesso uno studente d’Ingegneria che vuole capire le nozioni più applicative che verranno impartite negli anni seguenti. È stata posta particolare attenzione ai problemi che richiedono una formulazione tridimensionale e alla ricerca di problemi che abbiano una soluzione che non sia solo formale. Si è cercato di non insistere troppo su argomenti ampiamente presentati in altri corsi (ad esempio la statica) e si è preferito invece dare spazio ad argomenti ingiustamente trascurati (ad esempio la cinematica e i suoi legami con la geometria).

Book Temi scritti d esame di meccanica razionale  Per allievi ingegneri

Download or read book Temi scritti d esame di meccanica razionale Per allievi ingegneri written by Carla Bertoluzza Poggi and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduzione alla Meccanica Razionale

Download or read book Introduzione alla Meccanica Razionale written by Paolo Biscari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il libro mira a fornire le basi di Meccanica Razionale, corredando l'esposizione teorica con un alto numero di esempi ed esercizi, di tutti i quali si fornisce la soluzione. Il testo è particolarmente indicato per i corsi di breve o media durata, e può servire da appoggio a corsi che si sviluppino al secondo, o anche al primo anno del corso di studi universitario.