Download or read book World of Wanderlust written by Brooke Bellamy and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the world’s greatest destinations? Where are the best places to travel solo? From airport fashion to road trip rules, professional traveller Brooke Saward shows us where to go, what to do and how to get that holiday feeling without even leaving home. Full of beautiful photographs that will ignite the imagination and featuring enduring favourites like Paris, New York, and London, this is the book that will inspire you to make every day an adventure.
Download or read book The Complete Travel Guide for Pisa Italy written by and published by Youguide International BV. This book was released on with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Complete Travel Guide" Series offers a comprehensive exploration of diverse destinations worldwide. Each book provides detailed insights into local culture, history, attractions, and practical travel tips, ensuring travellers are well-prepared to embark on memorable journeys. With vibrant illustrations, beautiful pictures and up to date information, this series is an essential companion for any type of traveller seeking enriching experiences.
Download or read book Tilt written by Nicholas Shrady and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unconventional biography, the author recounts the tower's rich history, from its abortive beginnings in 1173 through to its ongoing stabilization today, and examines the various symbolisms that have projected on it throughout the ages.
Download or read book The Tower of Pisa written by J.B. Burland and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leaning Tower of Pisa is known worldwide for its five-degree lean. The Tower is the Campanile of the Cathedral, which together with the Baptistry and Cemetery form a breath-taking collection of monuments which are regarded as supreme examples of early Renaissance Romanesque architecture. In March 1990 the Tower was closed to the public as it was declared unsafe and close to collapse. A Commission was set up by the Italian Government with the task of developing and implementing stabilization measures. This book begins with a brief description of the history of the Tower and its construction. The reader is then introduced to the huge challenges faced by the Commission in designing and implementing appropriate stabilization measures whilst at the same time satisfying the demanding requirements of conserving a world heritage monument. In particular, two historical studies are described which proved to be most valuable in arriving at suitable stabilization measures. The first was a deduction of the history of inclination of the tower during and subsequent to construction. The results of this study were used to calibrate a sophisticated numerical model of the tower and the underlying very soft ground which proved vital in evaluating the effectiveness of various stabilization schemes. The second study was of measurements of movement made since 1911. This latter study revealed an unexpected mechanism of foundation movement which proved crucial in developing the temporary and permanent stabilization measures and which resulted in the Tower being re-opened to the public in June 2001. The book will appeal to both professionals and students in the fields of Architecture and Civil Engineering. It will also interest specialised audiences of geotechnical engineers and conservation architects. It may also be of wider interest to anyone planning to visit Pisa or who is intrigued as to what caused the Tower to lean and how it was stabilized.
Download or read book Travel Like a Local Map of Pisa written by Maxwell Fox and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Ready For The Adventure Of A Lifetime! Are you planning your next vacation abroad and you're ready to explore? Do you want to be prepared for everything? Are you ready to experience every new place you visit just like a local? Well, with this amazing Pisa (Italy) travel map you're all set and ready to go! The Pisa (Italy) map was carefully designed to give you amazing results and make traveling easier than ever. We make sure to constantly update our info to give you the most relevant and accurate information, so you will never get confused or frustrated during your Pisa (Italy) trip. The map is very detailed and it will not only give you all the available roads and routes, but also the essential information to make your Pisa (Italy) vacation unforgettable. In the map you can see all the available means of transport, bus stops and routes so you can always know how to get everywhere. And because we know that a vacation is not only about the roads and busses, the map gives you many options for eating, drinking and having a good time! We carefully marked all the restaurants, bars and pubs so you can always find one that is nearby. In the Pisa (Italy) map you will also find the best places to go shopping, the most famous and must-see sights, churches and more. And if an emergency comes up, there are markings of police stations and hospitals everywhere for your convenience. Each kind of marking has a different color so you can easily navigate around the map and find exactly what you're looking for within seconds. The city is also organized in sections so you can better find your way around. So what are you waiting for? Pack your bags, get your map and let's get started! Just Click "Add To Cart Now"
Download or read book Travel Like a Local Map of Pisa Black and White Edition written by Maxwell Fox and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Ready For The Adventure Of A Lifetime! This is a Black and White edition of Travel Like a Local map book. Are you planning your next vacation abroad and you're ready to explore? Do you want to be prepared for everything? Are you ready to experience every new place you visit just like a local? Well, with this amazing Pisa (Italy) travel map you're all set and ready to go! In the map you can see all the available means of transport, bus stops and routes so you can always know how to get everywhere. And because we know that a vacation is not only about the roads and busses, the map gives you many options for eating, drinking and having a good time! We carefully marked all the restaurants, bars and pubs so you can always find one that is nearby. In the Pisa (Italy) map you will also find the best places to go shopping, the most famous and must-see sights, churches and more. And if an emergency comes up, there are markings of police stations and hospitals everywhere for your convenience. The city is also organized in sections so you can better find your way around. So what are you waiting for? Pack your bags, get your map and let's get started! Just Click "Add To Cart Now"
Download or read book The Leaning Tower a Kid s Guide to Pisa Italy written by Penelope Dyan and published by Bellissima Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pisa, Italy is a surprising place, full of music and fun. You can climb to the top of the leaning tower of Pisa, or you can take a picture alongside of it pretending you are holding it up and that you are keeping it from falling! There are colorful shops and restaurants, Italian cookies and gelato and much more. Use this book as a starting point. This book is meant to inspire children, to fill the book with their very own thoughts, to insert their own photographs, to create their very own books, to write in the margins of this book! John D. Weigand s photography and the simple poetry of Penelope Dyan, award winning author, attorney and former teacher, are put together for this special purpose. So whether you are traveling vicariously though the pages of this book, or whether you are taking this book along with you on your very own trip to Pisa, Italy, please remember its purpose. Again, what is that purpose? The purpose of this book is to inspire learning and exploration and creativity, to fill in all the blank spaces in the places in your mind. Use the book to guide you. Watch the sun dance on the tower and dance on the walls of the street. Feel it. Become Italian and feel the beauty and the joy of this place called Pisa, Italy. Each of these books is different and is meant to teach young children learning concepts, to guess what is coming next in the rhyme and to point out something new and exciting. reading These are picture books for young children that teach a new thought. And they are meant to draw the young early reader into a new and exciting place. They are meant to be family enjoyed. Penelope Dyan.
Download or read book A Brief History of the Leaning Tower of Pisa written by Piero Pierotti and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Middle Ages written by Frank N. Magill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 1071 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.
Download or read book Italy and the Islamic World written by Ali Humayun Akhtar and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy and the Islamic World tells the story of how Italian cities have been centres of international exchange for centuries, linking Europe with the most storied marketplaces of the Middle East and North Africa. From the Ancient Roman period and the Renaissance to the rise of the Italian Republic, Italy has been a global crossroads for more than two millennia. In Ali Humayun Akhtar's new picture of European history, Italy's debates about trade with its southern neighbours evoke an earlier era of encounters - one that sheds light on where the EU is heading today.
Download or read book The Leaning Tower of Pisa written by Charles River Editors and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the tower's construction *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading It may be human nature to strive for perfection, but flaws and imperfections can bring character and create unique, unrivaled beauty in a league of its own. Old scars, burns, pockmarks, and other so-called blemishes of the like serve as reminders of disasters and adversities one has survived, no matter how grave or trivial. The uncooked macaroni shells glued to the card might be slightly askew and the glitter dispersed unevenly, but one tends not to even notice these mistakes, as they have already been won over by the endearing effort the child has put into the project. Curiously enough, as much as humans steer away from imperfection, they can be inexplicably drawn to it. In 2012, the otherwise obscure Spanish town of Borja was thrust into the global spotlight, and had gone viral overnight. A well-meaning 83-year-old widow by the name of Cecilia Gim�nez, armed with a paintbrush and a small array of poster colors, trotted up to the 82-year-old fresco in her local church named the Ecce Homo, and gave it the eye-watering restoration no one had asked for. What began as a beautiful, but somewhat faded and spotty depiction of Christ crowned with thorns and dressed in blood-red robes had become an overly-simplistic, ape-like character with misaligned eyes, a pair of dots for noses, and an unfinished gaping mouth. The Good Samaritan's masterpiece was ruthlessly ridiculed and circulated around dozens of social media and news platforms, but the embarrassment would soon prove to be sweeter than it was bitter. Thanks to the accidental publicity, over 150,000 tourists flocked to the village for a picture with the fascinating fiasco, more visitors than the "sleepy town" had seen in over a century. Perhaps the most renowned of all the perfect imperfections history has ever known is also one of the largest of its kind. Visitors can often be spotted strewn across the lush bed of grass in front of their cameras with scrunched up faces and their hands in the air as if holding up the tower, and striking other versions of the clich�d pose. This architectural conundrum-turned-iconic landmark, of course, is none other than the legendary Leaning Tower of Pisa. Unlike the Ecce Homo, visitors from near and far have been marveling at the tower for centuries, its chin-scratching admirers speculating about just how all 8 stories of the structure seem to defy gravity. The Leaning Tower of Pisa: The History and Legacy of Italy's Most Unique Building examines the origins of the fabled Meadow of Miracles and the birth of the lopsided bell tower, its 3 phases of construction, and the multiple restoration attempts to rectify its trademark tilt. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Leaning Tower of Pisa like never before.
Download or read book PISA 2018 Results Volume I What Students Know and Can Do written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of six volumes that present the results of the PISA 2018 survey, the seventh round of the triennial assessment. Volume I, What Students Know and Can Do, provides a detailed examination of student performance in reading, mathematics and science, and describes how performance has changed since previous PISA assessments.
Download or read book The PISA Effect on Global Educational Governance written by Louis Volante and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international achievement measure that assesses 15-year-old student performance in the areas of reading, mathematics, and science literacy in over 70 countries and economies triennially. By presenting an in-depth examination of PISA’s role in education governance and policy discourses, this book provides the reader with a critical analysis of the educational change process within our increasingly global educational policy environment. Exploring the prominent socio-political drivers of large-scale educational reform across the globe, chapter authors examine PISA’s national and global implications from a diverse range of regional contexts. Through the presentation of cross-disciplinary viewpoints and topical issues related to the PISA international survey, this volume explains the degree to which PISA-focused research is linked to national educational policy discourses and international education agendas.
Download or read book Image Processing in Radiology written by Emanuele Neri and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written by leading experts from many countries, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description of how to use 2D and 3D processing tools in clinical radiology. The opening section covers a wide range of technical aspects. In the main section, the principal clinical applications are described and discussed in depth. A third section focuses on a variety of special topics. This book will be invaluable to radiologists of any subspecialty.
Download or read book Vaccines and Autoimmunity written by Nicola Luigi Bragazzi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the discovery of Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants, or ASIA, Vaccines and Autoimmunity explores the role of adjuvants – specifically aluminum in different vaccines – and how they can induce diverse autoimmune clinical manifestations in genetically prone individuals. Vaccines and Autoimmunity is divided into three sections; the first contextualizes the role of adjuvants in the framework of autoimmunity, covering the mechanism of action of adjuvants, experimental models of adjuvant induced autoimmune diseases, infections as adjuvants, the Gulf War Syndrome, sick-building syndrome (SBS), safe vaccines, toll-like receptors, TLRS in vaccines, pesticides as adjuvants, oil as adjuvant, mercury, aluminum and autoimmunity. The following section reviews literature on vaccines that have induced autoimmune conditions such as MMR and HBV, among others. The final section covers diseases in which vaccines were known to be the solicitor – for instance, systemic lupus erythematosus – and whether it can be induced by vaccines for MMR, HBV, HCV, and others. Edited by leaders in the field, Vaccines and Autoimmunity is an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers working in pathogenic and epidemiological studies.
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