This title is not entirely consistant with the content of the work as it is not just a topographical description of the city but also an account of its inhabitants and the regulations governing their lives, of how the Sultan spent his time, of the principles and practice of Islam, and more.[...]
This unique reference offers a balance between methodology and application, illustrating how and why to use quantile regression in a variety of areas such as economics, finance and computing.[...]
"Beyond New Media Art" is the revised, updated version of a book first published in Italian with the title "Media, New Media, Postmedia" in 2010. Through the circulation of excerpts, reviews and interviews, the book produced some debate outside of Italy, which persuaded the author to release, three [...]
In this book the authors review the surgical management of patients with aortic disease. This often controversial area of management reveals many options open to cardiovascular specialist. This reference reviews each controversy and provides practical answers to the cardiac surgeon and will help the[...]
Born near the Tuscan province of Lucca in 1815, Domenico Brucciani became the most important and prolific maker of plaster casts in nineteenth-century Britain. This first substantive study shows how he and his business used public exhibitions, emerging museum culture and the nationalisation of art e[...]
In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism, genocide, racism and snobbery.[...]
Dominico Caracciolo was an important figure on the eighteenth-century European stage, holding high office as a diplomat in London, Turin and Paris, and as viceroy and prime minister in the Two Sicilies. He was an inveterate letter-writer and his huge correspondence, with his diplomatic despatches an[...]
In this definitive historical investigation of the formation of liberalism from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Domenico Losurdo overturns complacent and self-congratulatory accounts by showing that, from its very origins, liberalism and its main thinkers-Locke,Burke, Tocqueville, Constan[...]
This book brings together the thinking of an international group of clinicians, researchers, and professionals from different disciplines and is based primarily on a selection of papers presented at a conference on the same topic held at the Tavistock Centre, London, in November 1996, but with addit[...]
English summary: The scholar Domenico Bandini of Arezzo's Fons memorabilium universi, dating from around 1340-1418, is not only a work of enormous dimensions but also one of extraordinary content and layout. On the one hand it contains an encyclopedia of natural history, on the other, two comprehens[...]
This book offers a fascinating account of the life and scientific achievements of Giovanni Domenico Cassini, or Cassini I, the most famous astronomer of his time, who is remembered today especially for his observations of the rings and satellites of Saturn and his earlier construction of the great m[...]
How Leonardo's inventions would have looked if they had been built. Leonardo da Vinci was more than a great artist; he was also a great inventor.[...]
This book offers an invaluable guide to the delineation of organs at risk of toxicity in patients undergoing radiotherapy. It details the radiological anatomy of organs at risk as seen on typical radiotherapy planning CT scans.[...]
"Gamescenes" is a book about Game Art. Game Art is any art in which digital games played a significant role in the creation, production, and/or displayed of the artwork. How can artists make art with videogames? Todd Deutsch takes pictures of game players during exhausting contests; Tobias Bernstrup[...]
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