Author: Gian Carlo Menotti
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Keywords: parts, chorus, language, belwin, english, gorgon, operetta, unicorn, manticore
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 1985-03-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0769245927
ISBN-13: 9780769245928

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Author: Gian Carlo Calza
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Keywords: style, japan
Number of Pages: 303
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0714846244
ISBN-13: 9780714846248

Japan Style, written by one of the world’s most respected scholars of Japanese art and culture, is an authoritative and wide-ranging visual essay on the aesthetics of Japan.It serves as a unique handbook that aids an understanding of Japanese culture through its architecture, arts, crafts, cinema, and literature. It gives an insight into the essence of Japanese culture, identifying its specific qualities and characteristics from ukiyo-e to Tadao Ando. The author draws connections between art, religion, history, philosophy, and mythology, using the links to frame specific examples of Japa

Author: Gian Carlo Calza
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Keywords: themes, ukiyo
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0714845388
ISBN-13: 9780714845388

The art of ukiyo-e (the floating world) originated in the city of Edo (1603–1867, now Tokyo), when the political and military power of Japan was in the hands of the shoguns. Comprising six essays, six plate sections and over 600 illustrations this beautiful book provides a perfect introduction to the art of this period. The paintings, scrolls and prints reproduced here demonstrate not only the new urban pleasures of the theatre, restaurants, teahouses and geisha, but also Japan’s love of nature and tradition. Professor Calza’s accessible style provides a fascinating yet scholarly study o

Author: Gian Carlo Calza
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Keywords: hokusai
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0714844578
ISBN-13: 9780714844572

Katsushika Hokusai (1769-1849) was one of the greatest of the Japanese print designers, painters and book illustrators, and by far the most famous Asian artist in the West. This richly illustrated monograph provides an overview of the master’s life and works in all media. Comprising introductory essays, seven chapters embracing Hokusai’s entire career and some 700 illustrations, it presents and analyses a large selection of Hokusai’s finest works in all media, covering his whole career and giving a scholarly and up-to-date interpretation of the artist and his significance. Th

Authors:Gian-Carlo Rota, Fabrizio Palombi,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Bosto
Keywords: thoughts, indiscrete
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 1996-12-18
List price: $62.95
ISBN-10: 0817638660
ISBN-13: 9780817638665

"Indiscrete Thoughts" gives a rare glimpse into a world that has seldom been described, that of science and technology as seen through the eyes of a mathematician. The era covered by this book, 1950 to 1990, was surely one of the golden ages of science and the American university as well. Cherished myths are debunked along the way as Gian-Carlo Rota takes pleasure in portraying, warts and all, some of the great scientific personalities of the period - Stanislav Ulam (who, together with Edward Teller, signed the patent application for the hydrogen bomb), Solomon Lefschetz (Chairman in the 50s o

Authors:Gian-Carlo Rota, Fabrizio Palombi,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Keywords: classics, birkhã¤user, modern, thoughts, indiscrete
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-01-11
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0817647805
ISBN-13: 9780817647803

Indiscrete Thoughts gives a glimpse into a world that has seldom been described that of science and technology as seen through the eyes of a mathematician. The era covered by this book, 1950 to 1990, was surely one of the golden ages of science as well as the American university. Cherished myths are debunked along the way as Gian-Carlo Rota takes pleasure in portraying, warts and all, some of the great scientific personalities of the period —Stanislav Ulam (who, together with Edward Teller, signed the patent application for the hydrogen bomb), Solomon Lefschetz (Chairman in the 50s of the P

Authors:Daniel A. Klain, Gian-Carlo Rota,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: lincee, lezioni, probability, geometric, introduction
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1997-12-13
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0521596548
ISBN-13: 9780521596541

Here is the first modern introduction to geometric probability, also known as integral geometry, presented at an elementary level, requiring little more than first-year graduate mathematics. Klein and Rota present the theory of intrinsic volumes due to Hadwiger, McMullen, Santaló and others, along with a complete and elementary proof of Hadwiger’s characterization theorem of invariant measures in Euclidean n-space. They develop the theory of the Euler characteristic from an integral-geometric point of view. The authors then prove the fundamental theorem of integral geometry, namely, the