Authors:Giorgio Bassani,  William Weaver, Tim Park,
Publisher: Everyman’s Library
Keywords: classics, contemporary, library, everyman, finzi, continis, garden
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2005-07-19
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 1400044227
ISBN-13: 9781400044221

Giorgio Bassani’s masterwork has Vittorio de Sica’s 1971 film adaptation to thank for its dual success and obscurity. Not enough people know that this tale of a middle-class Jewish youth’s obsession with the far more aristocratic Micol Finzi-Contini stems from a novel, not a novelization. Bassani’s doom- and tomb-ridden examination of one-sided love is far more complex--about individuals’ inability to contend with personal and political annihilation. Events call for heroism, yet it seems "downright absurd that now, all of a sudden, exceptional behavior was demande

Authors:Giambattista Vico, Giorgio A. Pinton, Giorgio A. Pin
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Keywords: gestis, antonj, caraphaei, rebus, carafa, deeds, antonio, statecraft
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 2004-01
List price: $92.95
ISBN-10: 0820468282
ISBN-13: 9780820468280

In 1716 Giambattista Vico published De rebus gestis Antonj Caraphaei to celebrate Neapolitan Antonio Carafa who emigrated to Vienna in 1662 to serve at the Court of Leopold I of Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor. After becoming familiar with the intrigues of the Viennese court, Carafa gradually learned the secrets of state and the arts of public administration and of governing. Enjoying the favors of the emperor and of the royal princes related to the Habsburgs, Charles of Lorraine and Maximillian of Bavaria, Carafa was allowed to leave the Viennese court for the Hungarian marshes. His military exp

Authors:R. Bassani, B. Piccigallo,
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: series, tribology, lubrication, hydrostatic
Number of Pages: 558
Published: 1992-09-03
List price: $200.95
ISBN-10: 044488498X
ISBN-13: 9780444884985

Hydrostatic lubrication is characterized by the complete separation of the conjugated surfaces of a kinematic pair, by means of a film of fluid, which is pressurized by an external piece of equipment. Its distinguishing features are lack of wear, low friction, high load capacity, a high degree of stiffness and the ability to damp vibrations.This book reviews the study of externally pressurized lubrication, both from the theoretical and the technical point of view, thereby serving the needs of both researchers as well as students and technical designers. In this connection, design suggestions f

Authors:G. Franco Bassani, V. M. Agranovich,
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: nanostructures, volume, films, thin, based, excitations, organic, electronic
Number of Pages: 508
Published: 2003-12-20
List price: $205.00
ISBN-10: 0125330316
ISBN-13: 9780125330312

The first book devoted to a systematic consideration of electronic excitations and electronic energy transfer in organic crystalline multilayers and organics based nanostructures(quantum wells, quantum wires, quantum dots, microcavities). The ingenious combination of organic with inorganic materials in one and the same hybrid structure is shown to give qualitatively new opto-electronic phenomena, potentially important for applications in nonlinear optics, light emitting devices, photovoltaic cells, lasers and so on. The book will be useful not only for physicists but also for chemists and biol

Authors:G.f. Bassani, Societa Italiana Di Fisica,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: italian, german, papers, scientific, majorana, ettore
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-04-25
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 3540480919
ISBN-13: 9783540480914

With this volume the Italian Physical Society presents a collection of Ettore Majorana’s scientific papers (note scientifiche) in the original language and, for the first time - with three exceptions - translated into English. Each paper is then followed by a comment (in English) of an expert in the scientific field. Contributors to the comments are Ennio Arimondo, Nicola Cabibbo, Massimo Inguscio, Luciano Maiani, Rosario Nunzio Mantegna, Francesco Minardi, Luigi Radicati di Brozolo and Antonio Sasso. A century after his birth Ettore Majorana is rightfully considered one of the greatest

Author: Giorgio
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: terrorist, italian, memoirs
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-01-22
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0786711345
ISBN-13: 9780786711345

When government consultant Professor Marco Biagi was assassinated in Italy by the New Red Brigades in the aftermath of September 11, the country was transported back 30 years to the violent "Years of Lead." In the 1970s Neo-Fascists planted bombs, Marxist-Leninists kneecapped and assassinated, and ordinary Italians were afraid to go to their offices in the morning. There were over 500 killed by terrorists in those years, thousands wounded, burned, scarred; there are hundreds in jail or who have done time, and thousands still out there, like "Giorgio," having lived decades as clandestine soldie

Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: exception, state
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2005-01-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0226009254
ISBN-13: 9780226009254

Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or "state of exception," has historically been an underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies into totalitarian states.The sequel to Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereig