Authors:Michelangelo Antonioni, Carlo di Carlo, Giorgio Tina
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: cinema, interviews, writings, vision, architecture
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0226021149
ISBN-13: 9780226021140

“A filmmaker is a man like any other; and yet his life is not the same. . . . This is, I think, a special way of being in contact with reality.” Or so says Michelangelo Antonioni, the legendary filmmaker behind the stark landscapes and social alienation of Blow-Up and L’Avventura, who here reveals his idiosyncratic relationship with reality in The Architecture of Vision. Through autobiographical sketches, theoretical essays, interviews, and conversations with such luminaries as Jean-Luc Godard and Alberto Moravia, this compelling volume explores the director’s unique brand of narrative

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:Tina Yu, Tina Yu, Lawrence Davis, Cem Baydar, Rajkumar
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: computational, intelligence, studies, practice, computation, evolutionary
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2008-02-13
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 3540757708
ISBN-13: 9783540757702

This book is loaded with examples in which computer scientists and engineers have used evolutionary computation - programs that mimic natural evolution - to solve real problems. They aren t abstract, mathematically intensive papers, but accounts of solving important problems, including tips from the authors on how to avoid common pitfalls, maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of the search process, and many other practical suggestions. Some of the authors have already won Humies - Human Competitive Results Awards - for the work described in this book. I highly recommend it as a highly con

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

Author: Giorgio Semenza
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: comprehensive, biochemistry, recollections, personal, success, volume, stories
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2007-11-22
List price: $205.00
ISBN-10: 0444522468
ISBN-13: 9780444522467

This book is the latest volume in the highly successful series Comprehensive Biochemistry. It provides a historical and autobiographical perspective of the developments in the field through the contributions of leading individuals who reflect on their careers and their impact on biochemistry. Volume 45 is essential reading for everyone from graduate student to professor, placing in context major advances not only in biochemical terms but in relation to historical and social developments. Readers will be delighted by the lively style and the insight into the lives and careers of leading scienti

Author: Giorgio S. Questa
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: market, foreign, exchange, securities, derivatives, money, fixed, analysis, global, financial, income
Number of Pages: 351
Published: 1999-07-15
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0471246530
ISBN-13: 9780471246534

Global fixed-income markets, both securities and their derivatives, have registered phenomenal growth over the past two decades, yet many instruments and strategies are often misunderstood and, as a result, mishandled for the purposes of effective risk management. This comprehensive new book explains and clarifies the essential building blocks underlying the pricing and risk analysis of fixed-income securities and derivatives-using mathematics lightly, to make things easier, not harder. The emphasis throughout is on how-to-do, on building operational knowledge from the ground up. There are mo