Author: Paola Gregory
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Keywords: complexity, territories, newscapes
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 3764367369
ISBN-13: 9783764367367

Since the famous competition for the Park La Villette in Paris where the participants included Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman and Gilles Deleuze, the relationship between building and landscape has been dramatically transformed. Concepts such as metamorphosis and interaction, layers and fields are becoming as much a part of architectonic discourse as the practical designs and the realization. Author Paola Gregory examines this interplay between buildings and landscapes present in today’s architecture scene, illustrating her analysis with exciting examples including the ecological la

Authors:Paola Spinozzi, Paola Spinozzi, Alessandro Zironi,
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Keywords: humanities, science, literature, interfacing, origins, sciences, paradigm
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2010-04-22
List price: $64.00
ISBN-10: 3899717597
ISBN-13: 9783899717594

In this volume, the assumption that origins can be defined as a hermeneutic paradigm in the humanities and in the sciences is explored in relation to specific theoretical frameworks and research methodologies. By investigating how origins have been conceptualised in different domains of knowledge - biology, primatology, psychology, linguistics, history of science, critical theory, classical studies, philology, literary criticism, strategy and accounting - a double movement has been generated: towards the very core of each discipline and beyond disciplinary boundaries. Which are the most produc

Author: Paola Monachesi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, studies, theoretical, linguistics, interfaces, grammatical, complex, romance, case, study, verbal
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-08-11
List price: $204.00
ISBN-10: 0199274754
ISBN-13: 9780199274758

This book explores the interface between syntax and the other components of the grammar, in particular phonology, morphology, and argument structure. The author proceeds through a consideration of case studies, such as clitics and complex predicates (auxiliary and modal verbs) in Romance, grounding theoretical analysis in constant exemplification. She shows that a careful analysis of their properties can lead to a better understanding of the interaction of the various components of the grammar. The syntactic properties of clitics are considered in relation to their phonological and morphologic

Author: Paola Loreto
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: hound, cross, cultures, tiepolo, walcott, poet, quest, derek, crowning
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2009-08-13
List price: $68.00
ISBN-10: 9042026383
ISBN-13: 9789042026384

This first extended study of Derek Walcott’s Tiepolo’s Hound (2000) defines the book as the culmination of the poetry and poetic of the Caribbean writer and Nobel Prize winner. In this long poem, Walcott achieves three goals pursued throughout his career: to develop an original Caribbean aesthetic; to meld the modes of poetry and prose; and to formulate the Bildung of the island-artist in terms of an ’autobiographical’ narrative. The analysis provides an aesthetic and cultural evaluation of the poem, in terms both of the Western poetic tradition to which it refers throu

Author: Suzanne Paola
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pre
Keywords: poetry, prize, brittingham, bardo
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1998-09-24
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0299160149
ISBN-13: 9780299160142

Suzanne Paola fuses the Tibetan bardo journey with Western epic tradition in ways that are both comic and harrowing. Bardo is the intermediate state after death when the soul wanders through the heavens and the hells while trying to avoid rebirth into samsara-the realm of the material-and to instead reach nirvana. Paola presents a series of this life’s bardo experiences: drug use, the refused birth of infertility, the social implications of the female body, even a trip to the fantastic "afterworld" of pop culture. Bardo’s journey travels to a place where "to be human is to be part

Author: Paola S. Timiras
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Keywords: third, geriatrics, aging, basis, physiological
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2002-09-25
List price: $169.95
ISBN-10: 0849309484
ISBN-13: 9780849309489

Extensively revised and updated to reflect the current state of knowledge in the study of aging, the third edition of the bestselling Physiological Basis of Aging and Geriatrics provides an even more complete profile of the aging of individuals and populations. It includes aspects of demographic, comparative, and differential aging together with a discussion of the several theories of aging. It shows how body functions change with aging, describes how both genetic and environmental factors influence aging-related changes, and addresses some of the clinical consequences of these changes for hea

Author: Paola Jacobbi
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: shoes
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-09-04
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0743277740
ISBN-13: 9780743277747

"Shoes possess magical properties," writes Italian journalist and shoe fanatic Paola Jacobbi. The allure of shoes is so powerful that they have become her fashion obsession, one she shares with millions of women, from Imelda Marcos to Sarah Jessica Parker to Joan Crawford. Here Jacobbi indulges that obsession by embarking on a witty and highly opinionated journey through the styles and cultural significance of women’s footwear and our attachment to it. Jacobbi pontificates (sandals are the bikini of footwear); psychoanalyzes (the relationship between shoes and sex); has fiery beliefs (an