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Per la prima volta sono riuniti e didatticamente rielaborati a fondo in un manuale e in un CD i testi di base della geometria della visione. L'opera raccoglie i testi originali di Euclide (l'Ottica), Menelao (La Sferica), Alberti (De Pictura), Piero della Francesca (De Prospectiva Pingendi), che hanno dato origine al disegno prospettico rinascimentale e alla moderna geometria proiettiva. L'opera offre la possibilità di unire intuizione e ragionamento, costruendo un'immagine chiara dello sviluppo della matematica legata alla visione, dalle origini classiche, al rinascimento, alla moderna geometria proiettiva. Numerose schede e animazioni interattive facilitano l'intuizione degli argomenti, che sono comunque trattati con il massimo rigore e chiarezza, in una esposizione didatticamente molto efficace.

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Centuries after the fall of the Anthropocene, the last vestiges of human civilization are housed in a massive domed city powered by renewable energy, known as The Green Zone. Inside lives teenager Tenn Gavrilo, a brilliant bio-engineer who could rebuild the planet. But there's one problem: her resentful brother Seren is eager to dismantle the precarious Utopia.From the minds of Zac Thompson (X-Men, Yondu) and debut writer Emily Horn with artist Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque (Letter 44, Avengers ) comes a gorgeous and green solar-punk world filled with strange biotechnology, harsh superstorms, and divisive ideologies--ideologies that will tear Tenn and Seren down to their roots as they fight for a better Earth.

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Memory responds to the acquisitions Deutsche Bank has made over the past decade, many of which are by artists from Africa and/or are of African descent. By focusing on personal narratives, alternative perspectives and lesser-known stories, the exhibition seeks to identify the unstable, exploit the slippages, and make clear that the struggle against balance of power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Artists: Yto Barrada, Sammy Baloji, Mohamed Camara, Samuel Fosso, Anawana Haloba, Lubaina Himid, Lebohang Kganye, Wangechi Mutu, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Zohra Opoku, Paulo Nazareth, Jo Ractliffe, Berni Searle, Mikhael Subotzky, Dineo Sehee Bopape, Kara Walker, Alberta Whittle, Joy Cheong Wong. Text in English and German.

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During his lifetime, Dürer found tremendous success as a printmaker and painter, taking commissions from prominent figures such as Frederick the Wise, for whom Dürer produced the masterpiece Adoration of the Magi, and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. While Dürer’s paintings and prints are highly lauded, his drawings and studies are equally important . Featured in this book are Dürer’s drawings from the Albertina Museum’s preeminent collection. The Albertina Museum houses the world’s most important collection of drawings by Dürer which include family portraits, studies of animals and plants, and studies of the human body. Influenced by his contacts to Italy and by his humanist friends he showed a strong interest in human proportions, anatomy, and perspective. This book showcases more than 100 of Dürer’s drawings including Hare, Self Portrait at the Age of 13, and Melencolia I, accompanied by paintings and prints. Featuring scholarly essays and beautifully reproduced works, this book shows the importance of Dürer’s drawings in his oeuvre and how he helped drawing become an appreciated medium in its own right.

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Traditionally, dietary fat has been associated with negative effects on human health by consumers due to its high energy density. However, today it is well known that the quality of the fat ingested is more important than its quantity, and that there are natural lipophilic compounds that are essential for the correct maintenance of human physiological functions. For this reason, the negative image associated with dietary fat consumption is not fully justified. Dietary fat is a hot research area that has attracted increasing attention in the last decades. An adequate intake of dietary fats adapted to our age and physical activity, as well as an increase in the intake of beneficial fatty compounds and controlling the intake of those types of fats that have negative effects on our health, can be powerful allies in preventing the development of chronic non-communicable diseases. Through this book, the Editors have compiled the most up to date and well-documented information on many aspects of the development and application of novel dietary patterns related to fatty compounds, with special emphasis on beneficial effects. They have considered fatty nutritional requirements at different stages of life, the international guidelines and the application of new -omics techniques, such as epigenetics, nutrigenomics, metabolomics and metagenomics, related to human health. This book will be of interest to researchers in food technology and biomedicine, as well as the food industry and food distribution areas.

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A History of the Desire for Christian Unity is a multi-volume reference work on the history of ecumenism. The ecumenical movement is understood as a twentieth-century movement of European origin with a global reach. This reference work is a reconstruction of the arc of time in which the Christian churches transitioned from a position of hostility to one of dialogue, and from separation to forms of communion. Scholars across the continents and disciplines explore a history of individuals and groups, generations and assemblies, documents and programs, theologies and practices, all firmly placed within the framework of a desire for unity. This first volume traces the long-term roots and reconstructs the historical, theological, and political junctures that marked the beginning of a distinctive movement that runs throughout the nineteenth and into the heart of the twentieth century.

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The popular Social Studies Connects series links history, geography, civics and economics to kids’ daily lives. Featuring stories with diverse characters who face situations young readers can relate to, these books support reading and social studies skills including researching, inferring, comparing, and communication. An activity to stimulate curiosity about the world is included in each book!Pete and Joey are best friends, until they run for class president—and discover that it takes more than speeches and posters and promises to win an election. (Social Studies Topic: Civictions/Elections)

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This ground-breaking Handbook examines the evolution of university autonomy and governance by tracking the changing relationship between higher education institutions and the state. Through unique historical analyses, contributors provide important insights into the position of students, academics, and universities in today’s society, mapping potential future directions of travel for the sector.Illustrating how governments have historically always tried to exert some degree of control over universities, this Handbook explores ways institutions have adapted to these changing pressures. Contributors review the diverse societal roles played by higher education institutions, including serving the Church, training public bureaucrats, building the nation- state, preserving national culture, promoting social mobility, and ensuring economic competitiveness. They focus in particular on recent developments in university governance, critically analysing the influence of neoliberal politics, academic capitalism, and the knowledge society on higher education.This Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of education economics, management, policy and administration, as well as sociologists and political scientists. It will also be essential reading for leaders and administrators at higher education institutions seeking to design and implement effective higher education policies.

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This timely book provides the first legal and policy analysis of the intellectual property (IP) aspects of a rapidly-growing category of regulatory measures affecting the presentation and advertising of certain health-related goods. The key goods examined are tobacco, alcohol, food, and pharmaceuticals. Chapters focusing on both distinct policy areas and specific country examples serve to unearth the inherent tension emerging between these new measures as well as other categories of public health measures and IP regimes. This book discusses how to balance the legitimate interests of governments to promote human health and the protection and enforcement of IP rights. It also further explores how to amend IP regimes with a view to encouraging companies to produce and market healthier products.Comprehensive and engaging, this book will provide innovative research angles to academics and students in the areas of both health and IP law. Its wealth of examples and analytic style will also prove insightful to legal professionals who advise on issues related to IP and public health as well as policy makers, governments and NGOs.Contributors include: A. Alemanno, J. Blum, E. BonadioI, I. Calboli, I. Carreno, M. Chon, M. Davison, M. Elsmore, M.T. Fujiye, E. Laurenza, A. Marsoof, A. Mitchell, V. Vadi

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We get to share in his personal discoveries through the humour and good fellowship of the road, full of entertaining misadventures. But there is never any doubt that there is an ultimate purpose to these journeys: a passionate need to bear witness to the truth about the past, after centuries of persecution by an alien ruling class. So through the dense clouds of historical tragedy, Wright exchavates hope that a revival of pride and dignity in Andean culture is possible.

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Make teaching and learning engaging with this new edition of the immensely popular Caribbean Primary Social Studies four book series, updated and revised to cover recent syllabus changes and the introduction of Curriculum Standards.- Engage students with new and updated content reflecting social, economic and environmental issues and developments in the 21st century.- Encourage students to think more and express their ideas individually or as part of a group with thought provoking oral topics.- Build social studies skills and encourage teamwork with a range of stimulating activities.- Provide a clear overview of objectives with 'What will you learn?' at the beginning of each unit and summary 'Points to remember' at the end.

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An estimated 80 million people live with a neurodegenerative disease. That number is expected to increase rapidly as populations age, lifespans increase, and exposure to toxins rises. Despite decades of research and billions in funding, there are no medications that can slow, much less stop, the progress of these diseases. This is because diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's do not exist in biology. Yet, hundreds of clinical trials around the world are examining the potential of single therapies in thousands of people sharing one of these labels. Compounding the problem, these therapies were developed on evidence from models that do not come close to capturing the complexity of these diseases in the affected humans. These practices must end. Brain Fables is a call to refocus on understanding living and aging to create the personalized treatments each affected individual desperately needs.

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The recent recession has brought fiscal policy back to the forefront, with economists and policy makers struggling to reach a consensus on issues like tax rates and government spending. At the heart of the debate are fiscal multipliers, whose size and sensitivity determine the power of such policies to influence economic growth. "Fiscal Policy after the Financial Crisis" focuses on the effects of fiscal stimuli and increased government spending, with contributions that consider the measurement of the multiplier effect and its size. Further contributions discuss the merits of alternate means of debt reduction through decreased government spending or increased taxes. A final section examines how the short-term political forces driving fiscal policy might be balanced with aspects of the long-term planning governing monetary policy.

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Gunther Wizemann, born 1953 in Graz (Austria), came to Switzerland as a child in 1960. He graduated from Zurich's School of Design and has since been working as a painter and concept artist. Studying the Russian modernists raised the question of what he could possibly paint in the aftermath of Kazimir Malevich and Aleksander Rodchenko. Equally, Mario Merz's installation Che fare? or, as Barnett Newman put it, What to paint? were statements that became programmatic for Wizemann's work. The 43 paintings of The Black Garden Wizemann has created between 2003 and 2013 are a possible response to his queries. Done in oil and resin on canvas, they are the result of lengthy artistic processes and a multitude of layers of paint, forming an inner and outer image space. Featured in its entirety for the first time in this new book, the paintings are published alongside essays placing Wizemann's largest series to date in art history. The accompanying texts reveal formal and conceptual relations, ranging from the Renaissance to his contemporaries. Starting from the title The Black Garden they also look at literary and philosophical connotations.

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These books aim to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language, rooted in theory but providing highly detailed descriptions, and intended to be of use to researchers, as well as advanced students of language and linguistics. As research in language leads to extensive changes in our understanding and representations of grammar, the Comprehensive Grammar Resources series intends to present the most current understanding of grammar and syntax as completely as possible in a way that will both speak to modern linguists and serve as a resource for the non-specialist.

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Follow ten little elves as they dress up, explore and more in this fun preschool counting book based on the classic nursery rhyme This Little Piggy – the perfect Christmas gift for little ones!This little elf wraps presentsAnd this little elf has one for you!It's Christmas time! Ten excited children become Santa's cute and colourful elves and frolic together through a festive winter wonderland! Follow along with the little elves as they make magical treats in their workshop, waltz with enchanted snowmen, and go for a ride on Santa's sleigh . . . before skipping all the way home!With ten children to find and count as you turn the pages, lots to spot along the way, and a special surprise fold-out ending, this picture book is specially developed for imaginative little preschool elves everywhere. There is a bonus section at the end with reading tips for parents and carers, giving ideas for discussion and extra things for children to spot.This Little Elf is a joyous read-aloud preschool adventure – come and join in the fun! And for roarsome dinosaur fans, mischievous monsters and whimsical unicorns, look out for This Little Dinosaur, This Little Monster and This Little Unicorn too!

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Logics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badiou's masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being with a daring and complex theory of the worlds in which truths and subjects make their mark - what he calls a materialist dialectic. Drawing on his most ambitious philosophical predecessors - Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Deleuze – Badiou ends this important later work with an impassioned call to 'live for an Idea'.

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“One part Scheherazade, two parts Boccaccio, a twist of Bolaño, and a dash of bitters. Blue Label is intoxicating, hilarious, and the best novel on the calamity that is today’s Venezuela.”—Carmen Boullosa "This deftly and idiomatically translated novel . . . a quest of sorts, as a high school student in Chávez's Venezuela tries to make sense of love and life . . . packs a punch on many levels: personal, political, and even mythic." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Eugenia Blanc, a young Caraqueñan and quintessential teenager at war with the world around her, has one aim: after graduating from high school, to abandon Venezuela definitively. She embarks on a spontaneous road trip in a banged-up Fiat with her rebellious classmate Luis Tévez, in search of her grandfather, the one person who can provide her with the documents that would allow her to leave the country. While Eugenia and Luis’s tentative, troubled romance unfolds during the Chávez era, the story also looks back at Venezuela’s “lost decade” of the 1990s, a time of intractable violence, inequality, corruption, and instability that led to Chávez’s election. With an unvarnished fluidity that brings to mind Jack Kerouac and a crazy-ass playlist that ranges from REM to Bob Dylan to El Canto del Loco to Shakira, Blue Label is an audacious, dark novel with a gut-punch of an ending; the prize-winning first book by a writer who has cemented his reputation as a major young Latin American voice.

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Taxation and the Green Growth Challenge addresses the pressing issue of how economic growth can be compatible with the fight against climate change, while protecting the environment as much as possible. The book shows how decision-makers must account for the legal value of the environment as being of benefit to future generations.With a broad approach, and a combination of legal and economic points of view, chapters discuss which tax instruments enable us to combine economic growth and environmental protection in a balanced way. This discerning book identifies the tax instruments that permit a comprehensive arrangement of underlying economic and political interests, with a view to pursuing the UN’s and EU’s ambitious environmental goals. The impressive selection of contributors also reflect on global initiatives and legislation as well as exploring new environmental strategies.This book will be of great interest to researchers and scholars who wish to analyse in-depth environmental and natural resource taxation issues, including energy taxation and carbon pricing, as well as the circular economy and green taxes in the context of wider tax reforms. It will also appeal to industry advisors, policymakers and government officials.

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Ictionimia andaluza es el resultado final de dos proyectos de investigación del Plan Nacional de I+D+i, desarrollados desde 2006 hasta 2013. A partir de los materiales léxicos recopilados en 133 encuestas a fuentes directas del sector pesquero profesional andaluz (216 informantes cualificados), realizadas en 35 puertos pesqueros de Huelva, Cádiz, Málaga, Granada y Almería, sobre 358 especies atlánticas y mediterráneas de peces, moluscos, crustáceos, equinodermos y cnidarios, la mayoría de interés comercial, capturadas por las flotas pesqueras. La obra está estructurada en dos capítulos principales. El capítulo 1 analiza las fuentes escritas del patrimonio ictionímico andaluz histórico existente en 75 documentos bibliográficos producidos desde el año 1238 hasta la actualidad. El capítulo 2 recoge los resultados de la recopilación de ictiónimos en el trabajo de campo mediante las encuestas léxicas a los informantes, así como el análisis lingüístico de los materiales obtenidos. Tras una p

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La correcta utilización de una de las nuevas tecnologías de comunicación más utilizadas, Internet, ha dado como resultado la publicación conjunta de esta obra, haciendo posible que docentes de dos países tan alejados como México y España hayan estado en continuo contacto intercambiando materiales curriculares y recursos didácticos relacionados con la Educación Física y el Juego. En el presente texto, los autores exponen una síntesis de los juegos de calle más populares de cada uno de sus países de origen, sustentando su trabajo en unos cimientos teóricos que tienen como objetivos principales los siguientes: 1.Reivindicar la utilización del juego como herramienta idónea en la educación integral de los alumnos, ya sea bajo la supervisión de un adulto como en situaciones surgidas entre iguales. 2. Fomentar el intercambio de ideas y experiencias entre docentes especialistas de Educación Física como medio de formación permanente, repercutiendo de forma positiva en nuestra actuación como edu

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El presente libro analiza la construcción del principio de legalidad desde la creencia normativa en sus antecedentes remotos, su confi guración mediante la vigencia de la Carta Magna, la modernidad con la revolución francesa y el liberalismo ilustrado, hechos que posteriormente dan origen al derecho penal. Este proceso en el siglo XIX permite una garantía de legalidad para el ciudadano bajo límites de libertad para actuar y de abstenerse de vulnerar la ley. Esta noción de legalidad puede entenderse como el primer precedente tendiente a desarrollar un sistema dogmático que en sí mismo, pretende erigirse como garantía de seguridad para el ciudadano en contra de la arbitrariedad. En esta etapa se identifi ca legalidad con legitimidad. Lo anterior permitió un desarrollo de escuelas dogmáticas que fi jaron parámetros de las garantías actuales, las cuales se identifi can en el siglo XX, como mecanismos de protección del ciudadano, más allá de la simple legalidad para confi gurar la legitimid

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Desde la segunda mitad del s.XX y especialmente en los últimos diez años la preocupación por la llamada ?ética animal? ha aumentado con creces tanto en el ámbito académico como en el social. Este libro pretende ofrecer una revisión lo más completa y exhaustiva posible al estado de la cuestión, siendo el primero de su tipo en lengua castellana. Para ello se abordan los cuestionamientos éticos y filosóficos que han aparecido desde que entonces, como determinar la capacidad cognitiva de los animales, su grado de sofisticación emocional, los problemas que surgen con la interacción de los humanos en su vida y medio ambiente y la posibilidad o necesidad de crear sistemas de derecho que los integren y los protejan. Todo ello revisando las principales teorías de la ética y su aplicación práctica a todas estas cuestiones.

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Los verdaderos protagonistas de este libro son otros libros, los primeros que viajaron a las Indias para quedarse y reproducirse. Se analizan los registros con libros de las flotas y galeones de 1583, 1584 y 1605, y se estudia el paso de los libros de caballería al Nuevo Continente.

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Mientras los grandes exploradores llegaban con asombrosas y extravagantes historias del Nuevo Mundo, los estudiosos batallaban con el problema de representar los territorios descubiertos en una simple hoja de papel. Estaba en juego la vida de miles de navegantes y las riquezas de las naciones. Hubo que esperar hasta el siglo XVI, época de gran agitación intelectual, para que un hombre encontrara la solución: la proyección Mercator, que sigue siendo en nuestros días la manera como se representa el mundo. En esta apasionante biografía, Andrew Taylor relata cómo Gerard Mercator se convirtió en uno de los pensadores más destacados de esta turbulenta época. Fue encarcelado por la Inquisición y amenazado de muerte y torturas. Sin embargo su trabajo fue reconocido por emperadores, príncipes y eruditos. Este libro es una cautivadora aproximación a la cartografía, una fascinante conjunción entre ciencia y arte, así como la vida de un hombre valiente que dio forma a nuestro mundo, sin haber emba

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Nadie con una mínima capacidad de asombro puede sustraerse a la admiración que causa la enorme variedad de formas, colores, tamaños y comportamientos de los animales marinos. Y es que el mar y los seres que lo habitan, sorprendentemente distintos de los terrestres, constituyen un mundo fascinante a la vez que, para la mayoría de las personas, desconocido y aun misterioso. De hecho, son pocas las que son capaces de reconocer especies que no sean las que están habituadas a ver (y que aprecian por razones gastronómicas), pues el conocimiento en profundidad de esta materia generalmente está restringido a dos grupos de expertos: por una parte, los biólogos, y, por otra, los profesionales que capturan y comercializan los productos que les ofrece el mar, principalmente los pescadores. En ambos colectivos desempeña un papel central la terminología que permite identificar, diferenciar y clasificar las especies, la terminología que hace posible la comunicación entre los miembros que integran la

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