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The New Zen Garden - Designing quiet spaces | Joseph Cali usato Arte Architettura

The New Zen Garden - Designing quiet spaces | Joseph Cali usato Arte Architettura

IN THE TRADITION OF JAPANESE TOUCH FOR YOUR GARDEN, THE PERFECT BOOK FOR CONTEMPOLATING A ZEN-STYLE GARDEN FOR HOME OR TOWNHOUSE, YARD OR BALCONY. Japanese gardens are renowned for their serene and peaceful ambiance.The New Zen Gardenpresents the Japanese garden as it exists today, with all its traditional qualities joined to modern architecture and viewed from a modern perspective. This book takes the concept introduced in the best-sellingJapanese Touch for Your Gardenand, focusing on the more contemplative gardens that are drawing greater and greater attention, blends it with a more practical approach. Lavishly illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs and featuring the works of contemporary garden designers and landscape architects,The New Zen Gardenbegins with a brief introduction of the history of the Japanese garden and its spiritual roots. It then guides the reader through the basics of garden concepts, layout, and personal needs. With a focus on small- and medium-size home gardens, author Joseph Cali introduces a visually explicit process in which anyone can conceive their own home garden, whether for a single-family residence or the balcony of an apartment or townhouse. Cali also includes a handful "spotlight sections" that feature guidance from prominent Japanese garden designers, each of whom steers the reader step-by-step through a specific building technique, including the making of textured clay walls, traditional stone walkways, and stone settings. The New Zen Gardenprovides a wealth of information on designing a garden to harmonize with any home or private space. It is a provocative eye-opener both for the serious Japanese garden enthusiast and the weekend gardener.

EUR 20.00
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The Prehistory of Asia and Oceania - Colloquium XXXI: the evolution of nomadic herding civilisations in the Northern european steppes: the tools of

The Prehistory of Asia and Oceania - Colloquium XXXI: the evolution of nomadic herding civilisations in the Northern european steppes: the tools of

The Prehistory of Asia and Oceania - Colloquium XXXI: the evolution of nomadic herding civilisations in the Northern european steppes: the tools of archaeology and history compared.Colloquium XXXII: trade as a subsistence strategy. Post pleistocene adaptations in Arabia and early maritime trade in the Indian Ocean. Colloquium XXXIII: bioarchaeology of Mesolithic India: an integrated approach - Gennady Afans'ev, Serge Cleuziou, John R. Lukacs e Maurizio Tosi usato Storia Archeologia

EUR 23.00
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Buddlejas | David D. Stuart usato Manualistica Piante Animali

Buddlejas | David D. Stuart usato Manualistica Piante Animali

This authoritative book provides the first comprehensive coverage of the popular and varied genus Buddleja. Buddlejas are wonderful garden plants whose tolerance of drought, many soil conditions, and common pests ensures them a place in every garden. Highly attractive to butterflies, moths, and other insects, the flowers of buddlejas come in a huge range of shapes and colors. This book provides valuable clarification of the confusion over the naming of Buddleja species and hybrids, details the diversity of the genus, and introduces gardeners to the spectacular quality of the flowers. It is ideal for collectors and enthusiasts, as well as wildlife and natural-style gardeners.

EUR 20.00
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David Hockney alla Scala | Vittoria Crespi Morbio usato Storia Locale

David Hockney alla Scala | Vittoria Crespi Morbio usato Storia Locale

Le piscine, gli interni californiani, i paesaggi, i ritratti dell'artista inglese David Hockney (nato a Bradford nel 1937) hanno contribuito alla definizione della Pop art divenendo icone del mondo contemporaneo. Hockney è però anche uomo di teatro dotato di una visione fortemente scenografica: appassionato di lirica, ha firmato vari spettacoli per il Metropolitan di New York, il Covent Garden di Londra, il Festival di Glyndebourne. Al Teatro alla Scala di Milano ha portato due allestimenti: "Il flauto magico" (1791) di Mozart e "La carriera di un libertino" (1945) di Stravinskij.

EUR 15.00
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Arquitectoma - 30 años de arquitectura en México | Elena Poniatowska usato Arte Architettura

Arquitectoma - 30 años de arquitectura en México | Elena Poniatowska usato Arte Architettura

Desde 1983, el estudio de arquitectura Arquitectoma ha desarrollado varios de los complejos habitacionales y comerciales más exitosos de México. En este libro, que celebra sus más de treinta años de consolidado liderazgo en la rama de la construcción, la empresa comparte con el lector las historias detrás de sus inmuebles. Una publicación muy ilustrada con fotografías, infografías, reproducciones de maquetas y planos que permitirá conocer las técnicas, las texturas y los detalles que hicieron realidad algunos de los proyectos inmobiliarios de mayor calidad en México, entre las que se encuentra el reciente centro comercial Garden Santa Fe, uno de los más ambiciosos proyectos comercialesel pujante distrito financiero residencial de la capital mexicana.

EUR 25.00
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Witness Testimony Evidence - Argumentation, artificial intelligence, and law | Douglas Walton usato Filosofia Contemporanea

Witness Testimony Evidence - Argumentation, artificial intelligence, and law | Douglas Walton usato Filosofia Contemporanea

Recent work in artificial intelligence has increasingly turned to argumentation as a rich, interdisciplinary area of research that can provide new methods related to evidence and reasoning in the area of law. Douglas Walton provides an introduction to basic concepts, tools and methods in argumentation theory and artificial intelligence as applied to the analysis and evaluation of witness testimony. He shows how witness testimony is by its nature inherently fallible and sometimes subject to disastrous failures. At the same time such testimony can provide evidence that is not only necessary but inherently reasonable for logically guiding legal experts to accept or reject a claim. Walton shows how to overcome the traditional disdain for witness testimony as a type of evidence shown by logical positivists, and the views of trial sceptics who doubt that trial rules deal with witness testimony in a way that yields a rational decision-making process.

EUR 21.00
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Tel Aviv - Mythography of a City | Maoz Azaryahu usato Storia Biografie Diari e Memorie

Tel Aviv - Mythography of a City | Maoz Azaryahu usato Storia Biografie Diari e Memorie

Founded in 1909 as a "garden suburb" of the Mediterranean port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv soon became a model of Jewish self-rule and was celebrated as a jewel in the crown of Hebrew revival. Over time the city has transformed into a lively metropolis, renowned for its architecture and culture, openness and vitality. A young city, Tel Aviv continues to represent a fundamental idea that transcends the physical texture of the city and the everyday experiences of its residents. Combining historical research and cultural analysis, Maoz Azaryahu explores the different myths that have been part of the vernacular and perception of the city. He relates Tel Aviv's mythology to its physicality through buildings, streets, personal experiences, and municipal policies. With critical insight, he evaluates specific myths and their propagation in the spheres of both official and popular culture. Azaryahu explores three distinct stages in the history of the mythic Tel Aviv: "The First Hebrew City" assesses Tel Aviv as Zionist vision and seed of the actual city; "Non-Stop City" depicts trendy, global post-Zionist Tel Aviv; and "The White City" describes Tel Aviv's architectural landscape, created in the 1930s and imbued with nostalgia and local prestige. Tel Aviv: Mythography of a City will appeal to urban geographers, cultural historians, scholars of myth, and students of Israeli society and culture.

EUR 15.00
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Argovian Sun | Andreas Dobler usato Arte Contemporanea

Argovian Sun | Andreas Dobler usato Arte Contemporanea

During the course of his anything but linear career, characterized by recurring excursions into other cultural areas including music, film and theater, painting has remained the most constant element in Andreas Doblers activities. In his youth, he was strongly influenced by pop music, psychedelic culture and its ties to the neo-surrealism of the 60s and 70s, as well as science fiction and comic aesthetics. He continues today to mine both media-oriented and popular culture, his taste for fantasy art and culture, ordinary subjects, the phenomena of pop culture and the aesthetic fringes of art having proven an abundant source for his figurative painting. In the 80s Doblers pictures often depicted objects taken from daily life (chest expanders, ski poles, cotton swabs, chocolate, etc.) combined in strange ways and lent a monumental aspect. Later, in the 90s, he used travel brochures to produce paintings and drawings of exotic hotel complexes with their palm trees, swimming pools and fantastically designed apartment buildings--spaces in which various desires are projected, allowing one to escape the day-to-day world. More than sarcastic commentary or simple pop icons, Doblers works translate his penchant for narrative and his interest in music and mise en scene, which he uses moreover as tools in his pictorial work.

EUR 29.00
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Fibonacci's Liber Abaci - A Translation into Modern English of Leonardo Pisano's Book of Calculation | Laurence Sigler usato Scienze Matematica e

Fibonacci's Liber Abaci - A Translation into Modern English of Leonardo Pisano's Book of Calculation | Laurence Sigler usato Scienze Matematica e

First published in 1202, Fibonacci's Liber abaci was one of the most important books on mathematics in the Middle Ages, introducing Arabic numerals and methods throughout Europe. Its author, Leonardo Pisano, known today as Fibonacci, was a citizen of Pisa, an active maritime power, with trading outposts on the Barbary Coast and other points in the Muslim Empire. As a youth, Fibonacci was instructed in mathematics in one of these outposts; he continued his study of mathematics while traveling extensively on business and developed contacts with scientists throughout the Mediterranean world. A member of the academic court around the Emperor Frederick II, Leonardo saw clearly the advantages for both commerce and scholarship of the Hindu positional number system and the algebraic methods developed by al-Khwarizmi and other Muslim scientists. Though it is known as an introduction to the Hindu number system and the algorithms of arithmetic that children now learn in grade school, "Liber abaci" is much more: an encyclopaedia of thirteenth-century mathematics, both theoretical and practical. It develops the tools rigorously, establishing them with Euclidean geometric proofs, and then shows how to apply them to all kinds of situations in business and trade - conversion of measures and currency, allocations of profit, computation of interest, alloying of currencies, and so forth. It is rigorous mathematics, well applied, and vividly described. As the first translation into a modern language of the "Liber abaci", this book will be of interest not only to historians of science, but to all mathematicians and mathematics teachers interested in the origins of their methods.

EUR 60.00
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The Geometry of Four-Manifolds | Simon Kirwan Donaldson, S. K. Donaldson, P. B. Kronheimer usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

The Geometry of Four-Manifolds | Simon Kirwan Donaldson, S. K. Donaldson, P. B. Kronheimer usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

This book provides the first lucid and accessible account to the modern study of the geometry of four-manifolds. It has become required reading for postgraduates and research workers whose research touches on this topic. Pre-requisites are a firm grounding in differential topology, andgeometry as may be gained from the first year of a graduate course. The subject matter of this book is the most significant breakthrough in mathematics of the last fifty years, and Professor Donaldson won a Fields medal for his work in the area. The authors start from the standpoint that thefundamental group and intersection form of a four-manifold provides information about its homology and characteristic classes, but little of its differential topology. It turns out that the classification up to diffeomorphism of four-manifolds is very different from the classification of unimodularforms and that the study of this question leads naturally to the new Donaldson invariants of four-manifolds. A central theme of this book is that the appropriate geometrical tools for investigating these questions come from mathematical physics: the Yang-Mills theory and anti-self dual connectionsover four-manifolds. One of the many consquences of this theory is that 'exotic' smooth manifolds exist which are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to (4, and that large classes of forms cannot be realized as intersection forms whereas distinct manifolds may share the same form. These result havehad far-reaching consequences in algebraic geometry, topology, and mathematical physics, and will continue to be a mainspring of mathematical research for years to come.

EUR 95.00
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Secrets of Saffron - The vagabond life of the world's most seductive spice | Pat Willard usato Manualistica Piante Animali

Secrets of Saffron - The vagabond life of the world's most seductive spice | Pat Willard usato Manualistica Piante Animali

There are few words as evocative as saffron. Over thousands of years it has perfumed the halls of Crete's palaces, made Cleopatra more alluring, and driven crusaders and German peasants to their deaths. While spices that drove adventurers to the ends of the earth, such as cinnamon, mace, and ginger, have become commonplace, saffron remains tantalizingly exotic. Nothing more than the dried stamens of the autumn-flowering purple crocus, it might as well be fairy dust. Resistant to modern horticultural technology, the fragile blossoms must still be gathered by hand from the ancient fields of Iran, Greece, Italy, southern France, and Spain. Secrets of Saffron is the story of this extravagant rover. Guided with wit and assurance by acclaimed food writer Pat Willard, we roam the rich landscapes of history and personal memory. We dine in the heavenly gardens of Persia; bathe with Alexander the Great; are served golden swans at the medieval court of France. With Willard's help, we also discover the quiet comforts of saffron, from soups that have eased illness to pies that defy death, until we arrive at last in the present day at a small garden in Brooklyn. Told in sumptuous prose, complete with fabulous ancient and modern recipes—including a Moorish wedding feast, a luscious creme brulee, and a balm for an aching heart—Secrets of Saffron will awaken in you a voracious desire for the private pleasures of this most precious spice. "I am impressed by Pat Willard's singleminded devotion to one of my favorite subjects. I have been under saffron's spell for some time and it is an integral ingredient in my cooking. I love the romance of its noble and complicated history, as well as the painstaking process of cultivation." —Todd English, author of The Olives Dessert Table "Saffron, the haughtiest, most expensive, and most mysterious of spices, has found its rightful biographer in Pat Willard, who plumbs its historical, mythological, and psychological depths with illuminating insight and a richly evocative (and surprisingly personal) prose. For saffron lovers, this book is a necessary read; for those like myself who have previously equated that spice with such culinary esoterica as gold leaf flakes or wild fennel pollen, Secrets of Saffron is a revelation—and a highly enjoyable page-turner, as well." —John Thorne, author of Outlaw Cook and Pot on the Fire "An admiring account of an exotic spice with a long and varied history, by a food writer whose imagination keeps the story light and lively... a charming little gift for an inquisitive cook."—Kirkus Reviews

EUR 13.00
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