Claudio: 902 books

This book provides beginners in computer graphics and related fields a guide to the concepts, models, and technologies for realistic rendering of material appearance. It provides a complete and thorough overview of reflectance models and acquisition setups, along with providing a selection of the...

Compares the enneagram of personality types with other psychological character typing systems and discusses of the origins of each type.

This well illustrated book presents a compact history of the Solar System from its dusty origins 4,600,000 years ago to the present day. Its primary aim is to show how the planets and their satellites, comets, meteors, interplanetary dust, solar radiation and cosmic rays continually interact, sometimes...

Egeria la pellegrina, Baudonivia la biografa, Dhuoda la madre, Rosvita la poetessa, Trotula il medico, Eloisa l'intellettuale, Ildegarda la profetessa, Caterina la mistica: otto ritratti biografici e letterari tanto più avvincenti in quanto rappresentativi ciascuno di un diverso itinerario umano...

Racconto della serie "11 Piccole ombre" C’è un mondo intorno a noi, impalpabile, il più delle volte invisibile, che ci avvolge e ci avviluppa in una sorta di eterea nebbia. Ne abbiamo coscienza solo in rare occasioni o in posti particolari, ma sappiamo che esiste, anche se non...

Programma di Trovare Lavoro in Azienda Metodi e Suggerimenti per la Ricerca del Lavoro in Azienda COME PUOI RIUSCIRE A MIGLIORARE TE STESSO Come analizzare le tue capacità e quelle dei tuoi colleghi in ambito lavorativo. Come confrontarti in maniera costruttiva con i tuoi colleghi di lavoro. Come...

This study explores the formation of the European Union's tax policy and asks why member states did not raise objections to it. The author's analysis is enriched by two further levels of inquiry. Firstly, he examines the 'Europeanization' of domestic tax policy in Italy and the UK, asking how domestic...

The sixteen chapters of Josiah Royce for the Twenty-first Century are papers from the Fourth Annual Conference on American and European Values / International Conference on Josiah Royce, held at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Opole, Poland in June 2008. The presentation of diverse perspectives,...

This book provides a rather self-contained survey of the construction of Hadamard states for scalar field theories in a large class of notable spacetimes, possessing a (conformal) light-like boundary. The first two sections focus on explaining a few introductory aspects of this topic and on providing...

Morocco has long been a mythic land firmly rooted in the European imagination. For more than a century it has been appropriated by writers, artists and explorers such as Pierre Loti, Edith Wharton, Eugene Delacroix, Paul Bowles and Elias Canetti. In Moroccan Dreams, the authors explore the ways in...

How do we persuade people that we all have common experiences and hopes? That we are ever more dependent on each other in times of globalization via technology, commerce, climate change, and overpopulation? How do we move from an "Us and Them" mentality to simply "Us"? In this book, a follow-up...

Early this century Enrico, a young intellectual, leaves the city of Gorizia with its abundant population and culture, to spend several years living on the Patagonian pampas, alone with his ancient Greek texts, his flocks and, every now and then, a woman. He has been taught by his closest friend, Carlo,...

"La carta di Prosdocimo (Ventisei giorni al bar)" è il rifacimento di un precedente libro dell’autore, dal titolo "Diario di un barista accidentale". Il romanzo inizia con ironia e con una bella invenzione, il diario del barista che dallo spazzino Prosdocimo finisce alla moglie,...

Scrivere un libro rappresenta un’esperienza che mette alla prova le capacità di districarsi efficacemente tra il labirinto di giudizi e logiche del mondo, soprattutto quando la tematica richiede punti d’appoggio per una definizione differenziale. Tuttavia, la presente pubblicazione – in cui...