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Leonardo Da Vinci (His Art & Mind)

"Illustrated with Eight Reproductions in Colour"

by Maurice W. Brockwell
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

Leonardo Da Vinci, the many-sided genius of the Italian Renaissance, was born, as his name implies, at the little town of Vinci, which is about six miles from Empoli and twenty miles west of Florence. Vinci is still very inaccessible, and the only means of conveyance is the cart of a general carrier...
Cover of I Dream Of The Day - Letters From Caleb Milne - Africa, 1942-1943 [Illustrated Edition]
by Caleb Milne
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Includes the War in North Africa Illustration Pack - 112 photos/illustrations and 21 maps. These are the letters Caleb Milne wrote to his mother while in the American Field Service. In May of 1943, he, with a small group of American Field Service men, responded to a call for volunteers to help the...
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The Marshall Story

A Biography of General George C. Marshall

by Robert Payne
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017

Originally published in 1951, this is the story of the life and mind of George C. Marshall, soldier and statesman, as told by a distinguished writer whose own background makes him particularly qualified to discuss some of the more controversial aspects of General Marshall’s work since World War...
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by David McKee
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017

There once was a large country that was ruled by a General. The General would take his army and attack all the countries around him until they were conquered. Eventually, there was only one small country left to conquer. However, this one did not resist but welcomed the soldiers - leading to a quite unexpected result!
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The Lost (and Found) Balloon

with audio recording

by Celeste Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013

Where do balloons go when you let them loose? Find out in this whimsical, imaginative tale, winner of the General Mills Spoonful of Stories contest. Molly O’Doon ties a note to her red balloon, lets it loose, and off it goes on a buoyant adventure. Who will answer Molly’s letter? Someone...
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Come i Griffin

Genealogia dell'amorale

by Andrea Pagani, Tatiana Carelli, Massimo Giacon
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 17, 2013

Ecco l’epopea della famiglia Griffin. Perché occuparsi proprio di loro, dopo il simpsonismo? I Simpson hanno fatto innamorare intere generazioni come l’antifamiglia trasgressiva e simpatica. I Griffin sono oltre. Abusando dei confini della adult animation, I Griffin sono la famiglia che non si...
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Elevated Rock Art

Towards a maritime understanding of Bronze Age rock art in northern Bohuslän, Sweden

by Johan Ling
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014

How may Bohuslän rock art and landscape be perceived and understood? Since the Bronze Age, the landscape has been transformed by shore displacement but, largely due to misunderstanding and certain ideas about the character of Bronze Age society, rock art research in Tanum has drawn much of its inspiration...
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Emerging Pervasive Information and Communication Technologies (PICT)

Ethical Challenges, Opportunities and Safeguards

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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013

This book provides a wide and deep perspective on the ethical issues raised by pervasive information and communication technology (PICT) – small, powerful, and often inexpensive Internet-connected computing devices and systems. It describes complex and unfamiliar technologies and their implications,...
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Designing with the Body

Somaesthetic Interaction Design

by Kristina Höök
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018

Interaction design that entails a qualitative shift from a symbolic, language-oriented stance to an experiential stance that encompasses the entire design and use cycle. With the rise of ubiquitous technology, data-driven design, and the Internet of Things, our interactions and interfaces with...
Cover of Investigación en artes. Una caracterización general a partir del análisis de creaciones de Eugenio Barba y el Odin Teatret
by Pedro Morales, Adyel Quintero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2012

En la obra del teatrista Eugenio Barba, las relaciones usualmente indefinidas entre arte y ciencia han alcanzado una dimensión altamente valiosa, máxime si se tiene en cuenta que, a partir de sus investigaciones sobre el arte del actor y la dramaturgia de la puesta en escena, emergió una disciplina...
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by Victor Brumberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017

Essential Relativistic Celestial Mechanics presents a systematic exposition of the essential questions of relativistic celestial mechanics and their relation to relativistic astrometry. The book focuses on the comparison of calculated and measurable quantities that is of paramount importance in using...
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Computer Games

Fourth Workshop on Computer Games, CGW 2015, and the Fourth Workshop on General Intelligence in Game-Playing Agents, GIGA 2015, Held in Conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth Computer Games Workshop, CGW 2015, and the Fourth Workshop on General Intelligence in Game-Playing Agents, GIGA 2015, held in conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina,...
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Inertia and Gravitation

The Fundamental Nature and Structure of Space-Time

by Herbert Pfister, Markus King
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015

This book focuses on the phenomena of inertia and gravitation, one objective being to shed some new light on the basic laws of gravitational interaction and the fundamental nature and structures of spacetime. Chapter 1 is devoted to an extensive, partly new analysis of the law of inertia. The underlying...
Cover of Theory of Linear Operations
by S. Banach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1987

This classic work by the late Stefan Banach has been translated into English so as to reach a yet wider audience. It contains the basics of the algebra of operators, concentrating on the study of linear operators, which corresponds to that of the linear forms a1x1 + a2x2 + ... + anxn of algebra. The...
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