The Venice Experiment
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The Venice Experiment
Author | : Barry Frangipane,Ben Robbins |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0983614113 |
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Lured by Venice's colorful history, Frangipane was determined to experience its labyrinth of walkways, canals, and bridges as more than just a tourist. He and his wife began a year-long cultural immersion. From the exasperating bureaucracy to high tides endangering their ground-floor apartment, these expatriates get far more than they bargained for.
Venice in Environmental Peril
Author | : Dominic Standish |
Publsiher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780761856641 |
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Venice and its environment are perceived to be in peril due to rising sea levels, tourism, and modern development. Are these threats myths or reality? This book explores Venice's environmental risks based on interviews with Venetian environmental campaigners and draws on the mythology of the Venetian Republic. Campaigners' opinions about the mobile dams nearing completion to protect the city reveal that Venice now represents an environmentally-threatened retreat from modernity. This reputation has been established as sustainable development and climate change policies have risen to the top of political agendas in many cities and countries. The book investigates how environmentalism has been transformed from a theory underpinning counter-cultural movements to part of a dominant holistic culture in Western societies. Rather than constraining Venice in search of a mythical harmony with nature, this book offers a ten-point proposal to modernize the city while preserving its ancient heritage.
Cabinets of Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth Century Europe
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004252974 |
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Cabinets of Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Europe is an ambitious contribution to the growing interest in how science came to engage the attention of a public outside the academic and professional spheres and how collections of instruments played a formative role in this development. Collections of physical instruments for research and demonstration appeared throughout Europe in the eighteenth century and the coverage of the book is correspondingly broad. While collections in different cultural and geographical locations had much in common, there were significant local modifications. The essays in this book illustrate how science, sometimes thought to be monolithic and universal, can maintain core intellectual characteristics and practical techniques while adapting to particular sites and circumstances. Contributors include: Jim Bennett, Sofia Talas, Huib J. Zuidervaart, Hans Hooijmaijers, Ad Maas, Tiemen Cocquyt, Inga Elmqvist Söderlund, Paola Bertucci, Marta C. Lourenço, David Felismino, Ivano Dal Prete, Ewa Wyka, Martin Weiss, and Paolo Brenni.
The Annals of Electricity Magnetism and Chemistry and Guardian of Experimental Science
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : GENT:900000003923 |
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Venice Shall Rise Again
Author | : Giuseppe Gambolati,Pietro Teatini |
Publsiher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780124201484 |
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The city of Venice, Italy, has been subjected to periodic flooding, or acqua alta, for centuries. Venice Shall Rise Again presents a unique proposition to halt this flooding. Based on years of work and experiment, experts Gambolati and Teatini describe an innovative yet technologically simple, economically inexpensive, and environmentally friendly project to raise Venice by 25-30 cm over ten years by injecting seawater into 650-1000 m deep geological formations. This project would be conducted under conditions of absolute safety, stability and integrity conserving the unique artistic and architectural patrimony of this deeply beloved city. Beginning with a brief history of the Venetian Republic, Venice Shall Rise Again addresses the actions undertaken by Venice to protect the city and the lagoon from the sea and land attack for more than a millennium, including the MoSE project, a system of mobile barriers presently under construction. Detailed in its engineering details and ideas, but with enough background information and context to help the interested reader understand the concepts, this book will be of interest to all readers concerned about the fate of Venice. Provides a history of the technical measures taken by the Venetian Republic to preserve the lagoon and the city or Venice Details technical specifications of a new method to secure Venice against periodic flooding
Singular Optics
Author | : Gregory J. Gbur |
Publsiher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2016-11-17 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781466580787 |
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"This engagingly written text provides a useful pedagogical introduction to an extensive class of geometrical phenomena in the optics of polarization and phase, including simple explanations of much of the underlying mathematics." —Michael Berry, University of Bristol, UK "The author covers a vast number of topics in great detail, with a unifying mathematical treatment. It will be a useful reference for both beginners and experts...." —Enrique Galvez, Charles A. Dana Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Colgate University "a firm and comprehensive grounding both for those looking to acquaint themselves with the field and those of us that need reminding of the things we thought we knew, but hitherto did not understand: an essential point of reference." —Miles Padgett, Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy and Vice Principal (Research), University of Glasgow This book focuses on the various forms of wavefield singularities, including optical vortices and polarization singularities, as well as orbital angular momentum and associated applications. It highlights how an understanding of singular optics provides a completely different way to look at light. Whereas traditional optics focuses on the shape and structure of the non-zero portions of the wavefield, singular optics describes a wave’s properties from its null regions. The contents cover the three main areas of the field: the study of generic features of wavefields, determination of unusual properties of vortices and wavefields that contain singularities, and practical applications of vortices and other singularities.
Team Policing
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Team policing |
ISBN | : UOM:39015034728462 |
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Opera in Seventeenth Century Venice
Author | : Ellen Rosand |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2007-10-09 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780520254268 |
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"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi