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Saints: A Year in Faith and Art
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Every Catholic saint, local and liturgical, is honoured on a particular day of the year. In many cases, an order of precedence has been worked out to determine which saints are most important. In "Saints", Rosa Giorgi has chosen up to three saints for every day of the year, along with representations of those saints ranging from world-famous works ...
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Saints in Art
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Rosa Giorgi, Stefano Zuffi (Editor), Thomas Michael Hartmann (Translator)
Christian saints have been the objects of reverence and fascination throughout the past two millennia. Their likenesses, heroic acts, prayerful lives, and stories of martyrdom have been portrayed frequently in art of diverse media. Without familiarity with the saints and their images and symbols, viewers of art may find it challenging to identify, ...
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Simon & Schuster's Guide to Bonsai
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Gianfranco Giorgi, Simon & Schuster
Brimming with fascinating and practical details and illustrated with 150 beautiful color photographs, "Simon & Schuster's Guide to Bonsai" provides everything the plant enthusiast needs to know about this unique and intriguing art. An informative introduction gives such useful details as plant physiology, the history and philosophy of bonsai, ...
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European Art of the Seventeenth Century
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Rosa Giorgi, Rosanna M Giammanco Frongia, PH.D. (Translator)
The seventeenth century was an era of absolute monarchs, the Habsburgs of Spain and Louis XIV of France, whose patronage of the arts helped furnish their opulent palaces. But it was also the beginning of a new era of commercialism, in which artists increasingly catered to affluent collectors.The Baroque, with its roots in classicism but with a new ...
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Domus, Volume 2, 1940-1949
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Manolo De Giorgi, Luigi Spinelli, Charlotte Fiell (Editor)
1940-1949: Destruction and Reconstruction. This volume covers the 1940s, when fascism came to a climax and World War II led to the extensive destruction of Europe. But the second half of this decade was also a time of reconstruction, democratization, and the related search for new social values. Unlike in Nazi Germany, in fascist Italy Modernism ...
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The Syntax of Noun Phrases: Configuration, Parameters and Empty Categories
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Alessandra Giorgi, Giuseppe Longobardi
Alessandra Giorgi and Giuseppe Longobardi's important study of the argument structure of lexical projections, in particular of Noun Phrases, makes substantial advances in this relatively neglected area. Working within a Government and Binding framework, the authors present strong new arguments in favour of the existence of empty categories, and ...
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Tense and Aspect: From Semantics to Morphosyntax
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Alessandra Giorgi, Fabio Pianesi
When studying the two concepts of tense and aspect linguists have commonly kept apart their semantic and syntactic properties. The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, and suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters framework. They compare tense ...
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Operator Certification Study Guide
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John Giorgi, AWWA (American Water Works Association)
This is a revision of the popular study guide for water systems last published in 1993. This study resource is a practical tool for treatment plant operators and distribution system personnel as they prepare for the certification exam.
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Angels and Demons in Art
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Rosa Giorgi, Stefano Zuffi (Editor), Rosanna M Giammanco Frongia, PH.D. (Translator)
This sumptuously illustrated volume analyzes artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition and describes how these artistic portrayals evolved over time. As with other books in the "Guide to Imagery" series, the goal of this volume is to help contemporary art enthusiasts decode the symbolic ...
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Invexity and Optimization
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Shashi Kant Mishra, Giorgio Giorgi
"Invexity and Optimization" presents results on invex function and their properties in smooth and nonsmooth cases, pseudolinearity and eta-pseudolinearity. Results on optimality and duality for a nonlinear scalar programming problem are presented, second and higher order duality results are given for a nonlinear scalar programming problem, and ...
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Advances in Molecular Plant Nematology
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F Lamberti, C de Giorgi (Editor), David McK Bird (Editor)
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Caravaggio
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Rosa Giorgi, Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio
Enter the dark, compelling world of the 16th-century Italian artist Caravaggio and discover the drama and passion of his religious paintings and his masterful handling of color.The DK ArtBook series presents both the life and works of each artist within the cultural, social, and political context of their time. To make the books easy to consult, ...
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Phenomenology and Psychological Research
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Amedeo Giorgi
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European Transformations: Five Decisive Years at the Turn of the Century: An Innovation Reader, 1988-1992
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John Rex (Editor), Ronald Pohoryles (Editor), Liana Giorgi
Attempts to document and analyze the process of transformation in Europe in 1988-1992, including the end of the Cold War, the breakdown of Communism and the beginning of a new era for Europe and the world. Contributors from different countries confront a "crisis" of the social sciences.
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The Windows of the Church of Saint Justin Martyr
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Louis P Giorgi
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The History of the Church in Art
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Rosa Giorgi, Brian Phillips (Translator)
A fascinating look at the history of the Christian Church as portrayed throughout Western art. This richly illustrated volume argues that, because much of Western art depicts key events, leaders, and practices in the history of the Christian Church, knowledge of that history is critical to gaining a deeper appreciation of many of our great ...
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Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics
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Alessandro De Giorgi
The political economy of punishment suggests that the evolution of punitive systems should be connected to the transformations of capitalist economies: in this respect, each 'mode of production' knows its peculiar 'modes of punishment'. However, global processes of transformation have revolutionized industrial capitalism since the early 1970s, ...
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Mathematics of Optimization: Smooth and Nonsmooth Case
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Giorgio Giorgi, A Guerraggio, J Thierfelder
The book is intended for people (graduates, researchers, but also undergraduates with a good mathematical background) involved in the study of (static) optimization problems (in finite-dimensional spaces). It contains a lot of material, from basic tools of convex analysis to optimality conditions for smooth optimization problems, for non smooth ...
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Democracy in the European Union: Towards the Emergence of a Public Sphere
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Liana Giorgi (Editor), Ingmar Von Homeyer (Editor), Wayne Parsons (Editor)
An invaluable exploration of the concern that transfers of power to European Union institutions are producing a worrying new form of democratic deficit. While ongoing reforms of these institutions promise to render decision processes at European level more transparent and accountable, these expert authors examine whether there is a European public ...
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Ennio de Giorgi Selected Papers
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Ennio de Giorgi
The book contains a selection of 43 scientific papers of the great mathematician, Ennio De Giorgi. All papers are written in English and 17 of them appear also in their original Italian version. The editors provide also a short biography of Ennio De Giorgi and a detailed account of his scientific achievements, ranging from his seminal paper on the ...
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Velazquez
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Rosa Giorgi
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The Macdonald encyclopedia of bonsai
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Giorgi
Identifies and describes over 120 species of bonsai. The book also deals with all the aspects that are characteristic of ancient art, offering ideas and advice for all who want to practice the art of bonsai.
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Duquesne Studies in Phenomenological Psychology
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Amedeo Giorgi
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Transport Policy and Research: What Future?
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Liana Giorgi
What is the meaning of "sustainable mobility"? Is there a European common transport policy? To what extent is policy relevant for transport developments? What is the contribution of European transport research? These are some of the questions and themes addressed in this study of transport policy and research. It addresses the dynamics surrounding ...
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The Descriptive Phenomenological Method in Psychology: A Modified Husserlian Approach
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Amedeo Giorgi
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