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  • Multidisciplinary Aspects of Design

    Objects, Processes, Experiences and Narratives

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book gathers the contributions from the Design! OPEN International Conference, held in Parma, Italy in May 2022. The conference explored the multidisciplinary aspects of design starting from its dimensions: objects (design as focused on the object, on its functional and symbolic dimension, and at the same time on the object as a tool for representing cultures), processes (the ... Read more

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  • Advances in Neural Data Science

    Data Research Camp 2022, Venice, Italy, July 12–15

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This proceeding volume will contain a collection of peer-reviewed articles arising from the Data Research Camp 2022. The workshop took place on July 12–15, 2022, at the Venice International University, in the venetian island of San Servolo. The Data Research Camp has been a stimulating experience bringing together 28 early-career researchers in statistics and seven international professors with ... Read more

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  • Demand the Impossible

    Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination

    Series Book 14 - Ralahine Utopian Studies
    Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970s. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R. Delany as indicative texts in the intertext of utopian science fiction, Tom Moylan originated the concept of the «critical utopia» as both a periodizing and conceptual tool for capturing the creative ... Read more

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  • From a Distance

    A Novel

    In April 1946 Michael returns from war and finds he cannot face the life that awaits him at home. Impulsively he leaps on a train to the western tip of Cornwall, and in doing so changes his destiny. He finds himself in a bohemian colony of artists gathered on the Cornish coast, and his fate is shaped by his heart, his new environment, and the fragmented Britain to which he has returned.More than ... Read more

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  • Italy–Portugal on the Margins: Intersections of Architecture, Urban Design, and Art

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume gathers different disciplinary, methodological and thematic perspectives on architecture understood as a cultural, critical and design practice. Through an articulated dialogue between history and contemporaneity, theory and practice, design and teaching, the essays collected here explore the role of architecture as an instrument for interpreting reality and as a device capable of ... Read more

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  • From a Distance

    One of Britain's favourite chroniclers of life and the rural dream returns with a compelling story of a family divided by war'Wonderful writer ... Incredible books' David Baldacci, New York Times***'***She writes beautifully ... Combining, with apparent ease, emotion and admirable precision' Independent on SundayBruised and brutalised by war, Michael returns to England on a troop ship, unable to ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Cultivation

    Recovering the Roots of Landscape Architecture

    By seeking to rediscover the profession's agricultural roots, this volume proposes a 21st-century shift in thinking about landscape architecture that is no longer driven by binary oppositions, such as urban and rural; past and present; aesthetics and ecology; beautiful and productive, but rather prioritizes a holistic and cross-disciplinary framing.The illustrated collection of essays written by ... Read more

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  • Think! Eat! Act!

    A Sea Shepherd Chef's Vegan Recipes

    Think! Eat! Act! is a cookbook featuring the vegan food prepared on the Sea Shepherd ships' anti-whaling campaigns. Inspired by the Sea Shepherd's goal of protecting the animals that are victims of human cruelty, author and onboard chef Raffaella Tolicetti uses delicious vegan food to show readers that every action has a consequence, and that you can live both well and compassionately, even while ... Read more

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  • Making Democracy Work

    Civic Traditions in Modern Italy

    Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for ... Read more

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  • Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection

    7th International Conference, EuroMed 2018, Nicosia, Cyprus, October 29–November 3, 2018, Proceedings, Part I

    Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This two-volume set LNCS 11196 and LNCS 11197 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Digital Heritage, EuroMed 2018, held in Nicosia, Cyprus, in October/November 2018.The 21 full papers, 47 project papers, and 29 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 537 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on 3D Digitalization, ... Read more

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  • Dark Horizons

    Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination

    First published in 2003. With essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Dark Horizons focuses on the development of critical dystopia in science fiction at the end of the twentieth century. In these narratives of places more terrible than even the reality produced by the neo-conservative backlash of the 1980s and the neoliberal hegemony of the 1990s, utopian horizons ... Read more

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  • Foreign Trends in American Gardens

    A History of Exchange, Adaptation, and Reception

    Foreign Trends in American Gardens addresses the influence of foreign, designed landscapes on the development of their American counterparts. Including essays from an array of significant scholars in landscape studies, this collection examines topics ranging from the importation of Western and Eastern styles of design and theoretical literature to the adaptation of specific plant types. As the ... Read more

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