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  • Geometries of Experience

    Thinking with Remo Bodei

    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
    The first volume of essays in English on one of the most renowned contemporary Italian Philosophers.Remo Bodei (1938–2019) was one of Italy's most influential philosophers of the past half-century. His intellectual influence was wide-reaching as he guided the search for rational explanations of seemingly irrational phenomena and the philosophical underpinnings of poetry. Diverse both in their ... Read more

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  • Radiopharmaceutical Therapy

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book covers foundational topics in the emerging field of radiopharmaceutical therapy. It is divided into three sections: fundamentals, deeper dives, and special topics. In the first section, the authors examine the field from a bird’s-eye view, covering topics including the history of radiopharmaceutical therapy, the radiobiology of radiopharmaceutical therapy, and the radiopharmaceutical ... Read more

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  • Programming Languages with Applications to Biology and Security

    Essays Dedicated to Pierpaolo Degano on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Pierpaolo Degano on the occasion of his 65th birthday and is the outcome of a colloquium held in Pisa, Italy, in June 2015. Pierpaolo Degano has worked on a large variety of topics including formal program semantics, concurrency theory, systems biology and security.The volume contains 22 refereed papers and one extended abstract, including personal ... Read more

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  • The Life of Things, the Love of Things

    by Remo Bodei ...
    Translated by Murtha Baca ...
    Series series Commonalities
    From prehistoric stone tools, to machines, to computers, things have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changing with the times, places, and methods of their production, emerging from diverse histories, and enveloped in multiple layers of meaning, things embody ideas, emotions, and symbols of which we are often unaware.The meaning of “thing” is richer than that of “object,” which is ... Read more

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  • Geometry of the Passions

    Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy and Political Use

    by Remo Bodei ...
    Translated by Gianpiero W. Doebler ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The passions have long been condemned as a creator of disturbance and purveyor of the temporary loss of reason, but as Remo Bodei argues in Geometry of the Passions, we must abandon the perception that order and disorder are in a constant state of collision.By means of a theoretical and historical analysis, Bodei interprets the relationship between passion and reason as a conflict between two ... Read more

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    by Jhumpa Lahiri ...
    Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid’s myth of ... Read more

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  • Pharmacology

    Principles and Practice

    Pharmacology meets the rapidly emerging needs of programs training pharmacologic scientists seeking careers in basic research and drug discovery rather than such applied fields as pharmacy and medicine. While the market is crowded with many clinical and therapeutic pharmacology textbooks, the field of pharmacology is booming with the prospects of discovering new drugs, and virtually no extant ... Read more

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  • Creation and Anarchy

    The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism

    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the first principle that governs and decrees. This is as true for theology, where God not only creates the world but governs and continues to ... Read more

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  • Antibody-Mediated Drug Delivery Systems

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    This book covers various aspects of antibody mediated drug delivery systems – theoretical aspects, processing, viral and non-viral vectors, and fields where these systems find and /or are being evaluated for applications as therapeutics and diagnostic treatment. Chapters discuss actual applications of techniques used for formulation and characterization. Applications areas include cancer, ... Read more

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  • Sprezzatura

    Concealing the Effort of Art from Aristotle to Duchamp

    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    The essence of art is to conceal art. A dancer or musician does not only need to perform with ability. There should also be a lack of visible effort that gives an impression of naturalness. To disguise technique and feign ease is to heighten beauty. To express this notion, Italian has a word with no exact equivalent in other languages, sprezzatura: a kind of unaffectedness or nonchalance.In this ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Radiobiology Textbook

    Edited by Sarah Baatout ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This open access textbook focuses on the various aspects of radiobiology. The goal of radiobiological research is to better understand the effects of radiation exposure at the cellular and molecular levels in order to determine the impact on health. This book offers a unique perspective, by covering not only radiation biology but also radiation physics, radiation oncology, radiotherapy, ... Read more

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  • Arduous Tasks

    Primo Levi, Translation and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony

    by Lina N Insana ...
    One of twentieth-century Italy's greatest thinkers, Primo Levi (1919-1987) started reflecting on the Holocaust almost immediately after his return home from the year he survived in Auschwitz. Levi's powerful Holocaust testimonials reveal his preoccupation with processes of translation, in the form of both embedded and book-length renderings of texts relevant to Holocaust survival. In Arduous Tasks ... Read more

    $74.19 USD