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Pandemics and Bioterrorism - Transdisciplinary Information Sharing for Decision-Making against Biological Threats | Andrey Trufanov, Alessandra

Pandemics and Bioterrorism - Transdisciplinary Information Sharing for Decision-Making against Biological Threats | Andrey Trufanov, Alessandra

"This book is a collection of papers presented at the NATO ASI conference Transdisciplinary Information Sharing for Decision-Making against Biological Threats." "Traditionally, it has been natural disasters and industrial accidents which have posed the greatest threat to society, but increasingly, chemical, biological. radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) emergencies present new challenges, with the potential to become global threats on an unprecedented scale. This has led to calls for the international community to implement a 'new way of thinking' to enable better communication worldwide to counter the threat of global terrorism. A successful counter terrorism strategy requires cooperation between agencies traditionally reluctant to share information: governments, industry, the scientific community and civil society in general. The body of knowledge and experience being developed in this field is now so immense that a new information sharing paradigm is required for these various disciplines in different societies to properly understand each other." "The key obstacle to any scientific, technical or social process is inefficient or non-existent information sharing. This work is of interest to anyone involved in the mitigation, preparedness, response to or recovery from disasters of any kind. Highlighting strategic enablers such as cross-disciplinary information sharing, international outreach and partner activities, public diplomacy and strategic communication, it is a robust step towards a new era of genuine cross-silo information sharing and cooperation in an atmosphere of trust." --Book Jacket.

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Ethiopia Photographed - Historic Photographs of the Country and its People taken between 1867 and 1935 | Richard Pankhurst, Denis Gérard usato

Ethiopia Photographed - Historic Photographs of the Country and its People taken between 1867 and 1935 | Richard Pankhurst, Denis Gérard usato

Following the very successful Ethiopia Engraved, an illustrated book of engravings by foreign travellers from 1681 to 1900, Ethiopia Photographed covers the period from the inception of photography in the country up to the Italian Fascist invasion in 1936. The people, terrain, buildings and rulers of Ethiopia - such as Emperor Melenik, Lej Iyasu and Emperor Haile Selassie - make it a highly photogenic country, as this lavishly illustrated book reveals.Situated in lofty, often inaccessible mountains between the Red Sea and the Blue Nile, and extending far into the Horn of Africa, it is a complex and mysterious country which as always exercised an extraordinary fascination for the outside world. The book begins with an introduction which gives a brief history of Ethiopia in this period, and describes the role of photography at this time. The richly captured images of Ethiopia Photographed bear witness to many personalities and places not previously seen and, in many cases, now lost for all time but for the photogenic memories recorded here.

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Skate and Destroy - The first 25 years of Thrasher magazine | AA.VV. usato Manualistica Sport

Skate and Destroy - The first 25 years of Thrasher magazine | AA.VV. usato Manualistica Sport

In January 1981, a group of San Francisco skateboarders put together the first issue of Thrasher magazine. Today, Thrasher is bigger and better than ever—its name synonymous with both skateboarding's roots and constant evolution. Marking Thrasher's anniversary, this jam-packed retrospective recounts skateboarding's twists and turns of the last two decades and offers a glimpse at its thriving future. New and old school skaters alike will love Thrasher: Skate and Destroy. Not only does it cover the first twenty-five years of the magazine, reprinting the best of the original columns—"Photograffiti," "Zounds," "Trash," among others—but it will feature unpublished photos, rejected covers, interview outtakes, and detailed profiles. Action-packed photos capture legendary skaters such as: Tony Hawk, Bob Burnquist, Andrew Reynolds, Tony Alva, Mike Carroll, and Lance Mountain.The definitive guide to the history and development of skateboarding, no other book will take you as close to the risk taking, bone breaking world of what has since become the world's fastest growing extreme sport. With an emphasis on the current trends that will especially appeal to today's hundreds of thousands of skaters, this will be the skateboarding bible for fans of all ages and levels. Like the tattoos carved into the arms of skaters worldwide, Thrasher is forever. This one's gonna be gnarly!

EUR 85.00
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London underground maps - Art, design and cartography | Claire Dobbin usato Storia Locale

London underground maps - Art, design and cartography | Claire Dobbin usato Storia Locale

By documenting and guiding us on the journeys we make every day, maps influence the way we navigate and identify with our surroundings. The Underground, London Transport, and its successor Transport for London have produced and inspired maps which are navigational, decorative forms of publicity and works of art. This book, which draws on the rich collections of the London Transport Museum, sets out to explore this unique form of visual communication. Covering the period from 1900 to the present day, Claire Dobbin's fascinating narrative provides a chronological account of the mapping of London's Underground. Starting with the magnificent early twentieth-century decorative maps of Macdonald Gill, the evolution of London's diagrammatic Underground map, introduced by Harry Beck's iconic 1931 design, is expertly told. The legacy of Beck's inspiring design is highlighted through selected maps, artworks, posters and merchandise. Incorporating design, art, cartographic, social and transport history, London Underground Maps provides a fascinating account of the capital's innovative approach to decoding and promoting its complex underground network. An accessible narrative coupled with first-class imagery make this book a must for lovers of art, design and cartography as well as the history of London.

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A5 Architecture Series: Copenhagen | Casey C. M. Mathewson, Ann Videriksen usato Arte Architettura

A5 Architecture Series: Copenhagen | Casey C. M. Mathewson, Ann Videriksen usato Arte Architettura

The a5 Architecture Series, edited by Berlin-based architect Casey Mathewson, is our new book series focusing on architecture, interiors, and landscapes in selected global metropolises. The a5 Series is planned for publication in the coming years to showcase the world of architecture in such diverse metropolitan cities as Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Copenhagen, Shanghai, Berlin and Singapore. The series portrays the very best work done in the world's creative capitals, and also focuses on visionary designs slated for construction over the coming years. Detailed working drawings are also included to enrich the contents and make the series even more relevant for all those interested in architecture and design.a = Architecture5 = examples from the past five year time perioda5 = Worldwide Documentary Series on premier Architecture of the past 5 years. The second edition of the a5 Series is devoted to the intensely creative and vibrant Copenhagen metropolitan area and showcases the most innovative architecture, interior design, and landscape projects created in Copenhagen since 2005. Featuring the following firms -3XN, aart, Arkitema, Bjarke Ingels Group- BIG, COBE, Dissing Weitling arkitektfirma, Entasis, Henning Larsen Architects, Vilhelm Lauritzen, Lundgaard & Tranberg, Arkitektfirmaet C.F. Moller, Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter, ONV, PLH Arkitekter, Schmidt/Hammer/Lassen Architects, SLA, Tegnestuen Vandkunsten.

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The art of Gandhara - In the metropolitan museum of art | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Kurt A. Behrendt usato Arte Antica

The art of Gandhara - In the metropolitan museum of art | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Kurt A. Behrendt usato Arte Antica

Gandhara was an ancient region of Pakistan that controlled a series of key passes for Silk Road trade among India, China, and Mediterranean lands. This steady commerce provided the financial foundation for the sustained patronage of luxury goods as well as Buddhist monastic sites and devotional sculpture. Drawing on the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this book traces the complex and changing artistic tradition of Gandhara, from Northwest Pakistan and Eastern Afghanistan in the 2nd century BC until the 8th century. This book also explores early urban material, international trade, and the emergence and development of Buddhist art in the region, specifically addressing the relic tradition, narrative art, and iconic representations of Buddhas and bodhisattvas. The latest period of production is characterized by the fabrication of monumental imagery as well as the clay and stucco production of Afghanistan.

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Visual funk. Jim Mahfood art | Jim Mahfood usato Arte Grafica

Visual funk. Jim Mahfood art | Jim Mahfood usato Arte Grafica

Jim Mahfood, aka Food One's sixteen-year-long professional career has spanned across the fields of comic books, illustration, animation, advertising art, murals, gallery shows, body painting, and live art in bars and nightclubs. This is Mahfood's first 250-page, classy hardcover art book, featuring the absolute best of his diverse work, from finished art, sketches, behind-the-scenes concepts, never-before-seen drawings and designs, photographs of painted girls, and more. Mahfood's style, the neo-psychedelic Visual Funk, is a combination of various influences that Jim has managed to turn into a recognizable brand, garnering a loyal following across the globe.

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Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery | Colin B. Bailey, Stephanie Buck usato Arte Grafica

Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery | Colin B. Bailey, Stephanie Buck usato Arte Grafica

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Mantegna to 'Matisse: Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery'. The drawings represent a survey of the extraordinary of Italian, Dutch, Flemish, German, Spanish, British and French artists between the late Middle Ages and the early twentieth century. The catalogue features works executed in a range of styles and for a variety of purposes, including preliminary sketches, practice studies, aide-mémoires, designs for other artworks and finished pictures meant to be appreciated as independent works of art. Among the artists represented in the catalogue are Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Joseph Mallord, William Turner, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.

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The Geometry of Four-Manifolds | Simon Kirwan Donaldson, S. K. Donaldson, P. B. Kronheimer usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

The Geometry of Four-Manifolds | Simon Kirwan Donaldson, S. K. Donaldson, P. B. Kronheimer usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

This book provides the first lucid and accessible account to the modern study of the geometry of four-manifolds. It has become required reading for postgraduates and research workers whose research touches on this topic. Pre-requisites are a firm grounding in differential topology, andgeometry as may be gained from the first year of a graduate course. The subject matter of this book is the most significant breakthrough in mathematics of the last fifty years, and Professor Donaldson won a Fields medal for his work in the area. The authors start from the standpoint that thefundamental group and intersection form of a four-manifold provides information about its homology and characteristic classes, but little of its differential topology. It turns out that the classification up to diffeomorphism of four-manifolds is very different from the classification of unimodularforms and that the study of this question leads naturally to the new Donaldson invariants of four-manifolds. A central theme of this book is that the appropriate geometrical tools for investigating these questions come from mathematical physics: the Yang-Mills theory and anti-self dual connectionsover four-manifolds. One of the many consquences of this theory is that 'exotic' smooth manifolds exist which are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to (4, and that large classes of forms cannot be realized as intersection forms whereas distinct manifolds may share the same form. These result havehad far-reaching consequences in algebraic geometry, topology, and mathematical physics, and will continue to be a mainspring of mathematical research for years to come.

EUR 95.00
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Don McCullin. La pace impossibile | Don McCullin usato Fotografici Fotografia

Don McCullin. La pace impossibile | Don McCullin usato Fotografici Fotografia

An exhibition catalog that features an impressive retrospective, covering the last fifty years in chronological order. Don McCullin (born 1935, London) is one of the most important photographers of our time. For more than fifty years, his uncompromising black-and-white photographs have shaped our awareness and understanding of modern conflict and its consequences. His images tell the remarkable story of his life and work, including his most famous assignments in Berlin, Vietnam, Cambodia, Biafra, Bangladesh, and the Middle East. The Winner of the Warsaw Gold Medal and the World Press Photographer Award, he was awarded the ICP Cornell Capa Award in 2006. Key periods in McCullin's life, including his early experiences of evacuation and the Blitz, his commissions from Berlin in 1961 and Cyprus in 1964, and his most famous work for the Sunday Times are here explored alongside more recent projects with Christian Aid, his photographs of last tribes in the Omo River Valley, South Kenya, and Irian Jaya, New Guinea, and, in the last few years, those of still-life and English landscapes at his home in Somerset. A photographic journey across the ruins and landscapes of the boundaries of the Roman Empire completes the volume.

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Icons. Masterpieces of Russian Art - 16th-19th centuries | Olga A. Polyakova usato Arte Antiquariato

Icons. Masterpieces of Russian Art - 16th-19th centuries | Olga A. Polyakova usato Arte Antiquariato

We are proud to offer this important book on icons dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. These sixty icons from the Kolomenskoye State Museum are presented with full descriptions of their origins and symbolic meanings written by a leading specialist in Old Russian art. This lesser-known collection shows the evolution and development of Russian iconography through its themes, styles and details - for example, historical figures such as Peter the Great featured in the battlefield on one of the intercession icons. These images are at once powerful and moving, engaging the observer in the story depicted in the painting or drawing the eye to a face that seems to look directly out at the viewer. This book provides a fascinating insight into the world of the mysterious and beautiful icons. Icons: Masterpieces of Russian Art is a valuable resource for art historians, scholars of religious practice, and collectors of icons.

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