Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alessandro

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  • INFORMATION AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COMPOSITE POLITIES OF THE RENAISSANCE WORLD (C. 1350-1650)
    SILVESTRI, ALESSANDRO
    This book examines the role of information as a crucial means for governance and negotiation, through which Renaissance rulers and governments managed the composite polities under their control. The Renaissance world was characterized by the presence of numerous composite polities and political unions, consisting of distinct territories governed by a single ruler or government....

    $1,480.00

  • INCLUSIVE FINANCE
    ALESSANDRO HATAMI / MEAGHAN JOHNSON
    How can finance professionals close the financial inclusion gap through innovation? Inclusive Finance by Alessandro Hatami and Meaghan Johnson is a practical guide for professionals in banking, fintech, investment and regulation who want to reduce exclusion, meet compliance goals and expand access to underserved markets. Written by leading voices in financial innovation, this b...

    $799.00

  • ACCOUNTING FOR SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
    ALESSANDRO MIGLIAVACCA
    The role of firms, corporations, and businesses in shaping social outcomes has long been a key area of focus for economics and business scholars. With growing attention on addressing climate change, reducing social inequalities, and upholding human rights, there is an increasing interest in how corporate activities impact society. This book examines these pressing issues throug...

    $1,240.00

  • FORSAKEN RELICS
    ALESSANDRO BUONO, GIANLUCA MINIACI, AND ANNA ANGUISSOLA
    Uses case studies to examine the social context and cultural and political management of appropriating abandoned objects and assets. Forsaken Relics is the result of an interdisciplinary dialogue between history, archaeology, and ethnography on the topic of the appropriation of disputed goods and places. Scholars with diverse backgrounds convened to address this common challeng...

    $728.99

  • THE ARCHITECTURE OF EXHIBITIONS
    ALESSANDRO MELIS / ROZINA VAVETSI / FABIO FINOTTI
    The Architecture of Exhibitions embarks on a comprehensive exploration of creativity and design innovation within exhibition spaces. It describes the fundamental principles of exhibition design, tracing the origins of creativity and considering its evolutionary significance. The book challenges conventional boundaries imposed by rigid classifications, drawing on heuristic studi...

    $1,140.00

  • CONICAL APPROACH TO LINEAR PROGRAMMING
    P D'ALESSANDRO
    The conical approach provides a geometrical understanding of optimization and is a powerful research tool and useful problem-solving technique (for example, in decision support and real time control applications).Conical optimality conditions are first stated in a very general optimization framework, and then applied to linear programming. A complete theory along with primal an...

    $7,900.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK ON COOPERATION, INTERDEPENDENCIES AND SECURITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
    ALBANESE GINAMMI, ALESSANDRO
    This Handbook provides an essential overview of the contemporary dynamics of the Mediterranean region. Conceptualising the Mediterranean as both a socio-cultural area and a geopolitical entity, it considers the basin both as a whole and as a set of interacting subregions. Established scholars offer new perspectives and approaches from international history, postcolonial studies...

    $1,280.00

  • RENAISSANCE DREAM CULTURES
    ALESSANDRO ARCANGELI
    This volume explores the dream cultures of the European long sixteenth century, with a focus on Italian sources, reflections and debates on the nature and value of dreams, and frameworks of interpretation. The chapters examine a variety of oneiric experiences, since distinctions such as that between dreams and visions are themselves culturally specific and variable. Several dev...

    $1,120.00

  • ARCHITECTURAL EXAPTATION
    ALESSANDRO MELIS / TELMO PIEVANI / JOSE ANTONIO LARA-HERNANDEZ
    Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation. It presents exaptation as an opportunity to extend architectural design towards more sustainable approaches aimed at enforcing urban resilience. The use of exaptation’s definition in architecture supports the heuristic value of cross-disciplinary stud...

    $1,240.00

  • FINANCIAL SOCIAL INNOVATIONS
    ALESSANDRO LANTERI
    This book helps make sense of the emerging and established social innovations that have disrupted and are disrupting the world of finance. Written in an engaging style, this book offers a systematic study of social innovation in the financial services. It introduces the fundamental concepts of financial social innovations (FINSIs), places them in the context of the broader lite...

    $640.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF NATURAL RESOURCE GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA
    HANY BESADA, CRISTINA D’ALESSANDRO AND TEFSI GOLLA
    The Routledge Handbook of Natural Resource Governance in Africa provides a comprehensive analysis of African natural resource governance, stretching across the continent, and encompassing water, land, extractive resources, and mining. Africa’s natural resources are not only crucial for the continent from an economic, environmental, and political perspective, but they are also o...

    $1,360.00

  • ROMAN URBANISM IN ITALY
    ALESSANDRO LAUNARO
    This study presents new evidence for the development of commerce and inter-regional trade through survey and analysis of urban layout and architecture. The study of Roman urbanism – especially its early (Republican) phases – is extensively rooted in the evidence provided by a series of key sites, several of them located in Italy. Some of these Italian towns (e.g. Fregellae, Alb...

    $498.99

  • THE NAVAL WAR IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1940–1943
    JACK GREENE / ALESSANDRO MASSIGNANI
    This superbly researched book gives a complete account of the war in the Mediterranean on, above and beneath the sea up until Italy's armistice in September 1943. Written with full access to Italian sources, it not only provides a detailed and fascinating narrative of the entire naval war, but also sets the individual actions fully in their strategic context for both the Axis a...

    $251.00

  • THE STRUCTURE AND OPERATION OF MODERN ECONOMIES
    ALESSANDRO ROMAGNOLI
    This book is about the economy rather than economics. It explores the structures, inner workings and problems of modern economies, showing how the organisations and networks that shape the structure of the economy are arranged to provide society with goods and services. At the centre of the analysis there is the economic system, characterised by organisational components carryi...

    $1,240.00

  • THE GEOGRAPHY OF UNCERTAINTY
    ALESSANDRO RICCI
    This book outlines the characteristics and implications of a potential geography of uncertainty. In doing so, it analyses this concept in reference to both the origins of uncertainty in Early Modern Age and the current geopolitical situation. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to uncertainty, drawing on global perspectives and literature to define its meanings and ch...

    $1,160.00

  • BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
    ALESSANDRO BUCCIOL
    Humans have long neglected to fully consider the impact of their behaviour on the environment. From excessive consumption of fossil fuels and natural resources to pollution, waste disposal, and, in more recent years, climate change, most people and institutions lack a clear understanding of the environmental consequences of their actions. The new field of behavioural environmen...

    $1,160.00

  • THE RISE AND RISE OF ILLEGAL TICKET TOUTING
    ALESSANDRO MORETTI
    This book presents an ethnographic study of contemporary ticket touts in the UK. Despite the recent interest in the topic of black-market ticket sales, media coverage and parliamentary interventions over the last ten years have revealed a widespread lack of knowledge with regard to the phenomenon of touting and the players engaging in the practice. The Rise and Rise of Illegal ...

    $1,160.00

  • DIE VERLOBTEN BAND I
    ALESSANDRO MANZONI
    Die Verlobten zählt nicht nur zu den großen Werken der Weltliteratur, es ist auch der Höhepunkt der italienischen Romankunst des 19. Jahrhunderts. Unerreicht in seiner historischen Tiefe, in seiner psychologischen Durchdringung, in der souveränen epischen Anlage des Stoffes, weitet sich das Schicksal von Lucia und Renzo zum Gemälde eines ganzen Landes - der Lombardei - und eine...

    $39.70

  • DESIGNING SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT CITIES
    ALESSANDRO MELIS
    This book explores the link between the Food-Water-Energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities. Using data from Urban Living Labs in six participating cities (Eindhoven, Gdańsk, Miami, Southend-on-Sea, Taipei, and Uppsala) to co-define context-specific challenges, the results ...

    $899.00

  • THE EXTERNAL DIMENSION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION’S CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION PROGRAMME
    ALESSANDRO LAZARI
    External Dimension of the European Union’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Programme: From Neighboring Frameworks to Transatlantic Cooperation provides the basis, methodological framework, and first comprehensive analysis of the current state of the external dimension European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection. The challenges at the EU level are multidimension...

    $1,940.00

  • TEACHING AND MOBILE LEARNING
    FLAVIA SANTOIANNI / CORRADO PETRUCCO / ALESSANDRO CIASULLO / DANIELE AGOSTINI
    Teaching and Mobile Learning: Interactive Educational Design is a groundbreaking book which shows how to design innovative educational mobile learning environments to instructional designers, curriculum developers, and learning professionals. The book aims to solicit teachers, educators, and practitioners to adapt their teaching with the help of educational digital models relat...

    $1,320.00

  • OIL AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ
    ALESSANDRO TINTI
    Examining the interplay between the oil economy and identity politics using the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a case study, this book tells the untold story of how extractivism in the Kurdish autonomous region is interwoven in a mosaic of territorial disputes, simmering ethnic tensions, dynastic rule, party allegiances, crony patronage, and divergent visions about nature. Since t...

    $1,200.00

  • MISSIONARY TRANSLATORS
    JIEUN KIAER / ALESSANDRO BIANCHI / GIULIA FALATO / PIA JOLLIFFE / KAZUE MINO / KYUNGMIN YU
    Exploring the history of missionary translation of Christian texts in East Asia, Missionary Translators offers a comparative perspective between the features of East Asian languages and the historical context of the translation. Focusing on the Bible and Christian theological works, it looks at the intersection of linguistics, translation studies and history. This book discusse...

    $540.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM CONTROL AND DYNAMICS
    DOMENICO D’ALESSANDRO
    The introduction of control theory in quantum mechanics has created a rich, new interdisciplinary scientific field, which is producing novel insight into important theoretical questions at the heart of quantum physics. Exploring this emerging subject, Introduction to Quantum Control and Dynamics presents the mathematical concepts and fundamental physics behind the analysis and ...

    $1,600.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY AND IMPROVISATION IN THE ARTS
    ALESSANDRO BERTINETTO
    Over the last few decades, the notion of improvisation has enriched and dynamized research on traditional philosophies of music, theatre, dance, poetry, and even visual art. This Handbook offers readers an authoritative collection of accessible articles on the philosophy of improvisation, synthesizing and explaining various subjects and issues from the growing wave of journal a...

    $1,099.00

  • INFORMALITY THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY
    ANTONINO DI RAIMO / STEFFEN LEHMANN / ALESSANDRO MELIS
    Informality through Sustainability explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle links between informal settlements and sustainability. Penetrating its global profile and considering urban informality through an understanding of local implications, the authors collectively reveal specific correlations between sites and their loca...

    $960.00

  • RITUALITY AND SOCIAL (DIS)ORDER
    ALESSANDRO TESTA
    Carnival has been described as one of the foundational elements of European culture, bearing an emblematic and iconic status as the festive phenomenon par excellence. Its origins are partly obscure, but its stratified and complex history, rich symbolic diversity, and sundry social configurations make it an exceptional object of cultural analysis. The product of more than 12 yea...

    $1,240.00

  • REINVENTING BANKING AND FINANCE
    HELENE PANZARINO / ALESSANDRO HATAMI
    Named as the best overall book on banking of 2022 by Investopedia. The finance industry is currently going through a digital revolution, with new and developing technology transforming the world of banking and financial services beyond recognition. Banks and financial institutions worldwide recognize the pressing need to innovate to avoid disruption or displacement by highly ag...

    $979.00

  • THE POLITICAL PORTRAIT
    LUCIANO CHELES / ALESSANDRO GIACONE
    The leader's portrait, produced in a variety of media (statues, coins, billboards, posters, stamps), is a key instrument of propaganda in totalitarian regimes, but increasingly also dominates political communication in democratic countries as a result of the personalization and spectacularization of campaigning. Written by an international group of contributors, this volume foc...

    $1,240.00

  • INVESTIGATING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
    GIANMARIO BORIO / ‎GIOVANNI GIURIATI / ‎ALESSANDRO CECCHI
    Investigating Musical Performance considers the wide range of perspectives on musical performance made tangible by the cross-disciplinary studies of the last decades and encourages a comparison and revision of theoretical and analytical paradigms. The chapters present different approaches to this multi-layered phenomenon, including the results of significant research projects. ...

    $1,240.00


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