Author: Richard K. Spottswood
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252017193
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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This impressive compilation offers a nearly complete listing of sound recordings made by American minority artists prior to mid-1942. Organized by national group or language, the seven-volume set cites primary and secondary titles, composers, participating artists, instrumentation, date and place of recording, master and release numbers, and reissues in all formats. Because of its clear arrangements and indexes, it will be a unique and valuable tool for music and ethnic historians, folklorists, and others.
Author: Hans Christian Oersted
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Category : Electromagnetism
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Author: Annamaria Gatti
Publisher: Città Nuova
ISBN: 8831119087
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Author: Vittorio Imbriani
Publisher: eBook Free
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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La sterminata erudizione dell’Imbriani, che nei romanzi è usata per sviare sardonicamente la narrazione, in questa “panzana”, tale è definita dall’autore, è usata per avviare invece la possibilità d’un diverso svolgimento storico, d’un’ucronia. Che il duca Valentino dopo la sconfitta in Italia sia morto in Spagna, è storia solo per chi conosce appena le fonti più note. Per chi come Imbriani è a conoscenza di tante rarità librarie, l’ultima parte di vita di Cesare Borgia ha ben altro esito. Che poi questo scorcio di biblioteca imbrianesca che sorregge la tesi storica, “preborgesianamente”, come è stato detto, mescoli edizioni false ma plausibili a edizioni vere ma improbabili, come può il povero lettore, impotente di fronte a tanto sfoggio di cultura, accorgersene? E così citazione dopo citazione libresca Cesare Borgia raggiunge il nuovo mondo e convince per amore la medusa azteca, la bellissima principessa che pietrifica chiunque la fissi negli occhi, Ciaciunena l’impietratrice, a essere strumento della sua vendetta e cambiare il corso storico delle cose italiane. Ma innamoratosi anche lui, l’audacia e la confidenza che anche come amante dimostra lo perde, e viene inavvertitamente pietrificato dalla fanciulla. Che disperata, vuole almeno portare a termine la vendetta dell’uomo che amava, e giunge in Vaticano alla presenza di Giulio II per pietrificare il papa e tutta la sua corte. Ma, com’è come non è, i suoi poteri lapidificatori decadono in questo emisfero e Giulio II scampa alla pietrificazione quanto al corpo; «quanto al cuore dell’augusto vegliardo, già da prima e da un pezzo era di sasso, di macigno, di scoglio», come lapidariamente – è il caso di dire – soggiunge l’explicit di questa serissima panzana. Neppure nel gioco letterario l’acre pessimismo d’Imbriani che colora di tragico il cinico e il beffardo della sua intuizione del mondo si placa. Né la storia d’Italia sa mutarsi in meglio e far pendere le sorti in favore della santa ambizione di Cesare Borgia d’unificarla. Sicché questa panzana che così bizzarramente illustra il suo pessimismo scava ben a fondo nelle scelte politiche d’Imbriani mettendo in luce e mostrando una delle convinzioni e degli atteggiamenti che infondono il suo spirito reazionario. (Fonte Wikipedia)
Author: Hans Christian Ørsted
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Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Author: Arctic Institute of North America
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 1526
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Author: Lorenzo Taffarel
Publisher: Casa Editrice Tredieci Srl
ISBN: 8883882229
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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It’s thaw season at the North Pole. A little polar bear is playing happily on the snow when the ice where he is standing breaks and his floe is carried away by the drift. By chance, a young seal also finds herself on that ice floe, after the same adventure happened to her. This is the beginning of a tender friendship which will help the two little animals against the terrible killer whale. Luckily, they can count on the help of the big blue whale and of the friendly dolphins. They land on the continent, where they will discover one surprise after another and even meet Santa Claus and his faithful reindeer- lucky them! They will of course receive a gift. Which gift? Read the book and you will find out!!
Author: Karla Zimmerman
Publisher: EDT srl
ISBN: 8860407036
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Author: Edoardo Amaldi
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9789810223694
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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In this important volume, major events and personalities of 20th century physics are portrayed through recollections and historiographical works of one of the most prominent figures of European science. A former student of Enrico Fermi, and a leading personality of physical research and science policy in postwar Italy, Edoardo Amaldi devoted part of his career to documenting, both as witness and as historian, some significant moments of 20th century science. The focus of the book is on the European scene, ranging from nuclear research in Rome in the 1930s to particle physics at CERN, and includes biographies of physicists such as Ettore Majorana, Bruno Touschek and Fritz Houtermans.Edoardo Amaldi (Carpaneto, 1908 - Roma, 1989) was one of the leading figures in twentieth century Italian science. He was conferred his degree in physics at Rome University in 1929 and played an active role (as a member of the team of young physicists known as ?the boys of via Panisperna?) in the fundamental research on artificial induced radioactivity and the properties of neutrons, which won the group's leader Enrico Fermi the Nobel Prize for physics in 1938. Following Fermi's departure for the United States in 1938 and the disruption of the original group, Amaldi took upon himself the task of reorganising the research in physics in the difficult situation of post-war Italy. His own research went from nuclear physics to cosmic ray physics, elementary particles and, in later years, gravitational waves. Active research was for him always coupled to a direct involvement as a statesman of science and an organiser: he was the leading figure in the establishment of INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics) and has played a major role, as spokesman of the Italian scientific community, in the creation of CERN, the large European laboratory for high energy physics. He also actively supported the formation of a similar trans-national joint venture in space science, which gave birth to the European Space Agency. In these and several other scientific organisations, he was often entrusted with directive responsibilities. In his later years, he developed a keen interest in the history of his discipline. This gave rise to a rich production of historiographic material, of which a significant sample is collected in this volume.
