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The Making of the Doric Temple: Architecture, Religion, and Social Change in Archaic Greece
by Gabriel ZuchtriegelIn this volume, Gabriel Zuchtriegel revisits the idea of Doric architecture as the paradigm of architectural and artistic evolutionism. Bringing together old and new archaeological data, some for the first time, he posits that Doric architecture has little to do with a wood-to-stone evolution. Rather, he argues, it originated in tandem with a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece. Zuchtriegel presents momentous architectural change as part of a broader transformation that involved religion, politics, economics, and philosophy. As Greek elites colonized, explored, and mapped the Mediterranean, they sought a new home for the gods in the changing landscapes of the sixth-century BC Greek world. Doric architecture provided an answer to this challenge, as becomes evident from parallel developments in architecture, art, land division, urban planning, athletics, warfare, and cosmology. Building on recent developments in geography, gender, and postcolonial studies, this volume offers a radically new interpretation of architecture and society in Archaic Greece.
A Philosophical Analysis of Chaos Theory
by Lena C. ZuchowskiThis book provides an analysis of the construction, diagnosis (as chaotic) and evaluation of models in chaos theory. It contains a detailed look at the interaction of the different models used in chaos theory and analyses how these models influence the way chaos is defined. Furthermore, the book discusses the conditions for the occurrence of chaos and the detection of chaos in nature.
From Randomness and Entropy to the Arrow of Time (Elements in the Philosophy of Physics)
by Lena ZuchowskiThe Element reconstructs, analyses and compares different derivational routes to a grounding of the Arrow of Time in entropy. It also evaluates the link between entropy and visible disorder, and the related claim of an alignment of the Arrow of Time with a development from order to visible disorder. The Element identifies three different entropy-groundings for the Arrow of Time: (i) the Empirical Arrow of Time, (ii) the Universal Statistical Arrow of Time, and (iii) the Local Statistical Arrow of Time. The Element will also demonstrate that it is unlikely that high entropy states will always coincide with visible disorder. Therefore, it will dispute that there is a strong link between the Arrow of Time and visible disorder.
Inferis
by Alex ZuchiMatheus Mayer is a man tormented by past woes. Accused of killing his family, he's trying to prove his innocence and that his daughter is still alive. When he's sent to a new Psychiatric Hospital – built in an isolated region – Matheus finds only five other inmates. Each one has a completely distinctive personality and each seems to have their own goals. A special characteristic, however, seems to unite them. Dark enigmas start to echo inside the institution, specially after the arrival of a mysterious man by the name of Heitor Velasques and his team of researchers. Their goals are unknown. Matheus starts to feel the presence of supernatural beings that seem to inhabit the Institution. These beings bring about unique feelings, as if the divine and the profane were fighting for dominion. One by one, the inmates are called by the research team for an experiment. After it, they can’t be found anywhere, and some physical and sensory changes seem to transform the Psychiatric Hospital's facilities into something completely different. Now there's pain. nauseating smells, flames, and throbbing walls. With the help of the Hospital's own employees, Matheus Mayer starts to unveil Heitor's motivation and finds himself entangled in a dangerous and complex game, in which, due to neural interface devices and experimental drugs, the patient's minds are invaded in search of the key to the realm of gods. It's time to explore the depths of the unknown in a journey towards a reunion. How far would you go to save someone you love?
Inferis: L’oscurità pulsante prendeva forma
by Alex ZuchiMatheus Mayer è un uomo tormentato dai dolori del passato. Accusato dell'omicidio della sua famiglia, deve provare la sua innocenza, e anche che sua figlia è ancora viva. Trasferito nell'ennesimo ospedale psichiatrico, costruito nel bel mezzo di una zona desolata, Matheus incontra altri cinque pazienti. Ciascuno ha una personalità completamente diversa dall'altro, e tutti sembrano perseguire obiettivi diversi. Tuttavia, paiono legati da abilità speciali. Enigmi arcani si disvelano all'interno dell'istituto, soprattutto in seguito all'arrivo di un uomo misterioso chiamato Heitor Velasques e della sua èquipe di ricercatori, le cui intenzioni sono ancora sconosciute. Matheus percepisce presenze soprannaturali nell'edificio. Queste manifestazioni risvegliano sensazioni contrastanti, come se il divino e il profano combattessero per il potere. I pazienti sono sottoposti uno per uno all'esperimento dall'èquipe di ricercatori. In seguito, i pazienti scompaiono, e trasformazioni fisiche e sensoriali sembrano trasformare le stanze dell'ospedale psichiatrico in un posto completamente diverso. Pieno di dolore, fiamme, odori nauseabondi e pareti palpitanti. Con l'aiuto dei dipendenti dell'ospedale, Matheus Mayer svela lo scopo di Heitor, e si ritrova prigioniero di un piano complesso e pericoloso tramite il quale, attraverso interfacce neurali e droghe psicotrope, le menti dei pazienti sono invase alla ricerca della chiave per il dominio degli dei. È giunto il tempo di esplorare le profondità dell'ignoto, in un viaggio di ritrovamento. Quanto lontano sei disposto a spingerti per salvare coloro che ami?
La Luz Nocturna: Cuidado con lo que deseas
by Alex ZuchiMi nombre es Antônio Pereira, pero todos me conocen como Arthur Black. Soy un escritor. He sido rico, influyente y codiciado, gracias a mis historias infantiles. He perdido casi todo, ya saben cómo es... lo que viene fácil, fácil se va... Ya que estoy abriendo mi corazón, debo confesar que mentí sobre mi libro más famoso. Aquel libro que se convirtió en un gran éxito en el cine. Siempre pensé que jamás hablarían sobre el asunto, pero yo estaba equivocado. Me contactó el hombre que conoce mi secreto y me hizo una oferta que no pude rechazar. Le prometí que escribiría un nuevo cuento infantil y que seguiría todas sus reglas. Comienzo a darme cuenta de que hay algo muy extraño en este lugar al que me trajo y en el que luego me dejó solo. Mis noches son atormentadas por situaciones que escapan a mi comprensión. ¿Alucinaciones? ¿Realidad? No sé decirlo. Hay puertas en este mundo que se abren en lugares desconocidos. Tal vez ellas son las responsables del surgimiento de las siluetas, las voces y la luz blanca e intensa que irrumpe desde la oscuridad del campo. Cada día que permanezco aquí, más nebulosa se vuelve mi percepción. La única certeza que tengo es que el libro que escribo todos los días se vuelve completamente diferente justo después de irme a dormir.
The Night Light: Be Careful What You Wish For
by Alex ZuchiMy name is Antônio Pereira, but everyone knows me as Arthur Black. I am a writer. In the past, I was rich, influential, and coveted because of my children's stories. But I lost almost everything. You know how it is ... what comes easy, goes easy ... Since I'm opening my heart, I need to confess that I lied about my most famous book, the book that became a great success in cinema. I always thought they would never talk about it, but I was wrong. I was approached by the man who knows my secret, and he made me a proposal that I could not refuse. I promised that I would write a new children's story, and I will follow all his rules. So, I'm beginning to realize that there is something much strange about this place that he brought me and then left me alone. My nights are plagued by situations that are beyond my comprehension. Hallucinations? Reality? I don't know. There are doors in this world that open in unknown places. Maybe they are responsible for the appearance of the silhouettes, the voices, and the intense white light erupted from the darkness of the countryside. Each day I stay here, my perception becomes more nebulous. The only certainty that I have is the book that I write every day becomes completely different right after I go to sleep.
La Trascendencia de la Carne
by Alex ZuchiBartolomeo Schultz es un hombre solitario. Divide su vida entre trabajar en una fábrica de cajas, reclusión en su pequeño departamento y su deporte favorito: observar la vida de los demás. Bartolomeo se dedica a la observación, porque tiene miedo de tener una vida propia, tiene miedo de arriesgarse. Además de su clara debilidad por poder integrarse con otras personas, ya no puede recordar quién es realmente. Su pasado es desconocido. Sus familiares son desconocidos. Vive en un mundo de incertidumbre y angustia. Un día, Bartolomeo regresa a casa después de otro día de trabajo cuando siente que lo están observando en una calle de Porto Alegre. Mira a su alrededor, pero no identifica nada, pero la sensación permanece latente. Mirando instintivamente al cielo, ve una especie de vórtice amarillo y azul que aparentemente nadie más puede ver. A partir de ese momento, un torbellino de sentimientos emerge de la mente y el cuerpo del hombre, mientras voces desconocidas buscan hacer contacto. Y te inducen a dormir. A través del sueño, se le presenta una nueva dimensión entre el cielo y el infierno. Una dimensión oscura e inhóspita. Una legión de voces les promete la codiciada fuerza, una vida de logros hasta ahora inimaginables, la oportunidad de amar y ser amados. Bartolomeo comienza a moverse a través de esta dimensión y aprender sus antiguos secretos. Allí, descubre que es elegido por el Dios del Vacío que reside en los confines del universo para una gran misión. Una misión que implica la liberación de una Trinidad de individuos empoderados. Pero, ¿cómo se pondría un hombre común en una posición tan única? ¿Fue solo una ironía del destino o un plan meticulosamente diseñado? El mismo Dios del Vacío busca el paso por los mundos. ¿Pero cuáles serían tus intenciones? Octavio Gouveia, un emprendedor fotográfico, también visualiza el vórtice. Como Christian Albuquerque, un detective de policía que lucha contra lo
Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish Rescue: How A French Priest Together With Jewish Friends Saved Thousands During The Holocaust
by Susan ZuccottiSusan Zuccotti narrates the life and work of Père Marie-Benoît, a courageous French Capuchin priest who risked everything to hide Jews in France and Italy during the Holocaust. Who was this extraordinary priest and how did he become adept at hiding Jews, providing them with false papers, and helping them to elude their persecutors? From monasteries first in Marseille and later in Rome, Père Marie-Benoît worked with Jewish co-conspirators to build remarkably effective Jewish-Christian rescue networks. Acting independently without Vatican support but with help from some priests, nuns, and local citizens, he and his friends persisted in their clandestine work until the Allies liberated Rome. After the conflict, Père Marie-Benoît maintained his wartime Jewish friendships and devoted the rest of his life to Jewish Christian reconciliation. Papal officials viewed both activities unfavorably until after the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), 1962-1965.To tell this remarkable tale, in addition to her research in French and Italian archives, Zuccotti personally interviewed Père Marie-Benoît, his family, Jewish rescuers with whom he worked, and survivors who owed their lives to his network.
EU Influence Beyond Conditionality: Turkey Plus/Minus the EU
by Mario ZucconiThis book presents an in-depth analysis of the role played by the EU accession process in Turkey’s democratic evolution and in the empowerment of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the early 2000s. Often moving against the grain of consolidated analytical positions, the author finds that the accession process can have a critical impact on the political evolution and institutional setting of an aspiring member state that goes well beyond the simple Europeanization process (or EU accession conditionality). In the case of Turkey, that process created the essential conditions and environment for the country’s political modernization by helping the emergence of a “periphery” (including Kurds, “conservative” Muslims and non-Muslims) that secularism had pushed into a marginal, secondary status in Turkish society. Turkey’s gradual evolution in an authoritarian direction, following the stalling of the EU accession process, offers further proof of the decisive role that the EU accession can play in a country’s democratic advancement. The book additionally indicates how Turkey’s EU-driven democratic evolution for a number of years had important implications in terms of regional and global order.
Ancient Medicine: From Mesopotamia to Rome
by Laura M. ZucconiThis book by Laura Zucconi is an accessible introductory text to the practice and theory of medicine in the ancient world. In contrast to other works that focus heavily on Greece and Rome, Zucconi&’s Ancient Medicine covers a broader geographical and chronological range. The world of medicine in antiquity consisted of a lot more than Hippocrates and Galen.Zucconi applies historical and anthropological methods to examine the medical cultures of not only Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome but also the Levant, the Anatolian Peninsula, and the Iranian Plateau. Devoting special attention to the fundamental relationship between medicine and theology, Zucconi&’s one-volume introduction brings the physicians, patients, procedures, medicines, and ideas of the past to light.
Ancient Medicine: From Mesopotamia to Rome
by Laura M. ZucconiThis book by Laura Zucconi is an accessible introductory text to the practice and theory of medicine in the ancient world. In contrast to other works that focus heavily on Greece and Rome, Zucconi&’s Ancient Medicine covers a broader geographical and chronological range. The world of medicine in antiquity consisted of a lot more than Hippocrates and Galen.Zucconi applies historical and anthropological methods to examine the medical cultures of not only Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome but also the Levant, the Anatolian Peninsula, and the Iranian Plateau. Devoting special attention to the fundamental relationship between medicine and theology, Zucconi&’s one-volume introduction brings the physicians, patients, procedures, medicines, and ideas of the past to light.
Displacing Caravaggio: Art, Media, and Humanitarian Visual Culture
by Francesco Zucconi Zakiya HanafiThis book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio’s works for contemporary humanitarian communications. How did his Sleeping Cupid (1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa, at the heart of the Mediterranean migrant crisis? And why was his painting The Seven Works of Mercy (1607) requested for display at a number of humanitarian public events? After critical reflection on these significant transfers of Caravaggio’s work, Francesco Zucconi takes Baroque art as a point of departure to guide readers through some of the most haunting and compelling images of our time. Each chapter analyzes a different form of media and explores a problem that ties together art history and humanitarian communications: from Caravaggio’s attempt to represent life itself as a subject of painting to the way bodies and emotions are presented in NGO campaigns. What emerges from this probing inquiry at the intersection of art theory, media studies and political philosophy is an original critical path in humanitarian visual culture.
Information Retrieval Technology
by Guido Zuccon Shlomo Geva Hideo Joho Falk Scholer Aixin Sun Peng ZhangThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the11th Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2015, held in Brisbane,QLD, Australia, in December 2015. The 29 full papers presented together with 11 short anddemonstration papers, and the abstracts of 2 keynote lectures were carefullyreviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The final programme of AIRS 2015 isdivided in 10 tracks: Efficiency, Graphs, Knowledge Bases and Taxonomies,Recommendation, Twitter and Social Media, Web Search, Text Processing,Understanding and Categorization, Topics and Models, Clustering, Evaluation,and Social Media and Recommendation.
Basketball Data Science: With Applications in R (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Science Series)
by Paola Zuccolotto Marica ManiseraUsing data from one season of NBA games, Basketball Data Science: With Applications in R is the perfect book for anyone interested in learning and applying data analytics in basketball. Whether assessing the spatial performance of an MBA player&’s shots or doing an analysis of the impact of high pressure game situations on the probability of scoring, this book discusses a variety of case studies and hands-on examples using a custom R package. The codes are supplied so readers can reproduce the analyses themselves or create their own. Assuming a basic statistical knowledge, Basketball Data Science with R is suitable for students, technicians, coaches, data analysts and applied researchers. Features: · One of the first books to provide statistical and data mining methods for the growing field of analytics in basketball. · Presents tools for modelling graphs and figures to visualize the data. · Includes real world case studies and examples, such as estimations of scoring probability using the Golden State Warriors as a test case. · Provides the source code and data so readers can do their own analyses on NBA teams and players.
The Role of Pleasure to Improve Tourism Education
by Alejandra Zuccoli Maximiliano E. KorstanjeThis book discusses how pleasure, as an emotional motivation, can play a leading role in improving the learning of new cognitive skills and abilities. Set in a research center orientated to innovate educative techniques for optimizing the learning process, this case study is focusing on the power of pleasure (joy) as a strategy to better the standard education systems in Argentina and beyond.This editorial project is based on an efficient experiment known as “PANCOE” where pre-graduate students of tourism bachelor at the University of Palermo, Argentina, were subject to different pleasurable experiences mainly marked by eating, tasting dishes and non-alcohol drinks while cooking and kneading bread pieces. PANCOE aims to integrate students' senses with their emotions, academic performance, and digital platforms. PANCOE devotes efforts to transforming negative feelings like fear into positive ones like joy. As an outcome, students who had taken part in PANCOE not only obtained higher degrees but also completed their studies with a bachelor's degree. Therefore, PANCOE situates as a promising and exciting tourism education method to better the academic performance of low-grade students in tourism and to bring creativity to the tourism classroom for all students.
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
by David ZucchinoA Pulitzer Prize–winning, searing account of the 1898 white supremacist riot and coup in Wilmington, North Carolina.By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included black aldermen, police officers and magistrates. There were successful black-owned businesses and an African American newspaper, The Record. But across the state—and the South—white supremacist Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by former slaves and their progeny.In 1898, in response to a speech calling for white men to rise to the defense of Southern womanhood against the supposed threat of black predators, Alexander Manly, the outspoken young Record editor, wrote that some relationships between black men and white women were consensual. His editorial ignited outrage across the South, with calls to lynch Manly.But North Carolina’s white supremacist Democrats had a different strategy. They were plotting to take back the state legislature in November “by the ballot or bullet or both,” and then use the Manly editorial to trigger a “race riot” to overthrow Wilmington’s multi-racial government. Led by prominent citizens including Josephus Daniels, publisher of the state’s largest newspaper, and former Confederate Colonel Alfred Moore Waddell, white supremacists rolled out a carefully orchestrated campaign that included raucous rallies, race-baiting editorials and newspaper cartoons, and sensational, fabricated news stories.With intimidation and violence, the Democrats suppressed the black vote and stuffed ballot boxes (or threw them out), to win control of the state legislature on November 8th. Two days later, more than 2,000 heavily armed Red Shirts swarmed through Wilmington, torching the Record office, terrorizing women and children, and shooting at least sixty black men dead in the streets. The rioters forced city officials to resign at gunpoint and replaced them with mob leaders. Prominent blacks—and sympathetic whites—were banished. Hundreds of terrified black families took refuge in surrounding swamps and forests.This brutal insurrection is a rare instance of a violent overthrow of an elected government in the United States. It halted gains made by blacks and restored racism as official government policy, cementing white rule for another half century. It was not a “race riot,” as the events of November 1898 came to be known, but rather a racially motivated rebellion launched by white supremacists.In Wilmington’s Lie, Pulitzer Prize–winner David Zucchino uses contemporary newspaper accounts, diaries, letters and official communications to create a gripping and compelling narrative that weaves together individual stories of hate and fear and brutality. This is a dramatic and definitive account of a remarkable but forgotten chapter of American history.
Hidden Markov Models for Time Series: An Introduction Using R, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability)
by Walter Zucchini Iain L. MacDonald Roland LangrockHidden Markov Models for Time Series: An Introduction Using R, Second Edition illustrates the great flexibility of hidden Markov models (HMMs) as general-purpose models for time series data. The book provides a broad understanding of the models and their uses. After presenting the basic model formulation, the book covers estimation, forecasting, decoding, prediction, model selection, and Bayesian inference for HMMs. Through examples and applications, the authors describe how to extend and generalize the basic model so that it can be applied in a rich variety of situations. The book demonstrates how HMMs can be applied to a wide range of types of time series: continuous-valued, circular, multivariate, binary, bounded and unbounded counts, and categorical observations. It also discusses how to employ the freely available computing environment R to carry out the computations. Features Presents an accessible overview of HMMs Explores a variety of applications in ecology, finance, epidemiology, climatology, and sociology Includes numerous theoretical and programming exercises Provides most of the analysed data sets online New to the second edition A total of five chapters on extensions, including HMMs for longitudinal data, hidden semi-Markov models and models with continuous-valued state process New case studies on animal movement, rainfall occurrence and capture-recapture data
Religious Sense
by John E. Zucchi Luigi GiussaniGiussani challenges us to penetrate the deepest levels of experience to discover our essential selves, breaking through the layers of opinions and judgments that have obscured our true needs. Asserting that all the tools necessary for self-discovery are inherent within us, he focuses primarily on reason, not as narrowly defined by modern philosophers, but as an openness to existence, a capacity to comprehend and affirm reality in all of its dimensions. Part of the so-called new religious revival, The Religious Sense avoids any sentimental or irrational reduction of the religious experience. It is a forthright and refreshing call to reassess our lives.
Mad Flight?: The Quebec Emigration to the Coffee Plantations of Brazil (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History #45)
by John ZucchiOn 15 September 1896, nearly a thousand people prepared to board a steamer in the port of Montreal, headed for Santos, Brazil, and on to the coffee plantations of São Paulo, while a crowd of a few thousand pleaded with them to stay. <p><p> Families were split as wives boarded without husbands, or husbands without wives. While many prospective migrants were convinced to get off the boat, close to five hundred people departed for South America. Ultimately the experience was a disaster. Some died on board the ship, others in Brazil; yet others became indigent labourers on coffee plantations or beggars on the streets of São Paulo. The vast majority returned to Canada, many of them helped back by British consular representatives. While the story was widely covered in the international press at the time, a century later it is virtually unknown. In Mad Flight? John Zucchi consults a range of primary and secondary sources, including archival material in Canada, Brazil, France, and the United Kingdom, to recreate the stories of the migrants and open up an important research question: why do some people migrate on impulse and begin a journey that will almost inevitably end up in failure? <p> Historical studies on migration most often account for successful outcomes but rarely consider why some immigrant experiences are destined to fail. Mad Flight? uncovers the history of an otherwise little-known episode of Canadian migration to Brazil and provokes further discussion and debate.
Big House Little City: Architectural Design Through an Urban Lens
by Benedict ZucchiCombining architectural and urban thinking in an unusual and engaging way, this book presents an integrated approach to architectural theory and design. Leon Battista Alberti’s assertion in his famous Renaissance treatise that ‘the city is like a big house, and the house is in turn like a little city’ forms the springboard for a series of reflections on architecture’s relationship with urbanism and how their once intimate symbiosis, unravelled by International Style Modernism, can be recovered. Explicit references to Alberti’s house-city phrase have been made by figures as diverse as the architects Louis Kahn, Aldo Van Eyck, Denys Lasdun and Niels Torp and novelist Italo Calvino. But, as the book shows, thinking of buildings as little cities provides a new lens through which to reappraise the contributions of many other architects, including Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Eliel Saarinen, Bernard Rudofsky, Hans Scharoun, Leon Krier, Fumihiko Maki, Charles Correa and Team 10. In doing so, the author identifies common themes that form an unexpected bridgehead between the urban and architectural approaches of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Renaissance and 20th century. The book explores buildings from across the globe, including lesser-known projects, such as Wright’s unbuilt house in Italy or Saarinen’s master plan for Cranbrook Academy, as well as more recent projects by Niels Torp, Behnisch Architekten, Sou Fujimoto, Peter Barber and WOHA. It concludes with practical case studies of residential, health, education and workplace projects from different countries, fulsomely illustrated with many drawings and photographs. These show how architectural design viewed through an urban lens provides a conceptual framework for breaking down the scale of large buildings and integrating them with their context. And crucially, these also show a very accessible way of explaining evolving designs to the intended users and eliciting their participation in the design process. The book offers a compelling approach to the design of projects at all scales, within an ecological perspective: the sense that big and small, cities and buildings must be approached holistically if we are to reverse the degradation and depletion of our habitat, both natural and man-made.
Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma: Techniques and Tools for Working with Suicidality and Dissociation
by Joanne Zucchetto Simone Jacobs Ly Vick JohnsonUnderstanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma offers clinicians a new framework for understanding the symptoms and coping mechanisms displayed by survivors of childhood abuse. This approach considers how characteristics such as suicidality, self-harm, persistent depression, and anxiety can have roots in behaviors and beliefs that helped patients survive their trauma. This book provides practitioners with case examples, practical tips, and techniques for applying this mindset directly to their most complex cases. By depathologizing patients’ experiences and behaviors, and moving beyond simply managing them, therapists can reduce their clients’ shame and work collaboratively to understand the underlying message that these behaviors conceal.
Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)
by Emilio Zucchetti Anna Maria CiminoAntonio Gramsci and the Ancient World explores the relationship between the work of the Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci and the study of classical antiquity. The collection of essays engages with Greek and Roman history, literature, society, and culture, offering a range of perspectives and approaches building on Gramsci’s theoretical insights, especially from his Prison Notebooks. The volume investigates both Gramsci’s understanding and reception of the ancient world, including his use of ancient sources and modern historiography, and the viability of applying some of his key theoretical insights to the study of Greek and Roman history and literature. The chapters deal with the ideas of hegemony, passive revolution, Caesarism, and the role of intellectuals in society, offering a complex and diverse exploration of this intersection. With its fascinating mixture of topics, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of classics, ancient history, classical reception studies, Marxism and history, and those studying Antonio Gramsci’s works in particular.
DNA Nanotechnology: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology #1811)
by Giampaolo ZuccheriThis second edition provides new and updated methods that detail new DNA nanotechnology techniques. Chapters focus on DNA origami nanostructures for arranging matter in the nanoscale or on their manipulation with the aid of other technologies, on procedures for making nucleic acids nanostructures of different kinds, and methods to simulate complex nanostructures or to use them in biosensing. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.Authoritative and cutting-edge, DNA Nanotechnology: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition aims to ensure successful results in the further study of this vital field.
DNA Nanotechnology: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology #2901)
by Giampaolo ZuccheriThis fully updated volume explores methods to create and use nanostructures for characterizing, targeting, and controlling the behavior of cells. Experts from around the globe present their procedures for designing, preparing, characterizing, and using DNA nanostructures, especially towards biological or materials science applications. Additionally, the study of fundamental aspects of nucleic acids, such as their pairing and stacking energy measured with optical tweezers, as well as the targeted delivery of lipid-encapsulated nucleic acid drugs, is also provided to complete the landscape of nanoscale nucleic acids methods. Written for the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step and readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and cutting-edge, DNA Nanotechnology: Methods and Protocols, Third Edition serves as an ideal resource for researchers working on applications of DNA nanostructures in biotechnology and nanomedicine.