Adolf Loos : la casa in Michaelerplatz / Giovanni Denti

• Record Nr.: UNINA990000773870403321
• Autore: Denti, Giovanni <1948- >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Firenze : Alinea, c1990
• Descrizione fisica: 36 p. : tutte ill. ; 23x23 cm
• Collana: Momenti di architettura moderna ; 6) (
• Disciplina: 720.92
• Locazione: FARBC
• Collocazione: MON B 643
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

A graphic apology for symmetry and implicitness / Alessandra Carbone and Stephen Semmes

• Record Nr.: UNISALENTO991001300739707536
• Autore: Carbone, Alessandra
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000
• ISBN: 0198507291
• Descrizione fisica: xvii, 501 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
• Collana: Oxford mathematical monographs
• Classificazione: AMS 03-02; LC QA267.7.C37
• Altri autori (Persone): Semmes, Stephenauthor
• Disciplina: 511.3
• Soggetti: Computational complexity; Group theory; Graph theory; Machine theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [487]-495) and index

Barry Commoner and the science of survival : the remaking of American environmentalism / / Michael Egan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777767803321
• Autore: Egan Michael <1974->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT, ©2007
• ISBN: 1-282-09892-6; 9786612098925; 0-262-27217-2; 1-4294-7711-3
• Descrizione fisica: xi, 283 p., [8] p. of plates : ill
• Collana: Urban and industrial environments
• Disciplina: 363.70973
• Soggetti: Environmentalism - United States - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-275) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Introduction : The new apparatus -- 1. In the thunderclaps wake -- 2. Guarding the public -- 3. The new jeremiad -- 4. When scientists disagree -- 5. Biological capital -- 6. The other environmentalism -- Conclusion : If we would know life -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "For over half a century, the biologist Barry Commoner has been one of the most prominent and charismatic defenders of the American environment, appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1970 as the standard-bearer of "the emerging science of survival." In Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival, Michael Egan examines Commoner's social and scientific activism and charts an important shift in American environmental values since World War II." "Throughout his career, Commoner believed that scientists had a social responsibility, and that one of their most important obligations was to provide citizens with accessible scientific information so they could be included in public debates that concerned them. Egan shows how Commoner moved naturally from calling attention to the hazards of nuclear fallout to raising public awareness of the environmental dangers posed by the petrochemical industry. He argues that Commoner's belief in the importance of dissent, the dissemination of scientific information, and ; the need for citizen empowerment were critical planks in the remaking of American environmentalism." "Commoner's activist career can be defined as an attempt to weave together a larger vision of social justice. Since the 1960s, he has called attention to parallels between the environmental, civil rights, labor, and peace movements, and connected environmental decline with poverty, injustice, exploitation, and war, arguing that the root cause of environmental problems was the American economic system and its manifestations. He was instrumental in pointing out that there was a direct association between socioeconomic standing and exposure to environmental pollutants and that economics, not social responsibility, was guiding technological decision making. Egan argues that careful study of Commoner's career could help reinvigorate the contemporary environmental movement at a point when the environmental stakes have never been so high."--Jacket.

Le risque de la lettre : lectures de la poésie moderniste américaine

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910169193303321
• Autore: Alfandary Isabelle
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: ENS Éditions, 2012; [Place of publication not identified], : ENS éditions, 2012
• ISBN: 2-84788-632-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Collana: Collection Signes Le risque de la lettre
• Soggetti: American poetry - History and criticism - 20th century - United States; Modernism (Literature); English; Languages & Literatures; American Literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Sommario/riassunto: Certaines œuvres du modernisme américain se définissent par leur « ; parti pris de la lettre ». La langue est affrontée en leur sein au risque de l'écriture. En effet, si la littérature moderne est écrite, si les œuvres postérieures à l'invention de l'imprimerie sont faites d'encre et de papier, toutes n'ont pourtant pas l'écriture pour objet. Conscientes de leur caractère matériel, de leur aliénation à la lettre, les œuvres de Gertrude Stein, E. E. Cummings et John Cage jouent et se jouent essentiellement de leur condition. L'usage non transitif qu'elles font de l'écriture est l'occasion d'une mise en scène édifiante sur la page. Elles démasquent chemin faisant le réel d'une activité qui n'a rien d'évident : ni purement formalistes, ni simplement expérimentales, elles interrogent radicalement ce que lire et écrire veulent dire et mettent la littérature au pied du mur et en demeure de répondre.