1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002092350203316

Autore

CARR, Edward H.

Titolo

Sei lezioni sulla storia / Edward H. Carr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino, : Einaudi, 1998

Edizione

[2. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

XXXIII, 172 p. ; 19 cm

Collana

Piccola biblioteca Einaudi ; 98

Disciplina

901

Soggetti

Filosofia della storia

Collocazione

XVI.5. 925

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Traduzione di Carlo Ginzburg e di Piero Arlorio (per il saggio di Davies)

In copertina: Nuova ed.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910811211003321

Autore

Cobb William <1937->

Titolo

Captain Billy's troopers : a writer's life / / William Cobb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University Alabama Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8173-8875-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Classificazione

BIO007000SEL006000

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Authors, American - 20th century

Alcoholism

Storytelling - Alabama

Hydrocephalus

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen; Chapter Eighteen; Chapter Nineteen; Chapter Twenty; Chapter Twenty-one; Chapter Twenty-two

Sommario/riassunto

"In this audacious memoir, William Cobb reveals the tumultuous creative life of a distinguished practitioner of southern and Alabama storytelling. As poignant and inspiring as his own fiction, Captain Billy's Troopers traces Cobb's early life, education, and struggles with alcohol and the debilitating condition normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH).  Like a curving river, the broad sweep of Cobb's turbulent life includes both startling cataracts and desultory eddies, leading sometimes into shadows or opening into unexpected sunlight. With unsentimental clarity, Cobb recounts coming of age in his native Demopolis in the churning middle years of the twentieth century. It's there he has his first tantalizing tastes of alcohol and begins to drink habitually. Readers then travel with Cobb to Livingston University (now the University of West Alabama) and then on to Vanderbilt University. Along the way, readers relish his first experiences of love and success as a



writer, leading to a career as a professor of writing at Alabama College (now the University of Montevallo) in 1963.  From there Cobb's struggles with alcohol and depression lead to elongated years of tumbling creative output and the collapse of his marriage. The summer of 1984 found Cobb in rehab, the first step in his path to recovery. His unflinching memoir narrates both the milestones and telling details of his intense therapy and years in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). In the sober thirty years since, Cobb has published a string of critically praised novels and a prize-winning collection of short stories. The capstone of his comeback was winning the Harper Lee Award in 2007 for distinguished fiction writing.  In 2000, shortly after retiring, Cobb developed NPH, which upset his sense of balance and triggered dementia symptoms and other maladies. Nine years later in 2009, brain surgery brought Cobb a dramatic recovery, which began the third act in his writing career. Vital, honest, and entertaining, Captain Billy's Troopers captures the life of an Alabama original. "--

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910438149903321

Titolo

Geometric Partial Differential Equations / / edited by Antonin Chambolle, Matteo Novaga, Enrico Valdinoci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pisa : , : Scuola Normale Superiore : , : Imprint : Edizioni della Normale, , 2013

ISBN

88-7642-473-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Collana

CRM Series, , 2532-3326 ; ; 15

Disciplina

515.353

621.36/7

Soggetti

Differential equations

Mathematical optimization

Calculus of variations

Differential Equations

Calculus of Variations and Optimization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



Nota di contenuto

N. Alikakos: On the structure of phase transition maps for three or more coexisting phases -- S. Amato, G. Bellettini, M. Paolini: The nonlinear multidomain model: a new formal asymptotic analysis -- A. Chambolle, M. Goldman, M. Novaga: Existence and qualitative properties of isoperimetric sets in periodic media -- A. Chambolle, M. Morini, M. Ponsiglione: Minimizing movements and level set approach to geometric flow of nonlocal perimeters -- S. Choi, I. Kim: Homogenization with oscillatory Neumann boundary data in general domain -- D. Christodoulou: The Analysis of Shock Formation in 3-Dimensional Fluids -- L. Dupaigne, A. Farina, B. Sirakov: Regularity of the extremal solutions for the Liouville system -- M.-H. Giga, Y. Giga, A. Nakayasu: On general existence results for one-dimensional singular diffusion equations with spatially inhomogeneous driving force -- Y. Giga, G. Pisante: On representation of boundary integrals involving the mean curvature for mean-convex domains -- A. Lemenant, Y. Sire: Elliptic problem in nonsmooth domain, Reifenberg-flat domains, Regularity -- A. Pisante: Maximally localized wannier functions: existence and exponential localization -- A. Stancu: Flows by powers of centro-affine curvature.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the outcome of a conference held at the Centro De Giorgi of the Scuola Normale of Pisa in September 2012. The aim of the conference was to discuss recent results on nonlinear partial differential equations, and more specifically geometric evolutions and reaction-diffusion equations. Particular attention was paid to self-similar solutions, such as solitons and travelling waves, asymptotic behaviour, formation of singularities and qualitative properties of solutions. These problems arise in many models from Physics, Biology, Image Processing and Applied Mathematics in general, and have attracted a lot of attention in recent years.