1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462943503321

Autore

Beaton Roderick

Titolo

Byron's War : Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution / / Roderick Beaton [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-35797-7

1-107-34460-3

1-107-34929-X

1-107-34835-8

1-107-34585-5

1-139-51930-1

1-107-34210-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

821/.7

Soggetti

Greece Civilization Influence

Greece In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Land of lost gods -- ... and modern monsters -- The Road to revolution (1816-1823) -- Reluctant radical -- 'Prophet of a noble contest' -- Death by water, transfiguration by fire -- The deformed transformed -- Greece: "Tis the cause makes all' (July-December 1823) -- Preparations for battle -- Wavering -- The new statesman -- Missolonghi: The hundred days (January-april 1824) -- 'Political economy' -- Confronting the warlords -- Pyrrhic victory.

Sommario/riassunto

Roderick Beaton re-examines Lord Byron's life and writing through the long trajectory of his relationship with Greece. Beginning with the poet's youthful travels in 1809-1811, Beaton traces his years of fame in London and self-imposed exile in Italy, that culminated in the decision to devote himself to the cause of Greek independence. Then comes Byron's dramatic self-transformation, while in Cephalonia, from Romantic rebel to 'new statesman', subordinating himself for the first time to a defined, political cause, in order to begin laying the foundations, during his 'hundred days' at Missolonghi, for a new kind



of polity in Europe - that of the nation-state as we know it today. Byron's War draws extensively on Greek historical sources and other unpublished documents to tell an individual story that also offers a new understanding of the significance that Greece had for Byron, and of Byron's contribution to the origin of the present-day Greek state.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466295803316

Titolo

Ambient Intelligence [[electronic resource] ] : Third International Joint Conference, AmI 2012, Pisa, Italy, November 13-15, 2012, Proceedings / / edited by Fabio Paternò, Boris De Ruyter, Panos Markopoulos, Carmen Santoro, Evert van Loenen, Kris Luyten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2012

ISBN

3-642-34898-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 461 p. 158 illus.)

Collana

Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI ; ; 7683

Disciplina

004.019

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Application software

Computer networks

User interfaces (Computer systems)

Human-computer interaction

Software engineering

Computers and civilization

Artificial Intelligence

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Computer Communication Networks

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

Software Engineering

Computers and Society

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 and index.



Nota di contenuto

Computer science -- Human computer interaction -- Electrical engineering -- Industrial design -- Behavioral sciences -- Sensors -- Actuators -- Computational resources.- Ubiquitous and communication technologies -- Pervasive computing -- Intelligent user interfaces -- Artificial intelligence.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the third International Joint Conference an Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2012, held in Pisa, Italy, in November 2012. The 18 revised full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 (full papers) respectively 14 (short papers) submissions. From a scientific point of view, the papers make a multidisciplinary approach covering fields like computer science, human computer interaction, electrical engineering, industrial design, behavioral sciences, aimed at enriching physical environments with a network of distributed devices, such as sensors, actuators, and computational resources, in order to support users in their everyday activities. From a technological perspective the volume represents the convergence of recent achievements in ubiquitous and communication technologies, pervasive computing, intelligent user interfaces and artificial intelligence.