1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000682580203316

Autore

HIGHFIELD, Roger

Titolo

Le vie segrete di Albert Einstein / Roger Highfield, Paul Carter ; traduzioni di Giovanna Mannino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Padova : F. Muzzio, 1994

ISBN

88-7021-712-4

Descrizione fisica

XIII, 331 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Muzzio biblioteca

Altri autori (Persone)

CARTER, Paul

Disciplina

925.3

Soggetti

Einstein, Albert

Collocazione

II.6. 855(II i B 1815)

II.6. 855a(II i B 1815 Bis)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466102603321

Autore

Steinau Lester Joan

Titolo

The future of white men and other diversity dilemmas / / Joan Steinau Lester

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : [publisher not identified], , 2000

New York, New York : , : Open Road Distribution, , [date of distribution not identified]

©2000

ISBN

1-5040-3229-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (99 p.)

Disciplina

305.0973

Soggetti

Equality - United States

Cultural pluralism - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Praise for The Future of White Men and Other Diversity Dilemmas; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Introduction; Part One: Who Gets a Seat?; Who Gets a Seat at the Table?; Blacks versus Gays; What Is the Place of White Men at the Diversity Table?; Is Coalition Possible?; The People with the B's on Their Foreheads; Guilty? Not to Worry; Does Diversity Mean We All Go Our Separate Ways?; Part Two: The Old Images; Women and Machinery; Leona, the Wicked (Jewish) Witch; Who's Looting Whom?; Age Spots, Wrinkles, and Laugh Lines; Who Is Family?

Women in Politics: Steel Minds or Empty Heads?Mother's Day: Hearts, Flowers, and International Politics; Gays, Where Did They Go? (That's Research); Passing: One Way of Escape; Part Three: Now What Do I Say?; What's in a Word?; What's in a Name?; Our Own Names; Part Four: Now What Do I Do?; Doing the Right Thing; Being an Ally: To Others; Being an Ally: To Ourselves; Checking Out the Chairs at the Table; Who Is a "Good Fit"?; The Menu; Part Five: Top Ten Plus Two-Questions About Diversity; What About Jokes?; When Do I Name Race?; Why Do Groups Keep Changing Their Names?



What If We Can't Find Any "Qualified" Minorities and Women?What About "Reverse Discrimination?"; Why Are There No "Special Programs" for Whites?; Aren't Stereotypes Based on Grains of Truth?; Why Do All the Blacks Sit Together in the Cafeteria?; Should I Help a Blind Person Cross the Street?; What About Christmas?; The Confederate Flag: What Do We Do About History?; Who Are We Going to Include Next in Diversity?; Part Six: Diversity, Why Bother?; Standards: Aren't They Rising?; Variety is the Spice of Life; Viva la Diferencia!; Acknowledgments; Copyright Page

3.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000142649707536

Autore

Taylor, Michael W.

Titolo

The Tyrant Slayers : the heroic image in fifth century B.C. Athenian art and politics / by Michael W. Taylor ; with foreword by Gregory Nagy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salem, N.H. : Ayer Co. Publishers, 1991

ISBN

0881431133

Edizione

[2nd ed]

Descrizione fisica

xxi, 115 p., 37 p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

Collana

Monographs in classical studies

Disciplina

938.504

Soggetti

Aristogiton - Art

Aristogiton - Cult - Greece - Athens

Democracy

Harmodius - Art

Harmodius - Cult - Greece - Athens

Athens <Greece> - Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-115)



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797485103321

Titolo

From science to computational sciences : studies in the history of computing and its influence on today's sciences / / Gabriele Gramelsberger (ed.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zürich : , : Diaphanes, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

3-03734-346-X

Edizione

[1. Auflage.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

Qu

Disciplina

004.10923478

Soggetti

Computer science - History

Computer science - Mathematics - History

Computer simulation - History

Interactive computer systems - History

Electronic data processing - History

Science - Data processing - History

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

Cover; Table of Contents; I. INTRODUCTION; A Brief Introduction to the Volume / Gabriele Gramelsberger; From Science to Computational Sciences: A Science History and Philosophy Overview / Gabriele Gramelsberger; II. ORIGINS OF SIMULATION AND RATIONAL PROGNOSIS; Roots and Media of Computational Power: Some Remarks on the Genesis and Genius of Quantification in Early European Modernity / Sybille Krämer; The Early Progress of Scientific Simulation / David Alan Grier; Mimetic Experiments before the Invention of the Computer / Thomas Brandstetter

Computer Simulation in the V2 Rocket Development / Thomas LangeComputer Simulations and the Trading Zone / Peter Galison; From Computation with Experiments to Experiments on Computation / Gabriele Gramelsberger; III. REVERSE ENGINEERING OF NATURE BY NUMBERS; Towards A Definition of Simulation / David Alan Grier; Simulation as a New Style of Research: Iteration, Integration, and Instability / Sergio Sismondo; Artificial, False, and Performing Well /



Johannes Lenhard

Explanatory and Predictive Functions of Simulation Modelling Case: Haemophilus Influenzae Type b Dynamic Transmission Models / Erika MansnerusResearch Technology, the Computer, and Scientific Advance / Renate Mayntz; Shaping Reality with Algorithms: The Earth System / Johann Feichter; Uncertainty in Grammar / The Grammar of Uncertainty: Some Remarks on the Future Perfect / Peter Bexte; IV. APPENDIX; Authors

5.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783221603321

Titolo

Information and e-learning [[electronic resource] ] : new information perspectives / / guest editors: Peter Williams and Susannah Quinsee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2005

ISBN

1-280-50864-7

9786610508648

1-84544-278-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (91 p.)

Collana

Aslib proceedings ; ; v. 57, no. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

QuinseeSusannah

WilliamsPeter

Disciplina

371.33

371.334

Soggetti

Computer-assisted instruction

Internet in education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Guest editorial; E-learning: what the literature tells us about distance education; Information and communication technology (ICT) education in The City School, Pakistan; Tackling student referencing errors through an online tutorial; How to manage the big bang: evolution or revolution in the introduction of an MLE?; Information management and e-learning; The use of the internet in higher education; From prescribed reading to the excitement or the burden of choice

Sommario/riassunto

E-learning is a subject that has fast become a "hot topic" for politicians



and others involved within the education sector. Rapid advances in technology and increasingly cheaper hardware have meant that the potentials of e-learning appear to be more easily realised.