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UNINA9910458222503321 |
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Gildea Robert |
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Titolo |
Surviving Hitler and Mussolini [[electronic resource] ] : Daily Life in Occupied Europe |
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Oxford, : Berg Publishers, 2006 |
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1-282-54559-0 |
9786612545597 |
1-84788-224-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Collana |
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Occupation in Europe ; ; v.v. 1 |
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WieviorkaOlivier |
WarringAnette |
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Disciplina |
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Europe -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 |
Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century |
Military occupation -- Economic aspects |
Military occupation -- Social aspects |
History - General |
History & Archaeology |
Electronic books. |
Germany History |
Italy History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Surviving Hunger; 2 To Work or Not to Work?; 3 Intimate and Sexual Relations; 4 Schooling as a Cultural Interface; 5 Resisters; 6 Resistance, Reprisals, Reactions; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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Examining how far everyday life was possible in a situation of total war and brutal occupation, this book's theme is the social experience of occupation in German- and Italian-occupied Europe, and in particular the strategies ordinary people developed in order to survive. It adopts a comparative approach, and also discusses the Second World War. |
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UNINA9910781132603321 |
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Autore |
Crato Nuno |
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Figuring It Out [[electronic resource] ] : Entertaining Encounters with Everyday Math / / by Nuno Crato |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Copernicus, , 2010 |
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1-282-98275-3 |
9786612982750 |
3-642-04833-1 |
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[1st ed. 2010.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Mathematics |
Popular works |
Mathematics, general |
Popular Science, general |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Original Portuguese edition: A matemática das coisas ; Lisboa, Portugal : Gradiva Publicações lda., 2008. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Everyday Matters -- The Dinner Table Algorithm -- Cutting the Christmas Cake -- Oranges and Computers -- When Two and Two Don’t Make Four -- Getting More Intelligent Every Day -- The Other Lane Always Goes Faster -- Shoelaces and Neckties -- Number Puzzles -- Tossing a Coin -- The Switch -- Eubulides, The Heap and The Euro -- The Earth is Round -- How GPS Works -- Gear Wheels -- February 29 -- The Nonius Scale -- Pedro Nunes’ Map -- Lighthouse Geometry -- Asteroids and Least Squares -- The Useful Man and the Genius -- Secret Affairs -- Alice and Bob1 -- Inviolate Cybersecrets -- Quantum Cryptography -- The FBI Wavelet -- The Enigma Machine -- Art and Geometry -- The Vitruvian Man -- The Golden Number -- The Geometry of A4 Paper Sizes -- The Strange Worlds of Escher -- Escher and the Möbius Strip -- Picasso, Einstein and the Fourth Dimension -- Pollock’s Fractals -- Voronoi Diagrams -- The Platonic Solids -- Pythagorean Mosquitoes -- The Most Beautiful of All -- Mathematical Objects -- The Power of Math -- Doubts in the Realm of Certainty -- When Chance Enhances Reliability -- The Difficulty of Chance -- |
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Conjectures and Proofs -- Mr. Benford -- Financial Fractals -- Turing’s Test -- DNA Computers -- Magical Multiplication -- ? Day -- The Best Job in the World -- Out of this World -- Electoral Paradoxes -- The Melon Paradox -- The Cupcake Paradox -- Infinity -- Unfair Games -- Monsieur Bertrand -- Boy or Girl? -- A Puzzle for Christmas -- Crisis Time for Easter Eggs. |
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This is a book of mathematical stories — funny and puzzling mathematical stories. They tell of villains who try to steal secrets, heroes who encode their messages, and mathematicians who spend years on end searching for the best way to pile oranges. There are also stories about highway confusions occurring when the rules of Cartesian geometry are ignored, small-change errors due to ignorance of ancient paradoxes, and mistakes in calendars arising from poor numerical approximations. This book is about the power and beauty of mathematics. It shows mathematics in action, explained in a way that everybody can understand. It is a book for enticing youngsters and inspiring teachers. Nuno Crato is a leading science writer and mathematician, whose entertaining essays have won a number of international awards. |
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