1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784801403321

Autore

Markus M (Mario), <1944->

Titolo

Charts for prediction and chance [[electronic resource] ] : dazzling diagrams on your PC / / Mario Markus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Imperial College Press

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : Distributed by World Scientific, c2007

ISBN

1-281-86757-8

9786611867577

1-86094-855-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 287 p. ) : ill. (some col.)

Disciplina

001.4/226028566

Soggetti

Computer science - Mathematics

Computer art

Computer graphics

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. 241-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Useful and the Beautiful; The "Object Trouve" in Mathematics; The Mondrian Experiments; An Anecdotic Report on Chaos; A Case Submitted to Court; Calculations of the "Charts for Prediction and Chance"; Significance of Discrete Maps; Maps with Scientific Applications; Maps of Generic Significance; Are These Diagrams Fractals?; What Can We Learn from These Diagrams?; Appendices: Glossary; Abbreviations; Instructions for Using the CD-ROM.

Sommario/riassunto

Aims to bring together two disciplines - science and art - and enables readers to produce their own computer-generated displays. This title includes forty-four colour plates and 200 black and white pictures which showcase the diagrams that can easily be reproduced using the accompanying CD-ROM.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971595403321

Autore

Napolitano Valentina

Titolo

Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men : living in urban Mexico / / Valentina Napolitano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002

ISBN

9780520928473

0520928474

9781597347518

1597347515

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

972/.35

Soggetti

Urban Indians - Mexico - Guadalajara

Rural-urban migration - Mexico - Guadalajara

Guadalajara (Mexico) Social conditions

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 (p. 217-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Internationalizing region, expanding city, neighborhoods "in transition" -- 2. Migration, space, and belonging -- 3. Religious discourses and politics of modernity -- 4. Medical pluralism: medicina popular and medicina alternativa -- 5. Becoming a mujercita: rituals, fiestas, and religious discourses -- 6. "Neither married, widowed, single, or divorced": gender negotiation, compliance, and resistance.

Sommario/riassunto

Valentina Napolitano explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender in this incisive analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Napolitano paints a rich and vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighborhood of Guadalajara. Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men insightfully portrays the personal experiences of the neighborhood's residents while engaging with important questions about the nature of selfhood, subjectivity, and community identity as well as the tensions of modernity and its discontents in Mexican society.