1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990001073600203316

Titolo

Emilia-Romagna terra di cineasti : antologia di testi, interviste e saggi critici / a cura di Mario Fontanelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[S.l : s.n.], 1990

Descrizione fisica

216 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Disciplina

791.4302330922

Soggetti

Registi cinematografici - Emilia-Romagna

Collocazione

XIII.2. 1008(XVI I 33)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464131603321

Autore

Eisenstein Elizabeth L

Titolo

Divine art, infernal machine [[electronic resource] ] : the reception of printing in the West from first impressions to the sense of an ending / / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-89745-8

0-8122-0467-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (383 p.)

Collana

Material Texts

Material texts

Disciplina

686.2094

Soggetti

Printing - Europe - History

Printing - Social aspects - Europe - History

Books - Europe - History

Electronic books.

Europe Intellectual life

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

First impressions -- After Luther : civil war in Christendom -- After Erasmus : propelling the knowledge industry -- Eighteenth-century attitudes -- The zenith of print culture (nineteenth century) -- The newspaper press : the end of books? -- Toward the sense of an ending (fin de siècle to the present).

Sommario/riassunto

There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black magic. For the most part, however, it was welcomed as a "divine art" by Western churchmen and statesmen. Sixteenth-century Lutherans hailed it for emancipating Germans from papal rule, and seventeenth-century English radicals viewed it as a weapon against bishops and kings. While an early colonial governor of Virginia thanked God for the absence of printing in his colony, a century later, revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic paid tribute to Gutenberg for setting in motion an irreversible movement that undermined the rule of priests and kings. Yet scholars continued to praise printing as a peaceful art. They celebrated the advancement of learning while expressing concern about information overload.In Divine Art, Infernal Machine, Eisenstein, author of the hugely influential The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, has written a magisterial and highly readable account of five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers. Once again, she makes a compelling case for the ways in which technological developments and cultural shifts are intimately related. Always keeping an eye on the present, she recalls how, in the nineteenth century, the steam press was seen both as a giant engine of progress and as signaling the end of a golden age. Predictions that the newspaper would supersede the book proved to be false, and Eisenstein is equally skeptical of pronouncements of the supersession of print by the digital.The use of print has always entailed ambivalence about serving the muses as opposed to profiting from the marketing of commodities. Somewhat newer is the tension between the perceived need to preserve an ever-increasing mass of texts against the very real space and resource constraints of bricks-and-mortar libraries. Whatever the multimedia future may hold, Eisenstein notes, our attitudes toward print will never be monolithic. For now, however, reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300413103321

Autore

Carroll Michael

Titolo

On the Shores of Titan's Farthest Sea : A Scientific Novel / / by Michael Carroll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-17759-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Science and Fiction, , 2197-1188

Disciplina

523.986

Soggetti

Space sciences

Astronomy

Planetary science

Climatology

Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)

Popular Science in Astronomy

Planetology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Novel -- Chapter 1: Encounter -- Chapter 2: Abigail Marco -- Chapter 3: Baffled and Bewildered -- Chapter 4: Demian Sable -- Chapter 5: Break-in -- Chapter 6: Crash -- Chapter 7: Tanya and Abby -- Chapter 8: Vesta Valentines -- Chapter 9: Titanic Invitation -- Chapter 10: Skyward -- Chapter 11: The Villa -- Chapter 12: Talking Trash -- Chapter 13: Submersible -- Chapter 14: Partly Cloudy -- Chapter 15: Encounter II -- Chapter 16: Lose/Lose -- Chapter 17: Cover-up -- Chapter 18: Breakthrough! -- Chapter 19: New Lead -- Chapter 20: Taking Her Out -- Chapter 21: Crazy -- Chapter 22: Florence -- Chapter 23: Power Play -- Chapter 24: A Present Absence -- Chapter 25: Disappearances and Appearances -- Chapter 26: Reunion -- Chapter 27: The Lair -- Chapter 28: Slithering Things -- Chapter 29: A Ping of a Different Frequency -- Chapter 30: Conspiracy Theory -- Chapter 31: Lost in a Lost World -- Chapter 32: Serpents’ Swim -- Chapter 33: A Little Trip -- Chapter 34: Somebody Told Me --



Chapter 35: Sticks and Stones -- Chapter 36: The Morning After -- Chapter 37: Serpents in the Morning -- Chapter 38: Shifting Allies -- Chapter 39: The Hunchback of Mayda Insula -- Chapter 40: Silence of the Grave -- Chapter 41: The Long and Winding Road -- Chapter 42: Remembering Old Times -- Chapter 43: Unwelcoming Committee -- Chapter 44: A Bridge Too Far -- Chapter 45: The Evening News -- Chapter 46: Visitations -- Chapter 47: Delayed Gratification -- Chapter 48: The Creeps -- Chapter 49: Chivalry Is Not Dead -- Chapter 50: Lost Ticket Home -- Chapter 51: Unsettling Revelations -- Chapter 52: Retribution -- Chapter 53: Bon Voyage -- Chapter 54: Return to Sender -- Chapter 55: Sequins and Saline -- Chapter 56: What the Doctor Ordered -- Chapter 57: The Dancer -- Chapter 58: Boarding Parties -- Chapter 59: Imminent Departures -- Chapter 60: The Note -- Part II: The Science Behind the Fiction -- 1: Vesta and Asteroid Mining -- 2: The Lay of the Land on Titan -- 3: Strange Seas on the Surface and Beneath -- 4: Dunes -- 5: Living on Ice -- 6: Titan Life -- 7: Shared Hallucinations -- 8: Terraforming. .

Sommario/riassunto

Titan is practically a planet in its own right, with a diameter similar to that of Mercury, methane rainstorms, organic soot and ethane seas. All of the most detailed knowledge on the moon's geology, volcanology, meteorology, marine sciences and chemistry are gathered together here to paint a factually accurate hypothetical future of early human colonization on this strange world. The views from Titan’s Mayda Outpost are spectacular, but all is not well at the moon's remote science base. On the shore of a methane sea beneath glowering skies, atmospherics researcher Abigail Marco finds herself in the middle of murder, piracy and colleagues who seem to be seeing sea monsters and dead people from the past. On the Shores of Titan’s Farthest Sea provides thrills, excitement and mystery – couched in the latest science – on one of the Solar System’s most bizarre worlds, Saturn’s huge moon Titan. "This riveting story, set against a plausibly well integrated interplanetary space, carries us along with its bright and interesting characters. We feel absolutely transported to a hauntingly beautiful and alien Titan through Carroll's masterful weaving of art and science." – Jani Radebaugh, Professor of Planetary Sciences, Titan dune expert, BYU "It's a fun read! Really makes Titan come alive, literally..." – Astrophysicist and author Ralph Lorenz .