The bite and wit of two of antiquity's best satirists are captured here in a new Loeb Classical Library edition, a vivid and vigorous translation facing the Latin text.

Persius (34-62 CE) and Juvenal (writing maybe 60 years later) were heirs to the style of Latin verse satire developed by Lucilius and Horace, a tradition mined in Susanna Braund's introduction and notes. Her notes also give guidance to the literary and historical allusions that pepper Persius's and Juvenal's satirical poems--which were clearly aimed at a sophisticated urban audience. Both poets adopt the mask of an angry man, and sharp criticism of the society in which they live is combined with flashes of sardonic humor in their satires. Whether targeting common and uncommon vices, the foolishness of prayers, the abuse of power by emperors and the Roman elite, the folly and depravity of Roman wives, or decadence, materialism, and corruption, their tone is generally one of righteous indignation.

Juvenal and Persius are seminal as well as stellar figures in the history of satirical writing. Juvenal especially had a lasting influence on English writers of the Renaissance and succeeding centuries.

Le immagini di questo volume sono la quarta, e conclusiva parte, di un progetto che Antonio Biasiucci ha realizzato e a perseguito negli ultimi anni. Dopo un viaggio verso le origini del mondo e i suoi oggetti (Corpus), un lavoro all'interno dei vulcani visti come forma embrionale di energia ancora in evoluzione (Magma), l'ancestrale e fisica memoria dell'animale primigenio (Vacche), con 'Res' ora l'autore cerca di rintracciare, come dice il sottotitolo, Lo stato delle cose. Il volume presenta una lunga, affascinante e continua ricerca sul valore profondo delle immagini, chiuse tra i due termini essenziali dell'origine e della catastrofe. Le cose appaiono come resti e vestigia di un racconto storico.

On May 11, 1997, as millions worldwide watched a stunning victory unfold on television, a machine shocked the chess world by defeating the defending world champion, Garry Kasparov. Written by the man who started the adventure, Behind Deep Blue reveals the inside story of what happened behind the scenes at the two historic Deep Blue vs. Kasparov matches. This is also the story behind the quest to create the mother of all chess machines. The book unveils how a modest student project eventually produced a multimillion dollar supercomputer, from the development of the scientific ideas through technical setbacks, rivalry in the race to develop the ultimate chess machine, and wild controversies to the final triumph over the world's greatest human player.

In nontechnical, conversational prose, Feng-hsiung Hsu, the system architect of Deep Blue, tells us how he and a small team of fellow researchers forged ahead at IBM with a project they'd begun as students at Carnegie Mellon in the mid-1980s: the search for one of the oldest holy grails in artificial intelligence--a machine that could beat any human chess player in a bona fide match. Back in 1949 science had conceived the foundations of modern chess computers but not until almost fifty years later--until Deep Blue--would the quest be realized.

Hsu refutes Kasparov's controversial claim that only human intervention could have allowed Deep Blue to make its decisive, 'uncomputerlike' moves. In riveting detail he describes the heightening tension in this war of brains and nerves, the 'smoldering fire' in Kasparov's eyes. Behind Deep Blue is not just another tale of man versus machine. This fascinating book tells us how man as genius was given an ultimate, unforgettable run for his mind, no, not by the genius of a computer, but of man as toolmaker.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2003, held in Antalya, Turkey in November 2003.The 135 revised papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from over 360 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on architectures and systems, theoretical computer science, databases and information retrieval, e-commerce, graphics and computer vision, intelligent systems and robotics, multimedia, networks and security, parallel and distributed computing, soft computing, and software engineering.

The pacemaking and conduction system (PCS) is vital for generating and synchronizing the heart beat. Dysfunction of this system can be a direct cause of cardiac conduction disturbance, arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. A wealth of information has been collected over many years on the unique histological, morphological and phenotypic characteristics of specialized cardiac tissues. The cellular and molecular mechanisms that govern development of the PCS are now starting to be understood.

This book draws together contributions from an international and interdisciplinary group of experts working on both basic and clinical aspects of cardiac development. It features reviews of the structure and function of the developing PCS, discussion of the molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating embryological development of this system and studies on the fundamental basis of PCS pathology. The book also considers how novel therapeutic interventions based on understanding of the developmental biology of cardiac pacemaking and conduction tissues might ultimately impact on clinical medicine.

Un vecchio saggio e il suo giovane discepolo viaggiano per le strade della Cina di un'epoca remota. Attraversano villaggi e città, pascoli erbosi e aride distese di sabbia, scalano montagne e sfidano gli elementi della natura, la pioggia battente, il vento freddo e penetrante, il sole impietoso, con un unico scopo, trovare 'il tesoro'. Che cambierà le loro vite. Lungo il cammino incontreranno altri personaggi e altre storie di vita, che li porteranno più lontani o forse più vicini alla loro meta, conosceranno il mistero della nascita e della morte e la legge del grande Tutto che regola ogni cosa.

Varsavia, oggi. Pavel, commerciante di tessuti, è inseguito dalla malavita polacca per un debito che ha contratto. Costretto a cercare di recuperare la somma del denaro che gli consentirà di rimanere vivo, cerca soccorso presso i suoi amici. Uno di questi, Bolek, divenuto ricco grazie al traffico di stupefacenti, si offre di aiutarlo, ma gli chiede in cambio un prezzo molto alto: il tradimento di un amico comune. Per le strade di una Varsavia disperata e indifferente, Pavel combatte la sua lotta per avere salva la vita e mantenere la sua dignità di uomo. Nato a Varsavia nel 1960, Stasiuk è approdato alla letteratura nel 1992, dopo un'intensa attività politica nel movimento pacificista ed aver scontato un anno di carcere per diserzione.

Cristiano di confessione protestante, Paul Ricoeur è uno dei più importanti filosofi viventi. Questo saggio si sofferma sulla logica e l'etica che Ricoeur chiama della 'sovrabbondanza', proprie cioè di una filosofia il cui fondamento è determinato dalla speranza. Mentre la logica dell'equivalenza appartiene all'etica della giustizia, la logica della sovrabbondanza, rivelata dal cristianesimo, è l'etica dell'amore. Il saggio indaga sulle particolari concezioni del linguaggio, dell'uomo e dell'azione che sostengono questa prospettiva e sulle implicazioni teologiche della filosofia ermeneutica di Ricoeur intesa come approssimazione alla logica della sovrabbondanza.

The People's House tells the story of the two mansions that have housed most of Kentucky's governors. The Old Mansion, first occupied by Gov. James Garrard in 1798 and long known as the 'Palace' -- and now the residence of the state's lieutenant governor -- is reputed to be the oldest official residence still in use in the United States. The parlor and formal dining room have welcomed dignitaries, artists, and poets. The New Mansion, a masterpiece of Beaux-Arts architecture, whose historical source was the Petit Trianon at Versailles, has housed every governor since James Bennett McCreary occupied it during his second term, beginning in 1914.

Thomas D. Clark, Kentucky's historian laureate, writes of the buildings themselves and the people who lived and worked in them. His exhaustive chronicle provides an impressive backdrop for much of the state's political and social history and is filled with enlightening and humorous anecdotes about the many governors, their families, the scores of stellar visitors, and even the occasional horse, cow, and chicken who have occupied and visited the mansions and their grounds throughout the years. Over two hundred color and black and white photographs and illustrations, many of them quite rare, accompany the text.

Thomas D. Clark, historian laureate of Kentucky, is the author of dozens of books on Kentucky history.

Margaret A. Lane served as Executive Director of both the Old and the New Mansions.

Cantonese has a wealth of colloquial expressions on various daily life situations which are very descriptive but not easily comprehensible to non-Cantonese. This book collects and compiles over 3,000 entries of the commonly-used ones and presents them with their English translations for English-speaking students learning Cantonese. Besides listing the expression in Chinese characters with its literal translation in English, each entry also contains its phonetic transcription in the Yale Romanization System, and a description of its meaning and sometimes its origin. The entries are arranged alphabetically according to the Yale Romanization System, and, for ease of reference, an index by the strokes of the Chinese characters of the expressions is included. There is also an explanation of the Yale Romanization System.
This book is also a useful and convenient reference for interpreters and translators in Cantonese and English and for non-Cantonese Chinese learning Cantonese.

Quattro amici polacchi, raccolti intorno al tavolo di un locale, fronteggiano il vuoto delle loro vite. L'idea di attraversare una foresta durante una spaventosa tempesta di neve nasce quasi come una sfida alla vita, come l'atto estremo che permetterà loro di sentirsi ancora fatti di carne e sangue. Ma mentre la neve cade e la tensione aumenta, tra gli alberi della foresta li aspetta un omicidio tanto gratuito quanto violento.

This book introduces the reader to two of the main directions of one-dimensional dynamics. The first has its roots in the Sharkovskii theorem, which describes the possible sets of periods of all periodic orbits of a continuous map of an interval into itself. The whole theory, which was developed based on this theorem, deals mainly with combinatorial objects, permutations, graphs, etc.: it is called combinatorial dynamics. The second direction has its main objective in measuring the complexity of a system, or the degree of 'chaos' present in it. A good way of doing this is to study the topological entropy of the system. The aim of this book is to provide graduate students and researchers with a unified and detailed exposition of these developments for interval and circle maps. The second edition contains two new appendices, where an extension of the theory to tree and graph maps is presented without technical proofs.

Sul finire del 1841 usciva a Parigi pressocché inosservato un volumetto di prose poetiche dal titolo 'Gaspard de la Nuit. Fantasie alla maniera di Rembrandt e di Callot'. Ne era autore un giovane provinciale, Louis Bertrand detto Aloysius, morto l'anno precedente in miseria, al volgere di una breve stagione letteraria che lo aveva imposto all'attenzione dei circoli romantici della capitale. Con la scansione cristallizzata e illusoria del poema in prosa, che Aloysius Bertrand inaugura, è un intero mondo poetico a trovare una dimensione inattesa e privilegiata. Uno spazio fantastico che sa accogliere i chiaroscuri fiamminghi come i bagliori tardogotici, i sogni e le allucinazioni notturne, le maschere italiane e gli insetti inquietanti.