Tutto sommato è un perfetto connubio di mistero, introspezione e fantasia che pone interessanti spunti di riflessione ed un modo di vedere il mondo da una prospettiva nuova e autentica. Consente al lettore di intraprendere un viaggio che lo avvicina ad una realtà intrinseca, avendo anche la possibilità di immergersi nei ricordi. Cosa potrebbe volerci dire un albero sacro e millenario? Di cosa stanno parlando quei due antichi latini, occupando il sentiero? Tutte storie che seguono l'eco del battito di uno scrittore ampio, che forse qualcosa ha da comunicare agli altri.

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Pompeii: Tiro's story. Oxford Bookworms Library. Level 1. Con espansione online. Con File audio per il download Oxford University Press

Pompeii: Tiro's story. Oxford Bookworms Library. Level 1. Con espansione online. Con File audio per il download Oxford University Press

È un salire concettuale su un treno virtuale. Un'allegoria, un sogno, un simbolo, una danza di surrealismo ed introspezione. Il treno scorre, silenzioso e veloce come solo quelli a levitazione magnetica possono essere, scivolando insieme ai pensieri di Alex. Lui ci è salito sopra, ma non sa come, né perché. Dentro di lui si aggrovigliano le emozioni ed il cuore si fa carico dell'esistenza. Ciò che accade a bordo del treno è un progressivo avvicinarsi all'Apocalisse, mentre sulla figura di Alex convergono responsabilità che forse gli appartengono, forse no, forse sono in realtà frammentate per raggiungere ciascuno di noi. Ma il suo ruolo ha a che fare tanto con l'umanità quanto con se stesso. Vagone dopo vagone, quello che serpeggia sul mondo è una visione, uno specchio per osservare una realtà futuribile, di nuovo traslata in chiave puramente simbolica. Il ruolo delle donne diventa la chiave di volta.

A comprehensive introduction to statistical methods for data mining and knowledge discovery. Applications of data mining and ‘big data’ increasingly take center stage in our modern, knowledge-driven society, supported by advances in computing power, automated data acquisition, social media development and interactive, linkable internet software. This book presents a coherent, technical introduction to modern statistical learning and analytics, starting from the core foundations of statistics and probability. It includes an overview of probability and statistical distributions, basics of data manipulation and visualization, and the central components of standard statistical inferences. The majority of the text extends beyond these introductory topics, however, to supervised learning in linear regression, generalized linear models, and classification analytics. Finally, unsupervised learning via dimension reduction, cluster analysis, and market basket analysis are introduced. Extensive examples using actual data (with sample R programming code) are provided, illustrating diverse informatic sources in genomics, biomedicine, ecological remote sensing, astronomy, socioeconomics, marketing, advertising and finance, among many others. Statistical Data Analytics: Focuses on methods critically used in data mining and statistical informatics. Coherently describes the methods at an introductory level, with extensions to selected intermediate and advanced techniques. Provides informative, technical details for the highlighted methods. Employs the open-source R language as the computational vehicle – along with its burgeoning collection of online packages – to illustrate many of the analyses contained in the book. Concludes each chapter with a range of interesting and challenging homework exercises using actual data from a variety of informatic application areas. This book will appeal as a classroom or training text to intermediate and advanced undergraduates, and to beginning graduate students, with sufficient background in calculus and matrix algebra. It will also serve as a source-book on the foundations of statistical informatics and data analytics to practitioners who regularly apply statistical learning to their modern data.

"Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005 with devastating consequences. Almost all analyses of the disaster have been dedicated to the way the hurricane affected New Orleans. This volume examines the impact of Katrina on southern Mississippi. While communities along Mississippi's Gulf Coast shared the impact, their socioeconomic and demographic compositions varied widely, leading to different types and rates of recovery. This volume furthers our understanding of the pace of recovery and its geographic extent, and explores the role of inequalities in the recovery process and those antecedent conditions that could give rise to a "recovery divide." It will be especially appealing to researchers and advanced students of natural disastersand policy makers dealing with disaster consequences and recovery"--

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Everything you knew about Red Sonja and her world was forever changed when the She-Devil battled Kulan Gath to the death! Now, following her trip to Hades, the spirit of the She-Devil is reborn, though the world around her has forever changed! Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents issues #35-50 in another massive volume! Over 430-pages of Red Sonja action, along with a complete cover gallery.

Una ridda, apparentemente caotica, di pensieri che si rincorrono e si accavallano, incalzano il lettore e lo spingono ad affrontare, in modo spesso brutale, le incongruenze, le ipocrisie e le fragilità che sono parte integrante della nostra quotidianità. Solo la visione ingenua e curiosa dei bambini mitiga la crudezza delle immagini evocate e ti ricorda che anche tu, che bambino sei stato, puoi tornare a vedere la vita con occhi sorpresi e pieni di meraviglia. I testi poetici sono integrati da immagini «... in modo che ritmo e suoni di bocca si facciano dolce calore di tinta e il tuo cuore si culli...».

The smash-hit mini-series event from Dynamite Entertainment and Top Cow Productions is now available as a trade paperback collection! Follow Detective Sara Pezzini and her new rookie partner as they race to stop a murdering madman. Waiting and watching in the shadows is the enigmatic Dorian Gray - who may or may not be the murderer they seek! Collecting issues #1-4 of the mini-series from Raise the Dead writers John Reppion and Leah Moore, along with artists Stephen Segovia and Walter Geovani, and cover artists Stephen Segovia, Billy Tan, e-Bas, Adriano Batista!

This beautiful volume explores eight European estates that, despite war, taxes, and the passage of time, have remained in the same families for centuries. The photographs are redolent in atmosphere and the text is revealing, due to the author's long friendships with the owners of these great houses. Offering an inside view of a highly refined way of life, Private Splendor reveals the secrets that kept these homes in private hands. The houses include Seville's Casa de Pilatos, owned by Spain's most illustrious grandee; Harewood House in Yorkshire, owned by a cousin of Queen Elizabeth; Germany's Schloss Regensburg, occupied by the flamboyant Princess Gloria von Thurn and Taxis; and the Palazzo Sachetti near Vatican City, whose enormous Sala dei Mapi is entirely frescoed by Francesco Salviati (1510–1563). This beautiful volume explores eight European estates that, despite war, taxes, and the passage of time, have remained in the same families for centuries. The photographs are redolent in atmosphere and the text is revealing, due to the author's long friendships with the owners of these great houses. Offering an inside view of a highly refined way of life, Private Splendor reveals the secrets that kept these homes in private hands. The houses include Seville's Casa de Pilatos, owned by Spain's most illustrious grandee; Harewood House in Yorkshire, owned by a cousin of Queen Elizabeth; Germany's Schloss Regensburg, occupied by the flamboyant Princess Gloria von Thurn and Taxis; and the Palazzo Sachetti near Vatican City, whose enormous Sala dei Mapi is entirely frescoed by Francesco Salviati (1510–1563).

Karl Jaspers was one of the greatest European philosophers and humanists of the twentieth century. He demonstrated a broad range of philosophical thinking that makes his work relevant for the twenty-first century. Coming to philosophy from medicine and psychiatry, Jaspers's views encompass a vast and creative range of empirical, philosophical, social, historical, and poltical ideas.

Hannah Arendt described Jaspers as one of the greatest interpreters of Kant in the German tradition. In the 1950s, Jaspers spoke of his "philosophy of reason" and his debt to Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Weber, and others. His philosophy, however, has often been misunderstood by Anglophone readers and interpreters, both with respect to his so-called existentialism, as well as to the originality, creativity, depth, and scope of this thinking and method.

The contributors to this fascinating volume offer fresh expositions and interpretations of Jaspers's philosophy. All are prominent experts in Jaspers research from three continents (Europe, North America, and Asia). Six major parts reveal the significant contribution of Jaspers's thought to the philosophy of psychiatry and science, philosophy of history, metaphysics, philosophy of education, philosophy of humanity, philosophy of politics, philosophy of religion, and intercultural philosophy.

Key concepts of Jaspers's philosophy are highlighted and interpreted from a fresh and timely perspective: "boundary situations," existential communication, existential truth, transcendence, philosophical faith, the axial age in world history, new politics and the role of a moral and political conversion, the idea of the university, and Jaspers's fascination with and interpretation of Asian thought.

The accessible essays will help readers overcome the intimidation often felt when faced with the work of a major German philosopher. The editors introduce and summarize Jaspers's published works, while offering an overview of his basic themes and concerns. New readers and researchers alike will find this collection instrumental in understanding recent developments in the interpretation of Jaspers.

This book offers a set of case studies exemplifying the broad range of statistical science used in evnironmental studies and application. The case studies can be used for graduate courses in environmental statistics, as a resource for courses in statistics using genuine examples to illustrate statistical methodology and theory, and for courses in environmental science. Not only are these studies valuable for teaching about an essential cross-disciplinary activity, but also they can be used to spur new research along directions exposed in these examples. The studies reported here resulted from a program of research carried on by the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) during the years 1992-1996. NISS was created in 1991 as an initiative of the national statistics organizations, with the mission to renew and focus efforts of statistical science on important cross-disciplinary problems. One of NISS' first projects was a cooperative research effort with the U.S. EPA on problems of great interest to environmental science and regulation, surely one of today's most important cross-disciplinary activities. Douglas Nychka is Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University and currently the Directory of the Geophysical Statistics Project at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He has made contributions to the modeling of ozone pollution and the design of monitoring networks and has been author on more than 40 scientific papers. Walter W. Piegorsch is Professor of Statistics at the University of South Carolina and studies problems in design and analysis of environmental toxicity studies, low-dose risk extrapolation, and combining environmental information.