Geoffrey Scott, originale figura di poeta e studioso, compone con questo libro una brillante «storia naturale» del pensiero architettonico, per scoprire quanto di vero o di falso esista dietro la riflessione moderna. Pubblicato alla vigilia della Prima Guerra Mondiale e poi riveduto nel 1924, L'architettura dell'umanesimo esprime una tensione estetizzante e un'acuta insofferenza per ogni approccio utilitarista. Per Scott, infatti, ciò che si avverte come «bellezza» non è mai materia di dimostrazione logica, ma si fonda piuttosto sul lavoro inconscio della memoria e affiora semplicemente come «piacere». L'educazione della facoltà creativa consisterà, allora, nell'affinare la sensibilità e ciò avverrà con l'abitudine a contemplare opere che incarnino i valori «umanizzati» di massa, spazio, linea e coerenza. È nella tradizione italiana, dal XV al XVIII secolo, che Scott ritrova tali valori: recuperarli è per lui un tentativo di ravvivare nei lettori il senso del gusto, avvilito dall'eclettismo vittoriano.

Managing The Cycle Of Acting-Out Behavior In The Classroom

Second Edition

Geoff Colvin and Terrance M. Scott

Minimize problem behavior and maximize student success!

Acting-out behavior by students manifests in ways that make classroom management and teaching very challenging.

Building on a model using seven phases of acting-out behavior presented in the first edition, the newly updated edition draws on new research in applied behavior analysis, sound instructional principles, and functional behavior assessment to deliver a clear roadmap for educators to design interventions in a clear, systematic, and achievable matter. Features include:

• Managing each phase of the acting-out cycle—from structuring the classroom, to handling escalated behavior, to recovery
• Case studies that distill concrete action steps from the book’s concepts
• Checklists, tools, resources, and templates for applying the book’s principles to any classroom

"This heavily illustrated two-volume atlas is the most comprehensive "how-to" reference on surgery of the breast. The world's leading surgeons describe and demonstrate the most advanced and successful techniques for all types of general surgery, aesthetic, and reconstructive procedures--oncologic management of breast disease, breast reconstruction, reduction mammoplasty and mastopexy, and augmentation mammoplasty. The text is illustrated throughout with over 4,100 drawings and full-color preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative photographs. Editorial comments at the end of each chapter provide an alternative perspective and address current controversies. This thoroughly updated Third Edition features a greatly expanded section on augmentation mammoplasty. Other new chapters cover deep inferior epigastric perforator flap breast reconstruction, skin preserving delayed breast reconstruction, and nipple-sparing mastectomy. Coverage also includes new information on managing oncoplastic surgery, surveillance following breast reconstruction, reconstruction following tumor recurrence, and the role of stem cells"--Provided by publisher.

STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ENGINEERS offers a balanced, streamlined one-semester introduction to Engineering Statistics that emphasizes the statistical tools most needed by practicing engineers. Using real engineering problems with real data based on actual journals and consulting experience in the field, students see how statistics fits within the methods of engineering problem solving. The text teaches students how to think like an engineer at analyzing real data and planning a project the same way they will in their careers. Case studies simulate problems students will encounter professionally and tackle on long-term job projects. The presentation makes extensive use of graphical analysis, and use of statistical software is encouraged for problem-solving to illustrate how engineers rely on computers for data analysis. The authors relate their own extensive professional experience as engineers in short margin notes called Voice of Experience that lend valuable context to how students will apply concepts in the field and why they're important to learn. And a rich companion website provides hours of multimedia lecture presentation narrated by the authors to show the material related live by different voices, simulating how students will listen and learn from multiple colleagues in their jobs.

A guide to developing exercise programmes for those suffering from chronic diseases and disabilities including but not limited to Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, Metabolic, Orthopedic, Neuromuscular and Cognitive, Psychological and Sensory.

A classic text in architectural and art historical theory. Reissued in trade format with a new introduction, The Architecture of Humanism offers a brilliant analysis of the theories and ideas behind much of nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture. It discusses the classical tradition as reflected in the architecture of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and the role given the human body in that tradition. It is recommended reading for all architecture students, and essential for those interested in the revival of classical architecture.

Geoffrey Scott isola, affronta e fa giustizia di tutti gli "equivoci" che intralciano, spesso in maniera decisiva, una reale comprensione dei fenomeni architettonici, in particolare del Rinascimento italiano.