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The debate over stabilization policy | Franco Modigliani usato Politica e società Economia

The debate over stabilization policy | Franco Modigliani usato Politica e società Economia

This 1986 book examines some of the main issues that have characterized macroeconomics: the debate between 'monetarists' and 'Keynesians'; the response to demand shocks and supply shocks, by which the monetary authorities control aggregrate nominal income and the use and relevance of the money supply as a target; and the consumption function and the determinants of wealth. It shows that Keynesian stabilization policies succeeded in reducing instability due to demand shocks dramatically, but that no aggregrate demand policy can stabilize both price and employment simultaneously after a supply shock. However, by assigning an overall 'social cost' to (excess) unemployment and (initially) unexpected inflation, an optimism path can be derived. In looking at the consumption function and determinants of wealth the empirical evidence is shown to be most consistent with the life-cycle hypothesis. A concluding section is devoted to the impact on private and national society of the 'social security revolution'.

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The best american comics 2012 | AA.VV. usato Fumetti Fumetti Fumetti

The best american comics 2012 | AA.VV. usato Fumetti Fumetti Fumetti

“When I started RAW magazine in the '80s, there were mostly superheroes, a few children's comics, and the dirty, intentionally lowbrow, underground comix. And now, comics can tackle any topic.”—Françoise Mouly, from the Introduction FEATURING Charles Burns, Chester Brown, Joyce Farmer, Chris Ware, Gary Panter, Sergio Aragonés, Christoph Niemann, Adrian Tomine, Sarah Varon, and others. This year with a sampler of comics for kids!

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After the End of Art - Contemporary art and the pale of history | Arthur Coleman Danto usato Arte Storia e critica d'arte

After the End of Art - Contemporary art and the pale of history | Arthur Coleman Danto usato Arte Storia e critica d'arte

Over a decade ago, Arthur Danto announced that art ended in the sixties. Ever since this declaration, he has been at the forefront of a radical critique of the nature of art in our time. After the End of Art presents Danto's first full-scale reformulation of his original insight, showing how, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art has deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that Vasari helped define for it in the Renaissance. Moreover, he leads the way to a new type of criticism that can help us understand art in a posthistorical age where, for example, an artist can produce a work in the style of Rembrandt to create a visual pun, and where traditional theories cannot explain the difference between Andy Warhol's Brillo Box and the product found in the grocery store. Here we are engaged in a series of insightful and entertaining conversations on the most relevant aesthetic and philosophical issues of art, conducted by an especially acute observer of the art scene today. Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts, these writings cover art history, pop art, "people's art," the future role of museums, and the critical contributions of Clement Greenberg--who helped make sense of modernism for viewers over two generations ago through an aesthetics-based criticism. Tracing art history from a mimetic tradition (the idea that art was a progressively more adequate representation of reality) through the modern era of manifestos (when art was defined by the artist's philosophy), Danto shows that it wasn't until the invention of Pop art that the historical understanding of the means and ends of art was nullified. Even modernist art, which tried to break with the past by questioning the ways of producing art, hinged on a narrative. Traditional notions of aesthetics can no longer apply to contemporary art, argues Danto. Instead he focuses on a philosophy of art criticism that can deal with perhaps the most perplexing feature of contemporary art: that everything is possible.

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Chosen Tales - Stories Told by Jewish Storytellers | Peninnah Schram usato Religione Ebraismo

Chosen Tales - Stories Told by Jewish Storytellers | Peninnah Schram usato Religione Ebraismo

The storytellers represented in Chosen Tales are among the most active and talented Jewish storytellers in the world. This extraordinary collection of 68 stories is, in a way, a Jewish storytelling festival, where storytellers gather to share stories, hear each other's stories, and get to know each other better through the stories that are told. Come and experience the magic of the oral tradition. Read and retell these stories again and again so that you too can shape the destiny of the timeless tradition of Jewish storytelling.

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A bear and a tree | Stephen Michael King usato Libri per ragazzi Illustrati

A bear and a tree | Stephen Michael King usato Libri per ragazzi Illustrati

Ren knows that it's almost time for Bear's big sleep, but she needs just one more day with him. One day to explore the winter together - the last of the coloured leaves, the snow as it floats and swirls to the ground, the sun and the moon and the stars. One more day to play and dance and wonder. From this much-admired children's book creator comes a story of friendship and change, and of how precious time can be when we share it with those we love.

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Isaiah Berlin - Liberty and Pluralism | George Crowder usato Filosofia Contemporanea

Isaiah Berlin - Liberty and Pluralism | George Crowder usato Filosofia Contemporanea

Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading political thinkers of the twentieth century, and his work continues to attract admiration and debate. In Isaiah Berlin: Liberty, Pluralism and Liberalism, George Crowder provides both an accessible introduction to Berlin's ideas and an original contribution to political theory. Berlin's range of interests and learning was vast but united by a single overarching project: the uncovering of the conceptual roots of twentieth-century totalitarianism. He traces these through three levels of analysis: the distortion of the concept of freedom by thinkers such as Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel and Marx; the scientism of the Enlightenment and irrationalism of the Counter-Enlightenment and romanticism; and moral monism, the idea that all ethical questions can be answered by reference to a single moral law. Against monism, Berlin asserts the claims of value pluralism, which he aligns with a politics of liberal moderation. In this new assessment, Crowder argues that Berlin's critique of the modern enemies of liberty is exciting and powerful, but also that the coherence of his thought is threatened by a tension between its liberal and pluralist elements. Crowder goes on to suggest how that tension can be resolved by appeal to arguments that go beyond the case actually presented by Berlin but which remain within the spirit of his general outlook.

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Alan Turing's Systems of Logic - The princeton thesis | Alan Mathison Turing usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

Alan Turing's Systems of Logic - The princeton thesis | Alan Mathison Turing usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

A facsimile edition of Alan Turing's influential Princeton thesisBetween inventing the concept of a universal computer in 1936 and breaking the German Enigma code during World War II, Alan Turing (1912–1954), the British founder of computer science and artificial intelligence, came to Princeton University to study mathematical logic. Some of the greatest logicians in the world—including Alonzo Church, Kurt Gödel, John von Neumann, and Stephen Kleene—were at Princeton in the 1930s, and they were working on ideas that would lay the groundwork for what would become known as computer science. This book presents a facsimile of the original typescript of Turing's fascinating and influential 1938 Princeton PhD thesis, one of the key documents in the history of mathematics and computer science. The book also features essays by Andrew Appel and Solomon Feferman that explain the still-unfolding significance of the ideas Turing developed at Princeton.A work of philosophy as well as mathematics, Turing's thesis envisions a practical goal—a logical system to formalize mathematical proofs so they can be checked mechanically. If every step of a theorem could be verified mechanically, the burden on intuition would be limited to the axioms. Turing's point, as Appel writes, is that "mathematical reasoning can be done, and should be done, in mechanizable formal logic." Turing's vision of "constructive systems of logic for practical use" has become reality: in the twenty-first century, automated "formal methods" are now routine.Presented here in its original form, this fascinating thesis is one of the key documents in the history of mathematics and computer science.

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Memory, Brain, and Belief | Daniel L. Schacter, Elaine Scarry usato Scienze umane Psicologia

Memory, Brain, and Belief | Daniel L. Schacter, Elaine Scarry usato Scienze umane Psicologia

The scientific research literature on memory is enormous. Yet until now no single book has focused on the complex interrelationships of memory and belief. This book brings together eminent scholars from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, literature, and medicine to discuss such provocative issues as "false memories," in which people can develop vivid recollections of events that never happened; retrospective biases, in which memories of past experiences are influenced by one's current beliefs; and implicit memory, or the way in which nonconscious influences of past experience shape current beliefs. Ranging from cognitive, neurological, and pathological perspectives on memory and belief, to relations between conscious and nonconscious mental processes, to memory and belief in autobiographical narratives, this book will be uniquely stimulating to scholars in several academic disciplines.

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The Internet and Democratic Citizenship - Theory, Practice and Policy | Stephen Coleman, Jay G. Blumler usato Scienze umane Sociologia

The Internet and Democratic Citizenship - Theory, Practice and Policy | Stephen Coleman, Jay G. Blumler usato Scienze umane Sociologia

Relations between the public and holders of political authority are in a period of transformative flux. On the one side, new expectations and meanings of citizenship are being entertained and occasionally acted upon. On the other, an inexorable impoverishment of mainstream political communication is taking place. The Internet has the potential to improve public communications and enrich democracy, a project that requires imaginative policy-making. This argument is developed through three stages: first exploring the theoretical foundations for renewing democratic citizenship, then examining practical case studies of e-democracy, and finally, reviewing the limitations of recent policies designed to promote e-democracy and setting out a radical, but practical proposal for an online civic commons: a trusted public space where the dispersed energies, self-articulations and aspirations of citizens can be rehearsed, in public, within a process of ongoing feedback to the various levels and centers of governance: local, national and transnational.

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Keys to Interpreting Media Messages, Art Silverblatt , usato, Scienze umane, Sociologia, dimanoinmano.it

Keys to Interpreting Media Messages, Art Silverblatt , usato, Scienze umane, Sociologia, dimanoinmano.it

This second edition captures the influence of the Internet upon various media, provides new concepts and insights into media literacy, and updates previous examples and discussions. As with the first edition, Part One provides a theoretical framework for the critical analysis of media text. Part Two invites students to apply the methodological framework to a variety of media formats. In addition to the formats included in the first edition--journalism, advertising, and American political communications--this section includes a new chapter on interactive media. Part Three considers issues in media communication, such as violence in the media, media and children, media and social change and global communications. Ideal for college courses focusing on the topic of media literacy, this text can also be adopted as the primary text in several media-related courses, such as media criticism, media research, Introduction to Mass Communications, Media and Society, media seminars, and education courses in communications, language arts, or social studies.

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Touch, Representation, and Blindness | Morton A. Heller usato Scienze umane Psicologia

Touch, Representation, and Blindness | Morton A. Heller usato Scienze umane Psicologia

Psychological studies of touch and blindness have been fraught with controversy. Is it necessary to explain perception in terms of representation and inferential processes? In addition, psychologists differ in the relative importance they place on the modality of sensory stimulation for subsequent perceptual experiences. Thus, some psychologists argue that touch can do many of the things that are accomplished by vision, and claim that the mode of sensory stimulation is not critically important for perception. Others suggest that there are important consequences of a lack of visual experience, arguing for the importance of multiple forms of sensory input for conceptual development. A deep theoretical split divides researchers in these areas. Many researchers adopt a cognitive orientation, relate research on touch and blindness to higher order processes, such as memory and concept formation. Others adopt a theoretical perspective, explaining perception without recourse to concepts like mind. As part of the Debates in Psychology Series, this book clarifies the issues which divide the field of touch.

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L'esca - Storie di tutti i colori da colorare | Chuck Palahniuk usato Narrativa Straniera

L'esca - Storie di tutti i colori da colorare | Chuck Palahniuk usato Narrativa Straniera

«Da bambino, andavo da Roy's Chuck Wagon, il buffet all you can eat della mia zona, e portavo a casa tovagliette disegnate da colorare nella speranza di vincere una piovra di peluche. E di tutto questo - disegnini e decorazioni e cartoline artigianali prodotte per la Festa della mamma e tovagliette colorate per partecipare ai concorsi - non è rimasto nulla. Neanche la piovra. Le cose scompaiono. Se non assolvono una funzione, sono spacciate. Perché allora non ingaggiare alcuni dei migliori artisti al mondo, chiedendo loro di illustrare una raccolta di racconti, per produrre un libro ben rilegato che possa far bella figura su qualsiasi scaffale, suscettibile, un domani, di essere riscoperto e apprezzato da una nuova generazione? Questo è un libro che noi abbiamo solo iniziato. Sta a voi completarlo. Apparterrà al futuro. Magari, con i vostri colori, i disegni degli artisti e i miei racconti, riusciremo a creare un'opera destinata a durare. Un oggetto degno di essere custodito.»

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Good Housekeeping:Cookery Book - The cook's classic companion | AA.VV usato Manualistica Cucina

Good Housekeeping:Cookery Book - The cook's classic companion | AA.VV usato Manualistica Cucina

Since it was first published in 1948, the GOOD HOUSEKEEPING COOKERY BOOK has sold millions of copies and has become firmly established as the cook's bible. This major new edition, featuring completely new photography throughout, has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs of today's cooks, while still offering the unerring accuracy and practical advice for which Good Housekeeping is famous. Whatever the occasion, you can be certain you will find the perfect recipe within these pages. Whether you want to know how to create the lightest of souffles, the flakiest pastry or the most vibrantly spiced dish, the GOOD HOUSEKEEPING COOKERY BOOK will show you how. Classic family favourites mingle with unusual and more adventurous dishes for special celebrations and build into a compendium that is truly indispensable. Information on a broad range of subjects such as healthy eating complete the picture. All the recipes are double-tested to the rigorous standards of Good Housekeeping and are illustrated throughout with colour photography. The GOOD HOUSEKEEPING COOKERY BOOK is the only book you will ever need for imaginative ideas, a huge range of recipes ahd guaranteed results-ev

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The Tristan Chord - Wagner and Philosophy | Bryan Magee usato Musica Musica

The Tristan Chord - Wagner and Philosophy | Bryan Magee usato Musica Musica

A profoundly searching investigation that reveals for the first time the philosophical foundations of Wagner's artRichard Wagner's devotees have ranged from the subtlest minds (Proust) to the most brutal (Hitler). The enduring fascination of his works arises from his singular fusion of musical innovation and theatrical daring, but also from his largely overlooked engagement with the boldest investigations of modern philosophy.Now, in this radically clarifying book, Bryan Magee traces the Wagner's involvement in the intellectual quests of his age, from his youthful embrace of revolutionary socialism, to a Schopenhauerian rejection of the world as illusion, to the near-Buddhist resignation of his final years. Mapping the influence of ideas on Wagner's art, Magee shows how abstract thought can permeate musical work and stimulate creations of great power and beauty. And he unflinchingly confronts the Wagner whose paranoia, egocentricity, and anti-Semitism are as repugnant as his achievements are glorious.At once a biography of the composer, an overview of his times, an account of 19th century opera, and an insight into the intellectual and technical aspects of music, Magee's lucid study offers the best explanation of W. H. Auden's judgment that Wagner, for all his notorious difficulties, was "perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived.

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The New Zen Garden - Designing quiet spaces | Joseph Cali usato Arte Architettura

The New Zen Garden - Designing quiet spaces | Joseph Cali usato Arte Architettura

IN THE TRADITION OF JAPANESE TOUCH FOR YOUR GARDEN, THE PERFECT BOOK FOR CONTEMPOLATING A ZEN-STYLE GARDEN FOR HOME OR TOWNHOUSE, YARD OR BALCONY. Japanese gardens are renowned for their serene and peaceful ambiance.The New Zen Gardenpresents the Japanese garden as it exists today, with all its traditional qualities joined to modern architecture and viewed from a modern perspective. This book takes the concept introduced in the best-sellingJapanese Touch for Your Gardenand, focusing on the more contemplative gardens that are drawing greater and greater attention, blends it with a more practical approach. Lavishly illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs and featuring the works of contemporary garden designers and landscape architects,The New Zen Gardenbegins with a brief introduction of the history of the Japanese garden and its spiritual roots. It then guides the reader through the basics of garden concepts, layout, and personal needs. With a focus on small- and medium-size home gardens, author Joseph Cali introduces a visually explicit process in which anyone can conceive their own home garden, whether for a single-family residence or the balcony of an apartment or townhouse. Cali also includes a handful "spotlight sections" that feature guidance from prominent Japanese garden designers, each of whom steers the reader step-by-step through a specific building technique, including the making of textured clay walls, traditional stone walkways, and stone settings. The New Zen Gardenprovides a wealth of information on designing a garden to harmonize with any home or private space. It is a provocative eye-opener both for the serious Japanese garden enthusiast and the weekend gardener.

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