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Importante saggio sulla storia dell’architettura rurale e agricola in Francia tra il Settecento e l’Ottocento, definita come “agritecture” dall’autore

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Recente volume sull’economia agraria delle ville palladiane e del paesaggio agrario veneto nel Cinquecento, a cura del Palladio Museum di Vicenza

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John Bellamy Foster examines Marx’s neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. He shows that Marx, known as a powerful critic of capitalist society, was also deeply concerned with the changing human relationship to nature.

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This undergraduate mathematics textbook blends Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, using isometries as a unifying thread, and culminates in a geometric discussion of special relativity. By the end, from isometries to the Lorentz–Minkowski plane, the book builds an understanding of how geometry can be used to model special relativity. This textbook provides a geometrical prerequisite to study special relativity for students with limited exposure to advanced mathematics.

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t take you? What kind of challenges could you address? Architects After Architecture reframes architecture as a uniquely versatile way of acting on the world, far beyond that of designing buildings.

In this volume, we meet forty practitioners through profiles, case studies, and interviews, who have used their architectural training in new and resourceful ways to tackle the climate crisis, work with refugees, advocate for diversity, start tech companies, become leading museum curators, tackle homelessness, draft public policy, become developers, design videogames, shape public discourse, and much more.

Together, they describe a future of architecture that is diverse and engaged, expanding the limits of the discipline, and offering new paths forward in times of crisis. Whether you are an architecture student or a practicing architect considering a change, you’ll find this an encouraging and inspiring read.

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This is a very readable introduction to the infamous and classic three-body problem and other celestial mechanics topics. It is very reader-friendly that even undergraduate students with sufficient background in mathematical analysis and linear algebra can read fluently.

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Questo volume propone un’osservazione dell’architettura moderna sotto la lente del pensiero ecologico e della storia ambientale, inserendosi in un filone di ricerca sempre più consolidati negli studi storici internazionali.

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This is an easy and modern introduction to functional analysis with minimum prerequisites. This textbook covers key results in functional analysis that are essential for further study in the calculus of variations, analysis, dynamical systems, and the theory of partial differential equations. Given the fact that many students (except for physics and mathematics majors) don’t get to take functional analysis courses, this textbook would be a valuable addition for those students in other engineering disciplines who wish to study the calculus of variations, dynamical systems, PDEs, etc. in depth.

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To understand the general theory of dynamical systems and chaos, one needs to understand the concepts of modern differential geometry like manifolds, advanced understandings of vector fields (e.g. Lie derivatives), and differential forms. This textbook serves as an introduction to modern differential geometry at a level accessible to advanced undergraduate and master’s students. It places special emphasis on motivation and understanding, while developing a solid intuition for the more abstract concepts. In contrast to graduate level references, the text relies on a minimal set of prerequisites: a solid grounding in linear algebra and multivariable calculus, and ideally a course on ordinary differential equations. Manifolds are introduced intrinsically in terms of coordinate patches glued by transition functions. The theory is presented as a natural continuation of multivariable calculus; the role of point-set topology is kept to a minimum.

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Students often encounter concepts of dynamical systems and analytical mechanics (Hamiltonian formulation) without prior experience in differential geometry. Unlike many other mainstream introductory differential geometry textbooks, this textbook exposes students to Riemannian and symplectic geometry, which are used in the studies of dynamical systems and Hamiltonian mechanics with minimum prerequisites.

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