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Avrei la necessità di leggere questo libro in quanto sto svolgendo un progetto di tesi con il professore Caliari che ci ha suggerito questa lettura.

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The volume is of great interest for the Ph.D. candidate research and for the School of Architecture (in particular in the frame of the studies of Architectural History).
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Re-forming Britain considers the nature and practice of architectural modernism in inter-war Britain in a new light. Bringing hitherto little considered protagonists and projects to the fore, it argues that rather than being an imported idiom, the new architecture in Britain formed part of an ongoing attempt to make a modern nation.

Spanning the period 1925-42, the book focuses on the key sites from and through which architectural modernism emerged in the UK. Part one considers the main arena in which a will to modernize Britain developed in the 1920s. In parts two and three the author documents, contextualizes and explains how this modernizing will was given modernist form, discussing the work of architects such as Wells Coates, Maxwell Fry, and Connell and Ward, and their allied ventures with likeminded reformers in other fields. These collaborations produced ‘narratives of modernity’: buildings, projects, exhibitions and books, through which, the book argues, modernist reformers were able to persuade politicians, and those with influence upon them, that modernism was the means to re-form the nation.

Re-forming Britain offers the first in-depth analysis of well-known modernist schemes such as Kensal House and the Pioneer Health Centre but also brings previously little studied or unknown activities to light. This important work invites a new understanding of the nature of architectural modernism in inter-war Britain and the ways in which it ultimately gave form to post-war Britain.

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Storia dell’urbanistica italiana, utile per corsi e studenti italiani di architettura e pianificazione nell’approfondimento dell’urbanistica

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Questo libro introduce un quadro concettuale per favorire l’analisi delle storie spaziali delle Americhe. Utile a ricerca.
L’idea fondamentale che lo spazio e il luogo siano importanti è condivisa in architettura, progettazione urbana, pianificazione e Landscape. La maggior parte delle informazioni canoniche di queste professioni proviene da altre regioni e da altri continenti.

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This is what I wish I learned from in my first year. Honestly, the third of it that is about linear algebra is one of the best linear algebra resources out there. It doesn’t pull any punches for the pure math students, but unlike many books with that target audience it stays grounded in frequent numerical examples and scientific applications. The culmination to the generalized Stokes’ theorem, as well as the way to frame Maxwell’s equations with differential forms, are particularly satisfying.

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The solid state physics could be one of the most daunting topics in physics and engineering , but destined to be encountered. This book presents all of the topics in undergraduate-level solid state physics in a clear fashion, dense with explanatory or just plain entertaining footnotes, which makes it much more appropriate for beginners than the academia standard Kittel’s “Solid State Physics.” This may be the best introductory book for learning solid state physics. It is certainly the most fun to read. In addition, this book delves deep into the topics related to magnetic materials (not trivial topics as people think), which are often discussed in facile manner in Politecnico’s Physics II (Fisica II) courses.

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After studying electromagnetism and fluid mechanics, maybe there are some students who possess uncanny inclination to amalgamate those two disciplines. This book might fulfill those students’ insatiable desire to “mix” disciplines and lead them to studying MHD and plasma physics, one of the fields with bright prospect. This book is intended to serve as an introductory text for advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students in physics, applied mathematics and engineering. The material in the text is heavily weighted towards incompressible flows and to terrestrial (as distinct from astrophysical) applications. The final sections of the text also contain an outline of the latest advances in the metallurgical applications of MHD and so are relevant to professional researchers in applied mathematics, engineering and metallurgy.

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This is the most up-to-date textbooks for studying electrical machines at an undergraduate level, written by one of the most respected author of this field, Matthew O. Sadiku. This book also provides MATLAB problems, which is essential for any engineering that deals with electricity.

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This is an intuitively motivated presentation of many topics in classical mechanics and related areas of control theory and calculus of variations. All topics throughout the book are treated with zero tolerance for unrevealing definitions and for proofs which leave the reader in the dark. Some areas of particular interest are: an extremely short derivation of the ellipticity of planetary orbits; a statement and an explanation of the “tennis racket paradox”; a heuristic explanation (and a rigorous treatment) of the gyroscopic effect; a revealing equivalence between the dynamics of a particle and statics of a spring; a short geometrical explanation of Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle, and more.

As someone who actually read this book, I am greatly indebted to the author Mark Levi, who really helped me build intuitions for rigid body dynamics, something that other mundane mainstream textbooks couldn’t do.

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This best-selling classical mechanics (corresponds to courses like “Meccanica Lagrangiana”, “Meccanica Razionale”, “Meccanica Analitica” in Italian university curriculum) text since the first edition released in 1960s, written for the advanced undergraduate one- or two-semester course, provides a complete account of the classical mechanics of particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies. Vector calculus is used extensively to explore topics. The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics is introduced early to show its powerful problem solving ability. Also it includes some problems that are meant to be solved with softwares like Wolfram Mathematica or MATLAB, which makes this textbook even more appropriate for engineers.

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