Gironimo

Author : Tim Moore
Publisher : Random House
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781448156405

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Gironimo! by Tim Moore Pdf

A 3,162 km race. A 48-year-old man. A 100-year-old bike. Made mostly of wood. That he built himself. Tim Moore sets off to recreate the most appalling bike race of all time. The notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia was an ordeal of 400-kilometre stages, cataclysmic night storms and relentless sabotage - all on a diet of raw eggs and red wine. Of the 81 who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back. Committed to total authenticity, Tim acquires the ruined husk of a gearless, wooden-wheeled 1914 road bike with wine corks for brakes, some maps and an alarming period outfit topped off with a pair of blue-lensed welding goggles. From the Alps to the Adriatic the pair relive the bike race in all its misery and glory, on an adventure that is by turns bold, beautiful and recklessly incompetent.

Author : Leah R. Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108427722

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Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court by Leah R. Clark Pdf

This book presents a new perspective on the Italian Renaissance court by examining the circulation, collection and exchange of art objects.

Author : Martha Langford,Johanne Sloan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780228009788

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Photogenic Montreal by Martha Langford,Johanne Sloan Pdf

The agency of photographs is a recurrent concern within the context of the city. Whether found in architectural records, social documentary, photojournalism, or artistic practice, photographic objects are embedded in urban contestation, aesthetically charged by artists, reinserted into social histories, and mobilized to imagine a future city. Photogenic Montreal takes a question initially posed by heritage debates – what does photography preserve? – and creates a rich conversation about the agency of the human actors before and behind the camera, and of the medium itself. The interplay of archives and activisms structures the book. Photographs that appear to be sealed off in newspapers, storage rooms, or archives accrue new meaning when they cross the threshold back into social spaces and circulate anew. It is through the reactivation of archival photographs that submerged traces of urban experience are discovered, and alternate histories of Montreal can be recounted. Multiple forms of activism and artistic expression complement this archival work. Beginning in the 1960s, community-minded and heritage groups responded to the tensions arising from urban reconstruction, gentrification, and the erasure of neighbourhoods; this activism also left its photographic traces. Attentive to the still-changing face of the city’s architecture, neighbourhoods, and street life, Photogenic Montreal participates in debates about who the city belongs to, who speaks on its behalf, and how to picture its past and present.

Author : Caterina Rizzi,Angelo Oreste Andrisano,Francesco Leali,Francesco Gherardini,Fabio Pini,Alberto Vergnano
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 989 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030311544

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Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering by Caterina Rizzi,Angelo Oreste Andrisano,Francesco Leali,Francesco Gherardini,Fabio Pini,Alberto Vergnano Pdf

This book reports on cutting-edge design methods and tools in industrial engineering, advanced findings in mechanics and material science, and relevant technological applications. Topics span from geometric modelling tools to applications of virtual/augmented reality, from interactive design to ergonomics, human factors research and reverse engineering. Further topics include integrated design and optimization methods, as well as experimental validation techniques for product, processes and systems development, such as additive manufacturing technologies. This book is based on the International Conference on Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering, ADM 2019, held on September 9–10, 2019, in Modena, Italy, and organized by the Italian Association of Design Methods and Tools for Industrial Engineering, and the Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari” of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. It provides academics and professionals with a timely overview and extensive information on trends and technologies in industrial design and manufacturing.

Author : Caterina Rizzi,Francesca Campana,Michele Bici,Francesco Gherardini,Tommaso Ingrassia,Paolo Cicconi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030912345

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Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering II by Caterina Rizzi,Francesca Campana,Michele Bici,Francesco Gherardini,Tommaso Ingrassia,Paolo Cicconi Pdf

This book gathers original papers reporting on innovative methods and tools in design, modelling, simulation and optimization, and their applications in engineering design, manufacturing and other relevant industrial sectors. Topics span from advances in geometric modelling, applications of virtual reality, innovative strategies for product development and additive manufacturing, human factors and user-centered design, engineering design education and applications of engineering design methods in medical rehabilitation and cultural heritage. Chapters are based on contributions to the Second International Conference on Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering, ADM 2021, held on September 9–10, 2021, in Rome, Italy, and organized by the Italian Association of Design Methods and Tools for Industrial Engineering, and Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale of Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy. All in all, this book provides academics and professionals with a timely overview and extensive information on trends and technologies in industrial design and manufacturing.

Author : Tim Moore
Publisher : Random House
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781473584167

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Vuelta Skelter by Tim Moore Pdf

Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours. Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an extraordinary exercise in sporting redemption: the Spanish cyclist had just spent 18 months in Franco's concentration camps, punishment for expressing Republican sympathies during the civil war. Seventy nine years later, perennially over-ambitious cyclo-adventurer Tim Moore developed a fascination with Berrendero's story, and having borrowed an old road bike with the great man's name plastered all over it, set off to retrace the 4,409km route of his 1941 triumph - in the midst of a global pandemic. What follows is a tale of brutal heat and lonely roads, of glory, humiliation, and then a bit more humiliation. Along the way Tim recounts the civil war's still-vivid tragedies, and finds the gregarious but impressively responsible locals torn between welcoming their nation's only foreign visitor, and bundling him and his filthy bike into a vat of antiviral gel.

Author : Tim Moore
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781473522855

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The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold by Tim Moore Pdf

'Bill Bryson on two wheels' Independent Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike. Asking for trouble and getting it, he sets off at the Arctic winter’s brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the endless and massively sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland. Haunted throughout the journey by the border detritus of watchtowers and rusted razor wire, Moore reflects on the curdling of the Communist dream, and the memories of a Cold War generation reared on the fear of apocalypse – at a time of ratcheting East-West tension. After three months, 20 countries and a 58-degree jaunt up the centigrade scale, man and bike finally wobble up to a Black Sea beach in Bulgaria, older and wiser, but mainly older.

Author : Sebastiano Bagnara,Riccardo Tartaglia,Sara Albolino,Thomas Alexander,Yushi Fujita
Publisher : Springer
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319960777

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Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) by Sebastiano Bagnara,Riccardo Tartaglia,Sara Albolino,Thomas Alexander,Yushi Fujita Pdf

This book presents the proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018), held on August 26-30, 2018, in Florence, Italy. By highlighting the latest theories and models, as well as cutting-edge technologies and applications, and by combining findings from a range of disciplines including engineering, design, robotics, healthcare, management, computer science, human biology and behavioral science, it provides researchers and practitioners alike with a comprehensive, timely guide on human factors and ergonomics. It also offers an excellent source of innovative ideas to stimulate future discussions and developments aimed at applying knowledge and techniques to optimize system performance, while at the same time promoting the health, safety and wellbeing of individuals. The proceedings include papers from researchers and practitioners, scientists and physicians, institutional leaders, managers and policy makers that contribute to constructing the Human Factors and Ergonomics approach across a variety of methodologies, domains and productive sectors. This volume includes papers addressing the following topics: Human Simulation and Virtual Environments, Work With Computing Systems (WWCS), and Process Control.

Author : Monica Carfagni
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031580949

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Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering III by Monica Carfagni Pdf

Author : Salvatore Gerbino,Antonio Lanzotti,Massimo Martorelli,Ramón Mirálbes Buil,Caterina Rizzi,Lionel Roucoules
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1646 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031159282

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Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing IV by Salvatore Gerbino,Antonio Lanzotti,Massimo Martorelli,Ramón Mirálbes Buil,Caterina Rizzi,Lionel Roucoules Pdf

This book gathers contributions presented at the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (JCM 2022), held on June 1–3, 2022, in Ischia, Italy. It reports on cutting-edge topics in product design and manufacturing, such as industrial methods for integrated product and process design; innovative design; and computer-aided design. Further topics covered include virtual simulation and reverse engineering; additive manufacturing; product manufacturing; engineering methods in medicine and education; representation techniques; and collaborative and soft robotics. The book is organized into five main parts, reflecting the focus and primary themes of the conference. The contributions presented here not only provide researchers, engineers and experts in a range of industrial engineering subfields with extensive information to support their daily work; they are also intended to stimulate new research directions, advanced applications of the methods discussed and future interdisciplinary collaborations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:A0004062287

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The Royal Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lucio Tommaso De Paolis,Pasquale Arpaia,Patrick Bourdot
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030875954

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Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics by Lucio Tommaso De Paolis,Pasquale Arpaia,Patrick Bourdot Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics, AVR 2021, held in Italy, in September 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 38 full and 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The papers discuss key issues, approaches, ideas, open problems, innovative applications and trends in virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, applications in cultural heritage, in medicine, in education, and in industry.

Author : Leah R. Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781009276207

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Courtly Mediators by Leah R. Clark Pdf

In Courtly Mediators, Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese porcelain, and aromatics, across the early modern Italian, Mamluk, and Ottoman courts. She provides a new narrative that places Aragonese Naples at the center of an international courtly culture, where cosmopolitanism and the transcultural flourished, and in which artists, ambassadors, and luxury goods actively participated. By articulating how and why transcultural objects were exchanged, displayed, copied, and framed, she provides a new methodological framework that transforms our understanding of the Italian Renaissance court. Clark's volume provides a multi-sensorial, innovative reading of Italian Renaissance art. It demonstrates that the early modern culture of collecting was more than a humanistic enterprise associated with the European roots of the Renaissance. Rather, it was sustained by interactions with global material cultures from the Islamic world and beyond.

Author : British Museum,Dora Thornton,Timothy Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015078790956

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Italian Renaissance Ceramics by British Museum,Dora Thornton,Timothy Wilson Pdf

A superb catalogue of the British Museum collection of maiolica and other Italian Renaissance pottery, published in two volumes with a slipcase, ribbon and cloth binding. The British Museum collection of Italian Renaissance ceramics is one of the most important and most comprehensive anywhere in the world. Apart from containing many works of great artistic beauty, it is unequalled for its high proportion of signed, marked, dated and armorial pieces, crucial for scholarly study of the subject. This is the first systematic catalogue of the collection. The 495 detailed entries cover the period from 1400 to 1700 and include maiolica, incised slipware and the rare 'Medici porcelain' made in the ground-breaking Granducal workshop in Florence in the late 16th century. Every item is illustrated at least once, and most twice, in colour. Particular attention is given to patronage (the collection includes works made for such eminent patrons as Pope Leo X and Isabella d'Este), to the relationship with painting and other arts, and to the history of collecting and the role of the British Museum collection in developing the international study of the subject. The catalogue entries incorporate the results of a long programme of scientific analysis of the clays used by Renaissance potters. The book will also contain the fullest bibliography of the subject ever published.

Author : Tim Moore
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781409022169

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Do Not Pass Go by Tim Moore Pdf

A book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly board. In the wonderful world of Monopoly it still only cost -50 to buy a house in Islington, you can move around London with the shake of a dice and even park your car for free. In Do Not Pass Go Tim Moore, belying his reputation as a player who always paid that -10 fine rather than take a Chance, fearlessly tackles the real thing and along the way tells the story of a game and the city that frames it. Sampling the rags and the riches he stays in a hotel in Mayfair and one in the Old Kent Road, enjoys quality time with Dr Crippen in Pentonville Prison and even winds up at the wrong end of the Water Works pipe. And, solving all the mysteries you'll have pondered whilst languishing in jail and many other you certainly wouldn't, Tim Moore reveals how Pall Mall got its name, which three addresses you won't find in your A-Z and why the sorry cul-de-sac that is Vine Street has a special place in the heart of Britain's most successful Monopoly champion. The stirring travelogue of one man's erratic progress around those 28 streets, stations and utilities, Do Not Pass Go is also an epic and lovingly researched history of London's wayward progress in the 66 years since the launch of the world's most popular board game