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Data Compression: The Complete Reference

Springer, 2004

Giambattista della Porta, a Renaissance scientist, was the author in 1558 of Magia Naturalis (Natural Magic), a book in which he discusses many subjects, including demonology, magnetism, and the camera obscura. The book mentions an imaginary device that has since become known as the “sympathetic telegraph.” This device was to have...

From COBOL to OOP (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2003

Driven by the year-2000 problem, the hordes of COBOL developers experienced a renaissance, but the times when COBOL was state-of-the-art are long gone. Object-orientation, application servers, web front-ends, and relational database systems dominate the scene for new projects today. The fact remains however, that millions of lines of source code...

The Art of Conjecture: Nicholas of Cusa on Knowledge (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy)

The Catholic University of America Press, 2021

"Learned ignorance," the recognition that God is beyond us and our knowing capacities is the theological concept for which Nicholas of Cusa is most famous. Despite God's apparent absence Nicholas offers original ways to think about God that would unite his presence with his absence. He called these proposals...

Digital Da Vinci: Computers in Music

Springer, 2014

The Digital Da Vinci book series opens with the interviews of music mogul Quincy Jones, MP3 inventor Karlheinz Brandenburg, Tommy Boy founder Tom Silverman and entertainment attorney Jay L. Cooper. A strong supporter of science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs in schools, The Black Eyed Peas founding member will.i.am...

Circuit-Bending: Build Your Own Alien Instruments (ExtremeTech)

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Fans will get bent out of shape if they miss the first book to cover circuit-bending-""bending,"" for short-the method by which an electronic toy or a device such as a keyboard is short-circuited and modified to create an entirely different sound Written by the inventor of the technology, this book covers the tools of the...

When Pancakes Go Bad: Optical Delusions with Adobe Photoshop

Course Technology PTR, 2004

If you've ever found yourself looking at funny images and thinking "Hey, how?d they do that?", this is the book that will give you the answer! Learn how to have fun with photos?swapping pictures of historical inventions with modern-day appliances or combining images of animals to produce unrealistic characters. "When Pancakes Go...

The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso (Early Modern Exchange)

University of Delaware Press, 2019

In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities. In Dante’s Divina Commedia, Luigi Pulci’s Morgante, Ludovico Ariosto’s...

Italian Renaissance Utopias: Doni, Patrizi, and Zuccolo (Palgrave Studies in Utopianism)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book provides the first English study (comprehensive of introductory essays, translations, and notes) of five prominent Italian Renaissance utopias: Doni’s Wise and Crazy World, Patrizi’s The Happy City, and Zuccolo’s The Republic of Utopia, The Republic...

Primary Intraocular Lymphoma

World Scientific Publishing, 2007

In medicine and science, two inseparable sisters, a modern renaissance has occurred in which the pursuit of knowledge has provided the world with fascinating discoveries and answers to age-old questions. Perhaps one of the most shining and striking moments in this modern renaissance was the elucidation of the human genome. From...

Renaissance and Reformation Reference Library Cumulative Index Edition 1. (U-X-L Renaissance & Reformation Reference Library)

Gale, 2002

School Library Journal : "Complementary approaches to an important era in European history...The Saaris' Renaissance will be a top choice for student researchers, particularly those in need of primary-source materials."
-- School Library Journal (Febraury 2003)

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Renaissance and Reformation: Primary Sources Edition 1

Gale, 2002

School Library Journal : "...contains 18 excerpts from a wide range of works and authors...The Saaris' Renaissance will be a top choice for student researchers, particularly those in need of primary-source materials."
-- School Library Journal (Febraury 2003)

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Renaissance and Reformation: Biographies Edition 1.

Gale, 2002

"Biographies profiles more than 50 artists, writers, humanists, kings, queens, and religious leaders in three- to five- page essays and sidebars...The Saaris' Renaissance will be a top choice for student researchers, particularly those in need of primary-source materials." (School Library Journal )
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