The Idea of You

Solène Marchand, proprietaria trentanovenne di una prestigiosa galleria d'arte a Los Angeles, porta la figlia adolescente Isabelle a conoscere la sua boyband preferita. L'ultima cosa che si sarebbe aspettata, però, era di avvicinarsi pericolosamente a Hayes Campbell, frontman degli August Moon, famosi in tutto il mondo. Ma Hayes è brillante, sicuro di sé ed elegante, e l'attrazione tra i due è immediata. Il fatto che abbia solo vent'anni complica ulteriormente le cose. Quella che inizia come una serie di incontri clandestini in varie città si evolve rapidamente in una relazione appassionata. È un viaggio che attraversa i continenti, mentre i due navigano nei mondi più disparati: dalle tournée negli stadi alle fiere d'arte internazionali, fino a rifugi appartati..

This volume offers a new interpretation of the genesis of the idea of scientific progress in early modern science and philosophy. The interpretation argues that the idea of scientific progress was not a historical category, but an epistemological one. The main thesis of the book posits that the idea of scientific progress was a methodological means of dealing with the contingency of nature. To illustrate the novelty of the idea, the individual chapters compare several features of Renaissance natural philosophy with a new regime of knowledge that included time as an inevitable factor of empirical research. The temporal regime of knowledge is illustrated by the work of Bernard de Fontenelle and his colleagues at the Académie des sciences in Paris at the end of the 17th century. The new interpretation remedies a gap in recent scholarship where the idea of scientific progress has been overlooked even though the early modern natural philosophers themselves used it to describe the nature of their research. The book places both well-known texts and less-studied documents in a new light, thus contributing to the lively and rich debate on the origins and nature of early modern science and philosophy. It is of interest to scholars studying the history of early modern philosophy and science.

This book presents a selection of papers submitted to the 20th Tyrrhenian Workshop, which took place in September 2009 in Sardinia, Italy. The workshop focused on the "Internet of Things." This subject is quickly emerging in the wireless technology arena. It describes the pervasive presence of a variety of devices—such as sensors, actuators, and mobile phones—which, through unique addressing schemes, are able to interact and cooperate with each other to reach common goals. This novel paradigm, which originated from the idea of "smart" environments, will be sure to impact the future of logistics, Intelligent Transportation Systems, business and process management, assisted living, E-health, and other applications.

Pushing the boundaries of where you think an a cappella group can take you, The Idea of North have put together their tenth album release, bringing together both new and already loved tunes. Touted as ‘their best album yet’ by ABC Music and winner of the 2013 ARIA for Best Jazz Album, ‘Smile’ encourages you to do just that.

The theme arises from the legal-academic movement "Law and Literature". This newly developed field should aim at two major goals, first, to investigate the meaning of law in a social context by questioning how the characters appearing in literary works understand and behave themselves to the law (law in literature), and second, to find out a theoretical solution of the methodological question whether and to what extent the legal text can be interpreted objectively in comparison with the question how literary works should be interpreted (law as literature). The subject of justice and injustice has been covered not only in treatises of law and philosophy, but also in many works of literature: On the one hand, poets and writers have been outraged at the social conditions of their time. On the other hand, some of them have also contributed fundamental reflections on the idea of justice itself.