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The Representation of Vikings in Cinema and Television

The Representation of Vikings in Cinema and Television

Alberto Robles Delgado

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
sidottu
Exploring the reception and representation of Viking culture in audiovisual media, particularly in cinema and television, this book provides a comprehensive chronological exploration of films and television programmes produced from the early twentieth century to the present day.Providing a conceptualization of the elements that have shaped the representation of Vikings, both aesthetically and ideologically, and how they have evolved over time. The chapters offer an extensive analysis of this corpus, not only of the audiovisual display about Vikings, but most significantly of the entire context within which these productions were developed. Since cinema reflects its contemporary society, it is crucial to comprehend the motivations behind the representation of Vikings in different cultural, political, and geographical contexts. Regarding the latter, a major distinctive feature of this corpus is its spatial dimension. Films from different film industries such as the United States, Nordic countries, Italy, Russia, or Poland are analysed. Illuminating the variations in the conceptualisations of the idea of Vikings between the different countries, always influenced by their own history and their historiographical association with the Nordic world. Additionally, this book includes an appendix the entire film corpus as a resource for readers to conduct their own research.A History of Vikings in Cinema will be essential reading for students and researchers interested in Vikings in popular culture.
The Representation of Vikings in Cinema and Television

The Representation of Vikings in Cinema and Television

Alberto Robles Delgado

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
nidottu
Exploring the reception and representation of Viking culture in audiovisual media, particularly in cinema and television, this book provides a comprehensive chronological exploration of films and television programmes produced from the early twentieth century to the present day.Providing a conceptualization of the elements that have shaped the representation of Vikings, both aesthetically and ideologically, and how they have evolved over time. The chapters offer an extensive analysis of this corpus, not only of the audiovisual display about Vikings, but most significantly of the entire context within which these productions were developed. Since cinema reflects its contemporary society, it is crucial to comprehend the motivations behind the representation of Vikings in different cultural, political, and geographical contexts. Regarding the latter, a major distinctive feature of this corpus is its spatial dimension. Films from different film industries such as the United States, Nordic countries, Italy, Russia, or Poland are analysed. Illuminating the variations in the conceptualisations of the idea of Vikings between the different countries, always influenced by their own history and their historiographical association with the Nordic world. Additionally, this book includes an appendix the entire film corpus as a resource for readers to conduct their own research.A History of Vikings in Cinema will be essential reading for students and researchers interested in Vikings in popular culture.
The Labyrinth of Love

The Labyrinth of Love

Alberto Castelli

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2024
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This book studies the various narrative shades of love in twentieth-century Latin American fiction. It examines writings by Isabel Allende, Roberto Arlt, García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa. The author provides a close textual reading of each novel and discusses how humans make sense of their lives through love. He shifts the focus of these writings from political violence and historical disillusionment to the illusion of love.An important contribution to Latin American literary criticism, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, history, Latin American literature, philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, comparative literature, and sociology.
Energy Efficiency and Robustness of Advanced Machine Learning Architectures

Energy Efficiency and Robustness of Advanced Machine Learning Architectures

Alberto Marchisio; Muhammad Shafique

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2024
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Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have shown a high level of accuracy, and applications are widely used in many systems and platforms. However, developing efficient ML-based systems requires addressing three problems: energy-efficiency, robustness, and techniques that typically focus on optimizing for a single objective/have a limited set of goals.This book tackles these challenges by exploiting the unique features of advanced ML models and investigates cross-layer concepts and techniques to engage both hardware and software-level methods to build robust and energy-efficient architectures for these advanced ML networks. More specifically, this book improves the energy efficiency of complex models like CapsNets, through a specialized flow of hardware-level designs and software-level optimizations exploiting the application-driven knowledge of these systems and the error tolerance through approximations and quantization. This book also improves the robustness of ML models, in particular for SNNs executed on neuromorphic hardware, due to their inherent cost-effective features. This book integrates multiple optimization objectives into specialized frameworks for jointly optimizing the robustness and energy efficiency of these systems.This is an important resource for students and researchers of computer and electrical engineering who are interested in developing energy efficient and robust ML.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
International Operations Management

International Operations Management

Alberto F. De Toni

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2024
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International Operations Management: Lessons in Global Business uses a fascinating selection of case studies researched during the 'International Operations Management Project', sponsored by the European Commission, to produce a valuable view of businesses in Western and Eastern traditions. Ranging from China Post and Flextronics International (Singapore) to Electrolux, Ford, and GlaxoSmithKline, the studies link conceptual and practical approaches in five areas: international operations management strategy, sourcing and manufacturing, new product development, logistics, and networked organisations. Throughout, the authors compare the Western and Eastern approaches to business, and introduce theory to clarify the comparison and the real consequences of internationalisation. With its balance of theoretical and applied content, this volume, created from an exciting collaboration between universities and schools of management in Europe and China, serves as both a primary and supplementary source for higher level students and educators, and as a worthwhile read for interested practitioners.
Four Philosophers and the Bomb

Four Philosophers and the Bomb

Alberto Castelli; Giunia Gatta; Micaela Latini; Francesco Raschi

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
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In this book, Alberto Castelli, Giunia Gatta, Micaela Latini, and Francesco Raschi examine how four prominent intellectuals of the 20th century (Bertrand Russell, Karl Jaspers, Raymond Aron, and Günther Anders) understood atomic warfare. With a chapter devoted to the philosophical ideas of each thinker and how they understood and interpreted war, the authors analyze the historic-political context in which these ideas emerged and what they proposed to avoid a nuclear disaster.Four Philosophers and the Bomb will be of interest to students and researchers of peace studies, international relations, political philosophy, and moral philosophy.
Literature and Philosophy

Literature and Philosophy

Alberto Castelli

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
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This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy. It investigates seemingly incomprehensible behaviours from the perspective of philosophy and expounds on love by using Darwinism, Marxism, Existentialism, Plato, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Barthes as tools of investigation. The author deconstructs 20 literary texts and presents a work of literary criticism in which literary theories are blended with philosophical theories on the self.An important contribution, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, philosophy, comparative literature, world literature, modern fiction, romanticism, modernism, and postmodernism.
Literature and Philosophy

Literature and Philosophy

Alberto Castelli

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
nidottu
This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy. It investigates seemingly incomprehensible behaviours from the perspective of philosophy and expounds on love by using Darwinism, Marxism, Existentialism, Plato, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Barthes as tools of investigation. The author deconstructs 20 literary texts and presents a work of literary criticism in which literary theories are blended with philosophical theories on the self.An important contribution, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, philosophy, comparative literature, world literature, modern fiction, romanticism, modernism, and postmodernism.
The Self on Trial

The Self on Trial

Alberto Castelli

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
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The Self on Trial is an inquiry into the self and its pathological behaviors. The author observes 20th-century fiction and studies it through a psychological reading. It is evident that the century has produced self-destructive characters whose behaviors and choices are an ultimate form of consummation – primitive, elementary, and inexplicable. Why cannot Prufrock ask the overwhelming question? What is the reason for Humbert’s sexual attraction to Lolita? Why do we destroy what we love the most? The author reveals, through literary representations, aberrations of the ego that come into existence when already existing psychological dispositions meet a specific social habitat. An important contribution, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, world literature, philosophy, psychology, poetry, and modern fiction. It will appeal to those who try to understand the nature of one’s inexplicability.
The Self on Trial

The Self on Trial

Alberto Castelli

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
nidottu
The Self on Trial is an inquiry into the self and its pathological behaviors. The author observes 20th-century fiction and studies it through a psychological reading. It is evident that the century has produced self-destructive characters whose behaviors and choices are an ultimate form of consummation – primitive, elementary, and inexplicable. Why cannot Prufrock ask the overwhelming question? What is the reason for Humbert’s sexual attraction to Lolita? Why do we destroy what we love the most? The author reveals, through literary representations, aberrations of the ego that come into existence when already existing psychological dispositions meet a specific social habitat. An important contribution, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, world literature, philosophy, psychology, poetry, and modern fiction. It will appeal to those who try to understand the nature of one’s inexplicability.
Two Centuries of English Language Teaching and Learning in Spain

Two Centuries of English Language Teaching and Learning in Spain

Alberto Lombardero Caparrós

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
nidottu
This book provides an exhaustive historical account of how the English language was taught and learnt in Spain over two centuries. Since its origins back in 1769 with the publication of San Joaquín de Pedro's 'Gramática inglesa' until 1970, a key year in European and World affairs. A period of time ample enough to accurately gauge the impact of this social phenomenon against the backdrop of social and political unrest which looms over the whole period but also with scientific breakthroughs that shaped our modern world. The history of ELT runs parallel to those events adopting diffferent mainstrem trends ranging from the Traditional or Latin-like approach to foreign language teaching to the so-called Grammar-Translation Method and the Direct or Oral Method. However, special attention is also given to 'minor' trends such as Ecclecticism which constantly overlaps the mainstream trends. This book is the first to take a close look at how the English language was taught and learnt in Spain for a two-century period when the French language was the Spaniard's first choice when it came to learning a foreign language.
Love, Despair, and Modernism in Literature

Love, Despair, and Modernism in Literature

Alberto Castelli

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2026
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This groundbreaking volume challenges conventional scholarship by illuminating a critical blind spot in modernist studies: the persistent yet transformed presence of love. While academia has exhaustively examined modernism through lenses of nihilism, disillusionment, and existential silence, the romantic impulse threading through these seemingly barren landscapes remains largely unexamined. How do characters love within the fractured architecture of modernist narratives? What becomes of romance when filtered through consciousness shaped by catastrophe? This collection reveals the sophisticated love story hidden within modernism's formal innovations—a romance that neither escapes nor succumbs to the movement's characteristic darkness, but rather transforms alongside it. By excavating this neglected dimension, we discover that modernist love does not vanish but evolves—becoming as complex, ambiguous, and revolutionary as the literary movement itself. The volume offers a fresh critical perspective that recontextualizes canonical works and invites readers to witness how intimacy persists, even as it whispers from the margins of a universe presumed silent. For scholars and students seeking to understand modernism's full emotional landscape, this text provides the missing piece in our comprehension of one of literature's most influential movements.
Mapping Innovation Management Systems

Mapping Innovation Management Systems

Alberto Bettanti; Noemi Scimeca

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2026
nidottu
In a time defined by accelerating complexity, where technological breakthroughs -- from artificial intelligence to blockchain to the emerging contours of Industry 5.0 -- are rapidly reshaping economic and societal landscapes, the capacity to innovate is no longer optional. It is foundational. Yet innovation itself, while often romanticized as spontaneous or disruptive, demands structure, intent, and governance. It requires systems. This book is a timely and relevant contribution to this evolving field. The publication of the ISO 56001 standard in December 2024 marked a significant milestone: for the first time, organizations have access to a formal, certifiable framework dedicated specifically to innovation management systems (IMS). This book both contextualizes and operationalizes that framework. Built around the eight core principles of the ISO 56000 series - ranging from leadership and strategy to value realization, adaptability, systems thinking, and collaboration - this volume translates abstract standards into practical, analytically grounded content. It does so through a structured progression across six chapters and a final annex. Each chapter builds on the ISO 56000 principles to examine not only the theoretical underpinnings of innovation management but also its practical manifestations in organizational life. Drawing from established literature, standards, and real-world practice, this book provides a reliable foundation for anyone seeking to implement or deepen an innovation management system. It will be of particular value to three audiences: practitioners responsible for building innovation capability within their organizations; students eager to understand the logic and structure of innovation systems; and scholars seeking a coherent reference that bridges academic theory with normative frameworks. In this sense, this book is not just a guide to ISO 56001. It is a comprehensive, well-informed resource for engaging with innovation management as a strategic discipline - one that is rigorous, relevant, and indispensable in the present era.
Mapping Innovation Management Systems

Mapping Innovation Management Systems

Alberto Bettanti; Noemi Scimeca

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2026
sidottu
In a time defined by accelerating complexity, where technological breakthroughs -- from artificial intelligence to blockchain to the emerging contours of Industry 5.0 -- are rapidly reshaping economic and societal landscapes, the capacity to innovate is no longer optional. It is foundational. Yet innovation itself, while often romanticized as spontaneous or disruptive, demands structure, intent, and governance. It requires systems. This book is a timely and relevant contribution to this evolving field. The publication of the ISO 56001 standard in December 2024 marked a significant milestone: for the first time, organizations have access to a formal, certifiable framework dedicated specifically to innovation management systems (IMS). This book both contextualizes and operationalizes that framework. Built around the eight core principles of the ISO 56000 series - ranging from leadership and strategy to value realization, adaptability, systems thinking, and collaboration - this volume translates abstract standards into practical, analytically grounded content. It does so through a structured progression across six chapters and a final annex. Each chapter builds on the ISO 56000 principles to examine not only the theoretical underpinnings of innovation management but also its practical manifestations in organizational life. Drawing from established literature, standards, and real-world practice, this book provides a reliable foundation for anyone seeking to implement or deepen an innovation management system. It will be of particular value to three audiences: practitioners responsible for building innovation capability within their organizations; students eager to understand the logic and structure of innovation systems; and scholars seeking a coherent reference that bridges academic theory with normative frameworks. In this sense, this book is not just a guide to ISO 56001. It is a comprehensive, well-informed resource for engaging with innovation management as a strategic discipline - one that is rigorous, relevant, and indispensable in the present era.
Divagando por el Sur

Divagando por el Sur

Alberto Pérez Larrarte

Independently Published
2019
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En Divagando por el Sur se plasman los sentimientos en palabras del cronista de la ciudad de Barinas-Venezuela Alberto P rez Larrarte, quien se atreve a ilustrarnos en versos el amor y la vida.
La Muralla China Es Legitima, El Muro No

La Muralla China Es Legitima, El Muro No

Alberto Fortis

Independently Published
2019
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El muro de los EEUU est construy ndose en tierras usurpadas por tanto no es legitimo.Proclama solemne. La declaraci n de las naciones unidas sobre el derecho de los pueblos ind genas, descendientes, mestizos y ladinos, cuyo texto figura a continuaci n como ideal com n que debe perseguirse en un esp ritu de solidaridad y respeto mutuo: Art 2 Los estados establecer n mecanismos eficaces para la prevenci n y resarcimiento de: Inciso B todo acto que tenga por objeto o consecuencia enajenarles sus tierras, territorios o recursos.Articulo 10 Los pueblos ind genas, descendientes, mestizos y ladinos no ser n desplazados de sus tierras o territorios. No se proceder a ning n traslado sin el consentimiento libre, previo e informado de los pueblos ind genas interesados, ni ning n acuerdo previo sobre una indemnizaci n justa y equitativa y, siempre que sea posible, la opci n de regreso.Que es una declaraci n justa todo y cuanto se practique con buena voluntad y diligencia, sin pretextar, ignorar o cuestionar y que sin excepci n todo sea enmarcado en el esp ritu de la ley. Que est n involucrados los pueblos ind genas es decir los habitantes originales o naturales, los mestizos y ladinos de esas y aquellas tierras ya sea usurpadas y colonizadas no importando el tama o del territorio o si en este se encuentren edificaciones, pueblos o ciudades enteras construidas sin el benepl cito de los propietarios leg timos de aquellas, de estas o de esos territorios pa ses o estados.Que es muralla: China levanto una muralla defensiva contra las tribus mong licas, La ex Uni n Sovi tica construyo una muralla defensiva en la extinta Rep blica Federal de Alemania. Igual, E.U construye una barrera defensiva llamado muro pero realmente es una muralla, porque el muro es una barrera limitada para dividir una casa de la adyacente, tambi n muro de contenci n en un terreno, pero un baluarte defensivo no tiene muros tiene murallas, entonces muralla es definida por la ciencia de la arquitectura como un baluarte defensivo de car cter estrat gico y de car cter militar, cuando es reforzada por hombres armados a una posible incursi n for nea. Qu ley hace leg timo el muro de la China? La ley de antig edad. La legitimidad se genera por la antig edad de la posesi n de tierras con sus confines, esta antig edad se refiere a no menos de mil a os de posesi n absoluta y de forma pac fica e ininterrumpida, es decir que China cuando inicio la construcci n de sus murallas ten a m s de 1,500 a os de posesi n pacifica e ininterrumpida. Los c lculos demogr ficos, fijaban entre 40 y 50 millones el n mero de habitantes en toda Am rica al iniciarse la colonizaci n europea aunque es posible que esta cifra aumenten a medida que contin an los estudios en este campo.Si entendemos que los indios americanos ten an m s de 5000 a os de posesi n de las tierras americanas son a n m s que leg timos propietarios de esas tierra desde el sur al norte del continente, por tanto tienen el sagrado derecho de viajar libremente en ambas direcciones sin amenazas, coacci n, imposici n ni intimidaci n, el nombrado muro de Berl n cay porque no ten a legitimidad ni raz n de ser. EEUU pretende amurallar toda la frontera a fin de detener el flujo de amerindios desde el sur, sin duda ser un obst culo m s y por poco tiempo infranqueable, pero la fuerza de la raz n lo har caer, cuando se construy el muro de Berl n los sovi ticos pensaron en un muro que separara toda Europa en dos, el mundo comunista del imperio capitalista sin embargo el muro ya no existe m s porque no ten a raz n de ser, los amerindios son los leg timos herederos de todas esas tierras y todos los que provienen del sur asentados en el norte se est n multiplicando proverbialmente, los europeos en USA han sido grandes constructores han cambiado el perfil de Am rica y el mundo, han llevado la ciencia y tecnolog a a extremos inimaginable
Who will deliver us from Karl Marx?

Who will deliver us from Karl Marx?

Alberto Scalici

Independently Published
2019
pokkari
"Who will deliver us from Karl Marx?" is a collection of 17 articles on political topics. The book deals with a number of questions that have been tormenting me for a long time: "Why has progressivism fallen so low?", "Why can it not arouse interest and win?", "Why, even if I am left-wing, do I not feel particularly well-represented by recent progressivism? ".The answers are entrusted to the various chapters. With a few exceptions, each article in the collection addresses a sacred cow or taboo of the left-wing today, trying to expose inconsistencies and errors and proposing alternative but coherent interpretations and approaches, with a secular, democratic and progressive liberal socialist vision.I started writing in the aftermath of the last general election in Italy, on 4 March 2018. As I proceeded with writing the articles, I became more and more convinced that the reason for the progressive cause losing its appeal in recent years lies only in the fact that an intellectually lazy left-wing has offered an approximate, disoriented and inconsistent, if not directly distorted, form of progressivism. Nevertheless, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with progressivism: it is merely necessary to once again give it order, clarity and effectiveness. In this case, I am sure that the various forms of conservatism, confessionalism, populism and nationalism would have a real challenge on their hands.Writing this book has proved liberating: it gave me unexpected confidence and optimism. I hope it may be just as useful to readers.
Who is like God?: Mikel

Who is like God?: Mikel

Alberto Bacoi

Independently Published
2019
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This book reveals the story of Michael the Archangel and what he did for mankind in our present times. By reading it, you will find out the reason for its glory and the people's need for its intervention.
Zoológico Infantil

Zoológico Infantil

Alberto Fernández Badillo

Independently Published
2019
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Este libro re ne 51 poemas que fueron escritos originalmente entre 1941 y 1996, con ellos la autora nos transmite su amor por la naturaleza y su elevada sensibilidad ambientalista. Son poemas breves, que aunque fueron inspirados y escritos para ni os, son tambi n una maravillosa lectura para j venes y adultos de cualquier edad, gracias al estilo sencillo para describir caracter sticas de los animales, su comportamiento, sus relaciones y sus funciones en la naturaleza. Cada poema est acompa ado por una bella ilustraci n a color realizada por la acuarelista Trina C. Gonz lez-Fern ndez, quien es una de las hijas de la autora de los poemas y, por lo tanto, es una de aquellos primeros ni os que fueron criados bajo el influjo de esa atm sfera ambientalista... Este libro es toda una joya art stica ꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷ This book brings together 51 poems that were originally written between 1941 and 1996, with them the author conveys her love for nature and her high environmental sensitivity. They are short poems, which although they were inspired and written for children, are also a wonderful read for young people and adults of any age, thanks to the simple style to describe characteristics of animals, their behavior, their relationships and their functions in nature. Each poem is accompanied by a beautiful color illustration by watercolor artist Trina C. Gonz lez-Fern ndez, who is one of the daughters of the author of the poems and, therefore, she is one of those first children who were raised under the influence of that environmentalist atmosphere... This book is an artistic jewel