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This book outlines the characteristics and implications of a potential geography of uncertainty. In doing so, it analyses this concept in reference to both the origins of uncertainty in Early Modern Age and the current geopolitical situation. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to uncertainty, drawing on global perspectives and literature to define its meanings and characteristics. In order to develop a thorough and precise understanding of the geography of uncertainty, a broad perspective is adopted, which includes other forms of knowledge in which the concept of uncertainty is firmly established. As such the book creates temporal links, that may occasionally be far off from one another, to present a geographical perspective of uncertainty. It provides an interpretation of the phenomenon of globalization in a new way, relating it to the first European openness to global spaces, the Early Modern Age, and identifying the transition from the medieval world to the Modern Age as the first manifestation of uncertainty in geography. Uncertainty is more prevalent than ever in today's geopolitical, economic, financial and social reality, as well as the ongoing emergencies and crises. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach rooted in the geography of Early Modernity by referring to geopolitical scenarios, literature and philosophy, to target the historical roots and the prevailing configuration of the geography of uncertainty. It will appeal to scholars and students of human and political geography, politics, philosophy, international relations, economics and history.

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A medical practitioner and draftsman, Alessandro Ricci was born in Siena, Italy, at the end of the eighteenth century. He traveled extensively throughout Egypt and Sudan between 1817 and 1822. During his stay, he worked as an epigraphist for Giovanni B. Belzoni in the tomb of Seti I and later entered into the service of British consul general Henry Salt and English explorer William John Bankes, on whose behalf he visited and documented Siwa (1820), Sinai (1820), and Nubia (1818-19 and 1821-22). Ricci also became the physician to Ibrahim Pasha's Upper Egypt expedition and achieved fame for daringly saving the life of Pasha during the military campaign that led to Egypt's conquest of Sudan in 1821-22. Upon his return to Italy, Ricci wrote a long account of all his journeys and reworked a series of ninety plates into striking form, yet failed to publish either. In 2009, Daniele Salvoldi identified a complete typewritten copy of Ricci's Travels in the National Archives of Egypt in Cairo. Drawings intended to accompany the text as plates were tracked down in different locations in Italy and the United Kingdom. This is the English-translated critical edition, with notes and introductory chapters, of Ricci's travel account.

Travel. --- Ricci, Alessandro, --- Travel --- 1800-1899 --- Egypt --- Middle East --- Egypt. --- Middle East. --- Description and travel --- History --- Égypte --- Soudan --- Description and travel. --- Récits de voyages

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Quello che avete tra le mani è il risultato di riflessioni condivise e pressoché totalmente autogestite, frutto di un lavoro di sempre maggiore autonomia di dialogo sviluppato nel corso degli anni da parte dei nostri dottorandi. I giovani ricercatori hanno saputo mettere insieme le diverse anime che compongono i dottorati dei due dipartimenti, di 'Studi Umanistici' e di 'Scienze storiche, filosofico-sociali, dei beni culturali e del territorio' dell'Università di Roma 'Tor Vergata', ampliando la partecipazione ad altri atenei italiani ed europei. Questo lavoro è dedicato a un tema che non può evitare di considerare la Terra nella sua totalità, per quanto concerne sia i viaggi immaginari sia quelli più concreti, e rappresenta un tassello importante per i giovani che si affacciano con entusiasmo alla vita accademica. Un entusiasmo che hanno mostrato Andrea Gimbo, Tecla Paolicelli e Alessandro Ricci e che hanno condiviso con molti loro colleghi ben sapendo che, sopratt utto nei nostri ambiti di ricerca, il 'viaggio di conoscenza' dev'essere percorso insieme, nel dialogo e nel confronto incessante.

Travel in literature --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences

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ESAW 2005 took place at the Pine Bay Hotel in Kusadasi, Turkey at the end of the October 2005. It was organized as a stand-alone event as were ESAW 2004and ESAW 2003.Following the initial ESAW vision,which wasset in 1999, by the members of the working group on “Communication, Coordination and Collaboration” of Agentlink, ESAW 2005 continued to focus on the engineering of complex software systems in terms of multi-agent societies, especially the social and environmental aspects of such societies. The number of participants (40 researchers from 10 countries) and the highly interactive discussions held during the workshop showed the augmented importance of the initial vision as well as the e?ectiveness of ESAW as a well-established research forum. It is obvious that today’s interconnected world increases the importance of approaches concerning the engineering of complex and distributed software systems. These kinds of large scale systems, made up of massive numbers of autonomous components, force us to discover new and novel approaches to model and engineer such systems as agent societies. It is very likely that such innovations will exploit lessons from a variety of di?erent scienti?c disciplines, such as sociology, economics, organizational science and biology: ESAW 2005 included presentations from these domains in addition to its traditional - search topics.

Intelligent agents (Computer software) --- Engineering --- Agents intelligents (Logiciels) --- Ingénierie --- Congresses. --- Societies, etc. --- Congrès --- Associations --- Computer Science --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Societies, etc --- Information Technology --- Artificial Intelligence --- Construction --- Computer science. --- Computer communication systems. --- Computer programming. --- Software engineering. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer simulation. --- Application software. --- Computer Science. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Software Engineering. --- Programming Techniques. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Mathematical models --- Simulation methods --- Model-integrated computing --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Computer software engineering --- Computers --- Electronic computer programming --- Electronic digital computers --- Programming (Electronic computers) --- Coding theory --- Communication systems, Computer --- Computer communication systems --- Data networks, Computer --- ECNs (Electronic communication networks) --- Electronic communication networks --- Networks, Computer --- Teleprocessing networks --- Data transmission systems --- Digital communications --- Electronic systems --- Information networks --- Telecommunication --- Cyberinfrastructure --- Network computers --- Informatics --- Science --- Programming --- Distributed processing --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Information systems. --- Artificial Intelligence.