1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465570403321

Autore

McGuire Michael J. <1947->

Titolo

The chlorine revolution [[electronic resource] ] : water disinfection and the fight to save lives / / Michael J. McGuire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Denver, Co., : American Water Works Association, 2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Disciplina

628.1/662

Soggetti

Water - Purification - Chlorination - United States - History

Water - Purification - Chlorination - Health aspects - United States - History

Water quality - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Journey to launch a revolution -- Demons, miasma, and the death spiral -- Germs, disease, and bacteriology -- Progress in disinfection and filtration -- Paterson and the Passaic River -- Leal, hero of public health -- Fuller, the greatest sanitary engineer -- Jersey water wars -- Bacteria on trial, 1906 to 1908 -- Chlorination plant at Boonton -- Chlorine on trial, 1908 to 1910 -- Revolution and conquest -- Epilogue.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786077903321

Autore

Park Joe.

Titolo

Bertrand Russell on education / / Joe Park

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-10046-2

1-283-91983-4

0-203-07265-0

1-135-10047-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (149 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions : Russell ; ; v. 7

Disciplina

192

370

370.1

Soggetti

Education - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1963 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Bertrand Russell On Education; Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Some Aspects of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy; The Philosophy of Logical Analysis; Russell's View of the World; Ethics; III. Sources of Russell's Theory of Education; Rejection of Locke, Rousseau, and Arnold; Russell's Approach to Theory-building; Ethics; Behaviourism; Psychoanalysis; Educational Pioneers; IV. The Church, the State, and the 'herd'; The Church; The State; Reconciliation of Citizen and Individual; The 'herd'; V. Education and the Good Life; Vitality; Courage; Sensitiveness

Cultivation of IntelligenceEducation Between Six and Fourteen Years of Age; Last School Years; The University; VI. The Beacon Hill School in the Weaknesses in British Education; Beacon Hill; School Work at Beacon Hill; Criticisms of Beacon Hill; Beacon Hill Thought a Failure; Dora Continues at Beacon Hill; VII. An Appraisal; A Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Although scholars from many disciplines have turned their attention to Russell's work and appraised its significance for a number of fields, and an extensive literature on him emerged, until this book, first published in 1963, no thorough study on Russell's contribution to education - an



area to which he devoted no small part of his energies - had yet appeared. The book is based on interviews with Russell as well as diligent research in his writings and the sources of his thought and will enlighten all who think seriously about education. It addresses specifically the usefulness of Russell'

3.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00282649

Autore

International Conference Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials : 8. : 2020

Titolo

Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites, Nanostructure Surfaces, and Their Applications : Selected Proceedings of the 8th International Conference Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials (NANO2020), 26–29 August 2020, Lviv, Ukraine / Olena Fesenko, Leonid Yatsenko editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer, 2021

Descrizione fisica

xvii, 479 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

00A79 (77-XX) - Physics [MSC 2020]

00Bxx - Conference proceedings and collections of articles [MSC 2020]

78A60 - Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia