1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000636400403321

Autore

Leporati, Ezio

Titolo

SULLE VIBRAZIONI DI TRAVI AL VARIARE DELLA POSIZIONE LUNGO L'ASSE DI FORZE PUNTUALI ECCITANTI / LEPORATI E.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pisa : Cursi Colombo, 1970

Locazione

DINSC

Collocazione

07 U/1846

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Atti dell'Istituto di Scienze delle Costruzioni dell'Università di Pisa - Vol.XI

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461006303321

Autore

Heinberg Richard

Titolo

Afterburn : society beyond fossil fuels / / Richard Heinberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gabriola, British Columbia : , : New Society Publishers, , 2015

ISBN

1-55092-584-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Economic development - Social aspects

Economic development - Environmental aspects

Social ecology

Social change

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A collection of 15 essays written in the years 2011-2014 and previously published on the websites resilience.org, commondreams.org, and earthisland.org, and in Orion magazine.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Praise; Title Page; Rights Page; Contents;



Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Ten Years After; Chapter 2: The Gross Society; Chapter 3: Visualize Gasoline; Chapter 4: The Climate PR Puzzle; Chapter 5: The Purposely Confusing World of Energy Politics; Chapter 6: The Brief, Tragic Reign of Consumerism-and the Birth of a Happy Alternative; Chapter 7: Fingers in the Dike; Chapter 8: Your Post-Petroleum Future (a commencement address); Chapter 9: The Fight of the Century; Chapter 10: The Anthropocene: It's Not All About Us; Chapter 11: Conflict in the Era of Economic Decline

Chapter 12: All Roads Lead LocalChapter 13: Our Evanescent Culture-and the Awesome Duty of Librarians; Chapter 14: Our Cooperative Darwinian Moment; Chapter 15: Want to Change the World? Read This First; Notes; Index; About the Author; A Guide to Responsible Digital Reading; Books to Build a New Society

Sommario/riassunto

Essential, visionary essays about our post-carbon future[Richard Heinberg] writes with incision, with passion, with rage, with compassion, and Afterburn captures in one single publication why he's such a shining light of insight in times of much darkness. The Party's Over changed my life.  Perhaps Afterburn will change yours. --- Rob Hopkins,  founder, the Transition movement and author, The Power of Just Doing Stuff This book will help fuel the future.---Randy Hayes, founder, Rainforest Action Network and director, Foundation EarthFrom climate change to resource wars to the collapse of consu



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910279582803321

Autore

Coveney John

Titolo

Food, morals, and meaning : the pleasure and anxiety of eating / / John Coveney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-62206-6

1-280-33215-8

9786610332151

0-203-02594-6

0-203-15963-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Nutrition - Moral and ethical aspects

Food - Moral and ethical aspects

Nutrition - Social aspects

Food - Social aspects

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 (p. [182]-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Foucault, discourse, power and the subject; Governmentality of modern nutrition; Greeks to the Christians: from ethics to guilt; Religion and reason: the emergence of a discourse on nutrition; Paupers, prisoners and moral panics: refining the meaning of nutrition; The nutritional policing of families; Nutrition landscapes in the late twentieth century; Nutrition homescapes in the twentieth century; An ethnography of family food: subjects of food choice; Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Food, Morals and Meaning examines our need to discipline our desires, our appetites and our pleasures at the table. However, instead of seeing this discipline as dominant or oppressive it argues that a rationalisation of pleasure plays a positive role in our lives, allowing us to better understand who we are.The book begins by exploring the way that concerns about food, the body and pleasure were prefigured in antiquity and then how these concerns were recast in early Christianity



as problems of 'natural' appetite which had to be curbed. The following chapters discuss how scientif