Dictionary of language and linguistics / R.R.K. Hartmann and F.C. Stork

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910222154903321
• Autore: Hartmann, R. R. K.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : Applied Sciences Publishers ltd, c1972
• ISBN: 0853345341
• Descrizione fisica: XVIII, 302 p. ; 23 cm
• Altri autori (Persone): Stork, Francis Colin
• Locazione: DINED
• Collocazione: LL 73
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Progettazione ecocompatibile dell'architettura : concetti e metodi, strumenti d'analisi e valutazione, esempi applicativi : energia edifici spazi esterni suolo materiali / M. Grosso, G. Peretti, S. Piardi, G. Scudo

• Record Nr.: UNINA990008420570403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Napoli], : Sistemi editoriali, 2005
• ISBN: 88-513-0286-3
• Descrizione fisica: 509 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
• Collana: Architettura sostenibile ; 13
• Locazione: DARPU; DSS; FARBC
• Collocazione: B 868 CAN; L 665; ARCH B 2176
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

The captive of the Castle of Sennaar [[electronic resource] ] : an African tale / / George Cumberland ; edited by G.E. Bentley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782079503321
• Autore: Cumberland George <1754-1848.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montréal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1991
• ISBN: 0-7735-6235-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BentleyG. E <1930-> (Gerald Eades)
• Disciplina: 823/.6
• Soggetti: English literature; Folklore - Africa
• 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: pt. 1. The Sophians -- pt. 2. The reformed.
• Sommario/riassunto: The first part, set on an island in central Africa among descendants of classical Greek civilization, was printed in 1789 but immediately suppressed by Cumberland. A passage describing society everywhere except on the utopian island as oligarchic and unjust was deemed by his lawyer to be potentially seditious; the novel was only published a decade later, and then in revised form. The second part, set in central Africa's Mountains of the Moon among descendants of followers of a fourth-century Christian heretic, is published here for the first time. Cumberland was a widely cultivated and deeply humane dilettante. A poet, painter, distinguished collector of prints and shells, and scientific inventor, he was passionately concerned with the reform of politics and society. He was also friends with some of the best authors and painters of his time, including William Blake, who encouraged Cumberland's ideals. Bentley describes the similarities between Blake's radical analysis of society and his early ideas on free love, sexuality, slavery, natural religion, and energy and the ideals Cumberland espouses in The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar. Bentley provides historical and geographical appendixes, textual and commentary notes, and a comparison of Cumberland's work to Simon Berington's The Memoirs of Signor Gaudentino di Lucca. Bentley's edition of The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar will be of interest to Blake scholars and to students ; and scholars of utopian literature and late eighteenth-century and Romantic literature and culture.

Balances : Instruments, Manufacturers, History / / by Erich Robens, Shanath Amarasiri A. Jayaweera, Susanne Kiefer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910300374403321
• Autore: Robens Erich
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
• ISBN: 3-642-36447-0
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2014.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (743 p.)
• Disciplina: 530; 530.01; 530.8; 620.11
• Soggetti: Physical measurements; Measurement; Materials science; Physics; Measurement Science and Instrumentation; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics; Applied and Technical Physics
• 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: Mass and gravity -- Weights -- Weighing -- Balances -- Balances for special applications -- Balance as symbol and art object -- Documentation and archiving -- Weighing scales manufacturers.
• Sommario/riassunto: The book deals mainly with direct mass determination by means of a conventional balances. It covers the history of the balance from the beginnings in Egypt earlier than 3000 BC to recent developments. All balance types are described with emphasis on scientific balances. ; Methods of indirect mass determination, which are applied to very light objects like molecules and the basic particles of matter and celestial bodies, are included. As additional guidance, today’s manufacturers are listed and the profile of important companies is reviewed. Several hundred photographs, reproductions and drawings show instruments and their uses. This book includes commercial weighing instruments for merchandise and raw materials in workshops as well as symbolic weighing in the ancient Egyptian’s ceremony of ‘Weighing of the Heart’, the Greek fate balance, the Roman Justitia, Juno Moneta and Middle Ages scenes of the Last Judgement with Jesus or St. Michael and of modern balances. The photographs are selected from the slide-archives of the late Richard Vieweg (1896-1972) (former President of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany), of the late Hans R. Jenemann (1920-1966) (former head of the Analytical Laboratory of Schott & Gen., Mainz, Germany) and of his wife Irene (1933-2008) and of Erich Robens.