1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910145253903321

Titolo

A companion to Chaucer [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2000

ISBN

1-78268-578-2

1-281-30949-4

9786611309497

0-470-69346-0

0-470-69274-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (538 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

BrownPeter <1948->

Disciplina

821.1

821/.1

Soggetti

Civilization, Medieval, in literature

Literature and society - England - History - To 1500

England Civilization 1066-1485

England Intellectual life 1066-1485

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

A COMPANION TO CHAUCER; Contents; List of Illustrations; The Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations of Chaucer 's Works; The Idea of a Chaucer Companion; 1 Afterlife; 2 Authority; 3 Bodies; 4 Chivalry; 5 Christian Ideologies; 6 Comedy; 7 Contemporary English Writers; 8 Crisis and Dissent; 9 France; 10 Games; 11 Genre; 12 Geography and Travel; 13 Italy; 14 Language; 15 Life Histories; 16 London; 17 Love; 18 Modes of Representation; 19 Narrative; 20 Other Thought-worlds; 21 Pagan Survivals; 22 Personal Identity; 23 Science; 24 Social Structures; 25 Style; 26 Texts; 27 Translation

28 Visualizing29 Women; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830883103321

Autore

Gorelick Steven M

Titolo

Oil panic and the global crisis [[electronic resource] ] : predictions and myths / / Steven M. Gorelick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

ISBN

1-4443-5989-4

1-282-34361-0

9786612343612

1-4443-1452-1

1-4443-1453-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

333.823

333.8232

622.1828

Soggetti

Petroleum industry and trade

Petroleum reserves - Forecasting

Energy consumption - Forecasting

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

Oil Panic and the Global Crisis; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About Units; Getting Started: What Do You Think?; 1: End of the Oil Era; 2: The Global Oil Landscape; 3: The Historical Resource Depletion Debate; 4: Counter-Arguments to Imminent Global Oil Depletion; 5: Beyond Panic; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Is the world running out of oil? This book analyzes predictions of global oil depletion in the context of science, history, and economics. There has been continuing alarm about the imminent exhaustion of earth's non-renewable resources. Yet, the world has never run out of any significant, globally traded, non-renewable resource. Is the world finally facing a non-renewable resource depletion catastrophe, or is the current concern just another one of a succession of panics? In this book, key assumptions and underlying arguments in the global oil-depletion debate are first summarized and then c