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UNINA9910145253903321 |
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Titolo |
A companion to Chaucer [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter Brown |
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Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2000 |
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1-78268-578-2 |
1-281-30949-4 |
9786611309497 |
0-470-69346-0 |
0-470-69274-X |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (538 p.) |
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Collana |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature |
Literature and society - England - History - To 1500 |
England Civilization 1066-1485 |
England Intellectual life 1066-1485 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910830883103321 |
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Autore |
Gorelick Steven M |
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Titolo |
Oil panic and the global crisis [[electronic resource] ] : predictions and myths / / Steven M. Gorelick |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
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1-4443-5989-4 |
1-282-34361-0 |
9786612343612 |
1-4443-1452-1 |
1-4443-1453-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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333.823 |
333.8232 |
622.1828 |
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Petroleum industry and trade |
Petroleum reserves - Forecasting |
Energy consumption - Forecasting |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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