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UNINA9910702858703321 |
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Nimbus-7 CZCS, coastal zone color scanner imagery for selected coastal regions : North America, Europe, South America, Africa, Antarctica : level II photographic product / / prepared under the direction of Warren A. Hovis, Edmund F. Szajna, Walter A. Bohan |
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Park Ridge, Ill. (2026 Oakton St., Park Ridge, 60068) : , : W.A. Bohan Co., , [1987?] |
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1 volume |
1 online resource |
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HovisWarren A |
SzajnaEdmund F |
BohanWalter A |
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Coastal Zone Color Scanner |
Multispectral band scanners |
Nimbus 7 satellite |
Ocean surface |
Spacecraft instruments |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Title from title screen (viewed Jun. 3, 2009) |
"Prepared for National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Space and Earth Sciences Directorate by the Walter A. Bohan Company under contract No. NAS 5-29079"--T.p. verso. |
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UNINA9910145734003321 |
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A brief history of death / / Douglas J. Davies |
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Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., 2005 |
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9786611310950 |
9781281310958 |
1281310956 |
9780470776193 |
0470776196 |
9780470777046 |
0470777044 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (204 p.) |
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Blackwell brief histories of religion |
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Death - Social aspects |
Death - Religious aspects |
Death - Psychological aspects |
Death in art |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-179) and index |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-179) and index. |
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A Brief History of Death; Contents; List of plates (plates fall between pp. 88-89); Preface; 1 Journey Beyond; Gilgamesh; Adam and Eve; Death, Sin and Atonement; Resurrection-Transcendence; Release-Transcendence; Self-Transcendence; Hope and Faith; To Be or Not To Be; Traditional Futures; The Uneasy Species; Death Our Future; Autobiographical History of Death; Methods of Approach; Words Against Death; Myth Again; 2 Parting's Sweet Sorrow; Relationships, Death and Destiny; Family Bonds; Hell, Life and Work; Secular Ethics and Loss; Freud and Bowlby; Grief-Stages; Fixing the Unfixable |
HelplessnessAberbach and Charisma; World Religions; Identity and Religions; Identity's Demise and Death; Adulthood-Childhood, Maturity |
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and Death of Parents; Moral-Somatic Links; Spiritualism; Departure; 3 Removing the Dead; Souls; Status and Destiny; Ritual Change; Resurrection; Secular Trends; Changing Times; Default Religion; From Respect to Dignity; Death-Style and Belief; Cremated Remains; Space, Cryogenics and Computers; 4 Ecology, Death and Hope; Criminals, Heretics, Bodies and Belief; Dying at Home; Hospice; Symbolic Bodies; American Ways of Death; Ecology; Hope Springs Eternal; Forest |
Positive and Negative DustEthics and Spirituality at Large; Death's Paradigm Shift; Ecological Immortality; 5 Art, Literature and Music; Variety; Bible; Dante; Milton; Secular Strains; Art; Portraying the Dead; Religious Fusion; Hope; 6 Places of Memory; Myth; The Dynamics of Memorial Sites; Locating Hope: the Dynamics of Memorial Sites; Place and Hope; How to Speak of the Dead?; Location 1: Graveyard and Cemetery; Hope1: Eternal, Eschatological Form of Identity; Location 2: Cremation and Remains; Hope 2: Internal, the Retrospective Fulfilment of Identity; Location 3: Woodland Burial |
Hope 3: Natural, the Ecological Fulfilment of IdentityMemorial Texts; The National Memorial Arboretum; Lifestyle - Death-Style; 7 Fear of Death; A Mythical Form; Hinduism, Buddhism; Christianity; Albert Schweitzer and C. S. Lewis; Essential Fear; Plague; Modern Devastations; Philosophical Fears; Psychology and Fear of Death; Picasso; Fears Real and Imagined; Contemporary Fears; Imaginative Fears; Fear Abolished; 8 Purposeful and Useless Death; Power of Death; Warfare; Genocide; Violence at Heart; Disasters; Baby-Death; Suicide - Euthanasia; Offending Deaths; Illness and Death |
The Future of DeathChristian Eternal Life; Death's Margins; Age and Death; Hopeless Non-Places; 2020 Time and Vision; The World's Death; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The act of death itself and the rituals surrounding it vary enormously and shed a fascinating light on the cultures of which they are a part. In this brief and lively history, Douglas Davies - internationally acknowledged as one of the leading experts in this field - tackles some of the most significant aspects of death and weaves them into a compelling story about our changing attitudes to dying. Offers a fascinating examination of this subject which is of enduring interest in every culture in the world Considers the profound influence death has had on subjects ranging from ph |
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