1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910158916403321

Autore

Garcia Isabella

Titolo

Fred goes fishing : practicing the F sound / / Isabella Garcia ; illustrations by Contentra Technologies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York 2017 : , : Rosen Classroom, , 2017

ISBN

1-5081-3419-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (8 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Rosen phonics readers

Disciplina

428.1

Soggetti

Readers (Primary)

Reading - Phonetic method

Readers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779671203321

Autore

McDaniel Iain <1975->

Titolo

Adam Ferguson in the Scottish enlightenment [[electronic resource] ] : the Roman past and Europe's future / / Iain McDaniel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-674-07528-5

0-674-07526-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x,)

Disciplina

321.8/6

Soggetti

Enlightenment - Scotland

Republicanism - Rome - History

Great Britain Politics and government

Rome Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Montesquieu and the Unfree Republic -- 2 Military Government and Empire in the Scottish Enlightenment -- 3 Ferguson and the Moral Foundations of Civil Society -- 4 Trajectories of the Modern Commercial State -- 5 Britain's Future in a Roman Mirror -- 6 Civil- Military Union and the Modern State -- 7 Revolution and Modern Republicanism -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe's Future sheds new light on Ferguson as a serious critic, rather than an advocate, of the Enlightenment belief in liberal progress. Unlike the philosophes who looked upon Europe's growing prosperity and saw confirmation of a utopian future, Ferguson saw something else: a reminder of Rome's lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship. Ferguson viewed the intrinsic power struggle between civil and military authorities as the central dilemma of modern constitutional



governments. He believed that the key to understanding the forces that propel nations toward tyranny lay in analysis of ancient Roman history. It was the alliance between popular and militaristic factions within the Roman republic, Ferguson believed, which ultimately precipitated its downfall. Democratic forces, intended as a means of liberation from tyranny, could all too easily become the engine of political oppression-a fear that proved prescient when the French Revolution spawned the expansionist wars of Napoleon. As Iain McDaniel makes clear, Ferguson's skepticism about the ability of constitutional states to weather pervasive conditions of warfare and emergency has particular relevance for twenty-first-century geopolitics. This revelatory study will resonate with debates over the troubling tendency of powerful democracies to curtail civil liberties and pursue imperial ambitions.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910253936303321

Titolo

Rotifers : Aquaculture, Ecology, Gerontology, and Ecotoxicology / / edited by Atsushi Hagiwara, Tatsuki Yoshinaga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

981-10-5635-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 180 p. 27 illus., 12 illus. in color.)

Collana

Fisheries Science Series, , 2522-0470

Disciplina

595.181

Soggetti

Wildlife

Fishes

Ecology

Zoology

Marine sciences

Fresh water

Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management

Marine & Freshwater Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.



Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Taxonomy 1-1. Current status of morphological classification in aquaculture strains (Kotani, Hagiwara)1-2. Speciation and evolution of Brachionus (Snell, Serra, Fontaneto) Chapter 2 -- Live food 2-1. Mass culture and preservation of Brachionus (Koiso, Kuwata, Hagiwara) 2-2. Enrichment of rotifers and its effect on the growth and survival of fish larvae (Kotani) 2-3. Utility of rotifers on the larval rearing of marine fishes cultivated under various conditions (Sakakura) 2-4.Other potential rotifer species as a live food (Ogata, Kurokura, Hagiwara) Chapter 3 -- Model organism 3-1. Life history evolution in the rotifer (Stelzer) 3-2.Population dynamics in the rotifer (Yoshinaga) 3-3. Aging and lifespan in the rotifer (Kaneko) 3-4. Origin of sex: significance of sexual reproduction (Welch) 3-5. Ecological diagnosis (Suga, Snell) 3-6. Genomics (Suga, Welch, Lee).

Sommario/riassunto

This book highlights the latest advances in rotifer studies in various fields including aquaculture, ecology, gerontology and ecotoxicology. The genus Brachionus are an indispensable type of zooplankton, having served as an initial live food for marine larval rearing since the 1960s. Their mass culture techniques have been intensively studied, and some essential achievements have been made – regarding high density culture, employment of valuable dietary algae, automated culture systems, and effective production of resting eggs. These have in turn supported stable and efficient aquatic seedling production for numerous important marine fish species including flounder, sea bream, and bluefin tuna. Further, this group is considered to be a suitable model for studying various aspects in ecology. A series of aquaculture and basic science studies have significantly advanced our understanding of the life history evolution. The studies in these two fields are closely linked, and provide readers with comprehensive information on how rotifers are now being employed in biological investigations.