1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451366803321

Autore

Mancall Peter C

Titolo

Hakluyt's promise [[electronic resource] ] : an Elizabethan's obsession for an English America / / Peter C. Mancall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-73503-5

9786611735036

0-300-13527-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Disciplina

910.92

B

Soggetti

Travel writers - England

Clergy - England

Discoveries in geography - English

Voyages and travels

Electronic books.

North America Discovery and exploration English Early works to 1800

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 (p. [319]-364) and index.

Nota di contenuto

London, c.1592: Woodson's tusk. -- London, 1568: The visit. -- Oxford, c.1571: Rumors. -- Oxford, 1577: The ice. -- Oxford, c.1580: Passages. -- Paris, 1583: The devouring sea. -- Paris and London, 1584 to 1589: Cabinets and curiosities. -- London, 1590 to 1600: Truth and lies. -- London, 1609: Virginia richly valued. -- Wetheringsett and London, 1614: The Malayan dialogues.

Sommario/riassunto

Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. This book describes in detail the life and times of Hakluyt, a trained minister who became an editor of travel accounts. Hakluyt's Promise demonstrates his prominent role in the establishment of English America as well as his interests in English opportunities in the East Indies. The volume presents nearly 50 illustrations-many unpublished since the sixteenth



century-and offers a fresh view of Hakluyt's milieu and the central concerns of the Elizabethan age. Though he never traveled farther than Paris, young Hakluyt spent much of the 1580's recording information about the western hemisphere and became an international authority on overseas exploration. The book traces his rise to prominence as a source of information and inspiration for England's policy makers, including the queen, and his advocacy for colonies in Roanoke and Jamestown. Hakluyt's thought was shaped by debates that stretched across Europe, and his interests ranged just as widely, encompassing such topics as peaceful coexistence with Native Americans, the New World as a Protestant Holy Land, and in, his later life, trade with the Spice Islands.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830676103321

Autore

Privateer Paul Michael <1946->

Titolo

Inventing intelligence : a social history of smart / / Paul Michael Privateer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Pub., , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

1-280-28595-8

9786610285952

0-470-79700-2

0-470-75484-2

1-4051-5230-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Classificazione

77.32

Disciplina

153.909

Soggetti

Intellect - Social aspects

Intellect - History

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 (pages [248]-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Inventing Intelligence: A Social History of Smart; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The World of Intelligence; Part I The Renaissance Economy of Intelligence; 1 The Pre-Renaissance Tradition



of Intelligence; 2 The New Landscape of Smart; 3 The First Smart Economy; 4 Renaissance Intellectual Trends; 5 Renaissance Philosophy and Fabrications of Intelligence: From Montaigne to Hobbes; 6 Smart Renaissance Science; 7 Profitable Knowledge and Intelligence Becomes a Career; 8 Intelligence and Dominant Renaissance Scientists

Part II Bright Lights, Fallen Apples, and Clinical Gazes: Intelligence and the Enlightenment9 Intelligence and the Enlightenment; 10 Illuminating Enlightenment Intelligence; 11 Enlightenment Insight: Fallen Apples, Social Mathematics, and a New Intelligence; 12 The Clinical Gaze and Human Normalization; Part III Modern and Postmodern Intelligence: Smart Architects, Smart Tools, and Smart Critiques; 13 Smart Architects and Contemporary Intelligence; 14 Smart Tools and Modern Intelligence; 15 Smart Critiques: New Sciences and New Mathematics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What is intelligence? What makes humans homo sapiens - the intelligent species? Inventing Intelligence is a bold deconstruction of the history of intelligence, bringing a cultural studies approach to this fascinating subject for the first time.

3.

Record Nr.

UNISANNIOUFI0536643

Autore

Griva, Igor

Titolo

Linear and nonlinear optimization / Igor Griva, Stephen G. Nash, Ariela Sofer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Society for industrial and applied mathematics, c2009

Titolo uniforme

Linear and nonlinear optimization

ISBN

0898716616

9780898716610

Edizione

[2. ed]

Descrizione fisica

XX, 742 p. ; 26 cm.

Collana

Other titles in applied mathematics ; 108

Altri autori (Persone)

Nash, Stephen G.

Sofer, Ariela

Disciplina

519.7

519.72

Soggetti

Programmazione lineare

Programmazione non lineare

Collocazione

SALA DING 519.7                   GRI.li

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia