1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454725603321

Autore

Burton Robert Wilton <1848-1917.>

Titolo

The Marengo Jake stories [[electronic resource] ] : the tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton / / Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, AL, : University of Alabama Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8173-8034-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MitchellJake

Disciplina

813.4

813/.4

Soggetti

African Americans

Slaves - Alabama

Electronic books.

Auburn (Ala.) Fiction

Marengo County (Ala.) Fiction

Alabama Social life and customs 19th century Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously published under title: De remnant truth, 1991.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; A Note on the Texts; The "Marengo Jake" Stories; M'renger; M'reener: How Uncle Jake Interviewed a "High-Drawin'" Ram; Marengo Mud: Old Jake's Story of the Bottomless Slough; Three Little Boys and Three Little Fishes; Marengo Jake Plays Another Trick on the Three Boys; Seismic Phenomena-Explained by a Marengo Scientist; Christmas in Marengo; Jake and Miss Emmer; Tripping Jake; The Marengo Prestidigitator; Marengo Jake: A Romance of Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds; Jake Cornered; A True Story: How Marengo Jake Elected Cleveland

Marengo Jake: He Tells About a Famous "Dry Drought"Marengo Jake: An Incident of the Wet Drouth in M'ringer; A Marengo Runaway; Dick and the Devil; A M'ringer Rat Story; Old Time Christmas; A Pig Tale; An Ass in a Lion's Skin; Birmingham Dirt; Looking Backward; A Mule as Was a Mule; An Eating Match; Jake's New House; A Legend: How Clarke Played It on Marengo; Underground Farming; Jake's Senses; Jake Heard From; A Lesson in Natural History; Miss Mary;  or, The Value of Education; A



Model School; Mosquitoes of Marengo; Lightning; An Abridged Narrative

Sommario/riassunto

Between 1885 and 1894 The Montgomery Advertiser, The Birmingham-Age Herald, and The New Orleans Times Democrat featured a series of about 80 humorous black-dialect sketches by Robert Wilton Burton, a bookseller and writer from Auburn, Alabama.  According to Burton, these tales were based on various characters in the black community of Auburn, and 36 of them were devoted exclusively to a character called ""Marengo Jake.""  Probably originally from Virginia, Jake Mitchell was brought to the Drake Plantation in Marengo county as a boy in the 1850's.  After the Civil War, th

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996394762903316

Autore

Manby Peter <d. 1697.>

Titolo

The considerations which obliged Peter Manby dean of Derry to embrace the Catholique religion [[electronic resource]] : Dedicated to His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Ardmagh, Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland. Dublin Castle the 11th of March 1686/7. This following discourse is allowed to be printed. Tho. Sheridan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Dublin], : Printed for Christopher I'ans, in Christ Church Lane, with several other Catholick books, 1687

Descrizione fisica

[8], 20 p

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Place of publication from Wing.

Identified on UMI microfilm (Early English books, 1641-1700) reel 1762 as Wing (2nd ed.) M383.

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794558703321

Autore

Calderón-Garcidueñas L

Titolo

Alzheimer's Disease and Air Pollution : The Development and Progression of a Fatal Disease from Childhood and the Opportunities for Early Prevention

Pubbl/distr/stampa

, : IOS Press, Incorporated, , 2021

©2021

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (616 pages)

Collana

Advances in Alzheimer's Disease ; ; v.8

Disciplina

616.8311071

Soggetti

Air

Alzheimer's disease

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Section 1. Alzheimer's Disease and Air Pollution: The Ignored Side of Alzheimer's Research -- Ozone, Particulate Matter, and Newly Diagnosed Alzheimer's Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Taiwan -- Where Do Ultrafine Particles and Nano-Sized Particles Come From? -- Overview of Sources and Characteristics of Nanoparticles in Urban Traffic-Influenced Areas -- Combustion-Derived Nanoparticles in Key Brain Target Cells and Organelles in Young Urbanites: Culprit Hidden in Plain Sight in Alzheimer's Disease Development -- Airborne Magnetite- and Iron-Rich Pollution Nanoparticles: Potential Neurotoxicants and Environmental Risk Factors for Neurodegenerative Disease, Including Alzheimer's Disease -- Section 2. Particulate Matter, Neurobiology, and Neuropathology -- Air Pollution, Combustion and Friction Derived Nanoparticles, and Alzheimer's Disease in Urban Children and Young Adults -- Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Incident Dementia: Direct and Indirect Pathways Through Metabolic Dysfunction -- Anthropogenic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Induce Damage to Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells Forming the Blood-Brain Barrier -- Fine Particulate Matter Exposure and Cerebrospinal Fluid Markers of Vascular Injury -- Long-Term Exposure to PM10 and in vivo Alzheimer's Disease Pathologies -- Particulate Matter Exposure



Exacerbates Amyloid-Beta Plaque Deposition and Gliosis in APP/PS1 Mice -- NLRP3 Inflammasome: A Potential Therapeutic Target in Fine Particulate Matter-Induced Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease -- Tobacco Smoke Exposure Impairs Brain Insulin/IGF Signaling: Potential Co-Factor Role in Neurodegeneration -- Air Pollution and Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Exposure to Traffic-Generated Pollutants Exacerbates the Expression of Factors Associated with the Pathophysiology of Alzheimer's Disease in Aged C57BL/6 Wild-Type Mice -- Section 3. Cognitive Decline and Air Pollution -- Decreases in Short Term Memory, IQ, and Altered Brain Metabolic Ratios in Urban Apolipoprotein epsilon4 Children Exposed to Air Pollution -- Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Involving Multiple Cognitive Domains in Mexican Urbanites -- Impact of Air Pollution on Cognitive Impairment in Older People: A Cohort Study in Rural and Suburban China -- Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollutants and Cognitive Function in Taiwanese Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Four-Year Cohort Study -- Education Differences in the Adverse Impact of PM2.5 on Incident Cognitive Impairment Among U.S. Older Adults -- Life Course Air Pollution Exposure and Cognitive Decline: Modelled Historical Air Pollution Data and the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 -- Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Cognitive Function Among Hispanic/Latino Adults in San Diego, California -- Long-Term Exposure to PM2.5 and Cognitive Decline: A Longitudinal Population-Based Study -- The Role of Traffic-Related Air Pollution in Neurodegenerative Diseases in Older People: An Epidemiological Perspective -- Acute versus Chronic Exposures to Inhaled Particulate Matter and Neurocognitive Dysfunction: Pathways to Alzheimer's Disease or a Related Dementia -- Traffic-Related Air Pollution as a Risk Factor for Dementia: No Clear Modifying Effects of APOE epsilon4 in the Betula Cohort -- Section 4. Ozone: The Hidden Player in Neurodegeneration -- Ozone Atmospheric Pollution and Alzheimer's Disease: From Epidemiological Facts to Molecular Mechanisms -- Air Pollution, Stress, and Allostatic Load: Linking Systemic and Central Nervous System Impacts.

Association of Low-Level Ozone with Cognitive Decline in Older Adults -- Ozone and Particulate Matter Exposure and Alzheimer's Disease: A Review of Human and Animal Studies -- Section 5. Alzheimer's Disease Continuum: The Early Diagnosis in the First Four Decades of Life -- Apolipoprotein E4, Gender, Body Mass Index, Inflammation, Insulin Resistance, and Air Pollution Interactions: Recipe for Alzheimer's Disease Development in Mexico City Young Females -- Auditory Brainstem Dysfunction, Non-Invasive Biomarkers for Early Diagnosis and Monitoring of Alzheimer's Disease in Young Urban Residents Exposed to Air Pollution -- Increased Gain in the Auditory Pathway, Alzheimer's Disease Continuum, and Air Pollution: Peripheral and Central Auditory System Dysfunction Evolves Across Pediatric and Adult Urbanites -- Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Highly Exposed PM2.5 Urbanites: The Risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases in Young Mexico City Residents -- Non-Phosphorylated Tau in Cerebrospinal Fluid is a Marker of Alzheimer's Disease Continuum in Young Urbanites Exposed to Air Pollution -- A Critical Proton MR Spectroscopy Marker of Alzheimer's Disease Early Neurodegenerative Change: Low Hippocampal NAA/Cr Ratio Impacts APOE epsilon4 Mexico City Children and Their Parents -- Section 6. Mental Disorders, Neurotoxicity, and the Link Between SARS-CoV-2 and Worsening of Neurodegeneration -- Air Pollution as Risk Factor for Mental Disorders: In Search for a Possible Link with Alzheimer's Disease and Schizophrenia -- Analyzing Individual-Level Secondary Data with



Instrumental Variable Methods Is Useful for Studying the Effects of Air Pollution on Dementia -- Air Pollution Neurotoxicity in the Adult Brain: Emerging Concepts from Experimental Findings.

Environmental Nanoparticles, SARS-CoV-2 Brain Involvement, and Potential Acceleration of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases in Young Urbanites Exposed to Air Pollution -- Dementia Around the World and the Latin America and Mexican Scenarios -- Author Index.