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.

UNINA9910765618903321

Autore

Forges Davanzati Guglielmo <1967->

Titolo

Ethical codes and income distribution : a study of John Bates Clark and Thorstein Veblen / / Guglielmo Forges Davanzati

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Routledge, 2006

ISBN

9786610506149

9781134215843

1134215843

9781280506147

1280506148

9780203016794

0203016793

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Classificazione

BUS000000BUS069000PHI005000

Disciplina

339.2/2

339.22

Soggetti

Income distribution - Moral and ethical aspects

Economics - Moral and ethical aspects

Institutional economics

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 and indexes.



Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Outline of the book; 1 The genesis and the spread of ethical codes: The inside-the market versus the outside-the-market approach; 2 John bates clark: Moral norms and the labour market in neoclassical economics; 3 Thorstein veblen: The institutionalist approach to income distribution and ethical codes; 4 Ethical codes and income distribution in the neoclassical and institutionalist theoretical frameworks; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In contemporary non-mainstream economic debate, it is widely thought that the functioning of a market economy needs a set of rules (i.e. institutions) which bind agents in their behaviour, allowing efficient outcomes. This idea is contrary to the General Equilibrium Model (GEM) where markets are pictured as working in an institutional vacuum and where social and historical variables play no role. However, in more recent times, a large group of economists have begun to insert social and moral variables into standard models based on the rational choice paradigm, following the increasing inter

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910145794503321

Autore

Müller Peter

Titolo

Modular Specification and Verification of Object-Oriented Programs / / by Peter Müller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2002

ISBN

3-540-45651-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2002.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 298 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 2262

Disciplina

005.1

Soggetti

Computer programming

Programming languages (Electronic computers)

Software engineering

Computer logic

Programming Techniques

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

Software Engineering

Logics and Meanings of Programs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Fernuniversität Hagen, 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mojave and the Universe Type System -- The Semantics of Mojave -- Modular Specification and Verification of Functional Behavior -- Modular Specification and Verification of Frame Properties -- Modular Specification and Verification of Type Invariants -- Conclusion -- Formal Background and Notations -- Predefined Type Declarations -- Examples -- Auxiliary Lemmas, Proofs, and Models.

Sommario/riassunto

Software systems play an increasingly important role in modern societies. Smart cards for personal identi?cation, e-banking, software-controlled me- cal tools, airbags in cars, and autopilots for aircraft control are only some examples that illustrate how everyday life depends on the good behavior of software. Consequently, techniques and methods for the development of hi- quality, dependable software systems are a central research topic in computer science. A fundamental approach to this area is to use formal speci?cation and veri?cation. Speci?cation languages allow one to describe the crucial p- perties of software systems in an abstract, mathematically precise, and implementation-independent way. By formal veri?cation, one can then prove that an implementation really has the desired, speci?ed properties. Although this formal methods approach has been a research topic for more than 30 years, its practical success is still restricted to domains in which devel- ment costs are of minor importance. Two aspects are crucial to widen the application area of formal methods: – Formal speci?cation techniques have to be smoothly integrated into the software and program development process. – The techniques have to be applicable to reusable software components. This way, the quality gain can be exploited for more than one system, thereby justifying the higher development costs. Starting from these considerations, Peter Muller ¨ has developed new te- niques for the formal speci?cation and veri?cation of object-oriented so- ware. The speci?cation techniques are declarative and implementati- independent. They can be used for object-oriented design and programming.