1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000027620

Autore

Dossi, Carlo <1849-1910>

Titolo

Il Regno dei cieli La colonia felice Amori Giorni di festa / [con interludio di Primo Levi]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : <<Fratelli>> Treves, 1910

Descrizione fisica

XVI, 263 p. : 19 cm.

Disciplina

853.8

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In cop. e in testa al front. firma autografa: Sergio de Pilato, in ottobre '910

L. 3.50

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455415503321

Autore

Brown Clair <1946->

Titolo

Chips and change [[electronic resource] ] : how crisis reshapes the semiconductor industry / / Clair Brown and Greg Linden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-69435-9

9786612694356

0-262-25865-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LindenGreg <1959->

Disciplina

338.4/762138152

Soggetti

Semiconductor industry - Management

Business cycles

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Sommario/riassunto

This title looks at how the chip industry has responded to a series of crises over the past 25 years, often reinventing itself and shifting the basis for a global competitive advantage.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782764603321

Autore

Hardin Garrett

Titolo

Living within Limits [[electronic resource] ] : Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995

ISBN

1-280-44202-6

0-19-802403-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

304.6/66

363.91

Soggetti

Birth control

Population

Sociology & Social History

Family & Marriage

Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. The Challenge of Limits; 2. Overpopulation: Escape to the Stars?; 3. Uneasy Litter Mates: Population and Progress; 4. Population Theory: Academia's Stepchild; 5. Default Status: Making Sense of the World; 6. The Ambivalent Triumph of Optimism; 7. Cowboy Economics versus Spaceship Ecology; 8. Growth: Real and Spurious; 9. Exponential Growth of Populations; 10. What Malthus Missed; 11. The Demostat; 12. Generating the Future; 13. Limits: A Constrained View; 14. From Jevons's Coal to Hubbert's Pimple; 15. Nuclear Power: A Nonsolution; 16. Trying to Escape Malthus

17. The Benign Demographic Transition18. Making Room for Human Will; 19. Major Default Positions of Human Biology; 20. Carrying Capacity; 21. The Global Pillage: Consequences of Unmanaged



Commons; 22. Discriminating Altruisms; 23. The Double C-Double P Game; 24. Birth Control versus Population Control; 25. Population Control: Natural versus Human; 26. The Necessity of Immigration Control; 27. Recapitulation and a Look Ahead; Notes and References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

We fail to mandate economic sanity, writes Garrett Hardin, ""because our brains are addled by...compassion."" With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology for decades, winning a reputation as a fearless and original thinker. A prominent biologist, ecological philosopher, and keen student of human population control, Hardin now offers the finest summation of his work to date, with an eloquent argument for accepting the limits of the earth's resources--and the hard choices we must make to live within them. In Living Within Limits, Hardin focuses on the neg