1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458483003321

Titolo

Dictionary of energy [[electronic resource] /] / editors-in-chief, Cutler J. Cleveland, Christopher Morris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; San Diego, CA ; ; Oxford, : Elsevier, 2006

ISBN

1-280-62169-9

9786610621699

0-08-045723-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (520 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ClevelandCutler J

MorrisChris

Disciplina

333.7903

Soggetti

Power resources

Natural resources

Electronic books.

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.

Nota di contenuto

Dictionary of Energy; Special Essays on Important Energy Terms; acid rain (p. 4); agriculture (p. 9); alternative fuel (p. 14); battery (p. 34); biomass (p. 42); blackout (p. 45); boiler (p. 48); bomb calorimeter (p. 49); boom and bust (p. 50); Calvin cycle (p. 61); cap and trade (p. 62); carbon (p. 64); carbon sequestration (p. 67); climate change (p. 79); coal (p. 82); combustion (p. 88); DDT (p. 108); distributed energy (p. 121); ecological energetics (p. 129); ecological footprint (p. 130); elasticity (p. 134); emergy (p. 139); endotherm (p. 142); energy (concept of) (p. 143)

energy conservation (p. 143)energy-GDP ratio (p. 145); energy transitions (p. 146); entropy (p. 148); environmental Kuznets curve (p. 150); exergy (p. 156); experience curve (p. 157); fossil energy power plant (p. 172); fuel cell (p. 176); fuel economy (p. 177); general circulation model (p. 184); Ghawar (p. 188); Gibbs free energy (p. 189); global warming (p. 191); green certificate (p. 195); greenhouse gas (p. 196); heat (p. 202); horsepower (p. 212); Hubbert curve (p. 214); hydrogen (p. 218); industrial ecology (p. 226); Industrial Revolution (p. 227); input-output analysis (p. 229)



internal-combustion engine (p. 232)IPAT equation (p. 234); Jevons' paradox (p. 239); Krebs cycle (p. 244); Kyoto Protocol (p. 245); levelized cost (p. 252); light (p. 253); longwall mining (p. 261); lunar-solar power (p. 264); market-based instrument (p. 270); market failure (p. 271); Mauna Loa curve (p. 273); natural capital (p. 291); natural gas (p. 292); net energy (p. 295); NIMBY (p. 298); nongovernmental organization (p. 301); ocean energy (p. 306); oil crises (p. 309); oil sand (p. 310); oil spill (p. 311); OPEC (p. 312); Otto cycle (p. 316); passive solar energy (p. 322)

peak oil (p. 324)peat (p. 325); perpetual motion (p. 327); photosynthesis (p. 332); primary energy (p. 346); quantum theory (p. 354); radiation (p. 357); recycling (p. 366); refrigeration (p. 369); renewable portfolio standard (p. 372); resource curse (p. 375); restructuring (p. 376); R-value (p. 383); seismic exploration (p. 391); smog (p. 400); sociopolitical collapse (p. 401); solar cell (p. 404); solar thermal energy (p. 408); strip mining (p. 424); supertanker (p. 431); synthetic fuel (p. 434); technological innovation (p. 437); temperature scales (p. 439); thermodynamics (p. 445)

tidal energy (p. 449)turbine (p. 460); uranium (p. 467); vertical integration (p. 474); waste-to-energy (p. 478); wells-to-wheels (p. 482); wind farm (p. 486); wood energy (p. 488)

Sommario/riassunto

At a time when the topic of energy prices, resources and environmental impacts are at the forefront of news stories and political discussions, we are pleased to announce the publication of the exciting new Dictionary of Energy.   This authoritative resource, called ""an essential reference for energy researchers"" by Mark Jaccard, Director of the Energy and Materials Research Group at Simon Fraser University, covers all aspects of energy and its role in society.  *  Over 8,000 definitions spanning 40 scientific disciplines* More than 100 'window essays' written



2.

Record Nr.

UNICASTO00066624

Autore

Statius, Publius Papinius

Titolo

1: Livres 1.-3. / Stace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2. ed. revue et corrigee

Descrizione fisica

Paris : Les belles lettres, 1961. - LIII, 129 p., [50] p. (12-129 doppie) ; 20 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Testo orig. a fronte.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779366303321

Autore

Archer Neil <1971->

Titolo

The French road movie [[electronic resource] ] : space, mobility, identity / / Neil Archer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013

ISBN

1-283-86654-4

0-85745-771-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Classificazione

AP 44935

Disciplina

791.43/655

791.4362

Soggetti

Road films - France - History and criticism

Motion pictures - France - History and criticism

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Translations; Introduction: Locating the Road Movie; 1. Road to Autopia: Les Valseuses and Le Plein de super; 2. 'Capturing Freedom': Marginality



and the Road Movie; 3. No Place Like Home: Camping it Up in Drôle de Félix; 4. Nowhere Men: Masculinity and the Road Movie; 5. From Flânerie to Glânerie: The Possibilities of a 'Feminine Road Movie'; 6. Travel and the Transnational Road Movie in the Twenty-First Century; 7. 'Welcome to France!' The Road Movie and French National Cinema; Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The traditionally American genre of the road movie has been explored and reconfigured in the French context since the later 1960s. Comparative in its approach, this book studies the inter-relationship between American and French culture and cinemas, and in the process considers and challenges histories of the road movie. It combines film history with film theory methodologies, analyzing transformations in social, political and film-industrial contexts alongside changing perspectives on the meaning and possibilities of film. At once chronological and thematic in structure, The French Road Mo