1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996394819603316

Autore

Norwood Richard <1590?-1675.>

Titolo

The sea-man's practice [[electronic resource] ] : containing a fundamental problem in navigation, experimentally verified: namely, touching the compass of the earth and sea, and the quantity of a degree in our English measures. Also, an exact method or form of keeping a reckoning at sea in any kind or manner of sailing. With certain tables and other rules useful in navigation: As also in the plotting and surveying of places: The latitude of principal places in England: The finding of currents at sea, and what allowance is to be given in respect of them. / / By Richard Norwood .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by W. Godbid and J. Playford, for William Fisher ... T. Passenger ... R. Boulter ... and R. Smith ..., 1680

Edizione

[The fourteenth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

[6], 137, [1] p. : ill

Soggetti

Navigation

Seamanship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in the Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0159



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484238103321

Titolo

Love and friendship across cultures : perspectives from east and west / / Soraj Hongladarom, Jeremiah Joven Joaquin, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

981-334-834-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 190 p. 6 illus.)

Disciplina

128.46

Soggetti

Love - Philosophy

Friendship - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: ANCIENT -- Aristotle and Confucians on Friendship -- Aristotle’s and Buddha’s Notion of Happiness: A Comparative Study -- Friendship in Aristotle and Buddhism: Confluences and Divergences -- Philia and Agape: Ancient Greek Ethics of Friendship and Christian Theology of Love -- Towards a Confucian Ethics of Humane Online Relations -- Historical Perspectives: Modern and Contemporary -- When Pompey’s Elephants Trumpeted for Mercy: Levinas and Solidarity for the Animal Face -- The Good in Articulation: Describing the Co-Constitution of Self, Practice, and Value -- Nietzsche on Actively Forgetting one’s Promise -- Love as an Act of Resistance: Bell Hooks on Love -- Conceptual Analyses -- Posthumous Love as a Rational Virtue -- Awareness and Aloneness as Foundations of Love and Friendship -- Romantic Love as a Love Story -- For a Moment or for Eternity: A Metaphysics of Perduring Lovers.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection brings together different philosophical points of view discussing two important aspects of human life, namely love and friendship, within the broad context of comparative philosophy. These points of view differ in terms of their cultural orientations - East or West, ancient or modern; philosophical methodologies - analytical, historical, experimental, or phenomenological, broadly construed; and motivation - explanatory, revisionary, or argumentative. The volume is



a comparative treatment of how diverse philosophical cultures view love and friendship, such as how Aristotle and Confucius’ views on friendship are similar and different, how the ancient Greeks and the Buddhists view friendship and happiness, and how posthumous love is possible. With contributions from a diverse set of scholars, this book presents the emerging views of Southeast Asian philosophers compared with those of philosophers from other regions, including Europe and North America. The volume thus provides a multi-faceted way of understanding love and friendship across cultures, and will be relevant to scholars interested in philosophy, the history of ideas, Asian Studies, and religious studies.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964206903321

Titolo

Cognitive ecology of pollination : animal behavior and floral evolution / / edited by Lars Chittka and James D. Thomson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge ; ; New York, NY, : Cambridge University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-107-12054-3

1-280-42137-1

9786610421374

0-511-17469-1

0-511-04097-0

0-511-15469-0

0-511-32524-X

0-511-54226-7

0-511-04615-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 344 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChittkaLars <1963->

ThomsonJames D. <1950->

Disciplina

571.8/642

Soggetti

Pollinators - Ecophysiology

Pollination

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



Nota di contenuto

The effect of variation among floral traits on the flower constancy of pollinators / Robert J. Gegear and Terence M. Laverty -- Behavioral and neural mechanisms of learning and memory as determinants of flower constancy / Randolf Menzel -- Subjective evaluation and choice behavior by nectar- and pollen-collecting bees / Keith D. Waddington -- Honeybee vision and floral displays: from detection to close-up recognition / Martin Giurfa and Miriam Lehrer -- Floral scent, olfaction, and scent-driven foraging behavior / Robert A. Raguso -- Adaptation, constraint, and chance in the evolution of flower color and pollinator color vision / Lars Chittka, Johannes Spaethe, Annette Schmidt, Anja Hickelsberger -- Foraging and spatial learning in hummingbirds / Susan D. Healy and T. Andrew Hurly -- Bats as pollinators: foraging energetics and floral adaptations / York Winter and Otto von Helversen -- Vision and learning in some neglected pollinators: beetles, flies, moths, and butterflies / Martha R. Weiss -- Pollinator individuality: when does it matter? / James D. Thomson and Lars Chittka -- Effects of predation risk on pollinators and plants / Reuven Dukas -- Pollinator preference, frequency dependence, and floral evolution / Ann Smithson -- Pollinator-mediated assortative mating: causes and consequences / Kristina Niovi Jones -- Behavioural responses of pollinators to variation in floral display size and their influences on the evolution of floral traits / Kazuharu Ohashi and Tetsukazu Yahara -- The effects of floral design and display on pollinator economics and pollen dispersal / Lawrence D. Harder, Neal M. Williams, Crispin Y. Jordan and William A. Nelson -- Pollinator behavior and plant speciation: looking beyond the "ethological isolation" paradigm / Nickolas M. Waser.

Sommario/riassunto

Important breakthroughs have recently been made in our understanding of the cognitive and sensory abilities of pollinators: how pollinators perceive, memorise and react to floral signals and rewards; how they work flowers, move among inflorescences and transport pollen. These new findings have obvious implications for the evolution of floral display and diversity, but most existing publications are scattered across a wide range of journals in very different research traditions. This book brings together for the first time outstanding scholars from many different fields of pollination biology, integrating the work of neuroethologists and evolutionary ecologists to present a multi-disciplinary approach. Aimed at graduates and researchers of behavioural and pollination ecology, plant evolutionary biology and neuroethology, it will also be a useful source of information for anyone interested in a modern view of cognitive and sensory ecology, pollination and floral evolution.