1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910496136603321

Autore

Steinberg Theodore <1961->

Titolo

Slide Mountain : or, the folly of owning nature / / Theodore Steinberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1995]

©1995

ISBN

9786612355028

9781282355026

1282355023

9780520918467

0520918460

9780585041124

0585041121

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

333.3/0973

Soggetti

Land tenure

Land tenure - United States

Land use

Land use - United States

Real property

Real property - United States

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 (pages 177-203) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- SLIDE MOUNTAIN -- Fast Fish in America: An Introduction -- 1. Blackbird's Ghost: Real Estate and Other Fantasies -- 2. Identity Crisis in Bayou Country -- 3. Notes from Underground: The Private Life of Water -- 4. Cloudbusting in Fulton County -- 5. Three-D Deeds: The Rise of Air Rights in New York -- Paper Moon: A Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The drive to own the natural world in twentieth-century America seems virtually limitless. Signs of this national penchant for possessing nature are everywhere-from suburban picket fences to elaborate schemes to own underground water, clouds, even the ocean floor. Yet, as Theodore Steinberg demonstrates in this compelling, witty look at Americans'



attempts to master the environment, nature continually turns these efforts into folly. In a rich, narrative style recalling the work of John McPhee, Steinberg tours America to explore some of the more unusual dilemmas that have arisen in our struggle to possess nature. Beginning along the Missouri River, Steinberg recounts the battle for three thousand acres of land the river carved from a Nebraska Indian reservation and deposited in Iowa. Then he travels to Louisiana, where an army of lawyers butted heads over whether Six Mile Lake was actually a lake or a stream. He continues to Arizona to investigate who owned the underground, then to Pennsylvania's Blue Ridge Mountains to see who claimed the clouds. He ends in crowded New York City with Donald Trump's struggle for air rights. Americans' obsession with owning nature was immortalized by Mark Twain in the tale of Slide Mountain, where a landslide-prone Nevada peak turned the American dream of real estate into dust. In relating these modern-day "Slide Mountain" stories, Steinberg illuminates what it means to live in a culture of property where everything must have an owner.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019148903321

Autore

Rieth Michael

Titolo

Pharmaceutical Microbiology : Best Practices, Validation, Quality Assurance

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

9783527848713

3527848711

9783527848690

352784869X

9783527848706

3527848703

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (430 pages)

Disciplina

615.19

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Sommario/riassunto

All-in-one guide to monitoring and maintaining microbiological safety in the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and cosmetics Addressing the full spectrum of microbiological quality control and quality assurance in pharmaceutical production, Pharmaceutical Microbiology covers methods and technologies required by regulatory authorities throughout the world, with all methods and protocols rated in terms of their compliance with current (2023) EU legislation. Written by the former head of biological quality assurance for one of Europe's biggest pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies, Pharmaceutical Microbiology covers sample topics including:  General conditions for the operation of microbiological laboratories, calibration and qualification of devices, and type culture maintenance Industrial hygiene, ambient monitoring, quality control, process validation, microbiological water examination, and rapid microbiological methods Automation in the microbiology laboratory, quality assurance, identification of microorganisms, cleaning, sterilization, decontamination, and disposal, and contract testing Pharmacopoeial and non-pharmacopoeial methods for the identification and quantification of microorganisms, including cell culture and selected animal tests  Pharmaceutical Microbiology is an essential practice-oriented all-in-one reference for engineers, researchers, and professionals involved in setting up and running a microbiological quality control unit in the pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and cosmetics industries.