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UNINA9910462837903321 |
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Henderson Julian <1953-> |
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Titolo |
Ancient glass / / Julian Henderson [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-107-23434-4 |
1-139-61007-4 |
1-139-61193-3 |
1-139-62123-8 |
1-283-94306-9 |
1-139-62495-4 |
1-139-60852-5 |
1-139-61565-3 |
1-139-02188-5 |
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1 online resource (xx, 433 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Glass manufacture - History |
Glassware, Ancient |
Glassware, Classical |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Glass as a material: a technological background in faience, pottery and metal? -- Ways to flux silica: ashes and minerals -- Silica, lime and glass colourants -- Glass chemical compositions -- Early glass in the Middle East and Europe: innovation, archaeology and the contexts for production and use -- Early glass in the Middle East and Europe: scientific analysis -- Hellenistic to Roman: a change from small- to large-scale glass production? -- Late Hellenistic and early Roman glass: Scientific studies -- Islamic glass: technological continuity and innovation -- Islamic glass: scientific research -- The provenance of ancient glass -- Conclusions. |
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This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of archaeological glass in which technological, historical, geological, chemical and cultural aspects of the study of ancient glass are combined. The book examines |
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why and how this unique material was invented some 4,500 years ago and considers the ritual, social, economic and political contexts of its development. It also provides an in-depth consideration of glass as a material, the raw materials used to make it, and its wide range of chemical compositions in both the East and the West from its invention to the seventeenth century AD. Julian Henderson focuses on three contrasting archaeological and scientific case studies: Late Bronze Age glass, late Hellenistic-early Roman glass, and Islamic glass in the Middle East. He considers in detail the provenances of ancient glass using scientific techniques and discusses a range of vessels and their uses in ancient societies. |
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UNINA9910679761803321 |
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Uniforms |
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Trevose, PA, : Advertising Specialty Institute, 2007- |
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UNINA9910963967403321 |
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America's energy future : technology and transformation / / Committee on America's Energy Future, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and National Research Council of the National Academies |
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Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, c2009 |
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9786612454851 |
9780309149099 |
0309149096 |
9781282454859 |
1282454854 |
9780309116039 |
0309116031 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (737 p.) |
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America's energy future series America's energy future |
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Power resources - United States |
Energy policy - United States |
Energy conservation |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""PART 1""; ""1 Context and Challenges""; ""2 Key Findings""; ""3 Key Results from Technology Assessments""; ""PART 2""; ""4 Energy Efficiency""; ""5 Alternative Transportation Fuels""; ""6 Renewable Energy""; ""7 Fossil-Fuel Energy""; ""8 Nuclear Energy""; ""9 Electricity Transmission and Distribution""; ""APPENDIXES""; ""Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies""; ""Appendix B: Meeting Participants""; ""Appendix C: America�s Energy Future Project"" |
""Appendix D: Principal Units and Conversion Factors""""Appendix E: Select Acronyms and Abbreviations""; ""Index"" |
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"Energy touches our lives in countless ways and its costs are felt when |
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we fill up at the gas pump, pay our home heating bills, and keep businesses both large and small running. There are long-term costs as well: to the environment, as natural resources are depleted and pollution contributes to global climate change, and to national security and independence, as many of the world's current energy sources are increasingly concentrated in geopolitically unstable regions. The country's challenge is to develop an energy portfolio that addresses these concerns while still providing sufficient, affordable energy reserves for the nation. The United States has enormous resources to put behind solutions to this energy challenge; the dilemma is to identify which solutions are the right ones. Before deciding which energy technologies to develop, and on what timeline, we need to understand them better. America's Energy Future analyzes the potential of a wide range of technologies for generation, distribution, and conservation of energy. This book considers technologies to increase energy efficiency, coal-fired power generation, nuclear power, renewable energy, oil and natural gas, and alternative transportation fuels. It offers a detailed assessment of the associated impacts and projected costs of implementing each technology and categorizes them into three time frames for implementation."--Publisher's description. |
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