1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009739110403321

Titolo

The world of greek vases / edited by Vinnie Nørskov ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Quasar, 2009

ISBN

978-88-7140-420-2

Descrizione fisica

245 p. : ill. ; 30 cm

Collana

Analecta romana instituti danici , Supplementum ; 61.

Disciplina

738.3820938

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

738.382 NOR 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910706978003321

Titolo

America's water infrastructure needs and challenges : hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, second session, January 10, 2018

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2018

Washington, DC : , : For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 219 pages) : illustrations

Collana

S. hrg. ; ; 115-189

Soggetti

Water resources development - United States

Waterworks - Government policy - United States

Infrastructure (Economics) - United States

Water-supply - United States - Management

Flood control - United States

Harbors - United States - Maintenance and repair

Federal aid to water quality management - United States

Legislative hearings.



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, United States Government Publishing Office.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910808965003321

Autore

Gray John N.

Titolo

At home in the hills : sense of place in the Scottish borders / / John N. Gray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

0-85745-871-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

941.3/7085

941.37085

Soggetti

Landlord and tenant - Scotland - Scottish Borders - History - 20th century

Rural families - Scotland - Scottish Borders - History - 20th century

Agriculture - Scotland - Scottish Borders - History - 20th century

Farm life - Scotland - Scottish Borders - History - 20th century

Families - Scotland - Scottish Borders - History - 20th century

Scottish Borders (Scotland) Social life and customs

Scottish Borders (Scotland) Rural conditions

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

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1  Reivers of the Marches; Chapter 2  Tenants on Landed Estates; Chapter 3  Sheep Farming in the Community; Chapter 4  Forms of Tenure; Chapter 5  Sheep and Land; Chapter 6  Hill Sheep and Tups; Chapter 7  Lamb Auctions; Chapter 8  Ram Auctions; Chapter 9  The Big



House; Chapter 10  The Farmhouse; Afterword; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

To most outsiders, the hills of the Scottish Borders are a bleak and foreboding space - usually made to represent the stigmatized Other, Ad Finis, by the centers of power in Edinburgh, London, and Brussels. At a time when globalization seems to threaten our sense of place, people of the Scottish borderlands provide a vivid case study of how the being-in-place is central to the sense of self and identity. Since the end of the thirteenth century, people living in the Scottish Border hills have engaged in armed raiding on the frontier with England, developed capitalist sheep farming in