1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910449915003321

Autore

Hochachka Peter W.

Titolo

Biochemical adaptation : mechanism and process in physiological evolution / / Peter W. Hochachka, George N. Somero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-280-47035-6

9786610470358

1-282-36726-9

9786612367267

0-19-535367-6

1-60256-234-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464p. ) : ill

Disciplina

572.8/38

Soggetti

Adaptation (Physiology)

Physiology, Comparative

Molecular evolution

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1 The Goals and Scope of This Volume 3 --2 Cellular Metabolism, Regulation, and Homeostasis 20 --3 Influence of Oxygen Availability 101 -- 4 The Diving Response and Its Evolution 158 --5 Human Hypoxia Tolerance 186 --6 Water-Solute Adaptations: The Evolution and Regulation of the Internal Milieu 217 --7 Temperature 290 -- Index 451.

Sommario/riassunto

Suitable for graduates and undergraduates in environmental biology, comparative physiology, and marine biology, this text lays out the principles of mechanistic comparative physiology in an ecological and evolutionary context.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781087703321

Titolo

African American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Anthony B. Pinn, Allen Dwight Callahan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008

ISBN

1-283-52780-4

9786613840257

0-230-61050-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice

Disciplina

220.8/305896

Soggetti

Ethnology—Africa

Religion

Religion—History

Religion and sociology

Bible—Theology

Ethnicity

African Culture

Religious Studies, general

History of Religion

Sociology of Religion

Biblical Studies

Ethnicity Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: "Figures of the true" / Allen Dwight Callahan -- The hunter and the game : reappropriating the legend of Nimrod from an African American theological perspective / James H. Evans, Jr. -- God of restraint : an African American humanist interpretation of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel / Anthony B. Pinn -- "I am black and beautiful, o ye daughters of Jerusalem" : African American virtue ethics and a womanist hermeneutics of redemption / Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas -- "Lest we be scattered abroad" : Nimrod, Marcus Garvey, and Black



religious humanism in Harlem / Juan M. Floyd-Thomas -- More than a mighty hunter : George Washington Williams, nineteenth-century racialized discourse, and the reclamation of Nimrod / Abraham Smith -- The story of Nimrod : a struggle with otherness and the search for identity / Arthur L. Pressley -- Nimrod : reading the Bible with South African eyes / Elelwani B. Farisani -- Nimrod and Dead Prez : walking like a warrior / Ralph C. Watkins -- Nimrod and the South African context / Dorothy M. Farisani -- Who is the man? : Nimrod, Afrocentricism, and the African American dream / Lee H. Butler, Jr. -- "The strength of collective man" : Nimrod and the Tower of Babel / Allen Dwight Callahan -- Nimrod : paradigm of future oppressive systems / Jimmy Kirby -- Beyond the curse of Noah : African American pastoral theology as political / Edward P. Wimberly -- A tower of pulpits / Dale P. Andrews -- Reorientation by reference to "wrong way" makers : evaluating a modern signifying mythicization of an ancient mythicization / Theodore Walker, Jr.

Sommario/riassunto

The biblical text and its key figures have played a prominent role in the development of religious discourse on pressing socio-political issues. Slavery and continued discrimination were given theological sanction through the Old Testament story of Ham, but what of his descendent Nimrod the hunter?