1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781783903321

Autore

Maniquis Robert

Titolo

Godwinian moments : from the enlightenment to romanticism / / edited by Robert M. Maniquis and Victoria Myers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-4426-9399-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Collana

UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series

Disciplina

828/.609

Soggetti

PHILOSOPHY / General

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"In association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Godwin's radical moment. Godwin's Calvinist ghosts : political justice and Caleb Williams / Robert M. Maniquis ; Godwin, Thelwall, and the means of progress / Mark Philp ; "The press and danger of the crowd" : Godwin, Thelwall, and the counter-public sphere / Jon Mee ; "Awakening the mind" : William Godwin's Enquirer / Gary Handwerk ; Godwin disguised : politics in the juvenile library / Robert Anderson -- Godwin's experiments with history. Oratory and history : Godwin's History of the life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham / Victoria Myers ; The disfiguration of enlightenment : war, trauma, and the historical novel in Godwin's Mandeville / Tilottama Rajan ; "This is the dread hour, /that must decide the fate of England!" : Godwin's St. Dunstan / David O'Shaughnessy ; Heavy drama / Julie A. Carlson -- Godwin's acquaintances. The philosopher and the moneylender : the relationship between William Godwin and John King / Michael Scrivener ; Commerce of luminaries : eight letters between William Godwin and Thomas Wedgwood / Pamela Clemit.

Sommario/riassunto

Godwinian Moments is the first ever book collection on the work of William Godwin, the radical British philosopher, novelist, and pamphleteer who contributed extensively to the political and cultural shifts of 1783 to 1834.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826175203321

Titolo

The five series study : mortality of military participants in U.S. nuclear weapons tests : medical follow-up agency, Institute of Medicine / / by Susan Thaul ... [et al.] ; with oversight from the Committee to Study the Mortality of Military Personnel Present at Atmospheric Tests of Nuclear Weapons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 2000

ISBN

0-309-17259-4

1-280-18565-1

9786610185658

0-309-56939-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ThaulSusan

Disciplina

616.9897

Soggetti

Nuclear weapons testing victims - Health aspects

Soldiers - Mortality

Nuclear weapons - Testing - Health aspects

Radiation carcinogenesis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""The Five Series Study""; ""Copyright""; ""REVIEWERS""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Glossary""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""METHODS""; ""FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION""; ""1 Study Rationale and Overview ""; ""RATIONALE""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""2 Other Studies of Radiation Exposure of Military Personnel ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""MILITARY POPULATIONS""; ""3 An Overview of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing Program ""; ""GREENHOUSE""; ""UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE""; ""CASTLE""; ""REDWING""; ""PLUMB BOB""; ""ESTIMATES OF EXTERNAL DOSES""; ""4 Data Sources ""

""COHORT IDENTIFICATION""""Nuclear Test Personnel Review Program""; ""National Archives and Military Collections""; ""CHARACTERISTICS OF



COHORT MEMBERS, INCLUDING DATE OF BIRTH AND VITAL STATUS""; ""Beneficiary Identification and Records Locator Subsystem""; ""VA Master Index""; ""Military Personnel Folder""; ""CAUSE OF DEATH""; ""Veteran's Claim Folder""; ""National Death Index""; ""POPULATION MORTALITY RATES FOR COMPARISON""; ""5 The Participant Cohort ""; ""RELATIONSHIP OF PARTICIPANT ROSTERS USED IN THE 1985 PUBLICATION AND THIS REPORT""

""PARTICIPATION IN SERIES OTHER THAN THE SELECTION SERIES""""6 The Referent Cohort ""; ""7 Exposure Definition and Measurement ""; ""DNA-PROVIDED DOSE ESTIMATES""; ""Individual Doses""; ""Alternative Uses of Dose Data""; ""POTENTIAL SURROGATE MEASURES OF DOSE""; ""DECISIONS FOR THE ANALYSES IN THIS REPORT""; ""FUTURE OPTIONS FOR USE OF DOSIMETRY""; ""8 Mortality Ascertainment ""; ""FACT-OF-DEATH ASCERTAINMENT""; ""FACT-OF-DEATH VALIDATION""; ""DATE OF DEATH""; ""CAUSE-OF-DEATH ACQUISITION""; ""CAUSE-OF-DEATH VALIDATION""; ""9 Analysis Structure ""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""AVAILABLE DATA""

""ANALYSIS""""Variables""; ""Type of Analysis""; ""Diagnosis Groups""; ""10 Description of Cohort Characteristics ""; ""11 Findings ""; ""TESTS OF PREDETERMINED PRINCIPAL ENDPOINTS""; ""DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSES OF PREDETERMINED ADDITIONAL MORTALITY ENDPOINTS""; ""INVESTIGATING LEUKEMIA RISK BY LAND AND SEA SERIES PARTICIPATION""; ""INVESTIGATING LEUKEMIA RISK BY TIME SINCE FIRST PARTICIPATION AND AGE AT FIRST PARTICIPATION""; ""12 Discussion ""; ""LIMITATIONS""; ""Fact-of-Death and Cause-of-Death Ascertainment""; ""Statistical Power""; ""Other Possible Confounding Factors""

""Military Service Characteristics""""Other Lifetime Radiation Exposure""; ""Contributing and Associated Causes of Death""; ""Inadequate Dosimetry""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""Leukemia""; ""Thyroid Cancer""; ""Lung Cancer""; ""Nasal Cancer""; ""Prostate Cancer""; ""CONCLUDING COMMENTS""; ""References""; ""APPENDIX A A Review of the Dosimetry Data Available in the Nuclear Test Personnel Review Program""; ""APPENDIX B National Association of Atomic Veterans Medical Survey ""; ""APPENDIX C Epidemiology Primer ""; ""CHOICE OF COMPARISON GROUP""; ""FINE TUNING OF EXPOSED GROUP""; ""CONFOUNDERS""

""DATA COLLECTION""