Online virtual worlds [[electronic resource] ] : applications and avatars in a user-generated medium : hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, April 1, 2008

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910699225603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington : , : U.S. G.P.O., , 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (v, 82 pages) : illustrations
• Soggetti: Virtual reality - Social aspects; Second Life (Game) - Social aspects; Avatars (Virtual reality)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from title screen (viewed on Dec. 23, 2009).; Paper version available for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.; "Serial no. 110-102."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (page 56).

Urbanism in antiquity : from Mesopotamia to Crete / / edited by Walter E. Aufrecht, Neil A. Mirau & Steven W. Gauley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782553803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sheffield, Eng. : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , 1997; ©1997
• ISBN: 1-281-81404-0; 9786611814045; 0-567-26988-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Collana: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 244
• Altri autori (Persone): AufrechtWalter Emanuel <1942->; GauleySteven W; MirauNeil A <1952-> (Neil Arnold)
• Disciplina: 307.76093
• Soggetti: Cities and towns, Ancient - Middle East; Excavations (Archaeology) - Middle East; Urbanization - Middle East; Middle East Antiquities Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers from a conference at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, in January 1996.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Spatial Perspectives on Early Urban Development in Mesopotamia; Writing as a Factor in the Rise of Urbanism; Urbanisation et 'redistribution' de surplus agricoles en Mésopotamie septentrionale (3000-2500 av. J.-C.); Craft Specialization and the Rise of Secondary Urbanism: A View from the Southern Levant; The Agricultural Base of Urbanism in the Early Bronze II-III Levant; The Social Context of Early Iron Working in the Levant; Urbanization and Northwest Semitic Inscriptions of the Late Bronze and Iron Ages; Learning to Love the King: Urbanism and the State in Iron Age Moab; Urbanism at Tell el-'Umeiri during the Late Bronze IIB-Iron IA Transition; Tell Jawa: A Case Study of Ammonite Urbanism during Iron Age II; Archaeology, Urbanism, and the Rise of the Israelite State; The Urban Center of Jerusalem and the Development of the Literature of the ; Hebrew Bible; The Ancient Egyptian 'City': Figment or Reality?; Temple as the Center in Ancient Egyptian Urbanism; 'Metro' Nea Paphos: Suburban Sprawl in Southwestern Cyprus in the Hellenistic and Earlier Roman Periods; Palace-Centered Polities in Eastern Crete: Neopalatial Petras and its Neighbors; A View from the Outskirts: Realignments from Modern to Postmodern in the Archaeological Study of Urbanism; Index of Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: The origin and growth of cities in antiquity. The origin and growth of cities forms one of the most important chapters in human history. In this volume, 17 researchers present archaeological, epigraphic and textual data on the rise of urbanism in the ancient Near Eastern world, Cyprus to Mesopotamia and from Crete to Egypt. Topics addressed include the influence of agriculture intensification, of trade, of craft specialization and of writing on the rise of cities. The roles of cultural elites, of ideologies and of relations between proximal urban centres are also examined.