1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910467822903321

Autore

Phillips Roderick

Titolo

The wines of Canada / / Rod Phillips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : Infinite Ideas, , 2017

ISBN

1-910902-58-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (colour)

Collana

The Classic Wine Library

Disciplina

641.220971

Soggetti

Wine and wine making - Canada

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788586003321

Autore

Baker Gregory L.

Titolo

Seven tales of the pendulum / / Gregory Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-19-100484-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 227 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

531.324

Soggetti

Pendulum

Gravity

Rotational motion (Rigid dynamics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

PART I: INTRODUCTION; What is a Pendulum?; PART II: SEVEN TALES OF



THE PENDULUM; 1. Pendulums measure the earth; 2. Pendulums keep Time; 3. Pendulums measure fundamental forces; 4. Pendulums swing high; 5. Pendulums go chaotic; 6. Pendulums stick together; 7. Pendulums in the small; PART III: CONCLUSION; Odds and the End; Further Reading; Glossary of Terms

Sommario/riassunto

Using graphs, figures & narrative to explain scientific ideas & models, Gregory Baker gives a lucid account of the physics of the pendulum, showing the reader how the context of the pendulum progresses over 4 centuries from that of a simple system of classical physics, to that of a chaotic system, & then to that of a modern quantum system.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782932803321

Autore

Gruenwald Kim M (Kim Marie)

Titolo

River of Enterprise [[electronic resource] ] : The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850 / / Kim M. Gruenwald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-06312-X

9786612063121

0-253-10937-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Midwestern history and culture

Disciplina

977.02

977/.02

Soggetti

Pioneers - Ohio - Marietta

Merchants - Ohio - Marietta

Pioneers - Ohio River Valley - History

Merchants - Ohio River Valley - History

Frontier and pioneer life - Ohio River Valley

Regionalism - Ohio River Valley - History

Ohio River Valley Commerce Social aspects History

Ohio River Valley Economic conditions

Ohio River Valley Social 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 (p. [195]-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Claiming space -- Planting a place -- Creating a subregional hub -- Connecting East and West -- The dimensions of the riverine economy -- The western country -- Ohio's economy transformed -- A new sense of place.

Sommario/riassunto

""Gruenwald's book will make the same contribution to historical                knowledge of the Ohio Valley as Lewis Atherton's Frontier Merchant did for our                understanding of the mercantile Midwest in the mid-nineteenth century.... a finely                crafted narrative that lets the reader understand that the Ohio River always served                more as an artery, that is, a river of commerce, than a dividing line or                boundary."" -- R. Douglas Hurt, author of The Ohio                FrontierRiver of Enterprise explores the role the Ohio played in