1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000986640403321

Autore

Dyson, Freeman J. <1923- >

Titolo

Quantum Theory of Fields / F.J. Dyson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[S.l.] : s.e., 1951]

Disciplina

530.143

Locazione

FI1

Collocazione

22A-006.001

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Lectures at Columbia (Spring term 1957 copied from the original manuscript of Professor Dyson).

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783833803321

Titolo

Population mobility and Indigenous peoples in Australasia and North America / / edited by John Taylor and Martin Bell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-59195-0

1-134-59196-9

0-203-46478-8

1-280-01986-7

9786610019861

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Routledge Research in Population and Migration ; ; v.No.4

Altri autori (Persone)

TaylorJ <1953-> (John)

BellMartin <1949->

Disciplina

304.8/097

Soggetti

Human geography - North America

Human geography - Australasia

Population geography - North America

Population geography - Australasia

Indians of North America - Migrations

Indians of North America - Population

Aboriginal Australians - Migrations

Aboriginal Australians - Population

Māori (New Zealand people) - Migrations

Māori (New Zealand people) - Population



North America Population

Australasia Population

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

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: New World demography; International perspectives; Continuity and change in Indigenous Australian population mobility; Flirting with Zelinsky in Aotearoa/New Zealand: a Maori mobility transition; Migration and spatial distribution of American Indians in the twentieth century; Government policy and the spatial redistribution of Canada's Aboriginal peoples; Data issues and analysis; Data sources and issues for the analysis of Indigenous peoples' mobility

Registered Indian mobility and migration in Canada: patterns and implicationsLocal contingency; The politics of Maori mobility; American Indians and geographic mobility: some parameters for public policy; The formation of contemporary Aboriginal settlement patterns in Australia: government policies and programmes; Myth of the ~walkabout~: movement in the Aboriginal domain; The social underpinnings of an ~outstation movement~ in Cape York Peninsula, Australia; Conclusion: emerging research themes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book draws together relevant research findings to produce the first comprehensive overview of Indigenous peoples' mobility. Chapters draw from a range of disciplinary sources, and from a diversity of regions and nation-states. Within nations, mobility is the key determinant of local population change, with implications for service delivery, needs assessment, and governance. Mobility also provides a key indicator of social and economic transformation. As such, it informs both social theory and policy debate. For much of the twentieth century conventional wisdom anticipated the steady conve