1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458683103321

Autore

Simmons I. G (Ian Gordon), <1937->

Titolo

Global environmental history : 10,000 BC to AD 2000 / / I.G. Simmons [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2008

ISBN

0-7486-7076-9

1-281-35752-9

9786611357528

0-7486-2951-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 271 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

304.209

Soggetti

Human ecology - History

Human beings - Effect of environment on - History

Nature - Effect of human beings on - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mustering the marks -- Resonances -- The gatherer-hunters and their world -- Pre-industrial agriculture -- An industrious world -- A post-industrial era? -- Emerging themes.

Sommario/riassunto

Courses which deal with environmental history have long lacked a comprehensive overview. I. G. Simmons has made a significant contribution with a book that looks at the long-term history of environment and humanity from 10,000 BC to AD 2000. This far-reaching text considers the global picture and recognises the contributions of many disciplines including the natural sciences, the social sciences, and increasingly, the humanities. As a starting point, this book takes the major phases of human technological evolution of the last 12,000 years and considers how these have affected the natural world. It then considers the response to conditions such as climate change, putting today's preoccupations into a long-term perspective. This is a book of history, not prophecy, and so makes no judgements on current anxieties. Key features:  *Includes a glossary of unfamiliar terms   *Notable in being a history and not a polemic   *Examines the interrelation of history and nature, drawing on many fields of learning  



*Extensive coverage makes this ideal background reading for more specialised treatments and studies

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996216858403316

Titolo

Earthquake prediction : an international review

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : American Geophysical Union, 1981

ISBN

1-118-66574-0

Collana

Maurice Ewing series  Earthquake prediction

Disciplina

551.2/2

Soggetti

Earthquake prediction

Geology

Earth & Environmental Sciences

Dynamic & Structural Geology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784086203321

Autore

Moran J. F (Joseph Francis), <1937->

Titolo

The Japanese and the Jesuits : Alessandro Valignano in sixteenth-century Japan / / J.F. Moran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

1-134-88112-6

0-585-46153-8

1-280-11136-4

0-203-03633-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 pages) : maps

Disciplina

266.0092

266/.252/09031

952

Soggetti

Missionaries - Italy

Missionaries - Japan

Japan Church history To 1868

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; The Japanese and the Jesuits; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Notes; 1 Orientation; 2 The ambassadors; 3 The Visitor; 4 Full and complete information; 5 Ships and sealing-wax; 6 The enterprise; 7 Friars from the Philippines; 8 High and low; 9 The alms from the China ship; 10 Rich and poor; 11 The press; 12 Japanese Jesuits; 13 The Japanese language; 14 Conclusion; Appendix A How land is owned and income reckoned in Japan; Appendix B How and why we got the port of Nagasaki; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Japanese and the Jesuits examines the attempt by sixteenth century Jesuits to convert the Japanese to Christianity. Directing the Jesuits was the Italian Alessandro Valignano, whose own magisterial writings, many of them not previously translated or published, are the principle source material for this account of one of the most remarkable of all meetings between East and West.Valignano arrived in Japan in 1579. In promoting Christianity, he always sought the support of the ruling classes, but an important part of his strategy was also to



have the missionaries adapt themselves