1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910696257503321

Autore

Ager Thomas A (Thomas Alan)

Titolo

Vegetation response to climate change in Alaska, examples from the fossil record [[electronic resource] /] / by Thomas A. Ager

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Va. : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 2007

Edizione

[Version 1.0.]

Descrizione fisica

44 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

Open-file report ; ; 2007-1096

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Alaska

Paleobotany - Alaska

Paleoclimatology - Alaska

Vegetation dynamics - Alaska

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title screen (viewed on May 2, 2007).

"This report was presented as an invited paper at the Fish & Wildlife Service Climate Forum held in Anchorage, Alaska on February 21-23, 2007."

"The original talk, given as a PowerPoint presentation, has been converted to U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (OF 2007-1096)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796899703321

Autore

de Leeuw van Weenen Andrea

Titolo

A Grammar of Möðruvallabók

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : BRILL, , 2017

ISBN

90-04-37023-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 pages)

Disciplina

839.63

Soggetti

Icelandic language - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

4.1.1.6 a-stems type 4.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Description of the codex -- Orthography -- Morphology -- Appendix A Compound -- Appendix B Corrigenda -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes the palaeography, orthography and morphology of the 14th century saga manuscript Möðruvallabók . First pubished in 2000, it is the third and final volume of a set of which the first 2 volumes were published in 1987, The descriptions are complete and frequencies are given in absolute numbers. Where variation is found between sagas, each saga is treated separately. Möðruvallabók is a large manuscript in size (200 leaves of 34x24cm) and in scope, containing 11 sagas, amomg them Njála, Eigla and Laxdæla. The normalized spelling found in 19th century grammars and dictionaries is based on the orthography found in this and contemporary manuscripts.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785975603321

Autore

Beck Ulrich <1944-2015.>

Titolo

Individualization [[electronic resource] ] : institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences / / Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, c2002

ISBN

1-4129-3141-X

0-7619-6111-9

9786610369690

1-280-36969-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 221 p.)

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Altri autori (Persone)

Beck-GernsheimElisabeth <1946->

Disciplina

302.54

Soggetti

Individualism

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

Machine generated contents note: 1 Losing the traditional: Individualization -- and 'precarious freedoms' 1 -- 2 A life of one's own in a runaway world: Individualization, -- globalization and politics 22 -- 3 Beyond status and class? 30 -- 4 The ambivalent social structure: Poverty and wealth -- in a 'self-driven culture' 42 -- 5 From 'living for others' to 'a life of one's own': -- Individualization and women 54 -- 6 On the way to a post-familial family: From a community -- of need to elective affinities 85 -- 7 Division of labour, self-image and life projects: -- New conflicts in the family 101 -- 8 Declining birthrates and the wish to have children 119 -- 9 Apparatuses do not care for people 129 -- 10 Health and responsibility in the age of genetic technology 139 -- 11 Death of one's own, life of one's own: Hopes from transience 151 -- 12 Freedom's children 156 -- 13 Freedom's fathers 172 -- 14 Zombie categories: Interview with Ulrich Beck 202.

Sommario/riassunto

The authors perceive that we humans are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges on the two processes of globalisation and individualisation.