1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000017505

Autore

Rossetti, Cesare

Titolo

Metodi matematici della fisica / Cesare Rossetti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino : Libreria editrice universitaria Levrotto & Bella, c2000

ISBN

88-8218-060-3

Descrizione fisica

XIV, 579 p. ; 24 cm.

Disciplina

530.15

Soggetti

Fisica matematica

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787216803321

Autore

Coomer James <1928->

Titolo

Life on the Ohio / / Captain James Coomer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2004

©1997

ISBN

0-8131-8854-7

0-8131-9108-4

0-8131-4874-X

Edizione

[Paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Collana

Ohio River Valley Series

Disciplina

977/.033

Soggetti

River steamers - Ohio River

River life - Ohio River

Ohio River Social life and customs Anecdotes

Ohio River Description and travel Anecdotes

Ohio River Biography Anecdotes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Map of Ohio River Valley on endpapers.



Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Foreword; Foreword; Preface: The Ohio and Me; Harbor Work, 1948-1955; I Begin; Hands On; Solo; Roots; The Wrong Stuff; Ever Get That Run-Down Feeling?; A Sticky Affair; Last of the Muskrateers; Daddy Cool and the Kid; Biff! Bam! Pow!; Moving On; Towboating, 1955-1980; A First Night; Alphonse and Gaston; Coffee, the Real Lubricant; Pride Goeth Before a Bellyache; Little Cat Feet?; Ninety-five Percent Boredom, Five Percent Pure Terror; That's Showbiz, Jack; Night Lights; Burial at Sea; Thirty On, Thirty Off; Ghosts on the River

Who Could Ask for More?Unscrambled Yegg; Christmas on the River; Hang It Up, Pappy; Hoist by My Own Hippie; But Why, Man?; Educating Jerry; Jerry Locks Out; The Luck of the Draw; Days; Time Out, 1967; Happy Landings?; In the End Is the Beginning; A Crusoe Adventure; Manny's Place; A Companion Arrives; Last Lapse; New Orleans Harbor, 1973-1974; Vulcan, a Little Tug That Could and Did; Bab-EI on the Old Miss; Old China Hand-Out; Ships That Pass in the Night; The Odd Couple; Drown and Out in New Orleans; Epilogue; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

When young James Coomer was offered a job as deckhand on the tugboat Pat Murphy at a dollar an hour, he took his first smell of diesel fuel and knew he was hooked. Life on the Ohio puts the reader in the pilot's seat as Coomer wrestles with runaway barges, navigates through ice and fog, pacifies angry crew members, and contends with the loneliness of working a thirty-day stretch. A modern counterpart to Twain's account of life as a steamboat pilot,  Life on the Ohio depicts the working river as it is today with its immense towboats, gigantic locks and dams, and millions of tons of cargo. Coome



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966923803321

Autore

Cohen Martin

Titolo

The eclipse of 'elegant economy' : the impact of the Second World War on attitudes to personal finance in Britain / / Martin Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate Pub., 2012

ISBN

1-317-03472-4

1-315-61587-8

1-317-03471-6

1-283-48007-7

9786613480071

1-4094-3973-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

Modern economic and social history series

Disciplina

330.941/0855

Soggetti

Finance, Personal - Great Britain - History

World War, 1939-1945

Consumption (Economics) - Great Britain

Great Britain Economic conditions 1945-1964

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

Introduction -- Fleeting crescent (1918 to 1939 and before) -- Petrified "capitalists" (the Second World War) -- Short dawn (1945 to 1947) -- First quartile (1948 to 1951) -- Dividend-seeking "socialists" (the co-operative movement) -- Spreading shadow (1951 to 1957) -- Total eclipse and its corona (1957 and beyond).

Sommario/riassunto

With concepts of 'austerity' very much in the news, this book takes a fresh look at attitudes to consumption, consumerism and personal finance in Britain during the middle decades of the twentieth century. It argues that the pre-War fear of debt and social disdain for conspicuous consumption was replaced during the 1940's and 1950's by widespread acceptance of a consumer society. As the financial woes of the 21st century force a reassessment of the sustainability of a consumer-based society, this book provides a timely reminder of how attitudes to personal finance are of greater significance to