1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792353303321

Autore

Ward Vicky

Titolo

The devil's casino [[electronic resource] ] : friendship, betrayal, and the high-stakes games played inside Lehman Brothers / / Vicky Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2010

ISBN

0-470-63824-9

1-282-68448-5

9786612684487

0-470-63821-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

332.660973

Soggetti

Investment banking - New York (State) - New York - History

Investment advisors - New York (State) - New York - History

Finance - New York (State) - New York - History

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

The Devil''s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High-Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers; Contents; Cast of Characters; Prologue; Part One: THE PONDEROSA BOYS; Chapter 1: A Long, Hot Summer; Chapter 2: The Beginning; Chapter 3: The Captain; Chapter 4: The "Take-Under"; Chapter 5: Slamex; Chapter 6: The Phoenix Rises; Chapter 7: Independence Day; Chapter 8: The Stiletto; Chapter 9: The Ides of March; Chapter 10: Eulogies; Part Two: THE ECHO CHAMBER; Chapter 11: Russian Winter; Chapter 12: Lehman's Desperate Housewives; Chapter 13: The Young Lions; Chapter 14: 9/11

Chapter 15: No Ordinary JoeChapter 16: The Talking Head; Chapter 17: The Sacrificial Ram; Chapter 18: Korea's Rising Sum; Chapter 19: The Wart on the End of Lehman's Nose; Chapter 20: Damned Flood?; Chapter 21: Closing the Books; Epilogue; A Note About the Sources; Notes; References; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The inside story of what really happened at Lehman Brothers and why it failed In The Devil''s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, investigative writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward takes readers inside Lehman''s



highly charged offices. What Ward uncovers is a much bigger story than Lehman losing at the risky game of collateralized debt obligations, swaps, and leverage. A can''t put it down page turner that opens the world of Wall Street to view unlike any book since Bonfire of the Vanities, except that The Devil''s Casino isn'

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778655703321

Titolo

The Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory's thyroid function study [[electronic resource] ] : a radiological risk and ethical analysis / / Committee on Evaluation of 1950s Air Force Human Health Testing in Alaska Using Radioactive Iodine¹³¹ ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1996

ISBN

0-309-17592-5

1-280-19223-2

9786610192236

0-309-58884-7

0-585-16449-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (116 p.)

Disciplina

616.4/4

Soggetti

Thyroid gland function tests - Health aspects - Alaska

Iodine - Isotopes - Diagnostic use - Moral and ethical aspects

Medical ethics - Alaska

Alaska

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974414503321

Titolo

Promoting the saints : cults and their contexts from late antiquity until the early modern period : essays in honor of Gabor Klaniczay / / edited by Otto Gecser ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-003-72151-6

963-386-392-9

1-283-24844-1

9786613248442

963-9776-94-7

1-4416-9463-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

CEU medievalia, , 1587-6470 ; ; 12

Altri autori (Persone)

GecserOtto

Disciplina

235/.209

Soggetti

Christian hagiography

Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Church history - Modern period, 1500-

Europe Church history

Hungary Church history

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

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Pope Damasus and the Beginnings of Roman Hagiography -- Theological Self-Definition in Byzantine Miraculous Healing -- (Re)claiming Adalbert. Patristic Quotations and Their Function in Canaparius’ Vita S. Adalberti -- “Pull you Sons of Whores!” Linguistic Register and Reform in the Legend of St. Clement -- Hagiography and Chronicles -- Hagiography and Biography. The Case of St. Francis of Assisi -- Idolatry or Power. St. Francis in Front of the Sultan -- Blessed John the French, The First Franciscan Minister Provincial in Hungary, and his Miracles -- Fama sanctitatis and the Emergence of St. Margaret’s Cult in the Rural Countryside. The Canonization Process and Social Mobility in Thirteenth-Century Hungary -- The Techniques of a Hagiographer. The



Two Legendae of Saint Margaret of Hungary -- St. Elizabeth of Hungary in Italian Vernacular Literature. Vitae, Miracles, Revelations, and the Meditations on the Life of Crist -- Division and Reintegration of the Body of St. Stanislaus. A Political Analogy in Sermons? -- Saints, Names, and Identities. The Case of Charles IV of Luxemburg -- Saints at Home and Abroad. Some Observations on the Creation of Iconographic Types in Hungary in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries -- Palatine Lackfi and His Saints. Frescos in the Franciscan Church of Keszthely -- Late Medieval Saints and the Visual Representation of Rural Space -- Sainthood in the Propaganda of Mendicant Orders. The Case of the Dialogus contra fraticellos of James of the Marches -- Sermons on St. Sebastian after the Black Death (1348–ca. 1500) -- “Had She Born Ten Daughters, She Would Have Named Them All Mary because of the Kindness of the First Mary”. St. Anne in the Sermons of Two Late Medieval Hungarian Preachers -- The Cult of the Saints in the Bohemian Reformation: The Question of Images -- Madonna of Loreto as a Target of Reformation Critique. Peter Paul Vergerius the Younger -- Saint Christopher. The Patron of Treasure Hunters -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The studies in this volume concentrate on a complex set of socio-cultural phenomena, the cult of saints, in a variety of regions from Egypt to Poland, with a focus on Italy and Central Europe. The subjects of the contributions range in time from the fourth until the eighteenth century. The diversity of approaches adopted by the contributors—from literary analysis and historical anthropology to archaeology and art history—represents that open and multidisciplinary historical research that characterizes the work of Gábor Klaniczay to whom these essays are dedicated.



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960468003321

Titolo

Identity, diaspora and return in American literature / / edited by Maria Antonia Oliver-Rotger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-317-81820-2

1-138-54742-5

1-315-81888-4

1-317-81821-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature ; ; 23

Classificazione

LIT004020SOC008000LIT000000

Altri autori (Persone)

Oliver-RotgerMaria Antonia

Disciplina

810.9353

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Return in literature

American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

Displacement (Psychology) in literature

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Roots and Routes in American Literature about Return; Part I Return as Memory Reconstructed; 1 Migration, Exclusion, and "Home" in Edwidge Danticat's Narratives of Return; 2 Between Home and Loss: Inscribing Return in Ruth Behar's An Island Called Home; 3 Nightmares from My Parents: Return as Recovery in Doan Hòang's Oh, Saigon; Part II Restorative Nostalgias: Return as Emotional Re-Attachment

4 Andrew Lam's Narratives of Return: From Viet Kieu Nostalgia to Discrepant Cosmopolitanisms5 Returning Home: Iranian-American Women's Memoirs and Reflective Nostalgia; 6 Enacting an Identity by Re-Creating a Home: Eleni Gage's North of Ithaka; 7 El vaivén de la vida: Musings on Deterritorialized Border Subjects; Part III Impossible Returns; 8 Cuban Geographies: The Roots/Routes of Ana Menéndez Narratives; 9 "The Inextinguishable Longings for Elsewheres": The



Impossibility of Return in Junot Díaz; 10 Returning to Places of No Return in Stuart Dybek's Short Stories; List of Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"This volume combines literary analysis and theoretical approaches to mobility, diasporic identities and the construction of space to explore the different ways in which the notion of return shapes contemporary ethnic writing such as fiction, ethnography, memoir, and film. Through a wide variety of ethnic experiences ranging from the Transatlantic, Asian American, Latino/a and Caribbean alongside their corresponding forms of displacement - political exile, war trauma, and economic migration - the essays in this collection connect the intimate experience of the returning subject to multiple locations, historical experiences, inter-subjective relations, and cultural interactions. They challenge the idea of the narrative of return as a journey back to the untouched roots and home that the ethnic subject left behind. Their diacritical approach combines, on the one hand, a sensitivity to the context and structural elements of modern diaspora; and on the other, an analysis of the individual psychological processes inherent to the experience of displacement and return such as nostalgia, memory and belonging. In the narratives of return analyzed in this volume, space and identity are never static or easily definable; rather, they are in-process and subject to change as they are always entangled in the historical and inter-subjective relations ensuing from displacement and mobility. This book will interest students and scholars who wish to further explore the role of American literature within current debates on globalization, migration, and ethnicity"--



5.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910978065803321

Autore

Califano S.

Titolo

L' atomo : una Storia Millenaria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Florence : , : Firenze University Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9791221503869

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (0 pages)

Collana

Semine Series ; ; v.2

Altri autori (Persone)

SchettinoVincenzo

Disciplina

539.709

Soggetti

Atoms - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

title page -- copyright page -- table of contents -- Prefazione -- Introduzione -- Ringraziamenti  -- Capitolo 1 --   L’atomo prima dei Greci --     1.1. Mochus, il fenicio --     1.2 Kanada, il mangiatore di atomi -- Capitolo 2 --   I filosofi ionici --     2.1 Talete di Mileto --     2.2 Anassimandro --     2.3 Anassimene --     2.4 Eraclito --     2.5 Anassagora -- Capitolo 3 --   Scienza e filosofia nella Magna Grecia --     3.1 Pitagora: la matematica in scena --     3.2 Parmenide e la scuola eleatica --     3.3 Empedocle e i quattro elementi -- Capitolo 4 --   L’atomismo greco --     4.1 Leucippo e Democrito --     4.2 Epicuro e la scuola del Giardino -- Capitolo 5 --   Antiatomismo --     5.1 Platone e il mondo delle idee --     5.2 Aristotele

Sommario/riassunto

The idea of the existence of atoms begins with natural philosophy in the simplest way as an answer to the daily observation of the divisibility of material objects and to the question of the extreme limit to which this divisibility can really be pushed. Retracing the history of the idea of atomism is a fascinating adventure because it allows, over a very long period of time, to revisit the cultural, philosophical, artistic, socio-economic and scientific environments in which the various ideas regarding atoms have been discussed, contrasted and matured. The history of atomism, which is not yet finished, also offers a picture of the way in which science has progressed through attempts and ever new and even unpredictable acquisitions.