Childhood leukemia clusters in Fallon, NV : field hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session on responses by the federal government to "disease clusters" resulting from possible environmental hazards, April 12, 2001, Fallon, NV

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910689570503321
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (iv, 594 p.) : ill
• Soggetti: Leukemia in children - Nevada - Fallon; Leukemia - Environmental aspects - Nevada - Fallon; Leukemia - Epidemiology - Nevada - Fallon
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Building maintenance management / / Barrie Chanter and Peter Swallow

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816628103321
• Autore: Chanter Barrie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2007
• ISBN: 9786611318970; 9781281318978; 1281318973; 9780470692011; 0470692014; 9780470691298; 0470691298
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SwallowPeter
• Disciplina: 658.2/02
• Soggetti: Buildings - Maintenance and repair - Management
• 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: BUILDING MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: The Changing Context within which Building Maintenance Operates; Chapter 2: The Maintenance Dimension; Chapter 3: Maintenance Organisations; Chapter 4: The Design/Maintenance Relationship; Chapter 5: The Nature of Maintenance Work; Chapter 6: Information Management; Chapter 7: Maintenance Planning; Chapter 8: Maintenance Contracts; Chapter 9: The Execution of Building Maintenance; Appendix 1: Statistics; Appendix 2: Methods of Financial AppraisalIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: This new edition of an informative and accessible book guides building surveyors and facilities managers through the key aspects of property maintenance and continues to be of value to both students and practitioners.With the increasing cost of new-build, effective maintenance of existing building stock is becoming ever more important and building maintenance work now represents nearly half of total construction output in the UK.Building Maintenance Management provides a comprehensive profile of the many aspects of property maintenance. This second edition has been updated thro

Transatlantic literary ecologies : nature and culture in the nineteenth-century Anglophone Atlantic world / / edited by Kevin Hutchings and John Miller ; with an afterword by James C. McKusick

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910151603303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-315-59835-3; 1-317-08727-5; 1-317-08728-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations, photographs
• Collana: Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
• Altri autori (Persone): HutchingsKevin <1960-> (Kevin Douglas); MillerJohn <1973->
• Disciplina: 810.9/003
• Soggetti: American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Environmental literature - United States - History and criticism; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. The poetry and agricultural politics of transatlantic radicalism, 1789-93 : Joel Barlow's The hasty pudding / Michael Demson -- 2. Stewardship and plenitude : William Bartram, the Lake poets, and romantic ecology / David Higgins -- 3. Transatlantic extinctions and the "vanishing American" / Kevin Hutchings -- 4. Reading the "book of nature": Thomas Cole and the British romantics / Samantha C. Harvey -- 5. The ornithographies of John Clare and Henry David Thoreau / Markus Poetzsch -- 6. (Un)settling desires : erotics and ecologies in Nathaniel Hawthorne's transatlantic romances / Daniel Hannah -- 7. The sublime and the dying : landscape aesthetics and animal suffering in The boy's own fur trade / John Miller -- 8. John Muir, John Ruskin and the anthropocene : modern painters IV and studies in the Sierra / Terry Gifford -- 9. Mark Twain's The innocents abroad, transatlantic travel writing, and the desolation of the Holy Land / Joshua Mabie -- 10. "No region for tourists and women" : Isabella Bird, local ecology and ; the transatlantic sphere / Amanda Adams -- 11. "Enchased and lettered": Thomas Hardy's American readers and The nature of place / Adrian Tait.
• Sommario/riassunto: Opening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies, this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and complicate each other. The editors situate the volume in its critical contexts by providing a detailed literary and historical overview of nineteenth-century transatlantic socioenvironmental issues involving such topics as the contemporary fur and timber trades, colonialism and agricultural "improvement," literary discourses on conservation, and the consequences of industrial capitalism, urbanization, and urban environmental activism. The chapters move from the broad to the particular, offering insights into Romanticism's transatlantic discourses on nature and culture, examining British Victorian representations of nature in light of their reception by American writers and readers, providing in-depth analyses of literary forms such as the adventure novel, travel narratives, and theological and scientific writings, and bringing transatlantic and ecocritical perspectives to bear on classic works of nineteenth-century American literature. By opening a critical dialogue between these two vital areas of scholarship, Transatlantic Literary Ecologies demonstrates some of the key ways in which Western environmental consciousness and associated literary practices arose in the context of transatlantic literary and cultural exchanges during the long nineteenth century.