1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910702136503321

Autore

Rayborn Grayson H

Titolo

Set-up and demonstration of a low energy electron magnetometer (LEEM) [[electronic resource] /] / Grayson H. Rayborn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hattiesburg, Miss. : , : Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern Mississippi

Hampton, Va. : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center, , [1986]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 42 pages) : illustrations

Collana

NASA contractor report ; ; 178091

Soggetti

Electric fields

Electrons

Electrostatic charge

Energetic particles

Magnetometers

Position indicators

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed Sept. 28, 2012).

"May 1986."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 42).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792772803321

Autore

Asua Miguel de.

Titolo

A new world of animals : early modern Europeans on the creatures of Iberian America / / Miguel de Asua and Roger French

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-26380-7

1-351-96214-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations, maps

Altri autori (Persone)

FrenchR. K (Roger Kenneth)

Disciplina

591.98

Soggetti

Animals - Latin America - History

Latin America Discovery and exploration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The unexpected menagerie of the New World -- 2. Solders and Amerindians -- 3. The new histories of the New World -- 4. Joyful and profitable news from the New World. Animals, medicine and commerce -- 5. Learned missionaries and Jesuit scholars -- 6. New World animals and shifting conceptions of natural history.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910817802903321

Autore

Foster Robert John <1957->

Titolo

Materializing the nation : commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea / / Robert J. Foster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington ; ; Indianapolis, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2002]

©2002

ISBN

0-253-21549-8

0-253-01361-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Disciplina

305.8/009953

Soggetti

Anthropology - Papua New Guinea

Ethnopsychology - Papua New Guinea

Nationalism - Papua New Guinea

Consumption (Economics) - Papua New Guinea

Materialism - Social aspects - Papua New Guinea

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 (pages 183-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : everyday nation making: the case of Papua New Guinea -- State-sponsored nation making. Take care of public telephones : moral education and nation-state formation. Your money, our money, the government's money : finance and fetishism in Melanesia -- Commercial nation making. Print advertisements and nation making. Commercial mass media : notes on agency, bodies, and commodity consumption. The commercial construction of "new" nations -- Nation making in this era of globalization. News of the world : Millenarian Christianity and the Olympic Torch Relay. Globalization : a soft drink perspective.

Sommario/riassunto

""Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested.""-Orvar Löfgren, author of On Holiday: A History of VacationingWhy, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective



identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also thr