1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910817818103321

Autore

Whisker James B. <1939->

Titolo

Arms makers of Massachusetts, 1610-1900 / / James B. Whisker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, California : , : Academica Press, , 2013

©2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Disciplina

683.409744

Soggetti

Gunsmiths - Massachusetts - History

Gunsmiths - Massachusetts

Firearms industry and trade - Massachusetts - History

Massachusetts History

Massachusetts Biography

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

""Title Page ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Arms Makers Of Massachusetts ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index ""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818894703321

Autore

Smith James, Ph. D.

Titolo

Biofuels and the globalization of risk : the biggest change in the North-South releationships since colonialism? / / James Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Zed, 2010

ISBN

1-350-21866-9

1-78032-022-1

1-282-91626-2

9786612916267

1-84813-573-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Disciplina

333.9539

Soggetti

Biomass energy - Political aspects

Biomass energy - Government policy

Biomass energy

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 (p. [135]-144) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword Introduction: Perfect Storms -- 1. Science -- 2. Systems -- 3. Synergies -- 4. Scale -- 5. Sustainability? -- 6. Globalising Risk.

Sommario/riassunto

Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk offers a fresh, compelling analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuels story, with its technological optimism and often-idealized promises for the future. This essential new critique argues that investment in biofuels may reconfigure risk and responsibility, whereby the global South is encouraged to invest its future in growing biofuel crops, often at the expense of food, in order that the global North may continue its unsustainable energy consumption unabated and guilt-free. Thus, Smith argues, biofuels may constitute the biggest change in North--South relationships since colonialism.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910159449103321

Titolo

Purity and danger now : new perspectives / / edited by Robbie Duschinsky, Simone Schnall and Daniel H. Weiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-52971-8

1-315-52973-4

1-315-52972-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

DuschinskyRobbie <1986->

SchnallSimone

WeissDaniel H

Disciplina

390

Soggetti

Taboo

Purity, Ritual

Fear of contamination

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Marking the 50th anniversary of Mary Douglas's Purity and danger"--cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Anthropology -- pt. 2. Psychology -- pt. 3. Humanities : religious studies and the arts.

Sommario/riassunto

Mary Douglas's seminal work Purity and Danger (Routledge, 1966) continues to be indispensable reading for both students and scholars today. Marking the 50th anniversary of Douglas's classic, the present volume sheds fresh light upon themes raised by Douglas by drawing on recent developments in the social sciences and humanities, as well as current empirical research. In presenting new perspectives on the topic of purity and impurity, the volume integrates work in anthropology and sociology with contemporary ideas from religious studies, cognitive science and the arts. Containing contributions from both established and emerging scholars, including protégées of Douglas herself, Purity and Danger Now is an essential volume for those working on purity and impurity across the full spectrum of the social sciences and humanities.