1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009867360403321

Autore

Barth, James R.

Titolo

The rise and fall of the U.S. mortgage and credit markets : a comprehensive analysis of the market meltdown / James R. Barth ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken : Wiley, 2009

ISBN

9780470477243

Descrizione fisica

XXXIII, 526 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

338.5

Locazione

DTE

Collocazione

XV M1 439

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466127003321

Autore

Wurst Spencer F (Spencer Free)

Titolo

Descending from the clouds : a memoir of combat in the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division / / Spencer F. Wurst and Gayle Wurst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[New York, New York] : , : Casemate Publishing, , 2007

New York, New York : , : Open Road Distribution, , 2016

©2007

ISBN

1-5040-2184-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

940.548173

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Western Front

World War, 1939-1945

World War, 1939-1945 - Regimental histories - United States

Soldiers - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Praise for Descending from the Clouds; Title Page; Epigraph; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Enlistment and Premobilization Training, 112th Infantry, Pennsylvania Army National Guard; Chapter 2: Mobilization, Basic, and Small Unit Training; Chapter 3: Company, Battalion, Regimental, and First Army Maneuvers, 1941; Chapter 4: Units in Turmoil: Pearl Harbor, Southern Training Camps, and War-time Expansion; Chapter 5: From the 112th Infantry to Parachute School, Fort Benning; Chapter 6: First Assignment: 507 Parachute Infantry Regiment

Chapter 7: Second Assignment: Cadre, 513 Parachute Infantry Regiment Volunteering for Overseas Duty; Chapter 8: French Morocco: Fifth Army Mines and Demolition School; Chapter 9: Permanent Assignment: Company F, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment;  the Move to Sicily; Chapter 10: First Combat Jump: Salerno, Italy 73; Chapter 11: Baptism by Fire: The Battle of Arnone 83; Chapter 12: A City Torn by War: Duty and Bombings in Naples; Chapter 13: Cookstown and Belfast, Northern



Ireland; Chapter 14: Camp Quorn, England 105; Chapter 15: D-Day, Normandy: Preparations for the Big Jump

Chapter 16: D-Day Jump: The Defense of Ste. Mère-EgliseChapter 17: Patrols and Hedgerow Battles: From Neuville-au-Plain and Le Ham to St. Sauveur-le-Vicomte; Chapter 18: Long Days in Normandy: The Battle of St. Sauveur-le-Vicomte, the Bois de Limors, and Hill 131; Chapter 19: As Close to Home as it Gets: Return to Camp Quorn; Chapter 20: Market-Garden: The Combat Jump at Groesbeek and Entry into Nijmegen; Chapter 21: Nijmegen: The Battle for Hunner Park and Control of the South End of the Highway Bridge; Chapter 22: Aftermath: Hunner Park and Bridge Security

Chapter 23: Defensive Operations: Road Blocks, Dikes, and the End of the Holland MissionChapter 24: The Ardennes Campaign: From Camp Suippes, France, to Trois Ponts, Belgium; Chapter 25: From the Battle of the Bulge to the Hurtgen Forest, Germany; Chapter 26: The End in Sight: Through the Siegfried Line to the Roer River; Epilogue: Homeward Bound; Image Gallery; Notes; Index; Acknowledgments; Copyright Page

3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00104889

Autore

KOJIMA, Takeshi

Titolo

Chotei to ho / Kojima Takeshi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tokyo, : Chuo Daigaku Shuppanbu, 1989

Descrizione fisica

10, 470 p. ; 24 cm

Classificazione

GIA XV

Lingua di pubblicazione

Giapponese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910819748703321

Titolo

The limits of meaning : case studies in the anthropology of Christianity / / edited by Matthew Engelke and Matt Tomlinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2007]

2007

ISBN

0-85745-709-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Classificazione

BE 3250

Disciplina

306.6/3

Soggetti

Christianity and culture

Ethnology - Religious aspects - Christianity

Meaning (Philosophy) - Religious aspects - Christianity

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

Meaning, anthropology, Christianity / Matt Tomlinson and Matthew Engelke -- When silence isn't golden : charismatic speech and the limits of literalism / Simon Coleman -- Clarity and charisma : on the uses of ambiguity in ritual life / Matthew Engelke -- Rituals without final acts : prayer and success in World Vision Zimbabwe's humanitarian work / Erica Bornstein -- Nationalism and millenarianism in West Papua : institutional power, interpretive practice, and the pursuit of Christian truth / Danilyn Rutherford -- The limits of meaning in Fijian Methodist sermons / Matt Tomlinson -- Converting meanings and the meanings of conversion in Samoan moral economies / Ilana Gershon -- Dusty signs and roots of faith : the limits of Christian meaning in highland Bolivia / Andrew Orta -- Paranomics : on the semiotics of sacral action / James Faubion -- Afterword : on limits, ruptures, meaning, and meaninglessness / Joel Robbins.

Sommario/riassunto

Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that everything goes smoothly, that rituals are ""meaningful events."" But what happens when rituals fail, or when they seem ""meaningless""? Drawing on research in the anthropology of Christianity from around the globe, the authors in this volume suggest that in order to analyze meaning productively, we need to consider its



limits. This collection is a welcome new addition to the anthropology of religion, offering fresh debates on a classic topic and drawing attention to meaning in a way that other volumes have