1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990003357320203316

Autore

NOCEDAL, Jorge

Titolo

Numerical optimization / Jorge Nocedal, Stephen J. Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Springer, copyr. 2006

ISBN

0-387-30303-0

Edizione

[2 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

XXII, 664 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Springer series in operation research and financial engineering

Altri autori (Persone)

WRIGHT, Stephen J.

Disciplina

519.3

Soggetti

Teoria dei giochi

Probabilità

Matematica applicata

Collocazione

519.3 NOC

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910131929903321

Autore

Barry Andrew <1960->

Titolo

Material politics : disputes along the pipeline / / Andrew Barry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2013

ISBN

1-118-52909-X

1-118-52910-3

1-118-52906-5

1-118-52912-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

RGS-IBS book series

Classificazione

SCI030000

Disciplina

320.1/2

Soggetti

Geopolitics

Materials - Political aspects

Material culture - Political aspects

Petroleum pipelines - Political aspects

International economic relations - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Material Politics: Disputes Along the Pipeline; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Making Things Political; Governing Materials; An Experiment in Transparency and Responsibility; The Georgian Route; The Archive; Overview of the Chapters; 2 The Georgian Route: Between Political and Physical Geography; Political Fieldwork; Geopolitics, Oil, the Caucasus; Physical Geography; The Pipeline Regime; Conclusion: Political Knowledge; 3 Transparency's Witness; Resource Curse; Disclosure; Assembling Civil Society

A Public Experiment4 Ethical Performances; Ethics and Business; Ethics, Politics and the Logic of Abduction; Art, Research and Politics; Conclusions: Ethics and Knowledge Controversies; 5 The Affected Public; Disclosure; Affected Communities; Points and Corridors; A Disputed Public; Conclusions: From Affected Communities to Material Impacts; 6 Visible Impacts; Landslides; Vibration; Impact and Action; Circulations of Impact; 7 Material Politics; Metals; Politics; Itinerant Practices; 8 Economy and the Archive; Interference; Compensation



System; Accounting for Labour; Multiple Histories

9 ConclusionsGeopolitical Fieldwork; The Limits of Transparency; Material Politics; Coda; Notes; 1 Introduction; 2 The Georgian Route: Between Political and Physical Geography; 3 Transparency's Witness; 4 Ethical Performances; 5 The Affected Public; 6 Visible Impacts; 7 Material Politics; 8 Economy and the Archive; 9 Conclusions; References; Film, Television, Video and Photography; Documents, Reports and Publicity Material; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Presents an original theoretical approach to political geography by revealing the paradoxical relationship between materials and politics"--

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820514403321

Autore

Friedman Jonathan C. <1966->

Titolo

The lion and the star : gentile-Jewish relations in three Hessian communities, 1919-1945 / / Jonathan C. Friedman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

0-8131-4749-2

0-8131-7012-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Disciplina

943/.4164

Soggetti

Jews - Germany - Frankfurt am Main - History - 20th century

Jews - Germany - Giessen (Hesse) - History - 20th century

Jews - Germany - Geisenheim - History - 20th century

Jews - Germany - History - 1933-1945

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Germany

Germany Ethnic relations

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

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Maps; Preface; Introduction; 1. Jewish Emancipation to 1919; 2. Demography and Socioeconomic Structure; 3. The Liberal-Jewish Model: Under Attack from Within; 4. Gesellschaft vs. Gemeinschaft: Gentile-Jewish Relations



before 1933; 5. Jew-Hatred or ""Arbeit und Brot!"" Antisemitism and the Electoral Rise of the Nazis; 6. Close to the Edge: Relations during the Early Years of the Third Reich; 7. Relations during the ""Final Solution""; Epilogue; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

The Lion and the Star not only offers an informed glimpse into the intricacies of daily German life but also confirms the continuing danger of making sweeping generalizations about German Jews and non-Jews. In the aftermath of World War II, many viewed the Third Reich as an aberration in German history and laid blame with Hitler and his followers. Since the 1960's, historians have widened their focus, implicating ""ordinary"" Germans in the demise of German Jewry. Jonathan Friedman addresses this issue by investigation everyday relations between German Jews and their Gentile neighbors. Friedman