Eloquent Gestures : The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films / / Roberta E. Pearson

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248213003316
• Autore: Pearson Roberta E.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1992]; ©1992
• ISBN: 0-585-29940-4; 0-520-91104-0
• Edizione: [Reprint 2019]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 184 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 791.43/0973
• Soggetti: Silent films - United States - History; Motion picture acting; Movement (Acting); Silent films - History and criticism - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Theatrical Heritage -- 3. The Histrionic and Verisimilar Codes in the Biograph Films -- 4. Performance Style and the Interaction of Signifying Practices -- 5. D. W. Griffith and the Biograph Company -- 6. Henry B. Walthall -- 7. Trade Press Discourse -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Life as a hunt : thresholds of identities and illusions on an African landscape / / Stuart A. Marks

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821955603321
• Autore: Marks Stuart A. <1939->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : berghahn, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-78533-158-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (544 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.896/391
• Soggetti: Wildlife conservation - Social aspects - Luangwa River Valley (Zambia and Mozambique); Bisa (Zambian people) - Hunting; Subsistence hunting - Luangwa River Valley (Zambia and Mozambique); Luangwa River Valley (Zambia and Mozambique) Environmental conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction On Poaching an Elephant : Calling the Shots and Following the Ricochets -- History and Circumstance: On becoming and Being Bisa -- Creating and Sustaining a Good Life within a Difficult Environment -- Never an Isolated Place Suspended in A-Historic Space -- A Cultural Grid : Making Sense of the Natural World -- Caused to Hunt : Life Histories of Three Generations (1903-2003) -- Gameful Pursuits in the Bush : coping with Process and Uncertainty -- Lineage Provisioning through Hunting : Changes in Scope and Scale -- Muzzle-loaders and Snares : Weapons within their Cultural Contexts -- Buffalo Mystique : Protein, Privilege, Power and Politics -- On Coping within a Cornucopia of Uncertain, Constant Changes -- Afterword : Readings "Out Loud" about Land and Wildlife as Properties.
• Sommario/riassunto: The "extensive wilderness" of Zambia’s central Luangwa Valley is the homeland of the Valley Bisa whose cultural practices have enriched this environment for centuries. Beginning with the intrusions of warlords and later British colonials, successive generations have experienced the callousness and challenges of colonialism. Their homeland, a slender corridor surrounded by three national parks and an escarpment, is a ; microcosm of the political, economic and cultural battlefields surrounding most African protected areas today. The story of the Valley Bisa diverges from the myths that conservationists, administrators, and philanthropists, tell about Africa’s environmental and wildlife crises.

Potential of Low-Medium Enthalpy Geothermal Energy : Hybridization and Application in Industry / / by Elisabet Palomo, Antonio Colmenar-Santos, Enrique Rosales-Asensio

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910544849003321
• Autore: Palomo Elisabet
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022
• ISBN: 3-030-95626-1
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (171 pages)
• Collana: Green Energy and Technology, , 1865-3537
• Disciplina: 621.44; 333.88094
• Soggetti: Renewable energy sources; Industrial engineering; Production engineering; Environmental engineering; Biotechnology; Bioremediation; Geophysics; Renewable Energy; Industrial and Production Engineering; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Measures to Remove Geothermal Energy Barriers in the European Union -- Thermal desalination potential with parabolic trough collectors and geothermal energy in the Spanish southeast -- Economic and environmental benefits of geothermal energy in industrial processes -- Conclusions. .
• Sommario/riassunto: This book highlights the importance of geothermal energy by studying its potential either alone or in combination with solar energy, focusing on its industrial application. Its starting point is to identify in a thorough and precise manner the barriers that hinder the implementation of geothermal energy in Spain and the European Union and the measures to be taken to achieve its diffusion and regular use. Next, the book looks at how geothermal energy could contribute to this sector and to the desalination industry in particular, analysing a specific case in the south of Spain and extrapolating its results to a set of existing desalination plants in the Spanish Mediterranean with really interesting results in terms of economic amortisation and CO2 emissions avoided to the atmosphere. Beyond the desalination industry, this work demonstrates that almost 85% of the industrial processes of all industry in Spain can be carried out with very low, low and medium temperature geothermal resources and even applies its results to a set of existing solar plants, comparing in economic terms the results already obtained with those that would have been obtained if geothermal energy had been applied.