1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791887303321

Autore

Pietsch Theodore W

Titolo

Oceanic anglerfishes [[electronic resource] ] : extraordinary diversity in the deep sea / / Theodore W. Pietsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009

ISBN

1-283-27715-8

9786613277152

0-520-94255-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (571 p.)

Disciplina

597/.62

Soggetti

Anglerfishes

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. 527-545) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction and Historical Perspective -- 2. What Makes an Anglerfish? -- 3. Biodiversity -- 4. Evolutionary Relationships -- 5. Geographic Distribution -- 6. Bioluminescence and Luring -- 7. Locomotion, Food, and Feeding -- 8. Reproduction and Early Life History -- Introduction -- Families, Genera, and Species of the Ceratioidei -- REALLOCATION OF NOMINAL SPECIES OF THE CERATIOIDEI BASED ON FEMALES -- REALLOCATION OF NOMINAL SPECIES OF THE CERATIOIDEI BASED ON FREE-LIVING MALES -- SYMBOLIC CODES FOR INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

No environment on Earth imposes greater physical and biological constraints on life than the deep oceanic midwaters. Near-freezing temperatures, the absence of sunlight, enormous pressure, and a low food supply make habitation by any living thing almost inconceivable. Yet 160 species of anglerfishes are found there in surprising profusion. Monstrous in appearance, anglerfishes possess a host of unique and spectacular morphological, behavioral, and physiological innovations. In this fully illustrated book, the first to focus on these intriguing fish, Theodore W. Pietsch delivers a comprehensive summary of all that is known about anglerfishes-morphology, diversity, evolution, geographic distribution, bioluminescence, and reproduction.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954902903321

Autore

Mirchandani Kiran

Titolo

Borders in Service : Enactments of Nationhood in Transnational Call Centres / / Kiran Mirchandani, Winifred Poster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2016

ISBN

1-4875-1186-8

1-4875-1185-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations, charts

Disciplina

658.812

Soggetti

Call centers - Employees

Call centers - Social aspects

Service industries workers

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Enactments of Nationhood in Transnational Call Centres ; Part 1. Call Centres as Building Blocks for Narratives of the Nation State ; 2. "El Salvador Works": The Creation and Negotiation of a National Brand and the Transnational Imaginary; 3. Growing Downhill? Contestations of Sovereignty and the Creation of Itinerant Workers in Guyanese Call Centres; 4. "An Island Off the West Coast of Australia": Multiplex Geography and the Growth of Transnational Telemediated Service Work in Mauritius.

Part 2. Constructing Nationally Appropriate (and Inappropriate) Workers5. Serving the World, Serving the Nation: Everyday Nationalism and English in Philippine Offshore Call Centres; 6. Transnational "Homies" and the Urban Middle Class: Enactments of Class, Nation, and Modernity in Guatemalan Call Centres; Part 3. Caught in the Middle -- Labours of Borders and Crossings; 7. Migrations a l'envers: Global Service Work and Discursive Crossings; 8. Border Speech between Two



National Linguistic Ideologies: The Case of Bilingual El Paso Call Centres; Summary.

Sommario/riassunto

In this collection, Kiran Mirchandani and Winifred Poster have gathered a wide range of contributors to explore the dynamics within global call centres.