1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956621603321

Titolo

Battling resistance to antibiotics and pesticides : an economic approach / / edited by Ramanan Laxminarayan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : Resources for the Future, , 2003

ISBN

1-136-52430-4

1-280-68690-1

9786613663849

1-136-52431-2

1-936331-55-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LaxminarayanRamanan

Disciplina

616/.01

Soggetti

Drug resistance in microorganisms

Pesticide resistance

Pesticide resistance - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An RFF Press book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Issues of optimal management of resistance -- pt. 2. The impact of resistance -- pt. 3. The behavior of firms.

Sommario/riassunto

The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, and pests to pesticides, threatens to undo some of the most remarkable advances made in public health and agriculture during the past century. Though the potential consequences of increased antibiotic and pesticide resistance are far reaching, regulatory efforts to address the problem are at a very early stage. Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides moves such discussions forward by presenting cutting edge research and the first comprehensive application of economic tools to analyze how antibiotics and pesticides should be used t



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962394103321

Autore

Versluis Arthur <1959->

Titolo

The esoteric origins of the American Renaissance / / Arthur Versluis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-028602-4

0-19-773903-2

1-280-48108-0

0-19-535004-9

1-4237-6228-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

810.9/37

Soggetti

Divination - Europe - History

Divination - United States - History

Divination in literature

American literature - History and criticism

Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 European Esoteric Currents; 3 Esotericism in Early America; 4 The Esoteric Ambience of the American Renaissance; 5 Hitchcock; 6 Poe; 7 Hawthorne; 8 Melville; 9 Greaves; 10 Alcott; 11 Emerson; 12 Fuller; 13 Whitman; 14 Dickinson; 15 The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Arthur Versluis breaks new ground, showing that many writers of the so-called American Renaissance drew extensively on and were inspired by Western esoteric currents, i.e. a range of spiritual currents including alchemy, geomancy and magic.