1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450951703321

Autore

Landau Saul

Titolo

The business of America : how consumers have replaced citizens and how we can reverse the trend / / Saul Landau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-00108-8

1-134-00109-6

1-280-16073-X

0-203-49475-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Paths for the twenty-first century

Disciplina

306/.0973

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - United States

Mass media - United States

Air - Pollution - United States

Corporations - Corrupt practices - United States

Fraud - United States

Electronic books.

United States Social conditions 1980-

United States Politics and government 2001-2009

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

The Bush vision: a bipolar political disorder -- Classify this! National security culture sets the norm -- Sheep don't need whipping: media in the 21st century -- Ahab can beat the whale -- The Iraq connundrum -- Closing remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

Written by one of the most insightful critics of American commercialism, The Business of America probes the forces that have transformed citizens into consumers eager to take as much as they can from the planet.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA990001737220203316

Titolo

Leggi di natura, modalità, ipotesi : la logica del ragionamento controfattuale / R.B. Angell ... [et al.] ; a cura di Claudio Pizzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Feltrinelli, 1978

Descrizione fisica

341 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

SC/10 Readings ; 8

Soggetti

Linguaggio - Logica

Collocazione

II.6. 1160(VII C coll 2a/8)

XV.17. 368 (F.V. LEG (375))

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910808293303321

Autore

Rothmann Christoph <active 16th century, >

Titolo

Christoph Rothmann's Discourse on the comet of 1585 : an edition and translation with accompanying essays / / by Miguel A. Granada, Adam Mosley, Nicholas Jardine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-26035-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 p.)

Collana

History of Science and Medicine Library. Medieval and Early Modern Science, , 1567-8393 ; ; Volume 44

Disciplina

523.6/4

Soggetti

Comets - 1585

Astronomy, Medieval

Cosmology, Medieval

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 indexes.



Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Introduction / Miguel A. Granada -- Dialexis Cometae qui Anno Christi M.D.LXXXV mensibus Octobri et Novembri apparuit -- Appendices: Related Texts and Translations -- How to Present a Copernican Comet: The Form and Tactics of Christoph Rothmann’s Dialexis on the Comet of 1585 / Nicholas Jardine -- The History and Historiography of Early Modern Comets / Adam Mosley -- A Brief Note on Cometary Parallax / Adam Mosley -- Bibliography -- Indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

Christoph Rothmann wrote a treatise on the comet of 1585 shortly after it disappeared. Though it was not printed until 1619, Rothman sent a copy of his treatise in 1586 to Tycho Brahe, decisively influencing the latter's rejection of solid celestial spheres two years later. In his treatise, Rothmann joined the elimination of the solid celestial spheres to his concept of air as the substance filling the cosmos. He based his argument on the absence of refraction and the celestial location of the comet. The treatise also contained clear statements reflecting Rothmann’s adoption of Copernicanism. This first critical edition of the treatise is accompanied by an English translation and a thorough commentary. Some appendices with archival documents illustrate the genesis of Rothmann’s treatise.