1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002151620203316

Titolo

Vol. 1: Isolation, characterization and interactions / edited by Martha R. J. Clokie, Andrew M. Kropinski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Humana Press, 2009

ISBN

978-1-58829-682-5

978-1-60327-164-6

Descrizione fisica

XXII, 307 p. ; 27 cm

Collana

Methods in molecular biology ; 501

Disciplina

579.26

Soggetti

Batteriofagi

Collocazione

579.26 BAC 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454398703321

Autore

Gairn Louisa

Titolo

Ecology and modern Scottish literature [[electronic resource] /] / Louisa Gairn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-7486-5344-9

1-281-78581-4

9786611785819

0-7486-3198-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

820.9941109034

Soggetti

Ecology in literature

English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism

Scottish literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Scottish literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

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; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Re-Mapping Modern Scottish Literature; 1. Feelings for Nature in Victorian Scotland; 2. Strange Lands; 3. Local and Global Outlooks; 4. Dear Green Places; 5. Lines of Defence; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a provocative and timely reconsideration of modern Scottish literature in the light of ecological thought. Louisa Gairn demonstrates how successive generations of Scottish writers have both reflected on and contributed to the development of international ecological theory and philosophy. Provocative re-readings of works by authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, John Muir, Nan Shepherd, John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie and George Mackay Brown demonstrate the significance of ecological thought across the spectrum of Scottish literary culture. This book traces the influence of



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451631903321

Autore

Franklin Wayne

Titolo

James Fenimore Cooper [[electronic resource] ] : the early years / / Wayne Franklin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-73480-2

9786611734800

0-300-13500-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xxxiv, 708 p., [16] p. of plates) ) : ill., map

Disciplina

813/.2

Soggetti

Novelists, American - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-679) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. The Vision -- CHAPTER TWO. Lessons -- CHAPTER THREE. The Voyage of the Stirling -- CHAPTER FOUR. Midshipman James Cooper -- CHAPTER FIVE. Love and War -- CHAPTER SIX. Fenimore Farm -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Gains and Losses -- CHAPTER EIGHT. A Better Book -- CHAPTER NINE. An American Tale -- CHAPTER TEN. Legal Troubles -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Settlement -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Taking Manhattan -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Old Tales and New -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Legends -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Hawk-eye -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Literary Business -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) invented the key forms of American fiction-the Western, the sea tale, the Revolutionary War romance. Furthermore, Cooper turned novel writing from a polite diversion into a paying career. He influenced Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Francis Parkman, and even Mark Twain-who felt the need to flagellate Cooper for his "literary offenses." His novels mark the starting point for any history of our environmental conscience. Far from complicit in the cleansings of Native Americans that characterized the era, Cooper's fictions traced native losses to their economic sources.



Perhaps no other American writer stands in greater need of a major reevaluation than Cooper. This is the first treatment of Cooper's life to be based on full access to his family papers. Cooper's life, as Franklin relates it, is the story of how, in literature and countless other endeavors, Americans in his period sought to solidify their political and cultural economic independence from Britain and, as the Revolutionary generation died, stipulate what the maturing republic was to become. The first of two volumes, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years covers Cooper's life from his boyhood up to 1826, when, at the age of thirty-six, he left with his wife and five children for Europe.

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780538403321

Autore

Lowes Mark Douglas <1969->

Titolo

Indy dreams and urban nightmares : speed merchants, spectacle, and the struggle over public space in the world-class city / / Mark Douglas Lowes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-4426-7022-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares

Disciplina

307.76/0971133

Soggetti

Automobile racing - British Columbia - Vancouver

City planning - British Columbia - Vancouver - Citizen participation

Public spaces - British Columbia - Vancouver

Sports and tourism - British Columbia - Vancouver

Case studies.

Electronic books.

Hastings Park (Vancouver, B.C.)

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

""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Spectacular Consumption Spaces""; ""2 Competing



Visions""; ""3 Selling the Spectacle""; ""4 Resisting the Spectacle""; ""5 Spectacular Space and the Ideology of the 'World-Class' City""; ""APPENDIX: A NOTE ON METHOD""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""INDEX""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""L""; ""M""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""W""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

What role do sporting spectacles play in the making of a 'world-class' city?Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares reports on the conflict that arose between a Vancouver community and the civic boosters who wanted to move the Molson Indy Vancouver motorsport event to their neighbourhood park. Arguing that such events are simply a matter of economic and cultural 'common sense', the civic boosters promoted the Indy spectacle as a means of gaining 'world-class' status for the city. Against this background, Lowes explores the complex relations among major league sport, urban landscape, and civic identity. He argues that the capacity to articulate a city's 'vision' for itself is an important manifestation of power and ideology, and a notable point of struggle in contemporary urban life. This encompasses much larger issues related to the struggle over urban public space and the legitimacy of a particular narrative of urban growth and civic identity - one that increasingly privileges the consumer over the citizen. Provocative and engaging, this study examines the impact of major sports events on urban centres, and shows how urban public culture is defined and shaped by competition for the right to conceptualize, control, and experience a city's public spaces.