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UNISA996383461903316 |
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Autore |
Cullen Francis Grant, Lord, <1658-1726.> |
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Sadducimus debellatus: or, a true narrative of the sorceries and witchcrafts exercis'd by the devil and his instruments [[electronic resource] ] : upon Mrs. Christian Shaw, daughter of Mr. John Shaw, of Bargarran in the County of Renfrew in the West of Scotland, from Aug. 1696 to Apr. 1697. Containing the journal of her sufferings, as it was exhibited and prov'd by the voluntary confession of some of the witches, and other unexceptionable evidence, before the Commissioners appointed by the Privy Council of Scotland to enquire into the same. Collected from the records. Together with reflexions upon witchcraft in general, and the learned arguments of the lawyers, on both sides, at the trial of seven of those witches who were condemned: and some passages which happened at their execution |
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London, : printed for H. Newman and A. Bell; at the Grasshopper in the Poultry, and at the Crosse Keys and Bible in Cornhill near Stocks-Market, 1698 |
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Witchcraft - England |
Trials (Witchcraft) - England |
Executions and executioners |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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By Lord Francis Grant Cullen. |
Reproduction of the original in the Trinity College Library, Dublin. |
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UNINA9910781161003321 |
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Bowen John <1966-, > |
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The economic geography of air transportation : space, time, and the freedom of the sky / / John Bowen |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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1-135-15656-5 |
1-135-15657-3 |
1-282-57133-8 |
9786612571336 |
0-203-85735-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Routledge studies in the modern world economy The economic geography of air transportation |
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Aeronautics - Social aspects |
Aeronautics - Economic aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Part I: Getting airborne: The development of the airliner and commercial air transportation; 2 Jetting toward a smaller world: Early commercial aviation; 3 Far and wide: Wide-body jetliners and the growth of the global airline industry; 4 Space-makers and pace-setters: Boeing and Airbus; Part II: Open skies and a crowd of competitors; 5 Letting go: The liberalization of the airline industry; 6 Survival of the fittest: Network carriers in the global airline industry |
7 A world taking wing: Low-cost carriers and the ascent of the manyPart III: Life aloft and on the ground in the airborne world; 8 People on the move at 1,000 kilometers per hour; 9 The high ways of trade; 10 Points of departure: Airports in the airborne world; 11 Dangers hidden in the air: The broader costs of the commercial aviation; Part IV: Beyond the horizon; 12 Coming back down to earth? The cloudy future of air transportation; Notes; References; Index |
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Like the railroad and the automobile, the airliner has changed the very |
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geography of the societies it serves. Fundamentally, air transportation has helped redefine the scale of human geography by dramatically reducing the cost of distance, both in terms of time and money. The result is what the author terms the 'airborne world', meaning all those places dependent upon and transformed by relatively inexpensive air transportation. The Economic Geography of Air Transportation answers three key questions: how did air transportation develop in the century after the Wright |
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