Strange new worlds [[electronic resource] ] : the search for alien planets and life beyond our solar system / / Ray Jayawardhana

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463227603321
• Autore: Jayawardhana Ray
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-4008-3813-4; 9786613001344; 1-283-00134-9; 1-4008-4654-4
• Edizione: [With a New afterword by the author]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 576.839
• Soggetti: Extrasolar planets; Electronic books.; Solar system
• 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: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Quest for Other Worlds -- Chapter 2: Planets from Dust -- Chapter 3: A Wobbly Start -- Chapter 4: Planet Bounty -- Chapter 5: Flickers and Shadows -- Chapter 6: Blurring Boundaries -- Chapter 7: A Picture's Worth -- Chapter 8: Alien Earths -- Chapter 9: Signs of Life -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Afterword to the Paperback Edition -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets--and alien life--beyond our solar system. Only in the past two decades, after millennia of speculation, have astronomers begun to discover planets around other stars--thousands in fact. Now they are closer than ever to unraveling distant twins of the Earth. In this book, Jayawardhana vividly recounts the stories of the scientists and the remarkable breakthroughs that have ushered in this extraordinary age of exploration. He describes the latest findings--including his own--that are challenging our view of the cosmos and casting new light on the origins and evolution of planets and planetary systems. He reveals how technology is rapidly ; advancing to support direct observations of Jupiter-like gas giants and super-Earths--rocky planets with several times the mass of our own planet--and how astronomers use biomarkers to seek possible life on other worlds. Strange New Worlds provides an insider's look at the cutting-edge science of today's planet hunters, our prospects for discovering alien life, and the debates and controversies at the forefront of extrasolar-planet research. In a new afterword, Jayawardhana explains some of the most recent developments as we search for the first clues of life on other planets.

Vindiciæ fundamenti: or A threefold defence of the doctrine of original sin [[electronic resource] ] : together with some other fundamentals of salvation the first against the exceptions of Mr. Robert Everard in his book entituled, The creation and the fall of man. The second against the examiners of the late assemblies confession of faith. The third against the allegations of Dr. Jeremy Taylor, in his Unum necessarium, and two letter treatises of his / By Nathaniel Stephens minister of Fenny-Drayton in Leicestershire

• Record Nr.: UNISA996393234903316
• Autore: Stephens Nathaniel <1606?-1678.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : printed by T.R. and E.M. for Edmund Paxton in Pauls Chain, right over against the Castle-Tavern, near Doctors Commons, 1658
• Descrizione fisica: [14], 239, [1] p
• Soggetti: Theology, Doctrinal; Salvation; Sin, Original
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: The tract by Robert Everard is untraced.; The final page is an advertisement.; Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aprill 24.".; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018

Das Londoner Schuldenabkommen : Die Regelung der deutschen Auslandsschulden nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg / / Ursula Rombeck-Jaschinski; German Historical Institute London

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910132194003321
• Autore: Rombeck-Jaschinski Ursula
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: De Gruyter, 2011; Berlin ; ; Boston : , : Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, , [2011]; ©2005
• ISBN: 3-486-70762-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (484 pages)
• Collana: Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London/ Publications of the German Historical Institute London ; ; BAND 58
• Classificazione: QM 354
• Disciplina: 336.340943
• Soggetti: Debt relief - Germany; Debts, Public - Germany; World War, 1939-1945 - Reparations; Germany Economic conditions 1945-1990
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• 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: Front Matter -- I. Die Schuldenfrage im Krieg und in den Ersten Nachkriegsjahren -- II. Vorbereitungen zur Lösung der Schuldenfrage -- III. Auf Dem Weg zur Hauptkonferenz -- IV. Die Hauptverhandlungen -- V. Abschliessende Regierungsverhandlungen -- Zusammenfassung -- Back Matter
• Sommario/riassunto: Das am 27. Februar 1953 unterzeichnete Londoner Schuldenabkommen stellte ein Novum in der Geschichte der internationalen Schuldenregelung dar. Mit ihm wurde die gigantische deutsche Auslandsverschuldung des privaten und öffentlichen Sektors aus der Vor- und Nachkriegszeit geregelt. Als Rechtsnachfolgerin des Deutschen Reiches übernahm die Bundesrepublik die Haftung für die gesamten Vorkriegsschulden des ehemaligen Reichs. Die langwierigen und von zahlreichen Schwierigkeiten durchzogenen Verhandlungen ; erreichten, dass das Schuldenabkommen dem tatsächlichen Leistungsvermögen der Bundesrepublik angepasst wurde. Mit dem Londoner Schuldenabkommen wurde die Kreditwürdigkeit der jungen Bundesrepublik wiederhergestellt; es war damit eine Conditio sine qua non für die Wiedergewinnung der Souveränität der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.