Einstein on the run : how Britain saved the world's greatest scientist / / Andrew Robinson |
Autore | Robinson Andrew |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (371 pages) |
Disciplina | 530.092 |
Soggetto topico |
Dwellings
Housing |
ISBN | 0-300-24887-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PROLOGUE. A Wanderer on the Face of the Earth -- CHAPTER ONE. The Happiest Thought of My Life -- CHAPTER TWO. Hats Off to the Fellows! From a Swiss Jew -- CHAPTER THREE. A Stinking Flower in a German Buttonhole -- CHAPTER FOUR. God Does Not Play Dice with the Universe -- CHAPTER FIVE. A Barbarian among the Holy Brotherhood in Tails -- CHAPTER SIX. The Reality of Nature and the Nature of Reality -- CHAPTER SEVEN. On the Run -- CHAPTER EIGHT. I Vill a Little T'ink -- EPILOGUE. An Old Gypsy in a Quaint and Ceremonious Village -- Notes and References -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828669803321 |
Robinson Andrew
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New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019] | ||
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An Ethnography of Household Energy Demand in the UK : Everyday Temporalities of Digital Media Usage / / by Roxana Moroşanu |
Autore | Moroşanu Roxana |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.231 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnography
Anthropology |
ISBN | 1-137-59341-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The Time We Have–The Time We Make -- 1. How the Light Gets In: A Theoretical Framework for “Ordinary Agency” -- 2. Encountering Middleborough: Impressions, Methods, and Tacit Knowledge -- 3. Meeting the Families -- 4. Spontaneity -- 5. Anticipation and the Mother-Multiple -- 6. “Family Time” and Domestic Sociality: Forms of Togetherness and Independence with Digital Media -- 7. Saving Energy in British Homes: Thoughts and Applications. . |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910253349303321 |
Moroşanu Roxana
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 | ||
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Evaluation and stance in war news [[electronic resource] ] : a linguistic analysis of American, British and Italian television news reporting of the 2003 Iraqi war / / edited by Louann Haarman and Linda Lombardo |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Continuum, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
Disciplina | 302.2345014 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HaarmanLouann
LombardoLinda |
Collana | Corpus and Discourse |
Soggetto topico |
Discourse analysis
Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Mass media and the war Mass media and language - Great Britain Mass media and language - Italy Mass media and language - United States Television broadcasting of news - Great Britain Television broadcasting of news - Italy Television broadcasting of news - United States |
ISBN |
1-282-87564-7
9786612875649 1-4411-6954-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents: Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; 1. Mark-up and the narrative structure of television news; 2. The news presenter as socio-cultural construct; 3. The news presenter and the television audience: a comparative perspective of the use of we and you; 4. Wide angles and narrow views: the Iraq conflict in embed and other war zone reports; 5. Decoding codas: evaluation in reporter and correspondent news talk; 6. 'If it wasn't rolling, it never happened': the role of visual elements in television news; 7. News is reporting what was said: techniques and patterns of attribution |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785481703321 |
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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain / / Christine Lehleiter |
Autore | Lehleiter Christine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of Toronto Press, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 830.9/36 |
Collana |
Open Access e-Books.
Knowledge Unlatched. |
Soggetto topico |
German literature - 18th century - History and criticism
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism Literature and science - Germany - History - 18th century Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 18th century Science in literature Knowledge, Theory of, in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
(fast)1700 - 1799
(lcsh)German literature--18th century--History and criticism (lcsh)English literature--18th century--History and criticism (lcsh)Literature and science--Germany--History--18th century (lcsh)Literature and science--Great Britain--History--18th century (lcsh)Science in literature (lcsh)Knowledge, Theory of, in literature (fast)English literature (fast)German literature (fast)Knowledge, Theory of, in literature (fast)Literature and science (fast)Science in literature (fast)Germany (fast)Great Britain (fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc (fast)History |
ISBN |
1-4426-6414-2
1-4426-6413-4 |
Classificazione | DB 1000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction. Fact and fiction : literary and scientific cultures in Germany and Britain -- thoughts on a contentious relationship / Christine Lehleiter -- Facts are what one makes of them : constructing the Faktum in the Enlightenment and early German Romanticism / Jocelyn Holland -- The competing structures of signification in Samuel Hahnemann's Homeopathy : between 18th-century Semiosis and Romantic Hermeneutics / Alice Kuzniar -- "She comes! the GODDESS!" : narrating nature in Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden (1791) / Ann Shteir -- Elective affinities/Wahlverwandtschaften : the career of a metaphor / Christian P. Weber -- Physics disarmed : probabilistic knowledge in the works of James Clerk Maxwell and George Eliot / Tina Young Choi -- Herder's unsettling of the distinction between fact and fiction / John K. Noyes -- Fictional feedback : empirical souls and self-deception in the Magazine for empirical psychology and beyond / Michael House -- Fictional feelings : psychological aesthetics and the paradox of tragic pleasure / Tobias Wilke -- Coining a discipline : Lessing, Reimarus, and a science of religion / Stefani Engelstein -- Kin selection, Mendel's "Salutary Principle," and the fate of characters in Forster's The longest journey / Daniel Aureliano Newman -- Anatomy collections in and of the mind : science, the body and language in the writings of Durs Grünbein and Thomas Hettche / Peter M. McIsaac -- Vivifying the uncanny : ethnographic mannequins and exotic performers in nineteenth-century German exhibition culture / A. Dana Weber. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136393003321 |
Lehleiter Christine
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University of Toronto Press, 2016 | ||
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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain / / Christine Lehleiter |
Autore | Lehleiter Christine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of Toronto Press, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 830.9/36 |
Collana |
Open Access e-Books.
Knowledge Unlatched. |
Soggetto topico |
German literature - 18th century - History and criticism
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism Literature and science - Germany - History - 18th century Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 18th century Science in literature Knowledge, Theory of, in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
(fast)1700 - 1799
(lcsh)German literature--18th century--History and criticism (lcsh)English literature--18th century--History and criticism (lcsh)Literature and science--Germany--History--18th century (lcsh)Literature and science--Great Britain--History--18th century (lcsh)Science in literature (lcsh)Knowledge, Theory of, in literature (fast)English literature (fast)German literature (fast)Knowledge, Theory of, in literature (fast)Literature and science (fast)Science in literature (fast)Germany (fast)Great Britain (fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc (fast)History |
ISBN |
1-4426-6414-2
1-4426-6413-4 |
Classificazione | DB 1000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction. Fact and fiction : literary and scientific cultures in Germany and Britain -- thoughts on a contentious relationship / Christine Lehleiter -- Facts are what one makes of them : constructing the Faktum in the Enlightenment and early German Romanticism / Jocelyn Holland -- The competing structures of signification in Samuel Hahnemann's Homeopathy : between 18th-century Semiosis and Romantic Hermeneutics / Alice Kuzniar -- "She comes! the GODDESS!" : narrating nature in Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden (1791) / Ann Shteir -- Elective affinities/Wahlverwandtschaften : the career of a metaphor / Christian P. Weber -- Physics disarmed : probabilistic knowledge in the works of James Clerk Maxwell and George Eliot / Tina Young Choi -- Herder's unsettling of the distinction between fact and fiction / John K. Noyes -- Fictional feedback : empirical souls and self-deception in the Magazine for empirical psychology and beyond / Michael House -- Fictional feelings : psychological aesthetics and the paradox of tragic pleasure / Tobias Wilke -- Coining a discipline : Lessing, Reimarus, and a science of religion / Stefani Engelstein -- Kin selection, Mendel's "Salutary Principle," and the fate of characters in Forster's The longest journey / Daniel Aureliano Newman -- Anatomy collections in and of the mind : science, the body and language in the writings of Durs Grünbein and Thomas Hettche / Peter M. McIsaac -- Vivifying the uncanny : ethnographic mannequins and exotic performers in nineteenth-century German exhibition culture / A. Dana Weber. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996580161603316 |
Lehleiter Christine
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University of Toronto Press, 2016 | ||
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Fatherhood in Transition : Masculinity, Identity and Everyday Life / / by Thomas Johansson, Jesper Andreasson |
Autore | Johansson Thomas |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 238 p. 9 illus.) |
Disciplina | 305 |
Collana | Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life |
Soggetto topico |
Social groups
Family Gender identity Childhood Adolescence Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging Gender and Sexuality Childhood, Adolescence and Society |
ISBN | 1-137-58953-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- Part I: Contextualizing Fatherhood -- 2. Theoretical explorations of fatherhood -- 3. Fatherhood and welfare state regimes -- Part II: Fatherhood in Transition -- 4. Images of fatherhood -- 5. Breadwinners and new fathering practices -- 6. Internet and the new landscape of fatherhood -- 7. Parenthood after divorce -- 8. Gay fatherhood -- 9. Transnational fatherhood -- Part III: Conclusions and Methodology -- 10. Conclusions. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910252709103321 |
Johansson Thomas
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
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Ferranti . Volume 3 Management, mergers and fraud 1987-1993 : a history. / / John F. Wilson |
Autore | Wilson John F. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, [Michigan] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 338.7620941 |
Soggetto topico | Electrical engineering - Great Britain - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | History |
Soggetto non controllato |
Derek Alun-Jones
Eugene Anderson Ferranti ISC James Guerin arms trading corporate governance defence electronics fraud |
ISBN | 1-5261-1921-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; [Vol. 1] Building a family business, 1882-1975 -- ; vol. 2 From family firm to multinational, 1975-1987 -- ; vol. 3 Management, mergers and fraud, 1987-1993. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796595903321 |
Wilson John F.
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Ferranti . Volume 3 Management, mergers and fraud 1987-1993 : a history. / / John F. Wilson |
Autore | Wilson John F. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, [Michigan] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 338.7620941 |
Soggetto topico | Electrical engineering - Great Britain - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | History |
Soggetto non controllato |
Derek Alun-Jones
Eugene Anderson Ferranti ISC James Guerin arms trading corporate governance defence electronics fraud |
ISBN | 1-5261-1921-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; [Vol. 1] Building a family business, 1882-1975 -- ; vol. 2 From family firm to multinational, 1975-1987 -- ; vol. 3 Management, mergers and fraud, 1987-1993. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816899703321 |
Wilson John F.
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Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond / / by Lisa Funnell, Klaus Dodds |
Autore | Funnell Lisa |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XI, 242 p. 20 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 327 |
Soggetto topico |
International relations
Film genres Motion pictures—Great Britain International Relations Genre British Cinema and TV |
Soggetto genere / forma | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
ISBN | 1-137-57024-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Abstract; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Geographies, Genders, and Geopolitics of James Bond; The Book's Mission; Notes; Chapter 2: The Haptic Geographies of James Bond's Body; Haptic Geographies of James Bond; The Fit Body; The Sensual Body; The Technical Body; The Memorializing Body; The Calculative Body; In/Out of Touch: Regulating James Bond and His Missions; Notes; Chapter 3: The Anglo-American Connection; The Connery Era: Establishing the Anglo-American Connection; The Moore Era: Concentration and Differentiation of American Allies.
Dalton Era: American-Focused and American-CentricBrosnan Era: Bond Girl Take Over; Craig Era: Re-visioning American Identities; The Anglo-American Connection; Notes; Chapter 4: Shaken, Not Stirred: Shifting Representations of the Soviet Union and Russia; Bond Girl and the Bad Girl; From Russia with Love; GoldenEye; Bond and the Soviet Female Agent; Older and Younger Soviet Generals/Agents (or Soviet Doves and Hawks); Octopussy; A View to a Kill; The Living Daylights; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: The Asian City: Modern/Vertical vs. Pre- modern/Horizontal Spaces. East Asian Modernity in the Connery EraVertical and Horizontal Contrasts in the Moore Era; The Technical/Modern Divide in the Brosnan Era; Techno-Orientalism in Skyfall; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: Resourceful Bond; Gold; Goldfinger; Diamonds; Diamonds Are Forever; Die Another Day; Crude Oil/Petroleum; The Man with the Golden Gun; The World Is Not Enough; Quantum of Solace; Water Conflict; Quantum of Solace; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7: Smooth Operator: Space, Mobility, and Social Rituals; License to Destroy; Villain's Lair; Preserving Monuments; Construction Sites Trains, Planes, and AutomobilesTrains; Planes; Automobiles; High Versus Low Culture Spaces; Tourist Traps; Highbrow Social Spaces; The Casino; Symphony and Opera; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 8: Heartland Geopolitics; Heartland Under Attack; Rallying Around the Flag; Blue; Red; Homecoming; Heartland Ruins; Notes; Afterword; Bibliography; Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910157386303321 |
Funnell Lisa
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Going to the dogs : A history of greyhound racing in Britain, 1926-2017 / / Keith Laybourn |
Autore | Laybourn Keith <1946-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 224 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.5620941 |
Soggetto topico | Hunderennen |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-5261-1452-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The rise of greyhound racing in Britain, 1926-45: the politics of discrimination -- Discrimination and decline: greyhound racing in Britain, 1945 to the 1960s -- 'Animated roulette boards': financing, operating and managing the greyhound tracks for racing the dogs, c. 1926-61 -- Dog breeding, dog owning and dog training: dividing the classes -- An Ascot for the common man -- Policing the tracks, detecting malpractice and dealing with the racketeers and 'shady' individuals, 1926 to c. 1961 -- The decline of greyhound racing in Britain, 1961-2017 -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480333003321 |
Laybourn Keith <1946->
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Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2019 | ||
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