Crossing under the Hudson : the story of the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels / / Angus Kress Gillespie |
Autore | Gillespie Angus K. <1942-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J. : , : Rivergate Books, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 624.1/94097471 |
Soggetto topico | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |
ISBN |
1-283-86459-2
0-8135-5083-1 |
Classificazione | ZI 6505 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | It can't be done : planning for the Holland Tunnel -- A breath of fresh air : building the Holland Tunnel -- Winning acceptance : grand opening of the Holland Tunnel -- Let's build nother one : construction of the Lincoln Tunnel -- Law and order : the role of the Port Authority police -- Road hazards : threats to life and property -- Rush hour frustration : dealing with traffic congestion -- If you see something, say something : dealing with the threat of terrorism -- Tunneling through the arts : a survey of creative endeavors -- The light at the end of the tunnel : the future of the tunnels. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789979203321 |
Gillespie Angus K. <1942->
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Crossing under the Hudson : the story of the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels / / Angus Kress Gillespie |
Autore | Gillespie Angus K. <1942-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J. : , : Rivergate Books, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 624.1/94097471 |
Soggetto topico | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |
ISBN |
1-283-86459-2
0-8135-5083-1 |
Classificazione | ZI 6505 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | It can't be done : planning for the Holland Tunnel -- A breath of fresh air : building the Holland Tunnel -- Winning acceptance : grand opening of the Holland Tunnel -- Let's build nother one : construction of the Lincoln Tunnel -- Law and order : the role of the Port Authority police -- Road hazards : threats to life and property -- Rush hour frustration : dealing with traffic congestion -- If you see something, say something : dealing with the threat of terrorism -- Tunneling through the arts : a survey of creative endeavors -- The light at the end of the tunnel : the future of the tunnels. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910829023803321 |
Gillespie Angus K. <1942->
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Cultural Techniques : Assembling Spaces, Texts & Collectives / / Jörg Dünne, Kathrin Fehringer, Kristina Kuhn, Wolfgang Struck |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2020] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (VI, 345 p.) |
Soggetto topico | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
Cultural techniques
collectives space spatialization |
ISBN |
3-11-064534-3
3-11-064704-4 |
Classificazione | AP 13500 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Working on Barricades and Boulevards: Cultural Techniques of Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Paris -- Cultural Techniques and Founding Fictions -- A Message in a Bottle -- Waiting: Cultural Techniques, Media, and Infrastructures -- Orthopedics by the Roadside: Spikes and Studs as Devices of Social Normalization -- Ballooning: Aeronautical Techniques from Montgolfier to Google -- Attached: The Object and the Collective -- Monturen/montures: On Riding, Dressing, and Wearing. Nomadic Cultural Techniques and (the Marginalization) of Asian Clothing in Europe -- Self-Imprints of Nature -- Identifying, Categorizing, and Stigmatizing Fat Bodies -- Techniques of the Body and Storytelling: From Marcel Mauss to César Aira -- Writing Out - Gathered Up at a Venture from All Four Corners of the Earth: Jean Paul's Techniques and Operations (on Excerpts) -- Collecting Texts: Miscellaneity in Journals, Anthologies, and Novels (Jean Paul) -- Reading by Grouping: Collecting Discipline(s) in Brockhaus's Bilder-Atlas -- Patience and Precipitation: Two Figures of Historical Change -- The Fruit Fly, the Vermin, and the Prokurist: Operations of Appearing in Kafka's Metamorphosis -- Collective Likeness: Mimetic Aspects of Liking -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910424625503321 |
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2020] | ||
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Cultural Techniques : Assembling Spaces, Texts & Collectives / / Jörg Dünne, Kathrin Fehringer, Kristina Kuhn, Wolfgang Struck |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2020] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (VI, 345 p.) |
Soggetto topico | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
Cultural techniques
collectives space spatialization |
ISBN |
3-11-064534-3
3-11-064704-4 |
Classificazione | AP 13500 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Working on Barricades and Boulevards: Cultural Techniques of Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Paris -- Cultural Techniques and Founding Fictions -- A Message in a Bottle -- Waiting: Cultural Techniques, Media, and Infrastructures -- Orthopedics by the Roadside: Spikes and Studs as Devices of Social Normalization -- Ballooning: Aeronautical Techniques from Montgolfier to Google -- Attached: The Object and the Collective -- Monturen/montures: On Riding, Dressing, and Wearing. Nomadic Cultural Techniques and (the Marginalization) of Asian Clothing in Europe -- Self-Imprints of Nature -- Identifying, Categorizing, and Stigmatizing Fat Bodies -- Techniques of the Body and Storytelling: From Marcel Mauss to César Aira -- Writing Out - Gathered Up at a Venture from All Four Corners of the Earth: Jean Paul's Techniques and Operations (on Excerpts) -- Collecting Texts: Miscellaneity in Journals, Anthologies, and Novels (Jean Paul) -- Reading by Grouping: Collecting Discipline(s) in Brockhaus's Bilder-Atlas -- Patience and Precipitation: Two Figures of Historical Change -- The Fruit Fly, the Vermin, and the Prokurist: Operations of Appearing in Kafka's Metamorphosis -- Collective Likeness: Mimetic Aspects of Liking -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996359642403316 |
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2020] | ||
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Demographic Change in Japan and the EU : Comparative Perspectives / / Shingo Shimada, Annette Schad-Seifert |
Autore | Shimada Shingo |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | De Gruyter, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
Soggetto topico | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
Japan
Social Analysis demographic trends |
ISBN | 3-11-072004-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- The Bitter Fruits of Success -- Elderly Housing in Contemporary Japan: Exploring Alternative Forms of Housing -- The Housing System and Generational Divides: Housing Pathways and Life-courses in Japan -- Older Japanese Spouse Care in Relation to Household Structure, Gender Relation, and Political Economy -- "Silver Robots" and "Robotic Nurses"? Japans Robot Culture and Elderly Care -- The Effectiveness of New Job Security Measure for the Older Employees in Japan -- Comparing Social Policies: The Long-term Care Insurance as a Case -- Contributing Authors -- Programme of the annual VSJF Meeting 2008 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557570103321 |
Shimada Shingo
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De Gruyter, 2010 | ||
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Demographic Change in Japan and the EU : Comparative Perspectives / / Shingo Shimada, Annette Schad-Seifert |
Autore | Shimada Shingo |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | De Gruyter, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
Soggetto topico | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
Japan
Social Analysis demographic trends |
ISBN | 3-11-072004-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- The Bitter Fruits of Success -- Elderly Housing in Contemporary Japan: Exploring Alternative Forms of Housing -- The Housing System and Generational Divides: Housing Pathways and Life-courses in Japan -- Older Japanese Spouse Care in Relation to Household Structure, Gender Relation, and Political Economy -- "Silver Robots" and "Robotic Nurses"? Japans Robot Culture and Elderly Care -- The Effectiveness of New Job Security Measure for the Older Employees in Japan -- Comparing Social Policies: The Long-term Care Insurance as a Case -- Contributing Authors -- Programme of the annual VSJF Meeting 2008 |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996411333303316 |
Shimada Shingo
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De Gruyter, 2010 | ||
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Diaspora and Disaster : Japanese Outside Japan and the Triple Catastrophy of March 2011 / / Christian Tagsold, Andreas Niehaus |
Autore | Tagsold Christian |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | De Gruyter, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (118 p.) |
Collana | Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung |
Soggetto topico | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
Andreas Niehaus
Christian Tagsold Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Japan Japanese diaspora communities Japanforschung Jutta Teuwsen Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung Niko Besnier Peter Bernardi Ruth Martin Tine Walravens diaspora studies disaster studies |
ISBN | 3-11-072028-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Diasporas: Communities of Practice, Economies of Affect -- Mourning for Whom and Why? 3/11 and the Japanese in Düsseldorf, Germany -- "Even if it is Just a Little Help for the Victims from the Distant Belgium": Japanese Nationals in Belgium and the 3/11 Triple Disaster -- 3/11 and the Japanese in London -- The Triple Disaster as an Opportunity to Feel Japanese Again in Hawaii -- Disaster, Donations, and Diaspora: The Response of the Japanese-Brazilian Community of São Paulo to the Triple Disaster of 2011 -- About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996411333103316 |
Tagsold Christian
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De Gruyter, 2016 | ||
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Diaspora and Disaster : Japanese Outside Japan and the Triple Catastrophy of March 2011 / / Christian Tagsold, Andreas Niehaus |
Autore | Tagsold Christian |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | De Gruyter, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (118 p.) |
Collana | Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung |
Soggetto topico | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
Andreas Niehaus
Christian Tagsold Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Japan Japanese diaspora communities Japanforschung Jutta Teuwsen Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung Niko Besnier Peter Bernardi Ruth Martin Tine Walravens diaspora studies disaster studies |
ISBN | 3-11-072028-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Diasporas: Communities of Practice, Economies of Affect -- Mourning for Whom and Why? 3/11 and the Japanese in Düsseldorf, Germany -- "Even if it is Just a Little Help for the Victims from the Distant Belgium": Japanese Nationals in Belgium and the 3/11 Triple Disaster -- 3/11 and the Japanese in London -- The Triple Disaster as an Opportunity to Feel Japanese Again in Hawaii -- Disaster, Donations, and Diaspora: The Response of the Japanese-Brazilian Community of São Paulo to the Triple Disaster of 2011 -- About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557536003321 |
Tagsold Christian
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De Gruyter, 2016 | ||
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Disputing discipline : child protection, punishment, and piety in Zanzibar schools |
Autore | Fay Franziska |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 pages) |
Disciplina | 371.5096781 |
Collana | Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Child welfare - Tanzania - Zanzibar
Children - Tanzania - Zanzibar - Social conditions Corporal punishment of children - Tanzania - Zanzibar Rewards and punishments in education - Tanzania - Zanzibar School discipline - Tanzania - Zanzibar SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |
Soggetto non controllato | children, children’s rights activists’, children’s rights, Zanzibar, school system, Zanzibar school system, corporal punishment, Zanzibar schools, child protection, Swahili language, Swahili, young people’s well-being, policy makers, practitioners, gender, Islam, Well-being, Swahili linguistics, Muslim, Muslim Zanzibari communities, African studies, ethnographic research, Decolonise, Decolonise movement, child protection politics |
ISBN | 1-9788-2177-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- A NOTE ON LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION -- Introduction -- 1 Being Young in Zanzibar -- 2 Childhood with/out Punishment -- 3 Children and Child Protection -- 4 Child Protection in Zanzibar Schools -- 5 Gender, Islam, and Child Protection -- 6 Decolonizing Child Protection -- 7 Beyond Well-Being, toward Children -- Conclusion -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- GLOSSARY OF SWAHILI TERMS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910861985003321 |
Fay Franziska
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Documenting the American Student Abroad : The Media Cultures of International Education / / Kelly Hankin |
Autore | Hankin Kelly |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
Disciplina | 370.116 |
Soggetto topico |
Education and globalization
Foreign study - Social aspects International education - Social aspects Mass media and education - United States Mass media - United States - Influence SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |
Soggetto non controllato | Media, Culture, International Education, Study Abroad, Undergraduate, Higher Education, Global, Education, Academia, Cross-Cultures, Global Marketplace, Media Studies, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Immersion, Documentaries, Blogs, Citizenship, Homestay, Travel, Scholarships |
ISBN | 1-9788-0772-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION The Media Cultures of Study Abroad -- 1 ◆ THE PERSONAL IS PROFESSIONAL First-Person Travelogues and the Study Abroad Video Contest -- 2 ◆ INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AMONG “INTIMATE STRANGERS” Reality Television and Documentary Study Abroad -- 3 ◆ HOUSE HUNTERS INTERNATIONAL Homestay Movies in the Digital Era -- 4 ◆ STUDY ABROAD’S DIVERSITY PROBLEM Vlogs as Necessary Media -- 5 ◆ SPY KIDS The Consequences of Global Citizenship in Game of Pawns -- 6 ◆ STUDY ABROAD AND THE FEMALE TRAVELER IN THE “AMANDA KNOXUDRAMAS” -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794242403321 |
Hankin Kelly
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New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] | ||
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