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Coming to terms with chance : engaging rational discrimination and cumulative disadvantage / / by Oscar H. Gandy Jr
| Coming to terms with chance : engaging rational discrimination and cumulative disadvantage / / by Oscar H. Gandy Jr |
| Autore | Gandy Oscar H |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Farnham, : Ashgate, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 240 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.5/12 |
| Soggetto topico |
Discrimination
Social stratification Statistics - Social aspects Chance - Social aspects statistics human development social sciences |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-317-16407-5
1-282-38286-1 9786612382864 0-7546-9914-5 9780754699149 |
| Classificazione | 28.08.12 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Luck, Risk, and Life Chances; 3 The Natural Lottery and our Genetic Endowments; 4 Rational Discrimination; 5 Markets that Matter; 6 Financial Risk and Insurance; 7 The Criminal Justice System; 8 Public Policy Formation and Evaluation; 9 The Media's Role; 10 "Quixotics Unite!" A Call to Arms; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455557303321 |
Gandy Oscar H
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| Farnham, : Ashgate, c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Coming to terms with chance : engaging rational discrimination and cumulative disadvantage / / by Oscar H. Gandy Jr
| Coming to terms with chance : engaging rational discrimination and cumulative disadvantage / / by Oscar H. Gandy Jr |
| Autore | Gandy Oscar H |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Farnham, : Ashgate, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 240 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.5/12 |
| Soggetto topico |
Discrimination
Social stratification Statistics - Social aspects Chance - Social aspects statistics human development social sciences |
| ISBN |
1-317-16408-3
1-315-57275-3 1-317-16407-5 1-282-38286-1 9786612382864 0-7546-9914-5 |
| Classificazione | 28.08.12 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Luck, Risk, and Life Chances; 3 The Natural Lottery and our Genetic Endowments; 4 Rational Discrimination; 5 Markets that Matter; 6 Financial Risk and Insurance; 7 The Criminal Justice System; 8 Public Policy Formation and Evaluation; 9 The Media's Role; 10 "Quixotics Unite!" A Call to Arms; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778542703321 |
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Gandy Oscar H
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| Farnham, : Ashgate, c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Coming to terms with chance : engaging rational discrimination and cumulative disadvantage / / by Oscar H. Gandy Jr
| Coming to terms with chance : engaging rational discrimination and cumulative disadvantage / / by Oscar H. Gandy Jr |
| Autore | Gandy Oscar H |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Farnham, : Ashgate, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 240 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.5/12 |
| Soggetto topico |
Discrimination
Social stratification Statistics - Social aspects Chance - Social aspects statistics human development social sciences |
| ISBN |
1-317-16408-3
1-315-57275-3 1-317-16407-5 1-282-38286-1 9786612382864 0-7546-9914-5 |
| Classificazione | 28.08.12 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Luck, Risk, and Life Chances; 3 The Natural Lottery and our Genetic Endowments; 4 Rational Discrimination; 5 Markets that Matter; 6 Financial Risk and Insurance; 7 The Criminal Justice System; 8 Public Policy Formation and Evaluation; 9 The Media's Role; 10 "Quixotics Unite!" A Call to Arms; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817476803321 |
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Gandy Oscar H
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| Farnham, : Ashgate, c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Routledge companion to the environmental humanities / edited by Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann
| The Routledge companion to the environmental humanities / edited by Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Routledge, 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 489 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 304.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ChristensenJon
HeiseUrsula K NiemannMichelle |
| Collana | Routledge companions |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental sciences - Social aspects
Science and the humanities Human ecology Nature - Effect of human beings on |
| ISBN |
1-315-76635-3
1-317-66018-8 1-317-66019-6 9781315766355 9781317660194 9781317660187 9781317660170 9781138786745 |
| Classificazione |
52.08
28.08.12 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Planet, species, justice, and the stories we tell about them / Ursula K. Heise -- The anthropocene : love it or leave it / Dale Jamieson -- Domestication, domesticated landscapes, and tropical natures / Susanna B. Hecht -- "They carry life in their hair" : domestication and the African diaspora / Judith A. Carney -- Domestication in a post-industrial world / Libby Robin -- Meals in the age of toxic environments / Yuki Masami -- Hybrid aversion : wolves, dogs, and the humans who love to keep them apart / Emma Marris -- Techno-conservation in the anthropocene : what does it mean to save a species? / Ronald Sandler -- Coloring climates : imagining a geoengineered world / Bronislaw Szerszynski -- Utopia's afterlife in the anthropocene / Anahid Nersessian -- Renaissance selfhood and Shakespeare's comedy of the commons / Robert N. Watson -- Multispecies epidemiology and the viral subject / Genese Marie Sodikoff -- Encountering a more-than-human world : ethos and the arts of witness / Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren -- Loving the native : invasive species and the cultural politics of flourishing / Jessica R. Cattelino -- Artifacts and habitats / Dolly Jørgensen -- Interspecies diplomacy in anthropocenic waters : performing an ocean-oriented ontology / Una Chaudhuri -- The anthropocene at sea : temporality, paradox, compression / Stacy Alaimo -- Turning over a new leaf : Fanonian humanism and environmental justice / Jennifer Wenzel -- Action-research and environmental justice : lessons from Guatemala's Chixoy Dam / Barbara Rose Johnston -- Farming as speculative activity : the ecological basis of farmers' suicides in India / Akhil Gupta -- Ecological security for whom? : the politics of flood alleviation and urban environmental justice in jakarta, indonesia / Helga Leitner, Emma Colven, and Eric Sheppard -- Our ancestors' dystopia now : indigenous conservation and the anthropocene / Kyle Powys Whyte -- Collected things with names like mother corn : native North American speculative fiction and film / Joni Adamson -- The stone guests : buen vivir and popular environmentalisms in the Andes and Amazonia / Jorge Marcone -- Play it again, Sam : decline and finishing in environmental narratives / Richard White -- Hubris and humility in environmental thought / Michelle Niemann -- Losing primeval forests : degradation narratives in South Asia / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Multidirectional eco-memory in an era of extinction : colonial whaling and indigenous dispossession in kim scott's that deadman dance / Rosanne Kennedy -- The Caribbean's agonizing seashores : tourism resorts, art, and the future of the region's coastlines / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Bear down : resilience and multispecies ethology / Brett Buchanan -- Contemporary environmental art / James Nisbet -- Slow food, low tech : environmental narratives of agribusiness and its alternatives / Allison Carruth -- Mattress story : on thing power, waste management rhetoric, and Francisco de Pájaro's trash art / Maite Zubiaurre -- Touching the senses : environments and technologies at the movies / Alexa Weik von Mossner -- Climate, design, and the status of the human : obstacles and opportunities for architectural scholarship in the environmental humanities / Daniel A. Barber -- Climate visualizations : making data experiential / Heather Houser -- Digital? environmental : humanities / Stéfan Sinclair and Stephanie Posthumus -- From the xenotext / Christian Bök -- The body and environmental history in the anthropocene / Linda Nash -- Material ecocriticism and the petro-text / Heather I. Sullivan -- Fossil freedoms : the politics of emancipation and the end of oil / Hannes Bergthaller -- Scaling the planetary humanities : environmental globalization and the arctic / Sverker Sörlin -- Some "f" words for the environmental humanities : feralities, feminisms, futurities / Catriona Sandilands -- Biocities : urban ecology and the cultural imagination / Jon Christensen and Ursula K. Heise -- Environmental humanities : notes towards a summary for policymakers / Greg Garrard -- The humanities after the anthropocene / Stephanie LeMenager. |
| Altri titoli varianti |
Companion to the environmental humanities
Environmental humanities |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910158570803321 |
| London, : Routledge, 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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