The Britannica guide to climate change [[electronic resource] ] : an unbiased guide to the key issue of our age / / introduction by Robert M. May |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Robinson |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (477 p.) |
Disciplina |
355.03
551.6 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MayRobert M |
Collana | Britannica guide series |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes
Global temperature changes |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-95817-4
9786611958176 1-59339-848-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Introduction; Part 1 The big picture; 1 Climate change: a short introduction; 2 What is climate?; 3 A history of weather forecasting; Part 2 The changing world; 4 The changing planet: land; 5 The changing planet: hydrosphere; 6 The changing planet: atmosphere; 7 The decline in biodiversity; Part 3 Ideas, arguments, and progress; 8 Environmentalism: past, present, and future; 9 Key environmental thinkers; 10 Respones to change; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454198603321 |
London, : Robinson | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Britannica guide to climate change : an unbiased guide to the key issue of our age / / introduction by Robert M. May |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Robinson |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 460 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina |
355.03
551.6 |
Collana | Britannica guide series |
Soggetto topico | Climatic changes |
ISBN |
1-281-95817-4
9786611958176 1-59339-848-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Introduction; Part 1 The big picture; 1 Climate change: a short introduction; 2 What is climate?; 3 A history of weather forecasting; Part 2 The changing world; 4 The changing planet: land; 5 The changing planet: hydrosphere; 6 The changing planet: atmosphere; 7 The decline in biodiversity; Part 3 Ideas, arguments, and progress; 8 Environmentalism: past, present, and future; 9 Key environmental thinkers; 10 Respones to change; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782690503321 |
London, : Robinson | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Britannica guide to climate change : an unbiased guide to the key issue of our age / / introduction by Robert M. May |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Robinson |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 460 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina |
355.03
551.6 |
Collana | Britannica guide series |
Soggetto topico | Climatic changes |
ISBN |
1-281-95817-4
9786611958176 1-59339-848-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Introduction; Part 1 The big picture; 1 Climate change: a short introduction; 2 What is climate?; 3 A history of weather forecasting; Part 2 The changing world; 4 The changing planet: land; 5 The changing planet: hydrosphere; 6 The changing planet: atmosphere; 7 The decline in biodiversity; Part 3 Ideas, arguments, and progress; 8 Environmentalism: past, present, and future; 9 Key environmental thinkers; 10 Respones to change; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807137103321 |
London, : Robinson | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Britannica guide to modern China [[electronic resource] ] : a comprehensive introduction to the world's new economic giant |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Robinson, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (407 p.) |
Disciplina |
951
951.05 |
Collana | The Britannica Guides |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-82717-7
9786611827175 1-59339-225-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; Introduction; Part 1 Context; Part 2 History; Part 3 The Nation Today; Part 4 Culture; Part 5 Places; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454444703321 |
London, : Robinson, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Britannica guide to modern China : a comprehensive introduction to the world's new economic giant |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Robinson, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 378 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
Disciplina |
951
951.05 |
Collana | The Britannica Guides |
ISBN |
1-281-82717-7
9786611827175 1-59339-225-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; Introduction; Part 1 Context; Part 2 History; Part 3 The Nation Today; Part 4 Culture; Part 5 Places; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782546303321 |
London, : Robinson, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Britannica guide to modern China : a comprehensive introduction to the world's new economic giant |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Robinson, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 378 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
Disciplina |
951
951.05 |
Collana | The Britannica Guides |
ISBN |
1-281-82717-7
9786611827175 1-59339-225-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; Introduction; Part 1 Context; Part 2 History; Part 3 The Nation Today; Part 4 Culture; Part 5 Places; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825271803321 |
London, : Robinson, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Britannica guide to the 100 most influential scientists : the most important scientists from ancient Greece to the present day / / introduction by John Gribbin |
Edizione | [1st edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [London], : Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 333 pages) |
Disciplina |
509.2
509.22 |
Collana | The Britannica Guides |
Soggetto topico |
Science
Scientists Science - History |
ISBN |
1-281-82719-3
9786611827199 1-59339-846-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction; Thales of Miletus; Pythagoras; Hippocrates; Plato; Aristotle; Euclid; Archimedes; Pliny the Elder; Ptolemy; Galen of Pergamum; Al-Khwarizmi; Avicenna; Roger Bacon; Leonardo da Vinci; Nicolaus Copernicus; Paracelsus; Andreas Vesalius; Tycho Brahe; Girodano Bruno; Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban; Galileo Galilei; Johannes Kepler; William Harvey; René Descartes; Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke; John Ray; Sir Isaac Newton; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; Leonhard Euler; Carolus Linnaeus; Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Jean Le Rond d'Alembert; Henry Cavendish
Joseph PriestleyJames Watt; Luigi Galvani and Conte Alessandro Volta; Sir William Herschel and Caroline Herschel; Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier; Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace; Edward Jenner; Georges, Baron Cuvier; Alexander von Humboldt; Sophic Germain; Carl Friedrich Gauss; Sir Humphry Davy; Jöns Jacob Berzelius; John James Audubon; Michael Faraday; Charles Babbage and Ada King, countess of Lovelace; Sir Charles Lyell, Baronet; Louis Agassiz; Charles Darwin; Évariste Galois; Sir Francis Galton; Gregor Mendel; Louis Pasteur; Alfred Russel Wallace; William Thomson, Baron Kelvin James Clerk MaxwellDmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev; Robert Koch; Georg Cantor; Henri Poincaré; Sigmund Freud; Nikola Tesla; Max Planck; William Bateson; Marie Curie and Pierre Curie; Sir Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson; Carl Gustav Jung; Albert Einstein; Alfred Lothar Wegener; Sir Alexander Fleming; Niels Bohr; Erwin Schrödinger; Srinivasa Ramanujan; Edwin Powell Hubble; Enrico Fermi; John von Neumann; George Gamow; J. Robert Oppenheimer; Kurt Gödel; Hans Bethe; Rachel Carson; Alan M. Turing; Norman Ernest Borlaug; Sir Fred Hoyle Francis Harry Compton Crick and James Dewey WatsonRichard P. Feynman; Rosalind Franklin; Jack Kilby; John Forbes Nash Jr; Edward O. Wilson; Jane Goodall; Sir Harold W. Kroto, Richard E. Smalley, and Robert F. Curl Jr; Stephen Jay Gould; Stephen W. Hawking; J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins; Steven Pinker; Sir Tim Berners-Lee; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782546003321 |
[London], : Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Britannica guide to the 100 most influential scientists : the most important scientists from ancient Greece to the present day / / introduction by John Gribbin |
Edizione | [1st edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [London], : Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 333 pages) |
Disciplina |
509.2
509.22 |
Collana | The Britannica Guides |
Soggetto topico |
Science
Scientists Science - History |
ISBN |
1-281-82719-3
9786611827199 1-59339-846-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction; Thales of Miletus; Pythagoras; Hippocrates; Plato; Aristotle; Euclid; Archimedes; Pliny the Elder; Ptolemy; Galen of Pergamum; Al-Khwarizmi; Avicenna; Roger Bacon; Leonardo da Vinci; Nicolaus Copernicus; Paracelsus; Andreas Vesalius; Tycho Brahe; Girodano Bruno; Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban; Galileo Galilei; Johannes Kepler; William Harvey; René Descartes; Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke; John Ray; Sir Isaac Newton; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; Leonhard Euler; Carolus Linnaeus; Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Jean Le Rond d'Alembert; Henry Cavendish
Joseph PriestleyJames Watt; Luigi Galvani and Conte Alessandro Volta; Sir William Herschel and Caroline Herschel; Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier; Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace; Edward Jenner; Georges, Baron Cuvier; Alexander von Humboldt; Sophic Germain; Carl Friedrich Gauss; Sir Humphry Davy; Jöns Jacob Berzelius; John James Audubon; Michael Faraday; Charles Babbage and Ada King, countess of Lovelace; Sir Charles Lyell, Baronet; Louis Agassiz; Charles Darwin; Évariste Galois; Sir Francis Galton; Gregor Mendel; Louis Pasteur; Alfred Russel Wallace; William Thomson, Baron Kelvin James Clerk MaxwellDmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev; Robert Koch; Georg Cantor; Henri Poincaré; Sigmund Freud; Nikola Tesla; Max Planck; William Bateson; Marie Curie and Pierre Curie; Sir Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson; Carl Gustav Jung; Albert Einstein; Alfred Lothar Wegener; Sir Alexander Fleming; Niels Bohr; Erwin Schrödinger; Srinivasa Ramanujan; Edwin Powell Hubble; Enrico Fermi; John von Neumann; George Gamow; J. Robert Oppenheimer; Kurt Gödel; Hans Bethe; Rachel Carson; Alan M. Turing; Norman Ernest Borlaug; Sir Fred Hoyle Francis Harry Compton Crick and James Dewey WatsonRichard P. Feynman; Rosalind Franklin; Jack Kilby; John Forbes Nash Jr; Edward O. Wilson; Jane Goodall; Sir Harold W. Kroto, Richard E. Smalley, and Robert F. Curl Jr; Stephen Jay Gould; Stephen W. Hawking; J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins; Steven Pinker; Sir Tim Berners-Lee; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816460903321 |
[London], : Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Britannica guide to the brain [[electronic resource] ] : a guided tour of the brain - mind, memory, and intelligence / / [introduction by Cordelia Fine] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Robinson |
Descrizione fisica | xviii, 365 p. : ill |
Altri autori (Persone) | FineCordelia |
Collana | Britannica guide series |
Soggetto topico |
Brain
Mind and body |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-82718-5
9786611827182 1-59339-226-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454506503321 |
London, : Robinson | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Britannica guide to the ideas that made the modern world : the people, philosophy and history of the Enlightenment / / [introduction by A.C. Grayling] |
Autore | Grayling A. C. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Robinson, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxix, 369 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 190 |
Collana | The Britannica Guides |
Soggetto topico | Enlightenment |
ISBN |
1-281-82720-7
9786611827205 1-59339-227-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 A History of the Enlightenment; 2 The Scientific Revolution; 3 Man and Evolution; 4 Culture and Education; 5 Economics and Industrial Revolution; 6 The Age of Revolution: Enlightenment Politics; 7 Philosophy, Ethics, and Religion; 8 Key Figures: Thinkers, Writers, and Revolutionaries; 9 Key Texts: Extracts and Further Reading; Further Reading; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782783403321 |
Grayling A. C. | ||
London, : Robinson, 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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