A brief history of thrift / Alison Hulme |
Autore | Hulme Alison |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 140 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 332.024 |
Collana | Manchester scholarship online |
Soggetto topico |
Social history
Consumption (Economics) Thriftiness |
Soggetto non controllato |
abundance
austerity de-growth frugality individualism moralism scarcity simplicity solidarity thrift |
ISBN |
1-5261-2885-3
1-5261-4672-X 1-5261-2884-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Towards a theory of thrift -- Religious thrift : Puritans, Quakers and Methodists -- Individualist thrift : Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and -- Victorian moralism -- Spiritual thrift : simplicity, sensuality and politics in -- Henry Thoreau -- Nationalist thrift : making do, rationing and nostalgic austerity -- Consumer thrift : Keynes, consumer rights and the new -- thrifty consumers -- Ecological thrift : frugality, de- growth and Voluntary Simplicity -- Conclusion : Thoreau in the city. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793633303321 |
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Feature Papers of Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance |
Autore | Loukas Athanasios |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, : MDPI Books, 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (160 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Technology: general issues
History of engineering & technology |
Soggetto non controllato |
water allocation
planning river/reservoir systems water availability modeling global change integrated assessment modelling system dynamics simulation water resources management water supply climate change earth system feedback conflicts environmental flows small-scale hydropower projects institutional change nestedness governance mode legal pluralism mulberry-dyke-fish pond ecosystem spatial evolution analysis remote sensing Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area prolonged drought scarcity indicators transboundary river basins Iberian Peninsula climate crisis water adaptation Greece Koronia lake sustainability Mygdonia Basin |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910595074503321 |
Loukas Athanasios
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The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science / / Lesley A. Sharp |
Autore | Sharp Lesley Alexandra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
Disciplina | 617.954 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnology - United States
Medical anthropology - United States Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Social aspects - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
animals
bioengineering black market current debate debates in science designing implantable mechanical devices determination ethics experimentation fleshy organs from animals for human use health care human body human form human parts human suffering life and death marketing of organs medicine moral thinking morality organ donation organ scarcity organ transplant organ transplantation organs scarcity science surgery surgical theoretical treatment xenotransplantation |
ISBN |
0-520-27796-1
0-520-95715-6 |
Classificazione | SOC002000SOC000000MED022000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Moral Neutrality in Experimental Science -- 1. The Reconfigured Body of the Transplant Imaginary -- 2. Hybrid Bodies and Animal Science: The Promises of Interspecies Proximity -- 3. Artificial Life: Perfecting the Mechanical Heart -- 4. Temporality and Social Desire in Anticipatory Science -- Conclusion: The Moral Parameters of Virtuous Science -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790521103321 |
Sharp Lesley Alexandra
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] | ||
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