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"Subtle is the Lord-- " [[electronic resource] ] : the science and the life of Albert Einstein / / Abraham Pais ; [with a new foreword by Sir Roger Penrose]
| "Subtle is the Lord-- " [[electronic resource] ] : the science and the life of Albert Einstein / / Abraham Pais ; [with a new foreword by Sir Roger Penrose] |
| Autore | Pais Abraham <1918-2000.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | xx, 552 p. : ill |
| Disciplina |
530.092
B |
| Soggetto topico |
Physicists
Physics - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-75319-6
0-19-152402-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453315803321 |
Pais Abraham <1918-2000.>
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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"Subtle is the Lord-- " [[electronic resource] ] : the science and the life of Albert Einstein / / Abraham Pais ; [with a new foreword by Sir Roger Penrose]
| "Subtle is the Lord-- " [[electronic resource] ] : the science and the life of Albert Einstein / / Abraham Pais ; [with a new foreword by Sir Roger Penrose] |
| Autore | Pais Abraham <1918-2000.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | xx, 552 p. : ill |
| Disciplina |
530.092
B |
| Soggetto topico |
Physicists
Physics - History |
| ISBN |
1-383-00286-X
1-280-75319-6 0-19-152402-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782491003321 |
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Pais Abraham <1918-2000.>
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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"Subtle is the Lord-- " : the science and the life of Albert Einstein / / Abraham Pais ; [with a new foreword by Sir Roger Penrose]
| "Subtle is the Lord-- " : the science and the life of Albert Einstein / / Abraham Pais ; [with a new foreword by Sir Roger Penrose] |
| Autore | Pais Abraham <1918-2000.> |
| Edizione | [New [edition].] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | xx, 552 p. : ill |
| Disciplina |
530.092
B |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Physicists
Physics - History |
| ISBN |
1-383-00286-X
1-280-75319-6 0-19-152402-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- I: INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Purpose and plan -- 2. Relativity theory and quantum theory -- (a) Orderly transitions and revolutionary periods -- (b) A time capsule -- 3. Portrait of the physicist as a young man -- An addendum on Einstein biographies -- II: STATISTICAL PHYSICS -- 4. Entropy and probability -- (a) Einstein's contributions at a glance -- (b) Maxwell and Boltzmann -- (c) Preludes to 1905 -- (d) Einstein and Boltzmann's principle -- 5. The reality of molecules -- (a) About the nineteenth century, briefly -- (b) The pots of Pfeffer and the laws of van't Hoff -- (c) The doctoral thesis -- (d) Eleven days later: Brownian motion -- (e) Einstein and Smoluchowski -- critical opalescence -- III: RELATIVITY, THE SPECIAL THEORY -- 6. 'Subtle is the Lord ...' -- (a) The Michelson-Morley experiment -- (b) The precursors -- (c) Poincaré in 1905 -- (d) Einstein before 1905 -- 7. The new kinematics -- (a) June 1905: special relativity defined, Lorentz transformations derived -- (b) September 1905 -- about E = mc[sup(2)] -- (c) Early responses -- (d) Einstein and the special theory after 1905 -- (e) Electromagnetic mass: the first century -- 8. The edge of history -- IV: RELATIVITY, THE GENERAL THEORY -- 9. 'The happiest thought of my life' -- 10. Herr Professor Einstein -- (a) From Bern to Zurich -- (b) Three and a half years of silence -- 11. The Prague papers -- (a) From Zurich to Prague -- (b) 1911. The bending of light is detectable -- (c) 1912. Einstein in no man's land -- 12. The Einstein-Grossmann collaboration -- (a) From Prague to Zürich -- (b) From scalar to tensor -- (c) The collaboration -- (d) The stumbling block -- (e) The aftermath -- 13. Field theories of gravitation: the first fifty years -- (a) Einstein in Vienna -- (b) The Einstein-Fokker paper -- 14. The field equations of gravitation -- (a) From Zürich to Berlin.
(b) Interlude. Rotation by magnetization -- (c) The final steps -- (d). Einstein and Hilbert -- 15. The new dynamics -- (a) From 1915 to 1980 -- (b) The three successes -- (c) Energy and momentum conservation -- the Bianchi identities -- (d) Gravitational waves -- (e) Cosmology -- (f) Singularities -- the problem of motion -- (g) What else was new at GR9? -- V: THE LATER JOURNEY -- 16. 'The suddenly famous Doctor Einstein' -- (a) Illness. Remarriage. Death of Mother -- (b) Einstein canonized -- (c) The birth of the legend -- (d) Einstein and Germany -- (e) The later writings -- 17. Unified Field Theory -- (a) Particles and fields around 1920 -- (b) Another decade of gestation -- (c) The fifth dimension -- (d) Relativity and post-Riemannian differential geometry -- (e) The later journey: a scientific chronology -- (f) A postcript to unification, a prelude to quantum theory -- VI: THE QUANTUM THEORY -- 18. Preliminaries -- (a) An outline of Einstein's contributions -- (b) Particle physics: the first fifty years -- (c) The quantum theory: lines of influence -- 19. The light quantum -- (a) From Kirchhoff to Plank -- (b) Einstein on Planck: 1905. The Rayleigh-Einstein-Jeans law -- (c) The light-quantum hypothesis and the heuristic principle -- (d) Einstein on Planck: 1906 -- (e) The photo-electric effect: the second coming of h -- (f) Reactions to the light-quantum hypothesis -- 20. Einstein and specific heats -- (a) Specific heats in the nineteenth century -- (b) Einstein -- (c) Nernsf: Solvay I -- 21. The photon -- (a) The fusion of particles and waves and Einstein's destiny -- (b) Spontaneous and induced radiative transitions -- (c) The completion of the particle picture -- (d) Earliest Unbehagen about chance -- (e) An aside: quantum conditions for non-separable classical motion -- (f) The Compton effect -- 22. Interlude: The BKS proposal. 23. A loss of identity: the birth of quantum statistics -- (a) From Boltzmann to Dirac -- (b) Bose -- (c) Einstein -- (d) Postscript on Bose-Einstein condensation -- 24. Einstein as a transitional figure: the birth of wave mechanics -- (a) From Einstein to de Broglie -- (b) From de Broglie to Einstein -- (c) From de Broglie and Einstein to Schroedinger -- 25. Einstein's response to the new dynamics -- (a) 1925-1931. The debate begins -- (b) Einstein in Princeton -- (c) Einstein on objective reality -- 26. Einstein's vision -- (a) Einstein, Newton and success -- (b) Relativity theory and quantum theory -- (c) 'Überkausalität' -- VII: JOURNEY'S END -- 27. The final decade -- 28. Epilogue -- VIII: APPENDICES -- 29. Of tensors and a hearing aid and many other things: Einstein's collaborators -- 30. How Einstein got the Nobel prize -- 31. Einstein's proposals for the Nobel prize -- 32. An Einstein chronology -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815918803321 |
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Pais Abraham <1918-2000.>
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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"There are no slaves in France" [[electronic resource] ] : the political culture of race and slavery in the Ancien Regime / / Sue Peabody
| "There are no slaves in France" [[electronic resource] ] : the political culture of race and slavery in the Ancien Regime / / Sue Peabody |
| Autore | Peabody Sue |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.896/044/09033 |
| Soggetto topico |
Racism - France - History - 18th century
Black people - Legal status, laws, etc - France - History - 18th century Political culture - France - History - 18th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-19-515866-0
1-280-55876-8 0-585-32788-2 0-19-535629-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction; 1. Slavery in France: The Problem and Early Responses; The French Courts and the Edict of 1716; Conclusion; 2. The Case of Jean Boucaux v. Verdelin: Fashioning the National Myth of Liberty; Jean Boucaux v. Bernard Verdelin; The Declaration of 1738; Conclusion; 3. The Impact of the Declaration of 1738: Nantes, La Rochelle, and Paris; The Case of Catherine Morgan; La Rochelle and Paris; Conclusion; 4. Notions of Race in the Eighteenth Century; Francisque of Pondicherry; Nègre: An Ambiguous Term; Francisque's Lawyers' Racial Argument; Conclusion
5. Crisis: Blacks in the Capital, 1762 The Admiralty Ordinance of April 5, 1762; The Registers of 1762; Follow-up to the Ordinance of 1762; Conclusion; 6. Antislavery and Antidespotism: 1760-1771; Lawsuits before the Admiralty Court of France; Secular Critiques of Despotic Monarchy; Roc v. Poupet, 1770; Lawyers and Their Motives; Conclusion; 7. The Police des Noirs, 1776-1777; Pampy and Julienne v. Mendès France; The Drafting of the Police des Noirs; Conclusion; 8. Erosion of the Police des Noirs; Implementation and Resistance; Identification Cards and Interracial Marriages Resumption of Petitions for Freedom Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465730303321 |
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Peabody Sue
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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"There are no slaves in France" : the political culture of race and slavery in the Ancien Regime / / Sue Peabody
| "There are no slaves in France" : the political culture of race and slavery in the Ancien Regime / / Sue Peabody |
| Autore | Peabody Sue <1960-.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 305.896/044/09033 |
| Soggetto topico |
Racism - France - History - 18th century
Black people - Legal status, laws, etc - France - History - 18th century Political culture - France - History - 18th century |
| ISBN |
0-19-535629-2
1-280-55876-8 0-585-32788-2 0-19-515866-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction; 1. Slavery in France: The Problem and Early Responses; 2. The Case of Jean Boucaux v. Verdelin: Fashioning the National Myth of Liberty; 3. The Impact of the Declaration of 1738: Nantes, La Rochelle, and Paris; 4. Notions of Race in the Eighteenth Century; 5. Crisis: Blacks in the Capital, 1762; 6. Antislavery and Antidespotism: 1760-1771; 7. The Police des Noirs, 1776-1777; 8. Erosion of the Police des Noirs; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795999103321 |
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Peabody Sue <1960-.>
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| New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1996 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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"There are no slaves in France" : the political culture of race and slavery in the Ancien Regime / / Sue Peabody
| "There are no slaves in France" : the political culture of race and slavery in the Ancien Regime / / Sue Peabody |
| Autore | Peabody Sue <1960-.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 305.896/044/09033 |
| Soggetto topico |
Racism - France - History - 18th century
Black people - Legal status, laws, etc - France - History - 18th century Political culture - France - History - 18th century |
| ISBN |
0-19-535629-2
1-280-55876-8 0-585-32788-2 0-19-515866-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction; 1. Slavery in France: The Problem and Early Responses; 2. The Case of Jean Boucaux v. Verdelin: Fashioning the National Myth of Liberty; 3. The Impact of the Declaration of 1738: Nantes, La Rochelle, and Paris; 4. Notions of Race in the Eighteenth Century; 5. Crisis: Blacks in the Capital, 1762; 6. Antislavery and Antidespotism: 1760-1771; 7. The Police des Noirs, 1776-1777; 8. Erosion of the Police des Noirs; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818866103321 |
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Peabody Sue <1960-.>
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| New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1996 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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"We have no king but Christ" : Christian Political Thought in Greater Syria on the Eve of the Arab Conquest (c. 400-585) / / Philip Wood
| "We have no king but Christ" : Christian Political Thought in Greater Syria on the Eve of the Arab Conquest (c. 400-585) / / Philip Wood |
| Autore | Wood Philip |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 295 p.) |
| Disciplina | 261.7095690201 |
| Collana | Oxford studies in Byzantium 'We have no king but Christ' |
| Soggetto topico |
Christianity and politics - History - To 1500 - Middle East
Religion Philosophy & Religion Christianity |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Classification in a Christian empire -- Controlling the barbarians. The first Syrian Hagiographic collection -- Theories of nations and the world of late antiquity -- Edessa and beyond. The reception of the Doctrina Addai in the fifth and sixth centuries -- The Julian romance -- Crating boundaries in the Miaphysite movement -- A Miaphysite commonwealth. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996213128403316 |
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Wood Philip
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| Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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'Hauhau' : the Pai Marire search for Maori identity / / Paul Clark
| 'Hauhau' : the Pai Marire search for Maori identity / / Paul Clark |
| Autore | Clark Paul |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Aukland : , : Auckland University Press : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Disciplina | 993.102/2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Maori (New Zealand people)
Nativistic movements - New Zealand |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-77558-563-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Copyright ; Contents; Preface; 1. The Years of the Prophet; 2. The Gospel and the Tribes; 3. The Politics of Pai Marire; 4. The Theology of Pai Marire; 5. Pai Marire: End or Beginning; Appendix 1. Ua Rongopai (Gospel of Te Ua); Appendix 2. Lament for King Tawhiao; Abbreviations; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910479918403321 |
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Clark Paul
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| Aukland : , : Auckland University Press : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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'Hauhau' : the Pai Marire search for Maori identity / / Paul Clark
| 'Hauhau' : the Pai Marire search for Maori identity / / Paul Clark |
| Autore | Clark Paul |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Aukland : , : Auckland University Press : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Disciplina | 993.102/2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Māori (New Zealand people)
Nativistic movements - New Zealand |
| ISBN | 1-77558-563-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Copyright ; Contents; Preface; 1. The Years of the Prophet; 2. The Gospel and the Tribes; 3. The Politics of Pai Marire; 4. The Theology of Pai Marire; 5. Pai Marire: End or Beginning; Appendix 1. Ua Rongopai (Gospel of Te Ua); Appendix 2. Lament for King Tawhiao; Abbreviations; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787762503321 |
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Clark Paul
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| Aukland : , : Auckland University Press : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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'Hauhau' : the Pai Marire search for Maori identity / / Paul Clark
| 'Hauhau' : the Pai Marire search for Maori identity / / Paul Clark |
| Autore | Clark Paul |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Aukland : , : Auckland University Press : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Disciplina | 993.102/2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Māori (New Zealand people)
Nativistic movements - New Zealand |
| ISBN | 1-77558-563-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Copyright ; Contents; Preface; 1. The Years of the Prophet; 2. The Gospel and the Tribes; 3. The Politics of Pai Marire; 4. The Theology of Pai Marire; 5. Pai Marire: End or Beginning; Appendix 1. Ua Rongopai (Gospel of Te Ua); Appendix 2. Lament for King Tawhiao; Abbreviations; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819784203321 |
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Clark Paul
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| Aukland : , : Auckland University Press : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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