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Croissance verte --- Development [Sustainable ] --- Duurzame ontwikkeling --- Développement durable --- Développement soutenable --- Développement viable --- Développement éco-responsable --- Développement économique durable --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development [Sustainable ] --- Economic sustainability --- Industrialisation --- Industrialisering --- Industrialization --- Ontwikkeling [Duurzame ] --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Écodéveloppement --- Économie durable --- Économie soutenable --- Économie verte

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This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: 'After the Norman Conquest'; 'Writing in the British Isles'; 'Institutional Productions'; 'After the Black Death' and 'Before the Reformation'. It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers an extensive and vibrant account of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.

English literature --- Littérature anglaise --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Bibliography --- History and criticism --- Civilisation médiévale --- Dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Bibliography --- English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism --- Great Britain - Intellectual life - 1066-1485 --- Great Britain - Intellectual life - 16th century --- Civilisation médiévale --- Dans la littérature.

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Philosophy of physics is concerned with the deepest theories of modern physics - notably quantum theory, our theories of space, time and symmetry, and thermal physics - and their strange, even bizarre conceptual implications. A deeper understanding of these theories helps both physics, through pointing the way to new theories and new applications, and philosophy, through seeing how our worldview has to change in the light of what we learn from physics. This Very Short Introduction explores the core topics in philosophy of physics through three key themes. The first - the nature of space, time, and motion - begins by considering the philosophical puzzles that led Isaac Newton to propose the existence of absolute space, and then discusses how those puzzles change - but do not disappear - in the context of the revolutions in our understanding of space and time that came first from special, and then from general, relativity. The second - the emergence of irreversible behavior in statistical mechanics - considers how the microscopic laws of physics, which know of no distinction between past and future, can be compatible with the melting of ice, the cooling of coffee, the passing of youth, and all the other ways in which the large-scale world distinguishes past from future. The last section discusses quantum theory - the foundation of most of modern physics, yet mysterious to this day. It explains just why quantum theory is so difficult to make sense of, how we might nonetheless attempt to do it, and why the question has been highly relevant to the development of physics, and continues to be so.

Physics --- Physique --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie.

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Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and performers, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find him so inspiring? In part this is down to the absolutely ground-breaking character of Chaucer's work. Not for nothing was he known as the Father of English Literature; his works were not just literary adventures, but also the first ever attempt to convince the world that poetry, science, tragedy, and astrology could all be explored through English, at a time when English writing commanded no prestige at a European level. Born in noisy dockside London, and then later a royal esquire, Chaucer was recognized by Westminster as a wily civil servant, a customs officer, but not as a poet. Only much later did his Westminister Abbey burial place became Poets' Corner, a national shrine. From Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, writers have revelled in Chaucer's unique expressive range: high tragedy and barnyard farce; religious allegory and sex up a pear tree; farts and the music of the heavenly spheres. Today new performers are imagining new Chaucers across the world. -- from dust jacket.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Criticism and interpretation.