Author: Laurel Kearns File Type: pdf We hope-- even as we often doubt-- that the environmental crisis can be controlled. Public awareness of our species self-destructive relation to its own materiality is growing. But so is the destruction. The needed practical interventions seem to require a collective shift of such magnitude as to take on spiritual or religious intensity. Traditions of ecological theology and eco-religious praxis have been preparing the way for several decades, yet they have remained marginal to society, academy, and church. With a fresh, transdisciplinary approach, Ecospirit probes the possibility of a green shift radical enough to permeate the ancient roots of our sensibility and the social sources of our practice. Its authors undertake an elemental deconstruction of our theological habits of supernaturalism, our under-thought praxis, as well as our philosophical models of nature. But in this study deconstruction begins to turn upon itself, perplexed by its own earth-blind anthropocentrisms. The possibility of econstruction arises.The essays of Ecospirit transmute a paralyzing sense of emergency into the emergence of a moving language of the earth. Grounded in the complex ecosocial contexts in which all creatures become, a discourse for a genesis collective begins to take form. The essays pursue a thought-experiment in multi-leveled, multi-religious, multi-contextual ecospirituality. They embrace introductory exercises in ecotheology, conceptually rigorous engagements with the theological tradition and its philosophical underpinnings, and explorations of the ways that religious praxis can both harm and heal. The book ranges across theology, religious studies, philosophy, literary criticism, ethics, sociology, and cultural studies--all serving to explore We hope-even as we doubt-that the environmental crisis can be controlled. Public awareness of our species self-destructiveness as material beings in a material world is growing-but so is the destructiveness. The practical interventions needed for saving and restoring the earth will require a collective shift of such magnitude as to take on a spiritual and religious intensity.This transformation has in part already begun. Traditions of ecological theology and ecologically aware religious practice have been preparing the way for decades. Yet these traditions still remain marginal to society, academy, and church. With a fresh, transdisciplinary approach, Ecospirit probes the possibility of a green shift radical enough to permeate the ancient roots of our sensibility and the social sources of our practice. From new language for imagining the earth as a living ground to current constructions of nature in theology, science, and philosophy from environmentalisms questioning of postmodern thought to a garden of green doctrines, rituals, and liturgies for contemporary religion, these original essays explore and expand our sense of how to proceed in the face of an ecological crisis that demands new thinking and acting. In the midst of planetary crisis, they activateimagination, humor, ritual, and hope.**

Author: Paul Lucier File Type: pdf In this impressively researched and highly original work, Paul Lucier explains how science became an integral part of American technology and industry in the nineteenth century. Scientists and Swindlers introduces us to a new service of professionals the consulting scientists. Lucier follows these entrepreneurial men of science on their wide-ranging commercial engagements from the shores of Nova Scotia to the coast of California and shows how their innovative work fueled the rapid growth of the American coal and oil industries and the rise of American geology and chemistry. Along the way, he explores the decisive battles over expertise and authority, the high-stakes court cases over patenting research, the intriguing and often humorous exploits of swindlers, and the profound ethical challenges of doing science for money. Starting with the small surveying businesses of the 1830s and reaching to the origins of applied science in the 1880s, Lucier recounts the complex and curious relations that evolved as geologists, chemists, capitalists, and politicians worked to establish scientific research as a legitimate, regularly compensated, and respected enterprise. This sweeping narrative enriches our understanding of how the rocks beneath our feet became invaluable resources for science, technology, and industry. **

Author: Rae Earnshaw File Type: pdf Part 1 --The Organization and Delivery of Digital Information1 From Boutique to Mass Digitization the Google LibraryProject at Oxford --Ronald Milne2 Digital Services in Academic Libraries the Internet is SettingBenchmarks --Norbert Lossau3 The Early Years of the United Kingdom Joint AcademicNetwork (JANET) --Mike WellsPart 2 --The World Library Collaboration and Sharing ofInformation4 World-Class Universities Need World-Class Libraries andInformation Resources But How Can they be Provided? --Sir Brian K. Follett5 The International Dimensions of Digital Science andScholarship Aspirations of the British Library in Serving theInternational Scientific and Scholarly Communities --Lynne Brindley6 CURL Research Libraries in the British Isles --Peter FoxPart 3 --Cultural and Strategic Implications of Digital Convergencefor Libraries7 For Better or Worse Change and Development in AcademicLibraries, 19702006 --Bill Simpson8 Combining the Best of Both Worlds the Hybrid Library --David Baker9 Beyond the Hybrid Library Libraries in a Web 2.0 World --Derek Law10 Libraries and Open Access the Implications of Open-AccessPublishing and Dissemination for Libraries in HigherEducation Institutions --Stephen PinfieldPart 4 --Shaking the Foundations Librarianship in Transition11 Scholarship and Libraries Collectors and Collections --Fred Ratcliffe12 When is a Librarian not a Librarian? --Frederick FriendPart 5 --New Dimensions of Information Provision Restructuring,Innovation, and Integration13 From Integration to Web Archiving --John Tuck14 Not Just a Box of Books From Repository to ServiceInnovator --Sarah E. Thomas and Carl A. Kroch15 Learning Enhancement through Strategic Project Partnership --Mary Heaney16 Libraries for the 21st Century --Les WatsonPart 6 --Preserving the Content The Physical and the Digital17 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Poor Players on theDigital Curation Stage --Chris Rusbridge18 Some Key Issues in Digital Preservation --Marilyn Deegan and Simon TannerPart 7 --From Information to Knowledge the HumanComputerInterface19 From the Information Age to the Intelligence Age ExploitingIT and Convergence --Rae Earnshaw and John Vince20 Cognitive Implications of Information Spaces Human Issuesin the Design and Use of Electronic Library Interfaces --Sherry Chen, Jane Coughlan, Steve Love, Robert D. Macredieand Frankie Wilson21 Mobile Media From Content to User --Antonietta Iacono and Gareth FrithPart 8 --Historic Collections and Case Studies22 Special Collections Librarianship --Richard Ovenden23 Defending Research and Scholarship United KingdomLibraries and the Terrorism Bill 2005 --Clive D. Field24 Politics, Profits and Idealism John Norton, the StationersCompany and Sir Thomas Bodley --John Barnard25 William Drummond of Hawthornden Book Collector andBenefactor of Edinburgh University Library --John Hall26 de Gaulle and the British --David DilksPart 9 --High Level Applications of Content and its Governance27 Great Libraries in the Service of Science --Alan Eyre28 Governance at Harvard University Library --Dudley Fishburn29 Higher Education Libraries and the Quality Agenda --John Horton

Author: Dror Zeʼevi File Type: pdf This highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source materialmedical texts, legal documents, religious literature, dream interpretation manuals, shadow theater, and traveloguesin a nuanced, wide-ranging, and powerfully analytic exploration of Ottoman sexual thought and practices from the heyday of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Following on the work of Foucault, Gagnon, Laqueur, and others, the premise of the book is that people shape their ideas of what is permissible, define boundaries of right and wrong, and imagine their sexual worlds through the set of discourses available to them. Dror Zeevi finds that while some of these discourses were restrictive and others more permissive, all treated sex in its many manifestations as a natural human pursuit. And, he further argues that all these discourses were transformed and finally silenced in the last century, leaving very little to inform Middle Eastern societies in sexual matters. With its innovative approach toward the history of sexuality in the Middle East, Producing Desire sheds new light on the history of the Ottoman Empire, on the history of sexuality and gender, and on the Islamic Middle East today. **Review Producing Desire is a major, highly original, and often surprising presentation of sexual attitudes and practices in the Ottoman Middle East. The author uses a wide variety of contemporary sources to shed new light and draw original conclusions regarding changing attitudes toward sexuality in the Ottoman Empire before and after western influences. These influences are shown to have inhibited forms of male sexual expression that had occurred more freely in an earlier period. I recommend it enthusiastically for students, faculty, and the general public. - Nikki R. Keddie, author of Modern Iran Roots and Results of Revolution Using the concept of multiple scripts, Dror Zeevi brings together into a powerfully analytical focus several sexual discourses to give us a historically grounded and nuanced story about Ottoman sexual thought and practices. No other work brings these scripts together the way Zeevi has attempted and successfully accomplished. - Afsaneh Najmabadi, author of Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity From the Inside Flap Producing Desire is a major, highly original, and often surprising presentation of sexual attitudes and practices in the Ottoman Middle East. The author uses a wide variety of contemporary sources to shed new light and draw original conclusions regarding changing attitudes toward sexuality in the Ottoman Empire before and after western influences. These influences are shown to have inhibited forms of male sexual expression that had occurred more freely in an earlier period. I recommend it enthusiastically for students, faculty, and the general public.Nikki R. Keddie, author of Modern Iran Roots and Results of Revolution Using the concept of multiple scripts, Dror Zeevi brings together into a powerfully analytical focus several sexual discourses to give us a historically grounded and nuanced story about Ottoman sexual thought and practices. No other work brings these scripts together the way Zeevi has attempted and successfully accomplished.Afsaneh Najmabadi, author of Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity As a broad treatment of questions of sexuality over four centuries, Producing Desire not only takes up a topic that no one else has treated systematically, but also aims ambitiously to talk about change over time, and in particular to describe the ambiguous and uneasy outlook of the nineteenth century, when various discourses about sex were challenged.Leslie Peirce, author of Morality Tales Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab