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A critically acclaimed and accessible biography of one of the towering figures of New England's colonial period; winner of The Conference on Christianity and Literature's Book Award.
Puritans --- Biography. --- Mather, Increase, --- Mather, I. --- Massachusetts --- History --- Mather, Increase --- Biography --- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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"With masterful storytelling, Bergland and Hayes demonstrate how Lapham blended his ravenous curiosity with an equable temperament and a passion for detail to create a legacy that is still relevant today. -John Gurda In this long overdue tribute to Wisconsin's first scientist, authors Martha Bergland and Paul G. Hayes explore the remarkable life and achievements of Increase Lapham (1811-1875). Lapham's ability to observe, understand, and meticulously catalog the natural world marked all of his work, from his days as a teenage surveyor on the Erie Canal to his last great contribution as state geologist. Self-taught, Lapham mastered botany, geology, archaeology, limnology, mineralogy, engineering, meteorology, and cartography. A prolific writer, his 1844 guide to the territory was the first book published in Wisconsin. Asked late in life which field of science was his specialty, he replied simply, "I am studying Wisconsin." Lapham identified and preserved thousands of botanical specimens. He surveyed and mapped Wisconsin's effigy mounds. He was a force behind the creation of the National Weather Service, lobbying for a storm warning system to protect Great Lakes sailors. Told in compelling detail through Lapham's letters, journals, books, and articles, Studying Wisconsin chronicles the life and times of Wisconsin's pioneer citizen-scientist"--
Natural history --- Botanists --- Naturalists --- Historians, Natural --- Natural historians --- Scientists --- Plant biologists --- Plant scientists --- Biologists --- Plant specialists --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Lapham, Increase Allen, --- Lapham, Increase A. --- Lapham, I. A. --- Phytologists
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This book is about the invisible or subtle nature of food and farming, and also about the nature of existence. Everything that we know (and do not know) about the physical world has a subtle counterpart which has been scarcely considered in modernist farming practice and research. If you think this book isn't for you, if it appears more important to attend to the pressing physical challenges the world is facing before having the luxury of turning to such subtleties, then think again. For it could be precisely this worldview - the one prioritises the physical-material dimension of reality - that helped get us into this situation in the first place. Perhaps we need a different worldview to get us out? This book makes a foundational contribution to the discipline of Subtle Agroecologies, a nexus of indigenous epistemologies, multidisciplinary advances in wave-based and ethereal studies, and the science of sustainable agriculture. Not a farming system in itself, Subtle Agroecologies superimposes a non-material dimension upon existing, materially-based agroecological farming systems. Bringing together 43 authors from 12 countries and five continents, from the natural and social sciences as well as the arts and humanities, this multi-contributed book introduces the discipline, explaining its relevance and potential contribution to the field of Agroecology. Research into Subtle Agroecologies may be described as the systematic study of the nature of the invisible world as it relates to the practice of agriculture, and to do this through adapting and innovating with research methods, in particular with those of a more embodied nature, with the overall purpose of bringing and maintaining balance and harmony. Such research is an open-minded inquiry, its grounding being the lived experiences of humans working on, and with, the land over several thousand years to the present. By reclaiming and reinterpreting the perennial relationship between humans and nature, the implications would revolutionise agriculture, heralding a new wave of more sustainable farming techniques, changing our whole relationship with nature to one of real collaboration rather than control, and ultimately transforming ourselves.
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This study approaches the thought of three colonial New England divines - Increase Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and Edward Taylor - from the perspective of literary criticism.
American literature --- Christian literature, American --- Puritan movements in literature. --- Redemption in literature. --- Puritans in literature. --- American Christian literature --- History and criticism. --- Puritan authors --- Edwards, Jonathan, --- Taylor, Edward, --- Mather, Increase, --- Mather, I. --- أدوردس، يوناثان --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literary art. --- Puritan movements in literature --- Puritans in literature --- Redemption in literature --- 235.1 --- History and criticism --- Puritan authors&delete& --- Goede engelen --- 235.1 Goede engelen --- Mathers, Increase
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Metabolic engineering is a new field with applications in the production of chemicals, fuels, materials, pharmaceuticals, and medicine at the genetic level. The field's novelty is in the synthesis of molecular biology techniques and the tools of mathematical analysis, which allow rational selection of targets for genetic modification through measurements and control of metabolic fluxes. The objective is to identify specific genetics or environmental manipulations that result in improvements in yield and productivities of biotechnological processes.Key features of the book are pathway integ
Thermodynamics --- General microbiology --- General biochemistry --- Molecular biology --- Biochemical engineering --- Biotechnology --- biochemistry --- isotopes --- bioengineering --- isotopen --- biochemie --- biotechnologie --- aminozuren --- Metabolism --- genetic engineering --- Production increase --- Mathematical models --- Biochemical engineering. --- Metabolism. --- Biochemistry. --- Basic Sciences. Chemistry --- Anabolism --- Catabolism --- Metabolism, Primary --- Primary metabolism --- Biochemistry --- Physiology --- Bio-process engineering --- Bioprocess engineering --- Chemical engineering
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The key to the impact of international election support is credibility; credible elections are less likely to turn violent. So argues Inken von Borzyskowski in The Credibility Challenge, in which she provides an explanation of why and when election support can increase or reduce violence. Von Borzyskowski answers four major questions: Under what circumstances can election support influence election violence? How can election support shape the incentives of domestic actors to engage in or abstain from violence? Does support help reduce violence or increase it? And, which type of support-observation or technical assistance-is better in each instance? The Credibility Challenge pulls broad quantitative evidence and qualitative observations from Guyana, Liberia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Bangladesh to respond to these questions. Von Borzyskowski finds that international democracy aid matters for election credibility and violence; outside observers can exacerbate postelection violence if they cast doubt on election credibility; and technical assistance helps build electoral institutions, improves election credibility, and reduces violence. Her results advance research and policy on peacebuilding and democracy promotion in new and surprising ways.
Social problems --- Political sociology --- Political systems --- Democratization --- Election monitoring --- Political violence --- Elections --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- Polls --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Plebiscite --- Political campaigns --- Representative government and representation --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Election observation --- Monitoring, Election --- Poll watching --- Developing countries --- Politics and government. --- increase or reduce violence. --- international democracy aid. --- international election support. --- peacebuilding and deomcracy promotion.
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Many consider empathy to be the basis of moral action. However, the ability to empathize with others is also a prerequisite for deliberate acts of humiliation and cruelty. In The Dark Sides of Empathy, Fritz Breithaupt contends that people often commit atrocities not out of a failure of empathy but rather as a direct consequence of over-identification and a desire to increase empathy. Even well-meaning compassion can have many unintended consequences, such as intensifying conflicts or exploiting others. Empathy plays a central part in a variety of highly problematic behaviors. From mere callousness to terrorism, exploitation to sadism, and emotional vampirism to stalking, empathy all too often motivates and promotes malicious acts. After tracing the development of empathy as an idea in German philosophy, Breithaupt looks at a wide-ranging series of case studies-from Stockholm syndrome to Angela Merkel's refugee policy and from novels of the romantic era to helicopter parents and murderous cheerleader moms-to uncover how narcissism, sadism, and dangerous celebrity obsessions alike find their roots in the quality that, arguably, most makes us human.
Interpersonal relations. --- Social interaction. --- Empathy. --- Human relations --- Interpersonal relationships --- Personal relations --- Relations, Interpersonal --- Relationships, Interpersonal --- Social behavior --- Social psychology --- Object relations (Psychoanalysis) --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Caring --- Emotions --- Sympathy --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions. --- PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology. --- German philosophy. --- conflict. --- desire to increase empathy. --- development of empathy. --- exploitation.
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In this classic work of American religious history, Robert Middlekauff traces the evolution of Puritan thought and theology in America from its origins in New England through the early eighteenth century. He focuses on three generations of intellectual ministers-Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather-in order to challenge the traditional telling of the secularization of Puritanism, a story of faith transformed by reason, science, and business. Delving into the Mathers' private papers and unpublished writings as well as their sermons and published works, Middlekauff describes a Puritan theory of religious experience that is more creative, complex, and uncompromising than traditional accounts have allowed. At the same time, he portrays changing ideas and patterns of behavior that reveal much about the first hundred years of American life.
Puritans --- Biography. --- Mather, Cotton, --- Mather, Increase, --- Mather, Richard, --- Philopolites, --- C. M. --- M., C. --- Another hand, --- English minister, --- American, --- Mather, C. --- Philalethes, --- Mather, I. --- Macher, Richard, --- Lover of truth, --- Massachusetts --- Massachusetts-Bay (State) --- Massachusetts Bay (Province) --- Province of Massachusetts Bay --- Commonwealth of Massachusetts --- Massaçusets --- Штат Масачусетс --- Shtat Masachusets --- Масачусетс --- Masachusets --- Масачузетс --- Masachuzets --- Cymanwlad Massachusetts --- Méésíchóoshish Hahoodzo --- Massachusettsi osariik --- Μασαχουσετη --- Masachousetē --- Κοινοπολιτεια της Μασαχουσετης --- Koinopoliteia tēs Masachousetēs --- Mancomunidad de Massachusetts --- Masaĉuseco --- Mà-sat-tsû-set --- Makakukeka --- Persemakmuran Massachusetts --- Maasaasuusiits --- מסצ'וסטס --- Masatsʼuseṭs --- קהיליית מסצ'וסטס --- Ḳehiliyat Masatsʼuseṭs --- Masachosèt --- Massachusetta --- Massachuseta --- Massaciusseta --- Respublica Massachusettensis --- Respublica Massachusettensium --- Masačūsetsa --- Masačusetsas --- Masačusets --- Массачусеттс --- Massachusettsiĭn Khamtyn Nȯkhȯrlȯl --- Tlahtohcāyōtl Massachusetts --- マサチューセッツ州 --- Masachūsettsu-shū --- Masachūsettsushū --- Массачусетс --- Massachusets --- Комонвелт Масачусетса --- Komonvelt Masačusetsa --- Komonwelt ng Masatsusets --- Estado ng Masatsusets --- Massachusetts Eyaleti --- Співдружність Массачусетса --- Spivdruz︠h︡nistʹ Massachusetsa --- Khối thịnh vượng chung Massachusetts --- מאסאטשוסעטס --- Masaṭshuseṭs --- קאמאנוועלט פון מאַסאַטשוסעסט --- Ḳomonṿelṭ fun Masaṭshuseṭs --- Masačusetsos --- US-MA --- MA (State) --- MS (State : Massachusetts) --- Mass. (State) --- Maine --- Territory and Dominion of New-England --- Intellectual life --- Puritains --- Biographies --- Religion --- Vie intellectuelle --- Mather, Richard, -- 1596-1669.. --- Mather, Increase, -- 1639-1723.. --- Mather, Cotton, -- 1663-1728.. --- Puritans -- Massachusetts -- Biography.. --- Massachusetts -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.. --- Massachusetts -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. --- 18th century. --- american history. --- baptism. --- biography. --- boston. --- christian history. --- christian. --- church doctrine. --- church history. --- colonial america. --- colonies. --- cotton mather. --- early american history. --- faith. --- history. --- increase mather. --- massachusetts. --- new england. --- nonfiction. --- preacher. --- puritans. --- reason. --- religion. --- religious experience. --- religious history. --- richard mather. --- science. --- sermons. --- spirituality. --- theology. --- witch trials.
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Introduire et faire adopter des nouveautés est une préoccupation permanente des organismes de recherche et de développement agricole dans les pays du Sud. Pour exprimer cet objectif, le terme d’innovation s’est tardivement substitué à celui de vulgarisation et, dès lors, son usage s’est généralisé dans la recherche ruraliste francophone. Simple question de vocabulaire, ou conception vraiment nouvelle du développement ? Cet ouvrage restitue les réflexions d’un groupe de chercheurs en agronomie et en sciences humaines qui confrontent leurs analyses des dynamiques agraires au paradigme de l’innovation. Les auteurs posent ce concept comme une « entrée » pour mieux comprendre les transformations des agricultures et des sociétés rurales. Le recours à la notion d’innovation permet de préciser des hypothèses dans le domaine des dynamiques agraires. Inversement, ce champ de recherches participe à une clarification du concept d’innovation. Dès lors, des échanges deviennent possibles entre spécialistes de l’innovation et spécialistes des études agraires dans les pays en voie de développement, par exemple autour du constat du caractère “ procédural ” de la mise en oeuvre des innovations par les différents acteurs concernés. Les auteurs soulignent l’importance d’une démarche historique et qualitative dans l’analyse des dynamiques agraires, de façon à dépasser une interprétation linéaire et déterministe du changement. Les réflexions théoriques s’appuient sur des études de cas qui concernent des domaines ruraux divers et qui relèvent de contextes géographiques variés. The introduction and adoption of new ideas is a permanent concern for the research and agricultural development institutes in Southern countries. For this, the term 'innovation' has recently replaced 'extension' and its use has become widespread in francophone rural research. Is this a mere question of vocabulary or a truly new development concept? The reflections of a group of researchers in agronomy,…
fallow --- Soil biology --- ecological succession --- Grazing --- pasture improvement --- reclamation --- agrosilvopastoral systems --- Hedges --- Africa South of Sahara --- West Africa --- Agricultural innovations --- Social aspects --- Tropical zones --- bush fallowing --- Crop rotation --- Burning --- Controlled burning --- Production increase --- Sustainable development --- Soil conservation --- soil fertility --- organic matter --- Water resources --- Soil resources --- resource management --- forage --- Forestry production --- Africa --- Agriculture --- Innovations, Agricultural --- Technological change in agriculture --- Technological innovations --- Innovations --- Technology transfer --- innovation --- système agraire --- pêche artisanale --- industrie agroalimentaire --- consommation alimentaire --- rapports sociaux --- développement rural --- pays du Sud --- concept --- agroforesterie --- démographie --- étude de cas --- impact sur l’environnement --- exploitation des ressources naturelles --- agronomie --- tiers monde --- Africa south of the sahara
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This Special Issue reports research spanning from the analysis of indirect data, modeling, and laboratory and geological data confirming the intrinsic multidisciplinarity of gas hydrate studies. The study areas are (1) Arctic, (2) Brazil, (3) Chile, and (4) the Mediterranean region. The results furnished an important tessera of the knowledge about the relationship of a gas hydrate system with other complex natural phenomena such as climate change, slope stability and earthquakes, and human activities.
ocean acidification --- risk assessment --- modeling --- molecular composition --- ecosystem --- thermogenic gas --- Eastern Mediterranean --- temperature increase --- geohazards --- São Paulo Plateau --- geohazard --- hydrate dissociation --- climate change --- BSR --- thawing --- multidisciplinary --- clathrites --- earthquake --- modelling --- methane cycle --- permafrost --- global change --- methane --- biogenic gas --- salt migration --- subaqueous permafrost --- slope stability --- Chilean margin --- magnetic data --- mantellic source --- active margin --- Arctic shelf --- environmental impact --- Amazon fan --- methane emission --- seismic interpretation --- seep-carbonates --- Bouguer anomaly --- potential methods --- gravimetric data --- methane stability --- northern Apennines --- Santos Basin --- natural gas hydrate --- carbon dioxide --- blue growth --- gas seeps --- seepage --- Chile Triple Junction --- isotopic composition --- gas hydrates --- gas hydrate --- Miocene --- Levant Basin
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