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Cinq années de voyage en Orient 1846-1851 par Israel-Joseph Benjamin II, voyageur et auteur, demeurant à Faltischan (Moldavie). Paris en vente chez Michel Levy Frères, rue Vivienne, 2 bis 1856 L' auteur se réserve le droit de traduction et de reproduction
No full textPreface: by Benjamin, J.Dedication: by the author to M.J. Altaras aîné de Marseille et M. Albert Cohn.Content description: Detailed contentsPagination: PP28+240PVolumes: 1Text Genre:Pros
Public worship and practical theology in the work of Benjamin Keach (1640-1704)
No full textThe late seventeenth century was a critical and fruitful period
for the Particular Baptists of England. Severely persecuted following
the Restoration, toleration in 1689 brought its own perils.
Particular Baptists were fortunate in having several strong leaders,
especially the London trio of Hanserd Knollys, William Kiffin, and
Benjamin Keach. Such a small and severely persecuted group as the
Baptists could afford little time for academic pursuits, thus of
necessity most of their theology was practical in nature.
Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) was the most outstanding practical
theologian among the English Particular Baptists of the late
seventeenth century. This dissertation is a study of Keach, in
particular his writings on public worship and practical theology.
Although Keach was a prolific author, he has been almost completely
neglected by scholars.
After a biographical sketch of Keach, this study considers his
writings on public worship and practical theology. In the area of
worship, Keach made two outstanding contributions: First, he was the
most vocal apologist for Baptist views on Baptism of his period.
Secondly, and more importantly, his hymn writing and defense of hymn
singing broke new ground, not just for Baptists, but for English
Protestantism, in general. In addition to his contributions in these
areas, he also dealt with the laying on of hands and the sabbath day
worship controversy.
Keach's contributions to practical theology fall into two main
groups: his writings that concern religious education and those that
deal with polity. In addition to these, Keach's vigorous advocacy of
a high Calvinist soteriology are also considered under the rubric of
practical theology. Keach's most important (although not his most
positive) contribution in this area were his soteriological writings.
Although well within the bounds of orthodoxy, some of the tendencies
in Keach's soteriology were taken up by the following generation of
Baptist leaders and developed into a stultifying hyper-Calvinism that
handicapped Baptist evangelism and missions.
In the conclusion, Keach's contributions to a theory of practical
theology are considered
Letter to Benjamin Clark Cutler from Benjamin Stevens
No full textLetter dated April 14, 1863 to Assistant Adjutant General, Captain Benjamin Clark Cutler, Santa Fe, from First Lieutenant Benjamin Stevens, Fort Wingate, New Mexico, recommending John Murphy and Martin Quintana, in the First New Mexico Volunteers, for military promotion to Second Lieutenant. Letter also signed by First Lieutenant J. L. Barbey, joint author. Civil War. HL introduction page overlaid by document. Letter in English, handwritten, 1pp/fr
The Democratic State
No full textRoger Benjamin was president of the Council for Aid to Education (CAE) from 2005 to 2019 and was formerly provost of the University of Minnesota and the University of Pittsburgh. He has authored, coauthored, or co-edited nine books, including The Democratic Purposes of Education and The New Limits of Education Policy: Avoiding a Tragedy of the Commons.
Stephen L. Elkin is professor emeritus of government and politics at the University of Maryland and founding editor of the journal The Good Society. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Reconstructing the Commercial Republic: Constitutional Design after Madison.This Kansas Open Books title is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.Edited by Roger Benjamin and Stephen L. Elkin. Contributors include Peter H. Aranson, Roger Benjamin, David Braybrooke, Stephen L. Elkin, Norman Furniss, and Peter C. Ordeshook.One outcome of the declining economic growth and rising political conflict of the 1980s has been a renewed interest in political theory and increased questioning about the durability of the capitalist state. More and more political scientists are critically assessing the prevailing pluralist vision of the relationships between the state and the economy. Is the capitalist state able to adjust to crises and contradictions? What is the role of the state in changing—deteriorating—economic circumstances? How should we understand competing interpretations on the relative autonomy of the state, the nature of property rights, the legitimation crisis?
This collection of five original essays by seven of the best-known political-economy theorists addresses the interconnections between the economy and the polity and embodies the leading theoretical approaches to the political economy of the state
Safety Whistleblowing
No full textWhen companies fail to do the right thing, critical safety-law violations often go unchecked. Using previously unstudied records, this Article provides the first critique of a core component of the federal consumer product safety whistleblower regime created by Congress in 2008.
This Article reveals why and how the current law—which provides protections only to employee-whistleblowers who are retaliated against—has failed to protect consumers from death and injury. First, documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act provide evidence suggesting that the current program fails on its own terms. Very few workers have filed complaints; the number of successful complaints is minuscule; and agency investigations fixate on the employee’s conduct, virtually never examining underlying safety claims. Moreover, there is no evidence that the program has ever resulted in the removal of a hazardous product from the market or the imposition of a penalty against a corporate violator. Second, and more fundamentally, the current narrow regime fails to provide any financial incentive to blow the whistle on corporate flouting of product-safety law. Many employees with valuable information about safety-law violations (i) are not in fact retaliated against and (ii) face powerful inducements not to report, leaving safety regulators and consumers in the dark.
To address these critical gaps, this Article proposes a comprehensive reform of the whistleblower program. First, to deter and detect corporate safety misconduct effectively, Congress should transfer oversight of the product-safety whistleblower program from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, an agency ill-equipped to examine product safety, to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which has the expertise, enforcement power, and statutory mission to protect consumers. Second, Congress should incentivize safety whistleblowing via rewards for high-impact tips. Such a bounty program would account for whistleblowing’s value as a crucial backstop to federal safety law’s reliance on industry self-reporting. Third, antiretaliation protections should be strengthened to expand remedies for workers targeted for revealing crucial safety information. Finally, Congress should amend the statute to account for modern-day economic realities, including the dominance of consumer-product imports and the rise of non-employees as knowledgeable tipsters. Together, these reforms would protect both American consumers and workers from corporate misconduct
APCUG Higher Education Awards Banquet, March 26, 1973
No full textBenjamin E. Mays and others at an APCUG Higher Education Awards Banquet. Written on verso: APCUG Higher Education Awards Banquet, Stouffer's Atlanta [?], 7 p.m. March 26, 1973, L to R: President Waights Henry, Lagrange College, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, Mayor Sam Massell. Benjamin E. Mays attends APUCG High Education Banquet
Tagging of Biomedical Articles on CiteULike: A Comparison of User, Author and Professional Indexing
No full textThis paper examines the context of online indexing from the viewpoint of three different groups: users, authors, and professional indexers. User tags, author keywords and descriptors were collected from academic journal articles, which were both indexed in Pubmed and tagged on CiteULike, and analysed. Descriptive statistics, informetric measures, and thesaural term comparison shows that there are important differences in the use of keywords between the three groups in addition to similarities which can be used to enhance support for search and browse. While tags and author keywords were found that matched descriptors exactly, other terms which did not match but provided important expansion to the indexing lexicon were found. These additional terms could be used to enhance support for searching and browsing in article databases as well as to provide invaluable data for entry vocabulary and emergent terminology for regular updates to indexing systems. Additionally, the study suggests that tags support organisation by association to task, projects and subject while making important connections to traditional systems which classify into subject categories
The modernist angel: Art at the Limits of the Human in D. H. Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy
No full textPhDThe subject of this thesis is a figure that might provisionally be called the *modemist
angel'. Focusing on modernist literature, and more particularly on the work of D. H.
Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy, it aims to isolate from the many angels found in all periods
and all types of art a historically specific and intellectually coherent paradigm: an angel of
and for its modernist times. A figure of precisely this type could be said to exist in the
form of Walter Benjamin's 'angel of history'. Critics who address the question of the
modern angel in texts by Franz Kafka and Rainer Maria Rilke often do so in conjunction
with the problem posed by the angel of history. Beginning with a chapter on Benjamin,
this thesis nevertheless follows a different trajectory. Over five chapters, it explores a
modernist landscape formed not only by Lawrence, H. D. and Loy, but also by European
and American writers such as A. R. Orage, Allen Upward, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens,
Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. Although the
angel that emerges from this investigation might, in some respects, be said to anticipate
Benjamin's later version, this figure is also very different, standing for a project that is
distinctively, and recognisably, modernist in nature. He/she (the sex of the modernist
angel is often open to question) represents an attempt to reconcile the divine
responsibilities of the artist with the material and gendered conditions of being,
specifically of being human, in the modem world. This thesis looks again at the clash of
intellectual paradigms in the early-twentieth century - notably, the confrontation of the
Romantic view of art as a superhuman or sacred undertaking with the psychoanalytical or
evolutionary idea that all human endeavour is underpinned by sub-human motives - and
suggests the angel as a new and instructive figure through which to think the perilous
limits between the human and the divine in modernist literature
The Democratic State
No full textOne outcome of the declining economic growth and rising political conflict of the 1980s has been a renewed interest in political theory and increased questioning about the durability of the capitalist state. More and more political scientists are critically assessing the prevailing pluralist vision of the relationships between the state and the economy. Is the capitalist state able to adjust to crises and contradictions? What is the role of the state in changing—deteriorating—economic circumstances? How should we understand competing interpretations on the relative autonomy of the state, the nature of property rights, the legitimation crisis? This collection of five original essays by seven of the best-known political-economy theorists addresses the interconnections between the economy and the polity and embodies the leading theoretical approaches to the political economy of the state. Description Roger Benjamin was president of the Council for Aid to Education (CAE) from 2005 to 2019 and was formerly provost of the University of Minnesota and the University of Pittsburgh. He has authored, coauthored, or co-edited nine books, including The Democratic Purposes of Education and The New Limits of Education Policy: Avoiding a Tragedy of the Commons. Stephen L. Elkin is professor emeritus of government and politics at the University of Maryland and founding editor of the journal The Good Society. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Reconstructing the Commercial Republic: Constitutional Design after Madison. This Kansas Open Books title is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. Edited by Roger Benjamin and Stephen L. Elkin. Contributors include Peter H. Aranson, Roger Benjamin, David Braybrooke, Stephen L. Elkin, Norman Furniss, and Peter C. Ordeshook.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/kansas_open_books/1003/thumbnail.jp
The ecology and the biological control of the annual bluegrass weevil, Listronotus maculicollis Kirby (Coleoptera: curculionidae) using entomopathogenic nematodes (rhabditida: steinernematidae and heterorhabditidae):
No full textThe annual bluegrass weevil, Listronotus maculicollis Kirby, is a highly destructive insect pest of fine turfgrass in the northeastern United States and eastern Canadian provinces. I examined the spatial ecology of L. maculicollis and assessed the virulence of endemic and released entomopathogenic nematodes to weevil stages to develop ecologically based control programs. Endemic populations of Steinernema carpocapsae Weiser and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora Poinar infected a range of weevil instars and caused moderate generational mortality. The variability in seasonal abundance of endemic nematode populations and the variability in weevil generational mortality suggests an inability for reliable pest population regulation. Laboratory bioassays demonstrated that L. maculicollis fourth- and fifth-instar larvae were moderately to highly susceptible to nematode infection. Several species of nematodes significantly reduced densities of both instars, although a decrease in susceptibility to nematodes was observed as the insect aged. No difference was observed between the virulence of endemic and commercial nematode strains to any L. maculicollis stage tested. Field trials conducted over a three year period demonstrated great variability in the ability of commercial and endemic nematodes applied at standard field concentrations to reduce L. maculicollis densities below damage thresholds. Many factors, including nematode concentration, weevil spatial distribution and density, and timing of application are believed to have contributed to the variability in control.
The spatio-temporal distribution of emerging overwintering adult populations, first generation larvae and the distribution of host plants were examined to identify the spatial structure of populations, better target curative controls and develop monitoring programs. Significant aggregations of cumulative adult captures, larvae and their preferred hosts (Poa annua L.) were found on fairway edges when the entire width of fairways was sampled. Adult distribution rarely coincided with the following week's spatial pattern, suggesting that adults actively disperse across fairways throughout the oviposition period. Spatial association was detected between adults and larvae, but rarely between either stage and P. annua. The findings challenge assumptions of L. maculicollis host preference, but suggest a potential for targeting controls. The data were used to develop sequential sampling programs to rapidly assess adult densities and estimate the threat of larval damage.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-164)by Benjamin Alexander McGra
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