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Australia's most polluting power stations pose risks to economy and environment: research
No full textNew research from Oxford University has named Australia\u27s most polluting coal fired power stations and warns of the risks they pose to the economy and the environment.
The report\u27s author, Ben Caldecott, has been openly critical of the Australian Government\u27s record on climate change and says the country should be leading by example.
Australia has 22 coal-fired power stations, which account for around a quarter of the nation\u27s carbon emissions.
David Taylor spoke with Ben Caldecot
Economic utopia of the Torah. Economic concepts of the Hebrew Bible interpreted according to the Rabbinical Literature
No full textHebrew Bible offers alternative Economic utopia for building Theocratic society. In this paper, various economic concepts and themes are presented, as found in the Hebrew Bible. These economic concepts include taxation, property rights, labor market, social policy, banking, years of Sabbath and Jubilee, and business cycles. Most economic issues of the Bible are found in the texts of Torah, also known as five Books of Moses. These texts are analyzed by using classical Rabbinical commentaries for better insight. Contrary to the modern Economic theory which is based on the assumptions of scarcity of resources and unlimited needs of consumers, Economics of the Torah is based on God’s resources which are enough for all true needs of His people.Hebrew Bible, History of Economics, History of Economic Thought, Ancient Israel, Judaism
Portrait of Governor David Lawrence Wallace
No full textIndiana Governor David Wallace moved to Brookville, Indiana in 1817 where he established a successful law practice. While there he married Esther French Test and had four sons, including Lew Wallace, Civil War general, diplomat, and author of Ben-Hur.Franklin County Journe
Cult: A Composite Novel
No full textCult (redacted)
The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
Romance Literature in Hebrew Language with an Arabic Twist: The First Story of Jacob ben El'azar's Sefer ha-meshalim
No full textJacob ben El‘azar’s Sefer ha-meshalim (Book of Stories), was written in the first half of the 13th century in Toledo, a place where Arabic, Hebrew and Romance literary traditions had the opportunity to intermingle, most notably in the works of Jewish authors. Ben El‘azar exemplifies the figure of the Jewish author who straddled the diverse traditions of this time and space: he translated works from Arabic into Hebrew and composed original works in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Further, while some Jewish authors of the period, such as Judah al-Ḥarizi, felt a close connection to the Arabic intellectual environment and largely ignored developments in Romance language practices, Ben El‘azar demonstrated an awareness of the Romance milieu without undervaluing his indebtedness to Arabic.Shalom Spiegel Institute for Medieval Hebrew PoetryDepto. de Lingüística, Estudios Árabes, Hebreos, Vascos y de Asia OrientalFac. de FilologíaTRUEpu
David Kaufmann Collection 1875-1989
No full textThe collection contains articles written by David Kaufmann on the rabbi and author Zacharias Frankel and Rabbi Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam); correspondence regarding the
David Kaufmann collection in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; and Kaufmann family tree, from 1819 to the late 20th century, including birth and death dates and
locations.Kalman Schlesinger (p)Gertrud BuchlerDavid Kaufmann was a prominent representative of ‘Wissenschaft des Judentums’ and principal of the Budapest Jewish Theological Seminary. His collection of well over 500
precious manuscripts was moved after his death to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Rabbi Kaufmann was born 1852 in Kojetin (Moravia) and died 1899 in Karlsbad.The original German-language inventory is available in the folderProcessed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
Ritual fictions: The enigma made flesh in the novels of Tahar Ben Jelloun
No full textTahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan poet and novelist who is presently active and writing in French. This thesis deals primarily with the novelistic works of the author, examining the way in which he uses rituals as a narrative device or as a theme, and how they can be seen to reflect on other salient features of his writing.
Ritual is examined as a metaphor whose incorporation into a novel can paradoxically implicate the reader and the author in the work, in the same way that ritual in life may implicate the participants in a myth. The implications of this interpretation are manifold in Ben Jelloun's work, and this thesis examines these under several broad themes, including those of meaning, enigma, freedom and the body. The thesis argues that Ben Jelloun's use of ritual reinforces his strategy of subversion and manipulation as key elements in the generative process
Genève, La Bibliothèque juive « Gérard Nordmann », HEB 0002 : Astronomical and geographical work
No full textThis manuscript is a copy of only one of six extant manuscript exemplars and an old print of this work (1743) worldwide. Its author is the famous Bohemian rabbi, astronomer and mathematician R. David ben Salomon Gans (1541-1613). In his 1974 monograph about David Gans, André Neher referred to this copy as the Manuscrit de Genève. A colophon in the manuscript gives the date as 1613, but a current study on the history of the transmission of this work suggests that it is an 18th century copy.Online Since: 2018-06-1
The margin and the mainstream : positioning Harry Partch's theories within the broader discourse of musical aesthetics
No full textBibliography: leaves 102-106.The dissertation examines the broader musical value of microtonal composer Harry Partch's musical theories by locating his critique of abstract music within mainstream compositional theory and aesthetics. This contextualisation aims to deconstruct Partch's iconoclastic image so as to understand his contribution within a wider realm of critical discourse. The work of composers that follow in Partch's footsteps becomes important in this context, especially that of his one-time student Ben Johnston whose own microtonal aesthetic is firmly rooted in European aesthetics from Debussy to Schoenberg. By a study of Johnston's utilisation of Partch's theory of just intonation the dissertation attempts to arrive at a more inclusive compositional theory, one which continues to address those aspects of Partch's theories that serve as a valid and constructive critique of traditional musical values. Taking Adorno's view that musical critique must deal with the problem of reification at the level of musical materials, the author proposes a reading of Partch's corporeal philosophy that is applicable beyond the confines of narrative musical drama. By creating a distinction between historical models of organisation and 'second nature' forms of musical presentation, it is suggested that critique does not necessarily prefigure alienation from the mainstream, but can rather be situated within musical discourse in such a way that a new image of the latter's forms results. On a practical level, the dissertation explores the validity of expanded just intonation as a means of achieving this immanent critique, both in the realm of compositional theory and, implicitly, in that of analytical theory, concluding with the description of a tuning system with the capacity to synthesise the range of compositional theories explored
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
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