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Deceiving the Senses:The Role of Vapours in Francis Bacon’s Natural Philosophy
Full text linkBacon’s universe is one in which matter is constantly striving to satisfy its appetites. Bodies have an antipathy to those other bodies that prevent them from satisfying their appetites, and flee from them. On the contrary, bodies are in a relation of sympathy and drawn toward those bodies that facilitate the satisfaction of their appetites. However, this relation is not always reciprocal, and this tension is the source of motion and visible phenomena in the sublunary world. As Bacon states in the first line of the preface to The History of Sympathy and Antipathy of Things, “Strife and friendship in nature are the spurs of motion and keys of works.” In a nonreciprocal relationship, bodies can satisfy their appetites only if they betray other spirits and make them believe they are “friends,” as we have seen in the example of infections. According to Bacon, in order to distinguish between “friends” and “enemies,” bodies possess a certain degree of knowledge; this deceptive knowledge is the basis on which we might call matter ingenious
Foster, Richard J.
No full textRichard J. Foster, author of Celebration and Discipline and Money Sex and Power , professor at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. 095B:https://place.asburyseminary.edu/holinessphotos/1531/thumbnail.jp
Foster, Richard J.
No full textRichard J. Foster, author of Celebration and Discipline and Money Sex and Power , professor at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. 095B:https://place.asburyseminary.edu/holinessphotos/1529/thumbnail.jp
Foster, Richard J.
No full textRichard J. Foster, author of Celebration and Discipline and Money Sex and Power , professor at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. 095B:https://place.asburyseminary.edu/holinessphotos/1530/thumbnail.jp
Foster, Richard J.
No full textRichard J. Foster, author of Celebration and Discipline and Money Sex and Power , professor at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. 095B:https://place.asburyseminary.edu/holinessphotos/1528/thumbnail.jp
Bipolar disorder, Type A behavior, and coronary disease
No full textThis paper describes a model for integrating two psychological constructs--bipolar disorder and the Type A behavior pattern--each of which has been associated with enhanced risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). It highlights similarities between manic/hypomanic behaviors associated with bipolarity and the behaviors observed in Type A individuals. The proposed model conceptualizes Type A behavior as an alternating pattern of coping with challenging and stressful events. Thus, initial coping efforts are manifested as behavioral hyper-reactivity (including mania/hypomania), but this gives way to hypo-reactivity (including helplessness and depression) after repeated failure to assert control and/or attain relevant goals. This alternation of Type A coping patterns resembles the affective and behavioral transitions often seen in bipolar patients. Future research on psychological, epidemiological, and pathophysiological issues concerning CHD should document areas of commonality and independence between bipolarity and Type A behavior. Such studies would benefit from consideration of a model that identifies psychosocial dimensions common to Type A, mania/hypomania, and depression.Peer reviewedThis is an electronic version of an article published in Glass, David C. and Richard J. Contrada. "Bipolar disorder, Type A behaviour and coronary disease." Health Psychology Review, available online 15 Feb 2011. DOI:10.1080/17437199.2010.531568. Health Psychology Review is available online at: www.tandfonline.co
Rabbi Richard J. Israel Papers, undated, 1949-1996, bulk 1980-1992.
No full textThe bulk of this collection contains resources and information pertaining to the career of Rabbi Richard J. Israel at the Jewish Community Center. The papers also contain several documents regarding Israel's work in Hillel and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. In addition, a brief memoir of his trip to the Soviet Union in 1974 is included, as well as copies of various Black Panther newspapers from New Haven, Connecticut.Rabbi Richard J. and Dr. Sherry Israel,Rabbi Richard J. Israel was born in 1929 in Chicago. After attending the University of Chicago and Hebrew Union College, Rabbi Israel began his lengthy career in Hillel at the University of California, Los Angeles. He later worked at Hillel at Yale University, followed by an Executive Director position at the Hillel Council of Greater Boston. Rabbi Israel was also the Director of Central Services and Judaica at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston and was the Director of the Rabbinic Program at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. In addition to his work on college campuses and in Jewish education, he was the author of “The Kosher Pig and Other Curiosities of Modern Jewish Life” and “Jewish Identity Games: A How to do it Book.”Finding Aid available in New York and Newton Center, MA Reading Rooms and on Internet.far031
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Pierre Belon’s singularity:Pilgrim fact in Renaissance natural history
Full text linkFrom the 1540s through the 1570s, some French travellers started to write in a distinctive cosmographical genre of singularités, a term that brought together the exotic and unusual with the factuality of first-person observation. Especially influential examples include the learned apothecary Pierre Belon du Mans’ Les observations de plusieurs singularités et choses mémorables trouvées en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Égypte, Arabie et autres pays estranges (1553). In the context of this special issue, the author offers Belon as a “hard” case for pushing the boundaries of “pilgrimage science”. The straightforward claim is that he depended on genres describing voyages to the Levant, extending back to fifteenth-century accounts by best-selling authors such as Hans Tucher, Felix Fabri, Bernhard von Breydenbach, and Arnold von Harff. More significantly, framed as a case in the formation of natural history as a discipline, Belon’s account of the balsam grove of Matarea lets us see how the practices of layering of observation into a fact could not separate science from pilgrimage. To make this point, Oosterhoff begins with the scholarship on Matarea and fact-making, before taking up the manner in which Matarea’s balsam was related in pilgrimage narratives from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He pauses briefly on the Renaissance topical theory that underpinned natural history, and examines Belon’s account itself as an archetypic case, one embedded in later natural histories – in much the same way that pilgrimage accounts drew upon one another
[Newspaper Clipping: Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin #1]
No full textNewspaper article titled "Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin." The article states that author Richard J. Whalen concluded "that there is circumstantial evidence to support the theory of a second assassin in the shooting of President John F. Kennedy.
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