Benjamin Neimark's Books

Hottest of the Hotspots

The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar

By: Benjamin Neimark

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hottest of the Hotspots

The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar

By: Benjamin Neimark

Continually recognized as one of the “hottest” of all the world’s biodiversity hotspots, the island of Madagascar has become ground zero for the most intensive market-based conservation interventions on Earth. This book details the rollout of market conservation programs, including the finding of drugs from nature—or “bioprospecting”—biodiversity offsetting, and the selling of blue carbon credits from mangroves. It documents the tensions that exist at the local level, as many of these programs incorporate populations highly dependent on the same biodiversity now turned into global commodities for purposes of saving it. Proponents of market conservation mobilize groups of ecologically precarious workers, or the local “eco-precariat,” who do the hidden work of collecting and counting species, monitoring and enforcing the vital biodiversity used in everything from drug discovery to carbon sequestration and large mining company offsets. Providing a voice for those community workers many times left out of environmental policy discussions, this volume proposes critiques that aim to build better conservation interventions with perspectives of the local eco-precariat.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

235

Publisher

University of Arizona Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0816551960

ISBN 13

9780816551965

Adolescence

Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives

By: Benjamin B. Wolman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Adolescence

Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives

By: Benjamin B. Wolman

Integrating diverse scientific data, this book relates the biological versus psychosocial aspects of adolescence. Relevant data from scientific literature have been pulled together into a systematic presentation of the biological and psychosocial issues of contemporary adolescence. Part I describes the biological and sociopsychological developmental processes; Part II focuses on the special problems of contemporary adolescents; Part III analyzes the causes of the problems and discusses tentative remedies. Written for psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, and anthropologists.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

148

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0313388172

ISBN 13

9780313388170

Bringing Forth Prosperity

Capacity Innovation in Africa

By: Benjamin Bobo

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bringing Forth Prosperity

Capacity Innovation in Africa

By: Benjamin Bobo

Path to Capacity Innovation: An Africa-MNC Strategic Alliance, a policy framework is advanced proposing a strategic alliance between African countries -represented by NEPAD- and the multinational corporation with input from the NGO and couched upon an NEPAD-MNC-NGO cross-fertilizing integrative structure. Capacity innovation is the key to Africa's transformation: with the appropriate catalysts, innovation and transformation are but a matter of time in gestation. The first of two major catalysts necessary to prompting this change so long sought by Africans came at the adoption of the New Partnership for Africa's Development. It is one of the most profound collaborations of African Heads of State. The second catalyst is proposed in this work in the form of the multinational corporation as change agent for the innovation process working in alliance with NEPAD as Africa's spokesperson for innovation. The policy framework for African capacity innovation is the material product along with discourse for redress of corruption and security policy narrative for protecting the assets of multinational corporations.Bringing Forth Prosperity: Capacity Innovation in Africa questions capital theory as a development construct and an appropriate platform upon which sustained capacity innovation in Africa may emerge; explores Africa's road to modernity in the context of selected development constructs and assesses capacity innovation from a top down-bottom up perspective purposely to serve as backdrop to the Africa-MNC strategic alliance framework; constructs country capacity ID to identify internal resources available to African countries to support capacity innovation; conceptualizes the Africa-MNC strategic alliance to convey a capacity innovation philosophy; articulates an African capacity innovation policy framework to guide the Alliance through a series of actions designed to prompt innovation activity and set the continent on a course to sustained transformation; and articulates a scheme to protect assets -human and physical- derived through the Africa-MNC strategic alliance.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

165

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000792757

ISBN 13

9781000792751

Rav Avraham Itzhak Hacohen Kook

Between Rationalism and Mysticism

By: Benjamin Ish-Shalom

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rav Avraham Itzhak Hacohen Kook

Between Rationalism and Mysticism

By: Benjamin Ish-Shalom

This is the first comprehensive philosophical-theological study of the mystical thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), the Chief Rabbi of Palestine prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, and the great representative of the most significant renewal of the Jewish mystical thought in modern times. Rav Kook was the spiritual and hallachic authority who laid the foundation of religious Zionism. Discontent with "Hamizrakhi" political pragmatism, he envisioned Zionism as a movement of return and all-encompassing Jewish renaissance. This book dissolves the mist enveloping Rav Kook's writings and offers an understanding of his spiritual world. It presents and analyzes the systematic elements in his teaching and reveals the spiritual interests and fundamental approaches of his religious thought.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

374

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1438407637

ISBN 13

9781438407630

Atlas of Petromodernity

By: Alexander Klose,Benjamin Steininger

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Atlas of Petromodernity

By: Alexander Klose,Benjamin Steininger

The Atlas of Petromodernity is many things in one: historical and geographical non-fiction, cultural theory essay, and picture book. In forty-four short essays, inspired by an equal amount of pictorial findings, Klose and Steininger develop a technical, geographical, political, and speculative panorama of the declining era of petroleum modernity. The authors stroll through Baku, Rotterdam, and Louisiana, into Manchuria and through the Vienna Basin. They read Bertolt Brecht, technical manuals, and petroculture theory, and they listen to Neil Young. They go to the moon, through refineries and over highways emptied by the COVID-19 pandemic. They confront petrochemistry with petromelancholy, catalysis with catharsis, cosmos with cosmetics. The Atlas of Petromodernity tackles the contradictory ambivalences of a substance that has been vital for our epoch, and whose roles and meanings need to be understood in order to be able to leave this epoch behind.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

361

Publisher

punctum books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1685712193

ISBN 13

9781685712198

Between Christians and Moriscos

Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568–1614

By: Benjamin Ehlers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Between Christians and Moriscos

Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568–1614

By: Benjamin Ehlers

In early modern Spain the monarchy's universal policy to convert all of its subjects to Christianity did not end distinctions among ethnic religious groups, but rather made relations between them more contentious. Old Christians, those whose families had always been Christian, defined themselves in opposition to forcibly baptized Muslims (moriscos) and Jews (conversos). Here historian Benjamin Ehlers studies the relations between Christians and moriscos in Valencia by analyzing the ideas and policies of archbishop Juan de Ribera. Juan de Ribera, a young reformer appointed to the diocese of Valencia in 1568, arrived at his new post to find a congregation deeply divided between Christians and moriscos. He gradually overcame the distrust of his Christian parishioners by intertwining Tridentine themes such as the Eucharist with local devotions and holy figures. Over time Ribera came to identify closely with the interests of his Christian flock, and his hagiographers subsequently celebrated him as a Valencian saint. Ribera did not engage in a similarly reciprocal exchange with the moriscos; after failing to effect their true conversion through preaching and parish reform, he devised a covert campaign to persuade the king to banish them. His portrayal of the moriscos as traitors and heretics ultimately justified the Expulsion of 1609–1614, which Ribera considered the triumphant culmination of the Reconquest. Ehler's sophisticated yet accessible study of the pluralist diocese of Valencia is a valuable contribution to the study of Catholic reform, moriscos, Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain, and early modern Europe.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

284

Publisher

JHU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0801883229

ISBN 13

9780801883224

Urodynamics, An Issue of Urologic Clinics

By: Benjamin M Brucker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Urodynamics, An Issue of Urologic Clinics

By: Benjamin M Brucker

This issue of the Urologic Clinics will focus on urodynamic testing in men, women and special situations. Appropriate urodynamic testing options including video urodynamics, pressure flow studies, and neurogenic voiding discussion will be discussed. Dr. Nitti and Dr. Brucker have assembled well known experts in their fields to provide current clinical information for urodynamic evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

137

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

0323320465

ISBN 13

9780323320467

Hottest of the Hotspots

The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar

By: Benjamin Neimark

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hottest of the Hotspots

The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar

By: Benjamin Neimark

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

235

Publisher

University of Arizona Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0816551960

ISBN 13

9780816551965

Book's by Benjamin Neimark

Hottest of the Hotspots

Hottest of the Hotspots

Adolescence

Adolescence

Bringing Forth Prosperity

Bringing Forth Prosperity

Rav Avraham Itzhak Hacohen Kook

Rav Avraham Itzhak Hacohen Kook

Atlas of Petromodernity

Atlas of Petromodernity

Between Christians and Moriscos

Between Christians and Moriscos

Urodynamics, An Issue of Urologic Clinics

Urodynamics, An Issue of Urologic Clinics

Hottest of the Hotspots

Hottest of the Hotspots

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email