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Environmental Expertise

Connecting Science, Policy and Society

By: Esther Turnhout,Willemijn Tuinstra,Willem Halffman

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Environmental Expertise

Connecting Science, Policy and Society

By: Esther Turnhout,Willemijn Tuinstra,Willem Halffman

An important goal of environmental research is to inform policy and decision making. However, environmental experts working at the interface between science, policy and society face complex challenges, including how to identify sources of disagreement over environmental issues, communicate uncertainties and limitations of knowledge, and tackle controversial topics such as genetic modification and the use of biofuels. This book discusses the problems environmental experts encounter in the interaction between knowledge, society, and policy on both a practical and conceptual level. Key findings from social science research are illustrated with a range of case studies, from fisheries to fracking. The book offers guidance on how to tackle these challenges, equipping readers with tools to better understand the diversity of environmental knowledge and its role in complex environmental issues. Written by leading natural and social scientists, this text provides an essential resource for students, scientists and professionals working at the science-policy interface.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108627110

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Environmental Expertise

Connecting Science, Policy and Society

By: Esther Turnhout,Willemijn Tuinstra,Willem Halffman

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Connecting Science, Policy and Society

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The Modulated Scream

Pain in Late Medieval Culture

By: Esther Cohen

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The Modulated Scream

Pain in Late Medieval Culture

By: Esther Cohen

This book provides an integral, readable account of changing attitudes toward pain in late medieval Europe. Since pain itself cannot be known, the book looks at pain by chronicling what people wrote about it, and what they did with and about that.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226112675

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9780226112671

Economics of Faith

Reforming Poor Relief in Early Modern Europe

By: Esther Chung-Kim

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Economics of Faith

Reforming Poor Relief in Early Modern Europe

By: Esther Chung-Kim

This book addresses the role of religious reformers in the development of poor relief in the sixteenth century. During the Reformation, religious leaders served as catalysts, organizers, stabilizers, and consolidators of poor relief programs to alleviate poverty. Although once in line with the religious piety, voluntary poverty was no longer a spiritual virtue for many religious reformers. Rather they imagined social welfare reform to be an integral part of religious reform and worked to modify existing common chests or set up new ones. As crises and migration exacerbated poverty and caused begging to be an increasing concern, Catholic humanists and Protestant reformers moved beyond traditional charity to urge coordination and centralization of a poor relief system. For example, Martin Luther promoted the consolidation of former ecclesiastical property in the poor relief plan for Leisnig in 1523, while Juan Luis Vives devised a new social welfare proposal for Bruges in 1526. In negotiations with magistrates and city councils, reformers helped to shape various local institutions, such hospitals, orphanages, job creation programs, and scholarships for students, as well as to develop new ways of supporting foreigners, strangers, and refugees. Religious leaders contributed to caring for the vulnerable because poverty was a problem too big for any one group or one government to tackle. As religious options multiplied within Christianity, one's understanding of community would determine the boundaries, albeit contested and sometimes fluid, of responsible poor relief"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197537731

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9780197537732

The Aramaic Levi Document

Edition, Translation, Commentary

By: Jonas C. Greenfield,Michael Stone,Esther Eshel

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The Aramaic Levi Document

Edition, Translation, Commentary

By: Jonas C. Greenfield,Michael Stone,Esther Eshel

The fragments of Aramaic Levi Document are presented for the first time as a single coherent whole. This book, which will move the study of this pivotal document to a new level, includes original texts, translation, introduction and extensive and detailed commentary.

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BRILL

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9047405072

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9789047405078

The Brothers Le Nain

Painters of Seventeenth-century France

By: Esther Susan Bell,Claude Douglas Dickerson,Nicolas Milavanovic,Alain Tallon

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The Brothers Le Nain

Painters of Seventeenth-century France

By: Esther Susan Bell,Claude Douglas Dickerson,Nicolas Milavanovic,Alain Tallon

A beautiful volume that brings to light the forgotten Le Nain brothers, a trio of 17th-century French master painters who specialized in portraiture, religious subjects, and scenes of everyday peasant life In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1598-1648), Louis (c. 1600/1605-1648), and Mathieu (1607-1677) Le Nain painted images of everyday life for which they became posthumously famous. They are celebrated for their depictions of middle-class leisure activities, and particularly for their representations of peasant families, who gaze out at the viewer. The uncompromising naturalism of these compositions, along with their oddly suspended action, imparts a sense of dignity to their subjects. Featuring more than sixty paintings highlighting the artists' full range of production, including altarpieces, private devotional paintings, portraits, and the poignant images of peasants for which the brothers are best known, this generously illustrated volume presents new research concerning the authorship, dating, and meaning of the works by well-known scholars in the field. Also groundbreaking are the results of a technical study of the paintings, which constitutes a major contribution to the scholarship on the Le Nain brothers.

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Yale University Press

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0300218885

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9780300218886

The Sassoons

By: Esther da Costa Meyer,Claudia J. Nahson

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The Sassoons

By: Esther da Costa Meyer,Claudia J. Nahson

Tracing the global history of the Sassoon family, entrepreneurs and patrons of remarkable art and architecture, from Baghdad to Mumbai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and London The Sassoons were prosperous as bankers and treasurers to the Ottoman sultans in nineteenth-century Baghdad, until they were driven out by religious persecution and economic pressures. Assuming the precarious status of stateless Jews, the family dispersed, establishing businesses in Mumbai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and London. Their wealth enabled them to collect splendid works of art from the various cultures that welcomed them. This volume tells the sweeping global story of the Sassoon family through the works of art they collected. Lavishly illustrated with paintings, porcelain, manuscripts, Judaica, and architecture, it foregrounds family members who were patrons of art and sponsors of remarkable buildings, highlighting the role of the family's accomplished women. Rachel Sassoon was editor of both the Times and the Observer newspapers in London at the turn of the twentieth century. The renowned war poet Siegfried Sassoon was a cousin. Victor Sassoon hosted the glitterati of the 1920s and 1930s at his Cathay Hotel in Shanghai. This fascinating and elegant book--with gilt edges and a ribbon bookmark--features a family tree and explores generations of Sassoons for whom art was not only a mark of their arrival in the rarefied world of the upper class but a pleasure in itself. Published in association with the Jewish Museum, New York Exhibition Schedule: Jewish Museum, New York (March 3-August 13, 2023)

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Yale University Press

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0300264305

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Ecological Indicators in Dutch Nature Conservation

Science and Policy Intertwined in the Classification and Evaluation of Nature

By: Esther Turnhout

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Ecological Indicators in Dutch Nature Conservation

Science and Policy Intertwined in the Classification and Evaluation of Nature

By: Esther Turnhout

The case studies are analyzed using insights from science and technology studies and policy science. This perspective enables analysis of ecological indicators as products of dynamic interactions at the science policy interface and allows for a contextualized understanding of their development and use. The choice of perspective and topic makes this study a must-read for scholars in policy science, science and technology studies and ecology as well as for professionals involved in nature conservation."--BOOK JACKET.

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Maklu

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905260102X

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9789052601021

The Modulated Scream

Pain in Late Medieval Culture

By: Esther Cohen

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Pain in Late Medieval Culture

By: Esther Cohen

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