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UNINA9910346800203321 |
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Rao Vikram |
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Shale Gas : The Promise and the Peril |
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Research Triangle Park, NC : , : RTI International / RTI Press, , 2012 |
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©2012 |
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1 online resource (182 pages) |
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Shale gas basics -- So, where did all this gas come from suddenly? -- The oil plateau and the precipice beyond -- Gas will remain cheap and displace coal -- What a difference a hundred million years makes -- Environmental issues -- Beyond gasland -- Preventing contamination of surface and groundwater -- Zero fresh water usage -- Is natural gas indeed worse for the environment than coal? -- Earthquakes: Should we be concerned? -- Economics of production and use -- Is shale gas production indeed a giant Ponzi scheme? -- Chemical industry prodigals can return -- The ethane dilemma -- The Alaska pipeline is dead; long live the Alaska pipeline -- Transport liquids from gas: Economical now -- Natural gas vehicles: A step in the right direction -- Advantage methanol -- Informing on policy -- Turning the Pennsylvania two-(mis)step into a waltz -- Will cheap natural gas hurt renewables? -- Kicking shale into the eyes of the Russian bear -- Shale gas and U.S. national security -- Sustainable development: A double bottom line, plus afterthought -- Flex-fuel fairy tale -- Next steps -- Research directions -- Policy directions. |
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Shale gas has the potential to transform the U.S. energy-based economy in the electricity, transportation, and chemical sectors. U.S. success can be expected to translate to Europe and other parts of the world. Shale gas production is uniquely enabled by hydraulic fracturing, a technique that has come under heavy scrutiny for its potential to cause environmental damage. In this book, Vikram Rao addresses the |
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issues surrounding shale gas. The book is intended to inform both sides of the fracturing debate, where currently rhetoric is overtaking understanding. Tailored for a non-technical audience -- with technical chemistry and geology information in sidebars -- the book culminates in suggestions for research and guidance for policymaking. |
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UNINA9910787972303321 |
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Loci sacri : understanding sacred places / / T. Coomans [and four others], eds |
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Leuven, Belgium : , : Leuven University Press, , [2012] |
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©2012 |
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1 online resource (283 p.) |
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KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society ; ; 9 |
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Sacred space |
Shrines |
Religious facilities |
Christianity |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [256]-280). |
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Loci Sacri - Understanding Sacred Places; Editorial Board; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Spirituality and Scholarship - Sacred Acts and Sacred Spaces; What Makes a Monastery a Sacred Place?; An Analogical Concept; Monastic Sacred Places; Monastic Sacred Places Today; Types; Introduction; The Scandal of Particularity - Meaning, Incarnation, and Sacred Places; Strongly and Weakly Incarnated Meanings; Religious Meaning and Symbols: Sacred Places; Modern and Postmodern Attitudes |
(Sacred) Places are Made of Time - Observations on the Persistence of the Sacred in Categorizing Space in ModernityThe House of God? - The Conceptualization of Sacred Places in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond; Conceptualizing Sacred Places; 'House of God' in the Hebrew Bible: Affirmation and Questioning; 'House of God' in the Hebrew Bible: |
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Historical Development; Conceptualizations of the Temple after the Hebrew Bible; Sites; Introduction; Devotion and Devotions; Experience Versus Doctrine; Coda; The Need and the Search for Sacred Places - A Sociological Perspective |
Religious Buildings and their Induced RepresentationsAn Aesthetic Resource; A Medium for History; Supports for Memory; Identity Markers; Landmarks, Milestones and Indicators of Centrality; An Economic Resource as Tourist Product; Religious Buildings and their Current Uses; Secular Uses; Places for Spirituality; Reflexivity; Secondarity; Spirituality; Conclusion; Capturing Nameless Energies, Experiencing Matrixial Paradoxes - Syncretist Sacred Sites on the Canary Islands; 'Spiky' Tree (+ Parasite Tree) + Source, Natural Stone + Supernatural Imprint: The Virgen Del Pino (Our Lady of the Pine) |
Rock + Water, Dark Natural Matter + Shining Supernatural Image: The Virgen De La Peña (Our Lady of the Cliff)Fire + Snow, Peak + Abyss: The Virgen De Los Volcanes (Our Lady of the Volcanos) / Virgen De Las Nieves (Our Lady of the Snow); Blackness + Light, Rising from Beneath: The Virgen De Candelaria (Our Lady of Candelmas); Syncretism and the Expression of Matrixial Experiences; Conclusions; No Places of Pilgrimage without Devotion(s); John of the Cross Discussing places for Devotion; Devotion according to Catholic Tradition; John of the cross on Statues of Saints |
1000 Years of places of Pilgrimage in the Netherlands, 1000 Years of Devotion and DevotionsContemporary Pilgrims; The Contemporary place of Pilgrimage as a place for Devotion; Representing Sacred Space - Pilgrimage and Literature; Literature of Pilgrimage; Pilgrimage in Literature; Literary Pilgrimage; Afterword; Purported Sacrality - The Ambiguous past and Ironic Present of a Sometimes Sacred Mesoamerican Archaeological-Tourist Site; Monte Albán, Oaxaca: Pre-Columbian Zapotec Capital and Purportedly Sacred Site; Monte Albán's Pre-Columbian History: A Not-Particularly Sacred Site |
Monte Albán's Post-Contact and Colonial-Era History: An Obscure Sacred Site |
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Sacred places have long exercised a special fascination. Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. They are the result of cultural developments and have varied multidimensional levels of significance. They are places where time is, as it were, suspended, and they are points where holy times and holy places meet. Sacred places are places apart. It is this specificity in the context of the Christian religions of the West that 'Loci sacri' wishes to unveil by bringing together specialists from various disciplines, countries, and Christian denominations. One of the questions is why some sites have for centuries proven to be so popular while others have not. Another topic is the way in which extraordinary natural sites have been designated as sacred and given new meaning, primarily by means of architecture. "Loci sacri" also explores the 'eternal' character of this sacred status. |
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UNINA9910784381403321 |
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Consuming modernity [[electronic resource] ] : public culture in a South Asian world / / Carol A. Breckenridge, editor |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 1995 |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BreckenridgeCarol Appadurai <1942-2009.> |
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Popular culture - India |
India Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Preface; One. Public Modernity in India; Part I. The Historical Past; Two. Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket; Three. Upon the Subdominant: Administering Music on All-India Radio; Four. The Indian Princes as Fantasy: Palace Hotels, Palace Museums, and Palace on Wheels; Five. Dining Out in Bombay; Part II. The Historical Present; Six. Consuming Utopia: Film Watching in Tamil Nadu; Seven. Melodrama and the Negotiation of Morality in Mainstream Hindi Film; Eight. Repositioning the Body, Practice, Power, and Self in an Indian Martial Art |
Nine. Nation, Economy, and Tradition Displayed: The Indian Crafts Museum, New DelhiContributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Illustrates that what is distinctive of any particular society is not the fact of its modernity, but rather its own unique debates about modernity. The contributors address the roles intertwined interests in the making of India's public culture, each examining different sites of consumption. The sites they explore include cinema, radio, cricket, restaurants, and tourism. |
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