Negotiating environment and science [[electronic resource] ] : an insider's view of international agreements, from driftnets to the space station / / Richard J. Smith

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459499403321
• Autore: Smith Richard J. <1932->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC, : Resources for the Future, c2009
• ISBN: 1-936331-11-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 344.04/6
• Soggetti: Environmental law, International; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "An RFF Press book"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Earth's ozone shield -- The driftnet dilemma -- Acid rains on Canadian-U.S. relations -- Caribou in the oil patch -- The U.S.-USSR science agreement -- Space station partnership -- Human rights and the environment -- Fishing in the donut hole -- On finding common ground.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this thought-provoking new book, career U.S. State Department negotiator Richard J. Smith offers readers unprecedented access to the details about some of the most complex and politically charged international agreements of the late and immediate post Cold War era. During his nine years as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Smith led U.S. negotiations on many significant international agreements. In Negotiating Environment and Science, Smith presents first-hand, in-depth accounts of eight of the most high-prof

Apocalyptic and Merkavah mysticism / / Ithamar Gruenwald

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463774103321
• Autore: Gruenwald Ithamar
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 90-04-27920-2
• Edizione: [Second, revised edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Collana: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, , 1871-6636 ; ; Volume 90
• Disciplina: 296.7/12
• Soggetti: Mysticism - Judaism; Apocalyptic literature; Throne of God; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 The Quest for the Mystical Reality: Reflections on the Ontological Provenance of the Hekhalot Hymns and Visions -- 2 Two Essential Qualities of Jewish Apocalyptic -- 3 The Mystical Elements in Apocalyptic -- 4 The Attitude Towards the Merkavah Speculations in the Literature of the Tannaim and Amoraim -- 5 The Hekhalot Literature -- Introduction -- Reʾuyot Yeḥezkel -- Hekhalot Zutarti -- Hekhalot Rabbati -- Maʿaseh Merkavah -- Hekhalot Fragments -- Sefer Hekhalot (3 Enoch) -- Merkavah Rabbah -- Masekhet Hekhalot -- Shiʿur Qomah -- Physiognomy, Chiromancy and Metoposcopy -- Sefer Ha-Razim -- Concluding Chapter When Magical Techniques and Mystical Practices Become Neighbors: Methodological Considerations -- Appendices by Saul Lieberman -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a new and revised edition of the book first published 1980. It contains new introductory and concluding chapters as well as a Bibliography and updated Index. Furthermore, substantial corrections, updates, and changes have been made in the original text. The changes concern matters of language and style, they nuance the line of argumentation, and they update the discussion of major issues. The new chapters fill several scholarly gaps that have opened since the ; initial publication of this book in 1980. The new Introductory Chapter explores new venues and issues in the study and assessment of the Hekhalot literature and relevant passages in apocalyptic literature, and this in light of epistemological and ontological considerations. The Concluding Chapter discusses the ritual praxis of the experience of the Hekhalot mystics and its affitnity to magic, and this in terms of new approaches to ritual theory.