1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990001750120203316

Autore

LENOBLE, Robert

Titolo

Per una storia dell'idea di natura / Robert Lenoble ; trad. di Pia Guadagnino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli, : Guida, 1975

Descrizione fisica

428 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Biblioteca di saggistica ; 13

Disciplina

501

Soggetti

Filosofia scientifica

Collocazione

II.6. 364 (Varie Coll. 62/13)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793484003321

Autore

Mefferd Andrew

Titolo

The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution : High-Production Methods for Small-Scale Farmers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Society Publishers

ISBN

1-77142-272-6

Descrizione fisica

: ill

Disciplina

631.5/814

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Author is the editor of Growing for Marketmagazine, the only national publication serving direct-to-market farmers, circulation 15,000He



holds a BA in English and a Graduate degree in journalismHe has been a farm operator for 15 years and spent 12 months researching the methods and techniques covered in this bookNo-till farming saves time, labor, fuel, and requires less equipmentIt increases soil organic matter, reduces erosion, boosts soil carbon sequestrationRoughly 35% of large scale industrial farming uses chemical no-till methodsIntroduces scaled-down methods that are not reliant on chemicalsSuitable for vegetable and flower growers farming less than an acre to a few acres or moreUnlike industrial no-till, these methods are chemical-free and can be used for organic growingThe author researched farmer-developed methods and interviewed leading no-till farmers to bring the benefits of cutting edge, no-till farming to natural, organic, and small farmsIncludes grower interviews and profiles to describe how various methods workThese methods lower the barriers to beginning to farm because it drastically reduces equipment costsIntended Audience: market gardeners, small-scale farmers, ag-extension officers, homesteaders, people just starting out in farming, urban farmers

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779600903321

Autore

Victoria Daizen <1939, >

Titolo

Zen war stories / / Brian Daizen Victoria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003

ISBN

1-136-12770-4

0-203-03742-1

1-283-88646-4

1-136-12762-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

The RoutledgeCurzon critical studies in Buddhism series

Classificazione

11.93

15.75

Disciplina

940.53/52/0882943

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Religious aspects - Zen Buddhism

Buddhism and state - Japan - History - 20th century

Zen Buddhism - Japan - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprinted 2004.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-257) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; ZEN WAR STORIES; Copyright; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Part I; 1 THE ZEN MASTER WEPT; 2 MONKS AND SOLDIERS MOVE ON THEIR STOMACHS; 3 THE ZEN OF ASSASSINATION; 4 ŌMORI SŌGEN: The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of Zen; 5 ZEN MASTER DŌGEN GOES TO WAR: The militarist and anti-Semitic writings of Yasutani Haku'un; 6 CARRYING ZEN TO CHINA; 7 ZEN ""SELFLESSNESS"" IN JAPANESE MILITARISM; SECTION ONE: THE GENERAL AND THE ZEN MASTER; SECTION TWO: ZEN - THE FOUNDATION OF MILITARY SPIRIT; Part II; 8 BUDDHIST WAR BEREAVEMENT; 9 CONFESSIONS OF A BUDDHIST CHAPLAIN

10 BUDDHISM - THE LAST REFUGE OF WAR CRIMINALSSECTION ONE: COLONEL TSUJI MASANOBU GOES UNDERGROUND; SECTION TWO: FINDING RELIGION ON DEATH ROW; 11 BUDDHISM - A TOP SECRET RELIGION IN WARTIME JAPAN; EPILOGUE; POSTSCRIPT; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Following the critically acclaimed Zen at War (1997), Brian Victoria explores the intimate relationship between Japanese institutional Buddhism and militarism during the Second World War.Victoria reveals for the first time, through examination of the wartime writings of the Japanese military itself, that the Zen school's view of life and death was deliberately incorporated into the military's programme of 'spiritual education' in order to develop a fanatical military spirit in both soldiers and civilians.  Furthermore, that D. T. Suzuki, the most famous exponent of Zen in the West