1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789086203321

Titolo

Transports of delight [[electronic resource] ] : an aromatic journey in verse from East to West on the wings of perfume / / [edited by] David Pybus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Folkestone, UK, : Global Oriental, 2007

ISBN

1-282-08927-7

9786612089275

90-04-21344-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 p.)

Collana

Brill eBook titles

Altri autori (Persone)

PybusDavid

Disciplina

808.81

Soggetti

Odors

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 (p. 131).

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary material / David Pybus -- Prologue / David Pybus -- Scent / David Pybus -- Japan / David Pybus -- China,Tibet and East Indies / David Pybus -- India and the Levant / David Pybus -- Europe / David Pybus -- Americas / David Pybus -- Epilogue / David Pybus -- Glossary / David Pybus -- Bibliography / David Pybus -- The Harvey Crest / David Pybus.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a feast for the nose! Transports of Delight is a celebration through verse of man’s extraordinary sensory world of smell, connecting East and West. Here is a fascinating and delightful anthology, drawn from around the world and across the millennia, capturing a kaleidoscope of emotions, moods and memories, all of which are energized and enhanced by smells of every kind – ‘smells which match our moods, promote our passions, provoke a sense of awe in the natural world around us, and bring us closer to our gods’. The anthology, containing over a hundred poems and excerpts from literature including The Teachings of the Buddha and Ben Johnson’s intoxicating ‘Drink to me only with thine eyes’ (Ode to Celia), takes the reader from Japan to China, Tibet and the East Indies, on to India and the Levant, then to Europe and finally to the Americas. Transports of Delight will certainly help transport and delight the reader to another level of sensory pleasure – far removed from today’s audio-visual world



of ipods, televisions, CDs and DVDs!

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967030003321

Titolo

Institutions and incentives in regulatory science / / edited by Jason Scott Johnston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2012

ISBN

979-82-16-28455-0

1-280-66651-X

9786613643445

0-7391-6947-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JohnstonJason Scott

Disciplina

363.7/05610973

Soggetti

Environmental policy - United States

Environmental agencies - United States

Environmental protection - Standards - United States

Environmental law - United States

Environmental sciences - Political aspects - United States

Science and state - United States

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

Introduction / Jason Scott Johnston -- The cost of cartelization : the ipcc process and the crisis of credibility in climate science / Jason Scott Johnston -- Adversarial versus consensus processes for assessing scientific evidence : should the IPCC operate more like a courtroom? / Ross McKitrick -- On the origin of specious species / Rob Roy Ramey II -- Politics and science in endangered species / Katrina Miriam Wyman -- Reconciling the scientific & regulatory timetables / James W. Conrad, Jr -- Improving the use of science to inform environmental regulation / Susan E. Dudley and George M. Gray -- A return to expertise? : a proposal for an institute of scientific assessments / Gary E. Marchant.

Sommario/riassunto

Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science explores fundamental



problems with regulatory science in the environmental and natural resource law field. Each chapter covers a variety of natural resource and regulatory areas, ranging from climate change to endangered species protection and traditional health-based environmental regulation. The contributors in this volume address how institutions for regulatory science should be designed in light of the inevitable misfit between the political or legal demand for regulatory action an