1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910711361303321

Titolo

The United States National Climate Assessment : Alaska Technical Regional Report / / edited by Carl J. Markon, Sarah F. Trainor, and F. Stuart Chapin III

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Virginia : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2012

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 148 pages) : color illustrations, maps

Collana

Geological Survey circular ; ; 1379

Soggetti

Climatology

Climatic changes - Alaska

Global warming - Alaska

Climatic changes

Global warming

Observations.

Alaska

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Prepared in cooperation with the Alaska Science Center."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-112).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967184103321

Autore

Kamil Jill

Titolo

Christianity in the land of the pharaohs : the Coptic Orthodox Church / / Jill Kamil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

0-429-23893-2

0-203-82694-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (575 p.)

Disciplina

281/.72

Soggetti

Egypt Church history

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

Front Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowlegments; Introduction; 1 Worship of the Holy Virgin and the Holy Family in Egypt; 2 Desert Fathers ancient and modern; 3 Faith and oppression under Roman rule; 4 Knowledge versus faith; 5 Martyrs and Pachomian monasticism; 6 The war against paganism and Christian reflection of its art; 7 Conversion, controversy and national identity; 8 Coptic Christianity develops its own style; 9 Change and continuity under Islam; 10 Restoration and revival; Epilogue; Appendix: notes on saints and martyrs; Glossary

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

The Copts - the indigenous Christians of Egypt - declared their independence from Byzantine Christianity when they appointed their own patriarchs in the sixth century. Jill Kamil has written an angaging and accessible survey of the history of Christianity on Egypt, through its development under Rome, Byzantium and Islam, to modern times.Drawing on personal travel to all the Christian sites of Egypt, and conversations with scholars, monks, museum directors, and scores of lay Egyptians both Copt and Muslim, the author tells us about the fundamental importance of Coptic religion and culture in Eg



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968758103321

Autore

Young-Bruehl Elisabeth

Titolo

Why Arendt matters / / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-281-72304-5

9786611723040

0-300-13456-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Why X matters

Classificazione

CI 6373

Disciplina

320.5092

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Totalitarianism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Series from jacket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-218) and index.

"Works by Hannah Arendt": p. [219]-220.

Nota di contenuto

The origins of totalitarianism and the twenty-first century -- The human condition and actions that matter -- Thinking about The life of the mind.

Sommario/riassunto

Upon publication of her "field manual," The Origins of Totalitarianism, in 1951, Hannah Arendt immediately gained recognition as a major political analyst. Over the next twenty-five years, she wrote ten more books and developed a set of ideas that profoundly influenced the way America and Europe addressed the central questions and dilemmas of World War II. In this concise book, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl introduces her mentor's work to twenty-first-century readers. Arendt's ideas, as much today as in her own lifetime, illuminate those issues that perplex us, such as totalitarianism, terrorism, globalization, war, and "radical evil. "Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, who was Arendt's doctoral student in the early 1970's and who wrote the definitive biography of her mentor in 1982, now revisits Arendt's major works and seminal ideas. Young-Bruehl considers what Arendt's analysis of the totalitarianism of Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union can teach us about our own times, and how her revolutionary understanding of political action is connected to forgiveness and making promises for the future. The author also discusses The Life of the Mind, Arendt's unfinished



meditation on how to think about thinking. Placed in the context of today's political landscape, Arendt's ideas take on a new immediacy and importance. They require our attention, Young-Bruehl shows, and continue to bring fresh truths to light.