Angels at the table : a practical guide to celebrating Shabbat / / Yvette Alt Miller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825459703321
• Autore: Miller Yvette Alt
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Continuum, , 2011; ©2011
• ISBN: 1-283-08902-5; 9786613089021; 1-4411-1023-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Disciplina: 296.41
• Soggetti: Sabbath; Judaism - Customs and practices
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1 Greeting the angels: an overview of Shabbat; 2 Rules and laws of Shabbat; 3 Shabbat evening; 4 Drawing close to God: blessings at the Shabbat dinner table; 5 An evening of holiness: Shabbat dinner and after; 6 Shabbat early morning; 7 Finding a community: Shabbat morning services; 8 The beauty that is Shabbat lunch; 9 The holiness of Shabbat afternoon; 10 Saturday evening; 11 Torah questions for your Shabbat table; 12 Songs for Shabbat; 13 Activities on Shabbat; 14 Easy, traditional Shabbat recipes; 15 "Birkat HaMazon": the blessings after a meal; Appendix; Index; Acknowledgements
• Sommario/riassunto: At last, a clear, practical guide to the weekly Jewish holiday of Shabbat, celebrated by Jews around the world. Most Jewish readers are familiar with the concept of Shabbat and many already celebrate some aspects of the holiday. Shabbat offers a particularly appealing entree into traditional Jewish practice and Angels at the Table interweaves liturgical text, practical advice, information, anecdote and history to provide a perfect introduction for anyone who has ever wanted to tap into the Shabbat experience. In clear, straightforward language, it explains the myriad rituals, customs, praye

Management and ecology of lake and reservoir fisheries / / edited by I.G. Cowx

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911019156303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Fishing News Books; Ames, Iowa, : Distributor, USA and Canada, Iowa State University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 9786610213788; 9781280213786; 1280213787; 9780470792810; 0470792817; 9780470995679; 047099567X; 9781405147330; 1405147334
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CowxI. G (Ian G.)
• Disciplina: 333.95/6
• Soggetti: Fishery management; Freshwater fishes - Ecology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Proceedings of a meeting held in Hull, UK in April 2000.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Management and Ecology of Lake and Reservoir Fisheries; Contents; Preface; I Stock assessment for management purposes; 1 Hydroacoustic fish stock assessment in lakes in England and Wales; 2 The use of a split-beam echosounder for fisheries assessment in reservoirs: necessity for validation; 3 Estimation of the fish yield potential of lakes in north-east Germany; 4 Effects of area and location on pikeperch yields in Finnish lakes; 5 Fish stock assessment of Lake Schulen, Flanders: a comparison between 1988 and 1999; 6 Ecology of European whitefish, Coregonus lavaretus, in two Austrian lakes in relation to fisheries management and lake productivity7 Fisheries of Lake Victoria: an underwater perspective; 8 Analysis of exploitation patterns for Nile perch, Lates niloticus, in Lake Victoria; 9 ; Recent trends in the Lake Victoria fisheries assessed by ECOPATH; 10 Fish population structure and its relation to fisheries yield in small reservoirs in Côte d'Ivoire; 11 Review of the fisheries in the Brazilian portion of the Paraná/Pantanal basin; 12 Fish and fisheries of Kaptai Reservoir, Bangladesh; II Anthropogenic activities/rehabilitation and mitigation13 Coexistence of introduced Perca fluviatilis and Coregonus lavaretus in Santa Croce Lake (Italy), and propositions for fishery management; 14 Compensatory responses of fish populations in a shallow eutrophic lake to heavy depredation pressure by cormorants and the implications for management; 15 Restoration of Ormesby Broad through biomanipulation: ecological, technical and sociological issues; 16 Impacts and subsequent control of an introduced predator: the case of pike, Esox lucius, in Chew Valley Lake; 17 The potential to control fish community structure using preference for different spawning substrates in a temperate reservoir18 Fish ecology and conservation in Lake Banyoles (Spain): the neglected problem of exotic species; 19 Conservation of the endangered whitefish, Coregonus lavaretus, population of Haweswater, UK; 20 Fish community and habitat changes in the artificially stocked fishery of Lake Naivasha, Kenya; 21 Is the invasion of water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes Solms (Mart.), a blessing to Lake Victoria fisheries?; III Management; 22 Managing the exploitation of brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill), populations in Newfoundland lakes23 Factors affecting the performance of stillwater coarse fisheries in England and Wales; 24 Management of fisheries in a large lake - for fish and fishermen; 25 Fishery management practices in French lakes; 26 Fisheries and fisheries management on Lake Peipsi-Pihkva; 27 Role of non-exploited fishery resources in Sri Lankan reservoirs as a source of food for cage aquaculture; 28 Potential species for fishery enhancement in Lake Faé, Côte d'Ivoire; 29 Pelagic cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi/Nyasa: biology, management and conservation
• Sommario/riassunto: In this comprehensive edited book, international experts in fisheries management and ecology review and appraise the status of lake and reservoir fisheries, assessment of fisheries yields, trophic ecology, rehabilitation and conservation, including a special section on African lakes where so much information of huge relevance to fisheries managers is now available.Contributions from around the world. Carefully edited by internationally respected editor. Has been generated from acclaimed HIFI Symposium.