Economics and land use planning / Alan W. Evans

• Record Nr.: UNISA990002419830203316
• Autore: EVANS, Alan W.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : Blackwell, 2004
• ISBN: 1-4051-1861-X
• Descrizione fisica: XII, 209 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
• Collana: Real estate issues
• Disciplina: 333.730941091732
• Soggetti: Progettazione - Aspetti economici - Gran Bretagna
• Collocazione: 333.73 EVA 1 (IEP IV 352)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Israel in exile : Jewish writing and the desert / / Ranen Omer-Sherman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788724703321
• Autore: Omer-Sherman Ranen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2006
• ISBN: 1-283-04406-4; 9786613044068; 0-252-09202-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 pages)
• Disciplina: 892.4/0932154
• Soggetti: Wilderness areas in literature; Israeli literature - History and criticism; Jewish literature - History and criticism; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Representing desert wilderness in Jewish narrative : poetics and politics -- Justice and the old/new Jewish nation -- Desert space and national consciousness -- Immobilized rebels on the outskirts of the promised land -- Sinai of the diasporic imagination -- Wilderness as experience and metaphor.
• Sommario/riassunto: Examines how the ethical tension between the clashing Mosaic and Davidic paradigms of the desert reverberates in secular Jewish literature and produces literary rewards. This book argues that the ancient encounter with the desert acquires an urgency in response to the crisis brought about by national identities and territorial conflicts.