The International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy is the premier annual meeting in this exciting and interdisciplinary field. The symposium uniquely combines plenary talks from world leaders in the field with parallel sessions comprising shorter talks, many presented by graduate students, and fosters a collegial and collaborative atmosphere with a multitude of formal and informal interactions. Registration and housing costs are kept low to enable entire research groups to attend, and in fact most senior people in the field gave their very first conference presentation at this symposium (to a very friendly audience). A wide range of topics is covered, from theory to experiment, from gas-phase to condensed-phase, from low resolution to ultra-high resolution, from the microwave to the ultraviolet, and from fundamental science to applications such as astronomy and atmospheric science. Each year's meeting also includes three "mini-symposia" on topics of special interest.
When is a war a holy crusade? And when does theology cause Christians to condemn violence? In American Crusade, Benjamin Wetzel argues that the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I shared a cultural meaning for white Protestant ministers in the United States, who considered each conflict to be a modern-day crusade. American Crusade examines the "holy war" mentality prevalent between 1860 and 1920, juxtaposing mainline Protestant support for these wars with more hesitant religious voices: Catholics, German-speaking Lutherans, and African American Methodists. The specific theologies and social locations of these more marginal denominations made their ministries highly critical of the crusading mentality. Religious understandings of the nation, both in support of and opposed to armed conflict, played a major role in such ideological contestation. Wetzel's book questions traditional periodizations and suggests that these three wars should be understood as a unit. Grappling with the views of America's religious leaders, supplemented by those of ordinary people, American Crusade provides a fresh way of understanding the three major American wars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Book 2 in the Annals of the Keepers sci-fi series... After the retaking of Earth and the Sol System by the Ordinance Forces, Commander Shenta Parejas holds Humanity's future together while opposing forces look to tear mankind apart.The Kryth Mahr Domain has not forgotten about the demeaning loss to their reborn adversary, Humans. Lintorth Sol will stop at nothing to gain all knowledge about this race that brought disgrace upon his beloved empire and his honored family name.The Reavers must recover from a lost mission and heavy casualties. Kason Bender faces trial for his actions at the conference which led to the death of his dear friend and mentor, Keeper Alon Renske. One dust, one star. The mysterious Gashnee prophecies have linked both Human and Kryth alike to each other's past. They will hunt for the Gashnee's secrets, which will not only bring them into battle; but, may very well drag the whole galaxy into war. Soon, their pasts will collide with devastating consequences.The Annals continue... If you like sci-fi such as Armor, Dark Space or Steel World then you'll love the Annals of the Keepers series. "The writers should be highly commended for delving into the very challenging world of the sci-fi genre and creating a very unique world and setting in which to tell this story."-Book Pipeline Competition "I loved the concept for this book, and it does have a lot of appeal for readers. You have tension, as the humans struggle to recover from the cataclysm that ruined their world."-Writer's Digest
A Bridge In Time is an epic Southern tale that examines the ambiguity of love and loyalty. Masterfully constructed, its authentic dialogue and simplistic prose are evocative of an idyllic South eternally at odds with the outside world-a world that Garret Crane was thrust into during the Vietnam War. Growing up in Robeson County, NC, Garret had only to care about the girl next door, harvesting tobacco, childhood pranks and the football game on Friday night. He had a perfect life: good parents, better friends and the best young woman he could ever dream of by his side. His life was complete, and nothing could go wrong...or so he thought. Twenty-five years later, A Bridge In Time begins with the now hardened military officer, Colonel Crane, a confirmed and bitter bachelor, trying to make sense of his life. He is sitting in the formidable office of Dr. Virginia Pappas, a Stanford educated psychiatrist who grew up in the revolutionary California sixties, as far from Robeson County as one might get, and as true a foil as can be found. His current problem revolves around a past that he thought he had forgotten-a past buried deep in the humid farms of his childhood, where he abandoned everyone and everything that he loved. Now, this past has come back to haunt him, and he must reach out to Dr. Pappas for help, something that Colonel Crane is not used to doing. Tightly constructed around his sessions with his shrink, A Bridge In Time uses a unique narrative format to reveal Garret's childhood in a series of flashbacks and anecdotes, divulged as context for the doctor to further understand Crane's current situation. Starting with the first time he met the love of his life, Linda Harrington, in the sandy fields while hauling in the week's crop, Garrett begins a sweeping, epic portrait of small town Southern life. There are first kisses, Sunday School hijinks, haunted houses, and even murder; there is an undulating political landscape of desegregation and presidential assassination. Everything that affected the world at large during that time is retold through the lens of Robeson County. Dr. Pappas eventually gets bored and urges Garrett to get to the point. Thus begins a give and take between the two, and a tenuous relationship begins to take hold-the cold distance felt between the sexes and Coasts slowly melts away, and as Garrett tells her about his conscription into the Army and his time as a POW in Vietnam, Pappas becomes more and more interested. Eventually, it is revealed to the reader that Garrett is paralyzed as a result of his heroic efforts in the war; it is also revealed, however, that he did not know how to handle it, and he feared his life would never be the same. As such, he deserted his family, and now fianc Linda, and cuts off all ties with them, never telling them why, thinking that he would only prove to be a burden if he returned. Pappas, interpreting his acts as considerably less than noble-and in fact selfish-chastises Garrett for his behavior, and he finally understands how much his actions have hurt those that he loved. As Linda reemerges and tracks him down, he must confront those people and decide whether or not he can handle going back to the life that he once knew-but as a changed man. Exploring complex themes of gender roles, regional identity, the nature of love, sacrifice and ambition, A Bridge In Time reaches into the depths of what it means to be a Southern Man. With memorable characters, authentic regionality and gripping emotional power, Ben Frazier has created a novel that will force people to stand up and take notice: a new voice in the South has emerged, and he is here to stay.
This book's central claim is that a close reading of Augustine's epistemology can help political theologians develop affirmative accounts of political liberalism. This claim is set in a scholarly context that is profoundly hostile to constructive theological readings of liberal culture. As a corrective to such antagonism, this book suggests that, far from being natural opponents, Christian communities can work fruitfully with political liberals based on common principles. A key component in this argument is the theological reevaluation of the ancient skeptical tradition. While the ancient skeptics are habitually treated by scholars as minor characters in the story of Augustine's theological development, this volume argues that they played a significant role in shaping both Augustine's theology and the subsequent character of the Augustinian tradition. By placing Augustine's reading of the skeptics in dialogue with contemporary culture, this book constructs a viable form of liberal Christian politics that is attentive both to his sin-sensitive account of public life and his eschatological vision of the church.
Environmental law has aesthetic dimensions. Aesthetic values have shaped the making of environmental law, and in turn such law governs many of our nature-based sensory experiences. Aesthetics is also integral to understanding the very fabric of environmental law, in its institutions, procedures and discourses. The Art of Environmental Law, the first book of its kind, brings new insights into the importance of aesthetic issues in a variety of domains of environmental governance around the world, from climate change to biodiversity conservation. It also argues for aesthetics, and relatedly the arts, to be taken more seriously in the practice of environmental law so as to improve our emotional and ethical capacities to address the upheavals of the Anthropocene.
Environmental law has aesthetic dimensions. Aesthetic values have shaped the making of environmental law, and in turn such law governs many of our nature-based sensory experiences. Aesthetics is also integral to understanding the very fabric of environmental law, in its institutions, procedures and discourses. The Art of Environmental Law, the first book of its kind, brings new insights into the importance of aesthetic issues in a variety of domains of environmental governance around the world, from climate change to biodiversity conservation. It also argues for aesthetics, and relatedly the arts, to be taken more seriously in the practice of environmental law so as to improve our emotional and ethical capacities to address the upheavals of the Anthropocene.
This open access book unveils the history of defending Australia’s natural environment and examines the subject’s legal and political contexts from the birth of the nation in 1901 until the advent of the so-called modern era of environmental regulation in the late 1960s. It rejects the mythology that Australia lacked environmental law before the late 1960s in revealing how many of today’s environmental laws, from pollution control to nature conservation, emerged from precedents or events much earlier in the 20th century.This history however reveals a discrepancy between lawmakers’ greater efficacy to exploit rather than protect the environment, a discrepancy that grew as nature’s backlash intensified in a rapidly degrading continent colonised to build the Australian nation. In exploring these dynamics, the book offers a rich tapestry of case studies illustrated with historic photographs that show the origins of Australia’s environmental laws and how they borrowed from international precedents or furnished lessons for other nations.Through its multi-disciplinary enquiry, the book offers scholars and students of environmental law, legal history and the environmental humanities a unique story about the failures and successes in the making of environmental law.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
This open access book unveils the history of defending Australia’s natural environment and examines the subject’s legal and political contexts from the birth of the nation in 1901 until the advent of the so-called modern era of environmental regulation in the late 1960s. It rejects the mythology that Australia lacked environmental law before the late 1960s in revealing how many of today’s environmental laws, from pollution control to nature conservation, emerged from precedents or events much earlier in the 20th century.This history however reveals a discrepancy between lawmakers’ greater efficacy to exploit rather than protect the environment, a discrepancy that grew as nature’s backlash intensified in a rapidly degrading continent colonised to build the Australian nation. In exploring these dynamics, the book offers a rich tapestry of case studies illustrated with historic photographs that show the origins of Australia’s environmental laws and how they borrowed from international precedents or furnished lessons for other nations.Through its multi-disciplinary enquiry, the book offers scholars and students of environmental law, legal history and the environmental humanities a unique story about the failures and successes in the making of environmental law.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
The International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy is the premier annual meeting in this exciting and interdisciplinary field. The symposium uniquely combines plenary talks from world leaders in the field with parallel sessions comprising shorter talks, many presented by graduate students, and fosters a collegial and collaborative atmosphere with a multitude of formal and informal interactions. Registration and housing costs are kept low to enable entire research groups to attend, and in fact most senior people in the field gave their very first conference presentation at this symposium (to a very friendly audience). A wide range of topics is covered, from theory to experiment, from gas-phase to condensed-phase, from low resolution to ultra-high resolution, from the microwave to the ultraviolet, and from fundamental science to applications such as astronomy and atmospheric science. Each year's meeting also includes three "mini-symposia" on topics of special interest.
