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Plants provide the food shelter medicines and biomass that underlie sustainable life One of the earliest and often overlooked uses of plants is the production of smoke dating to the time of early hominid species Plantderived smoke has had an enormous socioeconomic impact throughout human history being burned for medicinal and recreational purposes magicoreligious ceremonies pest control food preservation and flavoring perfumes and incenseThis illustrated global compendium documents and describes approximately 2000 global uses for over 1400 plant species The Uses and Abuses of PlantDerived Smoke is accessibly written and provides a wealth of information on human uses for smoke Divided into nine main categories of use the compendium lists plantderived smokes medicinal historical ceremonial ritual and recreational uses Plant use in the production of incense and to preserve and flavor foods and beverages is also included Each entry includes full binomial names and family an identification of the person who named the plant as well as numerous references to other scholarly texts Of particular interest will be plants such as Tobacco Nicotiana tabaccum Boswellia spp frankincense and Datura stramonium smoked as a treatment for asthma all over the world all of which are described in great detail
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The theme of the 23rd Annual Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the German Church Struggle The Uses and Abuses of Knowledge emphasized the epistemic dimensions of what happened in the Shoah and the accompanying church struggle along with the hermeneutical issues which arise from them The major plenaries and accompanying panels examined a variety of related topics with particularly focused opportunities for examining how knowledge as well as power have been used and abused in the past in addition to raising questions about the ways we remember and attend to our world in the present Throughout this book the conference theme is approached from a number of perspectives in varying styles and voices Individually and collectively they make it abundantly clear that knowledge is power and consequently what we know as well as how we know are questions we must continually investigate if we are to use the power of knowing wisely and responsibly
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As defining as Christopher Laschs The Culture of Narcissism Allan Blooms The Closing of the American Mind and Dinesh DSouzas Illiberal Education were to the 1970s 1980s and 1990s respectively Marjorie Garbers The Use and Abuse of Literature is to our timesnbspEven as the decline of the reading of literature as argued by the National Endowment for the Arts proceeds in our culture Garber One of the most powerful women in the academic worldThe New York Times gives us a deep and engaging meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of literature in the digital age What is literature anyway How has it been understood over time and what is its relevance for us today Who are its gatekeepers Is its canonicity fixed Why has literature been on the defensive since Plato Does it have any use at all or does it merely serve as an aristocratic or bourgeois accoutrement attesting to worldly sophistication and refinement of spiritnbsp Is it as most of us assume good to read literature much less study itand what does either meannbspThe Use and Abuse of Literature is a tour de force about our culture in crisis that is extraordinary for its brio panache and erudition and appreciation of popular culture lightly carried Garbers winning aim is to reclaim literature from the margins of our personal educational and professional lives and restore it to the center as a fierce radical way of thinking
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This is an omnibus edition of two books that have radically altered our understanding of Indian history This Fissured Land presents an interpretive ecological history of the subcontinent Ecology and Equity is a spirited intervention into the environmentdevelopment debate
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Eric Rentschlers new book The Use and Abuse of Cinema takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar and postwall epochs and into the new millennium These journeys afford rich panoramas and nuanced closeups from a nations production of fantasies and spectacles traversing the different ways in which the film medium has figured in Germany both as a site of creative and critical enterprise and as a locus of destructive and regressive endeavor Each of the chapters provides a stirring minidrama the cast includes prominent critics such as Siegfried Kracauer and Rudolf Arnheim postwar directors like Wolfgang Staudte Rainer Werner Fassbinder Wim Wenders and Alexander Kluge representatives of the socalled Berlin School and exponents of mountain epics early sound musicals rubble films and recent heritage features A film history that is both original and unconventional Rentschlers colorful tapestry weaves together figures motifs and stories in exciting unexpected and even novelistic ways
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The Law of Restitution is now firmly established as a distinct branch of the law of obligations however for much of the past twentyfive years its status has been the subject of much debate both in the courts and in academia and there are those who still view it with great suspicion and disbelief For this collection the author has chosen a number of previously published and influential papers which he has selectively revised and updated together with a number of completely new papers which present his latest views on a range of issues central to the law of restitution The book offers indepth coverage of most of the important topics on the law of restitution
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Lively and jargonfree this exampledriven critical thinking text pays particular attention to fallacious reasoning as well as to the kinds of valid arguments that correspond to nearly every fallacy The text provides detailed discussions of the types of correct argument and inference corresponding to each fallacy and offers a Media Watch section in each chapter
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History is useful when it is used properly to understand why we and those we must deal with think and react in certain ways It can offer examples to inform our decisions and guesses about the consequences of our actions But we should be wary of looking to history for dogmatic lessonsWe should distrust those who abuse history when they call on it to justify unreasonable claims to land for example or restitution MacMillan illustrates how dangerous history can be in the hands of nationalistic or religious or ethnic leaders who use it to foster a sense of grievance and a desire for revenge nbsp
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