Author: Stephen Pyne
Publisher: Scribe Us
ISBN: 9781950354481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Long a fire continent, Australia now finds itself at the leading edge of a fire epoch. Australia is one of the world's fire powers. It not only has regular bushfires, but in no other country has fire made such an impact on the national culture. Over the past two decades, bushfires have reasserted themselves as an environmental, social, and political presence. And now they dominate the national conversation. The Still-Burning Bush traces the ecological and social significance of the use of fire to shape the environment through Australian history, beginning with Aboriginal usage, and the subsequent passing of the firestick to rural colonists and then to foresters, to ecologists, and back to Indigenes. Each transfer kindled public debate not only over suitable fire practices but also about how Australians should live on the land. In Australia, the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires and the 2019-2020 season have heightened the sense of urgency behind this discussion, as the megafires of recent decades and the serial conflagrations in California have for Americans. In its original 2006 edition, The Still-Burning Bush concluded with the aftershocks of the 2003 Australian bushfires. A new preface and epilogue updates the narrative, including the global changes that are affecting Australia. Especially pertinent is the concept of a Pyrocene--the idea that humanity's cumulative fire practices are fashioning the fire equivalent of an ice age.
The Still-Burning Bush
Author: Stephen Pyne
Publisher: Scribe Us
ISBN: 9781950354481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Long a fire continent, Australia now finds itself at the leading edge of a fire epoch. Australia is one of the world's fire powers. It not only has regular bushfires, but in no other country has fire made such an impact on the national culture. Over the past two decades, bushfires have reasserted themselves as an environmental, social, and political presence. And now they dominate the national conversation. The Still-Burning Bush traces the ecological and social significance of the use of fire to shape the environment through Australian history, beginning with Aboriginal usage, and the subsequent passing of the firestick to rural colonists and then to foresters, to ecologists, and back to Indigenes. Each transfer kindled public debate not only over suitable fire practices but also about how Australians should live on the land. In Australia, the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires and the 2019-2020 season have heightened the sense of urgency behind this discussion, as the megafires of recent decades and the serial conflagrations in California have for Americans. In its original 2006 edition, The Still-Burning Bush concluded with the aftershocks of the 2003 Australian bushfires. A new preface and epilogue updates the narrative, including the global changes that are affecting Australia. Especially pertinent is the concept of a Pyrocene--the idea that humanity's cumulative fire practices are fashioning the fire equivalent of an ice age.
Publisher: Scribe Us
ISBN: 9781950354481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Long a fire continent, Australia now finds itself at the leading edge of a fire epoch. Australia is one of the world's fire powers. It not only has regular bushfires, but in no other country has fire made such an impact on the national culture. Over the past two decades, bushfires have reasserted themselves as an environmental, social, and political presence. And now they dominate the national conversation. The Still-Burning Bush traces the ecological and social significance of the use of fire to shape the environment through Australian history, beginning with Aboriginal usage, and the subsequent passing of the firestick to rural colonists and then to foresters, to ecologists, and back to Indigenes. Each transfer kindled public debate not only over suitable fire practices but also about how Australians should live on the land. In Australia, the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires and the 2019-2020 season have heightened the sense of urgency behind this discussion, as the megafires of recent decades and the serial conflagrations in California have for Americans. In its original 2006 edition, The Still-Burning Bush concluded with the aftershocks of the 2003 Australian bushfires. A new preface and epilogue updates the narrative, including the global changes that are affecting Australia. Especially pertinent is the concept of a Pyrocene--the idea that humanity's cumulative fire practices are fashioning the fire equivalent of an ice age.
The Bush is Still Burning
Author: Lloyd John Ogilvie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849901287
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849901287
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Burning Bush
Author: Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295998830
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers.“Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to our awareness of nature and culture, has produced a provocative work that is a major contribution to the literature of environmental studies.”—New York Times Book Review
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295998830
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers.“Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to our awareness of nature and culture, has produced a provocative work that is a major contribution to the literature of environmental studies.”—New York Times Book Review
The Burning Bush
Author: Sigrid Undset
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949899955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949899955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Burning Bush
Author: Vladimir Solovyov
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268093040
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Vladimir Solovyov, one of nineteenth-century Russia's greatest Christian philosophers, was renowned as the leading defender of Jewish civil rights in tsarist Russia in the 1880s. The Burning Bush: Writings on Jews and Judaism presents an annotated translation of Solovyov's complete oeuvre on the Jewish question, elucidating his terminology and identifying his references to persons, places, and texts, especially from biblical and rabbinic writings. Many texts are provided in English translation by Gregory Yuri Glazov for the first time, including Solovyov's obituary for Joseph Rabinovitch, a pioneer of modern Messianic Judaism, and his letter in the London Times of 1890 advocating for greater Jewish civil rights in Russia, printed alongside a similar petition by Cardinal Manning. Glazov's introduction presents a summary of Solovyov's life, explains how the texts in this collection were chosen, and provides a survey of Russian Jewish history to help the reader understand the context and evaluate the significance of Solovyov's work. In his extensive commentary in Part II, which draws on key memoirs from family and friends, Glazov paints a rich portrait of Solovyov's encounters with Jews and Judaism and of the religious-philosophical ideas that he both brought to and derived from those encounters. The Burning Bush explains why Jews posthumously accorded Solovyov the accolade of a "righteous gentile," and why his ecumenical hopes and struggles to reconcile Judaism and Christianity and persuade secular authorities to respect conscience and religious freedom still bear prophetic vitality.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268093040
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Vladimir Solovyov, one of nineteenth-century Russia's greatest Christian philosophers, was renowned as the leading defender of Jewish civil rights in tsarist Russia in the 1880s. The Burning Bush: Writings on Jews and Judaism presents an annotated translation of Solovyov's complete oeuvre on the Jewish question, elucidating his terminology and identifying his references to persons, places, and texts, especially from biblical and rabbinic writings. Many texts are provided in English translation by Gregory Yuri Glazov for the first time, including Solovyov's obituary for Joseph Rabinovitch, a pioneer of modern Messianic Judaism, and his letter in the London Times of 1890 advocating for greater Jewish civil rights in Russia, printed alongside a similar petition by Cardinal Manning. Glazov's introduction presents a summary of Solovyov's life, explains how the texts in this collection were chosen, and provides a survey of Russian Jewish history to help the reader understand the context and evaluate the significance of Solovyov's work. In his extensive commentary in Part II, which draws on key memoirs from family and friends, Glazov paints a rich portrait of Solovyov's encounters with Jews and Judaism and of the religious-philosophical ideas that he both brought to and derived from those encounters. The Burning Bush explains why Jews posthumously accorded Solovyov the accolade of a "righteous gentile," and why his ecumenical hopes and struggles to reconcile Judaism and Christianity and persuade secular authorities to respect conscience and religious freedom still bear prophetic vitality.
The Burning Bush
Author: Edward Reaugh Smith
Publisher: SteinerBooks
ISBN: 9780880104470
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Even more significant for Christianity in the long run than the twentieth-century Dead Sea and Nag Hammadi discoveries is the growing North American awareness of Rudolf Steiner's works. Virtually unavailable until the end of the twentieth century, English translations from the German archives are gradually coming into print. Both Steiner and his works have thus far been virtually unknown in traditional theological circles. No Bible commentary has yet reflected the remarkable spiritual insights of Anthroposophy. Now, ten years after first encountering a written comment about Rudolf Steiner, Ed Smith combines his own extensive traditional biblical knowledge with his years of concentrated study and reflection on hundreds of assembled works by Steiner. The result is the first Bible commentary in the light of anthroposophic insight. This is the first volume of a series of Bible commentary by the author. It is based on the "anthroposophic" understanding given to humanity by Rudolf Steiner during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Bible commentaries have always reflected the general line of thinking of their authors. However, the dramatic newness of anthroposophic thought means that perhaps the usual method of using a Bible commentary is not appropriate here. A large part of The Burning Bush is necessarily devoted to laying an anthroposophic, or spiritual-scientific, groundwork. A major assumption indulged in most Bible commentaries--that one can go directly to portions dealing with given passages of scripture and understand what is being said about them--does not fit.
Publisher: SteinerBooks
ISBN: 9780880104470
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Even more significant for Christianity in the long run than the twentieth-century Dead Sea and Nag Hammadi discoveries is the growing North American awareness of Rudolf Steiner's works. Virtually unavailable until the end of the twentieth century, English translations from the German archives are gradually coming into print. Both Steiner and his works have thus far been virtually unknown in traditional theological circles. No Bible commentary has yet reflected the remarkable spiritual insights of Anthroposophy. Now, ten years after first encountering a written comment about Rudolf Steiner, Ed Smith combines his own extensive traditional biblical knowledge with his years of concentrated study and reflection on hundreds of assembled works by Steiner. The result is the first Bible commentary in the light of anthroposophic insight. This is the first volume of a series of Bible commentary by the author. It is based on the "anthroposophic" understanding given to humanity by Rudolf Steiner during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Bible commentaries have always reflected the general line of thinking of their authors. However, the dramatic newness of anthroposophic thought means that perhaps the usual method of using a Bible commentary is not appropriate here. A large part of The Burning Bush is necessarily devoted to laying an anthroposophic, or spiritual-scientific, groundwork. A major assumption indulged in most Bible commentaries--that one can go directly to portions dealing with given passages of scripture and understand what is being said about them--does not fit.
When There's No Burning Bush
Author: Gary Morsch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780801091735
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Although they care passionately about serving God, many Christians feel unfulfilled and frustrated by their jobs in the church. "When There's No Burning Bush" emphasizes the ministry of all believers and contends there is no "secular" work. Rather, any work that glorifies God and meets people's needs is ministry.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780801091735
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Although they care passionately about serving God, many Christians feel unfulfilled and frustrated by their jobs in the church. "When There's No Burning Bush" emphasizes the ministry of all believers and contends there is no "secular" work. Rather, any work that glorifies God and meets people's needs is ministry.
Every Bush Is Burning
Author: Brandon Clements
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983785002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
His life falling apart, Jack Bennett strikes up an unlikely friendship with a homeless man who claims to be Jesus. Story is set in Columbia, S.C.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983785002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
His life falling apart, Jack Bennett strikes up an unlikely friendship with a homeless man who claims to be Jesus. Story is set in Columbia, S.C.
The Burning Bush
Author: Lev Gillet
Publisher: Templegate Pub
ISBN: 9780872430631
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Publisher: Templegate Pub
ISBN: 9780872430631
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Prescribed Burning in Australasia
Author: Adam Leavesley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780994258946
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780994258946
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description