Enter Mercury, Sleeping: Delivering Prayers on the Early Modern Stage

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A call to action for climate change research on Caribbean dry forests

The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-018-1334-6Tropical dry forest (TDF) is globally one of the most threatened forest types. In the insular Caribbean, limited land area and high population pressure have resulted in the loss of over 60% of TDF, yet local people’s reliance on these systems for ecosystem services is high. Given the sensitivity of TDF to shifts in precipitation regimes and the vulnerability of the Caribbean to climate change, this study examined what is currently known about the impacts of climate change on TDF in the region. A systematic review (n = 89) revealed that only two studies addressed the ecological response of TDF to climate change. Compared to the rapidly increasing knowledge of the effects of climate change on other Caribbean systems and on TDF in the wider neotropics, this paucity is alarming given the value of these forests. We stress the need for long-term monitoring of climate change responses of these critical ecosystems, including phenological and hotspot analyses as priorities

Print, manuscript and godly cultures in the north of England, c. 1600-1650

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Cambridge IGCSE Geography

Este libro ha sido escrito específicamente para el Cambridge IGCSE en la asignatura de enseñanza secundaria de geografía, con un cd-rom, proporciona a los profesores curriculum, experiencia y guía en la preparación de exámenes. Los temas del libro son: población y asentamiento ( el crecimiento de la población, superpoblación en Nigeria, estructura de la población, densidad de la población, migración, asentamientos rurales, urbanización, problemas urbanos), el entorno natural (ríos, costas, los arrecifes de coral, tiempo y clima, selvas tropicales, desiertos, la sequía en Australia, inundaciones en Mozambique), desarrollo económico y el uso de recursos (agricultura, empleo y trabajo, el turismo, dañando el medio ambiente, política de conservación, el reciclaje).scBiblioteca de Educación del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte; Calle San Agustín, 5 - 3 planta; 28014 Madrid; Tel. +34917748000; [email protected]

'Reading, family religion, and evangelical identity in late Stuart England'.

In this article we unravel family religion as a crucial strand of evangelical piety in the late seventeenth century. We show how this programme was promoted in print and manuscript by a group of evangelical clergy from both sides of the conformist divide. Using the printed and manuscript memoirs of John Rastrick, a Lincolnshire clergyman, we explore the construction of clerical sociability through the printed text. In particular, we demonstrate that its heart was the communal reading of scripture and religious literature, confirming the household as the key locus for piety in this period. Whereas historians have traditionally been eager to categorize both clergy and laity in this period as either Anglican or nonconformist, we demonstrate that such a divide was often blurred in practice, in particular as represented through family religion. By focusing on issues such as sociability, the formation of identities, and reading practices, we also reconnect the second half of the century with its early Stuart past, suggesting that its influences and refractions fed into a continuity of evangelical identity, stretching from late sixteenth-century puritanism through the Civil War and Restoration to the onset of Evangelicalism in the eighteenth century. Though they were complex, these continuities help to show that a coherent style of evangelical piety was expressed across the ecclesiastical divide throughout the long seventeenth century