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On 16 June 1904, exactly one hundred years before the establishment of CHASS, an Irish Jew of Hungarian extraction called Leopold Bloom set off on a twenty-four hour perambulation around the streets and bars of Dublin. This fictional incident is the basis of James Joyce's Ulysses, the greatest novel of modern times. It has also given rise to Bloomsday, a kind of Irish literary holy day celebrated in cities all around the world. It was a specially appropriate moment for us to celebrate the birth of our new peak body, because Bloomsday provides a perfect parable for why the Australian public and government should cherish our sector.

Research from a humanist perspective has much to offer in interrogating the social and cultural ramifications of invasion ecologies. The impossibility of securing national boundaries against accidental transfer and the unpredictable climatic changes of our time have introduced new dimensions and hazards to this old issue. Written by a team of international scholars, this book allows us to rethink the impact on national, regional or local ecologies of the deliberate or accidental introduction of foreign species, plant and animal. Modern environmental approaches that treat nature with naïve realism or mobilize it as a moral absolute, unaware or unwilling to accept that it is informed by specific cultural and temporal values, are doomed to fail. Instead, this book shows that we need to understand the complex interactions of ecologies and societies in the past, present and future over the Anthropocene, in order to address problems of the global environmental crisis. It demonstrates how humanistic methods and disciplines can be used to bring fresh clarity and perspective on this long vexed aspect of environmental thought and practice. Students and researchers in environmental studies, invasion ecology, conservation biology, environmental ethics, environmental history and environmental policy will welcome this major contribution to environmental humanities.

Visitors to the National Museum of Australia's repository can encounter a crazy mechanical sculpture, entitled 'The Law Machine', constructed by political cartoonist Bruce Petty. A distinctive lawyer's wig, copperplate writing on wood, antique money, musical instrum.ents, knives, forks and a range of old and new everyday objects are loosely assembled into an anthropomorphic machine evoking centuries-old traditions. When the handle of this unique apparatus is turned, the adversarial system pits defence against prosecution to process money, persuasion, judgement, penalties and human rights in an apparently random fashion. Consuming at the wig end and excreting jurisprudential outcomes at the other, Petty's Law Machine satirises the legal system's unclear logic and the icons of its authority.

Visitors to the National Museum of Australia's repository can encounter a crazy mechanical sculpture, entitled 'The Law Machine', constructed by political cartoonist Bruce Petty. A distinctive lawyer's wig, copperplate writing on wood, antique money, musical instruments, knives, forks and a range of old and new everyday objects are loosely assembled into an anthropomorphic machine evoking centuries-old traditions. When the handle of this unique apparatus is turned, the adversarial system pits defence against prosecution to process money, persuasion, judgement, penalties and human rights in an apparently random fashion. Consuming at the wig end and excreting jurisprudential outcomes at the other, Petty's Law Machine surprises the legal system's unclear logic and the icons of its authority.

Visitors to the National Museum of Australia's repository can encounter a crazy mechanical sculpture, entitled 'The Law Machine', constructed by political cartoonist Bruce Petty. A distinctive lawyer's wig, copperplate writing on wood, antique money, musical instruments, knives, forks and a range of old and new everyday objects are loosely assembled into an anthropomorphic machine evoking centuries-old traditions. When the handle of this unique apparatus is turned, the adversarial system pits defence against prosecution to process money, persuasion, judgement, penalties and human rights in an apparently random fashion. Consuming at the wig end and excreting jurisprudential outcomes at the other, Petty's Law Machine surprises the legal system's unclear logic and the icons of its authority.

Since the late 1700s new forms of visual entertainment have tried to simulate the details of nature: reenactment has now become the most widely-consumed form of popular history. This book engages with the quest for definition and appropriate delimitation of reenactment as well as questions about the relationship between realism and affect

Newgate in Revolution provides a useful and thought-provoking anthology of radical literature -- satirical, philosophical and political writings -- issued by the radicals and religious dissenters imprisoned in Newgate during the turbulent and nervous period 1780-1848. Newgate was a dreaded prison during this period and its image and reputation coupled to make it the English equivalent of the French Bastille. For those who found themselves incarcerated in Newgate the experience was debilitating and repressive. However, in the case of the radical prisoners it is a curious irony that this repre

Eigentlich hieß er Giuseppe Balsamo und wurde 1743 in Palermo in ärmlichen Verhältnissen geboren. Als "Alessandro Graf Cagliostro" wurde er in Europa berühmt: durch erfolgreiche Heilungen, alchemistische und "Wunder"-Vorführungen und durch die Gründung von Filialen seiner Freimaurerloge. Besaß er wirklich magische, übernatürliche Kräfte oder war er nur ein dreister "Showbruder", ein Scharlatan? Auf jeden Fall muss er wohl die Fähigkeit gehabt haben, andere durch seine Ausstrahlung in seinen Bann zu ziehen - seine Anhängerschaft war groß und etliche Mächtige (z.B. Katharina die Große) mochten ihn nicht. Der Autor hat sorgfältig recherchiert und skizziert das Leben des "letzten Alchemisten" auf spannende Weise, gleichzeitig informationsreich und mit viel Einbettung in den historischen Kontext, denn Cagliostro lebte in einer Zeit, als aufklärerisches Gedankengut und der Glaube an Magie und okkulte Elemente Gegenpole bildeten und die Revolution ihren Lauf nahm. Eine gelungene Biografie, die sowohl der Faszination als auch dem Wesen dieser Persönlichkeit und ihrer Zeit gerecht wird. (2)