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An annotated bibliography of Chinese painting catalogues and related texts
The student of Chinese painting must from time to time consult John C. Ferguson’s Li-tai chu-lu hua mu, an index to Chinese paintings recorded in Chinese catalogues. The catalogues in which the paintings are compiled are of equal interest: their compilers, the date of their compilation, their scope, their derivation, their merits and shortcomings, and so on. An Annotated Bibliography of Chine…
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- 9780472902217
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- VI, 143 p.
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- Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies, 16
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- 016.759951 LOV a
Quantitative techniques in participatory forest management
Forest management has evolved from a mercantilist view to a multi-functional one that integrates economic, social, and ecological aspects. However, the issue of sustainability is not yet resolved. Quantitative Techniques in Participatory Forest Management brings together global research in three areas of application: inventory of the forest variables that determine the main environmental indice…
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- 1466569255
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- XX, 588 p.
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- 333.750151 QUA q
Advancing culture of living with landslides: volume 1 ISDR-ICL sendai partner…
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia from May 29 to June 2, 2017. T…
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- 9783319594699
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- XXVI, 586 p.
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- 551.307 ADV a
Observing the volcano world : volcano crisis communication
This book provides a comprehensive overview of volcanic crisis research, the goal being to establish ways of successfully applying volcanology in practice and to identify areas that need to be addressed for future progress. It shows how volcano crises are managed in practice, and helps to establish best practices. Consequently the book brings together authors from all over the globe who work w…
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- 9783319440972
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- xv, 771p. : ill.
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- 551.21 OBS o
Reformist muslims in a Yogyakarta Village : the Islamic transformation of con…
This study examines the religious life of reformist Muslims in a Yogyakarta village. The foci of this discussion are on Muslim villagers’ construction, with the help of the reformist paradigm, of the image of the ‘good Muslim’ and ‘Muslim-ness’, on their efforts to incorporate an (reformist) Islamic framework to question taken-for-granted practices and ideas, on the position of tradit…
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- 9781920942359
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- XVIII, 295 p.
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- 297.448 KIM r
Framing French culture
Throughout this book, the concept of framing is used to look at art, photography, scientific drawings and cinema as visually constituted, spatially bounded productions. The way these genres relate to that which exists beyond the frame, by means of plastic, chemically transposed, pencil-sketched or moving images allows us to decipher the particular language of the visual and at the same time cir…
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- 9781922064875
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- 1 online resource (vi, 290 pages)
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- 840.93244 EDW f
Imagining Earth: concepts of wholeness in cultural constructions of our home …
Solvejg Nitzke, Nicolas Pethes (editions.).
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- 9783839439562
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- 1 electronic resource (172 pages )
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- 306.01 NIT p
Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments …
Taking as its premise that the proposed geologic epoch of the Anthropocene is necessarily an aesthetic event, this book explores the relationship between contemporary art and knowledge production in an era of ecological crisis, with contributions from artists, curators, theorists and activists. Contributors include Amy Balkin, Ursula Biemann, Amanda Boetzkes, Lindsay Bremner, Joshua Clover & Ju…
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- 9781785420177
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- 704.9493042 TUR a
Toward shared Research: participatory and integrative approach in researching…
Intercultural, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research interfaces confront researchers with considerable challenges. Towards Shared Research portrays how scholars from different disciplinary and geographical origins and at various academic career stages strive for a more inclusive and better understanding of knowledge about African environments. The book is addressed to researchers, f…
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- 9783839451502
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- 186p.: ill.
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- 630.967 TOW t
Museum of nonhumanity
Museum of Nonhumanity is the catalogue for a full-size touring museum that presents the history of the distinction between humans and animals, and the way that this artificial boundary has been used to oppress human and nonhuman beings over long historical periods. Throughout history, declaring a group to be nonhuman or subhuman has been an effective tool for justifying slavery, oppression, med…
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- 1st edition.
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- 9781950192120
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- 281p.:
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- B105.A55 GUS m
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