1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458452103321

Autore

Van den Berg Caroline

Titolo

The IBNET water supply and sanitation performance blue book [[electronic resource] ] : the international benchmarking network of water and sanitation utilities databook / / Caroline van den Berg, Alexander Danilenko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : World Bank, 2010

ISBN

1-282-96651-0

9786612966514

0-8213-8588-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (476 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DanilenkoAlexander

Disciplina

363.6/10684

Soggetti

Municipal services

Sanitation

Water utilities

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; IBNET Partners; Abbreviations; 1. IBNET: The International Benchmarking Network for Water and Sanitation Utilities; 2. IBNET Methodology; 3. Status of the Sector; Appendixes; References; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

This book aims to raise awareness of how the International Benchmarking Network of Water and Sanitation Utilities (IBNET)can help utilities identify ways to improve urban water and wastewater services. It provides an introduction to benchmarking and to the objectives, scope and focus of IBNET and describes some of its recent achievements. The methodology and data behind IBNET are elaborated, and an overview of IBNET results and country data are presented.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459352303321

Autore

Hay Jonathan <1956->

Titolo

Sensuous surfaces [[electronic resource] ] : the decorative object in early modern China / / Jonathan Hay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Honolulu, : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-93479-1

9786612934797

1-86189-846-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (442 p.)

Disciplina

745.0951

Soggetti

Decorative arts - China - History - Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912

Art objects, Chinese

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-422) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sensuous Surfaces Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Introduction; Part 1: The Decorative Object; 1. Decoration as Luxury; 2. The Object Thinks With Us; 3. Surface, Affect, Metaphor; Part II: The Surfacescape's Resources; 4. Monochrome Smoothness; 5. Material Patterning; 6. Formal Pattern; 7. Depiction; 8. Inscription; 9. Fictive Surface; 10. Diversified Surface; Part III: From Surfacescapes to Objectscapes; 11. Layering; 12. Object Landscapes; 13. The Atmospherics of Surface; 14. The Erotic Economy of Decoration; References; Select Bibliography; Character List for Chinese; Acknowledgements

Photo AcknowledgementsIndex

Sommario/riassunto

?Sensuous Surfaces is a systematic introduction to the decorative arts in Ming and Qing dynasty China. Jonathan Hay's analysis takes in both material and technique, and also issues of patronage and taste, which together formed a loose system of informal rules that affected every level of decoration in early modern China, from an individual object to the arrangement of an entire residential interior. By engaging the actual and metaphoric potential of surface, this system guided the production and use of the decorative arts during a period of explosive growth, which started in the late sixt



3.

Record Nr.

UNICASRLZ0222690

Titolo

Storie di Castello : La rocca, il potere, la vita del cuore antico di Cagliari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cagliari, : Lions Club, 1995

Descrizione fisica

159 p. : ill. ; 31 cm

Disciplina

369.5

Soggetti

Storia - Studi - Lions club

Cagliari - Castello di San Michele - Raccolte di saggi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia