1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465518903321

Autore

Hung Hing Ming

Titolo

The road to the throne [[electronic resource] ] : how Liu Bang founded China's Han dynasty / / Hing Ming Hung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Pub., c2011

ISBN

0-87586-839-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Disciplina

931/.04

Soggetti

Electronic books.

China Kings and rulers Biography

China History Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; Chapter 1: The Background; Chapter 2: The Great Uprisings against the Qin Dynasty; Chapter 3: The Common Effort to Overthrow the Qin Dynasty; Chapter 4: The Struggle between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu; Chapter 5: The Founding of the Han Dynasty; Chapter 6: Members of the Lü Family Conspire to Usurp the Throne and Liu Heng Ascends to the Throne of the Han Dynasty

Sommario/riassunto

The stories of the Chinese great emperors reflect the ancient Chinese philosophy, ideology, their wisdom and their ways of administration. Liu Bang is an outstanding example. Rising from a peasant background to become Emperor, he founded the Han Dynasty which lasted for about four hundred years and essentially laid the foundations of China as we know it.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910511890903321

Autore

Hart Aminah

Titolo

How I met your father / / Aminah Hart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney : , : Allen & Unwin, , 2016

ISBN

1-952533-51-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 pages) : color illustrations

Disciplina

306.85092

Soggetti

Man-woman relationships

Sperm donors

Fertilization in vitro, Human

Families

Single mothers

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910139432903321

Titolo

Trade-offs in conservation : deciding what to save / / edited by Nigel Leader-Williams, William M. Adams, and Robert J. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-4443-4810-8

1-283-86916-0

1-4443-2491-8

1-4443-2490-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (428 p.)

Collana

Conservation Science and Practice Series ; ; Number 8

Conservation science and practice series ; ; no. 8

Disciplina

333.72

333.95/16

333.9516

Soggetti

Wildlife conservation - Decision making

Wildlife conservation - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on presentations at a Zoological Society of London Symposium on Conservation Biology held in London in November 2007. Cf. pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Trade-offs in Conservation; Contents; Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Deciding What to Save: Trade-offs in Conservation; Part I Current Approaches and Toolkits; 2. Prioritizing Trade-offs in Conservation; 3. Trade-offs in Identifying Global Conservation Priority Areas; 4. Trade-offs in Making Ecosystem Services and HumanWell-being Conservation Priorities; 5. Defining and Measuring Success in Conservation; Part II Influence of Value Systems; 6. Conserving Invertebrates: How Many can be Saved, and How?

7. Trade-offs between Animal Welfare and Conservation in Law and Policy8. Protection or Use: a Case of Nuanced Trade-offs?; 9. Whose Value Counts? Trade-offs between Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction; 10. The Power of Traditions in Conservation; Part III Economics and Governance; 11. Misaligned Incentives and Trade-offs



in Allocating Conservation Funding; 12. Marketing and Conservation: How to Lose Friends and Influence People; 13. Trade-offs between Conservation and Extractive Industries

14. A Fighting Chance: can Conservation Create a Platform for Peace within Cycles of Human Conflict?Part IV Social and Institutional Constraints; 15. Trading-off 'Knowing' versus 'Doing' for Effective Conservation Planning; 16. Path Dependence in Conservation; 17. Conservation Trade-offs and the Politics of Knowledge; Part V Future Challenges; 18. Climate Change and Conservation; 19. Drivers of Biodiversity Change; 20. Another Entangled Bank: Making Conservation Trade-offs More Explicit; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book demonstrates that trade-offs can be very important for conservationists. Its various chapters show how and why trade-offs are made, and why conservationists need to think very hard about what, if anything, to do about them. The book argues that conservationists must carefully weigh up, and be explicit about, the trade-offs that they make every day in deciding what to save. Key Features:Discusses the wider non-biological issues that surround making decisions about which species and biogeographic areas to prioritise for conservationFocuses on questions such as: Wha