1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484818403321

Titolo

Encyclopedia of World Climatology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John E. Oliver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2005

ISBN

1-4020-3266-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (eReference.)

Collana

Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series, , 1388-4360

Disciplina

551.603

Soggetti

Atmospheric sciences

Climatology

Climate change

Physical geography

Human geography

Oceanography

Atmospheric Sciences

Climate Change

Physical Geography

Human Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

Today, given the well-publicized impacts of events such as El Niño, there is an unequaled public awareness of how climate affects the quality of life and environment. Such awareness has created an increasing demand for accurate climatological information. This information is now available in one convenient, accessible source, the Encyclopedia of World Climatology. This comprehensive volume covers all the main subfields of climatology, supplies information on climates in major continental areas, and explains the intricacies of climatic processes. The level of presentation will meet the needs of specialists, university students, and educated laypersons. A successor to the 1986 Encyclopedia of Climatology, this compendium provides a clear explanation of current knowledge and research directions in modern



climatology. This new encyclopedia emphasizes climatological developments that have evolved over the past twenty years. It offers more than 200 informative articles prepared by 150 experts on numerous subjects, ranging from standard areas of study to the latest research studies. The relationship between climatology and both physical and social science is fully explored, as is the significance of climate for our future well-being. The information is organized for speedy access. Entries are conveniently arranged in alphabetical order, thoroughly indexed, and cross-referenced. Every entry contains useful citations to additional source materials.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910151702203321

Autore

Moser Linda Trinh

Titolo

The woman warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston / / editors, Linda Trinh Moser & Kathryn West, Missouri State University, Springfield, Bellarmine University, Louisville

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ipswich, Massachusetts : , : Salem Press

Amenia, NY : , : Grey House Publishing, , [2016]

�2016

ISBN

1-68217-395-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages)

Collana

Critical Insights

Disciplina

973.04951

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

About this volume / Kathryn West -- On Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Linda Trinh Moser -- Maxine Hong Kingston : a biography / Kathryn West -- Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston / Linda Trinh Moser -- Twentieth-century Chinese and US history / Kathryn West -- The Woman Warrior : an examination of genre / Rickie-Ann Legleitner -- "What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?" : a transnational approach to Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts / Linda Trinh Moser -- Deliberately forgetting : the invention of unnamed ancestors



in Maxine Hong Kingston and Maya Angelou / David Borman -- Kingston's The Woman Warrior in the context of life writing studies : an exploration of relational selfhood / Anne R�uggemeier -- "The words at my back" : Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and the power of discourse / Lorna Martens -- The mother's mark on the daughter's speech in The Woman Warrior / Jeffrey Westover -- The role of talk-story in Maxine Hong Kingston's and Amy Tan's versions of the mother-daughter plot / Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw -- Diaspora and its others : The Woman Warrior and Southeast Asian diasporic literature / Christopher B. Patterson -- Creating meaning and self-affirmation through stories : existentialism and The Woman Warrior / Alex Pinnon -- Mythopoesis and cultural hybridity in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Nelly Mok -- Truths and tellings : The Woman Warrior and Kingston's transformational genres of the real / Elizabeth Rodrigues -- Chronology of Maxine Hong Kingston's Life -- Works by Maxine Hong Kingston.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides readers with a collection of essays and in-depth discussions of Maxine Hong Kingston's novel, "The Woman Warrior". A chronology of Kingston's life, a complete list of Kingston's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided.