Soil for building materials / / Rebecca Stefoff

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910150334603321
• Autore: Stefoff Rebecca <1951->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Cavendish Square, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-5026-2165-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: The science of soil
• Disciplina: 624.1/891
• Soggetti: Soil mechanics; Building materials
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Under foot -- Earth buildings around the world -- Using soil to build -- New directions -- Glossary.

Birth of the symbol [[electronic resource] ] : ancient readers at the limits of their texts / / Peter T. Struck

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787773403321
• Autore: Struck Peter T
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2004
• ISBN: 1-282-08743-6; 1-282-93536-4; 9786612087431; 9786612935367; 1-4008-2609-8
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
• Disciplina: 881/.010915
• Soggetti: Classical poetry - History and criticism; Symbolism in literature; Books and reading - Greece; Books and reading - Rome; Rhetoric, Ancient; Allegory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-296) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction. The Genealogy of the Symbolic -- 1. Symbols and Riddles: Allegorical Reading and the Boundaries of the Text -- 2. Beginnings to 300 B.C.E.: Meaning from the Void of Chance and the Silence Of The Secret -- 3. From the Head of Zeus: The Birth of the Literary Symbol -- 4. Swallowed Children and Bound Gods: The Diffusion of The Literary Symbol -- 5. 300 B.C.E.-200 C.E.: The Symbol as Ontological Signifier -- 6. Iamblichus and the Defense of Ritual: Talismanic Symbols -- 7 Moonstones and Men that Glow: Proclus and the Talismanic Signifier -- Epilogue. Symbol Traces: Post-Proclean Theories -- Appendix. Chrysippus'S Reading and Authorial Intention: The Case of the Mural at Samos -- Bibliography Of Ancient Authors -- Bibliography Of Modern Authors -- Index Locorum -- General Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and theorists who invented the idea of the poetic "symbol." The book notes that Aristotle and his followers did not discuss the use of poetic symbolism. Rather, a different group of Greek thinkers--the allegorists--were the first to develop the notion. Struck extensively revisits the work of the great allegorists, which has been underappreciated. He links their interest in symbolism to the importance of divination and magic in ancient times, and he demonstrates how important symbolism became when they thought about religion and philosophy. "They see the whole of great poetic language as deeply figurative," he writes, "with the potential always, even in the most mundane details, to be freighted with hidden messages." Birth of the Symbol offers a new understanding of the role of poetry in the life of ideas in ancient Greece. Moreover, it demonstrates a connection between the way we understand poetry and the way it was understood by important thinkers in ancient times.

China's new urbanization strategy / / China Development Research Foundation

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779700703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-138-48176-9; 0-203-07493-9; 1-299-44814-3; 1-135-11720-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (382 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies on the Chinese economy ; ; 49
• Disciplina: 307.760951
• Soggetti: Urbanization - China; City planning - China; Rural-urban migration - China
• 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; China's New Urbanization Strategy; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Project team; Preface I; Preface II; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Urbanization in China: process, trends, and challenges; 2 Converting rural migrant workers into urban residents in the course of urbanization; 3 Setting up a spatial configuration for 'urbanization' in China that features 'two horizontal lines and three vertical lines'; 4 Making 'urban clusters' the primary form of urbanization in China; 5 Industrial structure and employment considerations in the course of urbanization6 How to improve the provision of public services in urban areas; 7 Creating sustainable processes for building and financing urban infrastructure; 8 A 'green path' toward urbanization; 9 Innovative approaches to managing 'urbanization' and 'city governance'; 10 Policy recommendations; Appendices; Bibliography; English references; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Urbanization is one of the major challenges facing China. Of China's 1.3 billion people, around half still live in rural areas. There has been huge migration from rural areas to cities in recent years, a trend that is likely to continue strong for some time. The strains that this vast migration puts on China's cities are enormous. This book makes available for the English-speaking reader the results of a large group of research projects undertaken by CDRF, one of China's leading think tanks, into the details of rural-urban migration, the resulting urban growth and the problems associated wi