1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910704771703321

Titolo

Geothermal production expansion : report (to accompany S. 363)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Printing Office], , [2013]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (11 pages)

Collana

Report / 113th Congress, 1st session, Senate ; ; 113-72

Soggetti

Geothermal resources - Law and legislation - United States

Geothermal leases - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on July 26, 2013).

"July 15, 2013."

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791437203321

Autore

Barnett Robert <1953->

Titolo

Lhasa [[electronic resource] ] : streets with memories / / Robert Barnett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Chichester, : Columbia University Press, 2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Asia perspectives

Disciplina

951.5

951/.5

Soggetti

Lhasa (China) Description and travel

Lhasa (China)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE; A NOTE ON HISTORY; A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREAMBLE; 1THE UNITARY VIEW; 2. FOREIGN VISITORS, OSCILLATIONS, AND EXTREMES; 3. THE SQUARE VIEW AND



THE OUT STRETCHED DEMONESS; 4. THE CITY, THE CIRCLE; 5. MONUMENTAL STATEMENTS AND STREET PLANS; 6. FROM CONCRETE TO BLUE GLASS; 7. THE NEW FLAMBOYANCE AND THE TIBETAN PALM TREE; 8. MESTIZO: TWO NARRATIVES CONVERGE; 9 .THE MULTILAYERED STREETS; NOTES; GLOSSARY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new  nomenklatura. Crumbling mansions, once home to noble ministers, famous lovers, nationalist spies, and covert revolutionaries, now serve as shopping malls and  faux-antique hotels. Each embodiment of the city partakes of the others' memories, whispered across time and along the city