1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910694400803321

Titolo

Energy security in Latin America : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, June 22, 2006

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 70 p.)

Soggetti

Energy industries - Latin America

Energy policy - Latin America

Petroleum industry and trade - Latin America

National security - Latin America

United States Foreign economic relations Latin America

Latin America Foreign economic relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955925403321

Autore

Huang Tsung-yi Michelle

Titolo

Walking between slums and skyscrapers : illusions of open space in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai / / Tsung-Yi Michelle Huang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-282-70733-7

9786612707339

988-220-306-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Disciplina

307.1216095

307.76095

Soggetti

City planning - China - Hong Kong

City planning - Japan - Tokyo

City planning - China - Shanghai

Open spaces - Social aspects - China - Hong Kong

Open spaces - Social aspects - Japan - Tokyo

Open spaces - Social aspects - China - Shanghai

Slums - China - Hong Kong

Slums - Japan - Tokyo

Slums - China - Shanghai

Skyscrapers - China - Hong Kong

Skyscrapers - Japan - Tokyo

Skyscrapers - China - Shanghai

Globalization - Social aspects - China - Hong Kong

Globalization - Social aspects - Japan - Tokyo

Globalization - Social aspects - China - Shanghai

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. [139]-145) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknoloedgements; Introduction; PART ONE Hong Kong Blue: Where Have All the Flaneurs Gone? Walking in Between EternalDual Compression; 1 Hong Kong: A Nodal Point of Dual Compression From British Empire Colony to Disney Kingdom Outpost; 2 Chungking



Express: Walking With a Map of Desire in the Mirag e of the Global City; 3 Between Representations of Space and Representational Spaces: Flaneurie With the Camera's Eye; Part Two Bettwaso Gtobal Flows aod Carnal Fiows: Walking in Tokyo; 4 Mimesis: The Violence of Space; 5 From Mimesis to Mimicry: Memory, Subjectivity, and Space

PART THREE: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall: Walking in Shanghai, A Global City in the M aking6 ""Build It and They Will Come"": Transformation of Pudong into a Copy of the Global City; 7 From Alley Houses to High-rises: What Happene d to the Lived Space?; 8 Sleeping Beauty Waking Up to a New World of Capital: Wang Anyi's Shanghai Stories; Coda; Bibliography; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The book is concerned with the effects of globalization on living space (i.e. the space of everyday life), focusing specifically on East Asian metropolises, such as Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958878503321

Titolo

The suicidal adolescent / / edited by Moses Laufer ; for the Brent Adolescent Centre/Centre for Research into Adolescent Breakdown ; Debbie Bandler Bellman [and eleven others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac Books, 1995

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-92237-X

0-429-90814-8

0-429-48337-6

1-282-90042-0

9786612900426

1-84940-191-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

PRACTICE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY

Disciplina

362.2

371.7/13

616.85844500835

Soggetti

Young adults - Suicidal behavior

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. 143-145) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Work with adolescents at risk -- pt. 2. Proceedings of conference on "The suicidal adolescent".

Sommario/riassunto

Contains a wealth of case material illuminating many aspects of a harrowing problem. The book provides practical therapeutic insights, and also a model of why adolescents might become suicidal.