Grand documentation : Ernst Boerschmann and Chinese Religious Architecture (1906-1931) / / Eduard Kögel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827958203321
• Autore: Kögel Eduard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Walter de Gruyter, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 3-11-040139-8; 3-11-040134-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (592 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BoerschmannErnst <1873-1949.>
• Disciplina: 726.0951
• Soggetti: Architecture - China
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• 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: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Plates -- Introduction -- Preparation and research concept -- Field trips in China (1906–1909) -- Boerschmann’s research results (1909–1931) -- Conclusion: Documenting a vanishing culture -- Addendum -- Literature -- Chinese Dynasties and Emperors -- Index -- Photocredits
• Sommario/riassunto: Ernst Boerschmann war in der ersten Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts der wichtigste ausländische Architekturforscher in China. Dieses Buch befasst sich mit seiner dreijährigen Forschungsreise (1906–1909) durch das chinesische Kaiserreich. Als erster dokumentierte er systematisch die religiöse Architektur in China und brachte von seinen Reisen viele tausend Fotographien, Skizzen und Bauaufnahmen mit. Seine sechs großformatigen Publikationen bis 1931, die in diesem Buch mitsamt den Kritiken dargestellt werden, waren Meilensteine auf dem Weg zu einer chinesischen Architekturgeschichte, lange bevor sich chinesische Kollegen (ab 1930) mit diesem Thema befassten.; Ernst Boerschmann was the most influential foreign architectural researcher in China in the first half of the twentieth century. This book concerns his three-year research expedition through the Chinese Empire (1906–1909). He was the first Westerner to systematically document China’s religious architecture, returning from his travels with ; thousands of photographs, sketches, and architectural surveys. His six major publications leading up to 1931, described here alongside the reactions they caused, were milestones on the path to formal study of Chinese architectural history, long before Chinese academics themselves began to take interest in the subject in the 1930s.

Apocalypse never : forging the path to a nuclear weapon-free world / / Tad Daley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910961115503321
• Autore: Daley Tad
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 0-8135-4949-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.1/747
• Soggetti: Nuclear disarmament; Nuclear arms control; Nuclear nonproliferation
• 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 index.
• Nota di contenuto: Apocalypse soon? -- The essence of the problem: America's nuclear hypocrisy -- The nightmare of nuclear terror -- Accidental atomic apocalypse -- Nuclear crisis mismanagement: "there would be no learning curve" -- Intentional use: the nuclear legacy of George W. Bush -- The grand bargain of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, and the rules of the nuclear game today -- Nuclear weapons are militarily unnecessary and militarily useless. for us. -- The architecture of a nuclear weapon-free world -- Breakout: could someone cheat and rule the world? -- How it might happen: transforming abolition from a utopian fantasy into a concrete political goal -- Apocalypse never.
• Sommario/riassunto: Apocalypse Never illuminates why we must abolish nuclear weapons, how we can, and what the world will look like after we do. The twenty-first century has ushered in a world at the atomic edge. The pop culture days of Dr. Strangelove have been replaced by the all-too-real single day of 24 . Tad Daley has written a book for the general reader about ; this most crucial of contemporary challenges. Apocalypse Never maintains that the abolition of nuclear weapons is both essential and achievable, and reveals in fine detail what we need to do--both governments and movements--to make it a reality. Daley insists that while global climate change poses the single greatest long-term peril to the human race, the nuclear challenge in its many incarnation--nuclear terror, nuclear accident, a nuclear crisis spinning out of control--poses the single most immediate peril. Daley launches a wholesale assault on the nuclear double standard--the notion that the United States permits itself thousands of these weapons but forbids others from aspiring to even one--insisting that it is militarily unnecessary, morally indefensible, and politically unsustainable. He conclusively repudiates the most frequent objection to nuclear disarmament, "the breakout scenario"--the possibility that after abolition someone might whip back the curtain, reveal a dozen nuclear warheads, and proceed to "rule the world." On the wings of a brand new era in American history, Apocalypse Never makes the case that a comprehensive nuclear policy agenda from President Obama, one that fully integrates nonproliferation with disarmament, can both eliminate immediate nuclear dangers and set us irreversibly on the road to abolition. In jargon-free language, Daley explores the possible verification measures, enforcement mechanisms, and governance structures of a nuclear weapon-free world. Most importantly, he decisively argues that universal nuclear disarmament is something we can transform from a utopian fantasy into a concrete political goal.