LEADER 02850nam 22005893u 450 001 9910480702903321 005 20210108144257.0 010 $a1-877551-96-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000405764 035 $a(EBL)1273954 035 $a(OCoLC)854520532 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001605977 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16314742 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001605977 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14896583 035 $a(PQKB)11127312 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1273954 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1273954 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000405764 100 $a20160502d2013|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDevouring Dragon$b[electronic resource] $eHow China's Rise Threatens the Natural World 210 $aWellington $cAwa Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (366 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 327 $aAuthor's Note; Prologue; Part I: China's Baseline; The Yangtze; Baselines; The Three Gorges Dam; Part II: Life on the Brink; Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright; The Sixth Great Extinction; Corbett National Park; Part III: Our Shrinking Forests; A Forest Laid Flat; New Guinea; Our Future Forests; Part IV: Our Warming Skies; Time Travel; Hopenhagen; Epilogue; Notes; Acknowledgements; Copyright 330 $a

For this brilliant book, author Craig Simons visited many of the places and spoke to many of the people impacted by China's explosive economic growth and voracious appetite for resources. From New Guinea, where great forests are being felled and rare birds threatened to meet China's demand for timber; through Brazil, where large swaths of the Amazon are being cleared to plant soybeans for China, and India, where poachers are hunting and killing tigers and other endangered animals to extinction to feed Chinese demand; to Australia, where the coun 517 $aDevouring Dragon 606 $aEnvironmental degradation -- China 606 $aEnvironmental policy -- China 606 $aEnvironmental protection -- International cooperation 606 $aEnvironmental responsibility -- China 606 $aNature -- Effect of human beings on -- China 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aEnvironmental degradation -- China. 615 4$aEnvironmental policy -- China. 615 4$aEnvironmental protection -- International cooperation. 615 4$aEnvironmental responsibility -- China. 615 4$aNature -- Effect of human beings on -- China. 676 $a363.70951 700 $aSimons$b Craig$01037157 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480702903321 996 $aDevouring Dragon$92457929 997 $aUNINA LEADER 02488nam 22005654a 450 001 9910970376603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8190-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000537496 035 $a(EBL)438124 035 $a(OCoLC)320324526 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000105294 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11128589 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105294 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10101528 035 $a(PQKB)11619379 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8616 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL438124 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10237154 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC438124 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000537496 100 $a20020403d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArchitectural body /$fMadeline Gins and Arakawa 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (xxii, 102 pages) 225 1 $aModern and contemporary poetics 311 0 $a0-8173-1168-8 311 0 $a0-8173-1169-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Organism That Persons; 2. Landing Sites; 3. Architecture as Hypothesis; 4. Architectural Surround; 5. Procedural Architecture; 6. Notes for an Architectural Body; 7. Two Architectural Procedures; 8. Critical Holder; 9. Daily Research; About the Authors 330 $aThis manifesto is a verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another. This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process, and philosophical inquiry. Together, they have created an experimental and widely admired body of work--museum installations, landscape and park commissions, home and office designs, avant-garde films, poetry collections--that challenges traditional notions 410 0$aModern and contemporary poetics. 606 $aArchitecture$xPhilosophy 615 0$aArchitecture$xPhilosophy. 676 $a720/.1 700 $aGins$b Madeline$01891784 701 $aArakawa$b Shu?saku$f1936-2010.$01891785 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970376603321 996 $aArchitectural body$94536076 997 $aUNINA