Giant pandas [[electronic resource] ] : biology and conservation / / edited by Donald Lindburg and Karen Baragona ; with a foreword by George B. Schaller |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina | 599.789 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
LindburgDonald G. <1932->
BaragonaKaren <1967-> |
Soggetto topico |
Giant panda
Giant panda - Conservation |
Soggetto non controllato |
animal behavior
animal population animals in captivity asia bamboo biology breeding chengdu zoo china conservation ecology environment environmentalism extinction foping nature reserve giant pandas habitat mabian nature reserve mountains natural science paleontology population decline qinling mountains red pandas reintroduction reproduction science supertree ursidae wild animals wildlife yele nature reserve zoo animals zoo atlanta zoology |
ISBN |
9786612357190
0-520-93016-9 1-282-35719-0 1-59734-633-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDG -- Introduction -- 1. Phylogenetic Position of the Giant Panda -- BRIEF REPORT 1.1 -- 2. What Is a Giant Panda? -- 3. A Paleontologist's Perspective on the Origin and Relationships of the Giant Panda -- 4. Variation in Ursid Life Histories -- BRIEF REPORT 4.1 -- 5. Future Survival of Giant Pandas in the Qinling Mountains of China -- WORKSHOP REPORT 5.1 -- 6. Nutritional Strategy of Giant Pandas in the Qinling Mountains of China -- BRIEF REPORT 6.1 -- 7. Chemical Communication in Giant Pandas -- BRIEF REPORT 7.1 -- 8. Reproduction in Giant Pandas -- 9. COMPARATIVE ECOLOGY OF GIANT PANDAS IN THE FIVE MOUNTAIN RANGES OF THEIR DISTRIBUTION IN CHINA -- PANEL REPORT 9.1. Assessing the Habitat and Distribution of the Giant Panda: Methods and Issues -- BRIEF REPORT 9.1 -- 10. Giant Panda Migration and Habitat Utilization in Foping Nature Reserve, China -- BRIEF REPORT 10.1 -- 11. MAPPING HABITAT SUITABILITY FOR GIANT PANDAS IN FOPING NATURE RESERVE, CHINA -- PANEL REPORT 11.1 -- 12. SYMPATRY OF GIANT AND RED PANDAS ON YELE NATURAL RESERVE, CHINA -- 13. BALANCING PANDA AND HUMAN NEEDS FOR BAMBOO SHOOTS IN MABIAN NATURE RESERVE, CHINA: PREDICTIONS FROM A LOGISTIC-LIKE MODEL -- PANEL REPORT 13.1 -- 14. A NEW PARADIGM FOR PANDA RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION: INTEGRATING ECOLOGY WITH HUMAN DEMOGRAPHICS, BEHAVIOR, AND SOCIOECONOMICS -- PANEL REPORT 14.1 -- 15. BIOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING FUTURE EFFORTS IN GIANT PANDA CONSERVATION -- PANEL REPORT 15.1 -- THE LEGACY OF EXTINCTION RISK: LESSONS FROM GIANT PANDAS AND OTHER THREATENED CARNIVORES -- PANEL REPORT 16.1 -- 17. BIOMEDICAL SURVEY OF CAPTIVE GIANT PANDAS: -- BRIEF REPORT 17.1 -- WORKSHOP REPORT 17.1 -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX A. Keynote Address -- APPENDIX B. KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY MARSHALL JON ES -- APPENDIX C. MEMORANDUM OF CONSENSUS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810539003321 |
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A Global History of War : From Assyria to the Twenty-First Century / / Gérard Chaliand |
Autore | Chaliand Gérard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.0209 |
Soggetto topico |
War
Strategy - History War - History War and civilization |
Soggetto non controllato |
ancient history
ancient mesopotamia history armed conflict china civilization combat consequences of war current world order development of war tactics diplomacy empires eurasian cultures eurasian empires evolutionary perspective execution of war fighting geopolitical global war historical history of war history impact of war international war iran men at war military culture military strategy history mongolia peace talks political retrospective turkey war worldwide war warfare |
ISBN | 0-520-95943-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Overview -- Chapter 2. The First Military Empire -- Chapter 3. The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire -- Chapter 4. The Arabs -- Chapter 5. The Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes -- Chapter 6. The Seljuks, the Mamluks, and the Crusades -- Chapter 7. The Mongol Empire -- Chapter 8. Timur the Lame -- Chapter 9. The Ottomans -- Chapter 10. Safavid Persia -- Chapter 11. The Ming and Chinese Politico-Military Traditions -- Chapter 12. The Manchu and the End of the Nomads -- Chapter 13. The Mughals and Islam in India -- Chapter 14. Russia and the End of the Tatars -- Chapter 15. The Ascent of Europe -- Chapter 16. The Time of Revolutions -- Chapter 17. Guerrilla Warfare -- Chapter 18. From Total War to Asymmetrical Conflict -- Chapter 19. Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787080103321 |
Chaliand Gérard
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A Global History of War : From Assyria to the Twenty-First Century / / Gérard Chaliand |
Autore | Chaliand Gérard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.0209 |
Soggetto topico |
War
Strategy - History War - History War and civilization |
Soggetto non controllato |
ancient history
ancient mesopotamia history armed conflict china civilization combat consequences of war current world order development of war tactics diplomacy empires eurasian cultures eurasian empires evolutionary perspective execution of war fighting geopolitical global war historical history of war history impact of war international war iran men at war military culture military strategy history mongolia peace talks political retrospective turkey war worldwide war warfare |
ISBN | 0-520-95943-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Overview -- Chapter 2. The First Military Empire -- Chapter 3. The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire -- Chapter 4. The Arabs -- Chapter 5. The Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes -- Chapter 6. The Seljuks, the Mamluks, and the Crusades -- Chapter 7. The Mongol Empire -- Chapter 8. Timur the Lame -- Chapter 9. The Ottomans -- Chapter 10. Safavid Persia -- Chapter 11. The Ming and Chinese Politico-Military Traditions -- Chapter 12. The Manchu and the End of the Nomads -- Chapter 13. The Mughals and Islam in India -- Chapter 14. Russia and the End of the Tatars -- Chapter 15. The Ascent of Europe -- Chapter 16. The Time of Revolutions -- Chapter 17. Guerrilla Warfare -- Chapter 18. From Total War to Asymmetrical Conflict -- Chapter 19. Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828147503321 |
Chaliand Gérard
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Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print / / James L. Gelvin, Nile Green |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
Disciplina |
909.09767081
909/.09767081 |
Soggetto topico |
Technology -- Islamic countries -- History -- 19th century
Islamic civilization - History - 19th century - Islamic countries Technology - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th century
age of print age of steam china comparative religion cultural revolutions economic change global muslims global religions globalization human history indian ocean industrialization islam islamic scholars islamic world long distance migration muslim communities muslims north africa print technologies religious historians religious history religious scholars social change social network theory south asia steamships technological developments |
ISBN | 0-520-95722-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print -- 1. A Sufi Century? The Modern Spread of the Sufi Orders in Southeast Asia -- 2. An Ottoman Pasha and the End of Empire: Sulayman al-Baruni and the Networks of Islamic Reform -- 3. "A Leading Muslim of Aden": Personal Trajectories, Imperial Networks, and the Construction of Community in Colonial Aden -- 4. Fin-de-Siècle Egypt: A Nexus for Mediterranean and Global Radical Networks -- 5. Hajj in the Time of Cholera: Pilgrim Ships and Contagion from Southeast Asia to the Red Sea -- 6. Trafficking in Evil? The Global Arms Trade and the Politics of Disorder -- 7. The Creation of Iranian Music in the Age of Steam and Print, circa 1880-1914 -- 8. The Globalization of Dried Fruit: Transformations in the Eastern Arabian Economy, 1860s-1920s -- 9. Remembering Java's Islamization: A View from Sri Lanka -- 10. From Zanzibar to Beirut: Sayyida Salme bint Said and the Tensions of Cosmopolitanism -- 11. The Return of Gog: Politics and Pan-Islamism in the Hajj Travelogue of ʿAbd al-Majid Daryabadi -- 12. Taking ʿAbduh to China: Chinese-Egyptian Intellectual Contact in the Early Twentieth Century -- List of Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790764803321 |
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013] | ||
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Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print / / James L. Gelvin, Nile Green |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
Disciplina |
909.09767081
909/.09767081 |
Soggetto topico |
Technology -- Islamic countries -- History -- 19th century
Islamic civilization - History - 19th century - Islamic countries Technology - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th century
age of print age of steam china comparative religion cultural revolutions economic change global muslims global religions globalization human history indian ocean industrialization islam islamic scholars islamic world long distance migration muslim communities muslims north africa print technologies religious historians religious history religious scholars social change social network theory south asia steamships technological developments |
ISBN | 0-520-95722-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print -- 1. A Sufi Century? The Modern Spread of the Sufi Orders in Southeast Asia -- 2. An Ottoman Pasha and the End of Empire: Sulayman al-Baruni and the Networks of Islamic Reform -- 3. "A Leading Muslim of Aden": Personal Trajectories, Imperial Networks, and the Construction of Community in Colonial Aden -- 4. Fin-de-Siècle Egypt: A Nexus for Mediterranean and Global Radical Networks -- 5. Hajj in the Time of Cholera: Pilgrim Ships and Contagion from Southeast Asia to the Red Sea -- 6. Trafficking in Evil? The Global Arms Trade and the Politics of Disorder -- 7. The Creation of Iranian Music in the Age of Steam and Print, circa 1880-1914 -- 8. The Globalization of Dried Fruit: Transformations in the Eastern Arabian Economy, 1860s-1920s -- 9. Remembering Java's Islamization: A View from Sri Lanka -- 10. From Zanzibar to Beirut: Sayyida Salme bint Said and the Tensions of Cosmopolitanism -- 11. The Return of Gog: Politics and Pan-Islamism in the Hajj Travelogue of ʿAbd al-Majid Daryabadi -- 12. Taking ʿAbduh to China: Chinese-Egyptian Intellectual Contact in the Early Twentieth Century -- List of Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823118103321 |
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Go nation [[electronic resource] ] : Chinese masculinities and the game of weiqi in China / / Marc L. Moskowitz |
Autore | Moskowitz Marc L |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina | 794.4 |
Collana | Asia: local studies/global themes |
Soggetto topico |
Go (Game) - China
Games - Social aspects - China |
Soggetto non controllato |
asia scholars
asian studies board games china chinese culture chinese games chinese nationalism chinese traditions class differences competitive culture cultural revolution culture and politics east asia feudalism four noble arts game historians game history games and sports gentlemen go players go imperial times logic games manhood masculinity popular games recreation and games religious enlightenment traditional games weiqi |
ISBN |
0-520-27631-0
0-520-95693-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1, Introduction -- 2. Multiple Metaphors and Mystical Imaginaries: A Cultural History of Weiqi -- 3. Nation, Race, and Man -- 4. Becoming Men: Children's Training in Contemporary China -- 5. A Certain Man: University Students, Amateurs, and Professionals -- 6. Retirement and Constructions of Masculinity among Working-Class Weiqi Players -- 7. Conclusion: Looking Forward to a Bygone Age -- Notes -- Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790594103321 |
Moskowitz Marc L
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Go nation [[electronic resource] ] : Chinese masculinities and the game of weiqi in China / / Marc L. Moskowitz |
Autore | Moskowitz Marc L |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina | 794.4 |
Collana | Asia: local studies/global themes |
Soggetto topico |
Go (Game) - China
Games - Social aspects - China |
Soggetto non controllato |
asia scholars
asian studies board games china chinese culture chinese games chinese nationalism chinese traditions class differences competitive culture cultural revolution culture and politics east asia feudalism four noble arts game historians game history games and sports gentlemen go players go imperial times logic games manhood masculinity popular games recreation and games religious enlightenment traditional games weiqi |
ISBN |
0-520-27631-0
0-520-95693-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1, Introduction -- 2. Multiple Metaphors and Mystical Imaginaries: A Cultural History of Weiqi -- 3. Nation, Race, and Man -- 4. Becoming Men: Children's Training in Contemporary China -- 5. A Certain Man: University Students, Amateurs, and Professionals -- 6. Retirement and Constructions of Masculinity among Working-Class Weiqi Players -- 7. Conclusion: Looking Forward to a Bygone Age -- Notes -- Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826231003321 |
Moskowitz Marc L
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The gods left first [[electronic resource] ] : the captivity and repatriation of Japanese POWs in northeast Asia, 1945-56 / / Andrew E. Barshay |
Autore | Barshay Andrew E |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkley, California, : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina | 940.53/1450952 |
Soggetto topico |
Japanese - Russia (Federation) - Siberia - History - 20th century
Internment camps - Russia (Federation) - Siberia - History - 20th century Japanese - Russia (Federation) - Siberia Prisoners of war - Russia (Federation) - Siberia Japanese - East Asia - History - 20th century Repatriation - Japan - History - 20th century Imperialism - Social aspects - East Asia - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
1945
allied bombing campaigns allied forces anthropology asian empire asian history captivity china contemporary records engaging forced labor historical history imperial japan japanese history japanese imperialism korea labor camps manchuria memoirs men at war page turner poetry political postwar japan primary sources red army reeducation camps repatriation retrospective siberia warfare warriors world war 2. wwii |
ISBN | 0-520-95657-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Names and Terms -- Prologue: The Gods Left First -- The Siberian Internment in History -- Kazuki Yasuo and the Profane World of the Gulag -- Knowledge Painfully Acquired: Takasugi Ichiro and the "Democratic Movement" in Siberia -- Ishihara Yoshiro: "My Best Self Did Not Return" -- Coda -- Appendix: How Many? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779977603321 |
Barshay Andrew E
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The gods left first [[electronic resource] ] : the captivity and repatriation of Japanese POWs in northeast Asia, 1945-56 / / Andrew E. Barshay |
Autore | Barshay Andrew E |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkley, California, : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina | 940.53/1450952 |
Soggetto topico |
Japanese - Russia (Federation) - Siberia - History - 20th century
Internment camps - Russia (Federation) - Siberia - History - 20th century Japanese - Russia (Federation) - Siberia Prisoners of war - Russia (Federation) - Siberia Japanese - East Asia - History - 20th century Repatriation - Japan - History - 20th century Imperialism - Social aspects - East Asia - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
1945
allied bombing campaigns allied forces anthropology asian empire asian history captivity china contemporary records engaging forced labor historical history imperial japan japanese history japanese imperialism korea labor camps manchuria memoirs men at war page turner poetry political postwar japan primary sources red army reeducation camps repatriation retrospective siberia warfare warriors world war 2. wwii |
ISBN | 0-520-95657-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Names and Terms -- Prologue: The Gods Left First -- The Siberian Internment in History -- Kazuki Yasuo and the Profane World of the Gulag -- Knowledge Painfully Acquired: Takasugi Ichiro and the "Democratic Movement" in Siberia -- Ishihara Yoshiro: "My Best Self Did Not Return" -- Coda -- Appendix: How Many? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807345603321 |
Barshay Andrew E
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Golden-silk smoke [[electronic resource] ] : a history of tobacco in China, 1550-2010 / / Carol Benedict |
Autore | Benedict Carol (Carol Ann), <1955-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
Disciplina | 394.1/40951 |
Soggetto topico |
Tobacco - China - History
Tobacco - Social aspects - China Smoking - China - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
16th century
advertisements advertising beijing biji brands china social history china chinese republic cigarette smoking cigarettes commodity consumerism consumption east asia east asian studies fashion gender hand rolled history mass consumerism materia medica new world nonfiction pipes qing newspapers qing poetry snuff tobacco cultivation tobacco travel memoirs travel water pipe |
ISBN |
1-283-27770-0
9786613277701 0-520-94856-4 |
Classificazione | HIS003000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Early Modern Globalization and the Origins of Tobacco in China, 1550-1650 -- 2. The Expansion of Chinese Tobacco Production, Consumption, and Trade, 1600-1750 -- 3. Learning to Smoke Chinese-Style, 1644-1750 -- 4. Tobacco in Ming-Qing Medical Culture -- 5. The Fashionable Consumption of Tobacco, 1750-1900 -- 6. The Emergence of the Chinese Cigarette Industry, 1880-1937 -- 7. Socially and Spatially Differentiated Tobacco Consumption during the Nanjing Decade, 1927-1937 -- 8. The Urban Cigarette and the Pastoral Pipe: Literary Representations of Smoking in Republican China -- 9. New Women, Modern Girls, and the Decline of Female Smoking in China, 1900-1976 -- Epilogue: Tobacco in the People's Republic of China, 1949-2010 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
Altri titoli varianti | History of tobacco in China, 1550-2010 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791869603321 |
Benedict Carol (Carol Ann), <1955->
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