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Giant pandas [[electronic resource] ] : biology and conservation / / edited by Donald Lindburg and Karen Baragona ; with a foreword by George B. Schaller
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
Berkley, : University of California Press, c2004
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A Global History of War : From Assyria to the Twenty-First Century / / Gérard Chaliand
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  
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2014]
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A Global History of War : From Assyria to the Twenty-First Century / / Gérard Chaliand
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  
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2014]
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Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print / / James L. Gelvin, Nile Green
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
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
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013]
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Go nation [[electronic resource] ] : Chinese masculinities and the game of weiqi in China / / Marc L. Moskowitz
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  
Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2013
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Go nation [[electronic resource] ] : Chinese masculinities and the game of weiqi in China / / Marc L. Moskowitz
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  
Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2013
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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
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
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Barshay Andrew E  
Berkley, California, : University of California Press, 2013
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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
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  
Berkley, California, : University of California Press, 2013
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Golden-silk smoke [[electronic resource] ] : a history of tobacco in China, 1550-2010 / / Carol Benedict
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->  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011
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