The Great Smog of China: A Short Event History of Air Pollution, Paperback - Anna L. Ahlers

The Great Smog of China traces Chinese air pollution events dating back to more than 2, 000 years ago. Based on the authors' fieldwork, interviews ...

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A landmark reckoning with air pollution, diagnostic of the scope and origin of the current problem, while suggesting ways to alleviate the pervasiv...

If you want to discover the captivating history of China, then keep reading...The history of China is complex-perhaps more complex than that of oth...

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This book analyses China's approach to tackling air pollution over the past two decades. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of C...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Harold M. TannerIllustration(s): heavily illustratedNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2010Dimen...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Feng YoulanEditor: Derk BoddeThe classic chronicle of Chinese philosophical thought from the third millennium to the 20th c...

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Martin Luther's foundational bringing about of a schism towards Protestantism is considered in terms of its impact on art, sexuality, print culture...

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The flora of China is astonishing in its diversity and has more botanical variety than anywhere else in the world. A unique addition to the botanic...

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Reducere. When the China Clipper shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day flight from California to the Orient in 1935, the flying boat became an ins...

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DescriptionDuring his campaign for the presidency, one of Donald Trump's signature promises was that he would build a "great great wall" on the bor...

How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origin...

Reducere. New multi-volume series both fun and educational, in slim pocket sized hardcovers Current day kids Annie and Nico travel back to--ancient China to ...

With an updated introduction and new epilogue, this is full of stories of the people, towns and communities affected by air pollution, from London'...

DescriptionLogics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badiou's masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being a...

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This work traces the yearning for contact not only through philosophy and literature but also by exploring the cultural reception of communication ...

The field of electromagnet sensitivity is the new epidemic of the 21st century, and can cause disease of the automatic nerve system in any part of ...

Publisher: University of Hawai'i PressAuthor(s): Frank ChinNumber of pages: 280Collection: Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural ...

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Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting chronicles the life of a modern art form. In the late 1910s Chinese painters began working outdoors. T...

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A kid from Boston yearns to fly. In December, 1941, he graduates from Army Air Corps Flight school and is assigned to a fighter squadron. But fate ...

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A century of complex relations between Communists and workers in ChinaPublisher: Verso BooksNumber of pages: 720Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

The ace pilots of the Republic of China Air Force have long been shrouded in mystery, as their retreat to Taiwan in 1949 and blanket martial law ma...

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The Civil War was undeniably an integral event in American history, but for African Americans, whose personal liberties were dependent upon its out...

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