China The Super Predator

Author : Pierre-Antoine Donnet
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803414170
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China the Super Predator written by Pierre-Antoine Donnet and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is facing tremendous economic, social and political challenges, as well as having become a predominant contributor to climate change. It has also become a predator against the Uyghurs, the Tibetans, and the Mongols, and taken over Hong Kong, silencing any forms of dissent. It increasingly appears that one of the Communist regime's main goals is to control the entire world, but this global ambition now faces mounting geopolitical difficulties. At the center stands Taiwan, which has become a full-blown democracy and, perhaps, a model for the entire Chinese nation. The United States - along with Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, and other states - are, more than ever before, willing to defend Taiwan. The possibility of a clash is real, making China along with Russia the main threat to the democratic world.

Author : Paul Knepper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415509777
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cesare Lombroso Handbook written by Paul Knepper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the definitive introduction to current scholarship on Cesare Lombroso, his work and his legacy. It brings together essays by leading Lombroso scholars from social history, history of ideas, law, criminology, cultural studies and Jewish studies. It will be of interest to academics, students and the general reader alike.

Author : Dale A. Russell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253023912
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islands in the Cosmos written by Dale A. Russell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it that we came to be here? The search for answers to that question has preoccupied humans for millennia. Scientists have sought clues in the genes of living things, in the physical environments of Earth from mountaintops to the depths of the ocean, in the chemistry of this world and those nearby, in the tiniest particles of matter, and in the deepest reaches of space. In Islands of the Cosmos, Dale A. Russell traces a path from the dawn of the universe to speculations about our future on this planet. He centers his story on the physical and biological processes in evolution, which interact to favor more successful, and eliminate less successful, forms of life. Marvelously, these processes reveal latent possibilities in life's basic structure, and propel a major evolutionary theme: the increasing proficiency of biological function. It remains to be seen whether the human form can survive the dynamic processes that brought it into existence. Yet the emergence of the ability to acquire knowledge from experience, to optimize behavior, to conceptualize, to distinguish "good" from "bad" behavior all hint at an evolutionary outcome that science is only beginning to understand.

Author : Nele Noesselt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 3643963491
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's New Silk Road Dreams written by Nele Noesselt and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262042835
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growth written by Vaclav Smil and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Smil takes readers from bacterial invasions through animal metabolisms to megacities and the global economy. He begins with organisms whose mature sizes range from microscopic to enormous, looking at disease-causing microbes, the cultivation of staple crops, and human growth from infancy to adulthood. He examines the growth of energy conversions and man-made objects that enable economic activities—developments that have been essential to civilization. Finally, he looks at growth in complex systems, beginning with the growth of human populations and proceeding to the growth of cities. He considers the challenges of tracing the growth of empires and civilizations, explaining that we can chart the growth of organisms across individual and evolutionary time, but that the progress of societies and economies, not so linear, encompasses both decline and renewal. The trajectory of modern civilization, driven by competing imperatives of material growth and biospheric limits, Smil tells us, remains uncertain.

Author : Yan Zhou
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811511411
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Contemporary Chinese Art written by Yan Zhou and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese art has experienced its most profound metamorphosis since the early 1950s, transforming from humble realism to socialist realism, from revolutionary art to critical realism, then avant-garde movement, and globalized Chinese art. With a hybrid mix of Chinese philosophy, imported but revised Marxist ideology, and western humanities, Chinese artists have created an alternative approach – after a great ideological and aesthetic transition in the 1980s – toward its own contemporaneity though interacting and intertwining with the art of rest of the world. This book will investigate, from the perspective of an activist, critic, and historian who grew up prior to and participated in the great transition, and then researched and taught the subject, the evolution of Chinese art in modern and contemporary times. The volume will be a comprehensive and insightful history of the one of the most sophisticated and unparalleled artistic and cultural phenomena in the modern world.

Author : Lawrence Lenhart
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820364142
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backvalley Ferrets written by Lawrence Lenhart and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twice declared extinct, North America's most endangered mammal species, the black-footed ferret (BFF), is making a comeback thanks to an evolving conservation regimen at more than thirty reintroduction sites across the continent. Lawrence Lenhart lingers at one such site in his proverbial backyard, the Aubrey Valley in northern Arizona. He clocks hundreds of hours behind the wheel, rolling over ranch ruts as he shines a spotlight over dusky sage steppe in the hopes of catching a fleck of emerald eyeshine. The beguiling weasel at the center of this book is more than a charismatic minifauna; it is the covert ambassador of a critical ecosystem that has dwindled to 1 percent of its former size. In a landscape menaced by habitat fragmentation, bacterial plague, settler colonialism, and soil death, a ferret must be resilient. Lenhart investigates the human efforts to sustain the species through monitoring, vaccination, captive breeding, and even cloning. Lenhart balances this lens of environmental witness with personal essaying that captures the parallel story of his wife's pregnancy as he realizes the ferret's conservation story is dramatically synchronized with her trimesters. In preparing to raise a child in the Anthropocene, Lenhart takes stock of his own ecosystem and finds something is amiss. Through an ethic of "deeper ecology," Lenhart must hone his ecological interest in the black-footed ferret to assure it isn't overshadowed by his own paternal interests.

Author : Atul Jaybhaye
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100099189X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Juvenile Justice in India written by Atul Jaybhaye and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting Juvenile Justice in India analyses the challenges and issues involved in the study of juvenile justice in India. The book compares the juvenile justice systems of the USA, the UK and China with India to identify causes of juvenile delinquency and the measures to curb it. It traces the origin of juvenile justice in India and its evolution through landmark judgments. The book critically analyses the Nirbhaya Rape Case of 2012, analyzing the age of criminal responsibility for juveniles and the need for new juvenile justice laws which lead to the passing of the Juvenile Justice (Care of Protection of Children) Act, 2015. The book studies international conventions upholding the rights of children i.e., UNCRC, Beijing Rules, Riyadh Guidelines, etc. and the legal framework for child protection in India and its relevance to juvenile justice. This book will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate law students, advocates, criminal law practitioners, officers/staff of the correction homes, Judges of the Juvenile Justice Board, and research scholars.

Author : Tim Casart
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595335071
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mysterious Chinese Book of Everything written by Tim Casart and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Mysterious Chinese Book of Everything, eleven stories deliver a unique, sometimes tender, often laugh-out-loud glimpse into one man's evolution from a strict Catholic upbringing in Midwestern America to an experimental and unorthodox adulthood oceans away. Whether it's a nostalgic story of the first-time, drop-your-drawers physical of a terrified teenage boy, or the fanciful tale of his efforts to stump Dr. Ng's mysterious Chinese volume, the adventures of author Tim Casart are familiar enough to kindle our own coming-of-age memories and offbeat enough to capture our imagination. Casart's entertaining collection reflects one man's, and maybe every man's, valiant attempt to make an extraordinary life out of the ordinary.

Author : Inc Scholastic
Publisher : 24/7: Behind the Headlines Spe
ISBN 13 : 9780531218068
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Population 1.3 Billion written by Inc Scholastic and published by 24/7: Behind the Headlines Spe. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To get rich is glorious!" With that rallying cry, China's leader Deng Xiaoping transformed his struggling nation into a modern superpower. Today, young people in China can buy stuff their parents never had as kids. And for the first time in their lives, their parents can own homes, buy cars, and run their own businesses. Follow The Amazing Rise Of China By Reading About: what it's like to be a teenager in this fast-changing country; why so many labels read "Made in China"; why government censors are blocking some websites; and how China's Olympics wowed the world. Book jacket.