Author : Robert Ashmore
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Chinese poetry
ISBN : 9780674053212
"This book uses questions concerning address and understanding in Tao Qian's poetry as a lens through which to explore both the poet and the cultures of reading and interpretation of the Six Dynasties classicist tradition"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Moira Butterfield
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2021-10
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781406386844
A vibrant celebration of things that go, with a lively text from author Moira Butterfield and pictures from debut-talent Bryony Clarkson. Come and hitch a ride in vehicles of every shape and size- from family cars to double-decker buses, chugging tractors to speedy supercars, and gigantic monster-trucks to noisy fire engines. With bounce-along rhythms and fascinating facts from author Moira Butterfield, and bright, lively pictures by rising star Bryony Clarkson, any single reading of My Big Book of Transport is sure to result in a victory lap or two! For ages 3- 7.
Author : Shashank S Tiwari
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2020-06-27
Category :
ISBN :
Introducing Hindi learning series, a picture book about transportation for kids. The subtitles written in Roman Hindi and in the English are highly helpful to learn Hindi for non-native Hindi speakers as well.
Author : Robert Ashmore
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1684175003
For centuries, readers of Tao Qian have felt directly addressed by his poetic voice. This theme in the reception of Tao Qian, moreover, developed alongside an assumption that Tao was fundamentally misunderstood during his own age. This book revisits Tao’s approach to his readers by attempting to situate it within the particular poetics of address that characterized the Six Dynasties classicist tradition. How would Tao Qian have anticipated that his readers would understand him? No definitive answer is knowable, but this direction of inquiry suggests closer examination of the cultures of reading and understanding of his period. From this inquiry, two interrelated groups of problems emerge as particularly pressing both for Tao Qian and for his contemporaries: first, problems relating to understanding authoritative texts, centered on the relation between meanings and the outward “traces” of those meanings’ expression; second, problems relating to understanding human character, centered on the unworldly scholar—the emblematic figure for the set of values often termed “eremitic.”
Author : Karen Lucas
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0128148187
Measuring Transport Equity provides a range of methods with the potential to shape transport decision-making processes, thus allowing for the adoption of more equitable transport solutions. Presenting numerous applied methods and applications of transport equity assessment, this book formalizes the disciplinary practice, definitions, and methodologies for transport equity. In addition, it recognizes the different types of equity and acknowledges that each requires its own assessment methodologies. Bringing together the most up-to-date perspectives and practical approaches for assessing equity in relation to accessibility, environmental impacts, health, and wellbeing, the book sets standards for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners for conducting social impact analyses and is an ideal reference for those involved in transport planning.
Author : Emma Damon
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781857076530
Explores all the different ways people travel, from sports cars and buses to wheelchairs and skates.
Author : HP Newquist
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0698405366
This lively history of transportation follows our fascinating route from primitive technology like sandals to driverless cars and beyond! Since humans first stood upright, we've been on the move. Need food? Water? Land? A place to live? Survival depends upon motion. For thousands of years, people have devised ways to move faster, farther, and more comfortably. Their inventions—shoes, skis, the rudder, the wheel, engines, rockets—have had an enormous impact on how and where human beings live and thrive. When human beings get a move on, change happens: - The wheel, probably first used in the Middle East around 6,000 years ago, meant building and trading supplies could be moved more easily—whole civilizations rolled out. - The Vikings sailed far and wide because they used a keel on their longships. - Horse-and-carriage gridlock gave rise to subways. - The bicycle changed the world for women in terms of freedom and fashion. - Drones and driverless cars are the future . . . coming sooner than we think. Award-winning author HP Newquist explores the transportation inventions and technologies that have transformed the way we experience the world around us. It’s a fascinating journey!
Author : Phillip Peterson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 2016-09-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781539063612
"Transport? Transport to where, Sir?" "Possibly straight to hell." Who will live? Who will die? An alien object is discovered off the coast of California; a sphere that transports people to other solar systems. Death-row inmate Russell Harris and nine other convicts are given the chance to save their own lives by agreeing to travel as test subjects on the transporter. But when the first volunteer dies a gruesome death, it becomes clear to Russell and his comrades that the venture is little more than a merciless death mission on which they will all perish. Their only chance of survival is to uncover the secret of the mysterious object, but that too seems hopeless - because no trace of the transporter's constructors can be found.
Author : Chris Oxlade
Publisher : Journey Through
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2022-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780711280120
From steam engine to spaceship, tractor to tandem, take a journey into the weird and wonderful world of transportation! Travel back in time and explore the first bikes, cars, trains, and planes. Then discover shiny new modes of transport and explore the amazing ways machines transport us around today. Packed with lively illustrations and fun facts, plus a free fold-out poster, this delightful, informative picture book will be a brilliant addition to any bookshelf.
Author : Jonathan Richmond
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 24,10 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Transport of Delight is a true interdisciplinary work, and includes a thorough analytical assessment of the Los Angeles rail program, with a focus on the Long Beach Blue Line light rail-the first of the new projects to go ahead. En route, it shows that ridership forecasting for this project was not only biased and statistically invalid, but in fact done to justify decisions made on other grounds. This unusual book develops a novel theory of myth to explain the construction of rail passenger transit in Los Angeles when it had little to offer the needs of a dispersed autopolis, whose urgent but dispersed public transportation needs could have been better served by developing the regional bus system. The author conducted interviews and performed the detective work necessary to reveal an unlikely logic that held together a network of symbols, images, and metaphors that together present powerful mythical beliefs in the guise of truth. A political analysis shows how consensus was reached to proceed with the light rail to Long Beach, but political explanations are ultimately found lacking, because they cannot explain why decision-makers would want to put the rail in place. It is only when provocative metaphors-of the need to connect communities and to restore a mythical balance to a dysfunctional transportation system-and symbols-of escape from the pressure cooker of poverty, of urban success, power and, indeed sexual acumen-are surfaced, that we realize that Los Angeles' Transport of Delight is the result of the very human need to transcend complexity by providing mythical creations that appear to offer easy answers to society's deepest problems.
