Author : Robert Ashmore
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,27 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 : Shashank S Tiwari
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,16 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 : 33,6 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 : Moira Butterfield
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,49 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 : Richard Gilbert
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1849773459
Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil sets out the challenges to our growing dependence on transport fuelled by low-priced oil. These challenges include an early peak in world oil production and profound climate change resulting in part from oil use. It proposes responses to ensure effective, secure movement of people and goods in ways that make the best use of renewable sources of energy while minimizing environmental impacts.Transport Revolutions synthesizes engineering, economics, environment, organization, policy and technology, and draws extensively on current data to present important conclusions. The authors argue that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions. One will involve the use of electric drives rather than internal combustion engines. Another will involve powering many of these drives directly from the electric grid - as trains and trolley buses are powered today - rather than from on-board fuel. They go on to discuss marine transport, whose future is less clear, and aviation, which could see the most dramatic breaks from current practice.With its expert analysis of the politics and business of transport, Transport Revolutions is essential reading for professionals and students in transport, energy, town planning and public policy.
Author : Karen Lucas
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,88 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 : 14,80 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 : 29,58 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 : Jean-Paul Rodrigue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134257783
Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities, including commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. This book focuses on understanding how mobility is linked with geography. It links spatial constraints and attributes with the origin, destination, extent, nature and purpose of movements.
Author : Phillip Peterson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 14,7 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.
