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Author : Albert Auguste Fauvel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Alligators in China, Their History, Description & Identification written by Albert Auguste Fauvel and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Thorbjarnarson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801893488
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Chinese Alligator written by John Thorbjarnarson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated throughout and featuring the most up-to-date biological information available, this volume is a complete overview of the Chinese alligator, a conservation and cultural icon.
Author : Albert-Auguste Fauvel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Alligators in China written by Albert-Auguste Fauvel and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert-Auguste Fauvel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Alligators in China written by Albert-Auguste Fauvel and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fa-ti FAN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674036689
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book British Naturalists in Qing China written by Fa-ti FAN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Western scientific interest in China focused primarily on natural history. Prominent scholars in Europe as well as Westerners in China, including missionaries, merchants, consular officers, and visiting plant hunters, eagerly investigated the flora and fauna of China. Yet despite the importance and extent of this scientific activity, it has been entirely neglected by historians of science. This book is the first comprehensive study on this topic. In a series of vivid chapters, Fa-ti Fan examines the research of British naturalists in China in relation to the history of natural history, of empire, and of Sino-Western relations. The author gives a panoramic view of how the British naturalists and the Chinese explored, studied, and represented China's natural world in the social and cultural environment of Qing China. Using the example of British naturalists in China, the author argues for reinterpreting the history of natural history, by including neglected historical actors, intellectual traditions, and cultural practices. His approach moves beyond viewing the history of science and empire within European history and considers the exchange of ideas, aesthetic tastes, material culture, and plants and animals in local and global contexts. This compelling book provides an innovative framework for understanding the formation of scientific practice and knowledge in cultural encounters. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction I. The Port 1. Natural History in a Chinese Entrepà ́t 2. Art, Commerce, and Natural History II. The Land 3. Science and Informal Empire 4. Sinology and Natural History 5. Travel and Fieldwork in the Interior Epilogue Appendix: Selected Biographical Notes Abbreviations Notes Index Fa-ti Fan's study of the encounter between the British culture of the naturalist and the Chinese culture of the Qing is both a delight and a revelation. The topic has scarcely been addressed by historians of science, and this work fills important gaps in our knowledge of British scientific practice in a noncolonial context and of Chinese reactions to Western science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In addition to the culture of Victorian naturalists and Sinology, Fan shows an admirable grasp of visual representation in science, Chinese taxonomic schemes, Chinese export art, British imperial scholarship, and journeys of exploration. His treatment of the China trade and descriptions of Chinese markets and nurseries are especially welcome. I learned a great deal, and I strongly recommend this book. --Philip Rehbock, author of Philosophical Naturalists: Themes in Early Nineteenth-Century British Biology By focusing on the experiences of British naturalists in China during a time when it was gradually being opened up to foreign influences, Fan makes at least two important contributions to history of science: He gives us an authoritative study of British naturalists in China (as far as I know the only one of its kind), and he forces us to rethink some of our categories for doing history of science, including how we conceive of the relationship between science and imperialism, and between Western naturalist and native. Fan's scholarship is meticulous, with careful attention to detail, and his prose is clear, controlled, and succinct. --Bernard Lightman, editor of Victorian Science in Context
Author : Qiu Miaojin
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 168137076X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Notes of a Crocodile written by Qiu Miaojin and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan’s most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure. Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend. Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.
Author : David W. Pankenier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107292247
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Astrology and Cosmology in Early China written by David W. Pankenier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Chinese were profoundly influenced by the Sun, Moon and stars, making persistent efforts to mirror astral phenomena in shaping their civilization. In this pioneering text, David W. Pankenier introduces readers to a seriously understudied field, illustrating how astronomy shaped the culture of China from the very beginning and how it influenced areas as disparate as art, architecture, calendrical science, myth, technology, and political and military decision-making. As elsewhere in the ancient world, there was no positive distinction between astronomy and astrology in ancient China, and so astrology, or more precisely, astral omenology, is a principal focus of the book. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including archaeological discoveries, classical texts, inscriptions and paleography, this thought-provoking book documents the role of astronomical phenomena in the development of the 'Celestial Empire' from the late Neolithic through the late imperial period.
Author : María Eugenia Manrique
Publisher : Amazon Crossing Kids
ISBN 13 : 9781542031585
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Caiman written by María Eugenia Manrique and published by Amazon Crossing Kids. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable story of a man and his alligator. When Faoro the clockmaker adopts a baby alligator, he has no idea that someday their story will travel far and wide. But the town of San Fernando de Apure would never forget this kind young man and his adoring alligator, who played with the neighborhood children, took part in Faoro's wedding, and, eventually, mourned his loss. Now their story is being shared with the world. In this delightful picture book first published in Venezuela, the author brings us back to her own childhood in Venezuela, as one of the children who used to visit this famous caiman, to tell the story of a man who loved animals and how his friendship with his alligator sparked a lasting legacy.
Author : Kent A. Vliet
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421433389
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Alligators written by Kent A. Vliet and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate guide to understanding the biology and behavior of the amazing and underappreciated American alligator. Few scenes put the senses on edge more than a submerged alligator, only eyes and snout showing, when peering across a southern lake on a misty morning. An iconic American predator, these reptiles grow to thirteen feet or more and can live as long as humans. Alligators are complex creatures, capable of terrific attacks and yet tending to their young in the same gentle way a mother duck looks after her brood. Once extremely numerous, alligators came close to extinction in the twentieth century, but thanks to conservation efforts have since made a comeback, reclaiming their rightful place as the monarchs of the southern wetlands. In this fascinating account, richly illustrated with more than 150 photographs from award-winning wildlife photographer Wayne Lynch, expert zoologist Kent A. Vliet introduces readers to the biology, ecology, and natural history of the American alligator. Sharing nuanced depictions of their hidden lives that will forever change the way you think of these giant reptiles, the book • combines captivating storytelling with the most current scientific facts • chronicles the life cycle of the alligator • explains why the alligator's precise anatomy and physiology make it so successful • covers a wide range of topics, from courtship and reproduction to communication, basking, nest-building, and hunting • reveals the alligator's sophisticated social life in detail • evaluates the alligator's environmental role as a keystone species • examines the complicated relationship between alligators and people
Author : Angela Royston
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1615338535
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Alligator written by Angela Royston and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With razor-sharp teeth, crushing bite force, uncanny patience, and shocking speed, the Alligator is the Swamp's apex predator. This book offers an excellent look at the alligators who live and hunt in the swamps and wetlands of the southeastern United States. Physical traits are examined in richly detailed text and dynamic photographs, while fact-filled sidebars offer additional context on the swamps that are an alligator's hunting ground, and the species that are its prey.
Author : F. W. Huchzermeyer
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 9780851997988
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Crocodiles written by F. W. Huchzermeyer and published by CABI. This book was released on 2003-05-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive reference work on the biology, management and health of crocodiles, alligators and gharials. It is applicable to both farmed and captive animals.The introductory chapter describes crocodilian anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and behaviour. One chapter is devoted to important aspects of crocodile farming, namely nutrition; incubation of eggs; rearing; breeding; slaughter; and welfare. Subsequent chapters cover transmissible, nontransmissible and organ diseases, and diseases of eggs and hatchlings.
Author : Giles Badger
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1846072336
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Wild China written by Giles Badger and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has more varied habitats for wildlife than anywhere else on the planet. But above all, China is a place of 1.3 billion people, most of whom still live in the countryside. This work explores the length and breadth of one of the world's most spectacular and mysterious countries.
Author : Jinny Johnson, Aut
Publisher : Black Rabbit Books
ISBN 13 : 9781583409022
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Alligator written by Jinny Johnson, Aut and published by Black Rabbit Books. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the feeding, mating, social, and predatory habits of alligators, both in their native habitat in the wild and in the zoo.
Author : Pamela T. Plotkin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801886119
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Biology and Conservation of Ridley Sea Turtles written by Pamela T. Plotkin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Plotkin and her colleagues reveal the nature of these species and the steps needed to make sure they remain a permanent part of the marine environment.
Author : Trish Marx
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781580892193
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Kindergarten Day USA and China written by Trish Marx and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains two stories that depict a day in an American and in a Chinese kindergarten classroom to determine the similarities and differences between how classes are run in the two countries.
Author : Andrew T. Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400846889
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Mammals of China written by Andrew T. Smith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's breathtaking diversity of natural habitats--from mountains and deserts to grasslands and lush tropical forests--is home to more than 10 percent of the world's mammal species. This one-of-a-kind pocket guide describes the characteristics, geographic distribution, natural history, and conservation status of all 558 species of mammals found in China. An up-to-date distribution map accompanies each species account, and beautiful color illustrations by wildlife artist Federico Gemma depict a majority of the species. The definitive text is written by leading specialists and follows the most current global standards for mammalian systematics. This field-ready pocket edition of A Guide to the Mammals of China makes the rich mammal fauna of China accessible to ecotravelers and naturalists like never before. The comprehensive pocket guide to all of China's 558 mammal species Describes the physical characteristics, geographic distribution, natural history, and conservation status of every species Features up-to-date distribution maps and stunning color illustrations throughout Written by a team of leading specialists
Author : Brian Eyler
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 178360722X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Last Days of the Mighty Mekong written by Brian Eyler and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Its basin is home to more than 70 million people and has for centuries been one of the world's richest agricultural areas and a biodynamic wonder. Today, however, it is undergoing profound changes. Development policies, led by a rising China in particular, aim to interconnect the region and urbanize the inhabitants. And a series of dams will harness the river's energy, while also stymieing its natural cycles and cutting off food supplies for swathes of the population. In Last Days of the Mighty Mekong, Brian Eyler travels from the river's headwaters in China to its delta in southern Vietnam to explore its modern evolution. Along the way he meets the region’s diverse peoples, from villagers to community leaders, politicians to policy makers. Through conversations with them he reveals the urgent struggle to save the Mekong and its unique ecosystem.
