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The Concrete Dragon

China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World

By: Thomas J. Campanella

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The Concrete Dragon

China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World

By: Thomas J. Campanella

China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the past 25 years, surging economic growth has propelled a construction boom unlike anything the world has ever seen, radically transforming both city and countryside in its wake. The speed and scale of China's urban revolution challenges nearly all our expectations about architecture, urbanism and city planning. China's ambition to be a major player on the global stage is written on the skylines of every major city. This is a nation on the rise, and it is building for the record books. China is now home to some of the world's tallest skyscrapers and biggest shopping malls; the longest bridges and largest airport; the most expansive theme parks and gated communities and even the world's largest skateboard park. And by 2020 China's national network of expressways will exceed in length even the American interstate highway system. China's construction industry, employing a workforce equal to the population of California, has been erecting billions of square feet of housing and office space every year. But such extensive development has also meant demolition on a scale unprecedented in the peacetime history of the world. Nearly all of Beijing's centuries-old cityscape has been bulldozed in recent years, and redevelopment in Shanghai has displaced more families than 30 years of urban renewal in the United States. China's cities are also rapidly sprawling across the landscape, churning precious farmland into a landscape of superblock housing estates and single-family subdivisions laced with highways and big-box malls. In a mere generation, China's cities have undergone a metamorphosis that took 150 years to complete in the United States. The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World sheds light on this extraordinary chapter in world urban history. The book surveys the driving forces behind the great Chinese building boom, traces the historical precedents and global flows of ideas and information that are fusing to create a bold new Chinese cityscape, and considers the social and environmental impacts of China's urban future. The Concrete Dragon provides a critical overview of contemporary Chinese urbanization in light of both China's past as well as earlier episodes of rapid urban development elsewhere in the world--especially that of the United States, a nation that itself once set global records for the speed and scale of its urban ambitions.

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Chronicle Books

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1568989482

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9781568989488

Differential Operators and Highest Weight Representations

By: Mark G. Davidson,Thomas J. Enright,Ronald J. Stanke

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Differential Operators and Highest Weight Representations

By: Mark G. Davidson,Thomas J. Enright,Ronald J. Stanke

This memoir concerns the representation theory of semisimple Lie groups. The main results offer characterizations of unitary highest weight representations as solutions to systems of differential operators.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821825097

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9780821825099

The Storm-petrels

By: Rob Thomas

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The Storm-petrels

By: Rob Thomas

The first definitive work on the European Storm-petrel and its relatives, by one of the world's leading experts on the species. Imagine a bird as small as a sparrow, which lives most of its life on the open ocean yet can survive for decades. It walks on water, and migrates half way around the world, returning to remote islands to breed underground, often in the same rock crevice each year. At night it lays an enormous egg, feeding its chick until the nestling weighs more than both parents put together. It seems to have little fear of humans, but was itself feared by ancient seafarers. This might sound like the stuff of legend but is actually the description of a real creature, the storm-petrel: walker on water, global wanderer, climate sentinel and open-ocean survivor. In this beautifully written monograph, Rob Thomas explores the remarkable life of the European Storm-petrel, comparing and contrasting its behaviour and ecology across its range, and with the other storm-petrels of the world. We learn about their evolution, taxonomy, migration and adaptations to a life in the harsh open ocean, while also discovering what these enigmatic seabirds are revealing about what humans are doing to our planet. Illustrated with 150 photographs, and including the author's personal anecdotes and observations, Storm-petrels highlights some of the most exciting recent research findings and sets a trajectory for future discoveries.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472985796

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9781472985798

Categories of Highest Weight Modules: Applications to Classical Hermitian Symmetric Pairs

Applications to Classical Hermitian Symmetric Pairs

By: Thomas J. Enright,Brad Shelton

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Categories of Highest Weight Modules: Applications to Classical Hermitian Symmetric Pairs

Applications to Classical Hermitian Symmetric Pairs

By: Thomas J. Enright,Brad Shelton

The category of highest weight representations is of special interest withing the full set of representations of a real semisimple Lie group. This memoir describes the structure of the generalized Verma modules as well as the Kazhdan-Lusztig data for the simple modules in this category for the classical groups. In particular, explicit formulas for composition factors of generalized Verma modules and Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials are given.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821824295

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9780821824290

The Securitization of Climate Change: Australian and United States' Military Responses (2003 - 2013)

By: Michael Durant Thomas

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The Securitization of Climate Change: Australian and United States' Military Responses (2003 - 2013)

By: Michael Durant Thomas

This book examines how the armed forces of the United States and Australia have responded to the threat posed by climate change to national security. Drawing on established securitisation frameworks (‘Copenhagen’ and ‘Paris’ Schools), the author uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative techniques to systematically examine more than 3,500 speeches, policies and doctrinal articles since 2003. Importantly, the author undertakes an examination of the intersection between the political and the military spheres, probing the question of how ideology has influenced the military’s uptake on the issue. In this context, the author identifies the difficulty of an ostensibly apolitical institution responding to what has become both a hyper-political issue and an unprecedented security threat. A close examination of the key political actors – their intent, outlook and political mandate for broader climate action – is therefore crucial to understanding the policy freedom and constraints within which military leaders operate. The book consists of eight chapters divided into four parts, focusing on: perspectives and methodological insights; empirical case studies; case study comparison; and concluding observations. • Offers a rare and systematic examination of military climate policy by a military officer from Australia• Identifies a divergence of Australian military climate policy from that of the US military during the Obama Administration• Develops a unique method that quantifies climate security, enabling a graphical representation for quick and ready reference ideally suited to policy-makers

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Springer

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3319496581

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9783319496580

Markov Cell Structures near a Hyperbolic Set

By: F. Thomas Farrell,Lowell Jones

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Markov Cell Structures near a Hyperbolic Set

By: F. Thomas Farrell,Lowell Jones

The authors' argument is a spiritual descendent of earlier work of Adler and Weiss, Sinaĭ, and Bowen, and involves a close study of triangulations. The discussion is long and technical, but the outline of the proof is sketched clearly in Section 1 for the special case of [italic]F an expanding immersion. A concluding section lists problems on hyperbolic sets, Markov partitions, and related matters; remarks on topological invariants, including the conjectured vanishing of Pontryagin classes for manifolds supporting Anosov diffeomorphisms, may be of particular interest.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821825534

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9780821825532

Book's by Thomas J. Enright

The Concrete Dragon

The Concrete Dragon

Differential Operators and Highest Weight Representations

Differential Operators and Highest Weight Representations

The Storm-petrels

The Storm-petrels

Categories of Highest Weight Modules: Applications to Classical Hermitian Symmetric Pairs

Categories of Highest Weight Modules: Applications to Classical Hermitian Symmetric Pairs

The Securitization of Climate Change: Australian and United States' Military Responses (2003 - 2013)

The Securitization of Climate Change: Australian and United States' Military Responses (2003 - 2013)

Markov Cell Structures near a Hyperbolic Set

Markov Cell Structures near a Hyperbolic Set

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