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Cities responding to climate change : Copenhagen, Stockholm and Tokyo
This book explores the climate policy approaches established by various city governments. It details the strategies, plans and initiatives that have so far been designed to both mitigate and adapt to the impacts of global warming. In doing so, it considers the implications of the actions taken by leading cities and its effects on underlying theoretical assumptions relating to policy development and management processes in achieving climate policy outcomes. The book establishes an analytical framework that critically examines the application of performance management by city governments in their policy responses to climate change. It draws its focus on the city governments of Copenhagen, Stockholm and Tokyo to bring together and discuss the concepts, strategies and practices that have since been introduced to respond to the climate challenges faced.0.
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In Search of the Folk Daoists of North China
The living practice of Daoist ritual is still only a small part of Daoist studies. Most of this work focuses on the southeast, with the vast area of north China often assumed to be a tabula rasa for local lay liturgical traditions. This book, based on fieldwork, challenges this assumption. With case studies on parts of Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces, Stephen Jones describes ritual sequences within funerals and temple fairs, offering details on occupational hereditary lay Daoists, temple-dwelling priests, and even amateur ritual groups. Stressing performance, Jones observes the changing ritual scene in this poor countryside, both since the 1980s and through all the tribulations of twentieth-century warfare and political campaigns. The whole vocabulary of north Chinese Daoists differs significantly from that of the southeast, which has so far dominated our image. Largely unstudied by scholars of religion, folk Daoist ritual in north China has been a constant theme of music scholars within China. Stephen Jones places lay Daoists within the wider context of folk religious practices - including those of lay Buddhists, sectarians, and spirit mediums. This book opens up a new field for scholars of religion, ritual, music, and modern Chinese society.
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Lives laid away
\"When the body of an anonymous young Hispanic woman dressed as Queen Marie Antoinette is dredged from the Detroit River, the Detroit Police Department wants the case closed out fast. Wayne County Coroner Dr. Bobby Falconi gives the woman's photo to his old pal August Snow, insisting August show it around his native Mexicantown to see if anyone recognizes her. August's good friend Elena, a prominent advocate for undocumented immigrants, recognizes the woman immediately. Her story is one the authorities don't want getting around--and she's not the only young woman to have disappeared during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid, only to turn up dead a few weeks later. Preyed upon by the law itself, the people of Mexicantown have no one to turn to. August Snow, ex-police detective, will not sit by and watch his neighbors suffer in silence. In a guns-blazing wild ride across Detroit, from its neo-Nazi biker hole-ups to its hip-hop recording studios, its swanky social clubs to its seedy nightclubs, August puts his own life on the line to protect the community he loves\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky
In the Nebraska Sandhills, ranchers on horseback and in pickup
trucks share the range with pronghorn antelope, burrowing owls, and
long-billed curlews. The native grasses grow greener as the cattle
grow fatter. Throughout the region, river otters and mink swim in
streams nourished by springs bubbling up from the High Plains
(Ogallala) aquifer. Over years of close observation, Stephen R.
Jones has gotten to know the Nebraska Sandhills-the
twenty-thousand-square-mile expanse of stunning prairie and
thriving wetlands. He has felt the warm breath of a white-tailed
doe guarding her spotted fawn, learned to communicate with a family
of long-eared owls, and developed an improbable hiking relationship
with a wild turkey. He has documented a breeding bird population
that is growing more diverse and witnessed the long-awaited return
of nesting trumpeter swans. These personal stories, accompanied by
words of insight from Native American leaders, Sandhills ranchers,
and grassland ecologists, help us envision a quiet relationship
with the natural world.
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Written in the blood
\"See the girl. Leah Wilde is twenty-four, a runaway on a black motorbike, hunting for answers while changing her identity with each new Central European town. See the man, having come of age in extraordinary suffering and tragedy in nineteenth-century Budapest, witness to horror, to love, to death, and the wrath of a true monster. Izsak still lives in the present day, impossibly middle-aged. He's driven not only to hunt this immortal evil but to find his daughter, stolen from an Arctic cabin and grown into the thing Izsak has sworn to kill. See the monster, a beautiful, seemingly young woman who stalks the American West, seeking the young and the strong to feed upon, desperate to return to Europe where her coven calls\"--Dust jacket flap.
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MRI Atlas of Pituitary Pathology
MRI Atlas of Pituitary Imaging focuses on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the imaging modality of choice for the evaluation of pituitary disorders, since it provides a detailed anatomy of the pituitary gland and surrounding structures, particularly the soft tissues.
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On the coast of misery, a residue of richness E. Annie Proulx's lyrical map of Newfoundland
Years ago when I stood graveyard watches at a lifeboat station in lower Delaware, I could hear the calls of the shipping in the Strait of Belle Isle. These craft often seemed in distress, and if not actually floundering, at least in some need to talk with the Coast Guard. I would respond, not knowing they were coming to me on an atmospheric bounce from nearly 1,000 miles away. The voices would seep in and out, plaintive as the Throat Singers of Tuva. With first light they would clarify for an instant before evaporating with the dawn. Now, some 30 years later in reading E. Annie Proulx's novel \"The Shipping News,\" I feel as if they are speaking again. Her protagonist, Quoyle (no first name given), \"born in Brooklyn, raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns\" is a lovable, misshapen lummox, a partial throwback to the Newfie omaloor, a \"big . . . clumsy, witless, simple-minded fellow,\" though Quoyle has more intelligence and most important, a poet's soul. He is widowed by his sloppy nympho wife who, after selling the two grade-school Quoyle daughters into porno-film bondage, crashes while running off with a man in a red sports car. To start a new life, Quoyle recovers his daughters and travels with his aunt, a yacht upholsterer also in need of a new venue. She suggests fixing up the old family home on Quoyle Point in Newfoundland's Capsize Cove. In the nearest town Quoyle gets a job writing the shipping news for the Killick-Claw Gammy News, a perch from which he can observe not only matters maritime but everything else as well.
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