InThe Future Conditional, Eric S. Henry brings twelve-years of expertise and research to offer a nuanced discussion of the globalization of the English language and the widespread effects it has had on Shenyang, the capital and largest city of China's northeast Liaoning Province. Adopting an ethnographic and linguistic perspective, Henry considers the personal connotations that English, has for Chinese people, beyond its role in the education system. Through research on how English is spoken, taught, and studied in China, Henry considers what the language itself means to Chinese speakers. How and why, he asks, has English become so deeply fascinating in contemporary China, simultaneously existing as a source of desire and anxiety? The answer, he suggests, is that English-speaking Chinese consider themselves distinctly separate from those who do not speak the language, the result of a cultural assumption that speaking English makes a person modern.
Seeing language as a study that goes beyond the classroom, The Future Conditional assesses the emerging viewpoint that, for many citizens, speaking English in China has become a cultural need—and, more immediately, a realization of one's future.
A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortality
As long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein explores the contemporary Russian communities of visionaries and utopians who are pressing at the very limits of the human.
The Future of Immortality profiles a diverse cast of characters, from the owners of a small cryonics outfit to scientists inaugurating the field of biogerontology, from grassroots neurotech enthusiasts to believers in the Cosmist ideas of the Russian Orthodox thinker Nikolai Fedorov. Bernstein puts their debates and polemics in the context of a long history of immortalist thought in Russia, with global implications that reach to Silicon Valley and beyond. If aging is a curable disease, do we have a moral obligation to end the suffering it causes? Could immortality be the foundation of a truly liberated utopian society extending beyond the confines of the earth--something that Russians, historically, have pondered more than most? If life without end requires radical genetic modification or separating consciousness from our biological selves, how does that affect what it means to be human?
As vividly written as any novel, The Future of Immortality is a fascinating account of techno-scientific and religious futurism--and the ways in which it hopes to transform our very being.
Автор: Newell Jennifer Название: Curating the Future ISBN: 1138658529 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138658523 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 44910.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change. It explores the power of real objects and collections to stir hearts and minds, to engage communities affected by change.
Museums work through exhibitions, events, and specific collection projects to reach different communities in different ways. The book emphasises the moral responsibilities of museums to address climate change, not just by communicating science but also by enabling people already affected by changes to find their own ways of living with global warming.
There are museums of natural history, of art and of social history. The focus of this book is the museum communities, like those in the Pacific, who have to find new ways to express their culture in a new place. The book considers how collections in museums might help future generations stay in touch with their culture, even where they have left their place. It asks what should the people of the present be collecting for museums in a climate-changed future? The book is rich with practical museum experience and detailed projects, as well as critical and philosophical analyses about where a museum can intervene to speak to this great conundrum of our times. Curating the Future is essential reading for all those working in museums and grappling with how to talk about climate change. It also has academic applications in courses of museology and museum studies, cultural studies, heritage studies, digital humanities, design, anthropology, and environmental humanities.
Автор: Kowenje Название: From Traditional to Modern African Water Management ISBN: 3031096622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783031096624 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 102480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book preserves and scientifically interprets the African foreknowledge on water resources management. It offers insight into the relevance of the traditional knowledge and practices to modern approaches on sustainable water management. The African continent has partially preserved its natural habitat for centuries. In this book, this knowledge is combined with the current scientific understanding. The traditional practices are categorized as: i) water harvesting, ii) water transportation, iii) water storage and conservation, iv) water treatments, v) myths and folk stories about water management or conservation, vi) water resource management systems, and vii) soil–water–forest conservation/management systems sub-topics. The findings presented here are in line with SDG 6, which aims at ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by the year 2030.
Автор: Biswas, Asit Название: Water Quality Management ISBN: 041568885X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415688857 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 89820.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Biswas, Asit Название: Water Quality Management ISBN: 113879807X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138798076 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 30610.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Beeson Geoff Название: A Water Story: Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future ISBN: 1486311296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781486311293 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 57290.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Provides an account of Australian water management practices, set against important historical precedents and the contemporary experience of other countries. The book describes the nature of the country`s natural water resources, management of these resources by Indigenous Australians, the development of urban water supply, and more.
Автор: Various Название: RFF Water Policy Set ISBN: 1617260096 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617260094 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 535920.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Bukata, Robert P. Название: Satellite Monitoring of Inland and Coastal Water Quality ISBN: 0367454130 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367454135 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 64300.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book reviews how aquatic optics models convert remote determinations of water color into accurate assessments of water quality. It illustrates how this conversion generates products of value for the environmental monitoring of optically complex inland and coastal waters. The author emphasizes how terrestrial, aquatic, and wetland remote sensin
Автор: Escobar, Isabel C. Название: Sustainable Water For The Future,2 ISBN: 0444531157 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780444531155 Издательство: Elsevier Science Рейтинг: Цена: 159450.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Well past the experimental stage, membrane processes are now a proven and reliable method of providing high-quality, cost-effective water. This book covers the fundamental and practical concepts and issues regarding the application of membrane technologies for sustainable water treatment.
Автор: Ballestero Andrea Название: A Future History of Water ISBN: 1478003898 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478003892 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 22530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a commodity. Andrea Ballestero shows how these ephemeral distinctions are made through four technolegal devices—formula, index, list and pact. She argues that what is at stake in these devices is not the making of a distinct future but what counts as the future in the first place. A Future History of Water is an ethnographically rich and conceptually charged journey into ant-filled water meters, fantastical water taxonomies, promises captured on slips of paper, and statistical maneuvers that dissolve the human of human rights. Ultimately, Ballestero demonstrates what happens when instead of trying to fix its meaning, we make water’s changing form the precondition of our analyses.
Автор: Lee Poh Onn Название: Water Issues in Southeast Asia: Present Trends and Future Directions ISBN: 9812309829 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789812309822 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 51750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Provides a summary of key points made during a two-day forum on water issues in Southeast Asia, held at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), based around a UN prediction that up to 7 billion people in 60 countries may possibly face water scarcity by the year 2050.
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