Author: Robert SwinhoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Birds of Shanghai
Author: Daniel SilvermanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578599540
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Seth Rosenfeld is a recent college graduate from New York, teaching English in 1980s Shanghai. There he meets Lan Ming, an engaging and sagacious traveler from the provinces, who stirs Seth's unexplored homosexual desires. Lan Ming seems to be everything Seth is not: unguarded, spontaneous, and at ease with his sexuality. They fall in love in the shadows and back alleys of a Shanghai under transformation, and also under the watchful eye of the Public Security Bureau.But Lan Ming has secrets. How does he stay in Shanghai without rousing the suspicions of his "work unit" back home? Who are the street friends he won't let Seth meet? Especially, where does his money come from?Seth's search for the truth about Lan Ming takes him on a personal journey-into Shanghai's secretive gay culture, into distant Chinese provinces, into his own psyche-as he discovers some devastating truths about his very nature.And just as Seth is getting closer to uncovering the mystery of Lan Ming, Shanghai erupts in anti-government protests, and the ever-looming Public Security Bureau closes in on the pair's illegal relationship?
Catalogue of the Birds of China
Author: Robert SwinhoeA Field Guide to the Birds of China
Author: John Ramsay MacKinnonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198549406
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
China is one of the largest countries in the world, covering 7% of the earth's land surface, and encompassing a hugely diverse range of habitats. As a result it boasts a rich and diverse avifauna, including some of the most spectacular and fascinating birds to be found anywhere in the world. This is the first truly comprehensive, taxonomically modern, and fully illustrated field guide to the Chinese birds. Over 1300 species are illustrated in 128 colour paintings, and fully described in the text. Colour distribution maps are provided for all illustrated species. The authors have both lived and worked in the region for many years, and have extensive experience of writing and illustrating bird guides. This important book will be a landmark in field guide publishing.
Guide to the Birds of China
Author: John MacKinnonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192893661
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
China covers about 7% of the earth's land surface and encompasses a hugely diverse range of habitats. As a result, it boasts a rich and diverse avifauna, including some of the most spectacular and fascinating birds to be found anywhere in the world. Building on the enormous popularity and reputation of the original A Field Guide to the Birds of China (2000), John MacKinnon's fully updated and refreshed work remains a truly comprehensive, taxonomically modern, fully illustrated, and authoritative field guide. 1484 bird species are richly illustrated in 164 annotated colour plates, which are closely integrated with up-to-date colour distribution maps, QR codes providing easy access to birdcalls, IUCN Red List status indicators and new, concise descriptions. These descriptions feature key observations as well as conveying crucial changes to species distributions resulting from climate change and landscape transformation. Guide to the Birds of China will appeal to an international and growing audience of professional and amateur ornithologists and birding enthusiasts, academic researchers and students, wildlife photographers, and conservationists.
Birds of China
Author: Liu YangPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691237522
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
"The avifauna of China include a total of close to 1,500 species, of which 60 are endemic. More than 100 species are globally threatened. This new field guide, published in China by Chinese National Geography, treats all species, illustrating every one using 4,000 individual images. Each species has identification text and a distribution map. It is, in every way, a modern-style field guide and will fill a void for birders within and outside China"--
On New and Little-known Birds from China. [From the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. March 25th, 1863.]
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Author: Robert SwinhoeShanghai
Author: Stephen GracePublisher: Sentient+ORM
ISBN: 159181264X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Shanghai is the most modern and dynamic city in China. In preparation for hosting the World Expo 2010, a World's Fair in the grand tradition of international fairs and expositions, the megalopolis embarked on an overhaul to transform itself from the "Pearl of the Orient" into the "City of the Future." Here, the world's tallest buildings soar, the planet's longest bridges span toxic waterways, and the fastest train on earth rockets the city from its storied past toward a future that seems, by turns, either as bright or as hideous as the lights that set the hazy sky aglow each night. At a time when interest in China has seen a sharp increase that shows no signs of abating, Shanghai places China's development and its effects on the world into context by explaining how the country arrived where it is today and why it is building massive infrastructure projects with tremendous social and environmental impact. Shanghai provides an intimate look inside a mega-city heaving with change and offers essential insight into the challenges of remaining human in an increasingly urbanized world.
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