Tabla de Contenidos: “…El nacimiento del paisaje en China / Augustin Berque ; Reflexiones sobre la percepción del ambiente como base para la construcción y transformación de paisajes / Pedro Ignacio Salazar Salamanca, Nohra León Rodríguez ; Paisaje, mediador entre el entorno y las culturas / Hernán Javier Díaz Perdomo -- Enfoque histórico ambiental y económico del estudio del paisaje. …”

“…Seis destinos: Rumania, Macedonia, Tailandia, Jordania, Francia y China. Seis leyendas. Y seis relatos escritos por los estudiantes del Máster en Periodismo de Viajes, que organiza el Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB). …”

“…principalmente Estados Unidos, China o Corea del Norte-, como los debates existentes acerca del papel que debe jugar el país en el convulso panorama internacional. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nadie sabe lo que puede una voz -- El manifiesto de la China Iron -- Basta de agrotóxicos -- Que me trague la tierra -- La transescritura como salvación -- Bibliografía -- Textos literarios -- Bibliografía teórica -- Más títulos de Editorial Biblos -- Créditos…”

“…En el marco de una ingeniosa estructura organizativa, que asigna amplio espacio al incidente vívido y a la anécdota revelacdora, describe el ascenso de las dos superpotencias, trabadas en la Guerra Fría, la revolución en China, la dscolonización de Asia y Agrica y las trágicas secuelas de la independencia, la asombrosa recuperación de la democracia y el capitalismo en Europa Occidental, el ascenso de las economías empresarias del Pacífico encabezadas por Japón, la raficalización de Latinoamérica, la expansión de Rusia soviética como poder militar, y la hegemonía de Estados Unidos seguida por su intento de suicidio durante los años 1965 a 1980.…”

“…Estas contribuciones ofrecen, entre otros temas, estudios comparativos del desarrollo moral y social de niños en edad escolar en China y Australia, una investigación sobre la influencia positiva de la participación de los adolescentes en servicios sociales comunitarios. …”

“…Con ese punto de partida, y a través de diez mapas de Rusia, China, Estados Unidos, Europa, África, Oriente Medio, India/Pakistán, Corea/Japón, Latinoamérica y el Ártico, Tim Marshall mira al pasado, al presente y al futuro de la humanidad en este libro, una obra de investigación excepcional y accesible, de enorme éxito en Reino Unido y Alemania, que ha abierto los ojos de muchos acerca de uno de los mayores (y más ignorados) factores que determinan la historia mundial…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté: Projects featured: House for a sculptor, Santiago, Chile - Mathematics school, Catholic University of Santiago, Chile - Easter Island High School, Chile - Montessori School, Santiago, Chile - Garib House, Pirque, Chile - Medical School, Catholic University of Santiago, Chile - Bicentennial Tower of Communication, Santiago, Chile - Siamese Towers, Catholic University of Santiago, Chile - House at Pirehueico Lake, Chile - School of Architecture, Catholic University of Santiago, Chile - Verbo Divino School, Santiago, Chile - St Edward's University Dorms, Austin, Texas - House in Sao Paulo, Brazil - Vitra Children's Workship, Weil am Rhein, Germany - Ordos 100 House, Inner Mongolia, China - Pilgrim Look Out Point, Jalisco, Mexico - Chairless for Vitra - Bansi Bank, Guadalajara, Mexico - Playa Ondo Resort, Isla Saboga, Panama - Kunstmuseum Basel Extension, Switzerland - Ocean Winery, Nierstein, Germany - Medellin Museum of Modern Art, Colombia - Etlin House, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Carey House, Santiago, Chile - Anacleto Angelini Innovation Center, Catholic University of Santiago, Chile - Quinta Monroy Housing, Iquique, Chile - Renca Housing, Santiago, Chile - Housing Complex Social Centers, Temuco/Santiago/Valparaiso, Chile - Barnechea Housing, Santiago, Chile - Monterrey Las Anacuas Housing, Monterrey, Mexico - Make it Right Foundation, New Orleans - Metropolitan Promenade, Santiago, Chile - Earthquake and tsunami response, Chile…”

“…Discussions range across political, economic and cultural areas and assess national contexts including the UK and China. Areas covered include digital identity and empowerment, the Internet and the "Fifth Estate", social media and the Arab Spring, digital storytelling, transmedia and audience, economic and social innovation, digital inclusion, community and online curation, cyberqueer activism. …”

“…His seminal book Imagined Communities has changed the way we think about the reason that people live, die and kill in the name of nationhood. Born in China, Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. …”

“…Hauptherausgeber: Horst Möller, Mitherausgeber: Klaus Hildebrand, Gregor Schöllgen Wissenschaftliche Leiterin: Ilse Dorothee Pautsch Das Jahr 1979 stand im Zeichen krisenhafter und den Weltfrieden bedrohender Entwicklungen: Im Februar übte China militärische Vergeltung für die Besetzung Kambodschas durch Vietnam. …”

“…These weaknesses have led Vietnam's competitiveness, productivity and economic growth to remain low, especially compared to China. Finally, the author attempts to provide some recommendations enhancing the competitiveness, productivity, and citizens' living standard in Vietnam in the long term…”

“…By reviewing a sample of literary, philosophical and scientific texts, this volume illustrates what is really and phantasmagorically at stake in the relations between China and Europe. Rather than presenting confrontations, the essays aim, through investigations into the process of translation, to deepen mutual understanding - for example by taking into account the divergent traditional interpretations of the original…”

“…Based on multi-disciplinary studies conducted in Asia (India, Bhutan, China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, New Zealand), this volume on Identity in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia demonstrates how identity is defined, negotiated and conceptualised in response to increasing globalisation in the region. …”

“…The authors are from countries with a tradition in differential geometry: Belgium, China, Greece, Japan, Korea, Poland, Romania, Spain, Turkey, and United States of America. …”

“…The volume uniquely explores the contours and dimensions of US relations and interactions with key Indo-Pacific states including China, India, Japan, North Korea and Australia; multilateral institutions and organisations such the East Asia Summit and ASEAN; and salient issue areas such as regional security, politics and diplomacy, and the economy. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Pedestrian Performance Data -- Federal Investigation of the Evacuation of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 -- Free speed distributions — Based on empirical data in different traffic conditions -- Collecting Pedestrian Trajectory Data In Real-time -- Full-Scale Evacuation Experiments in a smoke filled Rail Carriage — a detailed study of passenger behaviour under reduced visibility -- Minimum Stair Width for Evacuation, Overtaking Movement and Counterflow — Technical Bases and Suggestions for the Past, Present and Future -- Study on information guiding based on human psych-physiological responses in China -- Research on pedestrian crowd characteristics and behaviours in peak-time on Chinese campus -- Pedestrian Dynamics -- Behaviour on tunnel fire -- Earthquake — the importance of earthquake-resistant design in case of emergency evacuations -- Decision Loads and Route Qualities for Pedestrians — Key Requirements for the Design of Pedestrian Navigation Services -- Cyclone and Storm Surge, Pedestrian Evacuation and Emergency Response in India -- Experimental Study and Theoretical Analysis of Signage Legibility Distances as a Function of Observation Angle -- Exploring Pedestrian Shopping Decision Processes — an Application of Gene Expression Programming -- Evacuation Simulation -- A Discrete choice framework for acceleration and direction change behaviors in walking pedestrians -- Calibration and validation of the Legion simulation model using empirical data -- Evacuation Simulation for Road Tunnels — Findings from the use of microscopic methodology for escape route analyses -- A Data-Driven Model of Pedestrian Movement -- Distributed intelligence in pedestrian simulations -- Design of Escape Routes by Simulating Evacuation Dynamics in Conjunction with a Probabilistic Safety Concept -- The 2001 World Trade Centre Evacuation -- Dynamic Navigation Field — a local and on-demand family of algorithms for wayfinding -- Microscopic calibration and validation of pedestrian models — Cross-comparison of models using experimental data -- Pedestrian flow optimization with a genetic algorithm based on Boolean grids -- Developing a Pedestrian Agent Model for Analyzing an Overpass accident -- The simulation of crowd dynamics at very large events — Calibration, empirical data, and validation -- Moore and more and symmetry -- The RiMEA Project — Development of a new Regulation -- Football Stadium Simulation — A microscopic simulation of the pedestrian access -- Instability of pedestrian flow in two-dimensional optimal velocity model -- Evacuation Simulation at Linz Central Station — Usefulness during design, approval and start-up -- Why “Faster is Slower” in Evacuation Process -- Development of an Agent-based Behavior Module for Evacuation Models — Focused on the Behaviors in the Dark -- Comparative Investigation of the Dynamic Simulation of Foot Traffic Flow -- Evacuation from underground railway stations — Available and required safe egress time for different station types and general evaluation criteria -- A discrete microscopic model for pedestrian dynamics to manage emergency situations in airport terminals -- Steps Toward the Fundamental Diagram — Empirical Results and Modelling -- Model for Office Building Usage Simulation -- Features of Discrete Event Simulation Systems for Spatial Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics -- Evolving Direct Perception Models of Human Behavior in Building Systems -- Fundamental diagram of a one-dimensional cellular automaton model for pedestrian flow — the ASEP with shuffled update -- Ship Evacuation -- Implementing Ship Motion in AENEAS — Model Development and First Results -- Data Collection in Support of the Modelling of Naval Vessels -- Collective animal motion -- Self-organised choice based on inter-attraction: the example of gregarious animals -- Traffic on bi-directional ant-trails -- Herding in Real Escape Panic -- From Ant Trails to Pedestrian Dynamics — Learning from Nature…”

“…In this book, drawing upon over a decade of research in multiple locations -- including China, German, India, Israel, Kenya, South Africa, UK and US -- Professor Shameen Prashantham provides guidance on how corporations and startups can build mutual beneficial partnerships. …”