The environment Books
The Chinese University Press Dragons – Shorter Fiction of Leung Ping Kwan
Book SynopsisLeung Ping?kwan brought as much talent and inspiration to the writing of his short stories as he did to his poems. ‘I have drawn on magical realism to explore the absurdity of Hong Kong,’ he wrote of the story See Mun and the Dragon (1975) in which we find him using a simple, clipped style. The later story Drowned Souls (2007) was written in a more symbolic, lyrical and complex manner, influenced by the style of the traditional Chinese tales of the supernatural. Although the two stories are separated by over 30 years, dragons play a prominent part in both. The dragon has always been a fascinating creature, a complex embodiment of the timeless soul of China and a symbol of the creative energy and transformative possibilities of the Tao. Both of these enchanting stories are anchored in the author’s ideas of freedom and liberation.Through the keen eyes and curious mind of a young girl, Ying?tzu, we are given a glimpse into the adult world of Peking in the 1920s.
£24.71
The Chinese University Press Lotus Leaves – Selected Poems of Leung Ping Kwan
Book SynopsisLeung Ping?kwan is one of Hong Kong’s most acclaimed poets. His poems display a unique blend of the literary and the down?to?earth, the modern and the traditional, the serious and the humorous, the local and the universal. He wrote, ‘I want to write a kind of modern poetry that does not have to turn away from the world we live in, that rethinks the relationship between language and objects...’ This collection has been carefully curated, and is arranged under ten thematic sections: Lotus Leaves, Hong Kong, Macao, Foodscape, After the Book of Songs, Strange Tales: After Pu Songling, Clothink, Museum Pieces, Places and Friends, Bitter?Melon and Others. These translated poems, and the delight they bring, are a celebration of the continuing legacy of a remarkable Hong Kong poet.
£26.96
The Chinese University Press Ordinary Days – A Memoir
Book SynopsisThe memoir Ordinary Days by the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and his wife Esther Lee Yuk Ying brings to this Hong Kong series an intensely personal touch, consciously echoing the great sentimental memoir of the eighteenth century, Shen Fu’s Six Chapters of a Floating Life. With disarming candour, Leo and Esther lay bare their hearts to share with us their story of love and suffering, charting in a series of memorable chapters their shared spiritual quest. Set partly against the recent backdrop of some of Hong Kong’s most turbulent years, partly in the far-flung diaspora of the Chinese intelligentsia, this is a revealing record of the inner life of a highly cultivated modern Chinese couple.
£31.30
The Chinese University Press The Best China
Book SynopsisThe Best China, an expression traditionally used to refer to the finest crockery brought out when one is entertaining special guests, has been adapted here to mean the Best Chinese Tradition of free-thinking discursive prose. This anthology of essays from Hong Kong and the diaspora, ranging across the past hundred and seventy years, records the intellectual ferment that has always characterised the city since its founding in 1842, sometimes restless and questioning, sometimes meditative and lyrical, always civilised, and buoyed by an all-pervasive and indomitable spirit of freedom.
£28.46
Lugemik Filter Feeders Double Binds Other Blooms
Book SynopsisExploring Kristina Ollek's marine and coastal ecological interest, the publication Filter Feeders, Double Binds & Other Blooms invites us to think with her four year long working process, based on research and personal observations around anthropocentric influences on marine ecology. Focusing on the North Sea and its filter feeders: blue mussels, oysters and the expanding jellyfish population; as well as on the Baltic Sea and its cyanobacteria, blue green algal blooms and dead zones. The publication includes a letter correspondence between Kristina Õllek and curator Angeliki Tzortzakaki, as well a collaborative visual essay by Kristina Õllek, Angeliki Tzortzakaki and Kert Viiart, and an essay by theorist Jeff Diamanti. The publication includes a wide range of exhibition views from her three recent solo exhibitions at Draakon Gallery (Tallinn), A Tale of A Tub (Rotterdam) and ISSP gallery (Riga).
£16.20
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Your Planet Needs You
Book SynopsisNobody really likes to think about rubbish (pee-ew!). But whether you know it or not, waste is part of everyones lives. Where does waste come from? Where does it end up? And what can we do to help our planet? Get set to take your first steps on a path towards changing the way you contemplate and combat household waste.
£5.99
Sali e Tabacchi Journal Sali e Tabacchi Journal 3
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£19.80
Integrity Research Institiute Zero Point Energy: The Fuel of the Future
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£17.24
Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances in Environmental Research. Volume 93
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£177.59
Nova Science Publishers Inc Wildfires: Response, Recovery and Mitigation
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£163.19
Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances in Environmental Research. Volume 96
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£177.59
Special Effects Anthropogenic Mineral Collection
Book SynopsisIn Anthropogenic Mineral Collection, Los Angeles-based artist Colleen Hargaden catalogs mineral byproducts of human geological intervention, spanning from the Industrial Revolution to the present. Evolving out of mines, furnaces, dumps, and nuclear test sites, these specimens point towards often obscured global systems of production, systems which are implicated within the production of the work itself. Comprised of still life portraits, microscopic views, and data regarding the origins, sources, and elemental makeup of 17 anthropogenic minerals, this publication is one manifestation of a larger project by the artist, taking the form of a geologic field guide. Packaged in mylar bag with companion fold out poster. Exterior: Textured Tech-Weave Cover with Metallic Foil DebossInterior: 100lb Satin Coated Text
£34.00
Awkward Ladies Club My Favorite Microbes A Bacteria Field Guide
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£15.20
UnionDocs Geologic Listening
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£13.15
