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Continent in dust : experiments in a Chinese weather system /
Continent in Dust explores material permutations of sand and wind--the life and course of a Chinese dust storm, though successive phases of matter--as sites of political, anthropological, and scientific experiment. It moves from science stations, forestry and social management schemes, and sand-thre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Critical environments (Oakland, Calif.) ;
10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Apparatus A : nightwind
- Introduction : earthly interphases
- Apparatus B : the wind tunnel
- Machine sky
- Apparatus C : a sheet of loose sand
- Groundwork
- Apparatus D : five thousand years
- Holding patterns
- Particulate exposures
- Apparatus E : wildfires
- City of chambers
- Apparatus F : a sinocene
- Downwinds
- Apparatus G : monsters.