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  • The Great Energy Transition

    America from 1876 to 1929

    by David E. Nye ...
    How new forms of energy transformed every aspect of American life in a span of 50 years, from 1876 to 1929—and how it seeded our current polarization.The era of reform. The Gilded Age. The Progressive Era. What historians often divide into discrete eras was one period of profound change: a massive, multipronged energy transition. Oil, gas, and electricity were woven into a culture that had to heal ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Conflicted American Landscapes

    by David E. Nye ...
    How conflicting ideas of nature threaten to fracture America's identity.Amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties: American invest much of their national identity in sites of natural beauty. And yet American lands today are torn by conflicts over science, religion, identity, and politics. Creationists believe that the Biblical flood carved landscapes less than 10,000 years ago; ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Seven Sublimes

    by David E. Nye ...
    A reconception of the sublime to include experiences of disaster, war, outer space, virtual reality, and the Anthropocene.We experience the sublime—overwhelming amazement and exhilaration—in at least seven different forms. Gazing from the top of a mountain at a majestic vista is not the same thing as looking at a city from the observation deck of a skyscraper; looking at images constructed from ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Technology Matters

    Questions to Live With

    by David E. Nye ...
    Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters.Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always been to provide necessities. People excel at using old tools to solve new problems and at inventing ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • When the Lights Went Out

    A History of Blackouts in America

    by David E. Nye ...
    Blackouts—whether they result from military planning, network failure, human error, or terrorism—offer snapshots of electricity's increasingly central role in American society.Where were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm? During the Great Northeastern Blackout of 1965? In California when rolling blackouts hit in 2000? In 2003, when a cascading power failure left fifty ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • America's Assembly Line

    by David E. Nye ...
    From the Model T to today's "lean manufacturing": the assembly line as crucial, yet controversial, agent of social and economic transformation.The mechanized assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting them, it has been celebrated and satirized. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Consuming Power

    A Social History of American Energies

    by David E. Nye ...
    Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities.How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that this is less a question about the development of technology than it is a question about the development of culture. In Consuming Power, Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Environmental Humanities

    A Critical Introduction

    by Robert S. Emmett, David E. Nye ...
    A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies.The emergence of the environmental humanities as an academic discipline early in the twenty-first century reflects the growing conviction that environmental problems cannot be solved by science and technology alone. This book offers a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Life in the American Century

    by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 51 min

    For the past eight decades, we have lived in "the American Century"—a period during which the US has enjoyed unrivaled power—be it political, economic, or military—on the global stage. Born on the cusp of this new era, Joseph S. Nye Jr. has spent a lifetime illuminating our understanding of the changing contours of America power and world affairs. His many books on the nature of power and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • Defense 2045

    Assessing the Future Security Environment and Implications for Defense Policymakers

    by David T. Miller ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    In a period of budget austerity, prioritization becomes especially important for defense policymakers. In order to determine such priorities, it is first necessary to consider the nature of conflict and missions the U.S. military may face in the future. By assessing the key components, or drivers, of the future security environment (FSE), an unknowable future becomes a bit clearer. This report ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Power Shift

    Keywords for a New Politics of Energy

    Edited by Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel ...
    Series series Energy and Society
    Power Shift traces recent social and cultural shifts in how we understand and imagine energy, the environment, and the challenges of global warming. Across the globe, the need to transition to renewables has become the guiding reality of our energy present and future, despite continuing resistance to change. But what does this moment of energy transition look like for those struggling to make it ... Read more

    Was $20.99 USD Now $10.79 USD

  • Open Mic

    Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices

    by Mitali Perkins, Shihab Nye, David Yoo, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Francisco Stork, Varian Johnson, Cherry Cheva, Debbie Rigaud, Gene Luen Yang, G. Neri0 ...
    Using humor as the common denominator, a multicultural cast of YA authors steps up to the mic to share stories touching on race.Listen in as ten YA authors — some familiar, some new — use their own brand of humor to share their stories about growing up between cultures. Henry Choi Lee discovers that pretending to be a tai chi master or a sought-after wiz at math wins him friends for a while — ... Read more

    $8.69 USD