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  • John Kemble’s Gibraltar Journal

    The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles, 1830-1831

    by E. Nye ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The summer of 1830 stirred revolutionary desires in young hearts across Europe. More than a generation of war and political instability had failed to dampen the fervor still felt from the French Revolution. In England the Cambridge Apostles took up the cause of the Spanish émigrés so movingly visible in London where they had sought refuge from the tyranny of Ferdinand VII and his suppression of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Shadows

    a Scout story

    by Julie Nye ...
    Series Book 2 - TellTails
    Not many people get a dream dog in real-life, but who knew that keeping him would be so hard? Jeff and Scout won each other's hearts a few months ago. Now trouble has found them. When your well-trained dog starts acting like a thug...how do you fix it before your parents have had enough? Challenges double when the pair stumbles on an old farm that seems to have been abandoned, untouched, more than ... Read more

    $9.99 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

  • Scout

    the Secret at Les Cheneaux

    by Julie Nye ...
    Series Book 1 - TellTails
    Dog Overboard! Finding a lost, injured dog on a remote island throws Jeff's summer into a chaos of challenges. Where did this magnificent Doberman come from--and why is no one looking for him? Jeff could not find the answers, but the answers eventually found him in a way he could never have imagined. The results challenge his perspective and force him to face tough choices in a way that most ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Children's Spirituality

    What it is and Why it Matters

    by Nye ...
    Series series Sure Foundations
    An introduction to the increasingly popular topic of children's spirituality, showing how choices made in churches and homes can stimulate or stifle a child's spiritual development. Suitable for anyone who works with children. ... Read more

    $11.39 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

  • 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