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  • The Great Energy Transition

    America from 1876 to 1929

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Conflicted American Landscapes

    de 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; ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Seven Sublimes

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Technology Matters

    Questions to Live With

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • America's Assembly Line

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • When the Lights Went Out

    A History of Blackouts in America

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Consuming Power

    A Social History of American Energies

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • The Environmental Humanities

    A Critical Introduction

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • 哈佛最熱門的國際關係課：國際關係大師奈伊教你洞悉局勢，掌握先機，佈局未來！

    Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation: An Introduction to Theory and History, 10th Edition

    de 約瑟夫．奈伊, 大衛．威爾許Joseph S. Nye, David A. Welch ...
    Traducido por 張小明 ...
    全球化時代，沒有人可以不懂國際關係！中美貿易戰開打、英國脫歐、北韓核威脅**…**每天在看、必須要懂的國際關係知識，這本就讓你融會貫通！享譽全球哈佛教授教你商界菁英、世界公民不能不修的國際關係學分國際關係領域最知名學者×最經典著作首度引進繁中版20世紀上半葉發生兩次世界大戰；20世紀下半葉，則歷經冷戰、區域戰爭以及核戰威脅，為什麼這些衝突會發生？21世紀這類衝突還會再度爆發嗎？日益增強的經濟和生態相互依賴、跨國制度和國際制度的發展、民主價值觀念的傳播會不會帶來新的世界秩序？全球化和資訊革命又將如何影響國際政治？這些... ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Cognition Switch #2

    de Martin Rees, Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier, Sabine Hossenfelder, Kate Raworth, Benjamin G Martin, Noah Charney, David Wengrow, Kimberley Brownlee, Tali Sharot, Robert Simpson, Thea Bechshoft, Jon Butterworth, Bill Nye, Huw Price, Henry Cowles ...
    Series Libro 2 - Cognition Switch
    Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #2: January 2019Featuring Ideas by:Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier, Sabine Hossenfelder, Kate Raworth, Benjamin G Martin, Noah Charney, David Wengrow, Kimberley Brownlee, Tali Sharot, Robert Simpson, Thea Bechshoft, Martin Rees, Jon Butterworth, Bill Nye, Huw Price, and Henry Cowles ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Unidentified Funny Objects 8

    de Alex Shvartsman, Wendy Maas, David Gerrold, Simon R. Green, Esther Friesner, Jody Lynn Nye, Laura Resnick, Rob Dircks, Gini Koch ...
    Series Libro 8 - UFO
    SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMORThe Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices!* Superheroes mired in government bureaucracy.* Cat cat-burglars.* Grandmotherly golems.* Literal-minded self-driving cars.* Evil overlords retired in Florida.* Indifferent aliens. ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Far Stars War

    de David Drake, Bill Fawcett, Jody Lynn Nye, Elizabeth Moon, Diane Duane, Rick Shelly ...
    We asked David Drake to Start A War....Isolated by the light years that lie between them and Earth's established colonies, the pioneers on the outskirts of the galaxy suddenly face a merciless enemy—the Guerin. An alien warrior race of unsurpassed cruelty, they are bent on the total destruction of every other spacefaring race that might challenge them for dominance. Before human and allied alien ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus