A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fast-approaching energy future.
America's electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is turning out to be a poor fit for the present. It's not just that the grid has grown old and is now in dire need of basic repair. Today, as we invest great hope in new energy sources--solar, wind, and other alternatives--the grid is what stands most firmly in the way of a brighter energy future. If we hope to realize this future, we need to reimagine the grid according to twenty-first-century values. It's a project which forces visionaries to work with bureaucrats, legislators with storm-flattened communities, moneymen with hippies, and the left with the right. And though it might not yet be obvious, this revolution is already well under way. Cultural anthropologist Gretchen Bakke unveils the many facets of America's energy infrastructure, its most dynamic moments and its most stable ones, and its essential role in personal and national life. The grid, she argues, is an essentially American artifact, one which developed with us: a product of bold expansion, the occasional foolhardy vision, some genius technologies, and constant improvisation. Most of all, her focus is on how Americans are changing the grid right now, sometimes with gumption and big dreams and sometimes with legislation or the brandishing of guns. The Grid tells--entertainingly, perceptively--the story of what has been called the largest machine in the world: its fascinating history, its problematic present, and its potential role in a brighter, cleaner future.
Автор: Brillant, Corina et al. Название: Edito B2 Livre +D/DD NEd ISBN: 2278066579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782278066575 Издательство: Didier Цена: 6070.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: - Documents authentiques, travail croise des competences et enrichissement lexical qui ont fait le succes d'Edito sont toujours au coeur du projet.- Nouveau: le DVD inclus dans le livre, permet de travailler la competence audio-visuelle.- La perspective actionnelle, a travers des activites et ateliers guides, concourt a la bonne maitrise des discours.
Автор: Fletcher Corina Название: Playbook Farm ISBN: 0763661651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780763661656 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 14710.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: First read this beautifully detailed pop-up book, then unfold it to transform it into a 3D farmyard landscape playmat, with stand-up cardboard animals and a tractor that you can move all around the farm A unique and ingenious novelty book that folds away again in its own box.
Автор: Bakke Gretchen, Peterson Marina Название: Between Matter and Method: Encounters in Anthropology and Art ISBN: 1474289207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474289207 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Building on the lively exchange between anthropology and art that has emerged in recent years, Between Matter and Method makes a bold and creative contribution to this rapidly growing field.
Автор: Fajardo-Anstine, Kali Название: Sabrina & Corina ISBN: 0525511296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525511298 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 15940.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection--a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands. Kali Fajardo-Anstine's magnetic story collection breathes life into her Indigenous Latina characters and the land they inhabit. Set against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado--a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite--these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force. In "Sugar Babies," ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the earth, but have the tendency to ascend during land disputes. "Any Further West" follows a sex worker and her daughter as they leave their ancestral home in southern Colorado only to find a foreign and hostile land in California. In "Tomi," a woman returns home from prison, finding herself in a gentrified city that is a shadow of the one she remembers from her childhood. And in the title story, "Sabrina & Corina," a Denver family falls into a cycle of violence against women, coming together only through ritual. Sabrina & Corina is a moving narrative of unrelenting feminine power and an exploration of the universal experiences of abandonment, heritage, and an eternal sense of home. Advance praise for Sabrina & Corina "Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart, believable in everything they said and did. How tragic that American letters hasn't met these women of the West before, women who were here before America was America. And how tragic that these working-class women haven't seen themselves in the pages of American lit before. Thank you for honoring their lives, Kali. I welcome them and you."--Sandra Cisneros
"Kali Fajardo-Anstine's collection of stories, Sabrina & Corina, isn't just good, it's masterful storytelling. Fajardo-Anstine is a fearless writer: her women are strong and scarred witnesses of the violations of their homelands, their culture, their bodies; her plots turn and surprise, unerring and organic in their comprehensiveness; her characters break your heart, but you keep on going because you know you are in the hands of a master. . . . Her stories move through the heart of darkness and illuminate it with the soul of truth. Comparisons came to mind: the Alice Munro of the high plains, the Toni Morrison of indigenous Latinas--but why compare her to anybody? She is her own unique voice, and her work will easily find a place, not just in Latinx literature, but in American literature and beyond."--Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garc a Girls Lost Their Accents
Автор: Bakke Gretchen Название: The Likeness: Semblance and Self in Slovene Society ISBN: 0520320034 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520320031 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 84480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays out on surfaces--of people and things; systems and locations--rendering the complexity of expression external and legible, but rarely unique or original. Here likenesses are everywhere in flower and powerfully deployed. Moving blithely from Slovenia's most famous thinkers to its most confounding artists, from grammatical categories of number to the particularities of history, The Likeness explores alternative modes of self-expression as post-socialist Slovenia gains visibility on the world stage.
Автор: Bakke Gretchen Название: The Likeness: Semblance and Self in Slovene Society ISBN: 0520320042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520320048 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 26400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays out on surfaces--of people and things; systems and locations--rendering the complexity of expression external and legible, but rarely unique or original. Here likenesses are everywhere in flower and powerfully deployed. Moving blithely from Slovenia's most famous thinkers to its most confounding artists, from grammatical categories of number to the particularities of history, The Likeness explores alternative modes of self-expression as post-socialist Slovenia gains visibility on the world stage.
Автор: Bakke, E. Wight Название: Labor Mobility And Econo ISBN: 0262523752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262523752 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 12260.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Bakke, O M Название: When children became people ISBN: 0800637259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780800637255 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 49510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Bakke paints a fascinating picture of children's first realemergence as people against a backdrop of the ancientworld.
Using theological and social history research, Bakkecompares Greco-Roman and Christian attitudes towardabortion and child prostitution, pedagogy and moralupbringing, and the involvement of children in liturgy andchurch life. He also assesses Christian attitudes towardchildren in the church's developing doctrinal commitments.
Today, growing numbers of children are impoverished, exploited, abandoned, orphaned, or killed. Bakke's insightfulwork begins to untangle the roots of their complex plight.
Автор: Gretchen Bakke, Marina Peterson Название: Anthropology of the Arts: A Reader ISBN: 1472585925 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472585929 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 38780.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: A comprehensive introduction to the anthropology of the arts, this is the first textbook to go beyond visual art to cover the arts more broadly. Drawing together media such as painting, sound, performance, video, and film, it presents a clear overview of the cross-cultural human experience of art.
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