E Nye: 10 books

Book cover of Consuming Power

Consuming Power

A Social History of American Energies

by David E. Nye
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999

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...
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When the Lights Went Out

A History of Blackouts in America

by David E. Nye
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010

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...
Book cover of America's Assembly Line
by David E. Nye
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013

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....
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Technology Matters

Questions to Live With

by David E. Nye
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007

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 new tools for more elegant...
Book cover of The Environmental Humanities

The Environmental Humanities

A Critical Introduction

by David E. Nye, Robert S. Emmett
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017

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...
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John Kemble’s Gibraltar Journal

The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles, 1830-1831

by E. Nye
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015

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...
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Parallel Worlds

The Heroes Within

by L. J. Hachmeister, R.R. Virdi, Aaron Michael Ritchey
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2019

Heroes and villains are not always on the opposite ends of the spectrum of good and evil. Sometimes, all that separates them is a fine line. The stories within "Parallel Worlds" explore the lives of such heroes and what drives them -- and what keeps them from crossing over to the other side. This...
Book cover of Decision Points
by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Orson Scott Card, Kevin J Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016

Life is full of decision points—those key moments when what we decide can change everything for better or for worse. These 20 tales describe such instances in young people’s lives, ranging from tragic to triumphant, from horror to fantasy to science fiction. Written by authors new and old, those...
Book cover of The World Turned Upside Down

The World Turned Upside Down

Maintaining American Leadership in a Dangerous Age

by Joseph Nye, Condoleezza Rice, Nicholas Burns
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018

Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications on the United States’ most pressing foreign policy and national security issues. In 2017, the Aspen Strategy Group examined the future of the liberal world order. The papers in this volume outline the history and importance the system of institutions...
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Representing Reason

Feminist Theory and Formal Logic

by Val Plumwood, Carroll Guen Hart, Marie-Genevieve Iselin
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2002

Philosophy's traditional 'man of reason'—independent, neutral, unemotional—is an illusion. That's because the 'man of reason' ignores one very important thing—the woman. As feminist philosophy grew in the 1980s and '90s, it became clear that the attributes philosophical tradition wrote off as...
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