Автор: Slater Robert Название: Seizing Power: The Grab for Global Oil Wealth ISBN: 1576602478 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781576602478 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3642.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How oil volatility may lead to violence among oil powers
The world supply of oil is running out. Meanwhile, the balance of oil power is shifting away from the United States and the Arab states toward national oil companies (NOCs) in Russia, China, and some emerging economies in Africa and South America. As developing countries seek a middle-class existence, their demand for oil grows exponentially, causing oil prices to spiral, turning some into international bullies. Until another fuel is found the world risks being at the mercy of these tyrants whose insatiable appetites for higher oil prices heighten competition and spur the threat of violence, domestic as well as global.
In Seizing Power: The Grab for Global Oil Wealth, bestselling author Robert Slater:
Profiles petroaggressors like Russia's Putin, Venezuela's Chavez, and Iran s Ahmadinejad
Describes how oil-rich outlaw nations are using a valuable natural resource as a weapon in global politics
Warns that, as oil dwindles, these outlaw nations may turn upon one another in the fight for what oil is left
Seizing Power clearly explains why oil is potentially toxic to world stability.
Автор: Hayden Название: The Power of Feasts ISBN: 1107042992 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107042995 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13939.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in archaeological and ethnographic perspective. The Power of Feasts chronicles the evolution of feasting behavior from its first perceptible prehistoric presence to modern industrial times in order to understand the social and political structures of past societies.
Автор: Sandler Ronald Название: Food Ethics: the Basics ISBN: 0415836441 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415836449 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 3061.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Food Ethics: The Basics is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the ethical dimensions of the production and eating of food. It offers an impartial exploration of the most important aspects of key ethical questions relating to food.
Автор: Vester Katharina Название: A Taste of Power: Food and American Identities ISBN: 0520284976 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520284975 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 12672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, points of cultural resistance. This book offers a close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture.
Автор: Vester Katharina Название: A Taste of Power: Food and American Identities ISBN: 0520284984 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520284982 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, points of cultural resistance. This book offers a close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture.
Автор: Mabee Bryan Название: Understanding American Power ISBN: 0230217737 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230217737 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This broad-ranging assessment of US power in the twenty-first century covers not just the nature and mechanics of foreign policy but the broad array of economic, military, political, social and ideological forces that shape America`s global position and role, all set in a clear historical context.
Описание: In Vagrant Nation, Risa Goluboff has found a way to explain how the interaction between 1960s social movements and the courts fundamentally changed both American law and society writ large.
Автор: Malin Название: The Price Of Nuclear Power ISBN: 0813569788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813569789 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5261.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining industry across the American West. In The Price of Nuclear Power, environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-the-ground portrait of several uranium communities caught between the harmful legacy of previous mining booms and the potential promise of new economic development. Using this context, she examines how shifting notions of environmental justice inspire divergent views about nuclear power’s sustainability and equally divisive forms of social activism. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in rural isolated towns such as Monticello, Utah, and Nucla and Naturita, Colorado, as well as in upscale communities like Telluride, Colorado, and incorporating interviews with community leaders, environmental activists, radiation regulators, and mining executives, Malin uncovers a fundamental paradox of the nuclear renaissance: the communities most hurt by uranium’s legacy-such as high rates of cancers, respiratory ailments, and reproductive disorders-were actually quick to support industry renewal. She shows that many impoverished communities support mining not only because of the employment opportunities, but also out of a personal identification with uranium, a sense of patriotism, and new notions of environmentalism. But other communities, such as Telluride, have become sites of resistance, skeptical of industry and government promises of safe mining, fearing that regulatory enforcement won’t be strong enough. Indeed, Malin shows that the nuclear renaissance has exacerbated social divisions across the Colorado Plateau, threatening social cohesion. Malin further illustrates ways in which renewed uranium production is not a socially sustainable form of energy development for rural communities, as it is utterly dependent on unstable global markets. The Price of Nuclear Power is an insightful portrait of the local impact of the nuclear renaissance and the social and environmental tensions inherent in the rebirth of uranium mining.
Автор: Gregory Название: The Power of Habeas Corpus in America ISBN: 1107459664 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107459663 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7128.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tells the story of habeas corpus from medieval England to modern America, crediting the rocky history to its nature as a government power. The book addresses habeas` controversies, its role in the power struggle between the federal government and the states, and the proper scope of federal habeas from the Civil War to the War on Terror.
Urban DC Microgrid: Intelligent Control and Power Flow Optimization" focuses on microgrids for urban areas, particularly associated with building-integrated photovoltaic and renewable sources. This book describes the most important problems of DC microgrid application, with grid-connected and off-grid operating modes, aiming to supply DC building distribution networks.
The book considers direct current (DC) microgrid to supply DC building distribution networks for positive energy buildings; dynamic interactions with the utility grid based on communication with the smart grid; supervisory control systems; and energy management. The global power system is exposed and the DC microgrid system is presented and analyzed with results and discussion, highlighting both the advantages and limitations of the concept. Coverage at the system level of microgrid control as well as the various technical aspects of the power system components make this a book interesting to academic researchers, industrial energy researchers, electrical power and power system professionals. Provides a strong overview of microgrid modellingDescribes the most important problems of DC microgrid application, with grid-connected and off-grid operating modes, aiming to supply DC building distribution networksOffers experimental problem examples and resultsIncludes supervisory control and energy management
Автор: Snook Edith Название: Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England ISBN: 1137503688 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137503688 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 7685.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals.
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