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: Gretchen Bakke, Marina Peterson Название: Anthropology of the Arts: A Reader ISBN: 1472585925 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472585929 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5817.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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.
Автор: Bakke Gretchen Название: The Likeness: Semblance and Self in Slovene Society ISBN: 0520320042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520320048 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3960.00 р. 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, O M Название: When children became people ISBN: 0800637259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780800637255 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 7426.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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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: 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: 22202.00 р. 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.
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