1982, ISBN: 9780356078755

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Hardcover. Good., Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10, "New and Enlarged Edition" Very Good Hard Cover, Good minus rare Dust Jacket. 379pgs. Cle… Mehr…

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Hardcover. Good., Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10, "New and Enlarged Edition" Very Good Hard Cover, Good minus rare Dust Jacket. 379pgs. Clean, George H. Doran Co., 1920, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2014. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Fossil fuels don't simply impact our ability to commute to and from work.They condition our sensory lives, our erotic experiences, and our aesthetics; they structure what we assume to be normal and healthy; and they prop up a distinctly modern bargain with nature that allows populations and economies to grow wildly beyond the older and more clearly understood limits of the organic economy. "Bob Johnson examines the shift away from renewable energy to fossil fuels during the century before the energy crisis of the 1970s, and he explores the ambivalent cultural consequences of that transformation, as Americans sought to ignore its environmental costs as they embraced a narrative of technological empowerment " ÑDavid E. Nye, author of Technology Matters "Armed with a dazzling array of facts and the insights of cultural criticism, Bob Johnson probes the subsoil ecology of the modern self, those psychic and material traumas that comprise the deepest collateral damage of our now international carbon economy." ÑStephanie LeMenager, author of Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century Carbon Nation ranges across film and literary studies, ecology, politics, journalism, and art history to chart the course by which prehistoric carbon calories entered into the American economy and body. It reveals how fossil fuels remade our ways of being, knowing, and sensing in the world while examining how different classes, races, sexes, and conditions learned to embrace and navigate the material manifestations and cultural potential of these new prehistoric carbons. The ecological roots of modern America are introduced in the first half of the book where the author shows how fossil fuels revolutionized the nations material wealth and carrying capacity. The book then demonstrates how this eager embrace of fossil fuels went hand in hand with both a deliberate and an unconscious suppression of that dependency across social, spatial, symbolic, and psychic domains. In the works of Eugene ONeill, Upton Sinclair, Sherwood Anderson, and Stephen Crane, the author reveals how Americans material dependencies on prehistoric carbon were systematically buried within modernist narratives of progress, consumption, and unbridled growth; while in films like Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and George Stevens's Giant uncover cinematic expressions of our own deep-seated anxieties about living in a dizzying new world wrought by fossil fuels. Any discussion of fossil fuels must go beyond energy policy and technology. In Carbon Nation, Bob Johnson reminds us that what we take to be natural in the modern world is, in fact, historical, and that our history and culture arise from this relatively recent embrace of the coal mine, the stoke hole, and the oil derrick. About the Author Bob Johnson is a cultural critic and historian. He has been an Associate Professor at the New College of Florida and a Faculty Fellow in the History Department at UC Santa Barbara. He is now Chair of the Department of Social Sciences at National University in La Jolla, California., University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2014, MacDonald & Co, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped. 1982 Hard Cover. xv, 240 pp. One hundred years of investigation into those faculties of man, real or supposed, which have appeared to be inexplicable., MacDonald & Co, 1982<

1982, ISBN: 0356078752

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[EAN: 9780356078755], Near Fine, [PU: MacDonald & Co.], LIFESTYLES NEW AGE OCCULT RELIGION PARANORMAL SPIRITUAL PSYCHICAL PSYCHIC TELEPATHY, Jacket, First edition. Jacket edges lightly bu… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780356078755], Near Fine, [PU: MacDonald & Co.], LIFESTYLES NEW AGE OCCULT RELIGION PARANORMAL SPIRITUAL PSYCHICAL PSYCHIC TELEPATHY, Jacket, First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped. 1982 Hard Cover. xv, 240 pp. One hundred years of investigation into those faculties of man, real or supposed, which have appeared to be inexplicable.<

1982, ISBN: 9780356078755

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TBS The Book Service Ltd, Hardcover, Auflage: 1st, 256 Seiten, Publiziert: 1982-08-16T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.44 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1599156, Occult, New Age, Religion & Spiritual… Mehr…

TBS The Book Service Ltd, Hardcover, Auflage: 1st, 256 Seiten, Publiziert: 1982-08-16T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.44 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1599156, Occult, New Age, Religion & Spirituality, Subjects, Books, TBS The Book Service Ltd, 1982<