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Alternative Energy by Brian C. Black 9780313344848
Booksplease Price: €61.53An exceptionally timely volume that weighs the costs and benefits of alternative energy sources and their implications for reducing energy consumption. As this book makes clear, civilization cannot... -
Global Warming by Brian C. Black 9780313345227
Booksplease Price: €61.53Tracing scientific ideas about the structure of Earth, Global Warming creates an intellectual portrait of the shifts in thinking that have led to the current controversy, enabling readers to make up... -
To Have and Have Not: Energy in World History by Brian C. Black 9781538105030
Booksplease Price: €40.65This important book tells the sweeping story of energy, tracing patterns of energy use in human history. Contextualizing global history through the lens of the Anthropocene, Brian Black traces the... -
Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History by Brian C. Black 9781538142479
Booksplease Price: €40.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBrian C. Black, professor of history and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona, is the author or... -
Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History by Brian C. Black 9781538142462
Booksplease Price: €103.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBrian C. Black, professor of history and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona, is the author or... -
Energy in North American Environmental History Brian C. Black 9781032539720
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €44.97As humans have sought to live and develop the North American continent, energy from Earth’s basic elements has served as the raw material for living. The volume examines how the search, harvest, and... -
Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life by Brian C. Black 9780313332012
Booksplease Price: €61.53The nineteenth-century saw a significant transformation in the United States. In one short century, the nation had seen the populating of the Great Plains and West, the decimation of native Indian... -
Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century American Life by Brian C. Black 9780313332005
Booksplease Price: €61.53Americans during the twentieth-century became more disconnected from the environment and nature than ever before. More Americans lived in cities rather than on farms; they became ever more reliant on... -
Nature's Entrepot: Philadelphia’s Urban Sphere and Its Environmental Thresholds by Brian C. Black 9780822966500
RRP: €39.21Booksplease Price: €37.06In Nature's Entrepot, the contributors view the planning, expansion, and sustainability of the urban environment of Philadelphia from its inception to the present. The chapters explore the history of... -
Ike's Road Trip: How Eisenhower's 1919 Convoy Paved the Way for the Roads We Travel Brian C. Black 9781567927153
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €18.02All roads begin somewhere and today’s U. S. highway system began with an unforgettable, exploratory, cross-country ride, led by a 28-year-old Army lieutenant colonel, Dwight Eisenhower. This is the... -
Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change: Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis by Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad 9781949199642
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.08This interdisciplinary collection of eleven original essays focuses on the environmental impact of transportation, which is, as Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad and Brian C. Black note in their introduction,... -
Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920 by Brian Frehner 9780803290624
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. Because oil has made fortunes, caused wars, and shaped nations, no one questions the... -
Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920 by Brian Frehner 9780803234864
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.04Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. Because oil has made fortunes, caused wars, and shaped nations, no one questions the... -
Green Capitalism?: Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century by Hartmut Berghoff 9780812249019
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €58.63At a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to "green" capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival. Indeed, even... -
Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings by Gifford Pinchot 9780271078410
Booksplease Price: €89.32The founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot was central to the early twentieth-century conservation movement in the United States and the...