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Rendered Obsolete

Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling

By: Jamie L. Jones

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Rendered Obsolete

Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling

By: Jamie L. Jones

Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil's popularity. Here, from our modern age of fossil fuels, Jamie L. Jones uses literary and cultural history to show how the whaling industry held firm in US popular culture even as it slid into obsolescence. Jones shows just how instrumental whaling was to the very idea of "energy" in American culture and how it came to mean a fusion of labor, production, and the circulation of power. She argues that dying industries exert real force on environmental perceptions and cultural imaginations. Analyzing a vast archive that includes novels, periodicals, artifacts from whaling ships, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth-century United States through the lens of the whaling industry's legacy. In terms of how they view power, Americans are, she argues, still living in the shadow of the whale.

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1469674831

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Invader ZIM Best of Skool

By: Eric Trueheart,Aaron Alexovich,Warren Wucinich,K.C. Green,Jamie Smart,Danielle Koenig,K.C Green,Sam Logan,Ian McGinty,Jhonen Vasquez

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Invader ZIM Best of Skool

By: Eric Trueheart,Aaron Alexovich,Warren Wucinich,K.C. Green,Jamie Smart,Danielle Koenig,K.C Green,Sam Logan,Ian McGinty,Jhonen Vasquez

A brand-new collection featuring four of our favorite stories from the Invader ZIM comics highlighting skool--a place where young, impressionable human minds are molded into... eh, we're not sure what happens after that. But now you can relive all the best moments of ZIM and Dib's skool days! From incorrect rumors of Ms. Bitters' demise (and origin) to the trials and tribulations of the National Phitness Test, and finally, a time-honored class assignment: pretending some inanimate object is a baby and trying not to kill it. Heck, you might even learn something! (Learning is not guaranteed.) Contains issues #15, 32, 37, and 45 of the Oni Press series Invader ZIM.

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107

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Oni Press

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1620109174

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9781620109175

Willa Cather

Writing at the Frontier

By: Jamie Ambrose

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Willa Cather

Writing at the Frontier

By: Jamie Ambrose

A portrait of the writer, Willa Cather, with reference to numerous excerpts and quotations from the writer's works.

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200

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Berg Publishers

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0854966684

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9780854966684

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene

A Posthuman Inquiry

By: Jamie Mcphie

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Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene

A Posthuman Inquiry

By: Jamie Mcphie

This book makes the unorthodox claim that there is no such thing as mental health. It also deglamourises nature-based psychotherapies, deconstructs therapeutic landscapes and redefines mental health and wellbeing as an ecological process distributed in the environment – rather than a psychological manifestation trapped within the mind of a human subject. Traditional and contemporary philosophies are merged with new science of the mind as each chapter progressively examples a posthuman account of mental health as physically dispersed amongst things – emoji, photos, tattoos, graffiti, cities, mountains – in this precarious time labelled the Anthropocene. Utilising experimental walks, play scripts and creative research techniques, this book disrupts traditional notions of the subjective self, resulting in an Extended Body Hypothesis – a pathway for alternative narratives of human-environment relations to flourish more ethically. This transdisciplinary inquiry will appeal to anyone interested in non-classificatory accounts of mental health, particularly concerning areas of social and environmental equity – post-nature.

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322

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Springer

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9811333262

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9789811333262

The Invention of Sicily

A Mediterranean History

By: Jamie Mackay

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The Invention of Sicily

A Mediterranean History

By: Jamie Mackay

Whether you’re vacationing in Italy or simply an armchair traveler, this guide to the Mediterranean island of Sicily is a dazzling introduction to the region’s rich 3,000-year history and culture. A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean’s enigmatic heart Sicily is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and for over 2000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the East. It has long been seen as the frontier between Western Civilization and the rest, but never definitively part of either. Despite being conquered by empires—Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Hapsburg Spain—it remains uniquely apart. The island’s story maps a mosaic that mixes the story of myth and wars, maritime empires and reckless crusades, and a people who refuse to be ruled. In this riveting, rich history Jamie Mackay peels away the layers of this most mysterious of islands. This story finds its origins in ancient myth but has been reinventing itself across centuries: in conquest and resistance. Inseparable from these political and social developments are the artefacts of the nation’s cultural patrimony—ancient amphitheaters, Arab gardens, Baroque Cathedrals, as well as great literature such as Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s masterpiece The Leopard, and the novels and plays of Luigi Pirandello. In its modern era, Sicily has been the site of revolution, Cosa Nostra and, in the twenty-first century, the epicenter of the refugee crisis.

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305

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Verso Books

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1786637766

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9781786637765

A History of Independent Television in Wales

By: Jamie Medhurst

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A History of Independent Television in Wales

By: Jamie Medhurst

Despite the growing body of work on the media in Wales, very little exists on the history of commercial television in Wales. This book seeks to address this imbalance by tracing the growth and development of ITV in Wales and assessing its contribution to the life of the nation. ITV has been a powerful force in British broadcasting since its inception in 1955. When commercial television came to Wales for the first time in 1958, it immediately got caught up in with matters of national identity, language and geography. Compared with the BBC, it is a relative newcomer; its growth was slower than that of the BBC and it took until 1962 to complete the network across the UK. Once it had arrived, however, its impact was considerable. The book will provide an historical narrative and critical analysis of independent television (ITV) in Wales from 1958 up until the present day.

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University of Wales Press

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1783164050

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The Politics of Congressional Elections

By: Gary C. Jacobson,Jamie L. Carson

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The Politics of Congressional Elections

By: Gary C. Jacobson,Jamie L. Carson

Jacobson and Carson provide students with a comprehensive introduction to congressional elections and the electoral process. The tenth edition offers an engaging examination of congressional candidates, campaigns, and elections by incorporating coverage of the most recent elections and the changing roles of voters, incumbents, challengers, and campaign contributions. It examines the first two years of the Trump presidency and its impact on the 2018 midterms with respect to the large number of female candidates running for office and the enormous amounts of money spent by challengers. This edition also highlights the referendum narrative underlying the election in response to behavior and events in the Trump administration. By pairing historical data analysis and original research with fundamental concepts of representation and responsibility, The Politics of Congressional Elections presents students with the tools to evaluate representative government, as well as their own role in the electoral process.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538123428

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Rendered Obsolete

Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling

By: Jamie L. Jones

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Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling

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Rendered Obsolete

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Invader ZIM Best of Skool

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Willa Cather

Willa Cather

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene

The Invention of Sicily

The Invention of Sicily

A History of Independent Television in Wales

A History of Independent Television in Wales

The Politics of Congressional Elections

The Politics of Congressional Elections

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