Energy scholar Vaclav Smil wrote in 2003, Tug at any human use of energy and you will find its effects cascading throughout society. Too often public discussions of energy-related issues become gridlocked in debates concerning cost, environmental degradation, and the plausibility (or implausibility) of innovative technologies. But the topic of energy is much broader and deeper than these debates typically reveal. The literature of energy bears this outand takes the notion further, revealing in vivid stories and images how energy permeates the fundamental nature of existence. Readings in...
Energy scholar Vaclav Smil wrote in 2003, Tug at any human use of energy and you will find its effects cascading throughout society. Too often public ...
In his study of captivity narratives, Kyhl Lyndgaard argues that these accounts have influenced land-use policy and environmental attitudes at the same time that they reveal the complex relationship between ethnicity, landscape, and authorship. In connecting these themes, Lyndgaard offers readers an alternative environmental literature, one that is dependent on an understanding of nature as home rather than as a place of temporary retreat. He examines three captivity narratives written in the 1820s and 1830s - A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, The Captivity and Adventures of John...
In his study of captivity narratives, Kyhl Lyndgaard argues that these accounts have influenced land-use policy and environmental attitudes at the sam...
