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This path-breaking volume explores cultures of energy, the underlying but under-appreciated dimensions of both crisis and innovation in resource use around the globe. Theoretical chapters situate pressing energy issues in larger conceptual frames, and ethnographic case studies reveal energy as it is imagined, used, and contested in a variety of cultural contexts. Contributors address issues including the connection between resource flows and social relationships in energy systems; cultural transformation and notions of progress and collapse; the blurring of technology and magic; social tensions that accompany energy contraction; and sociocultural changes required in affluent societies to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Each of five thematic sections concludes with an integrative and provocative conversation among the authors. The volume is an ideal tool for teaching unique, contemporary, and comparative perspectives on social theories of science and technology in undergraduate and graduate courses.
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The adventure of the Phantom as a young boy.
It's Halloween 1955 and the town of Hidalgo Falls, New Mexico is about to receive a real scare - an invasion by aliens. It seems Roswell wasn't enough. Now it's Hidaglo's turn to be the ultimate alien truck stop. It must be the dry air and year-round golf that attracts so many aliens to this southwest state. It's up to a very odd team of humans to tie a knot in the alien's collective butts. You've got a "been there, done that" former Air Force Lieutenant, a biker with a sandpaper soul, a curvy, nervy female reporter and a six-year old boy that wants to be the next John Wayne. It makes you wonder why the aliens haven't already cut bait and ran! Take a step back into the days when sci-fi adventures had low-tech solutions and high-octane adventure.
Biomass from olives as a raw material for biorefineries Recent advances in chemical composition determination Latest progress in the extraction and characterization of biocompounds Exploitation of by-products such as wastewater, pomace or olive leaves as raw materials for the production of renewable compounds Applications in bioenergy, renewable chemical production or biofuel production.