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A Vast Machine
Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures)
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Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, "sound science." In "A Vast Machine" Paul Edwards has news for these skeptics: without models, there are no data. Today, no collection of signals or ob...
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Die Geschichte des Deutsch-Französischen Krieges erzählt in Einzelschicksalen
Adam Tooze
Aug 07, 2020An accessible, focused exploration of the field of political ecologyThe third edition of Political Ecology spans this sprawling field, using grounded examples and careful readings of current literature. While the study of political ecology is sometimes difficult to fathom, owing to its breadth and diversity, this resource simplifies the discussion ...
Adam Tooze
Feb 15, 2020Oil Revolution
Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization (Global and International History)
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Through innovative and expansive research, Oil Revolution analyzes the tensions faced and networks created by anti-colonial oil elites during the age of decolonization following World War II. This new community of elites stretched across Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Algeria, and Libya. First through their western educations and then in the ...
Adam Tooze
Dec 29, 2019