Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780553202151ISBN:0553202154
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. some wear to cover; no marks or writing within text; RTB594. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780553202151ISBN:0553202154
Description: Good. No Jacket. Some soiling to the front cover which also has some sticker residue. Good reading copy. Afterward by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. read more
Description: Very Good. Mass Market pb. Very good condition; edges, corners, and covers of book show minor wear and discoloration. No underlining; no highlighting; no internal markings except for previous owner's name on ffep or inside front cover. In sealed plastic protection. 1981. Mass Market pb. read more
Edition: Edition or Printing Not Stated
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York NY
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780553202151ISBN:0553202154
Description: Good Plus. No Jacket. 6 3/4 X 4. Pages tight and clean, slight browning of edges. Binding straight and firm. Page edges and corners very good. If needed for reference, research, analysis, lucubrations or just enjoyment this is the one. Rifkin, Jeremy with Ted Howard, afterword by Nichols Georgescu-Roegen. read more
"This book is a little dated. But, the ideas are still timely and a great companion to books like The Long Emergency. Its a good book for folks that believe our post modern, post industrial society can continue to thrive."
"What I like about this book is completely peripheral to the author's main message, which is the mainstream take on global warming. I'm skeptical of that, but what I *do* like is his description of an "energy dialectic" in his first few chapters. He observes the characteristics of energy consumption over all of human history. The pattern is one of progressively more powerful energy sources, existing in progressively more centralized forms, requiring greater levels of technology to aquire, and resulting in greater power to those who control energy. - burning wood, which was found everywhere in forests, free for the picking - harnessing water power with water wheels, requiring access to rivers, and some knowledge of construction and mechanics to build - mining coal to burn, requiring mines in coal-rich areas, and mastry of the attendant technologies to extract and distribute the coal - extracting oil from the ground... - nuclear power... - research into more powerful, more technologically dependent, more centralized energy forms (cold fusion, space-based solar microwave relay, etc)
Solar and wind power represent a very desirable step back to less centralized energy forms. I would have enjoyed the book much more if he would have pursued this line, and explored how this fits in with the energy dialectic he presents, and what the implications of this might be. Also read "Report from Iron Mountain" by Leonard C Lewin."
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