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Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 / by Tan, Ying Jia, 1978-

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Machineries of Oil : An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran / by Shafiee, Katayoun

Table of Contents: “…Properties of petroleum -- Petroleum knowledge -- Calculating technologies in crisis -- What kind of oil worker does an oil industry require to survive? -- Assembling intractability: managing nationalism, combating nationalization -- Long-distance machineries of oil -- Conclusion : petroleum collectives: translating the power of oil into politics.…”
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Black Gold and Blackmail : Oil and Great Power Politics / by Kelanic, Rosemary A.

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Food, Farms, and Solidarity : French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops / by Heller, Chaia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Creating a New Rationality of Agriculture in a Postindustrial World -- Part I: Toward a New Rationality of Agriculture -- The New Paysan Movements: French Industrialized Agriculture and the Rise of the Postindustrial Paysan -- The Confederation Paysanne: Philosophy, Structure, and Constituency -- Part II: The Confederation Paysanne's Early Anti-GMO Campaign, from Risk to Globalization -- Union Activism and Programs: Early Campaigns and Paysan Agriculture -- We Have Always Been Modern: Toward a Progressive Anti-GMO Campaign -- The Trial of the GMOS: Deploying Discourses from Risk to Globalization -- Part III: How France Grew Its Own Alter-globalization Movement -- Caravans, GMOS, and McDo: The Campaign Continues -- Operation Roquefort, Part I: Traveling to Washington, D.C. -- Operation Roquefort, Part II: The Battle of Seattle -- Postindustrial Paysans in a Post-Seattle World: New Movements, New Possibilities -- Conclusion: French Lessons; What's to Be Learned?…”
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The Birth of Energy : Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work / by Daggett, Cara New, 1980-

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Energopolitics : Wind and Power in the Anthropocene / by Boyer, Dominic

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Ecologics : Wind and Power in the Anthropocene / by Howe, Cymene

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The Oil Wars Myth : Petroleum and the Causes of International Conflict / by Meierding, Emily

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Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain : Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula /

Subjects: “…Sound recording industry. fast (OCoLC)fst01127019 177666…”
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Le cinéma québécois - Tome 2 : À la recherche d'une identité ? / by Poirier, Christian, 1971-

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Onscreen/Offscreen / by Nakassis, Constantine V., 1979-

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Le cinéma québécois - Tome 1 : À la recherche d'une identité ? / by Poirier, Christian, 1971-

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The Un-Americans : Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture / by Litvak, Joseph

Subjects: “…Jews in the motion picture industry. fast (OCoLC)fst00983398 162147…”
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Upland Geopolitics : Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush / by Dwyer, Michael B.

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Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? : Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989 / by Josephson, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…Technological utopianism in the Soviet Union in the 1920s -- Proletarian aesthetics : technology and socialism in Eastern Europe -- From kimchi to concrete : the North Korean experiment -- Floating reactors : nuclear hubris after the fall of communism -- Industrial deserts : technology and environmental degradation under socialism -- No hard hats, no steel-toed shoes required : worker safety in the proletarian paradise -- The gendered tractor.…”
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From Russia with Code : Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times /

Table of Contents: “…Before the collapse : programming cultures in the Soviet Union / Ksenia Tatarchenko -- From lurker to ninja : creating an IT community at Yandex / Marina Fedorova -- For code and country : civic hackers in contemporary Russia / Ksenia Ermoshina -- At the periphery of the empire : Vladivostok's IT industry / Alexandra Masalskaya and Zinaida Vasilyeva -- Kazan connected : "IT-ing" up a province / Alina Kontareva -- Hackerspaces and technoparks in Moscow / Aleksandra Simonova -- Siberian software developers / Andrey Indukaev -- E-Estonia reprogrammed : nation branding and children coding / Daria Savchenko -- Post-Soviet ecosystems of IT / Dmitry Zhikharevich -- Migrating step by step : Russian computer scientists in the UK / Irina Antoschyuk -- Brain drain and Boston's "upper-middle tech" / Diana Kurkovsky West -- Jews in Russia and Russians in Israel / Marina Fedorova -- Russian programmers in Finland : self-presentation in migration narratives / Lyubava Shatokhina.…”
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Privacy on the Line : The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption / by Diffie, Whitfield

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Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone? : How Institutional Differences Influence Renewable Energy Policy / by Parinandi, Srinivas C.

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The Currency of Truth : Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era / by Chua, Emily H. C.

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