Este autor encarna el espíritu turbulento del siglo XVII, cuya vida estuvo marcada por los campos de batalla y la agitación política. Su amplia experiencia militar se tradujo en una aguda perspicacia sobre la naturaleza humana bajo coacción extrema. Su escritura se distingue por un crudo realismo al representar conflictos y dilemas morales, ofreciendo a los lectores una perspectiva única sobre una era de profunda disrupción. Sus obras conservan una voz potente y relevante para los lectores contemporáneos.
Hvězdokotě, kosmický koráb, který je napůl kočka, brázdí se svou posádkou nejtemnějšími hlubinami vesmíru. Za každým šutrem, hvězdou nebo měsícem na ně čeká nějaká patálie, s kterou se ne vždy popasují, jak by se očekávalo. Nejsou totiž moc sehraný tým… A do toho se kapitán Vesmírňák snaží získat medaili za největší hrdinství. Podaří se mu to?
For a clean energy future, few technologies are more important than batteries. Used for powering zero-emission vehicles, storing electricity from solar panels and wind turbines, and revitalizing the electric grid, batteries are essential to scaling up the renewable energy resources that help address global warming. But given the unique environmental impact of batteries?including mining, disposal, and more?does a clean energy transition risk trading one set of problems for another? In Charged, James Morton Turner unpacks the history of batteries to explore why solving ?the battery problem? is critical to a clean energy transition. At a time when climate activists focus on what a clean energy future will create?sustainability, resiliency, and climate justice?considering the history of batteries offers a sharp reminder of what building a clean energy future will consume?lithium, graphite, nickel, and other specialized materials. With new insight on questions of justice and sustainability, Turner draws on the past for crucial lessons that will help us build a clean energy future, from the ground up.
Photographs by Edwin Smith.Introduction by Ronald Blythe.English Text.London, 1977; clothbound, pp. 200, b/w ill., cm 20x26,5.