Joseph Tainter (200 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the processes and institutions that generate and manage that growth. As societies grow more complex through the bounty of cheap energy, they also confront problems that seem to increase in number and severity. In this era of fossil fuels, cheap energy and increasing complexity have been in a mutually-reinforcing spiral. The more energy we have and the more problems our societies confront, the more we grow complex and require still more energy. How did our demand for energy, our technological prowess, the resulting need for complex problem solving, and the end of easy oil conspire to make the Deepwater Horizon oil spill increasingly likely, if not inevitable? This book explains the real causal factors leading up to the worst environmental catastrophe in U.S. history, a disaster from which it will take decades to recover.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the processes and institutions that generate and manage that growth. As societies grow more complex through the bounty of cheap energy, they also confront problems that seem to increase in number and severity. In this era of fossil fuels, cheap energy and increasing complexity have been in a mutually-reinforcing spiral. The more energy we have and the more problems our societies confront, the more we grow complex and require still more energy. How did our demand for energy, our technological prowess, the resulting need for complex problem solving, and the end of easy oil conspire to make the Deepwater Horizon oil spill increasingly likely, if not inevitable? This book explains the real causal factors leading up to the worst environmental catastrophe in U.S. history, a disaster from which it will take decades to recover.…

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paperback. Condition: Good. 2012th Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

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Paperback. Condition: Fine. Gen Tech Rept RM- 184, 214 pp., Illus, Brn Illus Paperback, 4to, Fine.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good reading copy. Binding is sound and tight, with no marginal notes. Pea-sized bit of adhesive residue on the front cover, and with some highlighting in yellow on just thirty-three of the books four hundred and fifty-nine pages (in a single chapter). Ships from NC. All books are sealed in plastic, packaged securely, and shipped promptly with tracking information. (J-8.).…

PAPERBACK. First edition. 214pp b/w illustrations quarto paperback. General Technical Report RM 164. cover wear, tight binding, clean throughout, Very Good-.

PAPERBACK. First edition. 214pp b/w illustrations quarto paperback. General Technical Report RM 164. ink numbers front cover, cover wear otherwise very good-.

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Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Copernicus, 2011. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new.

1996. North America, Native Americans. Proceedings Volume in the Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 284p., very good boards.

Soft cover. 1st Edition. Very Good: pen marks on 5 pages within pp 109-115, else straight and unmarked; light soil near spine front, else very clean. Large trade paperback, 4to, 8.5x11", iii, 214 pp. pp.

Paper Back. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st. 480pp.; SC lt.brwn.w/blk.-pic.cover; some rub w/sun&soil on spine; clean,tight pgs. " .the research designs for the Farmington area evoved from an initial concern with how Puebloans used hinterland areas. " illus.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex societies in both the present and future. Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory that accounts for collapse among diverse kinds of societies, evaluating his model and clarifying the processes of disintegration by detailed studies of the Roman, Mayan and Chacoan collapses.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Name/date on half title page. Scratches and rubbing to covers. No underlining, notes or highlighting. z4.

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