Author: Blake Kerr File Type: epub This a riveting, first-hand account by Blake Kerr, an American doctor who inadvertently walked into one of the grimmest scenes of political oppression in the world. Blake Kerr was visiting Tibet with his old college friend, John Ackerly. They were enjoying the sights and sounds of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, and hitch-hiking to Everest, where they humped loads for an American expedition assaulting the mountain. Upon returning to Lhasa, Kerr and Ackerly witnessed a series of demonstrations by Tibetan monks greater than anything witnessed by foreigners since China entered Tibet in 1949.

Author: Ali Chetwynd File Type: pdf Thomas Pynchons fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether Pynchons representations of women are sexist, feminist, or reflective of a more general misanthropy, whether his writing of sex is boorishly pornographic or effectually transgressive, whether queer identities are celebrated or mocked, and whether his departures from realist convention express masculinist elitism or critique the gendering of genre. Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender reframes these debates. As the first book-length investigation of Pynchons writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, it moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fictions whole worldview. The essays it contains, which cumulatively address all of Pynchons novels from V. (1963) to Bleeding Edge (2013), investigate such topics as the imbrication of gender and power, sexual abuse and the writing of sex, the gendering of violence, and the shifting representation of the family. Providing a wealth of new approaches to the centrality of sex and gender in Pynchons work, the collection opens up new avenues for Pynchon studies as a whole. **Contributors Jennifer Backman & Simon Cook & Inger H. Dalsgaard & Simon de Bourcier & Catherine Flay & Marie Franco & Doug Haynes & Luc Herman & Molly Hite & Kostas Kaltsas & Christopher P. Kocela & John Krafft & Angus McFadzean & Richard Moss & Jeffrey Severs

Author: M. M. Bakhtin File Type: pdf Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtins Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtins extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman) were written in Bakhtins later years and thus they bear the stamp of a thinker who has accumulated a huge storehouse of factual material, to which he has devoted a lifetime of analysis, reflection, and reconsideration.

Author: Scott Victor Valentine File Type: pdf The wind power development policy community faces a conundrum. On the one hand, as the most commercially viable form of utility-scale renewable energy, the wind power industry has experienced in excess of ten-fold growth in total installed capacity over the past decade. On the other hand, installed wind power capacity still accounts for less than 2% of global electricity-generation capacity, despite the prevalence of studies indicating that, in certain situations, wind power can be a cheaper form of electricity than most fossil fuel alternatives. Accordingly, the most puzzling aspect of wind power development policy can be summed up in the following manner given the global imperative to facilitate an expedient transition away from CO2-intensive energy technologies and the commercial viability of wind power, what is stopping the wind power industry from capturing higher market shares around the world? In Wind Power Politics and Policy, Scott Valentine examines this question from two angles. First, it presents an analysis of social, technical, economic and political (STEP) barriers which research shows tends to stymie wind power development. Case studies which examine phlegmatic wind power development in Japan, Taiwan, Australia and Canada are presented in order to demonstrate to the reader how these barriers manifest themselves in practice. Second, the book presents an analysis of STEP catalysts which have been linked to successful growth of wind power capacity in select nations. Four more case studies that examine the successful development of wind power in Denmark, Germany, the USA and China are put forth as practical examples of how supportive factors conflate to produce conditions that are conducive to growth of wind power markets. By examining its impediments and catalysts, the book will provide policymakers with insight into the types of factors that must be effectively managed in order to maximize wind power development. **Review [T]he book has a lot of value for understanding wind deployments across six of the most important countries in relation to forward looking policies and commitment to energy transformation with a commercialized renewable energy such as wind power. It is important for a range of readers - beginning students or well versed professionals - in order to understand the details of these case studies with very different systems and challenges. --Energy Research & Social Science If you must choose only one book to help understand the dynamics and potential of wind power in the contemporary energy mix, this is it. Valentine provides a succinct overview of the technologies and issues facing the sector and detailed cases studies of countries such as Germany, Denmark Canada, Japan, China and the United States which show the factors and variables which have resulted in some of these countries being world leaders in wind power and others laggards. This is a first class work, engaging and readable yet detailed and sophisticated in its approach and findings. --Professor Michael Howlett, Chair Professor, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Author of Designing Public Policy Principles and Instruments Climate change can no longer be denied. Humanity has to act quickly and decisively to deal with it and mitigate its impact. We have to give up our addiction to fossil fuel and find alternative power sources. Surprisingly, little attention has been paid to wind power as a viable alternative. Scott Valentines book therefore could not be more timely and more relevant for a planet in peril. He explains lucidly how wind power can give us new hope. --Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, former President of the UN Security Council, Author of The Great Convergence Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World As the climate change crisis makes clear, the transition to clean energy is the challenge of this century. An important component of a renewal energy mix will be wind power. But there is nothing certain about this development. This book helps us sort out the complex issues associated with this important source of renewable energy. I highly recommend it. --Professor Frank Fischer, Professor, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University, Author of Reframing Public Policy Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices The book describes a dilemma wrapped in a paradox. The paradox is that the world needs to decarbonize its electricity sector, yet clean and competitive wind power is struggling. That creates the dilemma will the world embrace the opportunity to generate carbon-free electricity and address the changing climate or will it continue on its unsustainable path forward? Scott Valentines book explains the electricity resource choices made by six influential nations. The history of wind power development in these nations is explained through a Political SET framework which provides comprehensive insight into forces that either enable or bar wind power development. This book provides a clear idea of what must be managed in order for wind power development to meet its potential in a timely manner. --Professor Marilyn Brown, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Author of Climate Change and Global Energy Security Technology and Policy Options, 2007 Nobel Laureate About the Author Scott Victor Valentine is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy and School of Environment and Energy at City University of Hong Kong.