No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (962 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0399563490 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 704 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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—The Washington Post. Vollmann:One of the few contemporary American writers who’s managed to say some new things in a truly original way. Praise for the work of William T. —The Boston Globe Vollmann’s books tower over the work of his contemporaries by virtue of their enormous range, huge ambition, stylistic daring, wide learning, audacious innovation and sardonic wit
Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, Granta, and many other publications. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. W
VollmannIn his nonfiction, William T. Now, Vollmann turns to a topic that will define the generations to come--the factors and human actions that have led to global warming. A timely, eye-opening book about climate change and energy generation that focuses on the consequences of nuclear power production, from award-winning author William T. Turning to nuclear power first, Vollmann then recounts multiple visits that he made at significant personal risk over the course of seven years to the contaminated no-go zones and sad ghost towns of Fukushima, Japan, beginning shortly after the tsunami and reactor meltdowns of 2011. Equipped first only with a