Author: Arthur Mason Cappon
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663265372
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Arthur Mason Cappon first became interested in the life of his grandfather Arthur J. Mason at the young age of 3 years old, when Mason passed away. Cappon grew up hearing many a tale about his grandfather from his mother and when he retired from his career as an engineer at the age of 82, he decided to begin researching Mason’s life. Cappon would spend the rest of his life perfecting this book until he passed away at the age of 93. Arthur J. Mason was a noted engineer, inventor and agriculturist.
Arthur J. Mason
Author: Arthur Mason Cappon
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663265372
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Arthur Mason Cappon first became interested in the life of his grandfather Arthur J. Mason at the young age of 3 years old, when Mason passed away. Cappon grew up hearing many a tale about his grandfather from his mother and when he retired from his career as an engineer at the age of 82, he decided to begin researching Mason’s life. Cappon would spend the rest of his life perfecting this book until he passed away at the age of 93. Arthur J. Mason was a noted engineer, inventor and agriculturist.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663265372
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Arthur Mason Cappon first became interested in the life of his grandfather Arthur J. Mason at the young age of 3 years old, when Mason passed away. Cappon grew up hearing many a tale about his grandfather from his mother and when he retired from his career as an engineer at the age of 82, he decided to begin researching Mason’s life. Cappon would spend the rest of his life perfecting this book until he passed away at the age of 93. Arthur J. Mason was a noted engineer, inventor and agriculturist.
Subterranean Estates
Author: Hannah Appel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455391
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
"Oil is a fairy tale, and, like every fairy tale, is a bit of a lie."—Ryzard Kapuscinski, Shah of Shahs The scale and reach of the global oil and gas industry, valued at several trillions of dollars, is almost impossible to grasp. Despite its vast technical expertise and scientific sophistication, the industry betrays a startling degree of inexactitude and empirical disagreement about foundational questions of quantity, output, and price. As an industry typified by concentrated economic and political power, its operations are obscured by secrecy and security. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that the social sciences typically approach oil as a metonym—of modernity, money, geopolitics, violence, corruption, curse, ur-commodity—rather than considering the daily life of the industry itself and of the hydrocarbons around which it is built. Subterranean Estates gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars and experts to instead provide a critical topography of the hydrocarbon industry, understood not solely as an assemblage of corporate forms but rather as an expansive and porous network of laborers and technologies, representation and expertise, and the ways of life oil and gas produce at points of extraction, production, marketing, consumption, and combustion. By accounting for oil as empirical and experiential, the contributors begin to demystify a commodity too often given almost demiurgic power. Subterranean Estates shifts critical attention away from an exclusive focus on global oil firms toward often overlooked aspects of the industry, including insurance, finance, law, and the role of consultants and community organizations. Based on ethnographic research from around the world (Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Oman, the United States, Ecuador, Chad, the United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Canada, Iran, and Russia), and featuring a photoessay on the lived experiences of those who inhabit a universe populated by oil rigs, pipelines, and gas flares, this innovative volume provides a new perspective on the material, symbolic, cultural, and social meanings of this multidimensional world.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455391
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
"Oil is a fairy tale, and, like every fairy tale, is a bit of a lie."—Ryzard Kapuscinski, Shah of Shahs The scale and reach of the global oil and gas industry, valued at several trillions of dollars, is almost impossible to grasp. Despite its vast technical expertise and scientific sophistication, the industry betrays a startling degree of inexactitude and empirical disagreement about foundational questions of quantity, output, and price. As an industry typified by concentrated economic and political power, its operations are obscured by secrecy and security. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that the social sciences typically approach oil as a metonym—of modernity, money, geopolitics, violence, corruption, curse, ur-commodity—rather than considering the daily life of the industry itself and of the hydrocarbons around which it is built. Subterranean Estates gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars and experts to instead provide a critical topography of the hydrocarbon industry, understood not solely as an assemblage of corporate forms but rather as an expansive and porous network of laborers and technologies, representation and expertise, and the ways of life oil and gas produce at points of extraction, production, marketing, consumption, and combustion. By accounting for oil as empirical and experiential, the contributors begin to demystify a commodity too often given almost demiurgic power. Subterranean Estates shifts critical attention away from an exclusive focus on global oil firms toward often overlooked aspects of the industry, including insurance, finance, law, and the role of consultants and community organizations. Based on ethnographic research from around the world (Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Oman, the United States, Ecuador, Chad, the United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Canada, Iran, and Russia), and featuring a photoessay on the lived experiences of those who inhabit a universe populated by oil rigs, pipelines, and gas flares, this innovative volume provides a new perspective on the material, symbolic, cultural, and social meanings of this multidimensional world.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2278
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 2278
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents
Author: United States. Patent Office
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Prior to 1862, when the Department of Agriculture was established, the report on agriculture was prepared and published by the Commissioner of Patents, and forms volume or part of volume, of his annual reports, the first being that of 1840. Cf. Checklist of public documents ... Washington, 1895, p. 148.
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Prior to 1862, when the Department of Agriculture was established, the report on agriculture was prepared and published by the Commissioner of Patents, and forms volume or part of volume, of his annual reports, the first being that of 1840. Cf. Checklist of public documents ... Washington, 1895, p. 148.
Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Reserve Officers on Active Duty
Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
Flood Control
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher:
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Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3208
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3208
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: American Bar Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Covers 1st-95th (29th-30th each in 2 v.) annual meetings held 1878-1972.
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Covers 1st-95th (29th-30th each in 2 v.) annual meetings held 1878-1972.
Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association
Author: American Bar Association
Publisher:
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Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author:
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description