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Stephen Doheny-Farina, Abbott Gleason, William Taubman

The Grid and the Village - Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster

English · Hardback

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In January 1998 a great ice storm crushed power grids in New York, New England and eastern Canada. In this insider's account of these events, the author describes the destruction of the electric network in his own village and illuminates the relationship between electronic and human connections.

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Authors	Stephen Doheny-Farina
Assisted by	Abbott Gleason (Editor), William Taubman (Editor)
Publisher	Yale University Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	11.08.2001

EAN	9780300089776
ISBN	978-0-300-08977-6
No. of pages	224
Weight	435 g
Illustrations	6 b-w illus. + 1 map
Subjects	Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science

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