{"product_id":"fuel-9780816699988","title":"Fuel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the first we realize \u003ci\u003eFuel\u003c\/i\u003e is not a traditional academic essay, but a fantastic dictionary, full of tall tales, craziness, real history, fake history, anticipations of the future, segues from one fuel form or fantasy to another, and sheer nonsense tied to hard truths. In this sense it's like fuel—there at the beginning and still with us, kicking and screaming, to the bitter end.\"—Allan Stoekl, Pennsylvania State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With a nod to dictionary mania of Jules Verne, \u003ci\u003eFuel\u003c\/i\u003e maps what starts as the common law right to a small bundle of wood but becomes an ever more dangerous dream of the power of pure fuel-less energy. Air, amber, bitumen . . . coal, cobalt, coke . . . Pinkus brilliantly punctures this gaseous utopian fantasy of an immaterial fuel and gestures toward a present less addicted to future fuels.\"—Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Columbia University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Pinkus totes a toolbox packed with allegory and alchemy, theories and thinkers with which to prod her materials. The fuels catalogued range from the (seemingly) obvious – wood, coal, oil, uranium – through the more fictional-imaginative – the philosopher’s stone, dilithium crystals – to the (seemingly) absurd – albatrosses, goats, the arrow of Eros, patriotism.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An illuminating read for those engaging in interdisciplinary work on the concerns of climate change.\"—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A heroic effort to remind us that sustainability is often an illusion caused by our human-sized view of the world.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Manchester Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Inventive and engaging.\"—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Pinkus’s innovative and eccentric book proves to be the perfect gateway to analyze underrepresented perspectives of the energy world, destabilizing existing narratives about fuels.\" —\u003ci\u003ePoLAR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eFuel: A Speculative Dictionary\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405981131095,"sku":"9780816699988","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816699988.jpg?v=1730494127","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fuel-9780816699988","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}