George A. Gonzalez is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, USA. He is the author of Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital (2009), Energy and Empire: The Politics of Nuclear and Solar Power in the United States (2012), Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic (2013) and The Politics of Star Trek: Justice, War, and the Future (2015).
13 Ebooks by George A. Gonzalez
George A. Gonzalez: American Empire and the Canadian Oil Sands
Throughout the US oil and gas shale are being ‘hydrofracked’ to produce petroleum and natural gas. Oil (or tar) sands from Canada is being ‘processed’ – thereby generating large amounts of crude. …
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George A. Gonzalez: The Politics of Star Trek
The Star Trek franchise reflects, conveys, and comments upon the key philosophical tensions of the modern era. This book details the manner in which these tensions and controversies are manifested in …
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George A. Gonzalez: Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism
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George A. Gonzalez: Justice and Popular Culture
This book examines how the Star Trek franchise does more than reflect and depict the political currents of the times. Gonzalez argues that Star Trek also presents an argument as to what constitutes a …
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€89.93
George A. Gonzalez: The Absolute and Star Trek
This volume explains how Star Trek allows viewers to comprehend significant aspects of Georg Hegel’s concept the absolute, the driving force behind history.
Gonzalez, with wit and wisdom, explains …
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€64.19
George A. Gonzalez: Star Trek and the Politics of Globalism
The Absolute, philosophized most saliently about by Georg Hegel, encompasses the entirety of reality. The absolute (reality) is composed of five dimensions – height, length, width, time, …
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€74.89
George A. Gonzalez: Popular Culture, Conspiracy Theory, and the Star Trek Text
The forward progress of society is not automatic and should not be taken for granted. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 can be viewed as ending his effort to deploy American …
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€43.62
George A. Gonzalez: Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System
In this provocative and original study, George A. Gonzalez argues that the relationship between energy and the state, as well as global politics, has become more and more deeply intertwined, reaching …
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George A. Gonzalez: The Politics of Air Pollution
Who has been at the political forefront of clean air policy development in the United States? In The Politics of Air Pollution, George A. Gonzalez argues that the answer is neither the federal …
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George A. Gonzalez: Energy and Empire
What set the United States on the path to developing commercial nuclear energy in the 1950s, and what led to the seeming demise of that industry in the late 1970s? Why, in spite of the depletion of …
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George A. Gonzalez: Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic
Since the onset of the Second Industrial Revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century, energy has become a key axis of politics and international relations, particularly for the United …
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