Blackout
By: James Goodman
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Electric power failures -- New York (State) -- New York; Electric power failures -- New York (State) -- New York -- Psychological aspects; Electric power failures -- Social aspects -- Case studies; Electric power failures -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: "Explores the ocean world and the enterprises--licit and illicit--that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons. [The] forty-three thousand ships [that] ply the open ocean ... are the embodiment of modern global capital and the most independent objects on earth ... Here is free enterprise at its freest ... But its efficiencies are accompanied by global problems--shipwrecks and pollution, the hard lives and deaths of the crews, and the growth of ... piracy and ... stateless terrorism"--jacket.