Filter by
Invisible Engines : How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Ind…
Harnessing the power of software platforms: what executives and entrepreneurs must know about how to use this technology to transform industries and how to develop the strategies that will create value and drive profits. Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry for the past quarter century. They power everything from …
- Edition
- Edisi pertama
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262272421
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 005.1 EVA i
Energy and civilization a history
Extensively updated and expanded edition of the author's Energy in world history (Boulder : Westview Press, 1994).Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262338301
- Collation
- 1 online resource (vii, 552 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Power generation and environmental change :symposium of the Committee on Envi…
Enormous increases in the demand for power throughout the world make it imperative to reduce the environmental hazards and pollution associated with power generation. This book discusses the effects that power generation has had on the land, the water, the air, and the biosphere. It reviews the technological means available for abatement and control of damaging environmental effects and describ…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262268257
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 440 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Producing power :the pre-Chernobyl history of the Soviet nuclear industry
An examination of how the technical choices, social hierarchies, economic structures, and political dynamics shaped the Soviet nuclear industry leading up to Chernobyl.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262321792
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 362 pages) :illustrations.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Power lines electricity in American life and letters 1882-1952
How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262340816
- Collation
- 1 online resource.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Power-system reliability calculations
This is a significant work in an important area, and one that is receiving growing attention. It has been estimated that many professional meetings currently devote a third or more of their time to questions of power-system reliability. The book digests this research and covers the standard techniques and methods that are currently standard. The presentation employs a minimum of mathematics.The…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262310765
- Collation
- 1 online resource (viii, 173 pages) :illustrations.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Climate of Capitulation: An Insider's Account of State Power in a Coal Nation
How power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level, and how to redress the ingrained favoritism toward coal and electric utilities.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262340663
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) :illustrations, map
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Sunlight to Electricity: Prospects for Solar Energy Conversion by Photovoltaics
The first 30 pages of this typewritten book are generally useful as a timely, concise, well-documented statement of energy sources and expected energy usage in the U.S. to the year 2000. The rest of the book... deals with the use of solar energy through photovoltaic conversion. The principles of energy band structure of solids, the state of the art in photovoltaic conversion, economic considera…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262310994
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xi, 163 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The bubble economy :is sustainable growth possible?
The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, banks "too big to fail," financial regulation (or the lack of it), and the European debt crisis. Wall Street has discovered that it is more profitable to make money from other people's money than by investing in the real economy, which has limited ac…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262323932
- Collation
- 1 online resource
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Energy Security and Development the Global Context and Indian Perspectives
This volume provides a systematic framework for energy suppliers, policy makers, academics, students, and all others interested in energy security, and analyzes key issues concerning energy, security and sustainability with the help of a wealth of data. While sustainability is the broadest objective, energy security is an important part of it, at the global, national and societal levels. The de…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-81-322-2065-7
- Collation
- 117 b/w illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography