Power Resources category: 2047 books
Martha Graham
Gender & the Haunting of a Dance Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Martha Graham’s name was internationally recognized as part of the modern dance world, and though trends in choreography continue to change, her influence on dance as an art form endures. In this, the first extended feminist look at the modern dance pioneer, Victoria Thoms explores the cult of Graham...
The Cinema Makers
Public Life and the Exhibition of Difference in South-Eastern and Central Europe Since the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The Cinema Makers investigates how cinema spectators in south-eastern and central European cities became cinema makers through such practices as squatting in existing cinema spaces, organizing cinema ‘events’, writing about film and making films themselves. Drawing on a corpus of interviews with...
Hoover Dam
An American Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertaken—the construction of Hoover Dam. Through the worst years of the Great Depression as many as five thousand laborers toiled...
Energy Conservation In Whatever Way
Common Facts Everyone Should Know About Energy Saving And Finding Alternative Fuel Sources So You Can Do Your Share In Protecting The Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
There are lots of easy ways to stop wasting energy. You don't have to go build a windmill in your backyard or join aggressive support groups if that's not your style in order to make a difference. We all have to realize that making little changes in our own lives can greatly lessen the harmful effects...
Solar Cooling
The Earthscan Expert Guide to Solar Cooling Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Cooling buildings is a major global energy consumer and the energy requirement is growing year by year. This guide to solar cooling technology explains all you need to know about how solar energy can be converted into cooling energy. It outlines the difference between heat-driven and photovoltaic-driven...
by Nikola Tesla
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Nikola Tesla was a genius who revolutionized how the world looks at electricity.
by Yong-Duan Song, Fanghong Guo, Changyun Wen
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
The book aims to equalize the theoretical involvement with industrial practicality and build a bridge between academia and industry by reducing the mathematical difficulties. It provides an overview of distributed control and distributed optimization theory, followed by specific details on industrial...
by Ljubivoje M. Popovic
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Practical Methods for Analysis and Design of HV Installation Grounding Systems gives readers a basic understanding of the modeling characteristics of the major components of a complex grounding system. One by one, the author develops and analyzes each component as a standalone element, but then puts...
Handbook of Bioenergy
Bioenergy Supply Chain - Models and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
This handbook brings together recent advances in the areas of supply chain optimization, supply chain management, and life-cycle cost analysis of bioenergy. These topics are important for the development and long-term sustainability of the bioenergy industry.
The increasing interest in bioenergy...
Technology and Energy Sources Monitoring
Control, Efficiency, and Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
As energy technology has emerged as an essential way to provide efficiency and environmental safety, monitoring these energy sources is a way of measuring the effectiveness of the applications and the fundamentals of each design. Technology and Energy Sources Monitoring: Control, Efficiency, and Optimization...
Performance Management for the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries
A Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Performance Management for the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries: A Systems Approach is a practical guide on the business cycle and techniques to undertake step, episodic, and breakthrough improvement in performance to optimize operating costs. Like many industries, the oil, gas, and process industries...
Urban Transportation Planning in the United States
History, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
In this new fifth edition, there is a strong focus on the increasing concern over infrastructure resilience from the threat of serious storms, human activity, and population growth. The new edition also looks technologies that urban transportation planners are increasingly focused on, such as vehicle...
Wiener Chic
A Locational History of Vienna Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Vienna may not be synonymous with fashion like its metropolitan counterparts Paris and Milan, but it is a fashionable city, one that historically has been structured by changing fashions and fashionable appearances. Like the Litfaßsäule in Orson Welles’s 1949 urban noir masterpiece The Third...
Dynamic and Seamless Integration of Production, Logistics and Traffic
Fundamentals of Interdisciplinary Decision Support
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This book contributes a basic framework for and specific insights into interdisciplinary connections between production, logistics, and traffic subsystems. The book is divided into two parts, the first of which presents an overview of interdisciplinarity in value-added networks and freight traffic....