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Exergy
Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Exergy, Second Edition deals with exergy and its applications to various energy systems and applications as a potential tool for design, analysis and optimization, and its role in minimizing and/or eliminating environmental impacts and providing sustainable development. In this regard, several key...
Thermal Energy Storage
Systems and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
The ability of thermal energy storage (TES) systems to facilitate energy savings, renewable energy use and reduce environmental impact has led to a recent resurgence in their interest. The second edition of this book offers up-to-date coverage of recent energy efficient and sustainable technological...
Broken Abacus?
A More Accurate Gauge of China's Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Until recently a lack of precision around China’s economic size was taken for granted but caused little lost sleep: room to expand and the pace of growth were self-evident, and everything beyond that was academic for most purposes. But today the pace and even direction of China’s growth is prone...
The Republican Party in the Age of Roosevelt
Sources of Anti-Government Conservatism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
The final book of a trilogy, The Republican Party in the Age of Roosevelt exposes the roots of the present-day conservative, antigovernment Republican Party in the Republican reaction to the domestic and foreign policies of FDR’s New Deal.
U.S.–Cuba Relations
Charting a New Path
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
This book examines the history of United States foreign policy toward Cuba, focusing on critical junctures and recent strategic shifts. Restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, which were severed officially in January 1961, was a huge shift in U.S. foreign policy. Relations between Cuba and the United...
by Bruce M. Bagley, Marten Brienen, Alejandro Chanona
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
In light of the rapid fluctuations in oil prices and subsequent impact on the stability and economic perspectives of energy producing and energy importing states in the Western Hemisphere, this book stresses the urgency to integrate sustainability at the very core of national energy security strategies....
Scorched Earth
Australia's secret plan for total war under Japanese invasion in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
In 1942 the threat of Japanese invasion hung over Australia. The men were away overseas, fighting on other fronts, and civilians were left unprotected at home.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Japanese advance south, Prime Minister Curtin ordered state governments to prepare. From...
Self-Smart
The Little Book with Big Ideas to Help Kids Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Kids today are at risk for becoming disconnected from their own learning and even from themselves in the high-pressure academic culture they're steeped in. Geared for high school students but useful for college undergraduates as well, this book will give budding young adults the opportunity to catch...
The Chosen Game
A Jewish Basketball History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
A few years after its invention by James Naismith, basketball became the primary sport in the crowded streets of the Jewish neighborhood on New York’s Lower East Side. Participating in the new game was a quick and enjoyable way to become Americanized. Jews not only dominated the sport for the next...
N.W.A: The Aftermath
Behind The Music Tales, #4
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
***The only N.W.A book with 7 exclusive interviews, and links to 16 critical background interviews and 26 songs. ***
DR. DRE: Tupac never knew me.
**ICE CUBE:**I just do shit for Ice Cube fans, not for Hip-Hop fans.
YELLA: *Me and Dre produced all Eazy, N.W.A. All of that. Me and him did...
The Real Destiny's Child
Behind The Music Tales, #6
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
An intimate portrait of Destiny's Child and the girl who would be Queen.
The Real Destiny's Child is one exclusive interview, 66 links to rare music and singles, 8 exclusive photos, and 22 director stills from the "Bootylicious Remix" video.
A revealing eye on the state of the union...
Rise Up, Women!
The Militant Campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1914
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The suffragette movement shattered the domestic tranquillity of Edwardian England. This book is an original and searching study of the formidable organization which led this campaign: the Women’s Social and Political Union.
With the use of previously unpublished correspondence of Mrs Emmeline...
How to Become a Tube-cleaning Operator
How to Become a Tube-cleaning Operator
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This publication will teach you the basics of how to become a Tube-cleaning Operator. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to become a Tube-cleaning Operator
Reckoning in Normandy
The Last Gathering of the Greatest Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Reckoning In Normandy: The Last Gathering Of The Greatest Generation concerns the authors experience at the 60th anniversary of the Normandy invasion in June 2004. As the son of a WWII paratrooper, he came to honor his father, a man who died young, and someone he hardly knew. In the process, he witnessed...