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  • Introduction to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

    by Francis Chen ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This complete introduction to plasma physics and controlled fusion by one of the pioneering scientists in this expanding field offers both a simple and intuitive discussion of the basic concepts of this subject and an insight into the challenging problems of current research. In a wholly lucid manner the work covers single-particle motions, fluid equations for plasmas, wave motions, diffusion and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • An Indispensable Truth

    How Fusion Power Can Save the Planet

    by Francis Chen ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Recent books have raised the public consciousness about the dangers of global warming and climate change. This book is intended to convey the message that there is a solution. The solution is the rapid development of hydrogen fusion energy. This energy source is inexhaustible and, although achieving fusion energy is difficult, the progress made in the past two decades has been remarkable. The ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Success on the Spectrum

    Practical Strategies for Engaging Neurodiverse Audiences in Arts and Cultural Organizations

    by Emily Wiskera, Anna Smith, Tina Sue Fletcher, Lynda Wilbur, Francis Yong Chen ...
    The role of arts and cultural institutions is changing. Once viewed as stewards of objects, institutions are increasingly upheld as stewards of people—spaces where the diversity of human experience is asserted, explored, and celebrated. As such, they function as public resources and should be equally accessible to all members of diverse communities.Individuals with autism spectrum disorder account ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 3: Physics & Electricity (UNABRIDGED)

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    by Francis Rolt-Wheeler ...
    Narrated by James Chen, Nancy Hastings, Tommy Reed, Edwin Burrell ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 38 min

    Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The third volume is on physics written by George Matthew and on electricity written by Professor William J. Moore. The section on physics covers matter - analysis and properties, heat, light - its sources and its nature, and sound. On the subject of electricity, it discusses the nature of electricity, electrostatics, fundamental ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy

    by Richard Heinberg, David Fridley ...
    One of GreenBiz's Six Best Sustainability Books of 2016The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world. By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power. Driven by the need to avert catastrophic climate change and by the depletion of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Dynamics of Magnetically Trapped Particles

    Foundations of the Physics of Radiation Belts and Space Plasmas

    by Juan G. Roederer, Hui Zhang ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book is a new edition of Roederer’s classic Dynamics of Geomagnetically Trapped Radiation, updated and considerably expanded. The main objective is to describe the dynamic properties of magnetically trapped particles in planetary radiation belts and plasmas and explain the physical processes involved from the theoretical point of view. The approach is to examine in detail the orbital and ... Read more

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  • Energy Democracy

    Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables

    by Craig Morris, Arne Jungjohann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book outlines how Germans convinced their politicians to pass laws allowing citizens to make their own energy, even when it hurt utility companies to do so. It traces the origins of the Energiewende movement in Germany from the Power Rebels of Schönau to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s shutdown of eight nuclear power plants following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The authors explore ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Radiative Processes in High Energy Astrophysics

    by Gabriele Ghisellini ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book grew out of the author’s notes from his course on Radiative Processes in High Energy Astrophysics. The course provides fundamental definitions of radiative processes and serves as a brief introduction to Bremsstrahlung and black body emission, relativistic beaming, synchrotron emission and absorption, Compton scattering, synchrotron self-compton emission, pair creation and emission. The ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Building the Impact Economy

    Our Future, Yea or Nay

    by Maximilian Martin ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book develops a comprehensive framework for creating sustainable new business approaches on a massive scale. It relates the power of entrepreneurship, investment and technology to four areas in which progress is urgently needed to get out of the world’s current impasse. These are: game-changing innovations in companies; a way forward for the global fashion industry that reconciles ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Neoclassical Theory of Electromagnetic Interactions

    A Single Theory for Macroscopic and Microscopic Scales

    by Anatoli Babin, Alexander Figotin ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    In this monograph, the authors present their recently developed theory of electromagnetic interactions. This neoclassical approach extends the classical electromagnetic theory down to atomic scales and allows the explanation of various non-classical phenomena in the same framework.While the classical Maxwell–Lorentz electromagnetism theory succeeds in describing the physical reality at macroscopic ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • The Nuclear Environmentalist

    Is There a Green Road to Nuclear Energy?

    by Juan José Gomez Cadenas ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book explains how society will face an energy crisis in the coming decades owing to increasing scarcity of fossil fuels and climate change impacts. It carefully explores this coming crisis and concisely examines all of the major technologies related to energy production (fossil fuels, renewables, and nuclear) and their impacts on our society and environment. The author argues that it is wrong ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Quantum Statistics of Dense Gases and Nonideal Plasmas

    by Werner Ebeling, Vladimir E. Fortov, Vladimir Filinov ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The aim of this book is the pedagogical exploration of the basic principles of quantum-statistical thermodynamics as applied to various states of matter – ranging from rare gases to astrophysical matter with high-energy density. The reader will learn in this work that thermodynamics and quantum statistics are still the concepts on which even the most advanced research is operating - despite of a ... Read more

    $107.99 USD