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Uncertainty in the Electric Power Industry: Methods and Models for Decision Support

Springer, 2004

Starting in Chile, the UK and Norway, liberalization and privatization
have been a major theme in the electricity industry during the last decade.

Through the introduction of competition and economic considerations,
governments around the world have attempted to obtain more reliable and
cheaper services for the electricity...

Accumulating Capital Today (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

Routledge, 2020

This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it. It focuses on three main sources of accumulation: the extraction of profit through labor and the commodification of nature, financial speculation and the ways in which profit is converted into wealth. It thus offers a new understanding...

Engineering Science

Routledge, 2020

Engineering Science is a comprehensive textbook suitable for all vocational and pre-degree courses in engineering, being fully in line with the latest vocational courses at Level 2 and leading into Level 3. Taking a subject-led approach, engineering students will find the essential scientific principles necessary for their...

Pro SQL Server 2012 BI Solutions (Professional Apress)

Apress, 2012

Business intelligence projects do not need to cost multi-millions of dollars or take months or even years to complete! Using rapid application development (RAD) techniques along with Microsoft SQL Server 2012, this book guides database administrators, SQL programmers, and report specialists in creating practical, cost-effective business...

Failed Stone

Birkhauser, 2002

In the spring of 2002, I wrote a book entitled Falling Glass: Problems and Solutions in Contemporary Architecture. The research for Falling Glass helped me understand how glass failures could be avoided and enlightened me as to which innovations were being explored within the glass industry. Originally, the book was...

Pro WPF and Silverlight MVVM: Effective Application Development with Model-View-ViewModel

Apress, 2010

WPF and Silverlight are unlike any other user interface (UI) technologies. They have been built to a new paradigm that—if harnessed correctly—can yield unprecedented power and performance. This book shows you how to control that power to produce clean, testable, maintainable code.

It is now recognized that any...

Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

ur most common way of solving problems-at home, at work, in our communities, in national and international affairs-is to use our expertise and authority to apply piece-by-piece, tried-and-true "best practices." This works for simple, familiar, uncontentious problems. But it doesn't work for the complex, unfamiliar, conflictual problems...

Authoritarianism and How to Counter It

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was assumed that liberal democracies would flourish worldwide. Instead, today authoritarian leaders are gaining power – from Trump’s US and Bolsonaro's Brazil to Orban's Hungary – while Russia and China have turned back towards their old, autocratic traditions. This...

The Business and Practice of Coaching: Finding Your Niche, Making Money, & Attracting Ideal Clients

W W Norton, 2005

Building a thriving coaching business is a challenge.

An estimated 30,000 coaches have entered the coaching profession during the past five years. Unfortunately, the majority report they are unable to earn a living wage from their coaching services. Competition is high, and the knowledge of how to succeed in the...

Probability and Information: An Integrated Approach

Cambridge University Press, 2008

Our experience of theworld leads us to conclude that many events are unpredictable and sometimes quite unexpected. These may range from the outcome of seemingly simple games such as tossing a coin and trying to guess whether it will be heads or tails to the sudden collapse of governments or the dramatic fall in prices of shares on the stock market....

Fifty Early Medieval Things: Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Cornell University Library, 2019

Fifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and western Asia. Ranging from Iran to Ireland and from Sweden to Tunisia, Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, and Paolo Squatriti present fifty objects?artifacts, structures, and archaeological...

Padding, Borders, Outlines, and Margins in CSS: CSS Box Model Details

O'Reilly, 2015

The ability to apply margins, borders, and padding to any web page element is one of the things that sets CSS so far above traditional markup. With this practical guide, you will not only learn how to use these properties to lay out your document, but also how to change and control the appearance of any element on the page.

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