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Geomagnetism, Aeronomy and Space Weather: A Journey from the Earth's Core to the Sun (Special Publications of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics)

Cambridge University Press, 2020

On the centenary of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, this book reviews the state-of-the-art research in geomagnetism, aeronomy and space weather. Written by eminent researchers from these fields, it summarises the advances in research over the past 100 years, and looks ahead to current and emerging studies on Earth's...

Small-Scale Renewable Energy Systems: Independent Electricity for Community, Business and Home

CRC Press, 2019

A revolution is ongoing in the field of small-scale energy solutions, which can enable lower impact on the environment, more robust supply and self-determination. Solar power and other forms of renewable energy sources, which you can implement to generate your own electricity, are growing quickly. Electromobility is transforming the...

Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy...

Cognitive Reasoning for Compliant Robot Manipulation (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)

Springer, 2018

In order to achieve human-like performance, this book covers the four steps of reasoning a robot must provide in the concept of intelligent physical compliance: to represent, plan, execute, and interpret compliant manipulation tasks. A classification of manipulation tasks is conducted to identify the central research questions of the...

Magnetohydrodynamics of Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas

Cambridge University Press, 2019

With ninety per cent of visible matter in the universe existing in the plasma state, an understanding of magnetohydrodynamics is essential for anyone looking to understand solar and astrophysical processes, from stars to accretion discs and galaxies; as well as laboratory applications focused on harnessing controlled fusion energy. This...

Advances in Energy Systems: The Large-scale Renewable Energy Integration Challenge

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

A guide to a multi-disciplinary approach that includes perspectives from noted experts in the energy and utilities fields

Advances in Energy Systems offers a stellar collection of articles selected from the acclaimed journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Review: Energy and Environment. The journalcovers...

Renewable Energy in the UK: Past, Present and Future (Energy, Climate and the Environment)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

?This book offers a detailed account of how renewable energy has moved from the margins to the mainstream in the UK, and of the battles that have been fought to achieve this, trawling through the often troubled history of government involvement.

The book examines how renewables became what...

Nanostructured Electrochromic Materials for Smart Switchable Windows

CRC Press, 2018

The aim of compiling this book has been to give a working knowledge of the important details of materials used in electrochromic devices, their characteristics, the process of manufacture, and uses in the industry to all researchers, scientists, and engineering students. This book is structured in a systematic...

Modeling, Identification and Control Methods in Renewable Energy Systems (Green Energy and Technology)

Springer, 2019

Most of the research and experiments in the fields of modeling and control systems have spent significant efforts to find rules from various complicated phenomena by principles, observations, measured data, logic derivations. The rules are normally summarized as concise and quantitative expressions or “models”....

Handbook of Astrobiology

CRC Press, 2019

Choice Recommended Title, August 2019

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Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life on Earth....

Antioxidants and the Skin: Second Edition

CRC Press, 2018

This highly illustrated book brings together many concepts related to skin care and antioxidant usage in one convenient text. The second edition now contains the latest antioxidants being marketed, and an analysis of risks and benefits associated.

Exposure to solar radiation, other environmental insults, and...

Steam Plant Operation 9th Edition

McGraw-Hill, 2011

The definitive guide for steam power plant systems and operation?fully updated

For more than 75 years, this book has been a trusted source of information on steam power plants, including the design, operation, and maintenance of major systems. Steam Plant Operation, Ninth Edition, emphasizes the importance...

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