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  • Fusion on the Moon

    Nuclear Fusion for High-power, Semi-independent Lunar Development

    by W. J. Nuttall, M. A. Grzegorczyk-Nuttall, V. W. E. Marsh, C. P. Spedding, D. Webbe-Wood, T. B. Scott ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This open access book explores synergies between two of the most ambitious high technology challenges of the twenty-first century—lunar settlement and nuclear fusion energy. Governance arrangements for the Moon are weak, and the world is in a period of intense geopolitical competition. In both the space and fusion sectors, private enterprise is taking the lead where once national laboratories and ... Read more

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  • Commercialising Fusion Energy

    How small businesses are transforming big science

    by David Webbe-Wood, Satoshi Konishi, Shutaro Takeda, Dr Richard J. Pearson, Dr Sehila M. Gonzalez de Vicente, Dr Melanie Windridge, Professor Yoshitaka Mori, Professor Howard Wilson, Professor Ian Chapman, Dr Tris Denton, Dr William Morris, Dr Bhavin Patel, Dr Garry Voss, Dr Chris Waldon, Professor Takuya Goto, Dr Hoseok Nam ...
    Series series IOP ebooks
    Throughout the past five decades, research and development in the world of nuclear fusion has been led by large publicly funded national laboratories. Currently, fusion energy technology development is being embraced by small, fast-moving start-up companies.This edited book provides an overview of the commercialisation of fusion energy technology, stressing the role to be played by small ... Read more

    $114.49 USD

  • Commercializing Fusion Energy

    How Small Businesses are Transforming Big Science

    Edited by William J Nuttall, Satoshi Konishi, Shutaro Takeda, David Webbe-Wood ...
    Fusion energy has now emerged as one of the most disruptive technology opportunities, attracting the attention of risk-tolerant investors and large amounts of private capital. This book examines the emergence of nuclear fusion technology as a commercial proposition, grounded in both technological opportunities and high-technology business development. ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

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    Top 10 Short Stories, The - English Authors of the West Midlands

    The top ten Short Stories of all time written by English authors born in the West Midlands

    by George Eliot, Arnold Bennett, Jerome K Jerome, Fred M White, Hesba Stretton, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary Webb, Mrs Craik, Mrs Ellen Wood, Richard Garnett ...
    Narrated by Eve Karpf, Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 28 min

    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perspectives on Engineering Uncertainty

    Civil Nuclear Energy Safety and Efficiency

    by William Nuttall, Edoardo Patelli, Ewan Smith, David Webbe-Wood, Simon Middleburgh ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This open access book considers the role of uncertainty in the design and development of large-scale engineering systems. The focus of the book is the safe behaviour of nuclear power plants in both routine operations and in incident situations. The book introduces various types of uncertainty and addresses the extent to which uncertainties may be reduced. The role of multiple dimensions of ... Read more

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    by Leonard Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Our growing understanding of Chaos Theory is having fascinating applications in the real world - from technology to global warming, politics, human behaviour, and even ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Eerie Silence

    Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence

    by Paul Davies ...
    "Refreshing . . . A penetrating analysis of the assumptions that underlie SETI and the entire enterprise of searching for life beyond Earth." —Chris McKay, NatureFifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in history, the Search ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Interstellar

    The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars

    by Avi Loeb ...
    “The world's leading alien hunter” —New York Times MagazineFrom acclaimed Harvard astrophysicist and bestselling author of Extraterrestrial comes a mind-expanding new book on space exploration explaining why becoming an interstellar species is imperative for humanity’s survival and detailing a game plan for how we can settle among the stars.In the New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial,</e... ... Read more

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  • In Search of Certainty

    The Science of Our Information Infrastructure

    by Mark Burgess ...
    Quite soon, the world’s information infrastructure is going to reach a level of scale and complexity that will force scientists and engineers to approach it in an entirely new way. The familiar notions of command and control are being thwarted by realities of a faster, denser world of communication where choice, variety, and indeterminism rule. The myth of the machine that does exactly what we ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Where Is My Flying Car?

    by J. Storrs Hall ...
    From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future.The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation. We’d vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics

    A Practical Approach

    by Chaoqun Liu, Jiyuan Tu, Guan Heng Yeoh ...
    Computational Fluid Dynamics enables engineers to model and predict fluid flow in powerful, visually impressive ways and is one of the core engineering design tools, essential to the study and future work of many engineers. This textbook is designed to explcitly meet the needs engineering students taking a first course in CFD or computer-aided engineering. Fully course matched, with the most ... Read more

    $95.39 USD

  • Our Final Hour

    A Scientist's Warning

    by Martin Rees ...
    A scientist known for unraveling the complexities of the universe over millions of years, Sir Martin Rees now warns that humankind is potentially the maker of its own demise -- and that of the cosmos. Though the twenty-first century could be the critical era in which life on Earth spreads beyond our solar system, it is just as likely that we have endangered the future of the entire universe. With ... Read more

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