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  • 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

    $58.49 USD

  • 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

    $58.49 USD

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  • Our Renewable Future

    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

    $20.89 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    $134.09 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

    $49.49 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

  • 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

    $28.49 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

  • Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2009

    Proceedings of the First International Symposium of Global COE Program "Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming - Toward CO2 Zero-emission Energy System"

    Edited by Takeshi Yao ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Emissions of CO2 have come to be regarded as the main factor in climate change in recent years, and how to control them has become a pressing issue. The problem cannot simply be labeled a technological one, however, because it is deeply involved with social and economic issues. Since 2008, the Global Center of Excellence (COE) program titled “Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward a ... Read more

    $188.09 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

  • Climate Change and the Law

    Edited by Kati Kulovesi, Michael Mehling, Erkki J. Hollo ...
    Series Book 21 - Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
    Climate Change and the Law is the first scholarly effort to systematically address doctrinal issues related to climate law as an emergent legal discipline. It assembles some of the most recognized experts in the field to identify relevant trends and common themes from a variety of geographic and professional perspectives.In a remarkably short time span, climate change has become deeply embedded in ... Read more

    $287.09 USD