In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings a stirring and hopeful call to arms: We can solve global warming. And in doing so we will build the new industries, jobs, and fortunes of the twenty-first century.In these pages the reader will encounter the bold innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways we use it. Among them: a frontier impresario who keeps his ice hotel frozen all summer long with the energy of hot springs; a utility engineer who feeds smokestack gases from coal-fired plants to voracious algae, then turns them into fuel; and a tribe of Native Americans, for two thousand years fishermen in the roughest Pacific waters, who are now harvesting the fierce power of the waves themselves.These entrepreneurs are poised to remake the world's biggest business and save the planet—if America's political leaders give them a fair chance to compete.

    Tesla's rare article, 'The Problem of Increasing Human Energy with Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy' is included. This lengthy article was originally publishing in the June 1900 issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine and it was the outline for Tesla's master blueprint for the world. Tesla's fantastic vision of the future, including wireless power, anti-gravity, free energy and highly advanced solar power. Also included are some of the papers, patents and material collected on Tesla at the Colorado Spring Tesla Symposiums. Tesla was the inventor of the radio before Marconi, and when he demonstrated wireless remote control to the US Navy in the late 1890s, they replied that it was too advanced! Tesla was an eccentric visionary and probably the greatest inventor who ever lived. His basic inventions power the world of today. What was his vision of tomorrow? Find out in The Tesla Papers.

    More than 200 images of industry, agriculture, architecture, and nature highlight incredible patterns while also revealing a deeper story about human impact. This extraordinary photographic journey around our planet captures the sense of wonder gained from a new, aerial vantage point and creates a perspective of Earth as it has never been seen before.

    In this book, Chris Bernhardt offers an introduction to quantum computing that is accessible to anyone who is comfortable with high school mathematics. He explains qubits, entanglement, quantum teleportation, quantum algorithms, and other quantum-related topics as clearly as possible for the general reader. Bernhardt, a mathematician himself, simplifies the mathematics as much as he can and provides elementary examples that illustrate both how the math works and what it means.Bernhardt introduces the basic unit of quantum computing, the qubit, and explains how the qubit can be measured; discusses entanglement--which, he says, is easier to describe mathematically than verbally--and what it means when two qubits are entangled (citing Einstein's characterization of what happens when the measurement of one entangled qubit affects the second as "spooky action at a distance"); and introduces quantum cryptography. He recaps standard topics in classical computing--bits, gates, and logic--and describes Edward Fredkin's ingenious billiard ball computer. He defines quantum gates, considers the speed of quantum algorithms, and describes the building of quantum computers. By the end of the book, readers understand that quantum computing and classical computing are not two distinct disciplines, and that quantum computing is the fundamental form of computing. The basic unit of computation is the qubit, not the bit.

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    Instead, you get endless rules and regulations, not to mention processes, projects, and technologies that deliver too little, too late, for too much. It's frustrating!How to build a relationship that puts you firmly in control and produces the business results you need? In The 8 Things We Hate About IT, Susan Cramm provides the answers.Start by understanding differences between operational and IT managers - in backgrounds, personality, pressures, and incentives. Cramm explains how differences prevent operational managers and IT from communicating what, why, and how they do what they do.Citing case studies and stories, the author then presents practical strategies for overcoming the difficulty. These include seeing things from your IT partners' perspective, developing a single version of 'truth,' and assuming accountability for IT just as you've done for management of your firm's financial and human resources.Brutally honest, provocative, and filled with sound advice, this book reveals that the key to solving the IT problem is decidedly un-IT: it's a deeper understanding of human behavior, including how to apply your leadership skills to the world of IT.

    Let the finest science fiction writer of our time, co-author of the smash bestseller LUCIFER'S HAMMER, take you on a guided tour of the wonders of our age, and of ages to come. We live in an age of marvels. We could still go to space. We could still mine the asteroids. We could still take part in developing mankind’s vast future. Indeed, it is easier to do now than it would have been when I wrote these essays. We have computers and the Internet. There is free exchange of ideas throughout most of the world, and the information revolution relentlessly expands that area. We still face the threat of famine, but it is not as acute as it was in the times when these essays were written. Communications, transportation, electronics, rocket technology, it’s all better now. We can still go to the planets.Read about: The monstrous Black Hole that may be slowly devouring our galaxy; The Fact and Fancy of flying Saucers; How micro-cybernetic and bio-implants will one day give you a photographic memory and the calculating power of an Einstein; Turning venus into a second Earth--and the Asteroids into our own Back Yard; How Western Civilization can not only survive--but survive with style! All this and much much more. Every chapter is State of the Art, every idea A Step Farther Out.Contents: * Non-Fiction by Jerry Pournelle (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Preface: The Freedom of Choice (A Step Farther Out) (1979) • essay by Larry Niven * Foreword (A Step Farther Out) (1979) • essay by A. E. van Vogt * Introduction (A Step Farther Out) (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Commentary (A Step Farther Out: Part One: Survival with Style) [Commentary (A Step Farther Out) • 1] (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Survival with Style [A Step Farther Out] (1976) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Blueprint for Survival [A Step Farther Out] (1976) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * How long the Doomsday (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * That Buck Rogers Stuff [A Step Farther Out] • (1976) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Commentary (A Step Farther Out: Part Two: Stepping Farther Out) [Commentary (A Step Farther Out) • 2] (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Here Come the Brains [A Step Farther Out] (1974) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * The Big Rain [A Step Farther Out] (1975) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Flying Saucers (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Building the Mote in God's Eye [A Step Farther Out] (1976) • essay by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle * Commentary (A Step Farther Out: Part Three: A Step Farther In: Black Holes) [Commentary (A Step Farther Out) • 3] (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Gravity Waves, Black Holes, and Cosmic Censors (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Fuzzy Black Holes Have No Hair [A Step Farther Out] (1975) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Crashing Neutron Stars, Mini Black Holes, and Spacedrives (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * In the Beginning ... (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Afterword to Part III (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Commentary (A Step Farther Out: Part Four: Space Travel) [Commentary (A Step Farther Out) • 4] (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Halfway to Anywhere [A Step Farther Out] (1974) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Those Pesky Belters and Their Torchships [A Step Farther Out] (1974) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Ships for Manned Spaceflight [A Step Farther Out] (1974) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Life Among the Asteroids [A Step Farther Out] (1975) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * What's It Like Out There? (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Commentary (A Step Farther Out: Part Five: A Generation of Wonder) [Commentary (A Step Farther Out) • 5] (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * A Potpourri (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Highways to Space (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Come Fly with Me (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * The Tools of the Trade (And Other Scientific Matters) (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Commentary (A Step Farther Out: Part Six: The Energy Crisis) [Commentary (A Step Farther Out) • 6] (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Fusion Without Ex-Lax [A Step Farther Out] (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle (variant of Fusion Without Exlax 1976) * Can Trash Save Us? [A Step Farther Out] (1977) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * The Moral Equivalent of War [A Step Farther Out] (1978) • essay by Jerry Pournelle * Some Futures [A Step Farther Out] (1977) • essay by Jerry Pournelle .

    Squyres dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves as the principal scientist of its $400 million payload. He has gained a rare inside look at what it took for rovers Spirit and Opportunity to land on the red planet in January 2004--and knows firsthand their findings.

    The text examines the basics of analog image analysis while placing greater emphasis on digitally based systems and analysis techniques. The presentation is discipline neutral, so students in any field of study can gain a clear understanding of these systems and their virtually unlimited applications.

    The design should incorporate flexibility for dealing with seasonal changes, as well as long-term changes in wastewater quality and future regulations. Good planning and design, therefore, must be based on five major steps:characterization of the raw wastewater quality and effluent, pre-design studies to develop alternative processes and selection of final process train, detailed design of the selected alternative, contraction, and operation and maintenance of the completed facility. Engineers, scientists, and financial analysts must utilize principles from a wide range of disciplines: engineering, chemistry, microbiology, geology, architecture, and economics to carry out the responsibilities of designing a wastewater treatment plant. The objective of this book is to present the technical and nontechnical issues that are most commonly addressed in the planning and design reports for wastewater treatment facilities prepared by practicing engineers. Topics discussed include facility planning, process description, process selection logic, mass balance calculations, design calculations, and concepts for equipment sizing. Theory, design, operation and maintenance, trouble shooting, equipment selection and specifications are integrated for each treatment process. Thus delineation of such information for use by students and practicing engineers is the main purpose of this book.

    The company was forced to write-down $900 million in inventory and Surface’s future was in jeopardy.Beneath A Surface tells the inside story of how Microsoft turned its hardware dreams into a reality with new details about the challenges Panos and his team had to overcome as well as the internal politics that nearly killed the brand.For fans of Microsoft and those who are interested in the business of building brands, Beneath A Surface is a must read that tells the inside story of how Microsoft turned a failure into a fortune.

    

    Now a professor of astrobiology at the University of Washington, Claire has remarried and is raising six-year-old twins with her husband Jack. But her idyllic life is shattered once again when NASA shows up at Claire's door with incredible news - Peter is alive, and they want her to join a mission to rescue him from the island. And the most stunning revelation - it wasn't a meteor that Peter had gone to study, as they had told her a dozen years ago, but an extraterrestrial artifact. Torn between the love for her family and the prospect of being part of the most important discovery in human history, Claire struggles with the decision join the dangerous mission. Meanwhile, sinister forces begin aligning to prevent her from rescuing Peter or uncovering the mystery of the alien object. And as the danger mounts, she will make a shocking discovery, one with the potential to alter the course of her life - and of mankind - forever.

     A Far Future Space Opera Collection from Amazon All Star author James David Victor It was supposed to be a simple double-cross. When things go wrong, Eliard Martin, captain of the infamous Mercury Blade, and his crew find themselves caught between two opposing forces trying to rule the galaxy. They must ally with one to defeat the other and save themselves. In the end, they just might find that their interests don’t align with either. Can the crew of the Mercury Blade fly their way to freedom and save the galaxy or will they be crushed by the opposing forces seeking rule them all? The Valyien Far Future Space Opera Boxed Set includes the all nine books in the Valyien Far Future Space Opera series. If you like fast-paced space adventures, the rogue crew of the Mercury Blade are your kind of heroes. Download the Valyien Far Future Space Opera Boxed Set and get started on your next space adventure today! The Valyien Far Future Space Opera Boxed Set includes the following 9 stories: 1. Mercury Blade 2. Alpha Rises 3. Alien Evolution 4. A. I. Uprising 5. Insurrection 6. Origins 7. Warp Gate 8. A. I. Apocalypse 9. Continuum Always FREE on Kindle Unlimited