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The electrical grid goes everywhere—it's the largest and most complex machine ever made. Yet the system is built in such a way that the bigger it gets, the more inevitable its collapse

Named the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century by the National Academy of Engineering, the electrical grid is the largest industrial investment in the history of humankind. It reaches into your home, snakes its way to your bedroom, and climbs right up into the lamp next to your pillow. At times, it almost seems alive, like some enormous circulatory system that pumps life to big cities and the most remote rural areas.

Constructed of intricately interdependent components, the grid operates on a rapidly shrinking margin for error. Things can—and do—go wrong in this system, no matter how many preventive steps we take. Just look at the colossal 2003 blackout, when 50 million Americans lost power due to a simple error at a power plant in Ohio; or the one a month later, which blacked out 57 million Italians. And these two combined don't even compare to the 2001 outage in India, which affected 226 million people.

The Grid is the first history of the electrical grid intended for general readers, and it comes at a time when we badly need such a guide. As we get more and more dependent on electricity to perform even the most mundane daily tasks, the grid's inevitable shortcomings will take a toll on populations around the globe. At a moment when energy issues loom large on the nation's agenda and our hunger for electricity grows, The Grid is as timely as it is compelling..
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Interest in power systems economics is gaining momentum with the recent power supply shortages in America and the rising cost of fossil fuels. The involvement of independent power generators, brokers and distributors has changed the way in which power systems operate. Kirschen and Strbac use a combination of traditional engineering techniques and fundamental economics to address the long-term problems of power system development in a competitive environment. Power system engineers, operators, planners and policy makers working in the deregulated environment will value this practical guide, also of great interest to postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in electrical and power engineering.

• Outlines the principles of competitive electricity markets alongside the operation and development of the supporting transmission and distribution networks
• Applies basic economic principles to power system operating and planning
• Written by recognised experts in the field

For further information and to register for the solutions manual visit: http://www.wiley.com/go/powersystemeconomics.
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William Braud, Ph.D., is a highly regarded researcher in the field of transpersonal psychology, and "Distant Mental Influence" represents twenty years of his original thinking and experiments A compilation of articles originally published in peer-reviewed journals between 1983 and 2000, "Distant Mental Influence" covers a diverse array of subject matter in the fields of biochemistry and transpersonal psychology. These twelve articles reveal Braud's discovery of experiments capable of measuring human interconnection and person-to-person influence across space and time..
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The best-selling power system operation manual ever published--NOW IN AN ALL-NEW EDITION! For over 30 years more electrical power professionals have used this guide for safe, economical system operation than any other in print. Why? Because Power System Operation, by Robert Miller and James Malinowski, presents more of the fundamental principles and methods dispatchers and operators need in a clear, easy-to-understand style. Now this third edition has been expanded by 50% to cover even more: VAR flows; Power system control; Telemetering methods; Supervisory control and data acquisition methods; System control, protection and stability; System reliability factors, Power system energy transfer; Energy accounting in interconnected operations; Operating systems most economically; EHV operation; Power system communications; Impedance of parallel circuits; Effects of resistance on impedance..
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Public private partnerships are an increasingly significant part of the world's economy--they are long term, they are here to stay and they are set to increase both in number and value. As an HR professional, you need to recruit and develop a new style of collaborative leader to face the new set of challenges that result from sharing power and control with people outside of one's own organisation.

This book gives managers and HR professionals the tools and confidence to manage these complex relationships in a more collaborative way. It focuses on the individual and on practical changes you can make in the way that you work to improve the overall business performance.

* Covers a growing area of importance for HR professionals and leaders, especially within public sector organizations
* The book's authors are highly experienced in working at the leading edge of many complex partnership projects
* Gives managers and HR professionals practical advice on how to manage sensitive collaborative relationships.
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Now in its fully updated second edition, this best-selling reference offers the most complete and straightforward information resource available for the electricity purchaser on how to successfully utilize retail wheeling. By gaining a clear understanding of both the current regulatory picture and how the process of retail wheeling operates in the marketplace, you'll be able to pinpoint the best and most cost effective method of obtaining electricity for your facility, both now and in the future. Covered in detail are the steps by which the retail wheeling process is implemented, as well as what role agents, marketers and brokers and play. You'll learn what types of contracts are appropriate for each specific type of electricity wheeling strategy, as well as how wheeling contracts and sales agreements are structured. Also included are examples and details of successful electricity wheeling programs in action, based on the authors extensive experience in the marketplace. Appendices provide listings of regulatory agencies and utilities, applicable regulatory information, glossaries of terms, and useful electricity conversion factors..
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Increasingly, Indigenous people are being drawn into global networks In the long term, cultural isolation is unlikely to be a viable -- even if sometimes desired -- option, so how can Indigenous people protect and advance their cultural values in the face of pressure from an interconnected world?

Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World is a comprehensive, thought-provoking discussion of the challenges that globalization brings to Indigenous peoples. It outlines successful strategies that have been used by Indigenous peoples to promote their identities and cultural values. It looks at their role as equal and active participants and, indeed, as innovators and leaders in an interconnected world.

The chapters in this book present a truly global perspective on Indigenous issues. They feature a cross-disciplinary integration that takes a holistic approach -- in line with that of Indigenous peoples -- and includes vignettes of Indigenous cultural practices..
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