Power Resources
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Make: Fire: The Art and Science of Working with Propane
$29.99 Add to cartLearn how to safely build projects that burn, poof, “boosh,” and flare! This complete reference and hands-on guide to working with propane explains how to create a variety of flame effects projects th… [more below]
- Author: Deagan, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1680450875
- Language: English
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Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World
$24.00 Add to cartThe astonishing biography of a mineral that can sustain our world- or destroy it
Uranium occurs naturally in the earth’s crust-yet holds the power to end all life on the planet. This is its fundamen- Author: Zoellner, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 014311672X
- Language: English
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The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island
$23.99 Add to cartBy 6:00 a.m. on the morning of March 28, 1979, the reactor core at Three Mile Island was thirty minutes away from a meltdown, an apocalypse that would render a huge swath of eastern Pennsylvania perma… [more below]
- Author: Gray, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0393324699
- Language: English
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Magnetic Current
$6.94 Add to cartEdward Leedskalnin was an eccentric Latvian emigrant to the United States and amateur sculptor who single-handedly built the monument known as Coral Castle in Florida. He was also known for his unusua
- Author: Leedskalnin, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 26
- Publish Date: June 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1684119227
- Language: English
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The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies
$20.00 Add to cartIs the shift to renewable energy and digital devices going to free us from severe pollution, material shortages, and military tensions?
Rare metals are essential to electric vehicles, fighter jets, wi
- Author: Pitron, Guillaume
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1950354318
- Language: English
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How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor
$29.99 Add to cartHave you ever wondered how a nuclear power station works? This lively book will answer that question. It’ll take you on a journey from the science behind nuclear reactors, through their start-up, oper… [more below]
- Series: Springer Praxis Books
- Author: Tucker, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 26 2020
- ISBN10: 3030338754
- Language: English
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A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
$21.99 Read moreAn acclaimed author and celebrated journalist breaks down the history of electricity and the impact of global energy use on the world and the environment.
Global demand for power is doubling e… [more below]- Author: Bryce, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1541736052
- Language: English
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Electric: The Power of the Future: Plug-In Sports Cars, Sedans, Suvs, Trucks, & Motorcycles
$19.98 Add to cartExplore the history of electric vehicles, from the early 1900s heyday, decline in the 1920s, through the 1990s revival, to the growing EV market in the 21st century.
- Electric: The Power of the Future s
- Author: Publications International Ltd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 02 2023
- ISBN10: 163938314X
- Language: English
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Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid
$31.98 Add to cartWhen rolling blackouts come to the electric grid, they will be old news to the grid insiders.
Only the electricity customers will be surprised.
Grid insiders know how fragile the grid is becoming. Unfor
- Author: Angwin, Meredith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: October 19, 2020
- ISBN10: 0989119084
- Language: English
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Energy: A Human History
$22.00 Add to cartA “meticulously researched” (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming, a surging world popul… [more below]
- Author: Rhodes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1501105361
- Language: English
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
$21.99 Add to cartA Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe “mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system” in this “vividly empathetic” account of the worst nu… [more below]
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 154161707X
- Language: English
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Oil Man: The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum
$28.95 Add to cartThis rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created.
Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the
- Author: Wallis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 530
- Publish Date: September 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0806146761
- Language: English
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Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid
$19.65 Add to cartWhen rolling blackouts come to the electric grid, they will be old news to the grid insiders.
Only the electricity customers will be surprised.
Grid insiders know how fragile the grid is becoming. Unf
- Author: Angwin, Meredith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 23, 2020
- ISBN10: 1735358002
- Language: English
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Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
$30.00 Add to cartFor fans of Oppenheimer, a riveting investigation into the modern nuclear weapons landscape.
Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could… [more below]- Author: Scoles, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 6, 2024
- ISBN10: 1645030059
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
$18.99 Add to cartNow a Netflix Film, Starring and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a Slave
William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land wi
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Kamkwamba, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 27, 2010
- ISBN10: 0061730335
- Language: English
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The West Texas Power Plant That Saved the World: Energy, Capitalism, and Climate Change, Revised and Expanded Edition
$26.95 Add to cartWhat if the harbinger of our greener future was a small power plant set in the middle of nowhere in West Texas? Longtime alternative energy executive Andy Bowman’s newly updated book makes exactly thi… [more below]
- Author: Bowman, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1682831868
- Language: English
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Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas–Not Less
$30.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy
For over a de- Author: Epstein, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0593420411
- Language: English
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
$21.99 Add to cartA New York Times Best Book of the Year
From journal
A Time Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner- Author: Higginbotham, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 1501134639
- Language: English
