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  • Control and Operation of Grid-Connected Wind Farms

    Major Issues, Contemporary Solutions, and Open Challenges

    by John N. Jiang, Choon Yik Tang, Rama G. Ramakumar ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    From the point of view of grid integration and operation, this monograph advances the subject of wind energy control from the individual-unit to the wind-farm level. The basic objectives and requirements for successful integration of wind energy with existing power grids are discussed, followed by an overview of the state of the art, proposed solutions and challenges yet to be resolved.At the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Nebula Awards Showcase 58

    Nebula Awards Showcase, #58

    by Stephen Kotowych, Wole Talabi, S. L. Huang, John Wiswell, Ai Jiang, Suzan Palumbo, John Chu, C. L. Polk, Samantha Mills ...
    Series Book 58 - Nebula Awards Showcase
    The year's best science fiction and fantasy as selected by The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers AssociationThis latest installment of the prestigious Nebula Awards Showcase anthology series—which has been published annually since 1966—reprints winning and nominated works from the 58th Annual Nebula Awards, as voted on by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Griffith Review 81: The Leisure Principle

    by John Tague, James Jiang ...
    Series Book 81 - Griffith Review
    In 1930, John Maynard Keynes spelt out a vision of the impending utopia. Work, he said, will become a thing of the past. 'For the first time since creation,' he predicted, 'man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem - how to occupy the leisure which science...will have won for him.'So where did this vision of future past go? Like baco-foil suits and meals of protein pills, it proved to ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction

    Edited by Steven Si, David Ahlstrom, Wei Jiang, John Cullen ...
    Ways in which poverty can be reduced in both countries and regions through business, entrepreneurship and government has been a hot issue for researchers and policymakers in recent years. Governments can play an important role in helping the poor people by non-profit organizations and others that help to seed business among the poor. Businesses increasingly also see the large number of people in ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • The Long List Anthology

    More Stories from the Hugo Award Nomination List

    by Ken Liu, Annie Bellet, David Steffen ...
    Series Book 1 - Long List Anthology Series
    The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious speculative fiction literary awards. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Belonging

    by Hugh Mackay ...
    The eternal question 'Who am I?' must be weighed against an even deeper question: 'Who are we?' We are writing each other's stories as much as we are writing our own.In his bestselling book, The Good Life, Hugh Mackay argued that kindness and respect for others are the hallmarks of a life well lived. Now in The Art of Belonging Mackay shows how strong communities develop our moral sense and build ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Lowering Higher Education

    The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education

    by James Cote, Anton L. Allahar ...
    What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. Côté and Allahar connect the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

    by John Joseph Adams, R. F. Kuang ...
    Series series Best American
    “Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages,” writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. “The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird.” The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and ... Read more

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  • Mediating Interpersonal and Small Group Conflict

    by Cheryl A. Picard ...
    This is a guide to the theory and practice of mediation. It sets out a systematic approach to the use of mediation and to assuming the role of mediator. This book will be one of value to individuals interested in becoming mediators, to parties in conflict considering recourse to mediation to resolve issues, to students studying mediation as a dispute resolution alternative, to professionals who ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2018

    Edited by N. K. Jemisin, John Joseph Adams ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    "An almost unheard-of diversity of tales absolutely sing in this superlative anthology" with stories by Samuel R. Delaney, Carmen Maria Machado and others ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).The world of science fiction and fantasy is always expanding, and today's authors are producing work that not only pushes boundaries, but also widens the range of voices and styles. These fresh perspectives ... Read more

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  • Assembly

    by Natasha Brown ...
    This visionary and unflinching novel is about a black woman who has spent her life carefully navigating cutthroat worlds of privilege in her career and relationships—until one day she is pulled up short by a life and death decision.Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy an apartment. Buy art ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Economic Complexity and Human Development

    How Economic Diversification and Social Networks Affect Human Agency and Welfare

    by Dominik Hartmann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    This book combines the human development approach and innovation economics in order to explore the effects that structural economic change has on human development.While economic diversification can provide valuable new social choices and capabilities, it also tends to lead to more complex decision processes and changes to the set of capabilities required by people to self-determine their future. ... Read more

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