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  • Hess

    The Last Oil Baron

    by Tina Davis, Jessica Resnick-Ault ...
    Series series Bloomberg
    A glimpse of the savvy that built a global corporation from scratchHess: The Last Oil Baron profiles a titan of the oil industry, mapping the journey of the quintessential American dream. The story of Leon Hess follows an immigrant kosher butcher's son as he builds an oil dynasty that may never be matched. The multinational, multi-billion-dollar company began with a single second-hand delivery ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

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  • Power to Save the World

    The Truth About Nuclear Energy

    by Gwyneth Cravens ...
    An informed look at the myths and fears surrounding nuclear energy, and a practical, politically realistic solution to global warming and our energy needs. Faced by the world's oil shortages and curious about alternative energy sources, Gwyneth Cravens skeptically sets out to find the truth about nuclear energy. Her conclusion: it is a totally viable and practical solution to global warming. In ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Fisher Investments on Energy

    by Fisher Investments, Andrew Teufel, Aaron Azelton ...
    Series Book 13 - Fisher Investments Press
    The first offering from the Fisher Investments On investing series is a comprehensive guide to the Energy sector. The book can benefit both new and seasoned investors, covering everything from Energy sector basics to specific industry insights to practical investing tactics, including common pitfalls to avoid. Azelton and Teufel demonstrate a method for uncovering performance and risk-management ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Rooftop Revolution

    How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy—and Our Planet—from Dirty Energy

    by Danny Kennedy ...
    Here is the truth that the powerful Dirty Energy public relations machine doesn't want you to know: the ascent of solar energy is upon us. Solar-generated electricity has risen exponentially in the last few years and employment in the solar industry has doubled since 2009. Meanwhile, electricity from coal has declined to pre-World War II levels as the fossil fuel industry continues to shed jobs ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Oracle of Oil

    A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future

    by Mason Inman ...
    The first comprehensive biography of Marion King Hubbert, the "father of peak oil."In 1956, geologist and Shell Oil researcher Marion King Hubbert delivered a speech that has shaped world energy debates ever since. Addressing the American Petroleum Institute, Hubbert dropped a bombshell on his audience: U.S. oil production would peak by 1970 and decline steadily thereafter. World production would ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Renewable Energy Finance: Powering The Future

    by Charles W Donovan ...
    The future of clean energy is no longer about science and technology; it's all about access to finance. The fossil fuel industry has been subsidized for decades with tax breaks and government backing, while renewables have struggled to compete. But now clean energy is the safe bet for investors, as is argued in Renewable Energy Finance: Powering the Future, edited by Dr Charles Donovan, Principal ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Energy Security for the EU in the 21st Century

    Markets, Geopolitics and Corridors

    Edited by José María Marín Quemada, Javier García-Verdugo, Gonzalo Escribano ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    Recent developments like the rising trend in crude oil price, the international economic crisis, the civil revolts in Northern Africa and the Middle East, the nuclear threat in Japan after the tsunami, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the economic growth of emerging countries like China and India have a direct relation to the security of energy supply anywhere in the world. This book ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Sustainable Energy

    Edited by Klaus D. John, Dirk Rübbelke ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
    Rising fuel prices during recent years and the threat of global warming have reinforced public and scientific interest in the issue of sustainable energy, with the term sustainability understood as having economic, environmental and social dimensions.Renewable energy is seen as an effective means to address several problems simultaneously, including climate change, exploitation of non-renewable ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Energy in Australia

    Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth

    by Graham Palmer ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    With rapidly declining costs and seemingly unlimited sunshine, the choice of solar in Australia seems obvious. Yet despite its many advantages, homes with solar remain completely dependent on the electricity grid for reliable supply, which in Australia implies mostly coal-fired generation. Indeed, even countries that have invested heavily in solar, such as Spain and Germany, have been unable to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Smart Energy Grid Engineering

    by Hossam Gabbar ...
    Smart Energy Grid Engineering provides in-depth detail on the various important engineering challenges of smart energy grid design and operation by focusing on advanced methods and practices for designing different components and their integration within the grid. Governments around the world are investing heavily in smart energy grids to ensure optimum energy use and supply, enable better ... Read more

    $112.99 USD

  • Computational Management Science

    State of the Art 2014

    Edited by Raquel J. Fonseca, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, João Telhada ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume contains contributions from the 11th International Conference on Management Science (CMS 2014), held at Lisbon, Portugal, on May 29-31, 2014. Its contents reflect the wide scope of Management Science, covering different theoretical aspects for a quite diverse set of applications. Computational Management Science provides a unique perspective in relevant decision-making processes by ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Biomass Supply Chains for Bioenergy and Biorefining

    Edited by Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen, Ehiaze Augustine Ehimen ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
    Biomass Supply Chains for Bioenergy and Biorefining highlights the emergence of energy generation through the use of biomass and the ways it is becoming more widely used. The supply chains that produce the feedstocks, harvest, transport, store, and prepare them for combustion or refinement into other forms of fuel are long and complex, often differing from feedstock to feedstock. Biomass Supply ... Read more

    $269.99 USD