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"Carter has written a memoir that captures the quintessential
America that now seems to be slipping away from us. A real treat."
--John Tebbel, author, A History of Book Publishing in the United
States "Deeply moving.The book is a delight, and, of course, you
write like a dream.Your introductory comments on the subject of
memoirs are interesting.Congratulations on what I believe we used
to call a great read, and more than that, a deeply affecting
record." --Ellen Feldman, author, Lucy "Robert Carter has that rare
quality in a writer whose prose is transparent: nothing apparently
stands between the reader and the world of the 1930s and early
1940s. That world is portrayed as essentially an unflinchingly
revealed emotional one; there is a heartbreaking account of his
mother's death--an event that drives his subsequent relations."
James Scanlon, Professor Emeritus of History, Randolph-Macon
College
Provides motivation for developing mathematical models for
telecommunications network power and energy efficiency modelling.
Discusses factors impacting overall network power consumption.
Includes types of network equipment and their power consumption
profiles. Reviews basics of network power modelling including
network segmentation, top-down and bottom-up models. Explores
application of metrics for equipment, networks, and services.
This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we
like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular
flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a
perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150
years on energy inputs from a finite storage of fossil fuels. In
this book, you will learn about the three key requirements for
wealth creation, and how this process acts according to physical
laws, and usually after some part of the natural wealth of the
planet has been exploited in an episode of "creative destruction."
Knowledge and natural capital, particularly energy, will interact
to power the human wealth engine in the future as it has in the
past. Will it sputter or continue along the path of evolutionary
progress that we have come to expect? Can the new immaterial wealth
of information and ideas, which makes up the so-called knowledge
economy, replace depleted natural wealth? These questions have no
simple answers, but this masterful book will help you to understand
the grand challenge of our time. Praise for Energy, Complexity and
Wealth Maximization: "... people who run the modern world
(politicians, economists and lawyers) have a very poor grasp of how
it really works because they do not understand the fundamentals of
energy, exergy and entropy ... those decision-makers would greatly
benefit from reading this book ..." - Vaclav Smil, Distinguished
Professor Emeritus, University of Manitoba "... A grandiose design;
impressive, worth reading and reflecting!" - Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich
von Weizacker, Founder of Wuppertal Institute; Co-President of the
Club of Rome, Former Member of the German Bundestag, co-chair of
the UN's Resource Panel "... The book is a must read for concerned
citizens and decision makers across the globe." - RK Pachauri,
Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, The Energy and Resources
Institute (TERI) and ex-chair, International Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC)
This text discusses the current basis of economic growth,
concluding that it is is failing to deliver, and is actually
harming our prospects for future security. Further arguments
propose a possible long-term strategy for economic revival -
eco-restructuring. This strategy involves a shifting away from
production of goods to production of services, closing material
cycles and eliminating reliance on non-renewable resources.
This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we
like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular
flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a
perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150
years on energy inputs from a finite storage of fossil fuels. In
this book, you will learn about the three key requirements for
wealth creation, and how this process acts according to physical
laws, and usually after some part of the natural wealth of the
planet has been exploited in an episode of "creative destruction."
Knowledge and natural capital, particularly energy, will interact
to power the human wealth engine in the future as it has in the
past. Will it sputter or continue along the path of evolutionary
progress that we have come to expect? Can the new immaterial wealth
of information and ideas, which makes up the so-called knowledge
economy, replace depleted natural wealth? These questions have no
simple answers, but this masterful book will help you to understand
the grand challenge of our time. Praise for Energy, Complexity and
Wealth Maximization: "... people who run the modern world
(politicians, economists and lawyers) have a very poor grasp of how
it really works because they do not understand the fundamentals of
energy, exergy and entropy ... those decision-makers would greatly
benefit from reading this book ..." - Vaclav Smil, Distinguished
Professor Emeritus, University of Manitoba "... A grandiose design;
impressive, worth reading and reflecting!" - Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich
von Weizacker, Founder of Wuppertal Institute; Co-President of the
Club of Rome, Former Member of the German Bundestag, co-chair of
the UN's Resource Panel "... The book is a must read for concerned
citizens and decision makers across the globe." - RK Pachauri,
Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, The Energy and Resources
Institute (TERI) and ex-chair, International Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC)
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First Man Into Space (DVD)
Robert Ayres, Spencer Teakle, Marshall Thompson, John Fabian, Bill Edwards, …
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Robert Day directs this British sci-fi horror. Manning the
experimental Y-13 aircraft, intrepid test pilot Dan Prescott (Bill
Edwards) flies deeper into space than any man before him. After
losing radio contact with mission control, and being bombarded by
mysterious cosmic rays, Dan's wrecked craft is recovered hours
later back on Earth with the pilot nowhere to be found. However, a
spate of gruesome attacks on cattle and then humans, by a
bloodthirsty creature, suggests Dan is still alive, if in a
somewhat changed form...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
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++++ Miss Pocahontas: An Indian War-whoop In Two Whoops Dan
Sullivan, Robert Ayres Barnet, Robert Melville Baker White-Smith
Music Pub., 1906 Music; Genres & Styles; Opera; Music / Genres
& Styles / Musicals; Music / Genres & Styles / Opera; Music
/ Instruction & Study / Voice; Music / Songbooks; Musicals
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ Miss Simplicity: A Musical Comedy Harry Lawson Heartz, Robert
Ayres Barnet White-Smith Music, 1901 Music; Genres & Styles;
Opera; Music / Genres & Styles / Musicals; Music / Genres &
Styles / Opera; Operas
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ Prince Pro Tem: A Comic Opera In Two Acts Lewis Sabin
Thompson, Robert Ayres Barnet C. W. Thompson, 1899 Music; Genres
& Styles; Opera; Music / Genres & Styles / Opera; Operas
With Additional Numbers Also By Edward W. Corliss, D. K. Stevens,
And R. G. Morse.
With Additional Numbers Also By Edward W. Corliss, D. K. Stevens,
And R. G. Morse.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
September Song is a collection of stories and a full-length play,
written over a span of fifteen years in the author's long writing
career. The settings of the stories range from China to California
and Vermont; the play, Guests of Summer, is set in Nebraska.
Orville Prescott in the New York Times called one of the stories,
"O'Hara's Creation," "a provocative study of an artist lost in
alcoholism, given an extra push downward by the monotony of his
soldier life in China, and the fantastic mural he painted on the
walls of a recreation hall."
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