Power beaming is the ability to move energy without moving or employing mass between an energy input and energy output. It is an emerging technology that could reshape how we generate and distribute energy and how our devices and autonomous systems are powered.This comprehensive compendium provides the foundation needed for researchers, technology developers, and end users to understand the promise and challenges for power beaming. By establishing a common nomenclature and conceptual approach to the analysis and assessment of power beaming systems, this unique reference text provides a true status of advancements in the field, and lays the groundwork for fruitful future research and applications.

Who Killed Harry Zalenka? The news is all over CNN. A dead U.S. Congressman has just washed up on the Maryland shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Which means it's time for Tommy Moon to go to work. Moon is a Baltimore-based "stringer" for People magazine. Usually, he covers stories about famous people in the news - celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Donald Trump. But this time, the veteran stringer won't be filing the usual fluff. Because a mole is loose at the CIA - and the mole doesn't want Moon to find out what happened to Harry Zalenka. As the action heats up and the odds against his survival increase, the stringer will seek help from celebrity pals Frank Sinatra, G. Gordon Liddy, Evel Knievel and Donald Trump . . . along with the frighteningly Machiavellian Henry the K. Can they stop the mole before it's too late?

In these 42 "sudden fictions" - fictional stories of about 500 words each - Tom Nugent asks, among several other burning questions: "Who put the "dih" in the dih-dih-dih?" He fails to answer the question, however. Still, he gives it his best. In one of the stranger narratives to be found in this thoroughly odd collection, a tormented English 101 instructor goes eyeball to eyeball with a tank full of floating jellyfish at the Chicago Aquarium. Can the "jellies" help him understand the true nature of human reality? Other stories focus on a short-tempered man with a glass eye, a senile Irishman who triggers an outbreak of social mayhem at a gambling casino run by Ojibwas, and a heartsick jilted husband whose life changes forever after he watches a Baltimore Gas & Electric Company meter reader morph into a fire-snorting bull. What does it all mean? Nugent says he doesn't know. He's a journalist, novelist, short-story writer - and the father of four astonishingly independent minded young women.