The Leading eBooks Store Online
for your Apple or Android device, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
Fueling Our Futureby Robert L. Evans
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 24.00Overview of energy demand for students, policymakers, and readers without scientific backgrounds. more...
The False Promise of Green Energyby Roger Meiners; Andrew Morriss; William Bogart; Andrew Dorchak
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2011; US$ 11.99This work offers an outstanding, nearly unprecedented evaluation of claims by green energy and green jobs proponents that we can improve the economy and the environment, almost risk free, by spending billions of dollars on what are ultimately false promises. more...
Energy and Power Risk Managementby Alexander Eydeland; Krzysztof Wolyniec
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 110.00Praise for Energy and Power Risk Management "Energy and Power Risk Management identifies and addresses the key issues in the development of the turbulent energy industry and the challenges it poses to market players. An insightful and far-reaching book written by two renowned professionals." -Helyette Geman, Professor of Finance University Paris Dauphine and ESSEC "The most up-to-date and comprehensive book on managing energy price risk in the natural gas and power markets. An absolute imperative for energy traders and energy risk management professionals." -Vincent Kaminski, Managing Director Citadel Investment Group LLC "Eydeland and Wolyniec's work does an excellent job of outlining the methods needed to measure and manage risk in the... more...
Evaluation of Energy Useby Watt Committee on Energy Publications
Spon Press 1979; US$ 210.00Report number 6 of the Evaluation of Energy Use in Great Britian more...
Watt Committee on Energy Publicationsby Watt Committee on Energy Publications
Spon Press 1982; US$ 180.00Chernobyl Accident and its Implications for the Unitedby N. Worley; J. Lewins
Spon Press 1988; US$ 210.00Published on behalf of The Watt Committee on Energy. more...
E-Vision 2002, Shaping Our Future by Reducing Energy Intensity in the U.S. Economy, Volume Iby David Ortiz; Jerry Sollinger
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95The E-Vision 2002 Conference, held in May 2002, was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy as a step toward implementing a key recommendation of the Bush administration?s National Energy Policy. It gathered 150 of the nation?s leading energy experts to discuss ways of reducing the country?s energy intensity. This volume and the additional volume enclosed on CD-ROM contain the presentations and discussions that took place at the conference, including the identification of goals and the means to achieve them. It is a key work for those involved in implementing the National Energy Policy. more...
State-Level Changes in Energy Intensity and Their National Implicationsby Mark Bernstein; Kateryna Fonkych; Sam Loeb; David Loughran
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95The 2001 National Energy Policy calls for continued reductions in energy intensity (energy consumption per dollar of gross economic output). This study was part of an effort to identify state-level factors that may contribute to efficient energy use nationwide. The authors examined changes in energy intensity in 48 states and in the states? energy-consuming sectors from 1977 through 1999. Some factors that may explain differences in states? energy intensity are energy prices, new construction, capacity utilization, population, climate, tech innovations, and government energy policies. more...
Banking on Baghdadby Edwin Black
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2006; US$ 16.95New York Times and international bestselling author Edwin Black uncovers Iraq's hidden economy and the companies that profit from its upheaval Big business and global warfare have long been fiery and symbiotic forces in Iraq. Banking on Baghdad tells the dramatic and tragic history of a land long the center of world commerce-and documents the many ways Iraq's recent history mirrors its tumultuous past. Tracing the involvement of Western governments and militaries, as well as oil, banking, and other corporate interests in Iraq, Black shows that today, just as yesterday, the world needs Iraq's resources-and is always willing to fight and invade in order to acquire and protect them. While demonstrating that Iraq itself is partially to blame for... more...
Achieving a Sustainable Global Energy Systemby L. Schrattenholzer; A. Miketa; K. Riahi; R.A. Roehri
Edward Elgar Publishing 2004; US$ 40.00Sustainable development and global climate change have figured prominently in scientific analysis and international policymaking since the early 1990s. This book formulates technology strategies that will lead to environmentally sustainable energy systems, based on an analysis of global climate change issues using the concept of sustainable development. more...









