An Introduction to Thermogeology: Ground Source Heating and Cooling, 2nd Edition By David Banks(auth.)
2012 | 539 Pages | ISBN: 0470670347 | PDF | 10 MB
This authoritative guide provides a basis for understanding the emerging technology of ground source heating and cooling. It equips engineers, geologists, architects, planners and regulators with the fundamental skills needed to manipulate the ground's huge capacity to store, supply and receive heat, and to implement technologies (such as heat pumps) to exploit that capacity for space heating and cooling. The author has geared the book towards understanding ground source heating and cooling from the ground side (the geological aspects), rather than solely the building aspects. He explains the science behind thermogeology and offers practical guidance on different design options.An Introduction to Thermogeology: ground source heating and cooling is aimed primarily at professionals whose skill areas impinge on the emerging technology of ground source heating and cooling. They will be aware of the importance of the technology and wish to rapidly acquire fundamental theoretical understanding and design skills.This second edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to cover new technical developments and now includes end-of-chapter study questions to testthe reader'sunderstanding.Content: Chapter 1 An Introduction (pages 1-10): Chapter 2 Geothermal Energy (pages 11-39): Chapter 3 The Subsurface as a Heat Storage Reservoir (pages 40-78): Chapter 4 What Is a Heat Pump? (pages 79-113): Chapter 5 Heat Pumps and Thermogeology: A Brief History and International Perspective (pages 114-132): Chapter 6 Ground Source Cooling (pages 133-149): Chapter 7 Options and Applications for Ground Source Heat Pumps (pages 150-201): Chapter 8 The Design of Groundwater?Based Open?Loop Systems (pages 202-247): Chapter 9 Pipes, Pumps and the Hydraulics of Closed?Loop Systems (pages 248-278): Chapter 10 Subsurface Heat Conduction and the Design of Borehole?Based Closed?Loop Systems (pages 279-324): Chapter 11 Horizontal Closed?Loop Systems (pages 325-352): Chapter 12 Pond? and Lake?Based Ground Source Heat Systems (pages 353-371): Chapter 13 Standing Column Wells (pages 372-382): Chapter 14 Thinking Big: Large?Scale Heat Storage and Transfer (pages 383-409): Chapter 15 Thermal Response Testing (pages 410-431): Chapter 16 Environmental Impact, Regulation and Geohazards (pages 432-462):

Ambipolar Materials and Devices
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1788018680 | 462 Pages | PDF (True) | 34 MB
Ambipolar materials represent a class of materials where positive and negative charge carriers can both transport concurrently. In recent years, a diverse range of materials have been synthesized and utilized for implementing ambipolar charge transport, with applications in high‐density data storage, field effect transistors, nanotransitors, photonic memory, biomaterial-based memories and artificial synapses. This book highlights recent development of ambipolar materials involving materials design, fundamental principles, interface modifications, device structures, ambipolar characteristics and promising applications. Challenges and prospects for investigating ambipolar materials in electronics and optoelectronics are also discussed. With contributions from global leaders in the field, this title will appeal to graduate students and researchers who want to understand the design, materials characteristics, device operation principles, specialized device application and mechanisms of the latest ambipolar materials.

Joel Selvin, "Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0062444255, 0062444263 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 7.3 mb
In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones' infamous Altamont concert, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s.

Craig Jackson, "Algebra And Einstein: Fixing The School System Book 1"
English | 2021 | ASIN: B08T3TV8M5 | EPUB | pages: 143 | 3.5 mb
We need to fix our school system!

Tore C. Olsson, "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside "
English | ISBN: 0691210454 | 2020 | 296 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
In the 1930s and 1940s, rural reformers in the United States and Mexico waged unprecedented campaigns to remake their countrysides in the name of agrarian justice and agricultural productivity. Agrarian Crossings tells the story of how these campaigns were conducted in dialogue with one another as reformers in each nation came to exchange models, plans, and strategies with their equivalents across the border.

Aggelos Kapellos, "Lysias 21"
English | 2014 | pages: 201 | ISBN: 3110354330 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Lysias' 21st speech "On a charge of taking bribes" is an important example of Attic oratory that sheds significant light on Classical history and society. Delivered after the restoration of democracy in 402 B.C.E., this speech provides information that is critical for our understanding of the relationship between the Athenian demos and aristocrats, Athenian civic institutions (e.g., taxation, liturgies and conscription), religious beliefs, moral values, political behavior, and, in particular, of the legal and rhetorical treatment of embezzlement and bribery. It also supplies unique information about the military engagement of the Athenians at Aegospotami and the role of Alcibiades in the political life of Athens. Despite its importance, however, Lysias' speech has never been the subject of an extensive study in its own right. This volume seeks to fill that gap by presenting the first systematic commentary on this speech. The author puts much emphasis on its structure, strategy, and argumentation, focusing especially on the tension between the actual practices of the anonymous client of the logographer and civic ideals invoked in the present case. The book is intended to be of interest to classicists, ancient historians and political theorists, but also to the general reader.

Lou Kasischke, "After the Wind: Tragedy on Everest - One Survivor's Story"
English | ISBN: 1940877032 | 2015 | 317 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
New deluxe paperback edition with Book Group Questions and a Q&A with the Author.Near the top of Mount Everest, on 10 May 1996, eight climbers died. It was the worst tragedy in the mountain's history. Lou Kasischke was there. After the Wind tells the harrowing story of what went wrong, as it has never been told before - including why the climbers were so desperately out of time as the rogue storm struck. His personal story, captured in the title AFTER THE WIND, tells about the intense moments near the top. These moments also revealed the love story that saved his life.

Ryuu Shinohara, "Accelerated Manifesting: 7 Hidden Secrets to Supercharge Your Reality, Rapidly Shift Your Identity, and Speed Up the Man"
English | ISBN: 1954596111 | 2021 | 159 pages | AZW3 | 535 KB
Are your manifestations taking too long to show up? And are you tired of waiting?

Jolie Anderson Gallagher, "A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado: Pioneers, Gunslingers & Cattle Kings on the Eastern Plains"
English | ISBN: 1609491955 | 2011 | 144 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Jolie Anderson's collection of wild west tales focuses on the early frontier history of Colorado's plains and includes a look at some of the state's early pioneers like the "59ers" who promoted the state through travel guides and newspapers, exaggerating tales of gold discovery and even providing inaccurate maps to promote settlement in the plains; the perils of living and traveling the major gold routes the town of Julesburg relocated four times in a decade; feuds; Indian fights; outlaws, and even early rodeo history. These stories and events shaped the Colorado territory and are a rich glimpse into the early history of the state.

Boria Majumdar, Kausik Bandyopadhyay, "A Social History of Indian Football: Striving to Score"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0415348358 | PDF | pages: 211 | 14.1 mb
A Social History of Indian Football covers the period 1850-2004. It considers soccer as a derivative sport, creatively and imaginatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs - designed to fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. The book is concerned with the appropriation, assimilation and subversion of sporting ideals in colonial and post-colonial India for nationalist needs.