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The Approaching Great Transformation: Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy

by Joel Magnuson & Helena Norberg-Hodge

How should we act and think economically in the world as the era of cheap oil comes to an end? The Approaching Great Transformation begins to answer this massive question, focusing on the people and communities...

Energy Efficiency: Lessons Learned from Success Stories

by Alexander Sharabaroff

Energy efficiency is an important factor in an economy, since it helps meet energy needs, decrease costs, and lower environmental impacts. A review of the evolution of energy intensity in European and Former...

Why vs Why: Nuclear Power

by Ian Lowe & Barry Brook

Why vs Why is a unique series of small books that tackle both sides of the hot topics that pop up to confront, confuse, and trouble everyone. Each book includes both sides of the debate on one hot topic. They’re...

What the Frack?: Everything You Need to Know About Coal Seam Gas

by Paddy Manning

Australia has a new $50 billion industry; it carries unprecedented environmental risks, but could be the path to energy salvation: cleaner than coal, safer than nuclear, a complement to renewables. While big...

IEE Wiring Regulations: Explained and Illustrated

by Brian Scaddan

The classic handy reference guide for everyone involved in electrical installation - contractors, designers, electricians, plumbers and students.

Brian Scaddan's guides to the IEE Wiring Regulations have established...

Oil and Democracy in Iraq

by Robert Springborg

This is the first major study of the alternatives confronting Iraq as it seeks to rebuild its vital oil industry while simultaneously constructing a new political system. A key challenge facing the country is...

Solar Home Heating Basics: A Green Energy Guide

by Dan Chiras

A clean and simple introduction to heating your home with the power of the sun

I R Physics

by Aaron W. Wemple

Transformational energy concepts (I R Physics) is a known, but currently unexplainable aspect of reality, society, economy, physics, etc.. To better understand and further the classical laws of physics for applied...

Bottled Lightning

by Seth Fletcher

The sleek electronic tools that have become so ubiquitous—laptops, iPods, eReaders, and smart phones—are all powered by lithium batteries. Chances are you’ve got some lithium on your person right now....

The Green Workplace

by Leigh Stringer

As 21st-century companies realize they'll need to be green to compete, sustainable ideas are spreading like wildfire throughout all fields of modern business. In The Green Workplace, Leigh Stringer, an expert...

The Modern Energy Matchmaker: Connecting Investors with Entrepreneurs

by Michele Ashby

Explaining the trends and key words in the green energy movement, this book examines the idea of modern energy—a combination of old and new energy resources—and the costs involved in making them operational....

A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier

by Michael Peel

A gripping account of how the 50-year life of Nigeria has been shaped by the crude oil that flows from its Niger Delta, this chronicle is peopled with a cast of characters that is stranger than fiction—from...

Who Turned Out the Lights?

by Scott Bittle & Jean Johnson

From the editors of PublicAgenda.org, an entertaining, irreverent, and absolutely essential nonpartisan guide to the energy crisis

Energy: It's a problem that never goes away (despite our best efforts as a nation...

Thriving During Challenging Times: The Energy, Food and Financial Independence Handbook

by Cam Mather

There's never been a better time to be in control of your fuel, food, and finances.

Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World

by Tom Zoellner

The astonishing biography of a mineral that can sustain our world- or destroy it

Uranium occurs naturally in the earth's crust-yet holds the power to end all life on the planet. This is its fundamental paradox,...

Alternative Energy For Dummies

by Rik DeGunther

Get the truth about alternative energy and make it part of your life

Want to utilize cleaner, greener types of energy? This plain-English guide clearly explains the popular forms of alternative energy that you...

Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair

by Richard Moran

In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an effort by one nineteenth-century...

The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia

by Lutz Kleveman

In the tradition of The Prize, Lutz Kleveman gives us the twenty-first-century chapter on the history, passion, and politics of oil and gas resources, and the struggle to control them in a critical part of the...

Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident

by William McKeown

When asked to name the world’s first major nuclear accident, most people cite the Three Mile Island incident or the Chernobyl disaster. Revealed in this book is one of American history’s best-kept secrets:...

The Wireless Tesla

by Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla dreamed of a wireless future. In this volume we have collected thirteen of his essays having to do with wireless. These include the "True Wireless," "Tesla's Wireless Light," "The Transmission of...