Microlife That Lives In Soil (Amazing World of Microlife)

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Wind Energy Comes of Age is the most thorough assessment ever published of the technology, economics, and politics of generating electricity with wind. It provides an up-to-date status report on the modern wind industry worldwide.

Written by Paul Gipe, one of America's leading wind energy experts, this book chronicles wind energy's remarkable progress from its rebirth during the 1970s through a troubled adolescence in California's mountain passes in the 1980s to its maturation on the plains of northern Europe in the 1990s. Gipe argues in a readable and engaging style that wind is no longer an alternative source of energy. He cites improvements in the performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness of modern wind turbines to support his contention that wind energy has come of age as a commercial technology.

Unlike other books on the subject, which focus on technology alone, Wind Energy Comes of Age critically examines a host of issues that will determine the future of this renewable resource, including:

Wind energy's environmental benefits
The design of wind turbines "as if people matter"
Wind energy's impact on people and the environment
Aesthetics and public acceptance
Wind energy's potential
Centrally directed vs. market-oriented R & D
Wind energy's role in electric utilities

Wind Energy Comes of Age is extensively illustrated with more than 170 original line drawings, photographs, and charts. An annotated bibliography, tables of technical data, maps of wind resources, and a virtually exhaustive list of manufacturers, governmental agencies, and private organizations working with the wind further enhance the book's value as a reference. Not since the classic works of Putnam in 1948 or Golding in 1955 has there been a book on wind energy of this scope.

For those interested in the burgeoning wind energy field—engineers, researchers, environmentalists, policy specialists, and community leaders—Wind Energy Comes of Age is an essential resource.

Written by Paul Gipe, one of America's leading wind energy experts, Wind Energy Comes of Age is a comprehensive guide to the technology, economics, and politics of wind energy. Gipe has brought together information available nowhere else about American and European experience with wind energy. This landmark work is an indispensable reference source for engineers, researchers, environmentalists, planners, policy specialists, and community leaders who deal with this fast-growing field.

"A pragmatism born of meticulous research and wide field experience has made Paul Gipe one of windpower's most astute critics and most credible friends. He backs his exuberant chronicle with an insider's knowledge of the difficult process by which wind power has finally become practical. This is one of the best accounts of the rise of a technology I've ever seen."—Jay Baldwin, Whole Earth Review

"The wind energy field has waited a long time for a well-written, informative reference book like Paul Gipe's, Wind Energy Comes of Age. This book is a must-have for developers in need of technical or economic information, politicians who want to know both sides of the wind energy story, technicians who want a reliable reference and others interested in a well-rounded introduction to wind energy."—Torgny Moøller, Publisher, Windpower Monthly

"This book will make a major contribution to the development of wind energy in a responsible manner."—Neil Kelley, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Wind Technology Division

"For industry insiders as well as newcomers to the field, this book will be a valuable tool for understanding the development of wind power thus far."—Birger Madsen, Danish wind energy pioneer

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Wonderful Reference.......2002-09-22

Gipe has put together a wonderful wind energy reference. I'm currently doing an independent study on wind energy and this book has greatly helped my research to date. Highly recommended!! If you're in to renewable energy in general, I also recommend "Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future" edited by Godfrey Boyle I believe. I've never found a better resource for renewable energy!

Millions of people worldwide need Renewable Energy Products.......1999-06-20

Wind Energy Products are available for : lighting, water pumping, refrigerating, communication... This book is a necessary reading for all persons wishing to give the alternative energies a chance. Complete with many addresses and inside knowledge. A must for the alternative energy enthusiast...

Wind Energy, 1999: Wind Power Comes of Age (Wind Energy)

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Wind Energy, 1999: Wind Power Comes of Age (Wind Energy)

Manufacturer: Mechanical Engineering Pubns Ltd
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Wind Energy Comes of Age (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design)

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Wind Energy Comes of Age (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design)
Paul Gipe
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000MUGW4G

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The increasing precision of experimental data in many areas of elementary particle physics requires an equally precise theoretical description. In particular, radiative corrections (described by one- and multi-loop Feynman diagrams) have to be considered. Although a growing number of physicists are involved in such projects, multi-loop calculation methods can only be studied from original publications. With its coverage of multi-loop calculations, this book serves as an excellent supplement to the standard textbooks on quantum field theory. Based around postgraduate-level lectures given by the author, the material is suitable for both beginners and graduate students.

Quantum Chromodynamics and the Pomeron (Cambridge Lecture Notes in Physics)

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The definitive introduction to the pomeron

Quantum Chromodynamics and the Pomeron (Cambridge Lecture Notes in Physics)
J. R. Forshaw , and D. A. Ross
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521568803

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This volume describes the Pomeron, an object of crucial importance in very high energy particle physics. The first chapter looks at historical roots, setting the scene for subsequent chapters, which focus on the derivation and study of the Pomeron that emerge within perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). A simple toy model is first used to illustrate the basic ideas behind the construction of the Pomeron and leads naturally to the more realistic case of QCD. The reggeized gluon is introduced and used to build the Pomeron of perturbative QCD. The dynamical nature of the Pomeron is then investigated. The role of the Pomeron in small-x deep inelastic scattering and in diffractive scattering is examined in detail. The volume concludes with a discussion of the color dipole approach to high energy scattering and the explicit role of unitarity corrections.

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The definitive introduction to the pomeron.......2003-01-23

As an introduction to the BFKL equation and low x resummation in popular literature, this book is probably unsurpassed. I would recommend it to all students of QCD in the high energy limit.

Quantum Chromodynamics, LA Jolla Institute, 1978 (Aip Conference Proceedings)

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Quantum Chromodynamics, LA Jolla Institute, 1978 (Aip Conference Proceedings)
1978) Summer Workshop on Quantum Chromodynamics (La Jolla Institute , William R. Frazer , and Frank Henyey
Manufacturer: Amer Inst of Physics
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A clear, fascinating, informative book on QCD

Lectures on Quantum Chromodynamics
A. V. Smilga
Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company
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Finite-Temperature Field Theory: Principles and Applications (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)

ASIN: 9810243316

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A clear, fascinating, informative book on QCD.......2002-10-02

First, I think that I should mention that, at least for me, some parts of this book were a very tough read. To a large extent, this is because the book is so incredibly compact, which, since it covers most of the important theoretical topics in QCD, implies that it cannot possibly be as meticulous and explanitory in derivations as, for instance, an introduction in QFT. In other words, this book is for those who are thoroughly familiar with QFT and with its mathematical structure to the point that you can fill out the details of most proofs without too much difficulty.
This aside, I must say that this book is filled with fascinating, sometimes a bit unorthodox, insights not only into QCD, but also into all of quantum field theory itself (for example, take his wonderful chapter on path integrals in QM, which stands very well all on its own, or the intriguing viewpoints on gauge fields and their quantization, or especially on his exceedingly compact, elegant, simple, and yet philosophically complete treatment of radiative corrections and in particular on Wilson's ideas on renormalization).Although this book is not filled with a great deal of phenomenology, I do not think this is the point of the book; it, for me at least, is a profoundly philosophical text on QCD, in other words food for the mind and the soul.

Chiral Dynamics: Theory and Experiment : Proceedings of the Workshop Held at Mit, Cambridge, Ma, Usa, 25-29 July 1994 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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Chiral Dynamics: Theory and Experiment : Proceedings of the Workshop Held at Mit, Cambridge, Ma, Usa, 25-29 July 1994 (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Aron M. Bernstein
Manufacturer: Springer
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Chiral dynamics provides a rigorous and model-independent methodology for making QCD predictions at the confinement scale. This helps particularly in the testing of the standard model. The workshop reported here was focused on theoretical predictions and the measurements of physical processes, analyzing carefully the phenomenology needed to bridge the gap between the two. Besides the lectures, this volume also contains summaries of the working groups on ¦-¦-scattering, ¦N-interaction, photo/electro-pion-production, and on chiral anomaly. This book is a thorough review of the state of the art and it addresses researchers as well as graduate students.

Computing Particle Properties: Proceedings of the 36. Internationale Universitatswochen Fur Kern- Und Teilchenphysik, Schladming, Austria, March 1-8, 1997 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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Computing Particle Properties: Proceedings of the 36. Internationale Universitatswochen Fur Kern- Und Teilchenphysik, Schladming, Austria, March 1-8, 1997 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag Telos
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These lectures are intended for graduate students and researchers studying methods for the prediction of properties of elementary particles. Today's theory does not allow ab initio computation of all properties of particles like leptons and quarks. However, the understanding of the standard model, and in particular of QCD, has reached a state where many features can be computed from the theory with little further input, at least to some approximation. A summary of the state of the art for these quantities is also given from the phenomenological point of view.

Foundations of Quantum Chromodynamics: An Introduction to Perturbative Methods in Gauge Theories (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics)

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Foundations of Quantum Chromodynamics: An Introduction to Perturbative Methods in Gauge Theories (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics)
Taizo Muta
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Quantum Field Theory

ASIN: 9971950405

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This volume develops the techniques of perturbative QCD in great pedagogical detail starting with field theory. Aside from extensive treatments of the renormalization group technique, the operator product expansion formalism and their applications to short-distance reactions, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to gauge theories. Examples and exercises are provided to amplify the discussions on important topics. This is an ideal textbook on the subject of quantum chromodynamics and is essential for researchers and graduate students in high energy physics, nuclear physics and mathematical physics.

Foundations of Quantum Chromodynamics: An Introduction to Perturbative Methods in Guage Theories (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol 5)

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Foundations of Quantum Chromodynamics: An Introduction to Perturbative Methods in Guage Theories (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol 5)
Taizo Muta
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Lectures on Lepton Nucleon Scattering and Quantum Chromodynamics (Progress in Mathematical Physics)

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Lectures on Lepton Nucleon Scattering and Quantum Chromodynamics (Progress in Mathematical Physics)
W. B. Atwood
Manufacturer: Birkhauser
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Lectures on Qcd: Applications (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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Lectures on Qcd: Applications (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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ASIN: 3540634428

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The two-volume set "Lectures on QCD" provides an introductory overview of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions. In a series of articles, the fundamentals of QCD are discussed and significant areas of applications are described. Emphasis is put on recent developments. The field-theoretic basis of QCD is the focus of the first volume and applications of QCD to the phenomenology of strong interactions form the subject of this second volume. In this book investigations of deep inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering, of high energy hadronic reactions and studies of the quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy ion collisions are presented.

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O'Connor = Giant

My favorite book

Great read

A Contemporary Catholic Classic

A Moving and Engaging Story

The Edge of Sadness (The Loyola Classics Series)
Edwin O'Connor
Manufacturer: Loyola Press
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Mr. Blue

ASIN: 0829421238

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O'Connor = Giant.......2007-07-03

Superb. Simply. Great literature. The character of John, the main character's friend was the best and most gratifying of all. Please obtain and let your eyes go to work. To think the author died short of fifty. Man, we get burned sometimes.

My favorite book.......2007-03-13

I am thilled to see this book being available in hardcover and paperback as well. I read this book about ten years ago and I read it regularly every couple of years. The story is very compelling and the scene of the protagonist walking home through a run-down community is a classic of American literature.

What this book and O'Connor's other novel, The Last Hurrah, apart is the writing. In an era where writers seem to challenge one another to be more like Faukner and less comprehensible to the average man, O'Connor wrote very well and his language is beautiful. From this fine prose arises really deep characters which are flawed and so easily identifiable to us all.

Great read.......2007-01-12

I found this to be a wonderful novel and a great pleasure to read. I have been trying to find this for years and could not in any bookstore. While this could not translate to the movies as easily as Last Hurrah, I found this to be so much more interesting. A truly Catholic novel, it is a joy to find something that takes spiritual issues seriously and yet is hardly preachy. And if you are Irish, the dialogues of the "friends" of the family will make you laugh outloud while reading. This brought back the charms and frustrations of my childhood and my own family of Irish aunts and uncles. Long but worth the effort. A great find.

A Contemporary Catholic Classic.......2006-09-28

As I was reading THE EDGE OF SADNESS, I couldn't help but think that in 1961, when this Pulitzer Prize winning novel was published, it must have been rather controversial. It dealt with the humanity of priests, noting flaws but in a respectful manner. While some writers such as Georges Bernanos dealt with such issues in his DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST, American audiences were still used to the Hollywood Big Screen concoctions of Spencer Tracy--Father Flanagan/Bing Crosby--Father O'Malley models of priesthood. While the priest in THE EDGE OF SADNESS may be worthy of the warmth and love given to his movie counterparts, he's hardly perfect.

The novel tells the story of an alcoholic priest named Hugh Kennedy beginning again in ministry in an older, run down parish. Readers get a sense he's not the priest he once was, and throughout the novel we learn of his early ministry, the ramifications of the death of his father, the struggle with alcohol, and the loneliness that is a real part of his life. The book is written in the first person, and we hear the story of his life as he tells of his rekindling of a friendship with the Carmody family: Charlie, the patriarch, his son John the priest, Dan, the ne'er do well, Helen, the outspoken sister married to a doctor and Mary, the daughter who remains at home to care for the aging but still independent and at times ruthless Charlie. We also meet a host of minor characters: Helen's husband Frank, their son and daughter-in-law Ted and Anne, Charlie's longtime friends P.J. and Bucky, Roy, the maintenance man who works at Fr. Kennedy's church, and Fr. Stanley Danowski, the endearing yet naïve and at time nerdy young curate at Fr. Kennedy's parish. As the events of the novel unfold, we see changes in Fr. Kennedy as he discovers his love for God and his vocation.

This is an older style novel in many ways. O'Connor is not short on words and he gives a number of details, yet the novel flows and is a fast read for a volume of nearly 650 pages. The issues of struggles in priesthood, vitality of parishes, older priest verses younger priest, unstated yet real competition between clergy people, and a hunger for God are all present in this book. In some ways if some historical details were changed in the book, it could be about modern day Catholic life. Perhaps this is the power of this book and why it can seem timeless. While it tells a story from an earlier day, it's not an invitation for nostalgia, at least for Catholic readers. Instead it will remind readers of what truly matters in life: the importance of faith, and the importance of having people who love us and people we love in return. While it may seem dated in some ways, readers will agree that the editors at Loyola Press were correct in reissuing this book as a classic.

A Moving and Engaging Story.......2006-06-25

This simple but beautiful bittersweet story of life among the Irish-American citizens of an unnamed eastern city is a joyful and beguiling tale. O'Connor's characterizations and dialogues are engaging and from my personal experience utterly authentic. I feel as though I have met all the main chacters and could give them names among family and acquaintances. The set piece of Father Kennedy' battle with alcoholism is tastefully done.

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The Edge of Sadness
Edwin O' Connor
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Company
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Ring of Bright Water, The Judas Tree, The Edge of Sadness, A Fall of Moondust, A Christmas Carol, Summer of Pride (READER'S DIGEST CONDENSED BOOKS, Volume 4)

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Ring of Bright Water, The Judas Tree, The Edge of Sadness, A Fall of Moondust, A Christmas Carol, Summer of Pride (READER'S DIGEST CONDENSED BOOKS, Volume 4)

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The last hurrah: [and] The edge of sadness

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The last hurrah: [and] The edge of sadness
Edwin O'Connor
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The Edge Of Sadness
Edwin O'Conner
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The Edge of Sadness
Edwin O'Conner
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The Edge of Sadness
Edwin O'Connor
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This is the story of a middle-aged priest, and the several worlds in which he finds himself: the exuberant, turbulent, bubbling Irish-American world in which he was born and raised, and the far different, somber, silent, shabby world to which, through various circumstances, his life has taken him.

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The Edge of Sadness

Manufacturer: Bantam Books
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The Edge of Sadness
Edwin Oconnor
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The Edge of Sadness
Edwin O'connor
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