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  • PERFECT POWER: How the Microgrid Revolution Will Unleash Cleaner, Greener, More Abundant Energy

    by Robert Galvin, Kurt Yeager ...
    What's the solution to the world's growing energy problem?PERFECT POWERElectric usage is rising. Fuel costs are rocketing. Blackouts are happening more frequently. Why? Because our electrical power system--built on a vast network of resources including nuclear energy, natural gas, water, and coal--has become woefully outdated, increasingly expensive, and dangerously fragile. We need to change the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Taming the Sun

    Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

    by Varun Sivaram ...
    How solar could spark a clean-energy transition through transformative innovation—creative financing, revolutionary technologies, and flexible energy systems.Solar energy, once a niche application for a limited market, has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What's more, its potential is nearly limitless—every hour the sun beams down more energy than the world uses in a ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • The Clean Tech Revolution

    The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity

    by Ron Pernick, Clint Wilder ...
    When industry giants such as GE, Toyota, and Sharp and investment firms such as Goldman Sachs are making multibillion-dollar investments in clean technology, the message is clear. Developing clean technologies is no longer a social issue championed by environmentalists; it's a moneymaking enterprise moving solidly into the business mainstream. In fact, as the economy faces unprecedented challenges ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Power of Resilience

    How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected

    by Yossi Sheffi ...
    How the best companies prepare for and manage modern vulnerabilities—from cybersecurity risks to climate change: new tools, processes and organizations for developing corporate resilience.A catastrophic earthquake is followed by a tsunami that inundates the coastline, and around the globe manufacturing comes to a standstill. State-of-the-art passenger jets are grounded because of a malfunctioning ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Chips and Change

    How Crisis Reshapes the Semiconductor Industry

    by Clair Brown, Greg Linden ...
    How the chip industry has responded to a series of crises over the past twenty-five years, often reinventing itself and shifting the basis for global competitive advantage.For decades the semiconductor industry has been a driver of global economic growth and social change. Semiconductors, particularly the microchips essential to most electronic devices, have transformed computing, communications, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Innovation

    Build Your Company’s Capacity to Change the World

    by Andrew Hargadon ...
    Series series Innovation and Technology in the World Economy
    If we can carry in our pockets more computing power than the Apollo program needed to put a man on the moon, why can't we solve problems like climate change, famine, or poverty? The answer lies, in part, in the distinctive challenges of creating innovations that address today's pressing environmental and social problems. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Hargadon shows why sustainable innovation ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Robots are Coming

    A Human's Survival Guide to Profiting in the Age of Automation

    by John Pugliano ...
    A practical guide to surviving—and even thriving—in the new economy where nearly any job can be automated with artificial intelligence.Let's face it: robots are coming for your job. Regardless of your profession, degree or experience, there is no escaping the automated future. However, you can take steps today that will guarantee you not only survive, but thrive in this new economy.The Robots Are ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fisher Investments on Technology

    by Fisher Investments, Brendan Erne, Andrew Teufel ...
    Series Book 7 - Fisher Investments Press
    The sixth installment of the Fisher Investments On series is a comprehensive guide to understanding and analyzing investment opportunities within the Technology sector. Fisher Investments on Technology can help you quickly become familiar with this highly diversified sector, how the sector is segmented by industries, their respective macroeconomic drivers, and the challenges facing Technology ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Integration of Variable Renewables in the Energy System of the EU and China: Policy Considerations

    Joint Statement Report Series, #2020

    by EU-China Energy Cooperation Platform Project ...
    Series Book 2020 - Joint Statement Report Series
    This report was prepared byGareth Davies and Christian Romig, John McShane and John Perkins, AFRY Management Consulting andZHAO Yongqiang, LIU Jian and HAN Xue, Energy Research Institute of National Reform and Development CommissionLEGAL DISCLAIMERThe information and views set out in this report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Union, ... Read more

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  • Freeing Energy

    How Innovators Are Using Local-scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global Energy Industry from the Outside In

    by Bill Nussey ...
    The transition to clean energy is moving far too slowly. Trapped by a century of fossil fuel investments and politicians that struggle to plan beyond the next election, the “Big Grid” that powers our modern world is outdated and in dire need of an upgrade. Freeing Energy offers a new and faster path towards a clean energy future—one that is more reliable, more equitable, and cheaper. Just like ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Making in America

    From Innovation to Market

    by Suzanne Berger, MIT Task Force on Production in the Inno ...
    How America can rebuild its industrial landscape to sustain an innovative economy.America is the world leader in innovation, but many of the innovative ideas that are hatched in American start-ups, labs, and companies end up going abroad to reach commercial scale. Apple, the superstar of innovation, locates its production in China (yet still reaps most of its profits in the United States). When ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Smart Grid

    Integrating Renewable, Distributed and Efficient Energy

    Edited by Fereidoon Sioshansi ...
    The creation of a flexible, efficient, digitized, dependable and resilient power grid may well be the best route to increasing energy efficiency & security, as well as boosting the potential of renewable & distributed power sources. This book covers smart grids from A-Z, providing a complete treatment of the topic, covering both policy and technology, explaining the most recent innovations ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD