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Understanding Electric Power Systems

An Overview of the Technology and the Marketplace

By: Jack Casazza,Frank Delea

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Understanding Electric Power Systems

An Overview of the Technology and the Marketplace

By: Jack Casazza,Frank Delea

The Enron scandal notwithstanding, it is important for professionals in the electric power industry and related positions gain a solid understanding of electric power systems and how they work. Written by two veteran power company managers and respected experts, this is a real-world view of electric power systems, how they operate, how the organizations are structured, and how electricity is regulated and priced. A comprehensive overview of the electric power industry from the inside Covers electric power system components, electricity consumption, generation, transmission, distribution, electric utility operation, electric system control, power system reliability, government regulation, utility rate making, and financial considerations. Includes an extensive glossary of key terms used in the U.S. and also definitions for terms used worldwide

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471667862

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Understanding Electric Power Systems

An Overview of the Technology, the Marketplace, and Government Regulations

By: Frank Delea,Jack Casazza

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An Overview of the Technology, the Marketplace, and Government Regulations

By: Frank Delea,Jack Casazza

A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK IN LAYMAN'S TERMS AT THE MANY ASPECTS OF THE PROVISION OF ELECTRIC POWER, BY TWO VETERAN EXECUTIVES AND RESPECTED EXPERTS Technological advances and changes in government policy and regulation have altered the electric power industry in recent years and will continue to impact it for quite some time. Fully updated with the latest changes to regulation, structure, and technology, this new edition of Understanding Electric Power Systems offers a real-world view of the industry, explaining how it operates, how it is structured, and how electricity is regulated and priced. It includes extensive references for the reader and will be especially useful to lawyers, government officials, regulators, engineers, and students, as well as the general public. The book explains the physical functioning of electric power systems, the electric power business in today's environment, and the related institutions, including recent changes in the roles of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Reliability Company. Significant changes that are affecting the industry are covered in this new edition, including: The expanded role of the federal government in the planning and operation of the nation's electric utilities New energy laws and a large number of FERC regulations implementing these laws Concerns over global warming and potential impacts on the electric industry Pressures for expansion of the electric grid and the implementation of "smart-grid" technologies The growing importance of various energy-storage technologies and renewable energy sources New nuclear generation technologies The 2009 economic stimulus package

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118211375

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9781118211373

Collected Stories

By: Frank O'Connor

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Collected Stories

By: Frank O'Connor

The definitive collection from an Irish literary icon, “one of the masters of the short story” (Newsweek). In the words of W. B. Yeats, Frank O’Connor “did for Ireland what Chekhov did for Russia.” Anne Tyler, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, described his tales as “encapsulated universes.” This indispensable volume contains the best of his short fiction, from “Guests of the Nation” (adapted into an Obie Award–winning play) to “The Mad Lomasneys” to “First Confession” to “My Oedipus Complex.” Dublin schoolteacher Ned Keating waves good-bye to a charming girl and to any thoughts of returning to his village home in the lyrical and melancholy “Uprooted.” A boy on an important mission is waylaid by a green-eyed temptress and seeks forgiveness in his mother’s loving arms in “The Man of the House,” a tale that draws on O’Connor’s own difficult childhood. A series of awkward encounters and humorous misunderstandings perfectly encapsulates the complicated legacy of Irish immigration in “Ghosts,” the bittersweet account of an American family’s pilgrimage to the land of their forefathers. In these and dozens of other stories, O’Connor accomplishes the miraculous, laying bare entire lives and histories in the space of a few pages. As a writer, critic, and teacher, O’Connor elevated the short story to astonishing new heights. This career-spanning anthology, epic in scope yet brimming with small moments and intimate details, is a true pleasure to read from first page to last.

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Open Road Media

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149765503X

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9781497655034

Chula Vista

By: Frank M. Roseman,Peter J. Watry

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Chula Vista

By: Frank M. Roseman,Peter J. Watry

After many decades of being an agricultural community and lemon capital, an aircraft-parts manufacturer moved to Chula Vista. In 1940, Rohr Aircraft Corporation arrived and, due to the demand for workers and housing for them, the agricultural town was on its way to becoming a bedroom community. The city grew rapidly due to the development of a large ranch and the construction of 25,000 homes.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439624933

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9781439624937

The Best of Frank O'Connor

Introduction by Julian Barnes

By: Frank O'Connor

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The Best of Frank O'Connor

Introduction by Julian Barnes

By: Frank O'Connor

The most generous one-volume collection ever published of short stories, autobiographical writings,poetry, and essays by the writer Yeats called “Ireland’s Chekhov.” Selected and arranged thematically by Julian Barnes, the rich mix of writings in The Best of Frank O’Connor starts off with his most famous short story, “Guests of the Nation,” set during the Irish War of Independence; chronicles his childhood with an alcoholic father and protective mother; and traces his literary influences in brilliant essays on Joyce and Yeats. O’Connor’s wonderfully polyphonic tales of family, friendship, and rivalry are set beside those that bring to life forgotten souls on the fringes of society. O’Connor’s writings about Ireland vividly evoke the land he called home, while other stories probe the hardships and rewards of Irish emigration. Finally, we see O’Connor grappling, in both fiction and memoir, with the largest questions of religion and belief. The Best of Frank O’Connor is a literary monument to a truly great writer.

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714

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Everyman's Library

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0307806723

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9780307806727

The Madonna Ghost

By: Linda Maria Frank

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The Madonna Ghost

By: Linda Maria Frank

Seventeen-year-old Annie Tillery and her Aunt Jill set off for Long Islands Fire Island for a vacation of surf, sun, and sailing. Annie is happy to leave behind the stress of her relationship with her parents. Aunt Jill, who is an NYPD detective, is mixing her vacation with a case she must keep secret from Annie, who is suspicious nevertheless. Annie finds romance and intrigue when she meets Ty Egan, the nephew of their host on the island. They find themselves in the middle of an eerie adventure when she and Ty investigate the tragic and perplexing story of a local ghost. Annie becomes increasingly uneasy and the investigation turns sinister when Aunt Jill goes missing, the ghost appears, and the troublesome neighbors in the cottage next door become hostile. When they find one of Aunt Jills special earrings on the neighbors porch, they begin to wonder what she was doing there. Will they find Aunt Jill before its too late? In the breathless conclusion to their investigation, Annie and Ty narrowly escape death solving the mystery of The Madonna Ghost.

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186

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iUniverse

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1491710632

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9781491710630

Sukuma Labor Songs from Western Tanzania

'We Never Sleep, We Dream of Farming'

By: Frank Gunderson

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Sukuma Labor Songs from Western Tanzania

'We Never Sleep, We Dream of Farming'

By: Frank Gunderson

This volume is an interpretive analysis of a collection of 335 song texts treated as primary historical sources. The collection highlights the cultural practices that link music with labor in Sukuma communities in northwestern Tanzania. These linkages are evident in the music of the elephant, snake, and porcupine hunting associations that flourished in the precolonial epoch, in the nineteenth-century regional and long-distance porter associations, and in the farmer associations that have proliferated since the beginning of the twentieth century. Acting primarily as an interpretive editor, the author collaborated with several Tanzanian scholars and translators towards fine-tuning the translation of these texts into English, and gathered testimonies in order to create succinct interpretive statements about the songs. The African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology is pleased to announce that the 2012 Kwabena Nketia Book Prize has been awarded to Frank Gunderson for his book, Sukuma Labor Songs from Western Tanzania: "We Never Sleep, We Dream of Farming, published by Brill in 2010. Grounded in nearly twenty years of ethnographic research, we congratulate Professor Gunderson for this excellent publication in African music studies

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567

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BRILL

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900418760X

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9789004187603

Stud Managers' Handbook, Vol. 18

By: Frank H. Baker

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Stud Managers' Handbook, Vol. 18

By: Frank H. Baker

The Stud Managers' Handbook includes presentations made at the International Stockmen's School, January 2-6, 1983. The faculty members of the School who authored th is eighteenth volume of the Handbook, along with books on Dairy Cattle, Beef Cattle, and Sheep and Goats, are scholars, stockmen, and agribusiness leaders with national and international reputations. The papers are a mixture of tried and true technology and practices with new concepts from the latest research results of experiments in all parts of the world. Relevant information and concepts from many related disciplines are included.

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431

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CRC Press

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1000241548

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9781000241549

Community Nutrition

Applying Epidemiology to Contemporary Practice

By: Gail C. Frank

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Community Nutrition

Applying Epidemiology to Contemporary Practice

By: Gail C. Frank

This graduate-level community nutrition textbook presents a conceptual framework for understanding the course of health and disease and matching community nutrition or applied nutrition epidemiology to the model.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763730629

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9780763730628

The Legacy of Tanzanian Musicians Muhidin Gurumo and Hassan Bitchuka

Rhumba Kiserebuka!

By: Frank Gunderson

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The Legacy of Tanzanian Musicians Muhidin Gurumo and Hassan Bitchuka

Rhumba Kiserebuka!

By: Frank Gunderson

Muhidin Maalim Gurumo and Hassan Rehani Bitchuka are two of Tanzania’s most well-known singers in the popular music genre known as muziki wa dansi (literally, 'music for dancing'), a variation of the Cuban-based rhumba idiom that has been enormously impactful throughout central, eastern, and western Africa in the contemporary era. This interview-based dual biography investigates the lives and careers of these two men from an ethnomusicological and historical perspective. Gurumo had a career spanning fifty years before his death in 2014. Bitchuka has been singing professionally for forty-five years. The two singers, affectionately called mapacha (“the twins”) by their colleagues, worked together as partners for thirty years from 1973-2003. This study situates these exemplary individuals as creative agents in a local cultural context, showcasing interviews, narratives, and nostalgic reminiscences about musical life lived under Colonialism, state Socialism, and current politics in the global neoliberal democratic milieu. The book adds to a growing body of work about popular music in Dar es Salaam and shines a light on these artists’ creative processes, the choices they have made regarding rare resources, their styles and efficacy in conflict resolution, and their own memories regarding the musical art they have created.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498564402

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9781498564403

The Collar

Stories of Irish Priests

By: Frank O'Connor

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The Collar

Stories of Irish Priests

By: Frank O'Connor

Compelling tales of the clergy from the renowned author. “The work of Frank O’Connor lies at the very heart of the modern story in Ireland” (The Washington Post). Over the course of his long and distinguished career, Frank O’Connor wrote many stories about priests. Some of his most iconic characters are men of the cloth, and few writers have portrayed the unique demands of the priesthood with as much empathy, honesty, and wit. This collection, edited and introduced by his widow, Harriet O’Donovan Sheehy, brings together the best of O’Connor’s short fiction on the subject. From “An Act of Charity,” the ironically titled tale of church efforts to cover up a curate’s suicide, to “The Sentry,” an exquisite blend of drama and satire sparked by the British army’s invasion of a priest’s onion patch, these sixteen stories capture the full range of pressures visited on the Irish clergy. “Peasants” is a lesson in what happens when a man of God places law and order above compassion, while “Achilles’ Heel” reveals that even a bishop can be rendered powerless by his housekeeper. “The Frying-pan” and “The Wreath” are sad and lovely portraits of priests caught between their vows of celibacy and their natural desire for human connection. In the rituals and contradictions of the priesthood, Frank O’Connor found one of his greatest motifs. The Collar showcases an artist at the peak of his powers and shines a brilliant light on a fascinating world too often hidden in shadow and sentiment.

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Open Road Media

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1497655064

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9781497655065

Understanding Electric Power Systems

An Overview of the Technology and the Marketplace

By: Jack Casazza,Frank Delea

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An Overview of the Technology and the Marketplace

By: Jack Casazza,Frank Delea

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Understanding Electric Power Systems

An Overview of the Technology, the Marketplace, and Government Regulations

By: Frank Delea,Jack Casazza

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An Overview of the Technology, the Marketplace, and Government Regulations

By: Frank Delea,Jack Casazza

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Book's by Frank Delea

Understanding Electric Power Systems

Understanding Electric Power Systems

Understanding Electric Power Systems

Understanding Electric Power Systems

Collected Stories

Collected Stories

Chula Vista

Chula Vista

The Best of Frank O'Connor

The Best of Frank O'Connor

The Madonna Ghost

The Madonna Ghost

Sukuma Labor Songs from Western Tanzania

Sukuma Labor Songs from Western Tanzania

Stud Managers' Handbook, Vol. 18

Stud Managers' Handbook, Vol. 18

Community Nutrition

Community Nutrition

The Legacy of Tanzanian Musicians Muhidin Gurumo and Hassan Bitchuka

The Legacy of Tanzanian Musicians Muhidin Gurumo and Hassan Bitchuka

The Collar

The Collar

Understanding Electric Power Systems

Understanding Electric Power Systems

Understanding Electric Power Systems

Understanding Electric Power Systems

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