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Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics by Carlo Rovelli
RRP: €13.08€7.81The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and scienceShortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize'A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science, but even more magical' Financial TimesIn June 1925,... -
Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
RRP: €11.89€7.63With one famous equation, E=mc2, Einstein proved all matter can be described as energy. It is everywhere and it is everything. In this newly updated and engaging introduction, renowned scientist Vaclav Smil explores energy in all its facets - from the... -
Low-Temperature Energy Systems with Applications of Renewable Energy by Andriy Redko
RRP: €136.85€120.14Low-Temperature Energy Systems with Applications of Renewable Energy investigates a wide variety of low-temperature energy applications in residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial areas. It addresses the basic principles that form the... -
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by Frank Close 9780141997582
RRP: €15.46€10.82The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of itIn the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the... -
Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction by Maxwell Irvine
RRP: €10.70€7.68With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the increasing cost of fossil fuels and concerns about the security of their future supply. However, the... -
Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545044Author Saul GriffithFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy by Mark Diesendorf 9780868409733
RRP: €36.83€30.95Global warming is the hottest political issue of the day, and it is likely to become even more pressing over the coming years. It is arguably the most dangerous environmental problem and the most difficult political issue to be faced by the world in the... -
Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History by Matthieu Auzanneau
RRP: €23.79€16.22Catholic Herald Book Awards 2019 Finalist, Current Affairs "Auzanneau has created a towering telling of a dark and dangerous addiction."-Nature The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource... -
The Clean Energy Transition: Policies and Politics for a Zero-Carbon World by Daniel J. Fiorino 9781509544875
RRP: €22.60€20.08Is the goal of a transition to clean energy at all realistic? If so, how could it be accomplished? Climate change poses a formidable challenge for twenty-first-century governments. Unless they can move to a clean energy system built on efficiency,... -
Principles of Power Electronics by John G. Kassakian 9781316519516
RRP: €57.11€52.88Substantially expanded and updated, the new edition of this classic textbook provides unrivalled coverage of the fundamentals of power electronics. Comprehensive coverage of foundational concepts in circuits, magnetics, devices, dynamic models, and... -
Handbook of Wind Resource Assessment by Simon Watson
RRP: €138.04€119.73HANDBOOK OF WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT Useful reference text underpinning the theory behind wind resource assessment along with its practical application Handbook of Wind Resource Assessment provides a comprehensive description of the background theory,... -
Electric Motors and Drives: Fundamentals, Types and Applications by Austin Hughes 9780081026151
RRP: €59.44€52.82Electric Motors and Drives: Fundamentals, Types and Applications, Fifth Edition is intended primarily for non-specialist users or students of electric motors and drives, but many researchers and specialist industrialists have also acknowledged its value... -
Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil
RRP: €24.99€17.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262536165Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm -
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air by David J. C. MacKay
RRP: €27.36€21.50Addressing the sustainable energy crisis in an objective manner, this enlightening book analyzes the relevant numbers and organizes a plan for change on both a personal level and an international scale--for Europe, the United States, and the world. In... -
Energy Systems: A Very Short Introduction by Nick Jenkins
RRP: €10.70€7.87Modern societies require energy systems to provide energy for cooking, heating, transport, and materials processing, as well as for electricity generation. Energy systems include the primary fuel, its conversion, and transport to the point of use. In... -
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
RRP: €27.37€17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143121947Author Daniel YerginFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
Renewable Energy: A Very Short Introduction by Nick Jelley
RRP: €10.70€7.68Energy is vital for a good standard of living, and much of the world's population does not have enough. Affordable and adequate sources of power that do not cause climate change or pollution are crucial; and renewables provide the answer. Wind and solar... -
Wind Turbines: Theory and Practice by Colin Anderson
RRP: €82.10€71.85In the multi-disciplinary field of wind energy, students and professionals can often be uncomfortable outside their own specialist areas. This essential textbook explains the key aspects of wind turbine technology and its application in a single readable... -
Energy Medicine: the science of acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and other healing methods by Jill Blakeway 9781911344940
RRP: €20.22€13.78What is energy healing? And why does it work? For thousands of years, practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine have used the body's own energy - which they call 'qi' - to promote healing. Here, one of the world's most sought-after acupuncturists... -
Electric Power Systems with Renewables: Simulation s Using PSS (R)E by Mohan
RRP: €121.38€105.56Electric Power Systems with Renewables Concise, balanced, and fundamentals-based resource providing coverage of power system operation and planning, including simulations using PSS (R)E software Electric Power Systems with Renewables provides a... -
The Hydrogen Revolution: a blueprint for the future of clean energy by Marco Alvera 9781529360271
RRP: €23.80€16.36A Financial Times BEST BOOKS OF 2021'Engaging, authoritative and very timely. Marco Alvera spells Hydrogen's critical role as an energy store in the clean power transition' - Mike Berners-Lee, author of THERE IS NO PLANET BPicture this: It's 2050. The... -
The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin 9781250766113
RRP: €16.65€11.54A new vision for America's future is quickly gaining momentum. Facing a global emergency, a younger generation is spearheading a national conversation around a Green New Deal and setting the agenda for a bold political movement with the potential to... -
Measurement and Detection of Radiation by Nicholas Tsoulfanidis
RRP: €130.90€113.18As useful to students and nuclear professionals as its popular predecessors, this fifth edition provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials, systems, and applications. There have been many advances in the... -
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking by Charles Seife 9780143116349
RRP: €28.56€20.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116349Author Charles SeifeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 133mm... -
The Hydrogen Revolution: a blueprint for the future of clean energy by Marco Alvera
RRP: €13.08€8.81A Financial Times BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'Engaging, authoritative and very timely. Marco Alvera spells Hydrogen's critical role as an energy store in the clean power transition' - Mike Berners-Lee, author of THERE IS NO PLANET BPicture this: the looming... -
The Element in the Room: Science-y Stuff Staring You in the Face by Helen Arney
RRP: €20.22€18.46'Made me go Hydrogen Argon, Hydrogen Argon, Hydrogen Argon.' Rufus HoundAs featured in Best stocking-filler books of 2017 - The Guardian'Witty and clever writing, every topic is engaging, fun and in some cases laugh-out-loud funny...there are too many... -
Theory and Practice in Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery by Kun Sang Lee
RRP: €130.90€115.00Selection of the optimal recovery method is significantly influenced by economic issues in today's oil and gas markets. Consequently, the development of cost-effective technologies, which bring maximum oil recovery, is the main interest in today's... -
Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century by Professor Bruce Usher
RRP: €20.22€15.87From wood to coal to oil and gas, the sources of energy on which civilization depends have always changed as technology advances. Now renewables are overtaking fossil fuels, with wind and solar energy becoming cheaper and more competitive every year... -
Green Energy (WIRED guides): How to build a sustainable future by Nicole Kobie
RRP: €10.70€7.68Fossil fuels may be keeping the world running, but they're also destroying the planet. What viable alternatives do we have, and what technological breakthroughs are on the horizon? In this brilliantly wide-ranging, one-stop guide WIRED journalist Nicole... -
Fire Safety in Residential Property: A Practical Approach for Environmental Health by Richard Lord 9780367617868
RRP: €23.79€21.05This book aims to take the reader through all aspects of fire safety and management in residential settings, from origin and ignition, risk assessment, protection and prevention, as well as comparing effective enforcement options from across all parts of... -
Solar Farms: The Earthscan Expert Guide to Design and Construction of Utility-scale Photovoltaic Systems by Susan Neill 9780367783990
RRP: €52.35€45.74The market and policy impetus to install increasingly utility-scale solar systems, or solar farms (sometimes known as solar parks or ranches), has seen products and applications develop ahead of the collective industry knowledge and experience. Recently... -
Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States by Leah Cardamore Stokes 9780190074265
RRP: €33.90€28.57In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in... -
The Fall and Rise of Nuclear Power in Britain: A History by Simon Taylor 9781906860318
RRP: €27.36€20.31The story of the rise, fall and second ascendancy of nuclear power in the United Kingdom. Britain was a pioneer in civil nuclear power and there were once high hopes in the 1950s that this could be a source of cheap electricity and a valuable export... -
Natural Gas: Fuel for the 21st Century by Vaclav Smil
RRP: €33.26€28.86Natural gas is the world's cleanest fossil fuel; it generates less air pollution and releases less CO2 per unit of useful energy than liquid fuels or coals. With its vast supplies of conventional resources and nonconventional stores, the extension of... -
Power Engineering: Advances and Challenges Part B: Electrical Power by Viorel Badescu 9780367780586
RRP: €54.73€47.75Traditionally, power engineering has been a subfield of energy engineering and electrical engineering which deals with the generation, transmission, distribution and utilization of electric power and the electrical devices connected to such systems... -
Fundamentals of Weather and Climate by Robin McIlveen 9780199215423
RRP: €76.15€72.13Familiarity and modern, sheltered lifestyles can dull our awareness of the ever changing sky above us. But an unusually colourful sunset or threatening storm can rekindle interest, admiration, and even fear. Even so, we generally fail to comprehend the... -
Solar Trillions: 7 Market and Investment Opportunities in the Emerging Clean-Energy Economy by Tony Seba 9780615335612
RRP: €23.74€20.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615335612Author Tony SebaFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Tony SebaPublisher Tony SebaWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm -
Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future by Stephen Peake
RRP: €76.15€73.79The provision of sustainable energy supplies for an expanding and increasingly productive world is one of the major issues facing civilisation today. Renewable Energy examines both the practical and economic potential of the renewable energy sources to... -
Energy Science: Principles, Technologies, and Impacts by John Andrews 9780198854401
RRP: €54.73€51.69The only book to successfully integrate social, economic and environmental considerations with an accessible, quantitative approach to energy science. Energy Science introduces the latest energy technologies, explaining the physical principles... -
Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis by Alice Bell
RRP: €14.27€9.19The history of climate change research - how the world became addicted to fossil fuels, how we discovered that electricity may be our saviour, and how renewable energy is far from a 20th-century discovery. Did you know the link between carbon...