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The Big Switch Rewiring The World From Edison To Google
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Author : Nicholas Carr
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2009-01-19
The Big Switch Rewiring The World From Edison To Google written by Nicholas Carr and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-19 with Computers categories.
“Magisterial. . . . Draws an elegant and illuminating parallel between the late-19th-century electrification of America and today’s computing world.”—Salon Hailed as “the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement” (Christian Science Monitor), The Big Switch makes a simple and profound statement: Computing is turning into a utility, and the effects of this transition will ultimately change society as completely as the advent of cheap electricity did. In a new chapter for this edition that brings the story up-to-date, Nicholas Carr revisits the dramatic new world being conjured from the circuits of the “World Wide Computer.”
The Big Switch
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Author : Saul Griffith
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2022-02-14
The Big Switch written by Saul Griffith and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-14 with Technology & Engineering categories.
An inspiring, practical plan to transform Australia’s energy system and supercharge our response to the climate crisis Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now – but what? Australian visionary Saul Griffith has a plan. In The Big Switch, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint – optimistic but feasible – for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future. ‘I’m a scientist, inventor and father who wants to leave my kids a better world. The data convinces me that it is still rational to have hope.’ —Saul Griffith 'About f*cking time we have an actual plan written down that can be executed and financed. In a decarbonised world, Australia is a winner. The opportunity now is ours for the taking.' -Mike Cannon-Brookes 'Griffth argues that electrification is the path forward to mitigate climate change while creating jobs.' -Rose Mary Petrass, The Fifth Estate '...an engaging, optimistic, and persuasive perspective on the huge opportunities in front of us.' -Benjamin Powell, Westender Community News
The Big Switch
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Author : Muriel Box
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
The Big Switch written by Muriel Box and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with English fiction categories.
Dexter S Big Switch
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Author : Pam Pollack
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Release Date : 2003
Dexter S Big Switch written by Pam Pollack and has been published by Scholastic Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
As Dexter gets ready to introduce the Virtual Identity Teleporter to the scientific world, his sister Dee Dee pulls the switch on his invention, turning Dexter into a boy genius ballerina.
Switch
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Author : Dan Heath
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-10-31
Switch written by Dan Heath and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-31 with Self-Help categories.
___________________________________ Change is hard. It doesn't have to be. We all know that change is hard. It's unsettling, it's time-consuming, and all too often we give up at the first sign of a setback. But why do we insist on seeing the obstacles rather than the goal? This is the question that bestselling authors Chip and Dan Heath tackle in their compelling and insightful book. They argue that we need only understand how our minds function in order to unlock shortcuts to switches in behaviour. Illustrating their ideas with scientific studies and remarkable real-life turnarounds - from the secrets of successful marriage counselling to the pile of gloves that transformed one company's finances - the brothers Heath prove that deceptively simple methods can yield truly extraordinary results.
The Energy Switch
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Author : Peter Kelly-Detwiler
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-06-15
The Energy Switch written by Peter Kelly-Detwiler and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-15 with Business & Economics categories.
The energy industry is changing, and it’s far more than just solar panels. Electric vehicles look to overtake gasoline-powered cars within our lifetimes, wind farms are popping up in unlikely places, traders are transforming energy into a commodity, and supercomputers are crunching vast amounts of data in nanoseconds while helping to keep our energy grids secure from hackers. The way humans produce, distribute and consume power will be cleaner, cheaper, and infinitely more complex within the next decade. In The Energy Switch, leading energy industry expert Peter Kelly-Detwiler looks at all aspects of the transformation: how we got here, where we are going, and the implications for all of us in our daily lives. Kelly-Detwiler takes readers to the frontlines of the energy revolution. Meet Steve Collins, an executive from Commercial Development Corporation, the company that blew up two $570-million-dollar concrete cooling towers to create a staging ground for the new $70 billion U.S. offshore wind industry; Rob Threlkeld, a General Motors executive who convinced the auto giant to sign multiple 20-year renewable energy contracts worth hundreds of millions; Kevin McAlpin, a Texas homeowner who buys the power for his home on the electricity spot market – where prices can soar from less than one cent a kilowatthour to $9.00 over the course of a single day; Dr. Kristin Persson, who oversees a supercomputer that can process data at 30 quadrillion calculations per second, in the quest for better renewable energy and battery technologies; and John Davis, a Texas rancher who can keep his land intact, with help from the royalty payments from seven turbines spinning on his range. Energy creation and distribution has driven society’s progress for centuries. Today, people are increasingly aware that it is imperative that humans move towards a cleaner, digitized, and democratized energy economy. The Energy Switch is about that multi-trillion dollar transformation, told from the perspective of those leading us to that bright future.
Hitler S War
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Author : Harry Turtledove
language : en
Publisher: Del Rey
Release Date : 2009-08-04
Hitler S War written by Harry Turtledove and has been published by Del Rey this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-04 with Fiction categories.
A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But the following spring, Hitler snatched the rest of that country, and England, after a fatal act of appeasement, was fighting a war for which it was not prepared. Now, in this thrilling alternate history, another scenario is played out: What if Chamberlain had not signed the accord? In this action-packed chronicle of the war that might have been, Harry Turtledove uses dozens of points of view to tell the story: from American marines serving in Japanese-occupied China and ragtag volunteers fighting in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in Spain to an American woman desperately trying to escape Nazi-occupied territory—and witnessing the war from within the belly of the beast. A tale of powerful leaders and ordinary people, at once brilliantly imaginative and hugely entertaining, Hitler’s War captures the beginning of a very different World War II—with a very different fate for our world today. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Harry Turtledove's The War that Came Early: West and East.
The Master Switch
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Author : Tim Wu
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-11-02
The Master Switch written by Tim Wu and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-02 with Business & Economics categories.
A New Yorker and Fortune Best Book of the Year "A must-read for all Americans who want to remain the ones deciding what they can read, watch, and listen to.” —Arianna Huffington Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today’s great information powers—Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T—Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industry—from the telephone to radio to film—once existed in an open and chaotic marketplace inhabited by entrepreneurs and utopians, just as the Internet does today. Each of these, however, grew to be dominated by a monopolist or cartel. In this pathbreaking book, Tim Wu asks: will the Internet follow the same fate? Could the Web—the entire flow of American information—come to be ruled by a corporate leviathan in possession of "the master switch"? Here, Tim Wu shows how a battle royale for the Internet’s future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out.
Innovationation
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Innovationation written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Civil service categories.
The Switch
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Author : Beth O'Leary
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-04-16
The Switch written by Beth O'Leary and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-16 with Fiction categories.
'SO CHARMING, SO SWEET AND SO LOVELY' MARIAN KEYES Leena is too young to feel stuck. Eileen is too old to start over. Maybe it's time for The Switch... Ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, Leena escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Newly single and about to turn eighty, Eileen would like a second chance at love. But her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen. So Leena proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can live in London and look for love, and Leena will look after everything in rural Yorkshire. But with a rabble of unruly OAPs to contend with, as well as the annoyingly perfect - and distractingly handsome - local schoolteacher, Leena learns that switching lives isn't straightforward. Back in London, Eileen is a huge hit with her new neighbours, and with the online dating scene. But is her perfect match nearer to home than she first thought? PRAISE FOR THE SWITCH 'Another life-affirming joy' HEAT 'Great holiday read' 5* READER REVIEW 'Warm, witty, and a cast of characters I wish I was friends with' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS 'Wonderful, funny and so heart-warming!' 5* READER REVIEW 'Sparkles with wit, warmth and compassion' GILLIAN McALLISTER 'Beth O'Leary has done it again!' 5* READER REVIEW 'Heartwarming and uplifting. Everyone should have an Eileen in their life!' HEIDI SWAIN 'Her books are a warm hug and a mug of hot chocolate on a chilly day, just perfection' 5* READER REVIEW 'Eileen Cotton proves you don't have to be in your thirties to be Bridget Jones. A triumph!' ANSTEY HARRIS 'A really wonderful, heart-warming and life-affirming read' 5* READER REVIEW 'Bursting with warmth and humour' LOUISE O'NEILL 'Bursting with zest' 5* READER REVIEW 'I loved it! A total joy to read. Such a breath of fresh air' LIBBY PAGE 'One of the most enjoyable books I have had the pleasure of reading' 5* READER REVIEW 'It's an absolute joy from beginning to end' MIKE GAYLE 'This book is SO SPECIAL' 5* READER REVIEW 'Brilliant, warm, funny, full of heart. Completely loved it!' RICHARD ROPER