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The Power Makers
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Author : Maury Klein
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2010-09-01
The Power Makers written by Maury Klein and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-01 with History categories.
Maury Klein is one of America's most acclaimed historians of business and society. In The Power Makers, he offers an epic narrative of his greatest subject yet - the "power revolution" that transformed American life in the course of the nineteenth century. The steam engine; the incandescent bulb; the electric motor-inventions such as these replaced backbreaking toil with machine labor and changed every aspect of daily life in the span of a few generations. The cast of characters includes inventors like James Watt, Elihu Thomson, and Nikola Tesla; entrepreneurs like George Westinghouse; savvy businessmen like J.P. Morgan, Samuel Insull, and Charles Coffin of General Electric. Striding among them like a colossus is the figure of Thomas Edison, who was creative genius and business visionary at once. With consummate skill, Klein recreates their discoveries, their stunning triumphs and frequent failures, and their unceasing, bare-knuckled battles in the marketplace. In Klein's hands, their personalities and discoveries leap off the page. The Power Makers is a dazzling saga of inspired invention, dogged persistence, and business competition at its most naked and cutthroat--a biography of America in its most astonishing decades.
The Power Makers
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Author : Mark Fetscher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Power Makers written by Mark Fetscher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Coal-fired power plants categories.
The Power Makers
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Author : Mark Fetscher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05-14
The Power Makers written by Mark Fetscher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-14 with categories.
Technical history of coal-fired power stations in New South Wales.
The Power Makers Challenge
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Author : Martin Nicholson
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-03-31
The Power Makers Challenge written by Martin Nicholson and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-31 with Business & Economics categories.
The Power Makers - the producers of our electricity - must meet the demands of their customers while also addressing the threat of climate change. There are widely differing views about solutions to electricity generation in an emission constrained world. Some see the problem as relatively straight forward, requiring deep cuts in emissions now by improving energy efficiency, energy conservation and using only renewable resources. Many electricity industry engineers and scientists see the problem as being much more involved. The Power Makers ’ Challenge: and the need for Fission Energy looks at why using only conventional renewable energy sources is not quite as simple as it seems. Following a general introduction to electricity and its distribution, the author quantifies the reductions needed in greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector in the face of ever increasing world demands for electricity. It provides some much needed background on the many energy sources available for producing electricity and discusses their advantages and limitations to meet both the emission reduction challenge and electricity demand. By analyzing the three main groups of energy sources: renewable energy, fossil fuels and fission energy (nuclear power), readers can assess the ability of each group to meet the challenge of both reducing emissions and maintaining reliable supply at least cost. It is written for both non-technical and technical readers.
The Power Makers
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Author : Maury Klein
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2008-05-27
The Power Makers written by Maury Klein and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-27 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Traces the "power revolution" that transformed America from an agrarian society into a technological superpower, evaluating the contributions of such figures as George Westinghouse, J. P. Morgan, and Thomas Edison. By the author of Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929. 50,000 first printing.
The Power Makers
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Author : Richard Munson
language : en
Publisher: Emmaus, Pa. : Rodale Press
Release Date : 1985
The Power Makers written by Richard Munson and has been published by Emmaus, Pa. : Rodale Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Electric Utilities categories.
The Power Brokers
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Author : Jeremiah D. Lambert
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2016-10-07
The Power Brokers written by Jeremiah D. Lambert and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-07 with Business & Economics categories.
How the interplay between government regulation and the private sector has shaped the electric industry, from its nineteenth-century origins to twenty-first-century market restructuring. For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States. Provision of an essential service to largely dependent consumers invited government oversight and ever more sophisticated market intervention. The industry has sought to manage, co-opt, and profit from government regulation. In The Power Brokers, Jeremiah Lambert maps this complex interaction from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Lambert's narrative focuses on seven important industry players: Samuel Insull, the principal industry architect and prime mover; David Lilienthal, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), who waged a desperate battle for market share; Don Hodel, who presided over the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) in its failed attempt to launch a multi-plant nuclear power program; Paul Joskow, the MIT economics professor who foresaw a restructured and competitive electric power industry; Enron's Ken Lay, master of political influence and market-rigging; Amory Lovins, a pioneer proponent of sustainable power; and Jim Rogers, head of Duke Energy, a giant coal-fired utility threatened by decarbonization. Lambert tells how Insull built an empire in a regulatory vacuum, and how the government entered the electricity marketplace by making cheap hydropower available through the TVA. He describes the failed overreach of the BPA, the rise of competitive electricity markets, Enron's market manipulation, Lovins's radical vision of a decentralized industry powered by renewables, and Rogers's remarkable effort to influence cap-and-trade legislation. Lambert shows how the power industry has sought to use regulatory change to preserve or secure market dominance and how rogue players have gamed imperfectly restructured electricity markets. Integrating regulation and competition in this industry has proven a difficult experiment.
From Edison To Enron
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Author : Richard Munson
language : en
Publisher: Northeast-Midwest Institute
Release Date : 2005-09-30
From Edison To Enron written by Richard Munson and has been published by Northeast-Midwest Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-30 with Business & Economics categories.
Traces the history of the $210 billion power industry showcasing the key individuals, technological innovations, corporate machinations, and political battles waged over its domination. The author maintains that the technological and regulatory infrastructure have outlived their usefulness and that generators are the nation's largest polluters.
The Change Makers
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Author : Maury Klein
language : en
Publisher: Times Books
Release Date : 2014-09-02
The Change Makers written by Maury Klein and has been published by Times Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-02 with Business & Economics categories.
From one of America's foremost business historians, a penetrating and engaging look at the qualities that create great entrepreneurs Entrepreneurs, even more than inventors, are essential to American business. While inventors produce ideas, entrepreneurs get things done, build the markets, make ideas reality. But what creative talents do the legendary American entrepreneurs share, and what can you learn from them about business success? Using lively character sketches and company stories, University of Rhode Island professor and author Maury Klein analyzes how innovators from Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates triumphed over perennial challenges in planning and strategy, production, operations, staffing, and sales--and transformed entire industries. Comparing the retailing acumen of J.C. Penney and Wal-Mart's Sam Walton, the organizational ingenuity of Standard Oil's John D. Rockefeller and Citigroup's Sandy Weill, the imaginative marketing of General Motors' Alfred Sloan and MacDonald's Ray Kroc, Klein reveals the art and archetype of successful entrepreneurialism. Moving beyond the clichés, he describes the artistry of great businessmen who build empires and dreams as well as fortunes, in The Change Makers.
Hero Maker
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Author : Dave Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Zondervan
Release Date : 2018-03-13
Hero Maker written by Dave Ferguson and has been published by Zondervan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-13 with Religion categories.
In Hero Maker, you will learn how to bring real change to your church and community by developing the practical skills to help others reach their leadership potential. Drawing on five powerful practices found in the ministry of Jesus, Hero Maker presents the key steps of apprenticeship that will build up other leaders and provide strategies for how you can: activate the gifts of those around you help others take ownership of their mission develop a simple scorecard for measuring your kingdom-building progress With rich insights from the Gospels, Hero Maker is packed with real-life ministry stories ranging from paid staff to volunteer leaders--from established churches to new church plants. Whether you lead ten people or ten thousand, Hero Maker will not only help you maximize your leadership impact; but, in doing so, you will also help shift today's church culture to a model of reproduction and multiplication. Chicago pastor and church planter Dave Ferguson and award-winning writer Warren Bird make a compelling case that God's power and purpose are best revealed when we train and release others to further advance the Kingdom of God. By becoming a hero maker and investing in others, you can join a movement of influencers that are impacting thousands of people around the world. Everybody wants to be a hero, but few understand the power of being a hero maker.