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Author | : Saul Griffith |
Publisher | : Black Inc. |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2022-02-14 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1743822375 |
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
Author | : Nicholas Carr |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2009-01-19 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0393333949 |
"Future Shock for the Web-apps era.... Compulsively readable—for nontechies, too."—Fast Company Building on the success of his industry-shaking Does IT Matter? Nicholas Carr returns with The Big Switch, a sweeping look at how a new computer revolution is reshaping business, society, and culture. Just as companies stopped generating their own power and plugged into the newly built electric grid some hundred years ago, today it's computing that's turning into a utility. The effects of this transition will ultimately change society as profoundly as cheap electricity did. The Big Switch provides a panoramic view of the new world being conjured from the circuits of the "World Wide Computer." New for the paperback edition, the book now includes an A–Z guide to the companies leading this transformation.
Author | : Harry Turtledove |
Publisher | : Del Rey |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2009-08-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 034551565X |
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.
Author | : Pam Pollack |
Publisher | : Scholastic Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780439449472 |
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.
Author | : Nicholas Carr |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2009-01-19 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0393067874 |
“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.”
Author | : David Andrew Warner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2014-12-01 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9781925030785 |
Meet Little Davey Warner. He lives in Sandhill Flats with his mum and dad and his brother Steve-and his stinky dog Max. Davey and his schoolmates-even Max-are MAD for cricket. All they want to do is play...but there's always something getting in their way!
Author | : Pam Pollack |
Publisher | : Turtleback |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2003-10-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780613721585 |
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.
Author | : Nicholas G. Carr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Computers and civilization |
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A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power with steam engines and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities not only changed how businesses operated but also brought the modern world into existence. Today a similar revolution is under way. Companies are dismantling their private computer systems and tapping into rich services delivered over the Internet. This time it's computing that's turning into a utility. The shift is already remaking the computer industry, bringing new competitors like Google to the fore and threatening traditional stalwarts like Microsoft and Dell. But the effects will reach much further. Cheap computing will ultimately change society as profoundly as cheap electricity did. Here, business journalist Carr weaves together history, economics, and technology to explain why computing is changing--and what it means for all of us.--From publisher description.
Author | : Kay Martin |
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Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1962 |
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Total Pages | : 960 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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