Bottled Lightning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bottled Lightning write by Seth Fletcher. This book was released on 2011-05-10. Bottled Lightning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lithium batteries may hold the key to an environmentally sustainable, oil-independent future. From electric cars to a "smart" power grid that can actually store electricity, letting us harness the powers of the sun and the wind and use them when we need them, lithium—a metal half as dense as water, found primarily in some of the most uninhabitable places on earth—has the potential to set us on a path toward a low-carbon energy economy. In Bottled Lightning, the science reporter Seth Fletcher takes us on a fascinating journey, from the salt flats of Bolivia to the labs of MIT and Stanford, from the turmoil at GM to cutting-edge lithium-ion battery start-ups, introducing us to the key players and ideas in an industry with the power to reshape the world. Lithium is the thread that ties together many key stories of our time: the environmental movement; the American auto industry, staking its revival on the electrification of cars and trucks; the struggle between first-world countries in need of natural resources and the impoverished countries where those resources are found; and the overwhelming popularity of the portable, Internet-connected gadgets that are changing the way we communicate. With nearly limitless possibilities, the promise of lithium offers new hope to a foundering American economy desperately searching for a green-tech boom to revive it.
The Lightning Cage
The Lightning Cage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lightning Cage write by Alan Wall. This book was released on 2014-07-01. The Lightning Cage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alan Wall's The Lightning Cage is a gothic, metaphysical novel given the speed and strength of a thriller. A former seminarian, Christopher Bayliss abandons his studies in Rome and returns to England, determined to be cleansed forever of the contagion of religion and to leave behind his angels as well as his demons. But then something curious starts to happen: his research into an obscure eighteenth-century poet, Richard Pelham, reintroduces into his life those same ghostly whispers and rumors he thought he silenced for good. And so he flees once more, into a different type of life entirely--he escapes into worldly success. But even still, it seems he cannot escape the mysteries of Richard Pelham. Soon these dark secrets begin to take over his life as insidiously and completely as they took over the poet over two centuries before.
Still Growing
Still Growing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Still Growing write by Donald Capps. This book was released on 2015-03-26. Still Growing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The later-adult years are commonly viewed as a period in which one struggles to maintain a vestige of the physical, mental, and emotional vitality of one's earlier years. In 'Still Growing', however, Donald Capps shows that older adulthood is actually a period of growth and development, and that a central feature of this growth and development is the remarkable creativity of older adults. This creativity is the consequence of the wisdom gained through years of experience but is also due to a newly developed capacity to adapt to unprecedented challenges integral to the aging process.In Part 1, Capps illustrates the challenges of transitioning to older adulthood from the author's own experiences, while in Part 2 he draws on material from Erik H. Erikson, Sigmund Freud, and Paul W. Pruyser to account for longevity, adaptability, and creativity in older adults. Finally, in part 3 he focusses on the work of both William James and Walt Disney to fashion a model of creative aging.
Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals write by William James. This book was released on 1914. Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Heart of William James
The Heart of William James - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Heart of William James write by William James. This book was released on 2010-08-31. The Heart of William James available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A selection of seventeen essays from the writings of pioneering American psychologist/philosopher William James that provide insight into his thinking on emotion, war, habit, determinism, religion, and other topics.
