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The electrical grid goes everywhere - it's the largest and most complex machine ever made. Yet, the system is built in such a way that the bigger it gets, the more inevitable its collapse Named the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century by the National Academy of Engineering, the electrical grid is the largest industrial investment in the history of humankind. It reaches into your home, snakes its way to your bedroom, and climbs right up into the lamp next to your pillow. At times, it almost seems alive, like some enormous circulatory system that pumps life to big cities and the most remote rural areas.Constructed of intricately interdependent components, the grid operates on a rapidly shrinking margin for error. Things can - and do - go wrong in this system, no matter how many preventive steps we take. Just look at the colossal 2003 blackout, when 50 million Americans lost power due to a simple error at a power plant in Ohio; or the one a month later, which blacked out 57 million Italians. And these two combined don't even compare to the 2001 outage in India, which affected 226 million people. "The Grid" is the first history of the electrical grid intended for general readers, and it comes at a time when we badly need such a guide. As we get more and more dependent on electricity to perform even the most mundane daily tasks, the grid's inevitable shortcomings will take a toll on populations around the globe. At a moment when energy issues loom large on the nation's agenda and our hunger for electricity grows, "The Grid" is as timely as it is compelling..
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"Guitar Heaven" is the first book of its kind. Much more than a dry, two-dimensional approach - as adopted by so many existing guitar titles - the book will evoke all the atmosphere of the image and music surrounding the guitar. The book is organized alphabetically to allow fascinating juxtapositions between guitar manufacturers, and features around 50 iconic instruments. Insightful text by guitar authority Neville Marten explains the impact of the iconic guitar, why the instrument became an icon, and the relationship between the guitar and its most famous player. Gorgeous photography, some specially commissioned for this book, shows the instruments as objects of beauty, evokes the atmosphere surrounding the guitar, and shows the guitar in the hands of a famous guitar master. Summary boxes are provided for each icon, giving information on famous exponents, technical features, and the musical styles that each allowed. Each guitar is also accompanied by quotes from guitar-playing legends on why it was their instrument of choice..
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To Get The Lights is an entertaining insight into the miracle of how Saskatchewan farms received electricity, overcoming the huge obstacles of distances, finances and even dogged armed resistance..
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This text is about the capacity to experience of both the therapist and the patient It asks how this capacity can be sustained and discusses the many blunt and subtle ways it can be sabotaged. The title of the book refers to the shocking tension due to conflict between poise and catastrophe in the therapeutic situation. Eigen illustrates that when a person says or does something new or startling to someone who is listening and watching with sympathetic understanding, the rewards can be great for the analyst and for the analysand. The request for help and to be treated differently from the way one has been previously treated challenges the ability of the therapist to respond in the new way that he discovered during his own training. Eigen's detailed afterword gives details of the development and training that led to his work in America as a psychologist involved in the developing interest in analytic training. Although interested in the influence of Freud and the early European analysts, Eigen examines, in more detail, the occurences in Britain since Melanie Klein began her work there. His references to Klein, Winnicott, Milner and Bion help connect the reader to his background tolerance of the complex relationships between instincts and their many derivatives, especially the interrelationships between individuals' development and their most significant others. This leads to attempts to understand transference and counter-transference relationships. Eigen's insistence on using the continually developing themes as they appear in free association is illustrated..
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This digital document is an article from Trailer Boats, published by Ehlert Publishing Group on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2466 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Electrified! an electric trolling motor will make any flats boat, bay boat or small center console better for prowling. Here are the best new models for saltwater use. (Saltwater Trolling Motors).
Author: Dan Armitage
Publication:Trailer Boats (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: Ehlert Publishing Group
Volume: 32 Issue: 9 Page: 69(5)

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This digital document is an article from Childhood Education, published by Association for Childhood Education International on August 6, 1997. The length of the article is 2498 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Young adolescents must become technologically literate. Middle schools must adapt plans and programs to impart technological literacy to their students, and where necessary, to their teachers. Teachers easily adapt to technology regardless of their experience when they are involved in the planning of the school's technology program. Technology allows students a great degree of independence and train them to become independent thinkers.

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Title: The electrified classroom: using technology in the middle grades.
Author: Robert L. Gilstrap
Publication:Childhood Education (Refereed)
Date: August 6, 1997
Publisher: Association for Childhood Education International
Volume: v73 Issue: n5 Page: p297(4)

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