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Set against a backdrop of political upheaval, the story follows Dawn Rae Bjornberg, a young woman with a complex heritage shaped by cowboy anarchism and Leninist ideals. Raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution, she later navigates her teenage years in Montana. As she becomes involved in gun running and revolution in Washington, D.C. during the Great Depression, a shocking revelation about her past forces her to return to Russia, where she is trained as a spy for what will become the KGB.

"Black Ephemera explores the crisis and the challenge of the Black Musical archive in a moment when Black American culture has become a global import, yet the cultural DNA of that culture is becoming obscured in the transformation from analog to digital"--

Oto nowe, II wydanie popularnej akademickiej i profesjonalnej „biblii” tematu dotyczącego przeglądu technologii energetycznych. Książka zawiera podstawowe oraz pogłębione informacje o wszystkich stosowanych obecnie technologiach produkcji elektryczności i ciepła. W publikacji zarówno są opisane dobrze sprawdzone, konwencjonalne technologie paliw kopalnych, ale również obecnie bardzo silnie rozwijając się technologie źródeł odnawialnych, ogniwa paliwowe czy energetyka atomowa. Książka polecana jest zarówno studentom kierunków ENERGETYKA czy MECHANIKA I BUDOWA MASZYN, jak również praktykom – inżynierom energetykom, zakładam przemysłowym.

Pierwsze na polskim rynku studium poświęcone nowoczesnej i bardzo perspektywicznej technologii wykorzystania wodoru w XXI w. Energetyka wodorowa obejmuje nowoczesną i pojemną gałąź technologii energetycznych, na którą składają się sposoby wytwarzania wodoru, jego magazynowania, transportu i konwersji do różnych postaci energii. Książka znajdzie swoich Czytelników wśród słuchaczy studiów I, II i III stopnia oraz studiów podyplomowych na kierunkach związanych z ENERGETYKĄ, TRANSPORTEM, ELEKTROTECHNIKĄ czy INŻYNIERIĄ ŚRODOWISKA. Zainteresuje również inżynierów energetyków czy specjalistów OZE.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with a visionary technothriller about climate change

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller--Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick--that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds"-- Provided by publisher

From the New York Times bestselling author of SEVENEVES 'One of the great novels of our time' Wall Street Journal 'Wonderful' Guardian 'Staggering' New York Times 'Captivating' Washington Post 'Cutting-edge' Booklist 'Mind-blowing' Slate What if we could live forever? What if we did? In Fall or, Dodge in Hell exists a world where we hold the keys to our own mortality, where the limits of survival no longer exist, and the potential to decide our fates lies in our corruptible hands. From one of the greatest speculative writers of our time comes an epic saga of life and death, power and technology, and a future that isn't as far away as it seems...

You think you know how the world works? Think again. From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller that questions the very foundations of the modern world

The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction. President Barack Obama's summer reading choice and recently optioned by Ron Howard and IMAGINE to be made into a major motion picture. What would happen if the world were ending? When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An ambitious plan is devised to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere. But unforeseen dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain... Five thousand years later, their progeny - seven distinct races now three billion strong - embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown, to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is at once extraordinary and eerily recognizable. He explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.