Cogeneration and Polygeneration Systems explores the suite of state-of-the-art modeling, design, analysis and optimization procedures for creating and retooling optimally efficient combined heat and power (CHP) and polygeneration energy systems. The book adopts exergetic and thermoeconomic analysis and related modeling and simulation tools to inform performance and systems design in modern cogeneration plants. Chapters provide a methodical approach to the design, operation and troubleshooting of cogeneration systems when they are integrated with industrial processes. Cogeneration targets, environmental impacts, total site integration, and availability and reliability issues are addressed in-depth. <ul> <li>Explores exergetic and exergoeconomic analysis for optimization purposes of CHP systems</li> <li>Addresses availability and reliability issues within cogeneration systems</li> <li>Reviews modern polygeneration systems based on renewable energy resources and fuel cells</li> </ul>

Discrimination, personality, and achievement;: A survey of northern Blacks (Quantitative studies in social relations)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Crain, Robert L.

Psychology & Counseling

Seminar Press

Stepping over the Color Line: African-American Students in White Suburban Schools

This important book takes the discussion of racial inequality in America beyond simplistic arguments of white racism and black victimization to a more complex conversation about the separate but unequal situation in many schools today. Amy Stuart Wells and Robert Crain investigate the St. Louis, Missouri, school desegregation plan, a unique agreement that since 1983 has given black inner-city students the right to choose to attend predominantly white suburban schools. After five years of research and hundreds of interviews with policymakers, administrators, teachers, students, and parents, Wells and Crain conclude that when school desegregation is examined from these many perspectives, more strengths than weaknesses emerge. They call for a reexamination of now-popular school choice policies across the country so that these policies may help to bring about more racial and social-class integration. Stepping over the Color Line intertwines data on student achievement and racial isolation with stories of the people who participated in the St. Louis program. The authors set these individuals within a broad historical and social context and demonstrate how important linkages between the past and present help explain why efforts to overcome racial inequality―in St. Louis and in the larger society―are so difficult. "The authors do a superb job of explaining how this innovative program came about, placing it in a broad context that takes it beyond its immediate and local implications. The book is at times heartbreaking and at times uplifting."―Richard Zweigenhaft, co-author of Blacks in the White Establishment? A Study of Race and Class in America

Politics & Social Sciences

Wells, Amy Stuart

Social Sciences

Yale University Press

The Politics of Community Conflict: The Fluoridation Decision

Irvington Pub.

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