The definitive guide for steam power plant systems and operation―fully updated 
For more than 75 years, this book has been a trusted source of information on steam power plants, including the design, operation, and maintenance of major systems. Steam Plant Operation, Ninth Edition, emphasizes the importance of a comprehensive energy plan utilizing all economical sources of energy, including fossil fuels, nuclear power, and renewable energy sources. 
Wind, solar, and biomass power are introduced in the book, and the benefits and challenges of these renewable resources for the production of reliable, cost-effective electric power are identified. Even with these new technologies, approximately 90% of electricity is generated using steam as the power source, emphasizing its importance now and in the future. In-depth details on coal-fired plants, gas turbine cogeneration, nuclear power, and renewable energy sources are included, as are the environmental control systems that they require. Potential techniques for the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel–fired power plants also are presented. 
This practical guide provides common power plant calculations such as plant heat rate, boiler efficiency, pump performance, combustion processes, and collection efficiency for plant emissions. Numerous illustrations and clear presentation of the material will assist those preparing for an operator’s license exam. In addition, engineering students will find a detailed introduction to steam power plant technology. 
Steam Plant Operation, Ninth Edition, covers: 
<ul>
<li>Steam and its importance </li>
<li>Boilers </li>
<li>Design and construction of boilers </li>
<li>Combustion of fuels </li>
<li>Boiler settings, combustion systems, and auxiliary equipment </li>
<li>Boiler accessories </li>
<li>Operation and maintenance of boilers </li>
<li>Pumps </li>
<li>Steam turbines, condensers, and cooling towers </li>
<li>Operating and maintaining steam turbines, condensers, cooling towers, and auxiliaries </li>
<li>Auxiliary steam plant equipment </li>
<li>Environmental control systems </li>
<li>Waste-to-energy plants</li>
</ul>

Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation (Jewish Culture and Contexts)

Business & Money

Francesconi, Federica

Economics

University of Pennsylvania Press

This volume discusses the early Dravidian architecture of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh (Upper Dravidadesh) as developed under the aegis of the early Chalukyas, the Rashtrakutas and their dependent dynasties. It contains a text by noted authorities of Indian architecture.

Encyclopaedia of Indian temple architecture

Russian Minstrels : A History of the Skomorokhi

Zguta, Russell

Literature & Fiction

Social Security and Private Pension Plans: Competitive or Complementary (Pension Research Council Publications)

Pension Reseach Council

Out of Sight: An Art Collector, a Discovery, and Andy Warhol

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

In 2009, Gregory McCoy, a noted New Jersey Andy Warhol Collector discovered while searching online, four remarkable and unknown silk screen prints of Marilyn Monroe, what struck McCoy immediately was the remarkable resemblance to Andy Warhol’s iconic 1962 silkscreen portrait of the actor. After investigating the origins of the Marilyns, he purchased four proof copies from a Swedish art dealer. Through his painstaking research, McCoy has discovered that the screen prints were, most likely, made in Sweden in 1968 at the time of Warhol’s first international exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Excited by his discovery, McCoy has spent the past twelve years acquiring over three hundred multicolored Marilyns. Not used in the Stockholm exhibition, it appears that the screen prints went underground and were gifted to a circle of Swedes who were associated with Pontus Hultén, the controversial Director of the Moderna Museet.\nIn 2016, McCoy was introduced to Penn Libraries Director of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library; after examining a sample of the Marilyn silkscreens, McCoy and Penn Libraries formed a partnership to exhibit a selection of the Marilyns. Why Penn? It seemed obvious. Penn had played a significant role in launching Warhol’s career when the recently founded Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) mounted Warhol’s first institutional retrospective of his work in 1965. The ICA exhibit is legendary. Given Penn’s role in Warhol’s Pop Art career, Penn seemed to McCoy to be the obvious venue to unveil his important discovery to the art world.\nTo date the question of Andy Warhol’s role in the production of this collection of Marilyn’s remains unanswered, which is part of the intellectual challenge of defining these art objects within the context of Pontus Hultén curatorial vision and Andy Warhol’s ethos and aesthetic. The catalogue includes an interview with the collector, essays by noted Warhol scholars: Reva Wolf and Kenneth Goldsmith; an essay on the 1965 ICA exhibition by Art Librarian Hannah Bennett; and an essay on the iconography of Marilyn Monroe by David McKnight, editor and curator of the show. The volume concludes with a Catalogue Raisonné of the McCoy Marilyns collection, prepared by Maureen McCormick, former Chief Registrar at the Princeton University Art Gallery. There will be 1,968 catalogues printed, commemorating the year in which the prints were made.

The Lombard Laws

Drew, Katherine Fischer, tr.

History

Irish Folk History: Tales from the North

Henry H.Glassie

Europe

The Cat in Ancient Egypt

Cat fanciers who consider their pets majestic have history on their side: felines were domesticated in ancient Egypt around 2000 B.C. while their European cousins still ran wild. Over the centuries they gained an exalted position in royal society—revered as an incarnation of a goddess, modeled in bronze statuettes, and even mummified and buried with their owners. Yet cats also won commoners' respect for their humble origins and protective instincts, earning them a prominent place in the personal religion of ordinary people.
Egypt scholar Jaromir Malek has called on a variety of artistic and written sources to tell how the cat became one of the most widely esteemed animals in that ancient society. He shows how we can date the domestication of cats from their depiction in art—first from the tomb of Baket III, in which a cat is shown confronting a field rat; then increasingly in images where cats are seen under the chairs of wives, a depiction that complements the long-established motif of dogs situated beneath the husbands' chair.
Malek's book includes more than a hundred illustrations—many in full color—that show how cats came to be widely represented in tomb paintings, sculpture, papyri, jewelry, ostraka, and sarcophagi. Throughout the text, he provides sufficient information on ancient Egyptian religion, society, and art to help general readers understand how the cat achieved its place of honor.
Today cats can be seen throughout Egypt, wandering in bazaars or asleep in shaded courtyards, evidence of an enduring relationship with humans that this book warmly captures. The Cat in Ancient Egypt is an informative and entertaining work that will delight cat lovers and history buffs alike.

Málek, Jaromír

As remarkable for its intimate style as for its adroit use of theory, Beverly Hills, 90210 illustrates the way in which media both form and reflect cultural reality.

Beverly Hills, 90210: Television, Gender, and Identity

E. Graham McKinley

Graham McKinley

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