1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009558520403321

Titolo

Changing climate, changing economy / edited by Jean-Philippe Touffut

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2009

ISBN

978-1-84844-837-7

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 171 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Collana

Cournot Centre for Economic Studies series

Disciplina

363.73874

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

VI M 163

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910825855803321

Titolo

The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 / / edited by John R. Wunder and Joann M. Ross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-281-73401-2

9786611734015

0-8032-4816-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Law in the American West

Disciplina

978.2/01

Soggetti

Law - Nebraska - History - 19th century

Law - Kansas - History - 19th century

Sovereignty - History - 19th century

Slavery - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Political culture - United States

Nebraska History 19th century

Kansas History 1854-1861



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

An eclipse of the sun / John R. Wunder and Joann M. Ross -- The Kansas-Nebraska Act in American political culture / Mark E. Neely, Jr. -- Nebraska and Kansas territories in American legal culture / Brenden Rensink -- Stephen A. Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act / James A. Rawley -- Lincoln's firebell / Phillip S. Paludan -- Frederick Douglass and the Kansas-Nebraska Act / Tekla Ali Johnson -- Unpopular sovereignty / Walter C. Rucker -- Where popular sovereignty worked / Nicole Etcheson.

Sommario/riassunto

The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 turns upside down the traditional way of thinking about one of the most important laws ever passed in American history. The act that created Nebraska and Kansas also, in effect, abolished the Missouri Compromise, which had prohibited slavery in the region since 1820. This bow to local control outraged the nation and led to vicious confrontations, including Kansas's subsequent mini-civil war. The essays in this volume shift the focus from the violent and influential reaction of "Bleeding Kansas" to the role that Nebraska played in this decisive moment.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557685903321

Autore

Okamoto Satoru

Titolo

Small-Scale Energy Systems with Gas Turbines and Heat Pumps

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (134 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering and technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

A heat pump system can produce an amount of heat energy that is greater than the amount of energy used to run the heat pump system. Thus, a heat pump system is considered to be a machine system that can use energies efficiently, as is the load leveling air-conditioning system utilizing unutilized energies at high levels. Adaptations of gas turbines for industrial, utility, and marine-propulsion applications have long been accepted as means for generating power with high efficiency and ease of maintenance. Cogeneration with gas turbine is frequently defined as the sequential production of useful thermal energy and shaft power from a single energy source. For applications that generate electricity, the power can either be used internally or supplied to the utility grid. This Special Issue intends to provide an overviews of the existing knowledge related with various aspects of "Small-Scale Energy Systems with Gas Turbines and Heat Pumps", and contributions on, but not limited to the following subjects were encouraged: wake of stator vane to improve sealing effectiveness; gas turbine cycle with external combustion chamber for prosumer and distributed energy systems; computational simulation of gas turbine engine operating with different blends of biodiesel; experimental methodology and facility for the engine performance and emissions evaluation using jet and biodiesel blends; experimental analysis of an air heat pump for heating service; hybrid fuel cell-Brayton cycle for combined heat and power; design analysis of micro gas turbines in closed cycles. Seven papers were



published in the Special Issue out of a total of 12 submitted.