Concepts like how the grid works, how electricity does work, what different electrical components do and how they do them. Angus Peter has that rare talent of knowing his characters intimately, he can recite their genealogy and he knows their foibles. The exciting area which I wished the author had taken us was with the beginning of women's right group and advocates.

Arthur Firstenberg is a scientist and journalist who is at the forefront of a global movement to tear down the taboo surrounding this subject.The ending was frustrating, as it left me hanging and after having persevered with the book, hoping there would be a grand conclusion at the end that would make the time spent reading it have some sense and context, it didn't. It explains what each bit of the industry is for, why it’s ended up the way it is, its major players and big issues. Look around for an older edition of the ARRL Handbook (no need to spend a lot on a newer copy, based on what you're asking. gives students the opportunity to learn about electricity and its impact on society—past, present, and future.

With a heavy emphasis on STEM and engaging trivia, this well-designed title is a quality introduction to the basics of electricity. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

This book is recommended foe every one and to be kept at home for easy and casual reading to facilitate understanding of the flow of electricity to your house. Eg, for a beginner it's highly practical to learn how to read resistor bands or calculate Ohm's law. The electricity sector – the backbone of the modern economy – is under tremendous pressure right now.

She is President of English PEN, a winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, was awarded a CBE in 1998 and is Vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature. Observe someone from overseas trying to get to grips with the foibles of the GB market and likelihood is that they will be equally confused.This textbook, divided into three sections, provides easy-to-understand and enjoyable lessons on atomic structure, electrical units, and measurement devices for those training and working as electricians. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before—from an environmental point of view—by detailing the effects that this fundamental societal building block has had on our health and our planet. It’s incredibly difficult to express how much the words, the gift for memory and language, in this novel have touched me. A wonderful and warm read that will raise spirits and gladden the heart, and is a reminder that there is no such thing as an ordinary life – every single one is extraordinary.