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Internationally, the electric power industry is currently undergoing unprecedented reform. The deregulation of the electricity supply industry has introduced new opportunities for competition and has made the maintenance of economical and reliable supplies of electricity a tremendous challenge. Faced by an increasingly complicated existence, power utilities need efficient tools to ensure that electrical energy of the quality desired can be provided at the lowest possible cost. Operation of Market-oriented Power Systems provides effective computational tools for the efficient operation of restructured power systems covering all the major operational issues such as: congestion management; available transfer capability calculations; price forecasting and optimal bidding strategies. A review of international research and world-wide industrial practice covered in each chapter gives the reader a broader understanding of the state of the art in this exciting field. Operation of Market-oriented Power Systems will be a useful reference for professional engineers and researchers in the operation and control of modern power systems as all within the power industry face up to the changes required to provide safe, reliable and profitable electricity in an increasingly competitive market.

Power System Operations and Electricity Markets (Electric Power Engineering Series)

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The electric power industry in the U.S. has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. Tight regulations enacted in the 1970's and then de-regulation in the 90's have transformed it from a technology-driven industry into one driven by public policy requirements and the open-access market. Now, just as the utility companies must change to ensure their survival, engineers and other professionals in the industry must acquire new skills, adopt new attitudes, and accommodate other disciplines. Power System Operations and Electricity Markets provides the information engineers need to understand and meet the challenges of the new competitive environment. Integrating the business and technical aspects of the restructured power industry, it explains, clearly and succinctly, how new methods for power systems operations and energy marketing relate to public policy, regulation, economics, and engineering science. The authors examine the technologies and techniques currently in use and lay the groundwork for the coming era of unbundling, open access, power marketing, self-generation, and regional transmission operations. The rapid, massive changes in the electric power industry and in the economy have rendered most books on the subject obsolete. Based on the authors' years of front-line experience in the industry and in regulatory organizations, Power System Operations and Electricity Markets is current, insightful, and complete with Web links that will help readers stay up to date.

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Excellent coverage of the subjects........2004-05-24

This book gives an excellent summary of the issues posed by the changes in the electric industry.

Ouch........2003-01-13

The only interesting part of this book is the table of contents.
Given its scope, the book is well too short to contain any non-trivial information.

Coordination of Network Operations And System Responsibility in the Nordic Electricity Market: Temanord 2006-518

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Power System Operations and Electricity Markets. (Book Reviews).: An article from: The Energy Journal

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Power System Operations and Electricity Markets. (Book Reviews).: An article from: The Energy Journal
Frank Felder
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This digital document is an article from The Energy Journal, published by International Association for Energy Economics on June 1, 2003. The length of the article is 457 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Author: Frank Felder
Publication: The Energy Journal (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2003
Publisher: International Association for Energy Economics
Volume: 24 Issue: 3 Page: 153(1)

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A must for every slide guitarist, this book/CD pack teaches how to: play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key; play a variety of slide guitar styles using moveable scale patterns, common licks and slide techniques; play in open G tuning, open D tuning, open A tuning, open E tuning, and standard tuning; and more. The book features easy-to-follow diagrams and instruction for beginning to advanced players, and the CD includes 47 demonstration tracks.

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Excellent resource!.......2007-01-09

Like all the Fretboard Roadmaps, this is a great reference for the slide guitar.

Excellent book, with everything you need to get started.......2004-06-20

I wanted to get into slide, so I got this book, along with a couple of others. I found this book to be the best, because it had the most. Besides the alternate tunings, and detailed examples, there are practice tracks to improvise with, and scale: two things that the other slide books didn't have. This is a good primer, with everything you'll need to get started (minus the slide and the actual guitar, of course).

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With an introduction by Hubert Selby Jr., Paradoxia contains frank and often shocking confessions. Lydia Lunch relays in graphic detail a predator's diary, revealing the true psychic repercussions of sexual misadventure. From New York to London to New Orleans, Paradoxia is an uncensored, novelised account of one woman's assult on the male of the species.

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Ready for a Kick in the Head?.......2004-06-10

If you are not familiar with Lydia Lunch, then you may be in for a rude awakening. Lydia's specialty is brutality - brutal honesty, brutal emotions, and a brutal no-nonsense delivery. She revels in kicking down pre-fabricated houses of illusion and letting the cold harsh light of day in to expose all festering wounds, withering sins and those nasty little trolls that like to hide in the shadows. Her imagery is an assault to the more refined senses. Jane Austen she's not.

I've heard this book described as fiction, then as non-fiction, then as a fictionalized autobiography. I don't think it matters, really, because it's all true somewhere, in some way, to somebody. Tales of people abusing other people, abusing themselves, struggling to crawl out of the gutter only to stumble right back in. Messed-up heads, bruised hearts, ravished souls, all going around in circles reliving the same nightmare over and over again. Some survive, some don't, some break free while others pray for salvation. And there's Lydia declaring that if you want saving then you gotta do it yourself. Wake-up and smell the stench, folks.

Some accuse her of possessing no compassion, no humanity, no sense of beauty. But I think it's there, just painted in various shades of gray instead of the black or white to which many are accustomed. It's there, just raw and aching and unadorned. Sometimes you just have to be cruel to be kind.

Sick And Twisted.......2003-01-09

I can't remember where I first heard of Lydia Lunch. Maybe it was in "Our Band Could Be Your Life". All that I know is that whatever I read intrigued me enough to want to learn more about her. I did a little research online, found this book, and asked for it for Christmas.

I should've known something would be a little off with this book when my Mom gave me a note with the book saying how she couldn't believe that I got her to buy this book. But being the good sport that she is, she still got the book for me. Go Madre!

Within about one page of this book I realized that it probably wasn't the kind of booking I was looking to read. I thought I was going to be in for a biography of someone I had hoped would give me more insight into punk music and the punk ideals of her time. What I got was the story of a girl who took out her hate of herself and her life on many, many men (and women).

In essence, Lydia Lunch was the type of girl that all of the other girls hated. She'd steal their boyfriends from right in front of them, take them to the bathroom, have her way with them and send them right back to when she was done. She's the girl that the guys wanted for their girl in High School because she put out. She's NOT the girl they brought home to show Mom, she was the girl they brought around when Mom wasn't home.

This book basically covers the various messed up relationships and sexual escapades that Lydia had had throughout her life. Whatever freaky thing you are into, whether it's as extreme as S&M or as mild as plain ole normal sex, this book covers it all. It even covers some stuff you probably haven't even heard about yet. I don't even really know how else to describe this book. There might be one or two pages in the book that don't deal with sex... maybe... I'd give some examples of some of the nastier things in this book, but I'm keeping this place PG-13 for now.

Another disappoint was that the cover claimed that "No names were changed because no one is innocent." I took this to mean that I was at least going to get some nice gossip on some punk stars that would shock me, but I think that sleeping with a musician was only mentioned one-time during the whole book!

But the book isn't all bad, after all I did read it all in just a few sittings. One of the highlights were the tales of her exploits in California with her adrenaline-seeking boyfriend of the moment. You just had the feeling that by the end of that doomed relationship something big was going to happen. Nobody died, but there was some serious damage done and I can't even imagine how either made it out of the relationship with their sanity. I don't know why, but it was nice to read about the dysfunction of others.

After reading this book, you'll find yourself thinking that it's pretty amazing that Lydia Lunch even survived to write this book. You'll probably also find yourself thinking that you can't even believe half of what you just read. How could anybody live such a crazy life and not either A) Die or B) Be commited or jailed.

If you are into the more perverted and twisted side of life, this is the book for you. If you are looking to learn more about the life of a famed punk icon, you might want to do like I'm going to and try another one of her books.

Amazing Book........2001-02-28

This book is a must have for any fan of Lydia's work. I really think it's some best writing to date.

Modern Adventure Story.......2000-12-20

An adventure story is not like cartoons on Saturday morning. An adventure is truly dangerous and forces the participants to face their worst fears in exchange for pain, enlightenment, joy, freedom, and a new set of treacherous obstacles.

Lydia Lunch brings us along her twisted sexual landscape in Paradoxia where everything is allowed to the point where it almost kills her and others die or episodes of extreme ecstasy and pleasure transpire. What she achieves through the series of violence, sex, and psychosis is what we all should be trying to do instead of working some job.

She illustrates the consequences of living an autonomous life, thereby refusing the status quo and security of the "straight life" in exchange for living life to its extreme boundaries of death, pain, and suffering. And where has it all gotten her? Well, I believe she's what you call an artist.

Paradoxia is also partially a documentation (and I assume everything she is saying is basically true) of New York in the late 70's and L.A. into the early 80's when artists still had a chance to be just that instead of working 40+ hours/wk just to pay rent. She was living an adventure not a routine, and paying for it every step of the way. In return she received her personal freedom, which simply meant continuous struggle with either other people or her own mind. Life ain't easy.

Paradoxia stands as a constant reminder to continually recreate your life, to live it as an adventure, in order to retain control of it from your psychotic lover, your totalitarian government, or your own personal demons.

Edgier than I expected, so raw it's still steaming.......2000-01-03

I was given this book as a Christmas present from my parents. Those of you who've read it will know how incredibly ludicrous that is. Of course, I requested it for Christmas not knowing what to expect, and they being none the wiser purchased it. If they only knew . . . But the book itself was much more than I expected and much less than I expected. Its graphic recount of Lydia's experiences is almost nauseating -- I found myself thoroughly disgusted with her, which is something great because it takes A LOT to disgust me. But I was compelled to read on, finishing it within two days (for it is a rather short read). It's like sick fascination -- when you're drawn to watch, in horror and in wonder, the mutilated remains of a car wreck victim being scraped off the road. I couldn't bring myself to stop reading. I wanted to know if she'd found some sort of redemption, had any sort of revelataion, or had come to terms with her rage. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Lydia is a woman after my own heart -- not because of what she's done or how she thinks, but because of her need for expression and to purge her mind. In Paradoxia she's done this with such brutal honesty you have to at least respect her for it. Even if you still hate her by the end of the book, you'll appreciate what she's just given you -- a little slice of her viscuous soul.

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Famed private detective Tex Murphy is back on the trail, and this time he's up to his Cubana in deceit, murder, and a century's worth of government conspiracy. With this book as your trusty sidekick, you can finally uncover the secrets behind the rumored New Mexico UFO crash. Here's everything a private eye could need, including:
Walkthroughs for all three game paths
Soft Hints that let you solve the mystery yourself
Outright solutions to every puzzle
So knock back the last of the bourbon, grab your fedora, and hit the mean streets of San Francisco with this handbook to successful sleuthing.
The mystery of the next century won't wait around forever. About the Author
Rick Barba is the author of numerous electronic entertainment books, including Myst: The Official Strategy Guide, DOOM Battlebook, and Under a Killing Moon: The Official Strategy Guide (all from Prima).

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Get expert code from expert developers and solve common C# programming challenges the right way. Next time you hit the wall with a tough C# programming problem, get the code behind the solution and solve it the right way. The C# PROGRAMMER'S COOKBOOK prov

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Great Quick How-To.......2006-01-23

If you need to know how to do one of the items contained in this book it is an excellent source. Some of the examples were overly simple, but others were very insightful.

lack of code examples and too little information.......2005-07-18

Context: I've been developing software for 12 years (C++, Java, JavaScript, PERL and more). I've been using .Net (VB) for 2 years and C# for about 1 year.

Another guy I know from work bought this book. He seemed to like it because of the short descriptions for each of the recipes.
That is exactly why I don't like the book.

Okay, short descriptions would be okay, except many of them don't even provide example code or completely explain the solution.

I'm looking at recipe "1.14. Manage the Global Assembly Cache" right now and there is nothing about the winnt\assembly directory in there. Why not? Instead the author only explains gacutil /i and /u. Okay, but what does that do? How is it significant? Why do I want or not want my assembly in the gac?

Recipe "1.8. Create and Manage Strong-Named Key Pairs" is the same thing. He tells me how to use the sn.exe tool, but he does not tell me anything more about why or how. Very weak.

But the ones that really kill me are the ones where the author has a chance to really describe the thing using a code example, but then fails to do so.

For example, "Recipe 1.4. Create and Use a Code Library" begs to have some sample code, but none is provided.

"1.3 Create and use a code module" was the same thing.

The section titles promise so much, the text delivers so little.

excellent format and content.......2004-07-27

this book follows a "problem/solution/code" format that really helps to cut down the amount of fluff you always get in other books. it covers a wide range of subjects (including "beginner" topics) but in a very efficient way. even though all these topics could be dug up thru web searches, the quality of info here is far more consistent and reliable. i hope to see more books take this approach.

Excellent quick format.......2004-06-15

This book remains at my fingertips at all times. It's perfect as a reference for those little problems which we, as programmers, face every day.

Some examples of problems which the book covers are:
- Prevent People from Decompiling Your Code
- Sort an Array or an ArrayList
- Store a Serializable Object to a File
- Instantiate an Object Using Reflection
- Synchronize the Execution of Multiple Threads
- Use XML Serialization with Custom Objects
- Apply Windows XP Control Styles
- Reuse Data with the ASP.NET Cache
- Show a Dynamic Print Preview
- Calculate the Size of a Directory
- Download a File over HTTP
- Communicate Using TCP
- Host a Remote Object in IIS
- Restrict Which Users Can Execute Your Code
- Create a Cryptographically Random Number
- Use an ActiveX Control in a .NET Client
- Create a Windows Service

This is only about 5% of what the book offers. If you've ever wondered how to do any of the above or have ever needed to reference a short snippet of code for any of the above then this book is for you. The code snippets are all full complete programs so there's no confusion as to what references were used.

Great for what it is supposed to be!.......2004-04-08

I too feel compelled to disagree with the 'Bad Review' that dismissed this book as being for beginners and just a repeat of the MSDN material.

I've been using .NET C# for years and I am not not a beginner to OO and have been a professional programmer for more than 20 years. I've spent many hours in the MSDN help files and searching the internet for esoteric answers. This book contains many succinct solutions to everyday problems. It's not supposed to be a `big picture' book or only focus on the esoteric. Sure, some of the recipes do qualify for trivial.

Before I bought it I was able to scan the table of contents and see solutions to tricky problems that I had solved and many others that I had interest in or could reasonably see needing. By scanning the solutions I was familiar with, such as cryptography, threading, and networking, it was clear the authors had a clear understanding of the problems and were able to boil it down to real solutions for real problems. While MSDN does contain many good examples, many times it misses the mark when it comes down to relevancy for solving a real problem.

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Great book, but Magic Cap is no longer around.......2001-07-03

This book at one time was the only source for examples of Magic Cap programming -- other than what you could buy directly from the company that made this revolutionary operating environment for hand-held devices. Unfortunately, this operating environment is no more, and hasn't been sold or used for a few years now. Magic Cap is still interesting from a historical-type perspective on OSes, or for insights into developing operating environments for small screens, but as a developer platform, it is no longer around. Too bad: it was very cool while it lasted, and this book was a great way to learn it.

What is this book about?.......2001-03-13

This book was given to me by a friend (Probably because he didn't want to read it). I read the first chapter and it actually sounded exciting at first. By the time I had finished the 3rd chapter I was asking myself "What the h*** was this book about?". It seemed to have absolutely no relevance to programming whatsoever and very little relevance to anything at all! This book is just as incoherent as his collaboration with William Robert Stanek on "Java 2 Certification Exam Guide for Programmers and Developers" but at least that book seemed to be about something and stayed on topic (For at least 60% of the book). After reading 2 of this guy's books I am left wondering "Did this guy ever actually learn English? Or did he tranlate these books from some bizzare alien langauge?" This book should have seriously been called "Magic C*ap Programmer's Cookbook"!

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