"The Sisters Grey -- beautiful, deadly -- warriors sworn to protect the Kaiser, ruler of Mitteleuropa. But as a great war rages, the Kaiser is found dead, and one sister -- Giselle Grey -- is accused of his murder. Pursued by her enemies across the battlefields of Mitteleuropa, Giselle must unravel the prophecy of the Carbon Grey -- before history itself is rewritten"--Page 4 of cover.

In this THIRD and final volume of the hit series, Carbon Grey, thewar, which not long ago was everything, seems insignificant in the face of thestone's unimaginable destructive power. As the world unravels, twin sisters faceeach other in battle, mortal enemies unite, and the true meaning of Gottfaust'sprophecy is revealed.

Enter a world at war, one that resembles our WWI yet with fantastic dieselpunk technologies and supernatural mysteries that threaten the very fabric of space-time itself. This core rulebook provides all the information necessary to run a Carbon Grey Role-playing Game session, from character creation to combat and resolution. Bringing the celebrated, venerated, time-tested D6 System by pioneering game developer West End Games back with a wealth of new features for a new generation of gamers! The award-winning CARBON GREY team is led by ENnie and UKGE winner Andrew E.C. Gaska (AlienRPG, Terminator RPG). Building upon the system's proven mechanics, our "Magnetic Variant (D6MV)" will bring new excitement to the experience with fresh new rules and features for a new generation of game players.

Solar energy is a substantial global industry, one that has generated trade disputes among superpowers, threatened the solvency of large energy companies, and prompted serious reconsideration of electric utility regulation rooted in the 1930s. One of the biggest payoffs from solar’s success is not the clean inexpensive electricity it can produce, but the lessons it provides for innovation in other technologies needed to address climate change. Despite the large literature on solar, including analyses of increasingly detailed datasets, the question as to how solar became inexpensive and why it took so long still remains unanswered. Drawing on developments in the US, Japan, Germany, Australia, and China, this book provides a truly comprehensive and international explanation for how solar has become inexpensive. Understanding the reasons for solar’s success enables us to take full advantage of solar’s potential. It can also teach us how to support other low-carbon technologies with analogous properties, including small modular nuclear reactors and direct air capture. However, the urgency of addressing climate change means that a key challenge in applying the solar model is in finding ways to speed up innovation. Offering suggestions and policy recommendations for accelerated innovation is another key contribution of this book. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy technology and innovation, climate change and energy analysis and policy, as well as practitioners and policymakers working in the existing and emerging energy industries.

Over the last decade Charles Lindsay has been exploring the micro- and macrocosms of the universe through the most elemental components of photography: surface, emulsion, and light. The cameraless works in Carbon form a world unto themselves, referencing the essence of life--animal, vegetal, and mineral--on this planet, and imagining possible connections with intelligence systems known and unknown.

A must-have introduction to this fundamental driver of the climate system The Global Carbon Cycle is a short introduction to this essential geochemical driver of the Earth's climate system, written by one of the world's leading climate-science experts. In this one-of-a-kind primer, David Archer engages readers in clear and simple terms about the many ways the global carbon cycle is woven into our climate system. He begins with a concise overview of the subject, and then looks at the carbon cycle on three different time scales, describing how the cycle interacts with climate in very distinct ways in each. On million-year time scales, feedbacks in the carbon cycle stabilize Earth's climate and oxygen concentrations. Archer explains how on hundred-thousand-year glacial/interglacial time scales, the carbon cycle in the ocean amplifies climate change, and how, on the human time scale of decades, the carbon cycle has been dampening climate change by absorbing fossil-fuel carbon dioxide into the oceans and land biosphere. A central question of the book is whether the carbon cycle could once again act to amplify climate change in centuries to come, for example through melting permafrost peatlands and methane hydrates. The Global Carbon Cycle features a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, and explanations of equations, as well as a forward-looking discussion of open questions about the global carbon cycle.

The fog of Australian politics on climate change has obscured a fateful reality: Australia has the potential to be an economic superpower of the future post-carbon world. We have unparalleled renewable energy resources. We also have the necessary scientific skills. Australia could be the natural home for an increasing proportion of global industry. But how do we make this happen? In this crisp, compelling book, Australia’s leading thinker about climate and energy policy offers a road map for progress, covering energy, transport, agriculture, the international scene and more. Rich in ideas and practical optimism, Superpower is a crucial, timely contribution to this country’s future.