Meeting today's energy and climate challenges require not only technological advancement but also a good understanding of stakeholders' perceptions, political sensitivity, well-informed policy analyses and innovative interdisciplinary solutions. This book will fill this gap. This is an interdisciplinary informative book to provide a holistic and integrated understanding of the technology-stakeholder-policy interactions of smart grid technologies. The unique features of the book include the following: (a) interdisciplinary approach - by bringing in the policy dimensions to smart grid...

Blue Bell has just received some alarming news - a new arrival has been seen in the woods. It is known only as, the One-Armed Bandit. All sorts of sinister images come to mind as Blue Bell, anxious to find out the true identity of this 'new arrival, ' and to get help from the one person who can truly help - Jack Frost. But time is running out. Can Blue Bell find Jack before the last frost and will the woods be safe again from the clutches of the One-Armed Bandit.

Torbant Mahl and The Lost Witch. Mags has foolishly left an enchanted book on a shelf in the non-magical peoples library with specific instructions on how to use the book. Thirteen year old Zoe Bell finds the book and in her desperation follows the instructions only to believe that when she has finished she has been tricked - duped into making herself look foolish. She does not realize that the book has conveyed her heart-rending message all the way back to Mags. Zoe doesn't know it but she is a lost witch and Torbant, with the pleads of Mags ringing in his ears sets out to find the 'lost...

Meeting today's energy and climate challenges require not only technological advancement but also a good understanding of stakeholders' perceptions, political sensitivity, well-informed policy analyses and innovative interdisciplinary solutions. This book will fill this gap. This is an interdisciplinary informative book to provide a holistic and integrated understanding of the technology-stakeholder-policy interactions of smart grid technologies. The unique features of the book include the following: (a) interdisciplinary approach - by bringing in the policy dimensions to smart grid...

Torbant Mahl and The Crimson Cauldron Torbant has taken his family to the safest place on Earth - Mount Penglai, China. Mags has to go through the rebirth ritual - a journey that she has to make utterly alone. Her enemies are watching - Athol - the Vampire Snatchers - the Storm-Horseman and the prince of darkness himself - Prince Vlad Dracula. It's a ritual that she has to go through to ward off danger, to ensure that she shall be fully protected. Time is against her. The success of the ritual rests both on her and her father. He has to construct the crimson cauldron from the materials and...