This book offers a rich ethnographic account of blue-collar workers' everyday life in a central Russian industrial town coping with simultaneous decline and the arrival of transnational corporations. 'Everyday Post-Socialism' demonstrates how people manage to remain satisfied, despite the crisis...

It is well established that ground-source heat pumps (GSHPs) require less external energy input than conventional heating and cooling systems for buildings because they exchange heat with the subsurface soil and rock, which has a steady temperature compared to that of the outside air. To address...