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  • The Elements of Power

    A Story of War, Technology and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth

    by Nicolas Niarchos ...
    ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST 2026LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING‘A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics […] an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism’ Patrick Radden Keefe‘Joseph Conrad called colonial ventures in Africa “the vilest ... Read more

    18,22 €

  • Das Gernröder Wasserwirtschaftssystem - ein Relikt der bergbaulichen Aktivitäten des 18. Jahrhunderts

    by Bernd Sternal, Günter Wilke ...
    Das Oberharzer Wasserregal ist in aller Munde: ein Weltkulturerbe-Titel für dieses Bergbaurelikt wurde vergeben. Das Unterharzer Wasserwirtschaftssystem, mit dem Zentrum in der Harzgeröder Region, das bis in den Südharz reicht, ist hingegen noch weitgehend unerforscht und nur Bergbauenthusiasten bekannt. Das es jedoch noch ein kleines, völlig unabhängiges Wasserwirtschaftssystem im Gernröder ... Read more

    7,99 €

  • Reducing the Impacts of Development on Wildlife

    by James Gleeson, Deborah Gleeson ...
    The rapidly increasing number of threatened flora and fauna species worldwide is one of the chief problems confronting environmental professionals today. This problem is largely due to the impact humans have had on land use through development (e.g. agricultural, residential, industrial, infrastructure and mining developments). The requirement for developers to implement measures to reduce the ... Read more

    58,02 €

  • Two Women in the Klondike

    The Story of a Journey to the Gold Field of Alaska

    by Mary E Hitchcock ...
    "Mrs. Hitchcock has written a narrative of a journey the like of which has never been undertaken before." - The Review of Reviews, 1900"Most thrilling ... she returned the proud possessor of mountains of gold." - The Windsor Magazine, 1901"Most interesting ... braved all the hardships and dangers of a journey to the Klondike." - Literary News, 1899"It was a courageous act for these two women, ... Read more

    5,29 €

  • Flujo Multifasico

    Flujo Vertical

    by Edalfo Lanfranchi ...
    Series Book 5 - Flujo Multifasico
    El flujo multifásico vertical es para el ingeniero un problema complementario de flujo de fluidos en las tuberías para los pozos productores, una vez que los fluidos han salido del medio poroso del yacimiento. El pronosticar la presión en el cabezal del pozo bajo esas condiciones de flujo es muy interesante y necesario.POZO POR FLUJO NATURALEl análisis del comportamiento de un pozo por flujo ... Read more

    141,70 €

  • Seismic Ambient Noise

    Edited by Nori Nakata, Lucia Gualtieri, Andreas Fichtner ...
    The seismic ambient field allows us to study interactions between the atmosphere, the oceans and the solid Earth. The theoretical understanding of seismic ambient noise has improved substantially in the last decades, and the number of its applications has increased dramatically. With chapters written by eminent scientists from the field, this book covers a range of topics including ambient noise ... Read more

    89,35 €

  • The Rock Physics Handbook

    by Gary Mavko, Tapan Mukerji, Jack Dvorkin ...
    Responding to the latest developments in rock physics research, this popular reference book has been thoroughly updated while retaining its comprehensive coverage of the fundamental theory, concepts, and laboratory results. It brings together the vast literature from the field to address the relationships between geophysical observations and the underlying physical properties of Earth materials - ... Read more

    86,27 €

  • Die historische Entwicklung des erzgebirgischen Bergbaus und Adam Ries als „Bergmann von der Feder“

    by Friedrich Naumann ...
    Adam Ries (1492 – 1559) zählt zu den bedeutenden deutschen Rechenmeistern, vermochte er doch wie kein anderer die als schwierig geltende Mathematik dem „gemeinen Mann“ verständlich zu machen, so dass „ein jeder die Rechenkunst mit Lust und Fröhlichkeit begreifen“ konnte. Sein bekanntes in Deutsch verfasstes Lehrbuch Rechenung auff der linihen und federn ... , das sowohl das Rechnen auf dem ... Read more

    2,49 €

  • Sensing and Monitoring Technologies for Mines and Hazardous Areas

    Monitoring and Prediction Technologies

    by Swadesh Chaulya, G. M. Prasad ...
    Sensing and Monitoring Technologies for Mines and Hazardous Areas: Monitoring and Prediction Technologies presents the fundamentals of mining related geotechnical risk and how the latest advances in sensing and data communication can be used both to prevent accidents and provide early warnings. Opencast mining operations involve huge quantities of overburden removal, dumping, and backfilling in ... Read more

    97,19 €

  • Centralia: Hell's Ember

    The American Ghost Towns Chronicles

    by James Eastwood ...
    Series series The American Ghost Towns Chronicles
    Deep beneath the crumbling streets of Centralia, Pennsylvania, an inferno has raged unchecked for over sixty years. What began as a routine trash fire in 1962 ignited an underground nightmare that would transform a thriving mining community into America's most haunting ghost town.In this gripping exploration of environmental disaster and human resilience, acclaimed geological writer Sarah Chen ... Read more

    4,49 €

  • 中国煤炭产量增长极限与煤炭资源可持续利用问题研究

    by 方行明 等 ...
    本書使用當代經濟學先進的理論與方法，通過對煤炭需求與供給的各種制約因素的系統研究，確定中國煤炭需求與產量是否存在增長極限，確定理論上的增長極限與實踐中國民經濟系統的承載能力之間的關係，為宏觀調控提供理論依據；探索煤炭資源的可持續利用問題，建立煤炭資源供求平衡的長效調控機制以及可持續的海外供給圈，確保煤炭資源的穩定供應和可持續利用。 ... Read more

    16,11 €

  • Australia's Fossil Heritage

    A Catalogue of Important Australian Fossil Sites

    by The Australian Heritage Council ...
    The National Heritage List was created in January 2004 to recognise, celebrate and protect places of outstanding heritage value to the nation. National heritage encompasses those places that reveal the richness of Australia's extraordinarily diverse natural, historic and Indigenous heritage. One aspect of natural heritage that has been little explored is Australia’s wealth of exceptional fossil ... Read more

    44,26 €

  • Tales of the Colorado Pioneers

    by Alice Polk Hill ...
    "Tales of the Colorado Pioneers, by Alice Polk Hill, contains many interesting stories of early struggles of the men who settled and developed the Centennial State." -San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 9, 1884"Alice Polk Hill...has collected all the stories, witty pathetic, and exciting, of the early days in the Centennial State...far pleasanter to read the thrilling stories than live through their ... Read more

    6,35 €

  • SQL Mastermind

    Unleashing the Power of Advanced Database Programming

    by Ryan Campbell ...
    Are you ready to transform from an SQL enthusiast to a true database mastermind? Dive into the world of advanced database programming with "SQL Mastermind," your ultimate guide to harnessing the true potential of Structured Query Language.Ryan Campbell, a seasoned database expert, takes you on an exhilarating journey through the intricate landscapes of database manipulation and insight creation. ... Read more

    1,05 €

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  • 暗數據

    被看到、被聽到、被測量到的，往往不是「真凶」 Dark Data: Why What We Don’t Know Is Even More Important Than What We Do

    by 大衛‧漢德（David Hand） ...
    Translated by 賴盈滿 ...
    Series series FROM
    大數據時代必讀的暗數據解析大作。「只因為沒有人在森林裡聽見樹倒了，不代表樹沒發出聲音。」我們都習慣看向光亮之處，但是黑暗中，看不見的事物裡，必定藏有更多決定性細節。◆本書賣點●《不大可能法則》作者全新著作。所謂暗數據，相當於宇宙中的暗物質、金融界的「黑池」、網路世界的「暗網」，都是不易察覺的事物，但觀察不到，不代表不存在；而觀察得到的東西，也不等於「全部」，尤其是數據。●大數據就像漫畫一般，以簡單幾筆，補捉基本的輪廓，簡化了很多細節。忽略的資訊或數據可能鬧出人命、釀成災害，甚至讓經濟體、社會崩解，生命毀滅。本書揭露暗數據無所不在的事實，其成因及影響。◆內容簡介//在遺漏數據的世界裡做出好決定的務實指南//身處大數據時代，不難以為我們... ... Read more

    8,05 €

  • Tennessee's Great Copper Basin

    by Harriet Frye ...
    Series series Images of America
    In 1843, the discovery of copper in Tennessee's far southeastern corner sparked a transformation in the isolated area known to geologists as the Ducktown Basin. By 1854, the first shafts had been sunk, and 28 mining companies had been incorporated for the purpose of exploring the possible wealth of the Ducktown district. For generations to come, the families of mine captains from Cornwall, ... Read more

    11,07 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Carey Salt Mine

    by Barbara C. Ulrich ...
    Series series Images of America
    In 1923, Kansas governor Johnathan Davis traveled to Hutchinson to dedicate Emerson Carey's new rock salt mine whose shaft provided access to an ancient salt bed 650 feet under the earth's surface. The Carey Salt Mine, advertised as "the most modern in the world," served as a companion to Carey's already-existing evaporation plants. Miners used the newest technology to blast and crush the mineral ... Read more

    11,07 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Land, Chiefs, Mining

    South Africa's North West Province since 1840

    by Andrew Manson, Bernard Mbenga ...
    Land, Chiefs, Mining explores aspects of the experience of the Batswana in the thornveld and bushveld regions of the North-West Province, shedding light on defi ning issues, moments and individuals in this lesser known region of South Africa. Some of the focuses are: an important Tswana kgosi (chief ), Moiloa II of the Bahurutshe; responses to and participation in the South African War and its ... Read more

    24,58 €

  • The Whitehaven Colliery Through Time

    by Alan W. Routledge ...
    Series series Through Time
    Coal was the very bedrock on which the town of Whitehaven was built, the trade in coal with Dublin starting after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Shipping ever increasing quantities of coal to Ireland brought another industry to the town – shipbuilding. In the seventeenth century, the Whitehaven Pottery began, local coal firing the kilns. Coal mining fathered several more local industries, ... Read more

    12,29 €

  • Honister Slate Mine

    by Alastair Cameron, Liz Withey ...
    Utilising a wealth of rare and unpublished images from official archives, authors Alastair Cameron and Liz Withey tell the story behind the development of the Honister Slate Mine in the Lake District. Though the exact date that mining at the site began is unknown, it was undoubtedly in operation shortly after the Norman Conquest. Slate was initially won from the surface of Honister Crag. Later, ... Read more

    12,29 €

  • Staffordshire Coal Mines

    by Helen Harwood ...
    Which colliery was known as the ‘Fair Lady’? And where was the deepest mine shaft? These are just two of the many questions answered in this history of the Staffordshire coal mines and the collieries that were bedrocks of local communities. From their early beginnings in Roman times through to the growth of the Industrial Revolution, subsequent depressions and strikes until the last closures in ... Read more

    12,29 €

  • Nuneaton & Bedworth Coal, Stone, Clay and Iron

    by Peter Lee ...
    On the edge of the Warwickshire coalfield, coal had been mined in Nuneaton since the fourteenth century and the town was a centre for quarrying and brick-making too. Coal had been mined in the Stockingford and Griff area of Chilvers Coton for five centuries, and by the mid-1860s, new capital, increasingly efficient mining methods, together with the building of the railways, brought about a golden ... Read more

    9,85 €

  • Integrated Modeling of Reservoir Fluid Properties and Multiphase Flow in Offshore Production Systems

    by Tobias R. Gessner, Jader R. Barbosa Jr. ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The book is intended for practicing engineers in the oil industry, researchers, and graduate students interested in designing and simulating offshore hydrocarbon production systems. It approaches offshore oil production systems from an integrated perspective that combines the modeling of thermophysical properties of reservoir fluids and their flow as a multiphase mixture in wellbores, flow lines, ... Read more

    104,93 €

  • Rare Earth Metals in Pakistan

    by Dr Naim Tahir Baig ...
    Rare Earth Metals in Pakistan: Geopolitics in the New Great GameIn an era where technological supremacy determines national power, Pakistan sits atop what may be one of the world's most significant undeveloped rare earth metal reserves—geological treasures worth an estimated $6 to $50 trillion. Dr. Naim Tahir Baig's analysis reveals how these critical minerals, essential for everything from ... Read more

    8,49 €