Industries category: 12638 books
by Jeff A. Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Texas Oil and Gas documents in postcards the rapid growth of the Texas petroleum industry from its beginnings near Corsicana in the 1890s through the next several decades of oil booms throughout the state. The young 20th century opened with the Lucas Gusher at Spindletop in 1901. Thousands rushed from...
by Mark Allen Baker
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
With the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on December 7, 1941, and the United States' entry into World War II, our nation turned to Connecticut--as it did during World War I--for munitions, clothing, and other goods. And Connecticut answered the call: Manchester Mills increased silk production,...
Huntsville Textile Mills & Villages
Linthead Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
In the early 1900s, Huntsville, Alabama, had more spindles than any other city in the South. Cotton fields and mills made the city a major competitor in the textile industry. Entire mill villages sprang up around the factories to house workers and their families. Many of these village buildings are...
Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper
How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize, re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources, and forswear prosperity. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to...
by Ian Fineman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Irreverent, raunchy, and unflinchingly real. Amy Schumer, the crass but candid comic who bares her strong but still charmingly relatable soul to millions of fans has become the breakout comedienne of her generation. Now, the Trainwreck star and stand-up juggernaut is profiled like never before in...
by Ian Fineman
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Thirty-two years after the release of the original Ghostbusters film, the long-awaited franchise revival is finally set to hit theaters in July 2016. But the process of making the third Ghostbusters movie was littered with more obstacles, controversies, and missed opportunities than fans realize.For...
What Was I Thinking: A Memoir
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
From the man whose outrageous comments on TV divided the country, and almost caused an international incident, comes this very funny memoir. Packed with stories from his eventful childhood and his long and adventurous career in journalism, this is a gripping, often hilarious and always entertaining...
The World According to Monsanto
Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of Our Food Supply
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
An investigation of the massive agribusiness company, from a winner of the Rachel Carson Prize: “Well supported by wide-ranging scientific evidence.” —Kirkus Reviews
The result of a remarkable three-year-long investigation that took award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique...
The Youth Pill
Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
In The Youth Pill, journalist David Stipp explores the scientific battle against aging and the pioneers of the movement to extend lifespan for everyone. He takes readers behind the scenes and introduces us to the key players who are experimenting with the most promising cutting-edge research. It is...
Our Daily Poison
From Pesticides to Packaging, How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2004
“An enlightening and deeply disturbing account” of the dangerous chemicals that have infiltrated our food, by the Rachel Carson Prize–winning journalist (Booklist).
Our Daily Poison is “a gripping and urgent book” for anyone concerned about democracy, corporate power, or public health...
On the Cancer Frontier
One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
In 1950, a diagnosis of cancer was all but a death sentence. Mortality rates only got worse, and as late as 1986, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine lamented: We are losing the war against cancer.” Cancer is one of humankind's oldest and most persistent enemies; it has been called...
Small Change, Big Gains
Reflections of an Energy Entrepreneur
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Small Change, Big Gains: Reflections of an Energy Entrepreneur introduces climate change economics and provides recommendations on how to develop feasible pathways to a sustainable energy future. Mr. Stoner examines the global energy supply as if it was a single portfolio of assets, and shows it is...
Indoor Thermal Comfort Perception
A Questionnaire Approach Focusing on Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Providing a methodology for evaluating indoor thermal comfort with a focus on children, this book presents an in-depth examination of children’s perceptions of comfort. Divided into two sections, it first presents a history of thermal comfort, the human body and environmental parameters, common...
by Debra J. Davidson, Mike Gismondi
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Human history has often been described as a progressive relinquishment from environmental constraints. Now, it seems, we have come full circle. The ecological irrationalities associated with industrial societies have a lengthy history, and our purpose in the proposed book is not to catalogue this...