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by Bryan Glahn
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Ten-year-old Willie Hatton was excited to visit his father at the Avondale Mine on the morning of September 6, 1869. Sadly, Willie would die in his father's arms that day, and so would 108 other miners, all victims of a horrific fire that tore through the shaft, trapping the men and boys and blocking...
by Mary Hunter Austin
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
An American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California. ...
by Kazuo Nagai
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Originally published in 1913, this book contains a detailed treatise on Shô-Gyu oil. "Sho-Gyu" is the name given to an essential oil with an aromatic odour, distilled from a perennial tree native to Taiwan. With the original maps and photographs, this vintage book will appeal to those with...
Adapt: How Humans Are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future
How Humans Are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money. Humans are animals too, and animals are incredibly good...
Crossing the Next Meridian
Land, Water, and the Future of the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
In Crossing the Next Meridian, Charles F. Wilkinson, an expert on federal public lands, Native American issues, and the West's arcane water laws explains some of the core problems facing the American West now and in the years to come. He examines the outmoded ideas that pervade land use and resource...
Frackopoly
The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
“The definitive story on how big oil and gas corporations captured our political system . . . and the growing grassroots movement to retake our democracy” (Mark Ruffalo).
Over the past decade a new and controversial energy extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred...
Petroleum Contracts
English Law & Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
In response to the primacy of English law as the lingua franca governing petroleum transactions, and the increased global demand for new sources of oil and gas, this fully updated new edition analyses the application of English law to contracts for project investment, financing, and development. The...
Biological Economies
Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural sociology have been confronted by three challenges. These can be summarized as: ‘more than human’ approaches...
Environmental Technology
Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Environmental Technology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 22–26, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Five billion people, at present the world population, inevitably affect the quality of the environment. The general public in an increasing number of countries is getting more and more concerned about this deterioration in quality. As a result many people cast doubts upon the desirability of the increase...
The Age of Commodity
Water Privatization in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
As globalization and market liberalization march forward unabated the global commons continue to be commodified and privatized at a rapid pace. In this global process, the ownership, sale and supply of water is increasingly a flashpoint for debates and conflict over privatization, and nowhere is the...
Ecosystem Based Management for Marine Fisheries
An Evolving Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Showing how big-picture patterns can help overcome the failures of conventional management, this book is ideal for students, researchers and professionals involved with marine fisheries. It explores not only the current practice of the 'ecosystem approach' to fisheries management but also its critical...
by Angus Johnston, Guy Block
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
This work is the only current, single volume coverage of the the latest EU energy legislation and its application on the context of the rules of the EU Treaties. Providing a comprehensive account of EU energy law following the adoption of the third energy package in 2009 this book focuses on internal...
by Michael Bowman, Peter Davies, Catherine Redgwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
The development of international wildlife law has been one of the most significant exercises in international law-making during the last fifty years. This second edition of Lyster's International Wildlife Law coincides with both the UN Year of Biological Diversity and the twenty-fifth anniversary...
Re-conceiving Property Rights in the New Millennium
Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book constitutes volume two of a two volume examination of development community land issues in Southern Africa. Following from volume one Southern African Development Community Land Issues, this book considers the possibility of a new, sustainable land relations policy for Southern African Development...