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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

    $69.76 HKD

  • Material World

    A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

    by Ed Conway ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*An Economist, Financial Times, Times and New Statesman Book of the Year***Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award and the British Academy Book Prize, Longlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Writing Prize'Compelling'** TIM MARSHALL'Lively, rich and exciting' PETER FRANKOPAN'Vitally impor... ... Read more

    $99.69 HKD

  • Big Data

    A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

    by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier ...
    A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the most dangerous New York City manholes before they explode? And how did Google searches predict the spread of the H1N1 flu outbreak?The key to ... Read more

    $87.79 HKD

  • Advances in raw material industries for sustainable development goals

    Edited by Vladimir Litvinenko ...
    "Advances in Raw Material Industries for Sustainable Development Goals" presents the results of joint scientific research conducted in the context of the Russian-German Raw Materials Forum. Today Russia and Germany are exploring various forms of cooperation in the field of mining, geology, mineralogy, mechanical engineering and energy. Russia and Germany are equally interested in expanding ... Read more

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  • The Anthropology of Resource Extraction

    Edited by Lorenzo D'Angelo, Robert Jan Pijpers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction.Resources play a crucial role in the contemporary economy and society, are required in the production of a vast range of consumer products and are at the core of geopolitical strategies and environmental concerns for the future of humanity. Scholars have widely debated the economic ... Read more

    $429.90 HKD

  • Los procesos de coexistencia minera en Colombia

    Análisis del caso de los mineros de California, Santander

    by Leonardo Güiza Suárez, Christoph Josef Kaufmann, Marbys Redondo Vanegas ...
    Series series Jurisprudencia
    Este libro plantea la problemática de la minera ilegal desde lo general a lo particular, es decir, desde las experiencias internacionales hasta aterrizar en Colombia y finalizando con el análisis del caso de California, Santan-der. Presenta, de manera clara y detallada, el proceso de coexistencia de los mineros artesanales de California, Santander con la empresa MINESA. Para lograr esto, los ... Read more

    $48.00 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gray Gold

    Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700–1840

    by Mark Chambers ...
    Winner of the Clark C. Spence Award from the Mining History Association!While the histories of gold, silver, and copper mining and smelting are well studied, lead has not received much scholarly attention despite a long history of both Native American and European desire for the ore. Over time, native peoples made lead ornaments in molds; French and American settlers used lead to form musket balls ... Read more

    $352.79 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anuario iberoamericano de derecho minero

    Fundamentos jurídicos del sector minero en Iberoamérica

    by Varios Autores ...
    Ante la necesidad de promover el conocimiento técnico e informado del sector minero, el Departamento de Derecho Minero-Energético de la Universidad Externado de Colombia presenta a la comunidad académica, autoridades, empresas, comunidades y organizaciones civiles, el primer Anuario Iberoamericano de Derecho Minero, obra colectiva preparada por `profesionales del derecho conocedores del sector en ... Read more

    $58.00 HKD 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

    $211.09 HKD

  • Geomechanical Processes during Underground Mining

    School of Underground Mining 2012

    Edited by Volodymyr Bondarenko, Iryna Kovalevs'ka, Mykhaylo Illiashov, Genadiy Pivnyak ...
    This volume deals with economic aspects of mining companies development strategies, various mineral deposits development techniques, imitational modeling of mine workings with rock massif, methane extraction technologies during coal mining, geomechanical processes during plow mining, mining transport importance for mineral extraction, massif ... Read more

    $594.08 HKD

  • Medical Geology in Mining

    Health Hazards Due to Metal Toxicity

    Edited by Kirtikumar Randive, Shubhangi Pingle, Anupam Agnihotri ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book discusses a wide range of health-related mining issues, with particular reference to occupational diseases, metal toxicity, postural injuries in miners, modern fire safety controls, noise-induced hearing loss prevention, and noise mapping. Mining plays a central role in the development of modern civilization. By providing the essential raw materials, mining ensures progress, safety, and ... Read more

    $919.59 HKD

  • Mining in World History

    by Martin Lynch ...
    Series series Globalities
    Mining in World History deals with the history of mining and smelting from the Renaissance to the present day, drawing out, in an engaging and fast-paced fashion, the interplay of personalities, politics and technology which have together shaped the metallurgical industries over the last 500 years.Martin Lynch opens with the invention, sometime before the year 1453, of a revolutionary technique ... Read more

    $218.39 HKD

  • Sustainable Waste Management Practices for the Mining Sector Through Recycling of Mining Waste

    by Suchismita Satapathy, Meghana Mishra, Manas R. Das ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Mining waste management is an important issue for the mining industry since it entails the safe and responsible disposal of waste created during mining operations. This waste comprises tailing, waste rock, and other mining wastes that, if not adequately managed, can pose environmental and health problems. Effective waste management solutions are required to reduce the environmental impact of ... Read more

    $1,421.19 HKD

  • Ethereum: Guide to Blockchain Technology With Tips, Hacks and Guides for Mining Ethereum (Understand Ethereum Mining, Smart Contracts, and Decentralized Applications)

    by Jared Neil ...
    Once only used to buy items on the black market bitcoin investing and blockhain technology is now a investors dream! Now is the greatest time in history to capitalize on bitcoin investing with virtual currency being the greatest investment opportunity since the Internet invention itself.Bitcoin pathed the way for crypto currency introducing the world to the idea of virtual money and all its ... Read more

    $23.40 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Resource Extraction, Space and Resilience

    International Perspectives

    by Juha Kotilainen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    While much of the current research on the extractive industries and their socio-environmental impacts is region specific, Resource Extraction, Space and Resilience: International Perspectives critically explores the current state of the extractive industries sector from a uniquely global perspective.The book introduces a more dynamic idea of sustainability in evaluating mineral extraction and its ... Read more

    $468.99 HKD

  • Thunder In the Mountains

    The West Virginia Mine War, 1920–21

    by Lon Savage ...
    Series series Regional
    The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over, three West Virginia counties were in open rebellion, much of the state was under military rule, and bombers of the U.S. Army Air ... Read more

    $179.59 HKD

  • Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion

    by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller ...
    How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial miningThe 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new vision of civilization where humans are dependent on finite, nonrenewable stores of earthly ... Read more

    $230.79 HKD

  • The Engineering Science of Mineral Processing

    A Fundamental and Practical Approach

    by Fernando Concha A, Osvaldo A. Bascur ...
    The Engineering Science of Mineral Processing: A Fundamental and Practical Approach emphasizes the fundamentals of mineral processing to provide readers with a deep understanding of the science and phenomena that occur during the processing of ores. It also offers guidance on contemporary process implementation through practical industry applications. It includes examples of dynamic simulations ... Read more

    $1,407.14 HKD

  • Understanding FIDIC

    The Rainbow Suite

    by Kelvin Hughes ...
    Series series Understanding Construction
    Understanding FIDIC explains in simple and practical terms what is often seen as a very complex range of international engineering and construction contracts.Covering the FIDIC 2017 Red, Yellow and Silver Books (referred to as "The Rainbow Suite"), the book gives an overview of all three contracts, including coverage of changes between the 1999 contracts and the present 2017 suite. FIDIC contracts ... Read more

    $554.99 HKD

  • The ECPH Encyclopedia of Mining and Metallurgy

    Edited by Kuangdi Xu ...
    This encyclopedia volume comprehensively reflects the basic knowledge and latest research results in the field of mining and metallurgy technology, as well as the latest characteristics of the development in this field. In this reference book, the knowledge system, basic concepts, basic theories, as well as important figures, representative works and institutions of these two engineering ... Read more

    $24,475.19 HKD

  • Thermo-Poroelasticity and Geomechanics

    by A. P. S. Selvadurai, A. P. Suvorov ...
    Investigations of multi-physical processes in geomaterials have gained increasing attention due to the ongoing interest in solving complex geoenvironmental problems. This book provides a comprehensive exposition of the classical theory of thermo-poroelasticity, complemented by complete examples to problems in thermo-poromechanics that are used to validate computational results from multi-physics ... Read more

    $903.99 HKD

  • Come gestire Litecoin

    by Adidas Wilson ...
    Litecoin è stato fondato per fungere da alternativa al Bitcoin, rimediando così alle limitazioni riscontrate da quest'ultimo - è stato sviluppato per essere "leggero" e più efficiente del Bitcoin. Inoltre ha un costo di pagamento quasi nullo e facilita i pagamenti circa quattro volte più velocemente del Bitcoin.Gli argomenti trattati includono: guida ai portafogli di criptovalute; come comprare ... Read more

    $30.99 HKD

  • New Mining Tools and Methods for Roadheader Mining Heads

    by Krzysztof Kotwica ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book introduces new solutions for mining tools, unique lubricated holders and mining methods for hard-rock mining using mini-disk tools. In the first part, it describes problems connected with hard-rock mining using traditional mining methods like cutting. Then an alternative for conical pick is discussed, the so-called crown or bell pick and a new solution of a holder for conical picks ... Read more

    $752.39 HKD

  • Experiencias mineras locales en el Perú

    Transformaciones sociales y espaciales en los Andes

    by Gerardo Castillo Guzmán ...
    Este libro presenta el estudio de caso de una comunidad peruana que desafía y amplía la bibliografía existente sobre los impactos de la minería en las comunidades rurales. En este sentido, busca comprender las transformaciones del espacio que las poblaciones rurales experimentan y moldean como respuesta al desarrollo de la minería a gran escala en los Andes peruanos. Así, relata las experiencias y ... Read more

    $73.00 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus