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  • All The Dark Secrets

    The first heartwarming, heartrending saga in the beloved Families of Fairley Terrace series

    by Jennie Felton ...
    Series Book 1 - The Families of Fairley Terrace
    The compelling first book in the beloved classic series from 'one of the nation's favourite saga author' (Lancashire Post) in the grand tradition of Katie Flynn, Dilly Court and Josephine Cox.Jennie's heartwarming and heartrending sagas are richly praised!**'Jennie Felton knows how to tell a cracking story and keep the reader gripped... if you enjoy reading books in the style of Catherine Cookson ... Read more

    €2.49

  • The Miner's Daughter

    The second dramatic and powerful saga in the beloved Families of Fairley Terrace series

    by Jennie Felton ...
    Series Book 2 - The Families of Fairley Terrace
    The enthralling second book in the beloved classic series from 'one of the nation's favourite saga author' (Lancashire Post) in the grand tradition of Katie Flynn, Dilly Court and Josephine Cox.Jennie's heartwarming and heartrending sagas are richly praised!**'Jennie Felton knows how to tell a cracking story and keep the reader gripped... if you enjoy reading books in the style of Catherine ... Read more

    €4.49

  • The Girl Below Stairs

    The third emotionally gripping saga in the beloved Families of Fairley Terrace series

    by Jennie Felton ...
    Series Book 3 - The Families of Fairley Terrace
    'Believable characters, a vivid sense of time and place, thoroughly enjoyable' Rosie GoodwinThe emotionally gripping third book in the beloved classic series from 'one of the nation's favourite saga author' (Lancashire Post) in the grand tradition of Katie Flynn, Dilly Court and Josephine Cox.Jennie's heartwarming and heartrending sagas are richly praised!**'Jennie Felton knows how to tell ... ... Read more

    €4.49

  • 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

    €7.99

  • The Sister's Secret

    The fifth moving saga in the beloved Families of Fairley Terrace series

    by Jennie Felton ...
    Series Book 11 - The Families of Fairley Terrace
    The moving fifth book in the beloved classic series from 'one of the nation's favourite saga author' (Lancashire Post) in the grand tradition of Katie Flynn, Dilly Court and Josephine Cox.Jennie's heartwarming and heartrending sagas are richly praised!**'Jennie Felton knows how to tell a cracking story and keep the reader gripped... if you enjoy reading books in the style of Catherine Cookson then ... Read more

    €3.99

  • Blood Sisters

    A gripping, twisty murder mystery about friendship and revenge

    by Cate Quinn ...
    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐**'A fantastic whodunnit'** HEAT MAGAZINE⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Sensational' CRIME MONTHLY'This is not the usual story of vulnerable women in jeopardy ... but one in which the victims fight back.' SUNDAY TIMES____________________Some women just can't take a joke.At least, that's what locals tell the police when a man is found gruesomely murdered a... ... Read more

    Was €6.49 Now €4.49

  • Power Metal

    The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future

    by Vince Beiser ...
    The powerful ways the metals we need to fuel technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and rising violence - and how we can do better.An Australian millionaire's plan to mine the ocean floor. Nigerian garbage pickers risking their lives to salvage e-waste. A Bill Gates-backed entrepreneur harnessing AI to find metals in the Arctic.These people and millions more ... Read more

    €2.99

  • The High Seas

    Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean

    by Olive Heffernan ...
    THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to the world's oceans and its life forms' Observer'A vital, fascinating, deeply researched exploration of Earth's last wilderness... Shocking and starkly 'illuminating - a must-read' Gaia VinceThe ocean covers seventy per cent of the surface of our planet, and two thirds of this lie beyond national ... Read more

    €9.29

  • Fracking 101

    A Beginner's Guide to Hydraulic Fracturing

    by Eric George ...
    Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing to give its proper name, has become part of our lives recently, due to the massive exploitation of America’s shale oil and gas fields. Along the way it has stirred up controversy, with passionate opponents fighting against the oil companies. The fight has generated a lot of heat, but not much understanding. This guide, written by some-one who knows what he is ... Read more

    €4.25

  • Volt Rush

    The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

    by Henry Sanderson ...
    'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable of making it a better one than the dirty and dangerous planet we’ve come to take for granted.' Bill McKibben, Observer book of the weekWe depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to ... Read more

    €10.51

  • The Denniston Rose

    by Jenny Pattrick ...
    A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community.The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty ... Read more

    €11.48

  • Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries

    Rights, Processes, and Tensions

    Edited by Paul A. Haslam, Nathan Andrews, Karin Buhmann, Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu, Mark Stoddart ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This volume examines how communities, companies, and governments contest and contribute to the evolution of norms, rules and decision-making procedures that govern stakeholder consultation in the extractive industries.In recent years international organisations, governments and companies around the world have dramatically reformed the regime that governs consultations with community stakeholders ... Read more

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  • Guidelines for Open Pit and Waste Dump Closure

    Edited by Phil de Graaf, Geoff Beale, Trevor Carter ...
    Series series Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design Series
    Guidelines for Open Pit and Waste Dump Closure provides a benchmark reference for geotechnical and hydrogeological professionals, and other closure stakeholders, involved in assessing and implementing the closure of open pits and waste dumps. It defines a state-of-best-practice geotechnical and hydrological pathway that reflects current industry-wide experience; considers the perspectives of the ... Read more

    €92.79

  • Quarrying in Cumbria

    by Dr David Johnson ...
    The exploiting of stone in Cumbria dates back to the Neolithic period when volcanic rock from the high Lakeland fells was worked to make hand axes. In Roman times sandstone was extensively quarried for building Hadrian’s Wall and forts like Carlisle. The industry expanded in the Middle Ages as stone was needed for high-status buildings like castles, tower houses and monasteries as well as for ... Read more

    €13.59

  • Fusion Materials VI

    Fusion Materials, #3

    by Muhammad Musaddique Ali Rafique ...
    Series Book 3 - Fusion Materials
    This is compendium of series of abstracts presented at 6th annual symposium on Fusion Materials successfully held at Merritt Island, 39B, Florida, Cambridge, MA, Los Angeles (LAX) and online. It consists of series of studies conducted over a period of one year across two continents (AUSTRALIA and North America). Its main topics are metallurgy, radioactivity, UF4, UF6, Gas Centrifuge, ... Read more

    €34.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary Perspectives in Data Mining

    Edited by Kenneth D. Lawrence, Ronald K. Klimberg ...
    Series Book 5 - Contemporary Perspectives in Data Mining
    The series, Contemporary Perspectives in Data Mining, is composed of blind refereed scholarly research methods and applications of data mining. The series is targeted both at the academic community, as well as the business practitioner. Data mining seeks to discover knowledge from vast amounts of data with the use of statistical and mathematical techniques. The knowledge is extracted from this ... Read more

    €38.39

  • 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

    €20.99

  • The Business of Mining

    Mineral Project Valuation

    by Odwyn Jones, Eric Lilford, Felix Chan ...
    Series series The Business of Mining
    The Business of Mining complete set of three Focus books will provide readers with a holistic all-embracing appraisal of the analytical tools available for assessing the economic viability of prospective mines. Each volume has a discrete focus. This second volume discusses, in some depth, alternative means of assessing the economic viability of mining projects based on the best estimate of the ... Read more

    €27.56

  • 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

    €13.59

  • FLAC and Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics

    Edited by Christine Detournay, Roger Hart ...
    Sixty-five papers cover a wide range of topics from engineering applications to theoretical developments in the areas of embankment and slope stability, underground cavity design and mining; dynamic analysis, soil and structure interaction, and coupled processes and fluid flow. ... Read more

    €304.42

  • Black Gold

    The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal

    by Bob Wyss ...
    Coal's central role in America's history and its ongoing threats in the climate crisis.For decades coal has been crucial to America's culture, society, and environment, an essential ingredient in driving out winter's cold, cooking meals, and lighting the dark. In the coalfields and beyond, Bob Wyss describes how this magical elixir sparked the Industrial Revolution, powered railroads, and built ... Read more

    €24.36

  • 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

    €13.73 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Advances in Geospatial Technology in Mining and Earth Sciences

    Selected Papers of the 2nd International Conference on Geo-spatial Technologies and Earth Resources 2022

    Edited by Long Quoc Nguyen, Luyen Khac Bui, Xuan-Nam Bui, Hai Thanh Tran ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book composes the proceedings of the international conference on Geo-Spatial Technologies and Earth Resources (GTER 2022) which was co-organized by Hanoi University of Mining and Geology and the International Society for Mine Surveying (ISM) held at Hanoi city on October 13–14, 2022.GTER 2022 is technically co-sponsored by Vietnam Mining Science and Technology Association (VMST), Vietnam ... Read more

    €229.99

  • Grit and Gold

    The Death Valley Jayhawkers of 1849

    by Jean Johnson ...
    No other Western settlement story is more famous than the Donner Party’s ill-fated journey through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. But a few years later and several hundred miles south, another group faced a similar situation just as perilous. Scrupulously researched and documented, Grit and Gold tells the story of the Death Valley Jayhawkers of 1849 and the young men who traveled by wagon and foot ... Read more

    €23.59