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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Out of the Darkness

    A Novel

    by David A. Jacinto ...
    Series series Courageous Series
    Out of the Darkness is based on the true story of a nineteenth-century child coal miner rising out of the ashes of poverty and tragedy to change the world. It’s the story of greed, love, sacrifice, faith, and the courage to push aside fear and jump into the refiner’s fire where the finest qualities of character are forged.**New York City BB Award, Best Historical Fiction 2024Prestigious Firebird ... Read more

    €14.08

  • DESIGN OF UNDERGROUND INSTALLATIONS IN ROCK

    Army Tech Manual TM 5-857-3

    by U.S. Army ...
    Army Technical Manual TM 5-857-3This obscure and unusual 1961 manual details how the U.S. military goes about planning/constructing underground installations and bases. Chock-full of intricate details on design criteria, costing, construction methods and various special features like multiple portals, blast doors, ventilation considerations. If you ever wanted to build your own secret underground ... Read more

    €1.67

  • The Gold Cache

    by James Willard Schultz ...
    "Exciting adventures in their search for buried gold." -The Publishers Weekly (1917)"James Willard Schultz...the author of 'The Gold Cache,' is fortified for true western stories by years of experience as an Indian trader...rapidly moving western action, told as only a man such as Schultz could write, a man who has seen the things he depicts." -Arizona Republic, Dec. 6, 1917"J.W. Schultz, one of ... Read more

    €9.99

  • Land of Lead

    by Brian Davies ...
    Fascinating volume of history, shedding light on the lead mining industry in Ceredigion and shipping from Aberystwyth, through the story of four generations of interlinked families in north Ceredigion in the 19th and 20th centuries. Comprises copies of 16 previously unpublished 19th-century watercolour paintings. ... Read more

    €11.09 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability

    Edited by John Read, Geoff Beale ...
    Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability is a comprehensive account of the hydrogeological procedures that should be followed when performing open pit slope stability design studies. Created as an outcome of the Large Open Pit (LOP) project, an international research and technology transfer project on the stability of rock slopes in open pit mines, this book expands on the ... Read more

    €123.99

  • Deep-Sea Mining and the Water Column

    Advances, Monitoring and Related Issues

    Edited by Rahul Sharma ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book focuses on general issues of deep-sea mining for seafloor mineral deposits, as well as the scientific, technical, legal and policy issues related to impacts on the water column. The topic is a growing area of significance due to the ongoing conversations on this issue in the world community, in view of the large-scale consequences resulting from operations of different components of deep ... Read more

    €159.99

  • Sustainable and Innovative Mining Practices

    International Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Mining Practices 2023

    Edited by Amit Kumar Gorai, Sahendra Ram, Ram Manohar Bishwal, Santanu Bhowmik ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Sustainable mining is need of hour to fulfil the increasing energy demand of the country and at the same time reduction in rate of carbon emission at utmost priority. Any mining project has significant health, safety, and environmental issues and thus sustainable solutions for all these issues need to be addressed. Currently, the mining practitioners, and industry bodies facing multiple challenges ... Read more

    €299.00

  • Opencast Images

    An Informal Look at British Coal Opencast Sites

    by Dave Wootton ...
    In the United Kingdom surface coal mining began in 1942 in response to a national shortage of deep-mined coal. By the 1980s, when Dave Wootton began touring sites and taking photographs, the industry was firmly established with major operations and very large machinery. His fully captioned pictures cover the period from 1986 until British Coal Opencast (BCO) was privatised in 1994. There are ... Read more

    €8.82 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crackerjacks

    by Mike Dupont ...
    crack•er•jack (ˈkræk ərˌdʒæk) n. a person or thing that shows marked ability or excellence. The Knoxgold mining company has cheated Joe McDonald and his crew out of their hard-earned bonus, and there’s nothing that they can do about it — until they discover an unknown gold-vein deep inside the mine. Together, they devise a plan to get it past security. The Crackerjacks are mining experts, but do ... Read more

    €9.99

  • 矿山机械液压系统的构建（第2版）

    by 彭伦天, 王一刚 ...
    本书在内容设置上借鉴了德国、澳大利亚等国际职业教育的先进教学理念，基于工作过程设计教学活动，全书由易到难设置了4个学习情境。主要介绍了构成矿山机械液压系统的各种液压元件的结构、工作原理、性能特点、选择和应用，矿山机械的典型液压传动系统的分析及组建等本书是高职高专教育三年制矿山机电类专业教材，也适合作为成人高校、中等职业学校机电类专业的教材，同时可供矿山企业工程技术人员参考或作为自学用书。 ... Read more

    €2.68

  • Coal Mining in Lancashire & Cheshire

    by Alan Davies ...
    The area of Lancashire and Cheshire can be considered one of the homes of the Industrial Revolution, and it was the abundance of coal close to the surface that literally helped fuel the great growth in cities such as Manchester and Liverpool. With poor roads, it was easier to move coal by water and so Lancashire landowners developed the first canals in Britain. Lancashire coal powered the cotton ... Read more

    €24.49

  • Mining and the Peruvian State

    Social and Environmental Sustainability

    Edited by John Crabtree, Gonzalo Delgado J. ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This book examines the social, environmental, and political sustainability of Peru’s mining industry as it seeks to garner the benefits of the energy transition between now and 2050.As the global shift toward net-zero emissions accelerates, Peru is uniquely positioned to play a vital role in the energy transition, thanks to its abundant reserves of critical minerals. This growing global demand ... Read more

    €49.39

  • 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

    €45.94