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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Argyle

    The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds

    by Stuart Kells ...
    The remote Kimberley region of Western Australia has a rich history and unique geography. In the 1960s De Beers, the world's largest diamond company, sent gem-hunters to the area but they came away empty-handed. It was a vast region to survey, and they'd overlooked something vital. A few years later, a team of Australian geologists with a tiny budget searched for even tinier mineral clues. Those ... Read more

    €14.54

  • Regolith Science

    Edited by Keith Scott, Colin Pain ...
    This comprehensive reference on the fundamentals of regolith geoscience describes how regolith is developed from parental rocks and emphasises the importance of chemical, physical, water and biological processes in regolith formation. It provides details for mapping regolith landforms, as well as objective information on applications in mineral exploration and natural resource management. Regolith ... Read more

    €89.59

  • Women Miners in Developing Countries

    Pit Women and Others

    by Martha Macintyre ...
    Series series Voices in Development Management
    Contrary to their masculine portrayal, mines have always employed women in valuable and productive roles. Yet, pit life continues to be represented as a masculine world of work, legitimizing men as the only mineworkers and large, mechanized, and capitalized operations as the only form of mining. Bringing together a range of case studies of women miners from past and present in Asia, the Pacific ... Read more

    €63.17

  • 煤层覆岩采动破断及瓦斯流动规律

    by 王浩 等 ...
    本專著在廣泛的現場調研工作基礎上，採用理論研究、相似模型、數值模擬相結合的方法，對平煤集團煤與瓦斯共采模式進行了深入研究，並通過鑽孔成像方法對現場的裂隙場進行了實地驗證，最後提出了多煤層開採卸壓瓦斯抽采的優化設計方案。成果對煤與瓦斯安全、高效共采具有實際的工程意義，具有廣泛的推廣應用前景。 ... Read more

    €4.83

  • Millstones of The Pennines and North West England

    by Dr David Johnson ...
    Ever since people began cultivating cereal crops 10,000 years ago grain had to be ground down, or milled, into flour to make bread. Up to the Roman period in Britain this could only be done using simple hand querns but, over time, technology improved by introducing circular, horizontal millstones powered by water or wind. Other trades needed the means to crush raw materials to produce their final ... Read more

    €14.59

  • Mineral Deposits and Occurrences in the Arabian–Nubian Shield

    by Ahmed Hassan Ahmed ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a detailed review of the mineral deposits and occurrences in the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS), including their distribution, mineralization styles, economic importance, and geological controls on the mineralization. The purpose of the book is to compile the results of past and recent investigations on mineral deposits and occurrences in the ANS that covering the countries of ... Read more

    €149.99

  • Green Scenarios: Mining Industry Responses to Environmental Challenges of the Anthropocene Epoch

    International Mining Forum 2021

    Edited by Artur Dyczko, Gabriela Woźniak, Andrzej Jagodziński ...
    This book aims to present an alternative based on natural processes and an environmental approach to post-excavation site management, e.g., post-coal mining heaps. These sites are places where various mineral excavation by-products are collected. Nevertheless, some post-mineral excavation sites are oligotrophic, terrestrial, wetland, and water habitat islands, providing unique biodiversity ... Read more

    €224.01

  • From Two Lines

    The Life Story of Captain Josiah Holman

    by Michael Webb ...
    Curiosity got the better of me when I read Captain Holman's letter of 11 January 1859 where he wrote...I have been abroad six times viz. - to the Philippine Islands, the Brazils, twice to the Canadas and the Native Copper Mines of Lake Superior - to South Africa and lastly to Malacca .But these were only a few of the countries this Cornish miner explored for mineral wealth.This is an imaginative ... Read more

    €5.99

  • Opportunities, Challenges & Rewards

    Richard Hill's Life Story

    by Richard J A Hill ...
    Richard Hill's ancestors and family background and basic history; his family life and work experiences in the diamond and gold mining industries in Africa, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and others; his travels in Europe and several other countries; and concluding with some personal observations. ... Read more

    €10.00

  • 100 Years of the Mines Rescue Service

    by Malcolm Davies ...
    This book is to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Mines Rescue Service in the Rhondda Valleys and South Wales Based at the Dinas Mines Rescue Station, Rhondda many thousands of volunteer miners were trained to become members of their colliery rescue team; to deal with the many hundreds of varied underground emergencies, sadly many resulting in loss of life. All coalfields in Britain and ... Read more

    €3.59

  • A Mile of Gold Strange Adventures on the Yukon (1898)

    by William M. Stanley ...
    "The most readable volume that has yet appeared about the Yukon...told the story of his successful search for treasure in an entertaining way." -San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 13, 1898"William Stanley, 84, who was with George McCormick when the latter discovered gold in the Klondike died in Pomona after an extended illness...said to have taken $1,500,000 out of the El Dorado district." -San ... Read more

    €9.99

  • Sustainable Management of Mining Waste and Tailings

    A Circular Economy Approach

    Edited by Alok Prasad Das, Eric D. van Hullebusch, Ata Akçil ...
    Integrating waste management, environmental sustainability, and economic development is a prime milestone in the circular economy. Critical metals recovery from mining tailings and secondary resources has significant potential, with widespread applications in high-tech industries that are critical to modern society and sustainable development. This book discusses technological advances for ... Read more

    €201.03

  • The Life and Times of Gen. John A. Sutter

    by Thomas J. Schoonover ...
    In 1849 gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, about 18 miles from Sacramento; read the amazing true pioneering story behind Sutter's Mill.John Sutter had in 1847 a large ranch and fort at the present site of Sacramento in California. He owned large fields of grain, many herds of cattle and horses, and was very hospitable to all Americans coming to California. A flour-mill was needed on his great ... Read more

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