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  • Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold

    Myanmar and the Rohingya

    de Penny Green, Thomas MacManus ...
    Series series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold is a powerful account of one of the most devastating human crises of the 21st century. Drawing on firsthand research conducted in Burma (Myanmar) and neighboring countries, the book uncovers how the Rohingya Muslims have been systematically isolated, impoverished, and targeted in a state-led genocidal campaign. Through more than 150 interviews with survivors, local ... Leer más

    $28.09 USD

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  • State-Corporate Crime and the Commodification of Victimhood

    The Toxic Legacy of Trafigura’s Ship of Death

    de Thomas MacManus ...
    Series series Crimes of the Powerful
    This book highlights the continuing impunity enjoyed by corporations for large scale crimes, and in particular the crime of toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast in 2006. It provides an account of the crime, and outlines contributory reasons for the impunity both under the law and from a criminological point of view. Furthermore, the book reveals the retrogressive role of civil society organisations ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

    de Alex Epstein ...
    Could everything we know about fossil fuels be wrong?For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet at the same time, by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate safety, life has been getting better and better.How can this be?The explanation, energy expert Alex Epstein ... Leer más

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  • The Looting Machine

    Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

    de Tom Burgis ...
    An “impressive” (Wall Street Journal) exposé of twenty-first century individuals and companies who have become obscenely rich from the resource trade in AfricaAfrica is the world’s poorest continent and, arguably, its richest. In The Looting Machine, Tom Burgis takes readers on a gripping journey into the world of the magnates and militiamen, the despots and jet-setting executives who gorge on ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Dysfunction

    Canada after Keystone XL

    de Dennis McConaghy ...
    #1 Calgary Herald BestsellerAn investigation of the history and demise of the most controversial North American energy infrastructure project.In 2015, President Barack Obama denied approval for TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, which would have carried crude oil from the Canadian oil sands to the U.S. Gulf Coast, providing great economic benefit to Canada. Over seven years of regulatory process, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Boom: The Underground History of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC

    The Underground History of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC

    de Malcolm Knox ...
    One of our finest writers on one of our most dramatic stories.Mining divides the country – development against conservation, north and west against south and east, pro-tax against anti-tax. It's an important industry, but why do passions run so high? What does mining really mean to us? And how much do we understand about our underground history?Although we favour the romantic vision of Australia ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Secret World of Oil

    de Ken Silverstein ...
    The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments, and multinational corporations, and until now, no book has set out to tell the story of this largely ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Handbook of Liquefied Natural Gas

    de Saeid Mokhatab, John Y. Mak, Jaleel V. Valappil, David A. Wood ...
    Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a commercially attractive phase of the commodity that facilitates the efficient handling and transportation of natural gas around the world. The LNG industry, using technologies proven over decades of development, continues to expand its markets, diversify its supply chains and increase its share of the global natural gas trade. The Handbook of Liquefied Natural Gas ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Walkden Yard

    The Lancashire Central Coalfield Workshops

    de Alan Davies ...
    Located close to the Ellesmere Colliery, the Walkden Yard ultimately became the NCB Central Workshops for Lancashire. From here the workshops served the Bridgewater Trustees' collieries, providing engineering support as well as maintaining the numerous railway locomotives and the many hundreds of wagons that the company owned. Opened in 1878, Walkden Yard transferred to the National Coal Board ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Coal Mining in Lancashire & Cheshire

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Reservoir Engineering

    The Fundamentals, Simulation, and Management of Conventional and Unconventional Recoveries

    de Abdus Satter, Ghulam M. Iqbal ...
    Reservoir Engineering focuses on the fundamental concepts related to the development of conventional and unconventional reservoirs and how these concepts are applied in the oil and gas industry to meet both economic and technical challenges. Written in easy to understand language, the book provides valuable information regarding present-day tools, techniques, and technologies and explains best ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

  • Petroleum Geology of Libya

    de Daniel Clark-Lowes, Don Hallett ...
    Petroleum Geology of Libya, Second Edition, systematically reviews the exploration history, plate tectonics, structural evolution, stratigraphy, geochemistry and petroleum systems of Libya, and includes valuable new chapters on oil and gas fields, production, and reserves. Since the previous edition, published in 2002, there have been numerous developments in Libya, including the lifting of ... Leer más

    $188.99 USD