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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The story of civilization from an entirely new vantage point-the six raw materials that have shaped and will continue to shape humanity's destiny. Sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium: The struggle for these fundamental materials has created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and our greed for thousands of years. It is a story that is far from finished. Though we are told we now live in a weightless world of information, we...
Series
Bulletin volume 5
Publisher
Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada
Pub. Date
1964
Language
English
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A group of cowboys, coming back from the California Gold Rush, buys themselves a little piece of paradise in northern Utah, only to find a dangerous territory where death is always a possibility
9) The looting machine: warlords, oligarchs, corporations, smugglers, and the theft of Africa's wealth
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. While Africa accounts for about 30 per cent of the world's reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals and 14 per cent of the world's population, its share of global manufacturing...
10) Nyxia uprising
Author
Series
Nyxia triad volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"After it is discovered that Earth will be destroyed by the collision of two moons, Emmett and his crewmates must join forces with a surprising set of allies to gain control of the Genesis ships, their only means of escape."--
12) A single stone
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Jena and#x2014; strong, respected, reliable and#x2014; is the leader of the line, a job every girl in the village dreams of. Watched over by the Mothers as one of the chosen seven, Jena's years spent denying herself food and wrapping her limbs have paid off. She is small enough to squeeze through the tunnels of the mountain and gather the harvest, risking her life with each mission. No work is more important. This has always been the way of things,...
15) Indigo dying
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
18) Stitching Snow
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A futuristic retelling of Snow White in which seventeen-year-old Essie, a master at repairing robots and drones on the frozen mining planet Thanda, is pulled into a war by handsome and mysterious Dane after his shuttle crash-lands near her home.
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Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Of the many easterners who went west at the close of the nineteenth century, Tasker L. Oddie was one of the most purposeful. The twenty-seven-year-old attorney and business executive from East Orange, New Jersey, moved to Austin, Nevada, in 1898 as secretary of the Nevada Company, which had mining interests in central Nevada. There he uncovered for his employers, the Stokes family, a fraud committed by the firm's general manager. In the aftermath...
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