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Pitfall

The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places

By: Christopher Pollon

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Pitfall

The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places

By: Christopher Pollon

A compelling investigation into the global race to exploit our world' s dwindling natural resources. In order to transition to clean energy in the coming decades, billions of tons of copper, nickel, silver, and other metals will be required to build electric vehicles and green infrastructure, and power smart technology. We need more metals than ever before, yet the qualities and quantities are diminishing, making the extraction process more polluting to land, air, and water. And most of these metals will be mined from the global south, where social conflict will only grow, led by Indigenous peoples demanding a greater say in how their wealth is used. In Pitfall, investigative journalist Christopher Pollon charts how transnational companies have controlled copper, precious metals, and lithium mining in Latin America, made inroads into war-torn countries in Africa, and extracted nickel, industrial and rare earth metals across Australia, Asia and the Pacific. Industry attention is now moving to deeper and darker places, including the depths of the ocean, sacrifice zones, and near-Earth asteroids. The stakes couldn' t be higher: How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past?

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Univ. of Queensland Press

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0702269662

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9780702269660

The Peace in Peril

The Real Cost of the Site C Dam

By: Christopher Pollon

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The Peace in Peril

The Real Cost of the Site C Dam

By: Christopher Pollon

In the next decade, a 60-metre-high wall of compacted earth will stretch more than a kilometre across the main stem of the Peace River, causing the waters behind it to swell into a 93-square-kilometre artificial lake, drowning the best topsoil left in the BC north. The waters will swallow fifty islands and a valley that is home to farmers, ranchers, trappers and habitat to innumerable creatures big and small. Over four days in late September 2015, Christopher Pollon paddled the 83-kilometre section of the river that will be destroyed by the Site C dam reservoir, accompanied by photojournalist Ben Nelms. Their goal was to witness the very first steps of construction for the almost $8.8-billion project (the most expensive infrastructure project in BC history). They concluded their trip by touring the same stretch by land, interviewing and photographing the locals who stand to lose everything. Equal parts travel adventure, history and journalistic exploration, The Peace in Peril is a story about the dubious trade-off of hydro power for resources like timber and farmland, but also far more: the Peace valley has been a prosperous home to people for eleven thousand years. How will lives, human and otherwise, be erased or irrevocably altered when the next great flood rises up to engulf the Peace River valley?

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Harbour Publishing

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1550177818

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9781550177817

Pitfall

The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places

By: Christopher Pollon

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The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places

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Alexandria in Late Antiquity

Topography and Social Conflict

By: Christopher Haas

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Alexandria in Late Antiquity

Topography and Social Conflict

By: Christopher Haas

Haas explores the broad avenues and back alleys of Alexandria's neighborhoods, its suburbs and waterfront, and aspects of material culture that underlay Alexandrian social and intellectual life. Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Second only to Rome in the ancient world, Alexandria was home to many of late antiquity's most brilliant writers, philosophers, and theologians—among them Philo, Origen, Arius, Athanasius, Hypatia, Cyril, and John Philoponus. Now, in Alexandria in Late Antiquity, Christopher Haas offers the first book to place these figures within the physical and social context of Alexandria's bustling urban milieu. Because of its clear demarcation of communal boundaries, Alexandria provides the modern historian with an ideal opportunity to probe the multicultural makeup of an ancient urban unit. Haas explores the broad avenues and back alleys of Alexandria's neighborhoods, its suburbs and waterfront, and aspects of material culture that underlay Alexandrian social and intellectual life. Organizing his discussion around the city's religious and ethnic blocs—Jews, pagans, and Christians—he details the fiercely competitive nature of Alexandrian social dynamics. In contrast to recent scholarship, which cites Alexandria as a model for peaceful coexistence within a culturally diverse community, Haas finds that the diverse groups' struggles for social dominance and cultural hegemony often resulted in violence and bloodshed—a volatile situation frequently exacerbated by imperial intervention on one side or the other. Eventually, Haas concludes, Alexandrian society achieved a certain stability and reintegration—a process that resulted in the transformation of Alexandrian civic identity during the crucial centuries between antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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520

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JHU Press

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0801885418

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9780801885419

Ireland

By: Christopher Somerville

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Ireland

By: Christopher Somerville

Vols. for 2004- by Christopher Somerville.

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404

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National Geographic Books

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1426206364

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9781426206368

The Ransom Logion in Mark and Matthew

Its Reception and Its Significance for the Study of the Gospels

By: J. Christopher Edwards

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The Ransom Logion in Mark and Matthew

Its Reception and Its Significance for the Study of the Gospels

By: J. Christopher Edwards

Revised thesis (doctoral) - University of St. Andrews, 2011.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161517806

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9783161517808

The Peace in Peril

The Real Cost of the Site C Dam

By: Christopher Pollon

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The Real Cost of the Site C Dam

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155017780X

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An Invisible Spectator

A Biography of Paul Bowles

By: Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno

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An Invisible Spectator

A Biography of Paul Bowles

By: Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno

Filled with insights into an enigma" ("USA Today"), "An Invisible Spectator" chronicles Paul Bowles's life and work--interwoven with vivid depictions of the writer's intimates, including Truman Capote, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs.

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550

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Grove Press

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0802136001

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9780802136008

Philemon

From Slavery to Freedom

By: Christopher Brearley

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Philemon

From Slavery to Freedom

By: Christopher Brearley

These titles continue to provide an resource for group and individual study sessions lasting between one to two hours. Each title consists of seven stimulating sessions and includes opening ice-breakers, Bible references, discussion starters and suggestions for personal application.

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Cover to Cover Bible Study Guides

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1853454532

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9781853454530

Clarendon

Landscape of Kings

By: T. B. James,Christopher M. Gerrard

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Clarendon

Landscape of Kings

By: T. B. James,Christopher M. Gerrard

This richly illustrated book tells Clarendons story, from the Neolithic through to the present. It focuses in particular on the palace and deer parks medieval heyday a time when gyrfalcons soared in pursuit of cranes, and kings hunted roebuck and wolves. It also covers the centuries since the Restoration: in 1660 Clarendon became a private country estate that came to express Protestant, Tory and military values.

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Windgather Press

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1905119119

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9781905119110

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