Dam Energy is the second book following the life of Gem Putanto, now an enormously rich person who becomes fearful about his legacy as he matures. Dam Energy continues to look at the waste that results from corruption, how it pervades our lives and makes a few people very rich and many people very poor. But Gem Putanto gives inspiration by offering an impending energy revolution that could be on our doorstep if we re-look at our resources and share our knowledge. Some ideas for the novel have been inspired by Jeremys friend, N Gunananthan, in his own book Energy Revolution: Evolution or End of Humanity. The central character of both King of Coal and Dam Energy, Gem Putanto, is a fictional character although the author suspects many people would like to be him.
Dam Energy is the second book following the life of Gem Putanto, now an enormously rich person who becomes fearful about his legacy as he matures. Dam Energy continues to look at the waste that results from corruption, how it pervades our lives and makes a few people very rich and many people very poor. But Gem Putanto gives inspiration by offering an impending energy revolution that could be on our doorstep if we re-look at our resources and share our knowledge. Some ideas for the novel have been inspired by Jeremys friend, N Gunananthan, in his own book Energy Revolution: Evolution or End of Humanity. The central character of both King of Coal and Dam Energy, Gem Putanto, is a fictional character although the author suspects many people would like to be him.
This book sets out the rules of evidence, as they apply in Australian courts, in a manner designed to be highly accessible and readily comprehensible. Equal treatment is given to both the uniform evidence legislation - now applicable in Federal Courts and in the courts of the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and Tasmania - and the common law that applies in the remaining Australian jurisdictions. This edition has been completely rewritten to take account of major case law and statutory developments since the first edition. It details the key divergences and convergences in the law of evidence across Australia and addresses a number of significant international comparisons. Examples are used throughout the text to illustrate the practical application of the law, while diagrams graphically summarise complex legal issues.
Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation. Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the history of technology, it emphasizes the material basis of scientific fieldwork, joining together the human labor that produced knowledge with the natural world in which those practices were embedded. Four distinct modes of field practice, which were shared by different field science disciplines, proliferated during this period—surveys, lay networks, quarries, and stations—and this book explores the dynamics that underpinned each of them. Using two diverse case studies to animate each mode of practice, as well as the making of the field as a place for science, Field Life combines textured analysis of specific examples of field science on the ground with wider discussion of the commonalities in the practices of a diverse array of field sciences, including the earth and physical sciences, the life and agricultural sciences, and the human sciences. By situating science in its regional environmental context, Field Life analyzes the intersection between the cosmopolitan knowledge of science and the experiential knowledge of people living in the field. Examples of field science in the Plains and Rockies range widely: geological surveys and weather observing networks, quarries to uncover dinosaur fossils and archaeological remains, and branch agricultural experiment stations and mountain biological field stations.
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