History of Construction Cultures Volume 1 contains papers presented at the 7ICCH – Seventh International Congress on Construction History, held at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Portugal, from 12 to 16 July, 2021. The conference has been organize...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Arkansas Press, ISBN-13: 9781682262917)
In 1930, a remote corner of southwest Arkansas witnessed the discovery of cinnabar, the ore from which mercury is extracted. Upon the arrival of the metal of a thousand uses, a wave of hope and ambition swept through the foothills of the Ouachita...Loe edasi...
This book presents all aspects of automation in construction pertaining to the use of information technologies in design, engineering, construction technologies, and maintenance and management of constructed facilities....Loe edasi...
Polyampholytes are unique polymers with properties that show potential as structural biomaterials, drug delivery and chemo-mechanical systems, biosensors, energy storage devices, supercapacitors, and actuators. This book reviews studies over the pas...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the unique differences in how AI should be developed and used in science and engineering. Through inclusion of definitions and detailed examples, this book covers actual and realistic requirements as well as avoidance of certain...Loe edasi...
This accessible and practical shortform book details the properties and advantages of high-performance pre-engineered steel-concrete composite beams (HPCBs) for improving the sustainability of construction techniques and explains the analysis method...Loe edasi...
This book presents the most recent advances related to the thermal energy storage system design and integration in buildings. Additionally, modelling, application, synthetization, and characterization of energy efficient building materials is also c...Loe edasi...
The book discusses advances in management of industrial and mining waste through circular economy approaches and successful critical metal recovery from secondary resources. It highlights reprocessing of mine waste and tailings for development of cr...Loe edasi...
The research in this book aims to discover occupational diseases that cause fatalities and permanent incapacities in the construction industry, along with their epidemiological causal mechanisms....Loe edasi...
This book examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate the conditions of life. Of use to students and scholars working on resource extraction, large-scale investments, globalization, and development...Loe edasi...
This edited book aims to provide a scientific compendium of findings on gender issues in the construction sector and contribute to discussions on plurality and inclusion; and provide baseline data for policy design and future research on women worki...Loe edasi...
Steel-Reinforced Concrete Structures: Assessment and Repair of Corrosion, Third Edition examines the corrosion of reinforced concrete from a practical point of view, highlights protective design and repair procedures, and presents ongoing maintenanc...Loe edasi...
This book focusses on the structural design of Interlocking Concrete Block Pavement (ICBP) including application, analysis, design, construction, and the fundamental design concept of ICBP backed by case studies to demonstrate long-term performance...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271097077)
An investigation into one of the largest and most lucrative mineral mining companies in the world, Rio Tinto, Extraction Politics reveals how the company constructs a presence in the places it operates and shapes meanings and orientations toward the...Loe edasi...
This book examines the social, environmental and political sustainability of Peru’s mining industry as it seeks to garner the benefits of the energy transition between now and 2050. It will interest students and scholars of mining and the extracti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807186022)
Offshore Oildom tells the riveting story of the United States quest to secure the oil riches of the sea. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, Tyler Priest reveals how the offshore oil industry emerged from an ambitious project to incorporate th...Loe edasi...
In 1995, the IAEA presented a map of 582 uranium deposits based on early UDEPO data. A revised 2018 edition expanded the view to about 2,900 deposits. Now, nearly 5,300 deposits are displayed with updated classifications, deposit sizes, and enhanced...Loe edasi...
Exploring uranium recovery from phosphate ores as a cost-effective alternative to conventional mining, this publication highlights fast integration of uranium recovery units in fertilizer plants and delves into supply security, profitability, and en...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477333297)
The role of Bolivian mining families in revolution and politics. In 1952, Bolivia’s Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) swept into power, promising collective prosperity through class-based nationalism. The heroic symbol of the...Loe edasi...
To remain comfortable in a world of ever more extreme weather events and climate trends, we need a building revolution. Building designers, owners, managers, and occupants must prepare now for future climates with new ways to stay comfortable indo...Loe edasi...
This book presents a framework that allows companies to analyze social conflicts and propose better projects to obtain the social license to operate. It also presents a methodology for calculating the SLO that shows how the company-community relatio...Loe edasi...
A beautifully realised memoir of growing up in the mining village of Selston in the seventies; a stunning evocation of a hard place, inhabited by hard people with hard lives - where Son of Rambow meets a real-life Shuggie Bain....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Feb-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State House Press / McWhiney Foundation Press, ISBN-13: 9781649670311)
Beneath the vast, unyielding Texas sky lies a story of grit, gushers, and grandeur—a tale of how oil, cattle, and the audacious dreams of larger-than-life figures forged a state unlike any other. Under Texas Skies: Oil, Ranches, and Dreams tha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: State House Press / McWhiney Foundation Press, ISBN-13: 9781649670380)
Beneath the vast, unyielding Texas sky lies a story of grit, gushers, and grandeura tale of how oil, cattle, and the audacious dreams of larger-than-life figures forged a state unlike any other. Under Texas Skies: Oil, Ranches, and Dreams that Shape...Loe edasi...
Incorporating interviews with Venezuelan activists, scholars, politicians, and economists, this book explores Venezuelan oil development from 1999-2016, situating it within contemporary international political economy, national class politics, and Ve...Loe edasi...
The story of the last generation of British miners: fathers and sons, brothers and comrades, big hitters and broken men, strikers and scabs. Mining Men explores how these men felt when the pits were closed and what happened next...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the profound changes facing the construction sector to provide a comprehensive and forward-looking exploration of how renewable energy systems and intelligent technologies are reshaping the construction industry towards a more...Loe edasi...
This book draws on recent theoretical advances in energy humanities and environmental communication to examine the evolution of pro-bitumen discourses in Canada since the mid-2010s. It argues that the promotion of Alberta bitumen rests on three disc...Loe edasi...
Through a series of case studies in diverse regions of the world, this book explores how transnational Norwegian energy and extractive industries handle corporate social responsibility (CSR) when operating abroad. Through a series o...Loe edasi...
This book is the first to fully explore the short- and long-term impact of the global electric car rollout on the supply of raw materials.The world has gone from zero to almost 1.5 billion fossil fuel cars in circulation today, contributing...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008553944)
A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics ( ) an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism Patrick Radden Keefe, bestselling author of ......Loe edasi...
Mining continues to evolve and todays paradigms are sustainable and responsible mining, mining that is profitable but protects the environment, human rights, and health. Mining: A Very Short Introduction covers these developments and lo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197917)
Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of communities, activists and NGOs matter on a global scale? This book provides a new critical political economy of extractive accumulation to expla...Loe edasi...
Economic Organization of the British Coal Industry (1934) is a study that shows on the one hand the organization of the coal industry in Britain in the 1930s in conjunction with the economic forces working behind the industry, and on the ot...Loe edasi...
This textbook will help students and professionals gain a working knowledge of the design processes that must be followed for the design of structural steel systems, understand the behavior of structural steel structures and components and the bas...Loe edasi...
Mining has evolved in the 21st century into an indispensable industry that provides a variety of mineral products needed to sustain a modern society. To achieve efficiency, it has also grown into an integrated enterprise of enormous size, wielding...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031967856)
This book covers various areas of mining and metallurgic industries pollution of water, food crops, ambient air and farmlands, and their related salient impacts on residents well-b...Loe edasi...
The Science and Politics of Extractive Industries in the Ocean and Beyond provides an extensive coverage of the extraction of underwater minerals, ranging from lakes, rivers, continental shelves of coastal states and oceans. The edited vo...Loe edasi...
Sari: Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Dec-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816556670)
The Spanish conquest of Peru was motivated by the quest for precious metals, a search that resulted in the discovery of massive silver deposits in what is now southern Bolivia. The enormous flow of specie into the world economy is usually attributed...Loe edasi...
The Politics of Coals Decline (1994) examines the decline of the European coal industry and assesses its future prospects. It shows how the manner and rate of this decline is determined as much by political as by economic factors, includin...Loe edasi...
This research-based book critically examines the complex interplay of power relations in decision-making in megaprojects. This research-based book critically examines the complex interplay of power relations in decision-making in me...Loe edasi...
The aim of this edited book volume is to present new concepts, case studies and applications of Digital Twin and relevant tools in the built environment context. The aim of this edited book volume is to present new concepts, and app...Loe edasi...
This book maps the encounters between Indigenous Peoples and local communities with mining companies in various post-colonial contexts. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of mining and the extractive industries, sustainable deve...Loe edasi...
This book intends to initiate a fresh articulation of need-based infrastructure provisions in rural contexts. It is key reading for development, planning and infrastructure courses as well as professionals and researchers involved in international...Loe edasi...
Innovations, Disruptions and Future Trends in the Global Construction Industry examines current and futuristic developments in the construction industry hinged on the construction industrial fourth and fifth revolution, otherwise known as c...Loe edasi...
This provides an overview of the circular economy in the built environment, presenting a fusion of insights from researchers and practitioners. Chapters cover pivotal themes, including the transformative concept of buildings as material banks, inn...Loe edasi...
Reinforced Concrete Design (RC) is performed mostly by Limit State method throughout the globe. This book covers fundamental concepts and principles of RC design developing the topics from the basic theories and assumptions. Reinfo...Loe edasi...
This volume provides a transdisciplinary analysis of the political, social and environmental aspects of governance and its implementation in the mining sector.In a world profoundly shaped by the energy transition and the urgency of climate...Loe edasi...
Delve into detailed financial metrics and operational performance of Canadas publicly traded mining and energy resource companies. Uncover critical earnings data, production figures, and market trends that equip investors with the insights needed t...Loe edasi...
