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'Pitfall' is the compelling story of the quest to exploit the metals our civilization needs-and the cost to local people and their environments. If we cannot change our course, Christopher Pollon argues, we are condemned to mine deeper and darker places, including the depths of the ocean, sacrifice zones, and near-earth asteroids. This disturbing vision of the future also includes robotic mines without workers and social license-unless we act now....
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"A valuable discovery under the world's second-largest temperate wetland and in the traditional lands of the Cree and Ojibway casts light on the growing conflict among resource development, environmental stewardship, and Indigenous rights. When prospectors discovered a gigantic crescent of metal deposits under the James Bay Lowlands of northern Canada in 2007, the find touched off a mining rush, lured a major American company to spend fortunes in...
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The current demand for cobalt, the mining of which has a troubled past and present, has renewed interest in the small town of Cobalt, Ontario. The author looks at the history of the town and how the mining rush there impacted Indigenous lands, the treatment of workers, and the natural environment--and how the template for resource extraction that was established during that time led to Canada becoming the world's dominant mining superpower.
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The reign of Big Tech is here, and Americans' First Amendment rights hang by a keystroke.
Amassing unimaginable amounts of personal data, giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple-once symbols of American ingenuity and freedom-have become a techno-oligarchy with overwhelming economic and political power.
Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans' daily lives than any company or government...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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China has 130 million migrant workers-the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines of Dongguan, an industrial city in China's Pearl River Delta.As she tracks their lives, Chang paints...
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Sharp, dramatic, and full of insider dish, SOPHIA OF SILICON VALLEY is one woman's story of a career storming the corridors of geek power and living in the shadow of its outrageous cast of maestros.
During the heady years of the tech boom, incorrigibly frank Sophia Young lucks into a job that puts her directly in the path of Scott Kraft, the eccentric CEO of Treehouse, a studio whose animated films are transforming movies forever. Overnight, Sophia...
10) Outside, inside
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A beautiful book that describes the impact of COVID-19 on communities and why some essential workers could not quarantine.
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#1 The oil industry was the result of a big bang that occurred in 1859 when Edwin Drake and his hired man, Uncle Billy Smith, pulled the equivalent of maybe twenty forty-two-gallon barrels of crude oil from the ground on a good day. The first commercially viable gas-powered engine, and the ensuing addiction, were still a few generations away.
#2 By 1875, Rockefeller...
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#1 The classic experiment done by Darley and Batson in 1973 proved how seemingly incidental contextual factors have a significant, but under-appreciated, influence on behavior. The situation, not the person, determines the behavior.
#2 The truth is that consumers have not changed at all since 1973. The more agencies try to convince us that everything is changing, and...
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#1 In the fall of 1981, BYU was ranked #1 in the country in football. The roar of the crowd echoed across campus every time BYU scored a touchdown. Leach was a fan of BYU's head coach, LaVell Edwards, and his innovative offensive system.
#2 Mike Leach was a big fan of BYU football, and when he and Sharon married in 1982, they moved to Southern California so he...
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#1 I have always been drawn to risk, and I've taken it at every point in my life. I was born in 1928 in a railroad town in eastern Oklahoma, and grew up with a family that was hardworking, self-sufficient, and honest.
#2 I had to learn to sit on my bottom, as my grandmother often told me. I had to give back a dollar I had found on the street because my mother, grandmother,...
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#1 The elder Zanuck, Darryl, was chairman of the board of directors of the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and the Studio's Los Angeles-based executive vice president in charge of world-wide production. He was also wearing sunglasses and smoking a large black cigar.
#2 The turnaround of the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation interested me, as it seemed to...
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#1 This book is for consultants and professional services providers who want to understand how clients buy consulting and professional services. We see lots of thorny problems that need solving, and we see lots of smart people ready to help.
#2 The most important thing in private practice is how to get clients, and yet we are taught nothing about selling. It's hard to...
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Aplicar las técnicas de preparación de las materias primas, operando con seguridad los equipos necesarios para conseguir la calidad requerida en la almazara. Realizar operaciones de preparación y mantenimiento de primer nivel de los equipos de producción de una almazara, para la elaboración de aceites de oliva vírgenes, Identificando las infraestructuras y las etapas de procesado. Realizar las operaciones de procesado del aceite de oliva en...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "IMAI0108 - OPERACIONES DE FONTANERÍA Y CALEFACCIÓN-CLIMATIZACIÓN DOMÉSTICA". Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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