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Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

Verso, 2021

How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”

In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the...

The Atomic Corporation: Rational Proposals for Uncertain Times

Capstone, 2003

In Atomic the authors' revolutionary theory is put to the test. Looking across all sectors of business, including retail banking, financial services, telecommunications, IT and consultancy, carbon-based corporations (oil and gas companies), and consumer products companies, Camrass and Farncombe discover some real eye-openers, including...

The AI Business: The Commercial Uses of Artificial Intelligence

MIT Press, 1984

What is the bottom line on Artificial Intelligence? The AI Business offers a comprehensive summary of the commercial picture, present and future, for Artificial Intelligence in the computer industry, medicine, the oil industry, and electronic design. AI's brightest and best - financiers, researchers, and users - analyze current...

Emerging Markets For Dummies

For Dummies, 2011

We live in a big world. Most of the people who share space on this planet live in countries that are less developed than the United States or such other big industrialized nations as Australia, Canada, England, France, and Japan. Instead, they live in Brazil, China, India, Russia, or any of the other nations that are manufacturing goods,...

Franchising & Licensing: Two Powerful Ways to Grow Your Business in Any Economy

AMACOM, 2003

It is hard to believe that nearly 15 years have passed since the publication of
the first edition of Franchising & Licensing in 1991. The impact of technology
and globalization has had a permanent effect on the dynamics of the franchise
relationship. When the manuscript was being written for the first edition
in the late...

Parallel Scientific Computing and Optimization: Advances and Applications (Springer Optimization and Its Applications)

Springer, 2008

This work introduces new developments in the construction, analysis, and implementation of parallel computing algorithms. This book presents 23 self-contained chapters, including surveys, written by distinguished researchers in the field of parallel computing. Each chapter is devoted to some aspects of the subject: parallel algorithms for matrix...

Dictionary of Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Processing

CRC Press, 2013

In industry, miscommunication can cause frustration, create downtime, and even trigger equipment failure. By providing a common ground for more effective discourse, the Dictionary of Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Processing can help eliminate costly miscommunication.

An essential resource for oil, gas, and petrochemical...

Convergence Technologies for 3G Networks: IP, UMTS, EGPRS and ATM

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

The merging of voice and data on a single network opens powerful new possibilities in communications. Only a fundamental understanding of both technologies will ensure you are equipped to maximise their full potential.

Convergence Technologies for 3G Networks describes the evolution from cellular to a converged network that...

The Glorious Foods of Greece: Traditional Recipes from the Islands, Cities, and Villages

William Morrow, 2001

The Glorious Foods of Greece is the magnum opus of Greek cuisine, the first book that takes the reader on a long and fascinating journey beyond the familiar Greece of blue-and-white postcard images and ubiquitous grilled fish and moussaka into the country's many different regions, where local customs and foodways have remaained...

The Battle for Barrels: Peak Oil Myths & World Oil Futures

Profile Books Ltd, 2009

The Battle for Barrels demonstrates that the doom and gloom of the peak oil theory is mistaken. Duncan Clarke rebuts the arguments of peak oil’s adherents and discusses the issues they ignore—rising prices, new or future technologies, potential improved exploration, access to restricted world oil zones, changes in...

Physiological, Developmental and Behavioral Effects of Marine Pollution

Springer, 2013

Synthesizing decades of work, but up-to-date, this book focuses on organism-level responses to pollutants by marine animals, mainly crustaceans, molluscs, and fishes. Emphasizing effects on physiological processes (feeding/digestion, respiration, osmoregulation), life-cycle (reproduction [including endocrine disruption], embryo...

The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005

With his classics of social commentary The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler has established himself as one of the great commentators on American space and place. Now, with The Long Emergency, he offers a shocking vision of a post-oil future. As a result of artificially cheap fossil-fuel energy, we have...

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