Author: William Jones (F.S.A.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The treasures of the earth; or, Mines, minerals, and metals
Author: William Jones (F.S.A.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Treasures of the Earth; Or, Mines, Minerals, and Metals. With Anecdotes of Men who Have Been Connected with Mining
Author: William Jones (F.S.A.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Treasures of the Earth, Or Mines, Minerals and Metals
Author: William JonesTreasures of the Earth
Author: Saleem H. AliPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300155670
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Would the world be a better place if human societies were somehow able to curb their desires for material goods? Saleem Ali's pioneering book links human wants and needs by providing a natural history of consumption and materialism with scientific detail and humanistic nuance. It argues that simply disavowing consumption of materials is not likely to help in planning for a resource-scarce future, given global inequality, development imperatives, and our goals for a democratic global society. Rather than suppress the creativity and desire to discover that is often embedded in the exploration and production of material goods--which he calls the treasure impulse--Ali proposes a new environmental paradigm, one that accepts our need to consume treasure for cultural and developmental reasons, but warns of our concomitant need to conserve. In evaluating the impact of treasure consumption on resource-rich countries, he argues that there is a way to consume responsibly and alleviate global poverty.
Descriptive Catalogue of Books Contained in the Lending Library
Author: Bishopsgate Institute, LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Seeing Underground
Author: Eric C. NystromPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874179335
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Digging mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times, and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War, little mining was deep enough to require maps. However, the major finds of the mid-nineteenth century, such as the Comstock Lode, were vastly larger than any before in America. In Seeing Underground, Nystrom argues that, as industrial mining came of age in the United States, the development of maps and models gave power to a new visual culture and allowed mining engineers to advance their profession, gaining authority over mining operations from the miners themselves. Starting in the late nineteenth century, mining engineers developed a new set of practices, artifacts, and discourses to visualize complex, pitch-dark three-dimensional spaces. These maps and models became necessary tools in creating and controlling those spaces. They made mining more understandable, predictable, and profitable. Nystrom shows that this new visual culture was crucial to specific developments in American mining, such as implementing new safety regulations after the Avondale, Pennsylvania fire of 1869 killed 110 men and boys; understanding complex geology, as in the rich ores of Butte, Montana; and settling high-stakes litigation, such as the Tonopah, Nevada, Jim Butler v. West End lawsuit, which reached the US Supreme Court. Nystrom demonstrates that these neglected artifacts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have much to teach us today. The development of a visual culture helped create a new professional class of mining engineers and changed how mining was done. Seeing Undergound is the winner of the 2015 Mining History Association’s Clark Spence Award for the best book on mining history.
A Classified and Descriptive Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Books
Author: G. PhilipThe Foreign Quarterly Review
Author: The Westminster Review
Author: Subject List of Works on the Mineral Industries and Allied Sciences
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description