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The Pebble Spotter's Guide
  • Language: en

The Pebble Spotter's Guide

A beautifully illustrated introduction to the mindful pleasure of pebble spotting Hidden in plain sight along every shoreline, these amazing consequences of wind, sea, and time all tell stories of our landscapes. In this spirited guide to pebbles, richly illustrated throughout, passionate geologist and pebble spotter Clive J. Mitchell gives practical advice on how to identify 40 pebbles and where to find them, making a trip to the beach or riverbank all the more interesting. The pebbles he introduces range from the humble flint to feldspar veins, serpentinite, granite ovoids, and the holy grail of pebble hunting, the rare rhomb porphyry. The book includes a space for the reader to ruminate on their own findings, taking note of the treasures that they pick up along the way. This is the perfect introduction to everything there is to know about the mindful pleasure of pebble spotting--and there is much treasure to find.

Industrial Minerals and Extractive Industry Geology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392
Planet Earth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Planet Earth

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Sustainable Minerals Operations in the Developing World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Sustainable Minerals Operations in the Developing World

The sustainable development of minerals, which are non-renewable resources, is a major challenge in today's world. In this regard the true definition of 'sustainability' is a debating point in itself: can such a concept exist with respect to non-renewable resources? Perhaps the ideal sustainability model is one that minimizes negative environmental impact and maximizes benefits to society, the economy and regional/national development. Developed and near-developed economies rely for commodity supplies on developing countries where major mining operations are often a mainstay of the domestic economy. Limited environmental regulation and low wages lead to charges of exploitation. Also, large n...

The British National Bibliography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1884

The British National Bibliography

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Weaveworld
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 672

Weaveworld

The Seerkind, a people who possess the power to make magic, have weaved themselves into a rug for safekeeping. Now, with the last human caretaker dead, a variety of humans vie for ownership of the rug.

The Undersea Journal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 466

The Undersea Journal

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Memoir
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 502

Memoir

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1963
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Taxation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

Taxation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1976
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 617

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-05-13
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial and Commonwealth Writers' Prizes 'Thrillingly suspenseful' SUNDAY TIMES 'Stunning' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Brilliant' THE TIMES 'Entirely original' OBSERVER 'A classic' WASHINGTON POST The Sunday Times Number One bestseller from the author of Cloud Atlas and Utopia Avenue In your hands is a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the eighteenth century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart. Step onto the ...