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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jonathan peyton”
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  • Unbuilt Environments

    Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia

    by Jonathan Peyton ...
    Series series Nature | History | Society
    In the latter half of the twentieth century, legions of industrial pioneers came to northwestern British Columbia with grand plans for mines, dams, and energy-development schemes. Yet many of their projects failed to materialize or were abandoned midstream. Unbuilt Environments reveals that these lapsed resource projects had lasting effects on the natural and human environment. Drawing on a range ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Ice Blink

    Navigating Northern Environmental History

    by Tina Adcock, Emelie Cameron, Hans M. Carlson, Marionne Cronin, Matthew Farish, Arn Keeling, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Tina Loo, Paul Nadasdy, Jonathan Peyton, Liza Piper, John Sandlos, Andrew Stuhl ...
    Series Book 7 - Canadian History and Environment
    Northern Canada's distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and the wider public have shown increasing interest in the region. This timely volume extends our understanding of the environmental history of ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

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  • Geothermal Reservoir Engineering

    by Malcolm Alister Grant, Paul F Bixley ...
    As nations alike struggle to diversify and secure their power portfolios, geothermal energy, the essentially limitless heat emanating from the earth itself, is being harnessed at an unprecedented rate. For the last 25 years, engineers around the world tasked with taming this raw power have used Geothermal Reservoir Engineering as both a training manual and a professional reference. This long ... Read more

    $111.59 USD

  • Ice Ghosts

    The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition

    by Paul Watson ...
    "Intriguing [and] enjoyable." —Ian McGuire, New York Times Book ReviewIce Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845—whose two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and their crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice—with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the recent incredible discoveries of the wrecks. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The North West Passage Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Explorers of the North-West Passage

    by Roald Amundsen, Richard Hakluyt, Robert McClure ...
    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    “The Northwest Passage Exploration Anthology”, features the first-hand personal accounts of explorers: Roald Amundsen, Robert McClure, John Rae, John Franklin, Thomas Simpson, Peter Warren Dease, William Edward Parry and Richard Hakluyt. This book charts the full history of the exploration of the legendary “Northwest Passage” – the sea-lane around the frozen Northern shore of the North American ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Grid Converters for Photovoltaic and Wind Power Systems

    by Remus Teodorescu, Marco Liserre, Pedro Rodriguez ...
    Series Book 29 - IEEE Press
    Grid converters are the key player in renewable energy integration. The high penetration of renewable energy systems is calling for new more stringent grid requirements. As a consequence, the grid converters should be able to exhibit advanced functions like: dynamic control of active and reactive power, operation within a wide range of voltage and frequency, voltage ride-through capability, ... Read more

    $144.00 USD

  • Oka

    A Political Crisis and Its Legacy

    by Harry Swain ...
    On July 11, 1990, tension between white and Mohawk people at Oka, just west of Montreal, took a violent turn. At issue was the town's plan to turn a piece of disputed land in the community of Kanesatake into a golf course. Media footage of rock-throwing white residents and armed, masked Mohawk Warriors facing police across barricades shocked the world and galvanized Aboriginal people across the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Biorefinery in the Pulp and Paper Industry

    by Pratima Bajpai ...
    The traditional pulp and paper producers are facing new competitors in tropical and subtropical regions who use the latest and largest installed technologies, and also have wood and labor cost advantages. Due to the increasing global competition, the forest products prices will continue to decrease. To remain viable, the traditional producers need to increase revenue by producing bioenergy and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Lake Erie Shore

    Ontario's Forgotten South Coast

    by Ron Brown ...
    The Lake Erie shoreline has born witness to some of Ontario's earliest history, yet remains largely unspoiled. Much of the area's natural features - the wetlands, the Carolinian forests - and its built heritage - fishing ports and military ramparts - provide much of interest for vistors to the region.Ron Brown has traversed this most southern coast line in Ontario, fleshing out forgotten stories ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gift

    Fort Norman, N.W.T., Canada

    by Dawn Kostelnik ...
    Series series The White Girl
    **THIS STOREY IS RATED PG NR (PERSONAL GUIDANCE, NORTHERN REALITY) THIS IS ABOUT KILLING FOR FOOD**Winter is a long drawn out affair in the Arctic. The men stick gamble and play cards, they laugh at each other and drink thick, black, sweet tea well into the deep dark of the night. Everyone hopes that old man winter leaves before the firewood runs out. Dogs are used to haul wood and there is no ... Read more

    $1.00 USD

  • The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas

    by Sir Frances Leopold McClintock ...
    Series series Classics West Collection
    In 1845, Sir John Franklin set off from England to locate and chart the elusive Northwest Passage. He and his crew of 129 men never returned.Over the following decade, forty expeditions were launched in an effort to establish the fate of the missing men. But it wasn't until 1854 that traces of their demise were discovered along the western shore of King William Island.However, without proof, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Tracking Solar Concentrators

    A Low Budget Solution

    by Zafrullah Jagoo ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Harnessing a multitude of complementary green energy sources is the only plausible way to satisfy the energy demands of a greedy global economy. The potential of solar energy (being the most abundant) in fulfilling part of the energy requirements of mankind is immense and constitutes the focal point of this book. A self-powered solar tracker that points directly towards the sun by means of an ... Read more

    $49.49 USD