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  • Becoming the World's Biggest Brewer

    Artois, Piedboeuf, and Interbrew (1880-2000)

    AB InBev is today's uncontested world leader of the beer market. It represents over 20% of global beer sales, with more than 450 million hectolitre a year flowing all around the world. Its Belgian predecessor, Interbrew, was a success story stemming from the 1971 secret merger of the country's two leading brewers: Artois and Piedboeuf. Based on material originating from company and private ... Leer más

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  • Solvay

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    Ernest Solvay, philanthropist and organizer of the world-famous Solvay conferences on physics, discovered a profitable way of making soda ash in 1861. Together with a handful of associates, he laid the foundations of the Solvay company, which successfully branched out into other chemicals, plastics and pharmaceuticals. Since its emergence in 1863, Solvay has maintained world leadership in the ... Leer más

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  • The Rare Metals War

    the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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  • The Legacy of Chernobyl

    "A damning history of the Chernobyl affair, from its origins in the plant's primitive design and careless management to the economic and political crisis the accident precipitated." —Clenn Garelik, New York Times Book ReviewOn the morning of April 26, 1986, a Soviet nuclear plant at Chernobyl (near Kiev) exploded, pouring radioactivity into the environment and setting off the worst disaster in the ... Leer más

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  • Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps

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  • The Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change

    Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of Disinformation

    This book exposes the truth that the climate change hoax is a political movement aimed at eliminating capitalism by spreading alarming disinformation that in order to “save the Earth” from global warming, we must reduce carbon dioxide emissions by switching from hydrocarbon fuels to renewable energies.The Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change: Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of ... Leer más

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    Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables

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