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OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas
OECD Publishing 2013; US$ 35.00This is an updated edition which includes new supplements on Tin, Tantalum and Tungsten and on Gold. Trade and investment in natural mineral resources hold great potential for generating income, growth and prosperity, sustaining livelihoods and fostering local development. However, a large share of these resources is located in conflict-affected... more...
The Chinese Steel Industrys Transformation
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00This unique and informative book provides a central reference work on the Chinese steel industry and discusses China's increasing demand on metals from both macroeconomic and regional perspectives. It includes macroeconomic studies of developments in Chinese resource demand with particular reference to the ferrous metals and microeconomic studies... more...
Project Management for the Oil and Gas Industry
CRC Press 2013; US$ 119.95Project management for oil and gas projects comes with a unique set of challenges that include the management of science, technology, and engineering aspects. Underlining the specific issues involved in projects in this field, Project Management for the Oil and Gas Industry: A World System Approach presents step-by-step application of project management... more...
Medium-Term Coal Market Report 2012
OECD Publishing 2013; US$ 140.00The Medium-Term Coal Market Report-2012 provides IEA forecasts on coal markets for the coming five years as well as an in-depth analysis of recent developments in global coal demand, supply and trade. The annual report shows that while coal continues to be a growing source of primary energy worldwide, its future is increasingly linked to non-OECD countries,... more...
Exit Zero
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 27.50In 1980, Christine J. Walley’s world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In the ensuing years, ninety thousand other area residents would also lose their jobs in the mills—just one example of the vast scale of deindustrialization occurring across the United States. The... more...
Mastering Iron
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 36.00Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Iron making began almost as soon as European settlement, with the establishment of the first ironworks in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world’s dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron, a position it retained throughout the nineteenth century.... more...
The Rise of the British Coal Industry
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 185.00Published in the year 1966, The Rise of the British Coal Industry is a valuable contribution to the field of Economics. more...
Transaction Costs & Trade Between Multinational Corporations (RLE Int'l Bus)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00Until this book was published little had appeared on the matter of the organization of production in oil gathering. This book: Describes the global offshore oil supply industry and its features on one of the world?s major offshore oil services bases Draws on the theory of the multinational corporation to explain why buyers and sellers... more...
Imperial Canada Inc.
Talonbooks 2012; US$ 17.95Asks (and answers) the simple question: why is Canada home to more than 70% of the world?s mining companies? more...
Globalisation, Transition and Development in China
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 185.00Based on extensive original research, Globalisation, Transition and Development in China explains China's development strategy and its underlying forces, and the success of this strategy. It examines China's gradualist approach which emphasizes development first and regards transition and globalization as secondary, enacting liberalization of domestic... more...









