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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The story of civilization from an entirely new vantage point-the six raw materials that have shaped and will continue to shape humanity's destiny. Sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium: The struggle for these fundamental materials has created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and our greed for thousands of years. It is a story that is far from finished. Though we are told we now live in a weightless world of information, we...
Author
Series
Comet cycle volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
It began with a comet. At first, people gazed in wonder at the radiant tear in the sky. A year later, the celestial marvel became a planetary crisis when Earth spun through the comet's debris field and the sky rained fire. The town of Northfall, Minnesota will never be the same. Meteors cratered hardwood forests and annihilated homes, and among the wreckage a new metal was discovered. This "omnimetal" has properties that make it world-changing as...
5) Delta-V
Author
Series
Delta-V volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation -- a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization. When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a mistake. But Tighe's unique skill set makes him a prime...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning to 1880s Philadelphia, Violet Mitchell never expected to find her brothers living on the edge of financial ruin while their father seeks new wealth in Montana's gold fields. Morgan Callahan, exploiting a mother lode of silver, finds a woman claiming to be his late partner's daughter wanting to be taken to her father's mine. Suspecting she's a schemer trying to steal his land, he has no qualms about holding her at his camp. Determined to...
11) Colter's path
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jedediah “Jedd” Colter is a man with big dreams that go beyond the mountains of North Carolina. When he hears of a band of travelers bound for the gold fields of California, Jedd uses his hunting skills to convince the party’s organizers to hire him as a guard. The Sadler brothers promise him a cut of the fortune mining brings them, but their real plan is to hit pay dirt by becoming merchants and cheat Jedd out of his earnings.
While...
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12) Nyxia uprising
Author
Series
Nyxia triad volume 3
Language
English
Description
Desperate to return home to Earth and claim the reward Babel promised, Emmett and the Genesis team join forces with the Imago. They knew one thing Babel didn't: Eden's two moons are on a collision course no one can prevent. After building eight secret launch stations, the Imago hoped to lure Babel down to their doomed planet as they left it behind. A perfect plan until the Genesis team's escape route was destroyed. As Emmett, his crewmates, and their...
Author
Series
Bulletin volume 76
Publisher
The Division
Pub. Date
1975.
Physical Desc
146 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : map (folded in pocket) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Formats
15) Red metal
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three Rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control for generations over the world's hi-tech sector. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy job at the Pentagon and thrown into the fray in Africa, a French Special Forces captain and his...
16) Annual report
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1923
Physical Desc
volumes : plates, tables, folded chart ; 28 cm
Language
English
17) Nyxia unleashed
Author
Series
Nyxia triad volume 2
Language
English
Description
Emmett Atwater and the other Genesis spaceship survivors are caught between Babel and the indigenous Adamite population when they are sent to extract nyxia, the most valuable material in the universe.
Author
Series
Bulletin volume no. 47
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1936.
Physical Desc
81 pages including tables. 16 preliminary leaves (including 7 folded maps.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Bulletin volume no. 51
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1947.
Physical Desc
vii, 114 pages : illustrations, maps (1 folded in pockets) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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