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- Pitfall : the race to mine the world's most vulnerable places / by Pollon, Christopher,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.'Pitfall' is the compelling story of the quest to exploit the metals our civilization needs-and the cost to local people and their environments. If we cannot change our course, Christopher Pollon argues, we are condemned to mine deeper and darker places, including the depths of the ocean, sacrifice zones, and near-earth asteroids. This disturbing vision of the future also includes robotic mines without workers and social license-unless we act now.
- Subjects: Mineral industries; Mineral industries; Mines and mineral resources; Mines and mineral resources;
- Little accidents [videorecording] / by Banks, Elizabeth,1974-; Holbrook, Boyd,1981-; Lofland, Jacob.; Lucas, Josh.; Sevigny, Chloë.; Mongrel Media.; Métropole Films Distribution.;
- Elizabeth Banks, Josh Lucas, Chloe Sevigny, Boyd Holbrook, Jacob Lofland.In a small American town still living in the shadow of a terrible coal mine accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws together a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy in a web of secrets.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Coal mine accidents; Coal miners; Feature films.; Missing persons; Secrets; Teenage boys;
- For private home use only.
- Lenny. by Fosse, Bob,film director.; Hoffman, Dustin,actor.; Miner, Jan,actor.; Perrine, Valerie,actor.; MGM (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
- Dustin Hoffman, Jan Miner, Valerie PerrineOriginally produced by MGM in 1974.Dustin Hoffman brings controversial comedian Lenny Bruce to life in this powerful portrait of an artist who turns comedy and America on its ear with his often offensive humor. But life in the on the comedy circuit begins to take its toll on Bruce. The drugs and arrests for his subject matter wear heavily on him but don't stop him from pushing the envelope right to his tragic and myth-making end.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Drama.; Motion pictures.;
- Cobalt red : how the blood of the Congo powers our lives / by Kara, Siddharth,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation-and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt. Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. More than 70 percent of the world's supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo-because we are all implicated"--
- Subjects: Cobalt industry; Cobalt mines and mining; Human rights; Miners;
- Congo stories : battling five centuries of exploitation and greed / by Prendergast, John,1963-author.; Bafilemba, Fidel,author.; Souleymane, Soraya Aziz,writer of foreword.; Eggers, Dave,writer of postface.; Namegabe, Chouchou,writer of afterword.; Ilus, Sam,1979-illustrator.; Gosling, Ryan,1980-photographer.;
- Subjects: Resource curse; Mines and mineral resources;
- The boxcar librarian : a novel / by Labuskes, Brianna,author.;
- "Inspired by true events, a thrilling Depression-era novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books about a woman's quest to uncover a mystery surrounding a local librarian and the Boxcar Library-a converted mining train that brought books to isolated rural towns in Montana"--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Book editors; Bookmobiles; Books and reading; Depressions; Mineral industries; Missing persons; Secrecy; Women librarians;
- The boxcar librarian [text (large print)] : a novel / by Labuskes, Brianna,author.;
- "Inspired by true events, a thrilling Depression-era novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books about a woman's quest to uncover a mystery surrounding a local librarian and the Boxcar Library-a converted mining train that brought books to isolated rural towns in Montana"--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Book editors; Bookmobiles; Books and reading; Depressions; Mineral industries; Missing persons; Secrecy; Women librarians;
- Pride [videorecording] / by Nighy, Bill,1949-; Rooney, Abram.; Schnetzer, Ben.; Staunton, Imelda,1953-; Warchus, Matthew,film director.; West, Dominic,1970-; Remstar.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);
- Director of photography, Tat Radcliffe ; editor, Melanie Ann Oliver ; music, Christopher Nightingale.Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Ben Schnetzer, Abram Rooney.Inspired by actual events, director Matthew Warchus' Pride details the unlikely friendship forged between a small community of striking miners in Wales and the London-based gay-and-lesbian activists who raise funds to feed their families in the summer of 1984. With no end to the strike in sight, the urban activists venture into the countryside to deliver their donation in person, and find they have more in common with the people of this struggling community than anyone on either side could have expected.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen, Aspect ratio 2.35 presentation; 5.1 Dolby Digital.
- Subjects: National Union of Mineworkers; Coal Strike, Great Britian, 1984-1985; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Gay activists; Strikes and lockouts;
- © c2014., Universal Studios,
- Life in a mining community / by Hyde, Natalie,1963-;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 32), Internet addresses and index.LSC
- Subjects: Miners; Mineral industries;
- © c2010., Crabtree Pub.,
- Cobalt : cradle of the demon metals, birth of a mining superpower / by Angus, Charlie,1962-author.;
- Includes bibliographical references."The world is desperate for cobalt. It fuels the digital economy and powers everything from cell phones to clean energy. But this 'demon metal,' this 'blood mineral,' has a horrific present and troubled history. Then there is the town in northern Canada, also called Cobalt. It created a model of resource extraction a hundred years ago--theft of Indigenous lands, rape of the earth, exploitation of workers, enormous wealth generation--that has made Toronto the mining capital of the world and given the mining industry a blueprint for resource extraction that has been exported everywhere. Charlie Angus unearths the history of the town and shows how it contributed to Canada's mining dominance. He connects the town to present-day Congo, with its cobalt production and misery, to horrendous mining practices in South America and demonstrates that global mining is as Canadian as hockey."--
- Subjects: Mineral industries; Mineral industries; Cobalt mines and mining.;
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