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  • Becoming the World's Biggest Brewer

    Artois, Piedboeuf, and Interbrew (1880-2000)

    by Kenneth Bertrams, Julien Del Marmol, Sander Geerts, Eline Poelmans ...
    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 ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

  • The Horse Racing Enthusiast's Library: 9 Books

    Nine Classic Tales and Histories of the Turf, Jockeys, Breeding, Betting, and Racecourse Life

    by Charles E. Van Loan, Clarence Louis Cullen, Nat Gould, Ralph Nevill, James Glass Bertram, Kenneth Austin, John Lawrence O'Connor, Marguerite Henry ...
    The Horse Racing Enthusiast's Library: 9 Books surveys the many cultural lives of the turf, bringing together fiction, sporting commentary, reminiscence, social observation, and writing for younger readers. Across its nine volumes, racing emerges not merely as spectacle but as a world of breeding, training, wagering, class, regional identity, and human attachment to horses. Dramatic race-day ... Read more

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  • Solvay

    History of a Multinational Family Firm

    by Kenneth Bertrams, Nicolas Coupain, Ernst Homburg ...
    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 ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    From Archer to Makybe Diva

    by Jim Haynes ...
    The finest collection of writing about horse racing includes short stories, verse and anecdotes from some of Australia's best-loved writers.Did you know that Jorrocks raced till the grand old age of 19? Or that Melbourne Cup - winner Grand Flaneur never lost a race? Or that Sunline was the top stakes-winning mare in the world in her day?The Best Australian Racing Stories is chock-a-block with the ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • A Bright Future

    How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow

    by Joshua S. Goldstein, Staffan A. Qvist ...
    The inspiration for Nuclear Now, the new Oliver Stone film, co-written by Joshua GoldsteinAs climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries have already replaced fossil fuels with low-carbon energy sources, and done so rapidly, in one to two decades. By following their methods, we could ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Rare Metals War

    the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

    by Guillaume Pitron ...
    Translated by Bianca Jacobsohn ...
    The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth’s most precious metals — but they are running out. And what will happen when they do?The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollution, shortages, and cross-border tensions. Drawing on six years of research across a dozen ... Read more

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  • Australian Tales

    by Marcus Clarke ...
    Mark Twain Lecture, Melbourne, Oct., 1895MARCUS CLARKEI not only regret, but feel surprised that the 'Selected Works' of Australia's only literary genius—a genius such as you will not see again for many a long year—should be out of print. Through the courtesy of his widow I obtained a copy of the work after failing to buy one anywhere. And such a work, such reading, such power. It was just the ... Read more

    $2.14 USD

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

    by John Buchan ...
    Series Book 8 - Delphi Parts Edition (John Buchan)
    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of John Buchan’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for ... Read more

    $1.16 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Legacy of Chernobyl

    by Zhores Medvedev ...
    "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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Mezzotint

    by M. R. James ...
    Mr. Williams, curator of a university museum, acquires a seemingly dull mezzotint of a country manor. To his horror, the engraving begins to change, revealing a sinister sequence: a cloaked figure crawling across the lawn, breaking into the house, and abducting a child. Each viewing shows a new stage of the grim drama. Research uncovers the manor's dark past, linking the spectral figure to ... Read more

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  • A History of Horse Racing - A Large Collection of Historical Articles on Horse Racing in England and America

    by Various Authors ...
    “A History of Horse Racing” contains a collection of classic articles on the subject of horse and horse racing in England and the Unites States. Contents include: “Every Horse Owners Cyclopedia, By J H Walsh”, “The American Trotting Horse”, “The Atlantic Monthly, By John Elderkin”, “A History Of The Turf And The Trotting Horse In America”, “Horse Racing Greats, By Alfred E T Watson”, “Mr. Peter ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps

    Empires of Time

    by Peter Galison ...
    "More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre." —New York Times Book ReviewA dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is "part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of modernity....In Galison's telling of science, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD