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“terry macalister”

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  • Polar Opposites: Opportunities and Threats in the Arctic

    by Terry Macalister ...
    A new race to the North Pole is underway but not on sleds by bearded and wild-eyed adventurers looking for new challenges. The latest pioneers tend to be clean-shaven, hard-nosed salesmen in scheduled aircraft flying in to make money out of a bleak landscape. Cold is the new hot for Big Business and the melting ice caps have triggered a flurry of oil drilling, ore digging and bulk shipping. The ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Crude Britannia

    How Oil Shaped a Nation

    by James Marriott, Terry Macalister ...
    'Dripping with delicious detail' - Aditya ChakraborttyTaking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britain’s oil-soaked past, present and future. Travelling the country, the authors discover how the financial power and political muscle of an industry built the culture of a nation from pop music to kitchen ... Read more

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    The Inside Story

    by Barry Sergeant ...
    In September 2005, corporate South Africa was rocked by the violent murder of mining maverick Brett Kebble. In life, he was known as a billionaire patron of the arts, compassionate philanthropist, champion of black economic empowerment, urbane raconteur and generous host. But within six months of his death, Kebble was exposed as the architect of one of the biggest and most convoluted frauds seen ... Read more

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  • My Life, Our Times

    by Gordon Brown ...
    This revelatory memoir from Britain's former Prime Minister offers vital insights into our extraordinary times.Former Prime Minister and the country's longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story.In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the son of a minister, the near loss ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Big Fella

    The Rise And Rise Of BHP Billiton

    by Robert Macklin, Peter Thompson ...
    The never-before-told story of BHP Billiton's global conquests, told by the key players.BHP is part of Australia's DNA; but it remains an enigma. The Big Fella: The rise and rise of BHP Billiton is the compelling story of how BHP and its partner Billiton rose from the humblest beginnings in the Australian Outback and on the Indonesian island of Belitung to starry heights on the great bourses of ... Read more

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  • On the Wrong Line: How Ideology and Incompetence Wrecked Britain's Railways

    by Christian Wolmar ...
    Britain's rail privatisation was one of the greatest political failures of recent history. A well-functioning industry was torn apart to satisfy political dogma and privatised in a way that not only compromised safety and wrecked performance but also resulted in financial melt-down.In this acclaimed book, an update to his earlier work Broken Rails, Christian Wolmar reveals the causes of the ... Read more

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  • Quarterly Essay 66 The Long Goodbye

    Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock

    by Anna Krien ...
    Series Book 66 - Quarterly Essay
    The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Extreme weather is becoming all too familiar. Yet when it comes to action on climate change, division and paralysis rule the land.In this vivid, urgent essay, Anna Krien explores the psychology and politics of a warming world. She visits the frontlines of Australia’s climate wars – the Reef, the Galilee and Bowen basins, South Australia. She investigates the Adani ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Brexit and Ireland

    The Dangers, the Opportunities, and the Inside Story of the Irish Response

    by Tony Connelly ...
    'Excellent' Sunday TimesBrexit represents potentially the single greatest economic and foreign-policy challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War. There is hardly any area of Irish life that hasn't be affected.More than any other journalist, RTE's long-time Brussels correspondent Tony Connelly has been helping the public make sense of the implications of Brexit for Ireland. Now, he ... Read more

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  • Made In Britain

    How the nation earns its living

    by Evan Davis ...
    What are countries famous for making? For Japan, the answer might be electronic goods. For Germany, automobiles. For France, perhaps a Louis Vuitton bag. But what about Britain?Here, Evan Davis sets himself the task of finding out. Offering a fascinating look at our manufacturing industries and revealing the various companies that might not be household names, but are very much world leaders in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Alchemists

    The INEOS Story – An Industrial Giant Comes of Age

    by Jim Ratcliffe, Ursula Heath ...
    One of the world's top 40 manufacturing companies, one of the largest global petrochemicals producers and the biggest private company in the UK, INEOS has risen to prominence over the past twenty years led by three unassuming northern grammar school boys: majority owner Jim Ratcliffe and his business partners Andy Currie and John Reece.The company's prolific growth and unlikely success have ... Read more

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  • Spills and Spin

    The Inside Story of BP

    by Tom Bergin ...
    In April 2010, the world watched in alarm as BP's Macondo well suffered a fatal explosion and a catastrophic leak. Over the next three months, amid tense scenes of corporate and political finger-pointing, millions of barrels of crude oil dispersed across the Gulf of Mexico in what became one of the worst oil spills in history.But there is more to BP's story than this. Tom Bergin, an oil broker ... Read more

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  • John Key: Portrait of a Prime Minister

    by John Roughan ...
    New Zealand’s most popular modern day Prime Minister, John Key shocked many with his decision to step down from office less than a year out from a general election. Rather than doing what most expected and seeking an historic fourth term, Key opted to quit while his approval rating was still high and before voters tired of him. ‘I always thought leaders overstay their welcome. They just start ... Read more

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