Technology & Engineering
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Mining is the Future
Three-Step Process to Achieve Sustainability in Mining by Alp Bora
Metals and minerals are all around us in our everyday lives. They’re used in everything from cars and kitchen appliances to smartphones and complex medical equipment. These natural resources are also integral to many forms of renewable energy....
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More Hockey Stories: A Novel Perspective
Conversations with El Gordo by M. Gordon Hunter
Retired NHL players Billy Sinatra and Malcolm Gordon Steven (better known as “Keeper”) have both returned to relatively normal lives after their controversial Stanley Cup win, with Billy now coaching minor-league hockey in Moose Jaw and Keeper...
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Radio History Ship Shore
by Spurgeon G. Roscoe
From flags and pennants to Morse code and complex telecommunications, Radio History Ship to Shore is a treatise on the navigational aids vessels have used over the centuries. Author Spurgeon “Spud” G. Roscoe takes the reader on a journey through...
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Thermomechanical Pulp
Technology, Energy Requirements, Pulp Quality Characteristics and Morphological Aspects by Michael Jackson, Norman Wild and Mark Frith
This book provides an in-depth review of refiner-based mechanical pulping technology, specifically thermomechanical pulp (TMP) technology. The authors offer a readable and straightforward discussion of the technology, energy requirements, pulp...
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I Know a Little About a Lot of Things
A Chronical of my Life in Construction by Rick Tough
The book is a chronicle of my life and my life-long career in the construction industry throughout Western Canada. It begins, as my life did, in the 50’s and traverses through to this present day, reflcting on the many life experiences,...
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Radio History
Amateur Radio by Spurgeon G. "Spud" Roscoe VE1BC
In this sweeping history, author Spurgeon G. Roscoe takes a look at the world of amateur radio in North America and the special role the Halifax Amateur Radio Club (HARC), of which he is a member, played in it, from the time of the World Wars all...
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The Wildfire Twenty
A Firefighter Memoir by Harold R. Larson
In the spring of 2011, a devastating wildfire almost destroyed the town of Slave Lake. From the aftermath, a new type of Alberta firefighting crew was created to fight wildfires that could threaten entire communities. These 20-person crews would...
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Cane Creek Days
by Warren Gill
Cane Creek Days is the memoir of a boy growing up on a story-book farm near Petersburg, Tennessee, the kind of farming life that no longer exists. The story takes place among the fields and small towns and bridges and dusty roads through which...
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Project Management in Practice
A Guide for Effective Delivery of Capital Infrastructure by Garry N. Boychuk
This book is a practical guide to more effective delivery of capital infrastructure projects. Current manuals tend to be impractical and heavy on terminology with an unnatural focus on the project management requirements over the actual...
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Misfit Thinking
Using Design Thinking to Energize Innovation and Creativity by R. Gordon Bennett
Is your organization stuck in a rut and unable to see past the same old ineffective approaches? Misfit Thinking demonstrates how teams can become more innovative in order to actually solve problems, creatively. It is a thorough exploration of and...
