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Cobalt : cradle of the demon metals, birth of a mining superpower / by Angus, Charlie,1962-author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-317)."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.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Cobalt red : how the blood of the Congo powers our lives / by Kara, Siddharth,author.(CARDINAL)491642;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-260) and index.List of acronyms -- Introduction -- "Unspeakable Richness" -- "Here it is better not to be born"/Lubumbashi and Kipushi -- The hills have secrets/ Likasi and Kambove -- Colony to the world -- "If we do not dig, we do not eat"/ Tenke Fungurume, Mutanda and Tilwezembe -- "We work in our graves"/ Kolwezi -- The final truth/ Kamilombe."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: Informational works.; Cobalt industry; Cobalt mines and mining; Miners; Human rights; Human rights.;

Available copies: 26 / Total copies: 31

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Future Quest. by Parker, Jeff,1966-author.(CARDINAL)552142; Bellaire, Jordie,artist.(CARDINAL)351715; Lanphear, Dave,letterer.(CARDINAL)688844; Shaner, Evan,artist.(CARDINAL)616152;

Part one: lights in the sky / Evan "Doc" Shaner and Steve "The Dude" Rude, artists -- Part two: visitors from beyond / Evan "Doc" Shaner, Ron Randall and Jonathan Case, artists -- The deadly distance / Steve "The Dude" Rude, art & cover -- Mine-crash! / Aaron Lopresti, penciller -- How the mighty fall! / Shaner, Randall, Parker, art -- The structure of fear / Jeff Parker, story & art -- Making friends / Ron Randall, artist -- Part five: the wheel of history / Evan "Doc" Shaner, art -- Codename: Cobalt / Craig Rousseau-art -- Impossible choice! / Evan "Doc" Shaner and Ron Randall, art -- Code name: cobalt, part two / Craig Rousseau-art."They've thrilled generations of viewers with their high-octane action and iconic character designs. Now the reimagined heroes of Hanna-Barbera--Space Ghost, Jonny Quest, Birdman, the Herculoids and more--united for the first time, in a battle so big the small screen simply can't contain the cataclysm!" --

Subjects: Young adult literature.; Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Superhero comics.; Young adult literature.; Good and evil;

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Power metal : the race for the resources that will shape the future / by Beiser, Vince,1965-author.(CARDINAL)417519;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-245) and index.Introduction: There's no such thing as clean energy -- The electro-digital age -- Part one: Elements of the future. The elemental superpower -- The global treasure hunt -- Killing for copper -- Holding power -- The endangered desert -- Depth charge -- Part two: The reverse supply chain. Mining the concrete -- High-tech trash -- Part three: Better than recycling. New lives for old things -- The road forward -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index."How the metals we need to power technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and murder-and how we can do better. An Australian multimillionaire's plan to mine the ocean floor. Garbage pickers in Nigeria risking their lives to salvage e-waste amid nightmarish pollution. A Bill Gates-backed entrepreneur harnessing artificial intelligence to find metals in the Arctic. Train-robbing copper thieves in Chile. These are some of the people in the intensifying global competition to locate and extract the minerals essential for two critical technologies that will shape humanity's future: the internet and renewable energy. It's a race that will create new industries, generate enormous wealth, and destabilize the global balance of power. It could propel us to a more sustainable future--or plunge us into an environmental nightmare. In Power Metal, journalist and author Vince Beiser explores the Achilles' heel of green power and digital technology: that the manufacturing of our computers, cell phones, electric cars, solar panels, and wind turbines requires enormous amounts of increasingly rare materials--lithium, cobalt, copper, and others--the demand for which is skyrocketing. Around the world, businesses and governments are scrambling for new places and new ways to get those metals, at enormous cost to people and the planet. Beiser crisscrossed the world to witness this race, reporting on the damage it is already inflicting, the ways it could get worse, and the ways in which we can minimize that damage. The result is a book that is both a gripping read and a sobering account of the battle between what civilization demands and what the planet can withstand. Power Metal is a compelling and important glimpse into this new, disturbing, and exciting world"--

Subjects: Informational works.; Mines and mineral resources; Mineral industries; Strategic materials; Sustainable development; Rare earth metals;

Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 17

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The art of colour : the history of art in 39 pigments / by Grovier, Kelly,author.(CARDINAL)356987; Yale University Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)332061;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-243) and index.Introduction: Artymology -- Red -- Colorful minds: Isaac Newton's Opticks (1704) -- Orange -- Colorful minds: Tobias Mayer's The Affinity of Colour Commentary (1775) -- Yellow -- Colorful minds: Mary Gartside's Essay on Light and Shade, on Colours, and on Composition in General (1805) -- Green -- Colorful minds: Goethe's Theory of Colours (1810) -- Blue -- Colorful minds: Philipp Otto Runge's Colour Sphere (1810) -- Purple -- Colorful minds: Michel Eug̈ne Chevreul's The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours (1839) -- Black -- Colorful minds: Emily Noyes Vanderpoel's Color Problems (1902) -- White -- Colorful minds: Albert Henry Munsell's Atlas of the Munsell Color System (1915) -- Brown -- Colorful minds: Johannes Itten's Utopia (1921) -- Precious metals -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index Acknowledgments."A captivating new history of art told through the storied biographies of colors and pigments. In this refreshing approach to the history of color, Kelly Grovier takes readers on an exciting search for the intriguing and unusual. In Grovier's telling, a color's connotations are never fixed but are endlessly evolving. Knowledge of a pigment and its history can unlock meaning in the works that feature it. Grovier employs the term "artymology" to suggest that color is a linguistic device, where pigments stand in for syllables in art's language. Color is the site of invigorating conflict--a battleground where past and present, influence and originality, and superstition and science merge into meanings that complicate and intensify our appreciation of a given work. How might it change our understanding of a well-known masterpiece like Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night to know that the intense yellow moon in that painting was sculpted from clumps of dehydrated urine from cows that were fed nothing but mango leaves? Or that the cobalt blue pigment in Van Gogh's sky shares a material bloodline with the glaze of Ming Dynasty porcelain? Consisting of ten chapters, each presenting a biography of a family of colors, this volume mines a rich vein of pigmentation from prehistoric cave painting to art of the present day. The book also includes beautifully designed features exploring important milestones in the history of color theory from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century."--Publisher's website.

Subjects: Color in art; Colors; Pigments;

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Hammer to fall [large print] / by Lawton, John,1949-author.(CARDINAL)683385;

"It's London, the swinging sixties, and by all rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. But alas, his postings are more grim than glamorous. Luckily, Wilderness has a knack for doing well for himself even in the most unpromising postings, though this has gotten him into hot water in the past. A coffee-smuggling gig in divided Berlin was a steady money-maker but things went pear-shaped when he had to smuggle a spy back to the KGB instead. In the wake of what became an embarrassing disaster for MI6, Wilderness is reprimanded with a posting to remote northern Finland, under the guise of a cultural exchange program to promote Britain abroad. Bored by his work, with nothing to spy on, Wilderness finds another way to make money, this time by smuggling vodka across the rather porous border into the USSR. He strikes a deal with his old KGB pal Kostya, who explains to him there is, no joke, a vodka shortage in the Soviet Union, following a grain famine caused by Khrushchev's new agricultural policies. But there is something fishy about why Kostya has suddenly turned up in Finland--and MI6 intelligence from London points to a connection to the mining of cobalt in the region, a critical component in the casing of the atomic bomb. Wilderness's posting is getting more interesting by the minute, but more dangerous too. Moving from the no-man's-land of Cold War Finland to the wild days of the Prague Spring, and populated by old friends (including Inspector Troy) and old enemies alike, Hammer to Fall is a gripping tale of deception and skullduggery, of art and politics, a page-turning story of the always riveting life of the British spy"--

Subjects: Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Spy fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Private investigators; Cold War; Nineteen sixties;

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