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2014.
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IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 8
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1190L
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Traces the history of the Mason-Dixon Line as reflected by family feuds, exploration, scientific advancement and the cultural conflicts between America's northern and southern states.
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Oil, eh? One of the most troublesome substances known to man.
Burn it and the world goes into meltdown. Disrupt it and the world goes into meltdown. You just can't win with oil... unless, of course, you're in the business.
Supply disruptions hand the oil majors a golden chance to cash in on the subsequent spiralling price of their product... as the world was to discover to its cost the day Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Or rather,...
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Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as reimagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. Unreflectively entangled in crimes of demarcation, Mason and...
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What is the history of plans to build a base on the Moon and what are all the issues involved?Where should the base be built and what will be do once we have long term habitation on the Moon? What are the latest plans for lunar rovers, communications, and other moon base systems?My hope is that the reader will learn about all of the issues important to building a Moon Base to better understand what will be required. You might even want to become a...
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This book covers the often-humorous adventures of Ritchey Marbury during his more than seventy years of surveying and engineering. It tells how his survey crews were, motivated, when he fell face-first into a muddy swamp, how he, peered out of a sanitary sewer manhole, to see his future wife, staring at him from her front porch, and how, he almost fainted, when he saw his son lying in a hospital bed, smiling, after being, cut in the head by a machete....
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This book teaches you everything about one of the most useful and lesser-known surveying instruments.
Invented in the 1870s, the Abney level grew popular in the 20th-century and is still in use today by foresters, surveyors, geologists, and safety inspectors. "Next to the compass, the Abney is probably the most essential and popular surveying instrument in use in the Forest Service." It's considered as a clinometer mainly used in surveying rugged...
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This publication provides an overview of institutional investors' interest in green bonds issued in Cambodia, along with an assessment of the perspectives of local arrangers and underwriters on their clients' interest in green bond issuances. It presents the results of a survey to help identify drivers, impediments, and development priorities for Cambodia's sustainable finance market. The findings and insights presented in this publication are intended...
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A culmination of decades of research on field notes, plats, correspondence, legislation, and observations of surveyors, cartographers, government officials, military commanders, Native Americans, early settlers, and land speculators, this volume is the first of its kind in nearly a century. Interweaving the history of Ohio and biographies of the individuals associated with surveying and mapping, Blazes, Posts and Stones is a must-read book about the...
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Over the past decade, advances in this field have been rapid and we are now well into the era of digital photogrammetry. This book provides an authoritative account of the subject with chapters from acknowledged international experts.
The methodology, algorithms, techniques and equipment necessary to achieve real time digital photogrammetric solutions are presented, together with contemporary aspects of close range photogrammetry. Advances in the...
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In 1950, Ann was eighteen and Bob D twenty when he asked her to marry him and hit the road for West Texas. They packed their station wagon, left home and began a life of adventure together on Conoco's West Texas survey crew during the 1950s oil boom. Five kids, twenty-one towns and thirteen years on the road--Bob D and Ann's travels along the highways of West Texas are a portrait in a landscape of oilfields, railroads and ranches. Layering local history...
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This book is for you if you are really interested in learning more about the intriguing and continuously changing world of authors. This book provides a complete straightforward introduction to the idea of book writing along with guidance on where to start, what to write, and how to establish a book writing career. Additionally, it contains specifics about the procedures followed during the book-writing process. This book discusses the various genres...
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Captain Woodfield made 20 seasonal voyages to the Antarctic on three research ships between 1955 and 1974. Starting as a Junior Deck Officer he worked for The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey which in 1964 became the British Antarctic Survey. He played a paramount role in the gradual change from using under-powered and poorly-equipped ships to the professionally-managed and sophisticated vessels of his last command. The arts of exploration and...
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A persistently large trade finance gap is an ongoing global challenge, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises, which continue to face significant barriers to access financing. This report reflects on the Trade Finance Gaps, Growth, and Jobs Survey conducted by the Asian Development Bank since 2012. It provides insights on trade finance trends, analysis, and lessons from the past 10 years and identifies what needs to happen to make access...
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