The worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history began a half hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, when fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Companys Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyr[...]
Review of the previous edition: ""A model of excellence in the art of reference volume publishing... Every public and school library... should acquire this treasure. It will remain the standard for many years to come."" - Dr. James A. Clifton, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan University [...]
Following on from 'Where the Shadows Lie', the second installment of Fire and Ice. A crime series and contemporary Icelandic saga, a unique series from that rarest of commodities: a million copy selling author, it deals with ancient blood feuds and modern conspiracies: Magnus Jonson, the Iceland[...]
"Contemporary Art In North America"--the fourth title in Black Dog Publishing's ARTWORLD series--is a unique and timely survey into art deriving from the United States and Canada today. Diverse in both content and style, art in the United States and Canada reflects the multi-cultural roots from whic[...]
Migration; European Union; Middle East and North Africa
Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS), a way to simulate a large number of choices by individual actors, is one of the most exciting practical developments in business modeling since the invention of relational databases. It represents a new way to understand data and generate information that[...]