number of near-miss tropical illnesses, Maude reluctantly decided that it would be best for her and her daughter to stay in England at Buckhurst. Rupert carried on with the slaughter. As Harriet grew up, she did not share her parents' ...
Rare Earth is a story about love, journalism, ghosts, metallurgy, vintage militaria and large motorcycles set in the badlands of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia.
What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book.
Soon the skies over the entire Earth glow dull red from these flashing small meteors. Millions of them fall back to Earth as blazing fireballs and, in the process, ignite the verdant Late Cretaceous forests; over half of Earth's ...
Rare earth elements are the game-changing foundation of our most powerful innovationsmobile phones, iPods and iPads, liquid crystal displays, LEDs, light bulbs, CDs and DVDs.
A washed up TV reporter stumbles onto a corruption scandal in Western China.
Rare Earth
But his true mission focuses on the area's reserves of once-obscure minerals now indispensable to high-tech industries. These strategic elements--called rare earth--have inflamed tensions on the world's stage and stoked tribal rivalries.