A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARAN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION, AND THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDThe trillion-dollar battle for the resources to power our future. Oil and gas defined the twentieth century.

From the author of The Almighty Dollar comes this urgent and illuminating exploration of the rapidly changing global green economy, lifting the lid on what it means for us all.

Die Vorfertigung von Bauteilen, Räumen oder ganzen Bauten ist eine attraktive Option für Bauherren, die eine schnellere, kostengünstigere und qualitativ hochwertige Wohnlösung suchen. Die Gestaltungsfreiheit moderner Systembauweisen steht konventionellen Baumethoden inzwischen in nichts nach. Ermöglicht durch technologische Fortschritte erfahren modulare Bauweisen einen bemerkenswerten Boom überall auf der Welt.

Neben industriell arbeitenden Firmen sind es zunehmend auch innovative Arch...

A practical and encouraging workbook featuring exercises to help us rediscover and nurture our innate confidence.

ANDERSEN's FAIRY TALES, which have been translated into more than "125 languages", have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well.

Some of his most famous fairy tales include "THE EMPEROR's NEW CLOTHEs", "THE LITTLE MERMAID", "THE NIGHTINGALE", "THE SNOW QUEEN", "THE UGLY DUCKLING", "THUMBELINA", and many more. In this book, you will find...

AUTHOR OF "POOR BOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS," "GIRLS WHO BECAME FAMOUS," "STORIES FROM LIFE," "FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS," "FAMOUS AMERICAN STATESMEN," "SOCIAL STUDIES IN

ENGLAND," "FROM HEART AND NATURE,"

"FAMOUS MEN OF SCIENCE," ETC.

"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live, and it is in your power."

—Marcus Aurelius.

"Every line, every road, every gable, every tower, has some story of the past present in it. Eve...

ONE of the best things to be said of the stories in this volume is that, although they are not biographical, they are about real persons who actually lived and performed their parts in the great drama of the world's history. Some of these persons were more famous than others, yet all have left enduring "footprints on the sands of time" and their names will not cease to be remembered.

In each of the stories there is a basis of truth and an ethical lesson which cannot fail to have a wholesome i...