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This book is about the global ecological impacts from the natural resources industries. It contains a collection of papers on topics ranging from the importance of biodiversity to best practices according to industry experts. The book promotes the goals of conservation and sustainable development through collaboration and cooperation. One chapter discusses the Camp Caiman Gold Project in French Guiana. This case study shows how a local community worked with non-government organizations (NGOs) to bring environmental problems to the government.

Kenneth J. Kutz is the former President of Texasgulf Mining Corporation. He is also the former President of the Collectors Club of New York. The Collectors Club of New York was founded in 1896, making it one of the oldest existing philatelic societies in the United States. This book is about the philatelic history of oil. Stamps and covers (envelopes) are interwoven with postcard illustrations in chronological order of when the events depicted occurred. The book begins with Noah making the ark with coats of pitch.

The Caledonian railway, or The Caley as it was fondly named, was a Scottish railway system that connected Scotland to London from the 1840’s until its dissolution in the 1920’s. This compilation of book excerpts, articles, news clippings, and advertisements chronicles and romanticizes the waning decades of the Caledonian Railway from the turn of the century until 1923 when The Caley was absorbed into the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway by The Railways Act of 1921, an act that streamlined 120 individual British railway systems into just four.