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Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Thomas Pynchon
Tristes Tropiques
John Weightman, Doreen Weightman, Patrick Wilcken, Claude Lévi-Strauss
Richard III
William Shakespeare
The Dwarf
Alexandra Dick, Pär Lagerkvist
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen, Cecil Day-Lewis
Labyrinths
Richard Wolin
Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Dillian Gordon, Nicholas Penny
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
Steven Weisenburger

U.S. Zinc Industry: A History Statistics and Glossary

U.S. Zinc Industry: A History, Statistics, and Glossary - James H. Jolly This book is not particularly interesting -- but zinc, along with other base metals and rare earth metals, are going to soar in value over the next decade, as part of the commodity bull in which we find ourselves -- as growth in China, India, Brazil..., and global demand for all types of emerging infrastructural development -- accelerates.

I have a special interest in zinc and in early stage zinc mines -- but the same could be said for nickel, manganese, iron, titanium, copper and others, though the fundamentals of each will differ... obviously.

(Be careful wrt to claims about lithium, however -- which will be subject to much media hype, b/c of the development of the electric car: http://www.worldlithium.com/An_Abundance_of_Lithium_1.html. Specifics of the lithium market are complex...)

The reason for zinc in particular is evident in the photos we took in Shanghai and Hangzhou:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/candlestick98765/sets/

Though the deeper reasons have also to do with supply issues. Zinc will be in deficit by 2011, just when global demand (taken in aggregate) will have fully healed from its current (and self-inflicted) wounds....