Author: Janina C. LatackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
After the Ax Falls
Author: Janina C. LatackAfter the Ax Falls
Author: Arnon E. ReichersPublisher:
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
After the Ax Falls
Author: Janina C. LatackPublisher:
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Category : Employees
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Appalachian Passage
Author: Helen B. HiscoePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820332178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Appalachian Passage is based on the journal kept by Helen B. Hiscoe during the year that she, her physician husband, and their baby daughter spent in a West Virginia coal-mining camp. When he reported to Coal Mountain in June 1949 as the new company doctor, Bonta Hiscoe was young, idealistic, and unprepared for a practice in a remote "hollow" forty-five miles from the nearest hospital. With no trained help and substandard facilities, he was charged with the care of more than four hundred miners and their families. Dr. Hiscoe found the work both challenging and exhausting and his wife was immediately drafted to assist him. Her honest, direct descriptions of life in Coal Mountain reveal a people at once impoverished yet fiercely proud, remarkably adapted to their circumstances and solidly set in their ways. Equally contradictory was the country itself, whose wild beauty contrasted sharply with its strip mines, treacherous roads, and barely adequate dwellings. A more personal story also unfolds in Appalachian Passage, for Helen Hiscoe played three simultaneous, often conflicting roles: that of a new mother; a traditional, demure Coal Mountain wife; and a confident and competent medical assistant. Job-related injuries, though ghastly, were not so frequent as problems related to a high pregnancy rate (families of five to ten children were the norm) and a general unfamiliarity with basic hygiene. The Hiscoes quickly learned to hold their tongues and attune themselves to local ways. Offending people not only undermined doctor-patient relations but coulds bring the Hiscoes into conflict with entire clans. The Hiscoes' year at Coal Mountain coincided with the final stages of a bitter dispute between the United Mine Workers, the mine owners, and the federal government. Dr. Hiscoe, as an outsider and an employee of the company, was often at odds with local labor leaders. Though most of these disputes were resolved, the Hiscoes' frustrations at union politics lingered. Coupled with the news of Helen Hiscoe's second pregnancy, these feelings motivated the family to leave Coal Mountain in July 1950. Appalachian Passage is a book to be valued for Hiscoe's revelations about herself and her family and for her insights into the social structure of mining camps and the problems of rural health care.
Ark-Lila and the Purple Ax
Author: Purple ElectronicaPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557220203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Ark-Lila is a super hero in the city of Crimson Falls in the year 2099.She has been one since 1815.She's still fighting crime for someone who doesn't look like she's over 300.She has seen the rise and fall of the Association of Super Men in the 1940s when they forced other superheroes to join their ranks or be blacklisted.The new ASM founders have made other heroes who have not joined up to meet with unfortunate accidents or death.But the ASM seemed to be more interested in Ark-Lila's longevity.Ark-Lila's longevity she has somehow given to her partner, Mr. Virtue.Newly retired Mr. Virtue must take up his mask again to help Ark-Lila regain her memory and get to the bottom of who hurt Ark-Lila.And what he finds will change the world of super heroes.
Journal
Author: South Africa. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Scrap Book
Author: The Southwestern Reporter
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 2506
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