Author: Barbara Ellen Smith
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642593931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never before recorded. Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic in the context of the brutal assault, begun in the 1980s and continued since, on the United Mine Workers of America and the collective power of rank-and-file coal miners in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields. This destruction of militancy and working class power reveals the unacknowledged social and political roots of a health crisis that is still barely acknowledged by the state and coal industry. Barbara Ellen Smith’s essential study, now with an updated introduction and conclusion, charts the struggles of miners and their families from the birth of the Black Lung Movement in 1968 to the present-day importance of demands for environmental justice through proposals like the Green New Deal. Through extensive interviews with participants and her own experiences as an activist, the author provides a vivid portrait of communities struggling for survival against the corporate extraction of labor, mineral wealth, and the very breath of those it sends to dig their own graves.
Digging Our Own Graves
Author: Barbara Ellen Smith
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642593931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never before recorded. Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic in the context of the brutal assault, begun in the 1980s and continued since, on the United Mine Workers of America and the collective power of rank-and-file coal miners in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields. This destruction of militancy and working class power reveals the unacknowledged social and political roots of a health crisis that is still barely acknowledged by the state and coal industry. Barbara Ellen Smith’s essential study, now with an updated introduction and conclusion, charts the struggles of miners and their families from the birth of the Black Lung Movement in 1968 to the present-day importance of demands for environmental justice through proposals like the Green New Deal. Through extensive interviews with participants and her own experiences as an activist, the author provides a vivid portrait of communities struggling for survival against the corporate extraction of labor, mineral wealth, and the very breath of those it sends to dig their own graves.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642593931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never before recorded. Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic in the context of the brutal assault, begun in the 1980s and continued since, on the United Mine Workers of America and the collective power of rank-and-file coal miners in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields. This destruction of militancy and working class power reveals the unacknowledged social and political roots of a health crisis that is still barely acknowledged by the state and coal industry. Barbara Ellen Smith’s essential study, now with an updated introduction and conclusion, charts the struggles of miners and their families from the birth of the Black Lung Movement in 1968 to the present-day importance of demands for environmental justice through proposals like the Green New Deal. Through extensive interviews with participants and her own experiences as an activist, the author provides a vivid portrait of communities struggling for survival against the corporate extraction of labor, mineral wealth, and the very breath of those it sends to dig their own graves.
Digging Your Own Grave
Author: B. L. Andrews
Publisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312953584
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The fourth in a series of whimsical parodies offers a new collection of offbeat advice from the author of More Life's Little Destruction Book and Life's Little Frustration Book. Original.
Publisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312953584
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The fourth in a series of whimsical parodies offers a new collection of offbeat advice from the author of More Life's Little Destruction Book and Life's Little Frustration Book. Original.
Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork
Author: Governor Mike Huckabee
Publisher: Center Street
ISBN: 1599951347
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Now available in Spanish, the bestselling book in which a leaner Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee shares his secrets for creating better health habits that last a lifetime.
Publisher: Center Street
ISBN: 1599951347
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Now available in Spanish, the bestselling book in which a leaner Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee shares his secrets for creating better health habits that last a lifetime.
Digging My Own Grave and Enjoying the Work
Dig Your Own Grave ...
Dig Your Well before You're Thirsty
Author: Harvey Mackay
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0385485468
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Bestselling author Harvey Mackay reveals his techniques for the most essential tool in business--networking, the indispensable art of building contacts. Now in paperback, Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty is Harvey Mackay's last word on how to get what you want from the world through networking. For everyone from the sales rep facing a career-making deal to the entrepreneur in search of capital, Dig Your Well explains how meeting these needs should be no more than a few calls away. This shrewdly practical book distills Mackay's wisdom gleaned from years of "swimming with sharks," including: What kinds of networks exist How to start a network, and how to wring the most from it The smart way to downsize your list--who to keep, who to dump How to keep track of favors done and favors owed--Is it my lunch or yours? What you can do if you are not good at small talk Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty is a must for anyone who wants to get ahead by reaching out.
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0385485468
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Bestselling author Harvey Mackay reveals his techniques for the most essential tool in business--networking, the indispensable art of building contacts. Now in paperback, Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty is Harvey Mackay's last word on how to get what you want from the world through networking. For everyone from the sales rep facing a career-making deal to the entrepreneur in search of capital, Dig Your Well explains how meeting these needs should be no more than a few calls away. This shrewdly practical book distills Mackay's wisdom gleaned from years of "swimming with sharks," including: What kinds of networks exist How to start a network, and how to wring the most from it The smart way to downsize your list--who to keep, who to dump How to keep track of favors done and favors owed--Is it my lunch or yours? What you can do if you are not good at small talk Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty is a must for anyone who wants to get ahead by reaching out.
The Grave Digger
Author: Rebecca Bischoff
Publisher: Amberjack Publishing
ISBN: 1948705532
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
In 1875 Ohio, twelve-year-old Cap Cooper is an aspiring inventor—and a reluctant graverobber—enlisted by his father to help pay for his mother's medical expenses. When one of the dead returns to life at his touch, Cap unearths a world of dark secrets that someone at the local medical school wants to keep buried. On the brink of discovery, he'll have to use every ounce of cunning he has to protect those he loves most and save his own skin. The Grave Digger is an eerie mystery set in the aftermath of the Civil War, filled with action, friendship, and a hint of the paranormal, perfect for those who enjoy reading late into the night and long after the lights go out.
Publisher: Amberjack Publishing
ISBN: 1948705532
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
In 1875 Ohio, twelve-year-old Cap Cooper is an aspiring inventor—and a reluctant graverobber—enlisted by his father to help pay for his mother's medical expenses. When one of the dead returns to life at his touch, Cap unearths a world of dark secrets that someone at the local medical school wants to keep buried. On the brink of discovery, he'll have to use every ounce of cunning he has to protect those he loves most and save his own skin. The Grave Digger is an eerie mystery set in the aftermath of the Civil War, filled with action, friendship, and a hint of the paranormal, perfect for those who enjoy reading late into the night and long after the lights go out.
Digging My Own Grave
Author: Gerard Beirne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Beirne's themes challenge readers to question their (too-often perhaps) easily accepted beliefs. He writes of landscape and the forces creating -- merging the religious with the corporeal, exploring the inherent tensions between spirituality and physicality. His landscape/soulscapes here seek to discover the extent of their boundaries in poems such as "Taking the Man from the Bog" and "Variations on a Crucifix".
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Beirne's themes challenge readers to question their (too-often perhaps) easily accepted beliefs. He writes of landscape and the forces creating -- merging the religious with the corporeal, exploring the inherent tensions between spirituality and physicality. His landscape/soulscapes here seek to discover the extent of their boundaries in poems such as "Taking the Man from the Bog" and "Variations on a Crucifix".
How to Dig a Grave
Author: Joe Beck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781724162427
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Grave digging is a strenuous and technical job both in the cemetery and outside. Each day we live our lives, we are readying our own graves; just by living, we are dying. It is an intimidating and frightening fact, and the only way to conquer the fear of death is to learn and face its secrets - how is a grave dug?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781724162427
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Grave digging is a strenuous and technical job both in the cemetery and outside. Each day we live our lives, we are readying our own graves; just by living, we are dying. It is an intimidating and frightening fact, and the only way to conquer the fear of death is to learn and face its secrets - how is a grave dug?
Mappings in Thought and Language
Author: Gilles Fauconnier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521599535
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Meaning in everyday thought and language is constructed at lightning speed. We are not conscious of the staggering complexity of the cognitive operations that drive our simplest behavior. This 1997 book examines a central component of meaning construction: the mappings that link mental spaces. A deep result of the research is that the same principles operate at the highest levels of scientific, artistic, and literary thought, and at the lower levels of elementary understanding and sentence meaning. Some key cognitive operations are analogical mappings, conceptual integration and blending, discourse management, induction and recursion. The analyses are based on a rich array of attested data in ordinary language, humor, action and design, science, and narratives. Phenomena that receive attention include counterfactuals; time, tense, and mood; opacity; metaphor; fictive motion; grammatical constructions; quantification over cognitive domains.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521599535
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Meaning in everyday thought and language is constructed at lightning speed. We are not conscious of the staggering complexity of the cognitive operations that drive our simplest behavior. This 1997 book examines a central component of meaning construction: the mappings that link mental spaces. A deep result of the research is that the same principles operate at the highest levels of scientific, artistic, and literary thought, and at the lower levels of elementary understanding and sentence meaning. Some key cognitive operations are analogical mappings, conceptual integration and blending, discourse management, induction and recursion. The analyses are based on a rich array of attested data in ordinary language, humor, action and design, science, and narratives. Phenomena that receive attention include counterfactuals; time, tense, and mood; opacity; metaphor; fictive motion; grammatical constructions; quantification over cognitive domains.