Tarpaper Shacks And Tipple Lights

Author : Bill Tabor
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798886835137

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Tarpaper Shacks and Tipple Lights by Bill Tabor Pdf

Tarpaper Shacks and Tipple Lights: The Continuing Saga of Tipple Holler By: Bill Tabor Old taxman should have stayed in the county seat. Coming to Boissevain Coal Camp is the last bad mistake he’ll ever make, especially for a crooked bureaucrat with his fingers in the collections. Meanwhile the miner’s union has decided to do something about their organizer’s killing and his missing assistant. They send a specialist to solve their issues, a specialist you will never forget. With a host of coal camp residents looking on, page by page, murder, mayhem, and mining continues. Come with us to Boissevain, Virginia in 1912.

Author : Hicks, Kathleen A,Friends of the Mississauga Library System
Publisher : Mississauga, Ont. : Friends of the Mississauga Library System
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Lakeview (Peel, Ont.)
ISBN : 0969787367

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Lakeview : Journey from Yesterday by Hicks, Kathleen A,Friends of the Mississauga Library System Pdf

Author : Harry M. Claudill
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786252005

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Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area by Harry M. Claudill Pdf

“At the time it was first published in 1962, it framed such an urgent appeal to the American conscience that it actually prompted the creation of the Appalachian Regional Commission, an agency that has pumped millions of dollars into Appalachia. Caudill’s study begins in the violence of the Indian wars and ends in the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s. Two hundred years ago, the Cumberland Plateau was a land of great promise. Its deep, twisting valleys contained rich bottomlands. The surrounding mountains were teeming with game and covered with valuable timber. The people who came into this land scratched out a living by farming, hunting, and making all the things they need-including whiskey. The quality of life in Appalachia declined during the Civil War and Appalachia remained “in a bad way” for the next century. By the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, Appalachia had become an island of poverty in a national sea of plenty and prosperity. Caudill’s book alerted the mainstream world to our problems and their causes. Since then the ARC has provided millions of dollars to strengthen the brick and mortar infrastructure of Appalachia and to help us recover from a century of economic problems that had greatly undermined our quality of life.”-Print ed.

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465505583

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King Coal: A Novel by Upton Sinclair Pdf

Author : George T. Blakey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813162133

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Hard Times and New Deal in Kentucky by George T. Blakey Pdf

The Great Depression and the New Deal touched the lives of almost every Kentuckian during the 1930s. Fifty years later the Commonwealth is still affected by the legacies of that era and the policies of the Roosevelt administration. George T. Blakey has written the first full study of this turbulent decade in Kentucky, and he offers a fresh perspective on the New Deal programs by viewing them from the local and state level rather than from Washington. Thousands of Kentuckians worked for New Deal programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Projects Administration; thousands more kept their homes through loans from the Home Owners Loan Corporation. Tobacco growers adopted new production techniques and rural farms received their first electricity because of the Agricultural Adjustment and Rural Electrification administrations. The New Deal stretched from the Harlan County coal mines to a TVA dam near Paducah, and it encompassed subjects as small as Social Security pension checks and as large as revived Bourbon distilleries. The impact of these phenomena on Kentucky was both beneficial and disruptive, temporary and enduring. Blakey analyzes the economic effects of this unprecedented and massive government spending to end the depression. He also discusses the political arena in which Governors Laffoon, Chandler, and Johnson had to wrestle with new federal rules. And he highlights social changes the New Deal brought to the Commonwealth: accelerated urbanization, enlightened land use, a lessening of state power and individualism, and a greater awareness of Kentucky history. Hard Times and New Deal weaves together private memories of older Kentuckians and public statements of contemporary politicians; it includes legislative debates and newspaper accounts, government statistics and personal reminiscences. The result is a balanced and fresh look at the patchwork of emergency and reform activities which many people loved, many others hated, but no one could ignore.

Author : William Zinsser
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0062167596

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On Writing Well by William Zinsser Pdf

Author : John Taylor Gatto
Publisher : Stranger Journalism
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780945700043

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The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto Pdf

The underground history of the American education will take you on a journey into the background, philosophy, psychology, politics, and purposes of compulsion schooling.

Author : William Zinsser
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780062250506

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On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition by William Zinsser Pdf

On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental priciples as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sole, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Education
ISBN : UFL:35051106722335

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Illinois Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Folk art
ISBN : IND:30000108619986

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Goldenseal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laurel Shackelford,Bill Weinberg
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813158242

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Our Appalachia by Laurel Shackelford,Bill Weinberg Pdf

Many books have been written about Appalachia, but few have voiced its concerns with the warmth and directness of this one. From hundreds of interviews gathered by the Appalachian Oral History Project, editors Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg have woven a rich verbal tapestry that portrays the people and the region in all their variety. The words on the page have the ring of truth, for these are the people of Appalachia speaking for themselves. Here they recollect an earlier time of isolation but of independence and neighborliness. For a nearer time they tell of the great changes that took place in Appalachia with the growth of coal mining and railroads and the disruption of old ways. Persisting through the years and sounding clearly in the interviews are the dignity of the Appalachian people and their close ties with the land, despite the exploitation and change they have endured. When first published, Our Appalachia was widely praised. This new edition again makes available an authentic source of social history for all those with an interest in the region.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
ISBN : IND:30000046871004

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Now and Then by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kevin Evans,John Law,Carrie Galbraith
Publisher : Last Gasp
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 086719877X

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Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society by Kevin Evans,John Law,Carrie Galbraith Pdf

A template for pranksters, artists, adventurers and anyone interested in rampant creativity, this is the history of the most influential underground cabal that has never been exposed by the mainstream media. Rising from the ashes of the mysterious and legendary Suicide Club, the Cacophony Society at its zenith hosted chapters in most major US cities and influenced much of what was once called the 'underground'. Packed with original art, never before published photographs, original documents and incredulous news stories this is an homage to the San Francisco group.

Author : Udo Grashoff
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787355217

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Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe by Udo Grashoff Pdf

Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, urban planners and political activists to break new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing. Providing both methodological reflections and practical examples, they compare informal settlements, unauthorised occupation of flats, illegal housing construction and political squatting in different regions of the world. Subjects covered include squatter settlements in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, squatting activism in Brazil and Spain, right-wing squatting in Germany, planning laws and informality across countries in the Global North, and squatting in post-Second World War UK and Australia.

Author : Martin Lindstrom
Publisher : Currency
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780385523899

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Buyology by Martin Lindstrom Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today's consumer that will captivate anyone who's been seduced—or turned off—by marketers' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.