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Bringing Down the Mountains

Author : Shirley Stewart Burns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bringing Down the Mountains written by Shirley Stewart Burns and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coal is West Virginia's bread and butter. For more than a century, West Virginia has answered the energy call of the nation--and the world--by mining and exporting its coal. In 2004, West Virginia's coal industry provided almost forty thousand jobs directly related to coal, and it contributed $3.5 billion to the state's gross annual product. And in the same year, West Virginia led the nation in coal exports, shipping over 50 million tons of coal to twenty-three countries. Coal has made millionaires of some and paupers of many. For generations of honest, hard-working West Virginians, coal has put food on tables, built homes, and sent students to college. But coal has also maimed, debilitated, and killed. Bringing Down the Mountains provides insight into how mountaintop removal has affected the people and the land of southern West Virginia. It examines the mechanization of the mining industry and the power relationships between coal interests, politicians, and the average citizen. Shirley Stewart Burns holds a BS in news-editorial journalism, a master's degree in social work, and a PhD in history with an Appalachian focus, from West Virginia University. A native of Wyoming County in the southern West Virginia coalfields and the daughter of an underground coal miner, she has a passionate interest in the communities, environment, and histories of the southern West Virginia coalfields. She lives in Charleston, West Virginia.

Sacred Mountains

Author : Andrew R. H. Thompson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813166012
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Mountains written by Andrew R. H. Thompson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Front cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Downstream Impacts -- 2 Environmental Ethics and the Construction of Values -- 3 Relation, Revelation, and Revolution -- PHOTOGRAPHS -- 4 The Meanings of the Mountains -- 5 All My Holy Mountain -- 6 Loving the Mountains -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The City & the Mountains

Author : Eça de Queirós
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780835794800
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book The City & the Mountains written by Eça de Queirós and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Out of the Mountains

Author : David Kilcullen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190230967
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Mountains written by David Kilcullen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes four megatrends—population growth, urbanization, coastal life and connectedness-and concludes that future conflict is increasingly likely to occur in sprawling coastal cities; in underdeveloped regions of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia; and in highly networked, connected settings, in a book that also looks at gangs, cartels and warlords.

Standing Our Ground

Author : Joyce M. Barry
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821444107
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Standing Our Ground written by Joyce M. Barry and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, is one of the most significant environmental threats in Appalachia, where it is most commonly practiced. The Appalachian women featured in Barry’s book have firsthand experience with the negative impacts of Big Coal in West Virginia. Through their work in organizations such as the Coal River Mountain Watch and the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, they fight to save their mountain communities by promoting the development of alternative energy resources. Barry’s engaging and original work reveals how women’s tireless organizing efforts have made mountaintop removal a global political and environmental issue and laid the groundwork for a robust environmental justice movement in central Appalachia.

She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain

Author : Jonathan Emmett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416936521
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain written by Jonathan Emmett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new version of the traditional American folk song, in which the expected guest will be wearing frilly pink pajamas and juggling with jelly when she comes.

Hydronarratives

Author : Matthew S. Henry
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496234340
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Hydronarratives written by Matthew S. Henry and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of water in the United States is one of ecosystemic disruption and social injustice. From the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and Flint, Michigan, to the Appalachian coal and gas fields and the Gulf Coast, low-income communities, Indigenous communities, and communities of color face the disproportionate effects of floods, droughts, sea level rise, and water contamination. In Hydronarratives Matthew S. Henry examines cultural representations that imagine a just transition, a concept rooted in the U.S. labor and environmental justice movements to describe an alternative economic paradigm predicated on sustainability, economic and social equity, and climate resilience. Focused on regions of water insecurity, from central Arizona to central Appalachia, Henry explores how writers, artists, and activists have creatively responded to intensifying water crises in the United States and argues that narrative and storytelling are critical to environmental and social justice advocacy. By drawing on a wide and comprehensive range of narrative texts, historical documentation, policy papers, and literary and cultural scholarship, Henry presents a timely project that examines the social movement, just transition, and the logic of the Green New Deal, in addition to contemporary visions of environmental justice.

When These Mountains Burn

Author : David Joy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525536884
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book When These Mountains Burn written by David Joy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Dashiell Hammett Award for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing Acclaimed author and "remarkably gifted storyteller" (The Charlotte Observer) David Joy returns with a fierce and tender tale of a father, an addict, a lawman, and the explosive events that come to unite them. When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail him out of trouble one last time. Frustrated by the slow pace and limitations of the law, Raymond decides to take matters into his own hands. After a workplace accident left him out of a job and in pain, Denny Rattler has spent years chasing his next high. He supports his habit through careful theft, following strict rules that keep him under the radar and out of jail. But when faced with opportunities too easy to resist, Denny makes two choices that change everything. For months, the DEA has been chasing the drug supply in the mountains to no avail, when a lead--just one word--sets one agent on a path to crack the case wide open . . . but he'll need help from the most unexpected quarter. As chance brings together these men from different sides of a relentless epidemic, each may come to find that his opportunity for redemption lies with the others.

The Mountains of My Life

Author : Walter Bonatti
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 037575640X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Mountains of My Life written by Walter Bonatti and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary mountaineer describes his adventures in such ranges as the Alps and Himalayas, and provides details of what really happened during a controversial 1954 Italian expedition that made the first ascent of K2.

Canada's Rural Majority

Author : R.W. Sandwell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802086160
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Canada's Rural Majority written by R.W. Sandwell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Devil Is Here in These Hills

Author : James Green
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192092
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Devil Is Here in These Hills written by James Green and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were fifty thousand mine workers, the nation’s largest labor union, and the legendary “miners’ angel,” Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis that verged on civil war, stretching from the creeks and hollows of the Appalachians to the US Senate. Attempts to unionize were met with stiff resistance. Fundamental rights were bent—then broken. The violence evolved from bloody skirmishes to open armed conflict, as an army of more than fifty thousand miners finally marched to an explosive showdown. Extensively researched and vividly told, this definitive book about an often-overlooked chapter of American history, “gives this backwoods struggle between capital and labor the due it deserves. [Green] tells a dark, often despairing story from a century ago that rings true today” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

Global Mountain Regions

Author : Ann Kingsolver
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253036887
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Global Mountain Regions written by Ann Kingsolver and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. These communities often face social and economic marginalization despite providing the lumber, coal, minerals, tea, and tobacco that have fueled the growth of nations for centuries. They are perceived as remote and socially inferior backwaters on one hand while simultaneously seen as culturally rich and spiritually sacred spaces on the other. These contradictions become even more fraught as environmental changes and political strains place added pressure on these mountain communities. Shifting national borders and changes to watersheds, forests, and natural resources play an increasingly important role as nations respond to the needs of a global economy. The works in this volume consider multiple nations, languages, generations, and religions in their exploration of upland communities' responses to the unique challenges and opportunities they share. From paintings to digital mapping, environmental studies to poetry, land reclamation efforts to song lyrics, the collection provides a truly interdisciplinary and global study. The editors and authors offer a cross-cultural exploration of the many strategies that mountain communities are employing to face the concerns of the future.

Take Three Colours: Watercolour Mountains

Author : Palmer
Publisher : Search Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 178126614X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Take Three Colours: Watercolour Mountains written by Palmer and published by Search Press Limited. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Encyclopaedia of Agriculture ... Including ... Supplements Bringing Down the Work to the Year 1844

Author : John Claudius Loudon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book An Encyclopaedia of Agriculture ... Including ... Supplements Bringing Down the Work to the Year 1844 written by John Claudius Loudon and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria

Author : Charles Boner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria written by Charles Boner and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Observations on the Snowdon Mountains; with Some Account of the Customs and Manners of the Inhabitants. To which is Added a Genealogical Account of the the Penrhyn Families. By William Williams, of Llandegai

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Author : William Williams (of Llandegai.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Observations on the Snowdon Mountains; with Some Account of the Customs and Manners of the Inhabitants. To which is Added a Genealogical Account of the the Penrhyn Families. By William Williams, of Llandegai written by William Williams (of Llandegai.) and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria ... With Illustrations by Theodore Horschelt

Author : Charles BONER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria ... With Illustrations by Theodore Horschelt written by Charles BONER and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: